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The premise of the film is a good one...girl gets her jollies from stealing stuff, and she ends up in a bit of trouble when a security officer notices her.
The premise is that four actors who have long been close friends, are all dissatisfied with the parts they have been lucky to get, if they are getting them at all.
The premise of the movie is at least interesting enough, but everything about this movie just didn't work.
The overall premise - a group of humans, kidnapped to start a breeding program on another planet - seems fairly standard.
Way back when Troma would release anything (okay...they've ALWAYS released anything), this film came out of their vault o'horror with an interesting premise: dudes renovate haunted house, some get possessed by evil spirits, end up trying to kill each other.
This movie begins on a weak premise and has a predictable plot with dumb characters.
I was further intrigued when i read the premise for the story.
This review is for readers who have seen the original and know the basic premise.
The taboo of engaged couples "cheating" on one another is stale and the premise that Bening selflessly gets on with her life after her accident is implausible in today's world.
This movie has a premise with a lot of potential: a small group of agents has a just 14 hours to get into Amsterdam and take out all the industrial diamonds there.
The premise -- the crossbow guy -- is pretty offbeat, but given what you see in movies nowadays, it's not a bad notion.
The central themes were about playing fair and making believe, and if it seems to be a simple premise, I'd like to hear where a sophisticated premise was used for a children's show that succeeded.
The basic premise was reasonably interesting, being set in Britain and about a normal guy, after some sort of nuclear war.
No thought for character, thematic premise, continuity (we actually have the guy walk into an empty bookstore and pick up his own book with interest - as if he's never read it before!
The premise, reminiscent of other recent underground sports comedies like Dodgeball and Beerfest, doesn't have a lot of promise, it's true.
A great premise taken to the extreme, in which a servant of god, has to get in touch with the evil side, in order to save the world.
Apparently this concept isn't so new or innovating at all, as the obscure (although less obscure now, with its recent release on DVD) and still criminally underrated 70's gem "Chosen Survivors" thrives on a similar premise.
Alas, this premise goes awry from the outset.
The premise, I understand, but what followed after the beginning credits rolled was beyond boring.
Unlike others, I won't even give the premise much credit.
To set up the premise of the movie Murray plays Bob initially as mentally disturbed, but his personality quickly changes into that of an irritating, socially inept child.
Willis O'Brian's painstaking stop-motion effects and Eugene Lourie's talent with a minuscule budget unite to make a scary premise very entertaining and certainly fondly remembered.
The premise is that an FBI agent is protecting a young boy from the mafia family that his father worked for.
This premise could have made for a riveting and action packed movie, it is neither, it is packed with meaningless dialog, scenes that are unnecessary and forgetful characters.
Well, it's an interesting premise, but the director misses most of the opportunities it offers, managing only a handful of suspenseful moments.
Now while this would have been a good premise for a thriller in the drama section, it seems really out of place in the horror section.
I was duped into believing this to be a horror film but it is just a dumb mystery psycho-drama with plenty of bad acting, predictable plot development, and an absolutely absurd premise that hasn't got an iota of credibility or realism to it.
The movie's premise is so bizarre that along with all the cameos, watching it is pretty surreal.
The sets, costumes and production values are fine but nothing makes up for the preposterous premise.
Quentin goes on about how Mel Brooks lifted a good chunk of the premise of this movie for Silent Movie.
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