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The premise was good, the cast was good and the darkness quotient was fine.
What was bad? Let's start with the premise: a girl (freedom fighter/terrorist) becomes impregnated by a wounded "brother in arms" while they find themselves hiding from the government troops in a ditch (and the latter are still raiding the area, might I add).
Too bad the premise has never been done well.
Writer/director Lance W. Dreesen offers a fresh and novel spin on the standard werewolf premise by cleverly blending the more horrific elements with a surprisingly potent and touching domestic drama.
"Tomorrow is Yesterday" is the second episode that deals with a time-travel premise.
Accomplishing what I had thought impossible, this film moves from intriguing/thriller-worthy premise to absolute schlock within 5 minutes of the opening credits.
The acting is terrible, the premise is simply awful.
Average premise, really good villain, and precious little else.
That was a risky premise that the creators didn't venture into.
It's an interesting premise.
Great premise, though a bit underbudgeted (what could one expect when it came to sci-fi on network tv back in 1986?), and there were many questions that were never resolved.
The premise of this film is about a man appointed to be President under unusual circumstance.
That's the simple premise behind this little seen film from 1940.
It was also mistaken for Franco's DEVIL HUNTER because it basically shares an almost identical kidnappers-stranded-in-cannibal-country premise.
The premise of "Dragonhead" is a great one, 3 students survive a train wreck in a tunnel on the way home from school.
This premise opens the door on LOTS of possibilities, but the film falls short of any real scares.
The premise, a woman mining her boyfriend's black book and getting know his exes in order to get to know the real him, sounded interesting enough.
The premise sounds better than the execution.
Its story (that might not be the appropriate word, let's say premise) is of a young "musician" who comes to New York.
I was intrigued with the premise enough to watch a few episodes, but once one gets past the fact that three of the cast members are dwarfs, there is nothing remarkable about this family whatsoever.
'Journey' had a most captivating premise.
they would have realized that the the murders were all in his head!!!!!!!!!!!! he was an "American" psycho...a fraud...a tacky, tacky fraud, as most people were in the 80's...as being the purpose of this book...to comment on the American condition during that time(and in my opinion it is still mostly apt) thus negating the premise of this entire movie...unless your an idiot and completely missed the point of either the book or the movie...then the movie will still suck!!!!!!!!!!!! i still can't believe when business in America count on American stupidity...they win...because it's true...how could anybody misinterpret such a concise ending...how exactly do you feed a kitten to an atm anyway...arrrrgghhhh.
The premise of "The Lost Platoon" is very interesting, and there is a good camera work that recalls "Evil Dead".
But premise has nearly been run into the ground, traditional parents, rebellious kids who want to fit and date like everyone else.
His basic premise is deceptively simple- a nervous but completely professional and slightly worn-down cop, played by a young & trim Toshiro Mifune, gets his gun pick-pocketed on the subway, and he spends at least half of the film on his own looking for it.
For the third time this year comes a movie that on paper sounds like good ol' fashioned campy Nazi fun, and then turns out to be something quite a bit different than its premise, turning it in directions it really doesn't need to go.
A few years after the "City of God" fame, Meirelles and other collaborators including Director Paulo Morelli decided to produce a Brazilian TV episodic series entitled "City of Men" on the same premise.
The basic premise carries us to Hollywood and into the lives of Background Artists, or extras to us lay people.
Intriguing premise completely wasted somehow by Carpenter and crew.
While the whole premise of the science involved has a deep flaw in it, it's not the sort of flaw that precludes the suspension of disbelief.
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