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Ghost Story has an interesting feminist revenge tale premise, A-list veteran actors, colorful flashbacks with nifty look-a-like youthful counterparts of the old men.
I loved the action figures, but I found the cartoon to be corny and I hated the storyline (the He-Man I liked was the one from the very early, pre-cartoon mini-comics included in the figure boxes, where He-Man was a Barbarian, the Sword of Power was split in two pieces, and there was no Prince Adam, no Shazam-ripoff premise, and no Orko).
The premise of this story is good: teenagers go out on a boat, meteor lands in water, aliens kill teenagers.
"Death Machines" takes a fairly decent premise for an action movie (unstoppable martial arts killing machines sent out to eliminate a crime boss' opponents) and turns it into an unwatchable mess.
The premise is imbecilic, too banal, even for a horror film: a rabid mutt attacks a family.
The premise is right on cue--a confused & disordered young individual enters a world of equally confused & disordered young individuals.
Start with the premise that you will do anything to replace your lost love with a look-alike.
Everyone is clearly doing their best to be true to an intriguing premise, but it's too deep a vision, too involved attempt at disentangling mental delusion to survive a transition to the screen.
This movie starts with interesting set design and a promising premise, but fails to provide the cult-movie goods.
What a bad movie, the premise was all there, the actors were all there.
I was hooked in by the premise that the show was about demons.
Its premise is downright silly and its pace is much too rushed.
So much could have been done with this premise.
Another flaw is that the director deviates from the basic premise which is scary enough and brings up new elements that never get explained and aren't even relevant to the "Doll Master mystery".
This movie's basic premise is that everyone in the world can know that a person is gay except for that person.
Yes, the movie is funny in parts, but the basic premise is to homophobic and insulting that the entire movie crumbles into something that is quite painful to sit through.
The premise of Bottom crossed with Fawlty Towers sounds great!
The film itself was made with a modest budget, which explains the limited locales, and the somewhat tedious screenplay that manages to do very little with quite an interesting premise.
The premise doesn't make sense, why did the moonshiners murder that poor old lady and even in 1921 I think someone would notice a bunch of oily guys where a sweet little old lady once lived.
The premise is interesting and the cast does the best it can, but the script and the directorial effort are so poor that it is not surprising that this film was buried--which is fitting given the screenplay.
The premise has a familiarity to it:a college girl must survive the night in an old mausoleum until morning in order to join a sorority.
Three years into their pairing, they were still attractive to watch and filled with fire in their scenes together, but a weak screenplay and rushed premise destroys any chance of it being a great followup to the previous year's "Libeled Lady" and the two "Thin Man" movies they had done prior to this.
Yeah, an interesting premise falls short, sad to say, because Loy's character is so one dimensional it is hard to even like her let alone see Powell fall in love with her, which we know will soon happen.
The cover case and the premise that write there is so promising.
As to be expected, there's a pretty good reason why this film is so obscure and unknown in spite of dealing with the always-popular premise of zombies and starring the 80's B-movie queen Linda Blair, namely: it sucks!
The producers of the show he explained were going on the premise of playing pranks on unsuspecting contestants to see how far they will go.
Anyway the basic premise of a woman with a super-powerful motorcycle that it armed to the teeth with rockets and lasers isn't even properly exploited.
Don't be taken in because the premise of this film is a good one.
Underdeveloped and stereotyped characters, way over-the-top overacting, cheesy special effects, talking robots, no less than 20 double-foot jumpkicks, impossible situations, unfunny "gags" and "jokes", elementary school premise, mindless killings, and too-long running time for the material.
The first story is a ham-fisted, meaningless trudge with a B-movie sci-fi premise.
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