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None of the ideas are clever, basically the worst premise for a movie ever.
This movie is so bad I don't know where to begin-- Okay, let's start with the premise - some dude from the mainland who barely knows how to surf travels to Hawaii and enters a big wave contest which he more or less expects to win.
Both movies share a similar premise; only "The Cave" is dreadfully unoriginal, unexciting and incompetent compared to the splendid horror adventure that is "The Descent".
As previous reviewer comments, it would be fine to show at a church, but not at a public theater, at least not without the consumer's prior knowledge of what the premise of the movie is about.
This film's premise seems to be that the passing of the World War 2 generation in America, with its apple-pie phoniness and hypocritical morality, was a terrible tragedy.
This kind of premise is always fun to contemplate.
To me, the unusual premise is clearly a comedic one, and they should have gone for an all-out comedy.
The premise was alright for the villagers to keep it at bay with salt and such but still a simple blow torch and lots of napalm can easily do the trick to end those pesky plants with a flesh eating disorder.
The plot lines are a bit far-fetched and the whole premise is mostly hard to swallow -- blended families are common, yes, but this family isn't really trying all that hard to blend.
Great premise, poor execution.
Interesting premise could render a good movie but this one is just lame and far fetched.
Although the basic premise of the story offers a wealth of possibilities, they are never developed to any satisfying degree, and exposition is almost non-existent.
Based on the plot summary on the DVD case, the premise really sounded promising.
With an interesting premise (in the conflicts between Europeans and indigenous peoples sometimes the battle lines were not so clear), this should have been a good film.
Intriguing premise should have been a 20 minute short.
The simple, primal premise can lead to several great stories.
Assault on Precinct 13 is the absolute dumbest film I've seen since Charlie's Angels 2. The shame lies in the fact that they had a good cast and a good premise to work with.
But the very generic Komodo vs. Python is just a horrible title, and an even worse premise.
The Ten Steps has basically a reasonably good premise for a scary short but the execution is simply appalling.
The entire premise was too warped.
The preposterous premise of this flick has to do with Argentina reclaiming the Falkland Islands, having failed through force in 1982, by impregnating the European women inhabitants with Argentinean sperm thereby diluting the ethnic purity until it favored Argentina.
A parallel-universe Earth is the premise of both films.
A stupid premise combines with a script that was written by monkeys tapping one-key typewriters onto transparencies that were then overlapped in order to resemble dialogue to make the most obvious problems here.
The premise is glaringly forgotten after about 1 minute.
A fine cast, interesting premise, but what an unpleasant film to watch.
By the time the Hellraiser franchise was reaching it's forth film the premise was wearing a bit thin.
In other words, an Andy Milligan premise at his most typical, derivative, delirious and amateurish.
The premise of the film is that Belushi's cop character takes his retirement but gets drawn into a case which results in him becoming a private investigator.
Why? 1)The premise is WELL beyond ridiculous 2) The damn thing doesn't even have legs to move on!
This ridiculous mess of a film starts off with a brainless premise and goes completely downhill from there.
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