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The basic premise might feature one or two potentially good ideas, but the film is overall dull and far too clichéd.
What makes this movie bad, is not the acting, but the premise behind it.
The main premise for this movie is every woman's fantasy: a vagina that kills and eats men.
The premise of this "possible point of view theory" eludes me.
"Wild Rebels" is a film whose basic premise DID make a good movie three years earlier, when Don Siegel directed his remake of "The Killers" at Universal.
"Midnight Clear" has a great premise.
Next time do a little research before using an imbecilic misconception as a premise for an entire freaking movie.
The plot is fairly predictable too and the premise that an alien craft would travel squillions of miles and crash land smack bang in the middle of an all-girls college campus - thus conveniently providing a rich source of perfect breeding victims - is utterly laughable.
The premise was too silly and predictable.
Yeah okay no one was expecting a documentary but this plot seems to be scraping the bottom of the barrel for stupid premise and you do find yourself questioning why on earth the producers brought Jack The Ripper into the story .
But if you are still somewhat intrigued it is a "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" premise without space ships and with no budget for wardrobe or production design.
The premise is limited in scope and the short actually feels a lot longer than it runs.
It requires tremendous skill, pacing, patience, directorial 'distance,' a plausible premise, a narrative 'flow,' and REALLY believable acting (aka GREAT acting).
Perhaps a promising enough basis for a plot, in actual fact the film does not progress beyond this premise.
This film, while boasting a creative premise ala 'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid', is a technical and creative wreck.
The basic premise (I refuse to call it a "plot") concerns a young American exotic dancer named Paula (played by Amber Newman) who has a boyfriend who gets her invited to a small island owned by some sleazy rich people.
The movie premise, the costumes, the special effects, the acting.
One of these guys must have at least seen Scream (where they draw your attention to such things) It is also a big let-down when a premise offers so much promise and then someone writes the script.
Scene after scene is tacked on to an otherwise overdone premise.
The whole plot is ridiculous situation piled on ridiculous premise.
When you make a film with a killer-kids premise, there are two effective ways to approach it; you can either make it as realistic as possible, creating believable characters and situations, or you can make it as fun as possible by playing it for laughs (something which the makers of "Silent Night, Deadly Night" did, for example, on an equally controversial subject: a killer Santa).
That is, the premise is interesting and sellable.
The script is incoherent as hell, the basic premise is totally implausible and somewhat stupid and there's absolutely no suspense to enjoy.
The premise of this movie is ugghhhh.
The basic premise of a woman living next door to an empty apartment (but a phone that constantly rings) is somewhat interesting.
No great suspense.. no great direction... nothing phenomenal with the acting... shy away from this... low rating... Nothing to write about this movie so I am filling up the remaining lines of text so you can imagine how much a time waster this movie is...really irritated at how good a premise that was and how bad a screenplay was written out of it...
The female members of my family were begging me to turn it off, but I prevailed under the premise that there had to be a turning point near the end, and we watched the entire movie.
The screenplay is the worst part of this film, as it lurches from one premise to the next, missing all the important bits that would have made a number of different stories possible.
Wow, did this episode start on a STOOOOOPID premise!
The whole thing seems really daffy and inherently unfair, as the GOOD side is saddled with Surak--a Vulcan who makes Gandhi seem like Rambo!! Despite a totally AWFUL premise, the action is pretty good and it's great to see overhead shots of obvious doubles fighting it out in this grudge match.
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