Bad Movies With Great Premises

Justthefacts · 07-12-2017, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Like the very base premise with the suicides or the whole thing with the murderous plant gas?

Both. The fact that the plant gas was making people commit suicide is so sweet. Horrible execution though.

**Frownland** · 07-12-2017, 04:39 PM

The plant part made it feel like a diehard Greenpeace member's first script.

**Janszoon** · 07-12-2017, 04:40 PM

I've never really understood the hate for The Happening. It's not amazing, but it's not bad.

The Batlord · 07-12-2017, 04:42 PM

Star Trek: Generations. Picard and Kirk in the same movie with Malcolm McDowell as the villain. What could possibly go wrong?

**Frownland** · 07-12-2017, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

I've never really understood the hate for The Happening. It's not amazing, but it's not bad.

I thought everything after the reveal of the source was straight up bad. The movie has a weird atmosphere to it though, I'll give it that.

djchameleon · 07-12-2017, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Aye. It could have been made into an allegory on class warfare or something along those lines.

It ended up turning into that. It was subtle in the first one but as the other two came out. It was clearly about class warfare. The only thing that disappointed me was the way that they revealed the plot behind the New Founding Fathers. I wish they would have gone a different route and explained a specific large event that occured that made them decide to start The Purge event.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I'm like the only one the world but I love that movie.

I wouldn't say I love it but I have watched it more times than I can count. It is almost like I am expecting a different conclusion any day now.

**Frownland** · 07-12-2017, 04:47 PM

I was wondering if any of the sequels improved on the concept, but I gave up after the first one.

Do they improve in quality or do they just touch on themes like you mention?

djchameleon · 07-12-2017, 04:53 PM

In the second one they decide to follow what actually happens on the outside and what others are going through. You end up seeing how it affects minorities and that there is a club of rich people that use The Purge to hunt people cliche.

The third one really slaps you in the face about how poorly the lower class is treated and there is a female candidate running for office that will end The Purge if she wins. They wanted to play into the whole Hillary/Trump comparison. You also get to see the behind the scenes of the New Founding Fathers which is basically just rich white old men. They have a candidate of their own running against her but in this last movie. They actually let you follow the same character from the second movie into the third.

You should check it out if you are curious where they went with it.

**Janszoon** · 07-12-2017, 11:29 PM

Q (1982)
This is the only movie I'm aware of that's about the Aztec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl. In its 1982 incarnation, it's a schlocky monster movie set, inexplicably, in New York City. However, change the setting to southern Mexico and make Quetzalcoatl more of a terrifying, incomprehensible force of nature and I think you have the beginnings of good horror movie or even, if handled correctly, some kind of psychological terror. I think Guillermo del Toro could make something great out of this.

~~MicShazam~~ · 07-13-2017, 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I'm like the only one the world but I love that movie.

The Happening was probably the best comedy movie of that year.

07-12-2017, 04:39 PM	#12 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	The plant part made it feel like a diehard Greenpeace member's first script. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	I've never really understood the hate for The Happening. It's not amazing, but it's not bad. __________________ A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man Time & Place 25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die last.fm

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I was wondering if any of the sequels improved on the concept, but I gave up after the first one. Do they improve in quality or do they just touch on themes like you mention? __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

07-12-2017, 11:29 PM	#19 (permalink)
Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	Q (1982) This is the only movie I'm aware of that's about the Aztec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl. In its 1982 incarnation, it's a schlocky monster movie set, inexplicably, in New York City. However, change the setting to southern Mexico and make Quetzalcoatl more of a terrifying, incomprehensible force of nature and I think you have the beginnings of good horror movie or even, if handled correctly, some kind of psychological terror. I think Guillermo del Toro could make something great out of this. __________________ A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man Time & Place 25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die last.fm