Bad Movies With Great Premises

**Frownland** · 07-12-2017, 01:21 PM

Sometimes it's because of producer interference, sometimes it's because of a limited budget, maybe it's because Kevin Smith was too high when he wrote the second half of the movie, but a lot of movies that sound interesting on paper are straight up garbage. Post em up in here. Bonus points if you can think of an alternative that does a better job with a similar premise.

I'll start it off with an obvious one: The Purge. You create a world where crime is legal for 24 hours a year and it impacts the world positively and you give us a film that wants to be an incoherently preachy version of The Strangers without any of the well-done suspense? What a waste.

The Batlord · 07-12-2017, 01:29 PM

The Purge sounds like it should have been a more nihilistic version of The Warriors tbh.

**Janszoon** · 07-12-2017, 01:40 PM

I've never understood the premise of The Purge. Why would making all crime legal one day a year have any kind of benefit? I've never seen the movie, by the way, just always wondered about it.

**Frownland** · 07-12-2017, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

I've never understood the premise of The Purge. Why would making all crime legal one day a year have any kind of benefit? I've never seen the movie, by the way, just always wondered about it.

To get it out of their systems. That's one of the questions I had about the movie that it answered in an incredibly disappointing way.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 07-12-2017, 01:48 PM

the purge episode of rick and morty is pretty ****ing awesome

**Janszoon** · 07-12-2017, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

To get it out of their systems. That's one of the questions I had about the movie that it answered in an incredibly disappointing way.

Sounds like a concept someone who has not met many humans would come up with.

**Frownland** · 07-12-2017, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Sounds like a concept someone who has not met many humans would come up with.

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

Justthefacts · 07-12-2017, 02:03 PM

I've always thought that "The Happening" had such a solid premise, but it was obviously executed terribly.

**Frownland** · 07-12-2017, 03:39 PM

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

djchameleon · 07-12-2017, 03:45 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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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.

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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