Sentences with phrase «high concept premise»

I can only speak for myself, and for readers who generally agree with me by stating that Saw just doesn't have the creative oomph to deliver on the ambitiousness generated by the high concept premise.

A movie in which soldiers fight ghosts is kind of a cool, high concept premise.

It's an unabashedly high concept premise that's employed to positive effect by director John Landis, although it does go without saying that the lion's share of praise for the film's success belongs to both Aykroyd and Murphy - as the actors» exceedingly engaging work ultimately proves instrumental in smoothing over some of the more questionable elements within the narrative.

Julia's Eyes plunders the high concept premise with glee, much like 1994's Blink or 1967's Wait Until Dark before it.

Not exact matches

After the Vietnam War, Ronald Reagan adopted a policy of high levels of military spending to force the USSR to match this spending on the premise that the U.S. had an economy more capable of engaging in this defense spending without collapsing than the Soviets, a concept many considered historically vindicated when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, following in close succession by the splintering of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, and the unification of Germany.

You don't need a massive budget or a high - concept premise.

It's a high - concept premise that's initially employed to impressively engrossing effect by filmmakers Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard, as the directors deliver a strong opening stretch detailing Liam's near - silent attempts to piece together what's happened to him and why nearby people keep dropping dead — with Klattenhoff's stirring performance as the befuddled central character certainly perpetuating the intriguing atmosphere.

Writer and director Alex Garland manages to take a high - concept premise — a reclusive, Steve Jobs - like genius (Oscar Isaac) invites a young employee (Domhnall Gleeson) to test the android he created (Alicia Vikander) to see if she's truly intelligent — and tuns it into a claustrophobic, tense thriller, as the three circle each other through an hour and a half of vicious psychological manipulation and constant shifts in the balance of power.

Directed by Charlie McDowell (son of Malcolm McDowell & Mary Steenburgen in his debut feature) and inspired by the early Spike Jonze / Charlie Kaufman collaborations, «The One I Love» explores relationship dysfunction through an intriguing, high - concept premise (that we can't really discuss here).

Viewers would be forgiven for their hesitance to see another movie from the directors of the «Vacation» reboot, but John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, working from a pitch - perfect screenplay by Mark Perez («Accepted»), have crafted an ensemble comedy that lives up to its high - concept premise while giving a gang of talented actors — including the gifted Jason Bateman, so rarely employed to great effect on the big screen — fun characters and big, outrageous moments.

It's an almost exceptionally high - concept premise that is, at the outset, employed to agreeable effect by filmmaker Alexander Payne, as the director, working from a script cowritten with Jim Taylor, delivers a briskly - paced opening stretch that's rife with uncommonly compelling elements - including a typically engaging turn by Damon and a proliferation of sci - fi - themed ideas and interludes.

Even its relatively high - concept premise — a...

The high - concept premise of «The Boss Baby,» a borderline - cute, suffocatingly creepy kiddie fantasy from DreamWorks Animation, continually violates what were once inviolable laws of the universe.

With its Die Hard - in - the - White - House premise already taken out in a pre-emptive strike by Olympus Has Fallen earlier this year, White House Down suddenly had to do more than just rely on its high concept.

It's watchable, but unremarkable, and, though it isn't out - and - out detestable, it's a waste of a good high - concept premise through depth-less, low - aiming contrivances.

His new film, Free Fire, is built around a premise that is simultaneously old school and high concept: two groups of criminals in 1970s Boston arrange an arms deal in an old warehouse, things go south, guns are drawn... and they proceed to engage in a gun battle that plays out over the course of the entire movie, mostly in real time.

The story, born in the days of Reaganomics, employs a very high - concept premise to illustrate its still - relevant themes.

Still, even though it does deliver the TNT - strapped goods with a wallop, this thick - headed concoction fails to generate true excitement because it never establishes its central characters as anything more than mere playthings meant to push forward the high - concept premise.

Writer - director Richard Curtis (Love Actually) has fun setting up the high - concept premise; in an early scene, patriarch Bill Nighy hilariously explains the ins and outs of their special ability, which relies on clenched fists as opposed to flux capacitors.

The high - concept premise: five strangers from different backgrounds are trapped in an elevator in a Philadelphia high - rise office building are terrorized when they are killed one by one mysteriously.

We can only assume that the material was good enough to entice the usually picky Carell and Knightley into the fold, and the premise is intriguingly high concept.

Filmmaker Fred Cavayé effectively draws the viewer into the blisteringly - paced proceedings right from the get - go, with the inherently captivating nature of the movie's high - concept premise heightened by Lellouche's believable, consistently stirring performance.

But even if you don't think basing a feature film on a popular saying is a shaky proposition, The Cobbler severely underwhelms because it totally fails to capitalize on its high - concept premise in an intriguing way.

The premise of this high - concept flick (it's like Skyline, but with demons instead of aliens, and a Shaun of the Dead sense of comedic self - awareness) involves Jay Baruchel traveling to Los Angeles to stay for a spell at BFF Seth Rogen's house, where they proceed to get high, play video games, and just enjoy each other's company.

Having not read the book, my interest was quelled by the high - concept premise: imagine a dystopic scenario where all of a sudden and quite inexplicably the people around you start going blind and, like a virus, this blindness spreads in every direction leaving a society crippled and in frantic want of quarantine; yet you keep your vision and bear witness to the theatre of the absurd that occurs in the absence of that so vital sense in others.

It's not hard to see the appeal of a movie like this — again, the premise is a slam - dunk as far as high - concept comedies go — but the execution is, at best, lacking, and at worst, baffling (why, for example, does this movie have more false endings than

A thematic companion piece to Jones» directorial debut «Moon» in that they're both morality tales about technology, «Source Code» succeeds in taking a high - concept premise and spinning it into a captivating thriller that's simple in execution yet brain - teasingly complex the more you pick it apart.

However, by ditching the high - concept, flimsy mystery premises of their previous films and instead providing old - school action / thriller gravitas, Serra and Neeson manage to deliver their best film yet - one that should more than suitably appease fans of the genre, and / or Neeson's career as an action star.

Innerspace starts off with a terrific high - concept premise, and while we learn about how it all works, Dante builds up the momentum quite well.

But those movies, while based on high - concept premises, ultimately had pointed things to say about politics and society.

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Makoto Shinkai's whirling, way - out body - swap romance takes the high - concept premise of a Hollywood exec's dreams into far dizzier, less disciplined realms of the subconscious.

A trained - from - birth teen spy faces her toughest assignment when she tries to pass as a normal teen in a comedy that strains to do right by its high - concept premise.

The basic premise is a pretty high concept idea, but instead of exploring the figurative relationship between Murphy's character and the leaves on the tree that fall with every word he speaks, Robbins and screenwriter Steve Koren (who's also responsible for last year's incredibly awful «Jack and Jill») take the broader route by making the bond much more literal.

That doesn't mean that I couldn't follow what was going on or felt the film was intellectually impenetrable, because its simplified location and high - concept premise, along with its eventual genre trappings, kept it all accessible.

It's nobody's idea of a well - structured and logically detailed screenplay, even though its premise — new parents battling frat house neighbors — springs from a high - concept idea that could've come from scriptwriting software or a research facility.

They are however, unable to generate much chemistry amidst the story's weighty high - concept premise, and light back - story development given to each of their characters.

To some extent a companion piece to «Moon» in that they're both morality tales about technology, Jones has succeeded in taking yet another high - concept premise and spinning it into a captivating thriller that's both incredibly simple in execution and yet brain - teasingly complex the more you pick it apart.

The school is dedicated to three overarching premises which are enacted daily in every curricular area — first, that interdisciplinary learning best prepares students for higher levels of academic challenge; second, that the environment provides a ready lens for the application of academic concepts; and third, that attending to adolescent development and collaborative skills will enable students to succeed in any high school atmosphere.

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High concept story lines are based on an intriguing premise or hook.

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