Sentences with phrase «ridiculous premise with»

It's an oddly compelling and ridiculous premise with no satisfying payoff.

«A gentle, lighthearted little send - up of zombie movies that commits to its own ridiculous premise with complete, un-ironic sincerity.»

A Cure for Wellness - I know, I know, it's a ridiculous premise with no proper pay - off, but the first hour is sumptuous magic and the whole thing is the most gorgeous film I've seen this year.

Not exact matches

For those who have not yet had the particular enjoyment of working with those who «think outside the box», they may have some difficulty accepting this book as a work of non-fiction - so outlandish is the premise that were you to suggest it in a novel it would be laughed off as ridiculous.

His character represents a premise that is absurd, even ridiculous, but for «Birth» to work it must be addressed with utter seriousness, even solemnity.

With the body - swap premise — something made even more ridiculous by the fact that Cage and Travolta looked absolutely nothing like one another — both Cage and Travolta got a good crack at playing Castor Troy, the movie's delectably over-the-top bad guy.

The premise is interesting enough to bring me into this film, but somehow the director gets bogged down with the problem of inserting too much ridiculous blood and gore into every scene that it becomes less than a mediocre movie.

«Criminal» does have some ridiculous elements and few surprises in the story department, but I have to admit I was never bored, instead going with the premise and staying in the zone through the predictable ending.

The premise fits in with current teen culture and the film walks a fine line of ridiculous and fun.

Furthermore, everyone is game to just be outlandishly ridiculous, and it's great to see so many actors having fun with the premise.

It's a ridiculous and flat - out dumb premise that's employed to terminally underwhelming effect by Cronenberg, as the first - time filmmaker, working from his own screenplay, has infused the proceedings with a cold, sterile atmosphere that holds the viewer at arm's length right from the word go.

It's a rather ridiculous premise that's employed to consistently hilarious and exciting effect by the filmmakers, with the comedic opening hour giving way to a thrilling, action - packed finale.

Plus, with the knowing wink of casting Harry Potter himself in this magician film, it looks like director Jon Chu is having the exact sort of fun that filmmakers should have with this ridiculous but entertaining premise.

Unlike other, more expensively produced parodies such as Undercover Brother and I'm Gon na Get You Sucka, Dynamite has fun reproducing the actual look and feel of the original genre with a premise that is too ridiculous to be believed.

The premise is ridiculous: large luxury cars with 2.0 L engines... but we're going to blend sizes to get the CT6 in here, at its expense.

The premise is, of course, ridiculous and the dialogue is a frankly hilarious mashup of sword - and - board movie cliches combined with implausible American dialog.

There is an intense culture of hatred that surrounds our hobby, but I still don't agree with this ridiculous premise.

This ridiculous premise of Zombie Cannon Carnage is the narrative drape over a game where you shoot a zombie out of a cannon with the intent to cause the most damage possible.

So while it's right to disparage the tomfoolery, it's an abuse of perfectly good statistical tools and analyses to apply them to this prediction; it's a ridiculous prediction from the outset, why smear good statistical methods with the bad premise that they apply here?

In a nutshell, the premise of my post was that unlike my generation, young lawyers are hardly guaranteed an opportunity to make a decent living and to add insult to injury, are saddled with ridiculous amounts of debt.