Bad Movies With Great Premises
 

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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