Interesting Concepts But Poorly Executed
Which movie below has an intriguing and possibly great premises/concepts but were sloppily executed deserves a better treatment in their concepts and a good remake? Note: Original ideas in movies only. Not based on a book or any other source material.
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- DirectorJames DeMonacoStarsEthan HawkeLena HeadeyMax BurkholderA wealthy family is held hostage for harboring the target of a murderous syndicate during the Purge, a 12-hour period in which any and all crime is legal.The script only focuses on one family’s struggle against a band of maniacs, making it just an average home-invasion thriller, and left out the interesting social and political concept of the film.
- DirectorNancy MeyersStarsMel GibsonHelen HuntMarisa TomeiA cocky, chauvinistic advertising executive magically acquires the ability to hear what women are thinking.The script, though it have it's analysis of gender stereotypes, lacks the idea of what women are really thinking. It was just an average generic Hollywood rom-com/chick flick that tried to teach us a lesson. How about Hollywood should remade this into a raunchy comedy? Anyone?
- DirectorLouis LeterrierStarsJesse EisenbergCommonMark RuffaloAn FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances, and reward their audiences with the money.The script was senseless, utterly lacking intellectual integrity, and the executions were crooked and cooked up. Oh, and the plot twist was the worst of all.
- DirectorAndrew NiccolStarsJustin TimberlakeAmanda SeyfriedCillian MurphyIn a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Will Salas is accused of murder and on the run with a hostage.The film focuses more on it's action sequences than it's intriguing concept about social commentary and character development.
- DirectorDoug LimanStarsHayden ChristensenSamuel L. JacksonJamie BellA young man with teleportation abilities suddenly finds himself in the middle of an ancient war between those like him and their sworn annihilators.The script was short in narrative and didn't explain it's idea so far. Oh, and Hayden Christensen.
- DirectorTarsem SinghStarsRyan ReynoldsNatalie MartinezMatthew GoodeA dying real estate mogul transfers his consciousness into a healthy young body, but soon finds that neither the procedure nor the company that performed it are quite what they seem.According to Rotten Tomatoes, the film does frustratingly little with its premise, settling for lackluster action at the expense of interesting ideas.
- DirectorRoger SpottiswoodeStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerMichael RapaportTony GoldwynA man meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.According to Rotten Tomatoes, the film's execution is too routine and formulaic to make good use of it.
- DirectorPeter BergStarsWill SmithCharlize TheronJason BatemanHancock is a superhero whose ill-considered behavior regularly causes damage in the millions. He changes when the person he saves helps him improve his public image.According to Rotten Tomatoes, this film suffers from a flimsy narrative and poor execution.
- DirectorLuc BessonStarsScarlett JohanssonMorgan FreemanChoi Min-sikA woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.The concept is attempting to make a sophisticated statement, but it can't even keep its own logic straight.
- DirectorNeil BurgerStarsBradley CooperAnna FrielAbbie CornishA mysterious pill that enables the user to access 100% of his brain's abilities transforms a struggling writer into a financial wizard, but it also puts him in a new world with many dangers.Once the movie has set-up its incredibly intriguing premise, it just becomes another genetic action thriller without anything to differentiate it.
- DirectorRicky GervaisMatthew RobinsonStarsRicky GervaisJennifer GarnerJonah HillA comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain.The parody of religion and the romantic subplot overshadowed the interesting idea.
- DirectorJonathan MostowStarsBruce WillisRadha MitchellVing RhamesSet in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.According to Rotten Tomatoes, this film fails to capitalize on a promising premise, relying instead on mindless action and a poor script.
- DirectorJuan SolanasStarsJim SturgessKirsten DunstTimothy SpallAdam and Eden fell in love as teens despite the fact that they live on twinned worlds with gravities that pull in opposite directions. Ten years after a forced separation, Adam sets out on a dangerous quest to reconnect with his love.According to Rotten Tomatoes, this film fails to offer much in the way of compelling drama to anchor its admittedly dazzling visuals.
- DirectorMiguel SapochnikStarsJude LawForest WhitakerAlice BragaSet in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.According to Rotten Tomatoes, this film wasted on a rote screenplay, indifferent direction, and mind-numbing gore.
- DirectorLee Toland KriegerStarsBlake LivelyMichiel HuismanHarrison FordA young woman, born at the turn of the 20th century, is rendered ageless after an accident. After many solitary years, she meets a man who complicates the eternal life she has settled into.The scientific explanation of Adaline's age has stop aging was silly and the film fails to deliver the drama of it's interesting premise.
- DirectorLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsChanning TatumMila KunisEddie RedmayneA young woman discovers her destiny as an heiress of intergalactic nobility and must fight to protect the inhabitants of Earth from an ancient and destructive industry.The world-building (an ancient city hidden in the atmosphere of Jupiter), the idea that superhumans are secretly farming us on our planet for some genetic program spanning millennia, etc. As far as space opera material it could have been good, but the story they wove out of it was pretty weak.
- DirectorFrank CoraciStarsAdam SandlerKate BeckinsaleChristopher WalkenA workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.The idea about a remote that can pause and fast forward through time was overshadowed by Adam Sandler's lame vehicle.
- DirectorChris ColumbusStarsAdam SandlerKevin JamesMichelle MonaghanWhen aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth in the form of the video games.It's The Lego Movie meets Wreck-It Ralph meets Independence Day. What could have been a great premise was overshadowed by Adam's lame vehicle. Reall, Sandler?!
- DirectorTom McCarthyStarsAdam SandlerMelonie DiazSteve BuscemiA cobbler, bored of his everyday life, stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to become other people and see the world in a different way.It's far more better than Adam Sandler's vehicle, but The Cobbler's script does not know where it wants to go. Too much subplots that are totally in different genre. The film's idea that could take a route of having a message about the way a community interacts with one another was a failure.