22 Movies With Such Bonkers Premises That I'm Genuinely Questioning How They Ever Got Made

Recently, we wrote about movies radical thought had the worst oregon dumbest premises ever. From The Purge to the John Wick franchise, the responses made immoderate beauteous convincing points. Now, we're backmost with adjacent much examples successful this category. And immoderate of these picks mightiness ruffle a fewer feathers (DC fans, spot #6). Without further ado, let's get started:

Note: Some responses were pulled from this thread and this thread. 

2. "Every bull movie successful general, but specifically, Lethal Weapon. Every clip they cognize thing atrocious is astir to happen, they spell wherever it's going to happen. In Lethal Weapon 3, they cognize they are stealing guns from the constabulary station, but archer nary 1 and don't effort to trap them successful there. Instead, they sneak successful and fto the rookie cop, who conscionable got married, get killed by bull slayer bullets."

3. "Don’t get huffy astatine me, but KPop Demon Hunters. A squad of K-pop singers indispensable combat disconnected demons and prevention their dumb fans, and the constabulary announcement nothing, and 1 of the singers is portion demon and falls successful emotion with a demon??? WHAT?!"

4. "The Terminator. A slayer robot is sent into the past to termination the parent of John Connor. You already person a John Connor who sends his best friend into the past to prevention his parent truthful helium tin beryllium born. His champion person falls successful emotion with his parent and has enactment with her. Hence, the instauration of John Connor. Who was the original's father? You whitethorn person a John Connor, but it’s not the aforesaid 1 that sent his champion person into the past. It would beryllium a wholly antithetic John Connor!???"

5. "Hellraiser. I emotion horror, but it had an perfectly useless plot. A sex-obsessed member who dabbles successful the occult. It has needless violence, brutality, and it leaves you with a 'What the f*ck did I watch?' vibe. Bleh."

6. "The Dark Knight Rises. That movie was truthful dumb. Like the US subject wouldn’t instantly invade Gotham erstwhile Bane took it over."

7. "Keanu Reeves plays a fresh-faced FBI hotshot who learns to surf truthful helium tin infiltrate a pack of surfing slope robbers. Hard to accidental with a consecutive face, but Point Break is successful my apical 3 all-timers. The older I get, the person it gets to the #1 spot."

8. "Until recently, I would person said Idiocracy."

9. "My favourite dumb premise is National Treasure: Book of Secrets. The full communicative was astir Nicolas Cage trying to disprove that his ancestor was progressive with the Lincoln assassination successful bid to wide his household name. The crushed that’s comic to maine is that helium was consenting to hazard his beingness to disprove thing that virtually nary rational idiosyncratic would person ever held against him, since it was thing 1 of his ancestors MIGHT person done 140 years ago. No 1 would person fixed a sh*t extracurricular of thinking, 'Wow, that’s kinda crazy' for a fewer moments and past moving on. I besides thought it was comic that helium believed with implicit certainty that his great-great-grandfather who helium ne'er met, conscionable had to beryllium innocent. He conscionable refused to judge that 1 azygous idiosyncratic successful his household 140 years agone could person perchance been a racist oregon done thing heinous."

10. "Wonder Woman 1984…why that movie adjacent exists is beyond me."

11. "Lifelong Resident Evil instrumentality here. The games cognize they're silly. The TV amusement was well-acted but nuts. And the movies are stylish and amusive to watch, but my gods, they're crippled salad. I felt embarrassed enjoying them aft idiosyncratic broke down for maine however incredibly anserine and nonsensical conscionable the archetypal 1 was, and they get dumber from there."

12. "Buried. Ryan Reynolds is buried alive, but with a cellphone truthful helium tin effort to telephone for help. He's successful the coffin the full movie. Waste of his talent."

13. "The Happening. Such full garbage."

14. "The Lake House, a movie astir 2 radical inhabiting the aforesaid location 2 years isolated and falling successful emotion via letters near successful the mailbox. The stupidest premise and crippled holes you could thrust a motortruck through, but I perfectly emotion it due to the fact that Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves merchantability the hellhole retired of being emotion interests. Top 10 blameworthy pleasance movies for me."

15. "Mission to Mars. The full premise is laughable. But it's inactive a large movie with large actors, and it's conscionable fun."

16. "G-Force. An elite squad of guinea pig spies is trying to halt a tech billionaire. But there’s a mole connected the team? And the mole is (spoiler alert) a LITERAL mole? Voiced by Nicolas Cage? I thought that movie was a fever dream. The casting was insane, though. Penélope Cruz, Tracy Morgan, Sam Rockwell, John Favreau, Bill Nighy, and Zach Galifianakis, positive Steve Buscemi arsenic a hamster? Absolutely wild."

17. "Cruella each the way. The premise and execution were terrible; trying to marque you empathize with that benignant of quality was a dumb idea."

18. "The Book of Henry. A kid genius dying of crab makes a program to prevention his neighbour from being abused by her pedophile dad, dies, and teaches his ma (played by Naomi Watts) to go a ninja assassin from beyond the sedate and rescue her. It was considered truthful unhinged that there was a rumor astir the manager getting fired from making Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker due to the fact that of it."

19. "You privation a weird movie with a ridiculous premise? Try Bad Boy Bubby. F*cked up, funny, disgusting, and disturbing successful a mode lone pre-2000s Aussie indies could be. This 1 utilized to beryllium passed astir connected pirate VHS erstwhile I was younger. A feline who's wholly mentally and emotionally maladjusted due to the fact that helium was raised successful isolation, reasoning helium was surviving successful a post-apocalyptic wasteland with Jesus himself prepared to onslaught him down if helium ever walked outside, lone to observe it's conscionable wholly mean Adelaide successful 1993. He becomes a enactment pest, a serial killer, a pub stone star, and a feline dad. This movie is the crushed I ever swore if I ever started a set it'd beryllium called the Clingwrap Killers."

20. "Elysium hinges connected firm dicks being dicks purely for the involvement of the crippled erstwhile they had a healing instrumentality close determination and could person utilized it with nary detriment to themselves oregon profit... and that a concatenation of radical are anserine capable to knowingly hazard astir definite death."

21. "I thought the premise of Let's Be Cops was dumb. Two guys formal up arsenic cops connected Halloween, past recognize that radical deliberation they look similar the existent thing, truthful they effort to spot however acold they tin instrumentality it. All I could deliberation astir erstwhile I saw the commercialized was that they were gonna get caught and the consequences would beryllium horrible!"

22. And lastly, "One Night Only, the 1 with Callum Turner, is truly weird erstwhile you deliberation astir it for much than 5 seconds."

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