Has the mere premise of a movie ever totally baffled you?

Eraserhead

Any dance movie.

@Jude The premise of Eraserhead was the only part of it that did make sense to me.

I think it was Benjamin Button for me. They don’t address how in the heck and old man is born in the body of the child.. and as he grows old physically… he is growing younger mentally… and when he dies it is because he’s back to being a baby again??. Made no sense and I thought the movie was very overrated.

Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise.

I wasn’t baffled, but the premise of Inception seemed original to me.

@Jellie I think you got the movie backwards

I haven’t seen Shark Night. But I’m guessing the writers have found seemingly perfect excuses for them to be in the water. There will always be a need, urgent or not, for them to be above water or under it no matter what. It’s like gift wrapping. It’s there, it’s fine, you get the point, but what’s more important is what’s inside this package. In this case, the scary shark attacks.

@jca Yes, Vanilla Sky was baffling but it was intriguing and made sense, at least to the universe they have created. And it was also poignant.

I might be wrong, but I’m pretty sure you’re over-thinking Shark Night 3D.
Every campy horror film is filled with plot holes. How do zombies walk without cellular systems? Why would aliens (who are destroyed by water) come to and walk around unprotected on a planet that is 70% water? Why is that half-naked girl running up stairs instead of out the front door?
Who cares? The point is:
SHARKS!
AT NIGHT!!
IN 3D!!!!

Yes it has, folks are supposed to find Steve Martin funny!?! Get outta town!!

Vanilla Sky made my brain implode! (I’m still recovering)

I was just thinking of watching Vanilla Sky ya’ll. The soundtrack is sexy!!!

Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with Peter Frampton and The BeeGees the one with disco Beatles’ music made such a pathetic attempt at making sense it was ridiculous. Not to mention, it was just bad in every way imaginable. There is a reason The Beatles weren’t disco, which the filmmakers failed to notice.

Shark vs Octopus was also ridiculous. I don’t know how much I actually saw of that movie, but hey, a shark bit a goddamn plane in half, so who cares, right?

Basically, any movie based off of a concept album (ie The Wall and Tommy) and anything SyFy originally airs will pretty much be ninety minutes of mind-numbing ridiculousness, or just plain dumb (for instance, The Wall was a good movie, just weird as fuck).

Remember when Syfy (way before the spelling change) was more concerned about good programming over the almighty buck.

The idiot new head executive who canceled Farscape because it was too expensive to produce should be shot.

It’s been all downhill since then. Nothing but schlock.

The idea of making a musical out of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was pretty stunning.