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"It's A Ridiculous Premise": 15 Movies That Have Awful Plot Summaries But Somehow Totally Work
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“The movie is awesome but that’s blatantly a plot conceived during a spectacularly toasty-baked session.” As a full-time writer at BuzzFeed Canada, I cover all things pop culture and food. "The ride has no plot if I recall? Just stereotypical pirate shenanigans." "It's vibes, basically. You go from a quiet bayou, to caves full of pirate skeletons, then into a pirate battle and a town being ransacked. You just relax and enjoy the imagineering." Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets, then teams up with three strangers to kill again." "Point Break: Remember the movie you liked on the 90s? We remade it with none of the same actors, removed most of the cool surfing bits, and now there’s a cult and a lot of plot holes." "The scene where he goes to the screenwriting class and there's narration over the part where the screenwriter talks about how terrible narration is absolute gold. That movie is absolute brilliance." "This movie perfectly sums up what I think is the most important thing about film: if you have something important to say, you can do absolutely whatever you want and make it work." "Written by Charlie Kaufman, who also did the screenplay for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Check out his other films like Adaptation and Synecdoche, New York. "I remember reading the synopsis and was like 'wait, it's a sexually transmitted ghost?'" "Every time I recommend this movie I tell people, the plot sounds stupid but the execution makes it so good." "I just figured out why the Justice League movie failed at the box office. They were one samurai short." Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.