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Do you get attracted by some absurd or ridiculous movie premises?


I keep getting suckered into watching stupid nonsensical battle royale movies. I knew beforehand it would be totally unrealistic and ridiculous, but I can't help it. I saw the trailers and now I need to watch them! But everytime I've finished watching them, I'd be like what an idiotic nonsense!

However if the premise was overly extremely silly it would actually turns me off somehow. Crazy absurd premises like Sharknado, Piranha 3DD or Snakes on a Plane, etc. Eventhough they seemed to have garnered a lot of fanfare. I've never interested in watching those movies.

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Tremors has a ton of fans. They started playing The Floor is Lava, then said wait. Let's turn this into a movie, lol. Seriously though, Tremors 1 is such a fun and silly movie.

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It really is a great creature feature with a fun cast, 'the floor is lava' is a good way to describe it😃

Everyone's mom must have hated that game, 'STOP jumping on the sofa, get OFF the coffee table, get DOWN from there!!!'

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One of the most exciting games I've played as a kid. Along with stop a balloon (air, not helium) from hitting the floor.

Edit: Hmmm... it's basically primitive volleyball if you think about it.

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i thought

the movie where you had to be quiet of the monstors who couldn't see would hear and eat you was stupid
and
the movie where you had to keep your eyes closed or the monsters would (i'm guessing) see and eat you was stupid
but
the movie where everyone was blind, but one person on the sly could see, was pretty cool

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The Riddler, is that you?

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That much talked about by me direct to video film "Someone To Die For" (1995) by Clay Borris and with Corbin Bernsen also had moments that can be classified as ludicrous if not for the whole premise involving a cop who suffers after losing his daughter (she dies!) whilst having a misfortune to take her on a police assignment involving a dangerous serial killer, and who also meets a woman called Lydia in a mental hospital and abandons her later when she starts showing signs of discomfort towards him and then develops a relationship with the reporter, all the while in the meanwhile cops who were present at the scene of his daughter's death start getting killed and he becomes a suspect.

One aspect of it was - when he and Lydia first meet, she is able to turn the room inside the mental hospital into a first class restaurant (!) whilst using with him the place for a private romantic rendez-vous, and none of the hospital staff, security etc ever notice anything suspicious (!). Even my mother, who also watched this film as a few months ago I asked her to stay in my room to see it on video, agreed with that aspect, and we both gave the film a 5 out of 10.

And yes as I said MANY MANY times already, it did have a scene in it that made me CRY and regret to also say that so far, with very little exceptions, I wasn't quite able to get more people to watch the movie but we'll wait and see, also I may not be allowed to make a copy from VHS (yes, it has NOT to date been released on any other format nor uploaded to any accessible site, Amazon Prime, Netflix et all) to DVD-R or memory stick plus it IS expensive and these days I AM VERY short of money. But we'll wait and see, I will give it all till end of next year.

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I often find reading the synopsis more interesting than the film itself!

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