Do any of y'all have a particular favorite premise that a movie employed? Any movie concept you heard about and thought, hey that sounds pretty cool?
Personally, my favorite movie premise that I've seen was Tenet. I know many people didn't like that movie, but I really enjoyed it, and I thought that the premise of the movie was super cool. The trailers for that movie were great and really got me excited and interested in the film.

Many movies and shows have tried many different ways to show text message conversations. I think one of my favorite is in Ms. Marvel.

I really like the idea behind About Time, and really enjoy that movie. So many great lessons to learn through a movie where the main character can literally go back and relive or change anything in their past, but then loses that ability once the kids start coming.

On that same vein, one of my favorites of all time: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Having a movie literally work from the end to the beginning of a relationship, completely played out in one person's mind as those memories are being erased? The Gondry did such an amazing job of bringing that to life that I notice little things here and there every time I rewatch it. So cool when you start noticing all the background objects, book titles, and other things slowly disappear while the memories are still going on.

Not a movie, but there was a show on FX called Tyrant that had a great premise, but poor execution in the final season (before it got canceled).

Where it was going was that an American doctor became dictator over a middle eastern nation. His father was the previous tyrant dictator. Long story short, this doctor couped his brother and became dictator himself. He went into it idealistic and thinking he would establish democracy George Washington style. But found out that reality doesn't always play nice.

It seems that the show was going to go down the path where the son becomes the father 2.0. And that we viewers would be totally on board and understand why. Sorta like how Walter White slowly became evil and the viewers were right there with them.

But they screwed up season 3 (or whatever it was), and the show got canceled. I forget what they did. Probably added a love interest or some crap like that.

Sex Panther said:

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Memento was an incredible premise and so difficult to make work. Showed where Christopher Nolan would be headed

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Nolan has been doing that way too much. While it was great in Momento, it made no sense in movies like Dunkirk.

Rashomon

The story told by 3 different view points, none of them reliable.

The Truman show was great and I'm really not criticizing it but a dark version of the concept was so doable. I get why they did not go that way for wide appeal and box office but a maybe more gritty and realistic version could also be done so well. I mean they glossed over anything sexual and avoided topics like masturbation, etc... and also imagine if they really wanted to **** with him besides just keeping him there and happy. You could go so may ways and present him with effed up situations. Lots of people think we are in a simulation anyway so play up that angle and stuff like dark conspiracies maybe. Blur the lines of reality, heck you could mess with physics itself and have a world that operates differently via CGI (think of the way some CGI was done in Hunger Games movies to mess with the contestants only this person is unaware it is possible).

Maybe not exactly on topic, and may have been surpassed since, but Bruce Almighty was by far the highest price paid for a script at the time, because multiple people knew it was such a great idea that they kept bidding it up.

AustinAg2K said:

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The Marksman said:

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I'd also like to nominate Edge of Tomorrow; such a good movie and awesome premise.

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I feel like the time loop isn't really that original of an idea, but the execution in EoT is excellent and makes it feel fresh.

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Exactly.

Ground Hog Day
Looper
Tenet (in a weird way)

Downsizing with Matt Damon was such a great idea and the first 30 minutes or so were really good then it all fell apart and ended being one of the worst movies I've watched from beginning to end.

Hardcore Henry was an interesting concept but I think that POV for an entire movie would be nauseating.

AustinAg2K said:

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The Marksman said:

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I'd also like to nominate Edge of Tomorrow; such a good movie and awesome premise.

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I feel like the time loop isn't really that original of an idea, but the execution in EoT is excellent and makes it feel fresh.

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Agreed, could have been a train wreck but was really well done.

Also interesting that all the successful time loop movies mentioned have really strong, charismatic leads.

The Toy Story movies and how they metaphor parenthood.

Predestination

JCVD

Robocop.