The phrase "lame plot" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a storyline in a book, movie, or other narrative that is considered weak, unoriginal, or poorly constructed.
Example: "The movie had a great cast, but the lame plot made it hard to enjoy."
Alternatives: "weak storyline" or "poor plot."
But this lame plot seems to have tied a knot in his wicked tongue.
The energy emanates from the characters -- a wired company of misfits and maniacs who chase one another around Los Angeles in the service of a lame plot about a real estate corruption conspiracy.
The Berg Collection version of "Camera," on the other hand, provides an unmediated look at the Master at work, removing dead and dull passages, fixing inept or lame plot developments, eradicating longueurs, and seeking out opportunities to sharpen imagery or provide deeper insight into a character's motivation.
The innovation was so dramatic that on the following morning, the papers weren't full of critics complaining about the lame plot or the locomotive's unconvincing acting.
The vacation-spot coincidence is so lame a plot turn that you groan over it, but there's a benefit here — the boyfriend, one Aldous Snow (Russell Brand), a Brit rocker and professional sex god, turns out to be the best thing in the movie.
Instead, the lame sub-plot centered around one of the women fighting her attraction to a man, and kissing him the night before her wedding in a state of "confusion".
Ms. Bellafante is right on one count: It is a "lame and sappy" plot twist.
Alice Through the Looking Glass squandered the wonder that characterized Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, burdening itself with a lame time-travelling plot.
I spent the next 20 minutes replaying the incident, imagining better, more biting responses than my lame answer, and plotting what I would say to him the next time we met on the platform, to show him that he was wrong, inconsiderate, and rude.
The plot -- lame even by the low standards of nasty-boy comedy -- involves the Troopers' attempts to thwart the "locals," and in the process to foil a drug-smuggling operation that uses cheap knockoffs of Japanese cartoons as a front.
No Oscar nominations were forthcoming for "History of the World, Part I" (1981; 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 92 minutes, $29.98), whose string of mostly lame skits makes the plot of "Saddles" seem positively Molierian.
