Bland would-be blockbuster whose suspiciously Men In Black-like premise (buddy-cops weeding out the dead in the living world) barely splutters to life.
Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig and co take a Toy Story-like premise of talking foodstuffs into expectedly lewd and hilarious – and unexpectedly metaphysical – places in this agreeably ridiculous animation.
If Minds Had Toes begins with the fable-like premise that Socrates and Wittgenstein are still alive somewhere in a parallel universe, from where they observe ordinary human antics.
"Edge of Tomorrow," as everyone already knows, is a sci-fi war film with a "Groundhog Day -like premise: Cruise plays a solDay -like after being killed in combat, awakens the day before the battle and must relive, over and over, the moment of his death.
This all makes for a splashy Hollywood-like premise, but Mr. Perrotta, whose earlier novels "Election" and "Little Children" were deftly adapted for the screen, has trouble reconciling this high concept platform with his talent for smaller-scale portraits of awkward adolescents and angst-ridden suburban families.
How different was Reith's disciplinarian number two Admiral Carpendale, who, especially when the BBC moved to its liner-like premises of Broadcasting House in the early 1930s, behaved as if he was still in command of a battleship, calling the floors "decks" and referring to the "captain's state room".
I still don't like the premise of the evolution of an entire hominid species that left not one single solitary fossil behind.
Like so many comic-book movies, "Green Lantern" and "X-Men: First Class" are devoted to the flimsy monumental — combats between good and evil so obvious and repetitive that they are of no interest morally (they're more like premises for endless warfare).
"When you've outgoings like premises and heating, late payments can be a real problem," she says.
