After snarkily describing some of the preposterous action, he acknowledges, "Right now I can see that we are never going to get through at this rate, so I'll have to condense Mr. Saroyan's plot rather drastically".
There's little magic to be had from watching "Now You See Me," a splashy, noisy and frankly preposterous action caper about a quartet of illusionists with a Robin Hood complex.
"The World's End" completes a cycle begun with "Shaun of the Dead" and continued in "Hot Fuzz" that blends genre parody, snappy verbal humor and sublimely preposterous action-movie mayhem.
Vaughn's direction isn't subtle but you can't help but warm to the boyish glee with which he tackles even the most preposterous the action sequences.
Colin Richmond's design cleverly makes the anti-prison point, setting preposterous, colourful action (including a riot of a riot) against black-and-white footage of a Victorian prison, the walkways stalked by female shadows.
Here, producers incur "numerology issues" during casting, and one nice slow-burn gag reveals just how Shamitabh's more than faintly preposterous-looking action flick Lifebuoy got its title.
John Hawke, the Comptroller of the Currency, called Mr Spitzer's action "preposterous" and derided it as "political grandstanding".
The Chemist (Sphere, £20) by Stephenie Meyer, bestselling author of the Twilight saga, is an awkward, not to say preposterous, hybrid of action thriller and romantic suspense.
A loud, seemingly interminable, and altogether incoherent entry in the preposterous and proliferating "action-comedy" genre, it stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz as a pair of hastily sketched cartoon characters hurtling from plane crash to car chase to further car, helicopter and motorcycle chases, one involving stampeding bulls.
The action – as preposterous and deadly serious as a recounted dream – concerns Lucy, played by Emily Browning, a beautiful young student.
It seems preposterous that this policy action would be being taken in the name of protecting hard working families when it does precisely the reverse," said Alex Grayson, managing partner at Empower Community.
