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.
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.
The consensus states "Tony Scott tries to combine action, science fiction, romance, and explosions into one movie, but the time travel conceit might be too preposterous and the action falls apart under scrutiny".
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.
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.
There is often a moment in long-running disputes when one side jumps the shark and performs an action so preposterous that its case is forever discredited: so it was with Sheffield's Labour council and its dawn raid to destroy eight trees in Rustlings Road, where Jenny Hockey lives.
The series is not known for plausibility, but it still tries to keep a scrim of current events over its action sequences and preposterous subplots.
