20 Recent Movies That Ruined INCREDIBLE Plots
Killer concept, disappointing execution.
It's often said that ideas by themselves are worth nothing - it's the implementation and execution that's important, and that's as true in filmmaking as it is in anything else.
There are so many movies out there with fantastic concepts that ultimately fall far short of the mark because the script isn't right, the director phoned it in, or the casting is way off.
It's always frustrating seeing so much potential being tossed away, but because making a good film is really, really hard, is also incredibly commonplace at all levels of the industry.
And so, over the last year-or-so, these are the 20 films that all had fantastic loglines, yet ultimately found themselves struggling to pay it off in a satisfying way.
They had a killer enough concept to make an attention-grabbing trailer and lure audiences in, but once they sat down to watch it for themselves, it soon became clear that the juice just wasn't there to deliver a satisfying end product.
Some of these films might've worked with a few considered tweaks, while others clearly needed to be entirely rethought from the ground-up...
20. One Night Only
One Night Only touts one of the most creative setups for any rom-com ever, taking place in a reality where premarital sex is outlawed in the U.S., save for one night a year.
It's tough not to be at least a little intrigued by "The Purge for boning," yet the big problem is that Travis Braun's script digs a little too eagerly into the how and why of the central setup.
There's a basically misguided amount of world-building on offer here, in turn encouraging the audience to interrogate the more horrifyingly dystopian implications of its premise - hardly the most alluring foundation for a sexy, charming rom-com.
The filmmakers would've likely been better off explaining less about the premarital sex restriction and focusing more on the interplay between Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner's romantically entangled protagonists.
Ironically not unlike the original Purge, it's a neat idea for a film squandered on a clumsy, slapdash script.