# Movies with incorrect basic premises?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-incorrect-basic-premises/740778>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 18, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-incorrect-basic-premises/740778 "2015-12-18T16:12:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Quercus\_alba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quercus_alba/32/4061_2.png) [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-incorrect-basic-premises/740778/121 "2015-12-26T22:38:33Z")

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> [@digs](#):
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> Boring.
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> I have an uncle who worked for Blofeld. He quit just to get out of the volcano base, said it always smelled like “a day-old barbeque grill filled with dirty socks”. I just asked him about the meetings, and he said they had a dweeb from middle management say the same thing every week: “Okay, I’m going to remind _someone_ again about not making popcorn in the employee break room because it always burns and besides Edna from Accounts Receivable is on a diet and her office is right next door, and all unmarked Tupperware in the fridge will be thrown out this Friday, and don’t bang the mailroom carts into the pallets of nuclear warheads in the hallways, the admins are saving those for the self-destruct sequence.”

"Ummm, I’m gonna need you to go ahead come in tomorrow. So if you could be here around 9 that would be great, mmmk… oh oh! and I almost forgot ahh, I’m also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday too, kay. We ahh lost some people in a battle with ninjas this week and ah, we sorta need to play catch up. "

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**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-incorrect-basic-premises/740778/122 "2015-12-26T23:11:59Z")

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The mysterious ‘letters of transit’ in _Casablanca_ don’t make any kind of logical sense, whether they were signed by de Gaulle or Weygand, and the scriptwriters admitted that they made them up out of whole cloth. It’s another one of Hitchcock’s ‘McGuffins’ - the thing, or person, or document that all the characters are chasing after.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-incorrect-basic-premises/740778/123 "2015-12-27T03:49:32Z")

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Many of the posts here deal with implausible details, rather than movies whose whole premise was nonsense.

Take a movie like “Dead Man on Campus.” It was based on the nonsensical belief that a college would give a student straight A’s if he had a roommate who committed suicide.

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**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2015, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-with-incorrect-basic-premises/740778/124 "2015-12-27T04:41:33Z")

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Well, that was based on an urban legend.

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