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Quite a few MST3K films have a decent premise IMO, but lacked either the budget or the talent to make enough of them.
Eg Time Chasers (which isn't really all that bad), The Skydivers, Moon Zero Two, Rocket Attack USA, Stranded in Space, and perhaps even Manos: The Hands of Fate.
With the right people, I think those and others could have been very decent movies.
No Country For Old Men - a slice of life movie about living in Texas.
What was that anime where you wear a VR headset and if you die in-game, you die in real life?
Ya that one
that's pretty much a whole manga subgenre now
What Sword Art Online Alternative. Amazing plot and characters.
Sword Art Online had a pretty decent few opening episodes, it just.... for some reason decided to go full-blown Knights of Sidonia and turn itself into a weird harem anime.
I HIGHLY recommend the SAO Abridged series. It's one of the few "parody/satire" projects that actually makes the original story better and most regard SAO Abridged as the better version as a whole.
Spy Kids 3D
S Darko was interesting because at it's core it's about the fact that women have to deal with twice as much bullshit
Highlander II
The Dark Tower
It's a long list but these two were painful.
The live action transformers movies.
Although I almost never think about it.
And I only saw the first thirty minutes of the first movie.
Idiocracy.
Loved the idea. Film itself... meh
I feel the opposite, the premise is an endorsement of eugenics that looks like it was written by that mother-goose ass neo-natalist couple
The actual film is a decent turn off your brain stoner comedy
The Man from Earth
B4
Triangle
Time Lapse
Daybreakers
Evolution
Knowing
The Fall Guy. The show had a very simple premise (stunt crew moonlights as bounty hunters) that really couldn't hold up after multiple seasons. The movie just floundered trying to do too much, and ended up far too inside baseball for normal viewers to really identify with.
I never watched the show, but I loved the movie. Almost every character feels competent and clever, so they do at least something that surprised me. There are a few points that hinge on details that feel a bit contrived, but I appreciated that the climax wasn't just a physical fight between good guy and bad guy. The main characters have emotional problems that are believable and get resolved. Plus, it's just a little campy.
I think the "inside baseball" that you mentioned gave the world more depth. It felt "lived in".
I'll give you that the movie does try to cram a lot into the time, though. It feels a little rushed.
Yeah, rushed is part of it as well for a full 120+min movie.
And, I should say, I also loved the movie and was disappointed to see mostly negative reviews afterward, but I get it. I initially loved the fact that 87North, the director's own production company, is both listed in the opening credits and is the company making the movie in the movie. But as the final (contrived to look awesome, which is the point, not the actual plot points) moments wrap up, it felt like it was as much an industry commercial for the director's own production company as it was a movie just being a movie. Maybe that's a selling feature and I overthought it, but it sort of took me out of it.
I am 100% convinced they had a masterpiece and then test audiences didn't get it and they went and changed everything around and added the prologue and gave away the entire twist at the start by explicitly telling the viewer where and when we are. Also made the dinosaurs weird for .... reasons...?
Oof. Having the statue of liberty there on the opening credits of Planet of the Apes
Mutant Chronicles, except i don't think about it normally, but immediately comes to mind when somebody asks similar question. Also it wasn't mediocre, it was incredibly bad and the second biggest disapointment movie ever for me (worst was Starship Troopers 2).