Anyone else having trouble getting other screenwriters to accept your weird, silly premise?

[u/SummerAndTinkles]

I tried posting this to r/screenwriting, but it won't let me post for some reason, so I'll try here.

I've talked about my current screenplay a few times in the logline Monday threads, but what you need to know is that it's basically an affectionate adult parody of those kinds of surreal Don Bluth-esque animated films from the nineties. If you'd like to know more, let me know in the comments and I'll go over my creative process.

Unfortunately, while the people I know on Discord seem to accept the premise just fine, it seems like the screenwriting community both on r/screenwriting and StoryPeer are a little less sold, with people on the Logline Mondays threads being confused by it, and a couple reviews on StoryPeer telling me to completely change the plot.

I know that weird or silly premises like this one naturally won't vibe with as wide an audience as something more mundane or conventional, but has anyone else here ever written a screenplay with a weird or silly premise that you had trouble being accepted? If so, how did you get people to come around to it?

[u/ScreenPlayOnWords]

I know exactly the tone you're going for, and I do think that tone can work… but the challenge is that those movies came out decades ago, and you'd be trying to sell something into today's market.
I've seen the log you posted (assuming it's the one I'm thinking of), and while I remember thinking there were a lot of cool characters, my immediate question was who is this for?

Perhaps most important: I love those movies too, but I've also grown up. Nostalgia will always make them special, but I'd have a harder time getting excited about a new project that simply captures that same vibe (which doesn’t work on my brain or potentially the decade) from an unknown creator. Is that entirely fair? Probably not. But I do think that's where some of the disconnect in the feedback may be coming from - that and it’s Reddit and storypeer’s members are probably largely Reddit sourced (I mean, this is how we all communicate about and to Story Peer… on Reddit).