Ryan Reynolds' "Buried"

Necronomicon

Heard about this recently, and I'm very intrigued by the concept. Synopsis from IMDB:

Paul is a U.S. contractor working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

The interesting part is that the film stars Ryan Reynolds, and only Ryan Reynolds. IMDB credits a couple of others, as voices, because all he has is a mobile phone and a lighter. The entire film takes place within the coffin.

No teasers available yet (it's set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival) but check out the poster:

InKonspikuou2

I don't think Ryan Reynolds is interesting or good enough to capture my attention of just him for 90 minutes or so. Does sound like an interesting concept though. I'd have figured an actor with better emotional skills being cast would benefit an idea like this a lot more. Although i hope i'm surprised. The imdb page is full of people saying what an amazing script it is.

Basq

InKonspikuou2 wrote: »

I don't think Ryan Reynolds is interesting or good enough to capture my attention of just him for 90 minutes or so.

Funnily enough.. I have the opposite view of Ryan Reynolds.

I think he's one of the most under-rated actors working today!

Dozen Wicked Words

Would not be able to watch this, regardless of who was in it. Being buried alive is THE nightmare to end all nightmares. Didn't sleep for a week after watching the original version of the Vanishing. I doubt this film would end like that, but even so, absolute no no for me.

InKonspikuou2

basquille wrote: »

Funnily enough.. I have the opposite view of Ryan Reynolds.

I think he's one of the most under-rated actors working today!

I don't really think he's a bad actor. I like him in silly roles. And he impressed me in Chaos Theory and The nines. Think he was miscast in Amityville Horror but he wasn't too bad. But with this film, given it's premise. It needs to be pretty exceptional and executed properly to pull it off. It will be a test of his acting skills no doubt.

liah

I don't like Ryan Reynolds, and tbh there's only so many creative things you can do for 90 minutes in a coffin. There's no way I'd watch this, or at least I'd never choose to put it on myself.. sounds like the most boring thing in years. Who comes up with this crap?

Frank Bullitt

Jesus,they can show this to Iraqi prisoners as a form of torture

krudler

liah wrote: »

I don't like Ryan Reynolds, and tbh there's only so many creative things you can do for 90 minutes in a coffin. There's no way I'd watch this, or at least I'd never choose to put it on myself.. sounds like the most boring thing in years. Who comes up with this crap?

People who want to do something remotely original instead of rehashing the same old concepts and remakes and sequels over and over again? how about instead of judging a movie without having seen it you keep an open mind, hmm?

Nichololas

liah wrote: »

I don't like Ryan Reynolds, and tbh there's only so many creative things you can do for 90 minutes in a coffin. There's no way I'd watch this, or at least I'd never choose to put it on myself.. sounds like the most boring thing in years. Who comes up with this crap?

You could save this until you've seen a trailer at the very least..

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I like Reynolds. He's taken an awful lot of schlocky roles but when he get's a good one he does show that he has some talent. Interested to see how they'll get a 90 minute film out of being trapped in a coffin, if it's just Ryan Reynolds on screen than presumably there won't be flashbacks and such like in Kill Bill 2.

MagicMarker

I really like Ryan Reynolds, so will be keeping an eye of this.

FearDark

Phonebooth... but in a coffin

Actually this movie has serious potential, ill be keeping an eye on this myself.

MagicMarker

A still...

BLITZ_Molloy

FearDark wrote: »

Phonebooth... but in a coffin

Exactly what I was thinking.

The last serious movie I saw Reynolds in was The Nines which was so bad I nearly walked out of it. Not his fault particularly, it was just a horrible movie.

FouxDaFaFa

FearDark wrote: »

Phonebooth... but in a coffin

Actually this movie has serious potential, ill be keeping an eye on this myself.

I was thinking that too. It sounds interesting. Not sure I would have picked Reynolds but if the reviews are good I'll give it a look.

Richard Dower

basquille wrote: »

Funnily enough.. I have the opposite view of Ryan Reynolds.

I think he's one of the most under-rated actors working today!

I agree, seen him in a few things and he does have range, but he normally gets the romantic comedy crap.

Richard Dower

Yeah, the phonebooth angle makes perfect sense, the guy who put him down on the phone, him calling various people. Maybe he killed people in Iraq and someone is making him pay etc., admit his guilt....call up tv stations, his wife etc.

It could be quite interesting, especially if you see the nightmare angle of the box, the panic etc. - reminds me of Grave Danger a la CSI.

Bubs101

Very interesting concept. See it being a mix of phonebooth and Saw with the story focused on one person and one scene but with the advancing plot twists Saw had.

Fair play to Reynolds though. To go from doing a bunch of Romantic Comedies and landing the lead role in two comic book movies to doing something as risque as this must take alot of balls and alot of financial security. Just hope it's not as bad as Medellin

liah

krudler wrote: »

People who want to do something remotely original instead of rehashing the same old concepts and remakes and sequels over and over again? how about instead of judging a movie without having seen it you keep an open mind, hmm?

Hardly original, is it?

Necronomicon

liah wrote: »

Hardly original, is it?

Is there another film out there that takes place solely in a coffin?

Just wanted to bump this after reading a review after the film was shown at Sundance.

I think I might have just found my favorite film of Sundance. We're only three or so days in, but this is at the top of my list, for now. Earlier tonight I caught the midnight world premiere of Rodrigo Cortés' Buried, the stuck-in-a-coffin film starring Ryan Reynolds. In short, it was phenomenal. The film already has plenty of early buzz because we've been talking about it since Reynolds was cast last year. I already knew it was set entirely inside a coffin where Reynolds is stuck and buried, but the big question is if they could actually pull off a 90 minute film set entirely in a coffin. They did. They not only pulled it off, but it's an amazing film.

Buried is, indeed, a one-man show starring Ryan Reynolds and only Ryan Reynolds. I'm not going to talk a lot about what happens, because the best way to experience this is without any of it being spoiled. Reynolds plays a contract truck driver working in Iraq who wakes up in a wooden coffin buried underground. He only has a lighter and a cell phone and that's it. That's where it starts and it goes from there. Remarkably, Cortés and Reynolds make the film riveting for all 94 minutes even though it's set entirely in this coffin. You may not believe now that a film set in a location like that could be this amazing, but you will when you see it.

The script, the direction, the acting, the story, all of it was top-notch. It was extremely intense from start to finish. Just imagine waking up inside a coffin, what would you do? I loved the way Cortés shot this using practical lighting like the cell phone and lighter and that's it. It's a very bold film, it starts out pitch black without any dialogue for at least five minutes. Reynolds wakes up screaming. And when there are no lights on around him, it's black. No ambient lighting, nothing. It's so well thought out that there was no room for error. And the progression of the story is absolutely brilliant. You're heart will be racing right until the end.

I loved Buried. If a film can actually make me feel for the character, really draw me in emotionally, make me sad at all the right times, excited at others, and put me on the edge of my seat right through to the end, then I know it's a great film. Buried did that. I only had a few small nitpicky problems with it, mainly pertaining to some scenes near the end which I can't talk about, but besides those I thought it was brilliant. There's really no way to compare Buried to anything else because it's such a unique film. It stands on its own as a piece of incredible filmmaking that will be talked about for years to come. See this the first chance you get.

Basq

Funny to see this bumped as I saw a brief teaser trailer for it at the weekend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3NClUkY700

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Cool.

Leave him in there.