Discuss: Do You Want to See Ryan Reynolds Buried in a
Coffin for 80 Minutes

post from Film School Rejects on 04 July 2009 02:53:00 PM. © Film School Rejects

So, Ryan Reynolds announced that he was going to be following-up his studio flicks X-Men Origins: Wolverine and X-Men Origins: The Proposal with an indie thriller by Spanish director Rodrigo Cortes. Buried is the story of a civilian contractor who is kidnapped in Iraq and buried alive in a coffin out in the desert. Not to be confused with the forthcoming adaptation of Candyland, where a civilian contractor is kidnapped in Iraq and buried alive in a coffin out in the dessert.Until now, we've gotten the usual schlock about how it's going to be a great acting challenge, how a bulk of the film focuses on Reynolds, and how he'll will really stretch himself.Now we're getting word from The Playlist that he won't be stretching himself. Because he'll be inside a coffin for the entire run-time of the film. By himself. The entire movie.The money quote:It's the only movie I've ever heard of with only one person in it. So it's just me, I'm the only person in the whole movie so, I don't know. We'll see. It's either going to be, you know, the greatest, most experimental cool movie ever made or god knows what," Reynolds said.That sounds like a perfect wording of the exact question you'll need to be asking yourself. Does this thing have a chance at being great? Or does is sound like a gimmick that gets shoved down the audience's throat for almost an hour and a half? Do you want to see a guy armed only with a cell phone, knife, and candle trying to dig his way out of a coffin for that long? Part of me wants to hope that it would be really tense, but I have trouble seeing anyone's ability to spread that sort of tension over such great a ...

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