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Liked "Buried," But Instead of a Coffin, The Whole Goddamn Wilderness

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (30)



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Canadian Michael Greenspan makes his directorial debut with Wrecked, which stars Adrian Brody as a man who wakes up inside a wrecked car at the bottom of a ravine with two other dead men and no memory of who he is or how he ended up at the bottom of a ravine. The fun part of this movie, I’d imagine, would be in figuring out what kind of a person he is along with Brody’s character, but the trailer goes ahead and gives most of that away, focusing instead of his struggle to escape the wilderness (and his past) while wounded.

I guess the question I have is this: If you’re in a car at the bottom of a ravine, how far can you really be from a road, and why does it look to take him days to get back to civilization?

Also, $20 says there’s a mountain lion involved.











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Comments

Maybe it's a flying car.

TWIST!

Posted by: Paul Southworth at October 15, 2010 9:19 AM

Wrecked, huh? Is it a double-entendre meant to imply that everyone in the car was shit-faced and decided to go for a drive in the jungle?

And what's with the music? BOWWWWWWWWWAAAAHHHWWWWW. That song is the culmination of years of practice and probably quite a bit of money for guitar lessons, and this guy decided to play the same cord over and over again with what sounds like the mild use of a whammy bar. Hold all of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' calls. There's a new Best Song sheriff in town.

Posted by: Kballs at October 15, 2010 9:52 AM

Why do they always have to have a gun and a mysterious past? Cast Away was riveting only in the parts when Tom Hanks was alone on screen. Not everyone can carry a movie, but I think we've learned that Adrien Brody can, and watching someone trying to find their way out of the "wilderness" could be pretty fascinating on its own.

Dustin's excellent question about why it takes days if the car is at the bottom of a ravine is exactly the kind of thing that keeps me coming back to Pajiba.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at October 15, 2010 9:53 AM

If I was Adrien Brody and woke up with no memory in the remnants of a car crash at some unspecified location in the wilderness with 2 corpses, I think I would be most distressed with how alarming large my nose is.

Posted by: shanmarie (AKA penelope) at October 15, 2010 10:47 AM

@shanmarie

Rimshot!

It's funny because it's true.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at October 15, 2010 10:49 AM

If you’re in a car at the bottom of a ravine, how far can you really be from a road.
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And yet, every once in awhile there's a story about someone who survives 10 days trapped in a car 50 feet down a hillside from the road, because really, who ever thinks to look down there? I know I'm busy drinking grain alcohol and snorting coke and fingerbanging the hot teenage chick in the jump seat while I'm driving, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Posted by: , at October 15, 2010 10:59 AM

Yes, but ,, Brody is not actually trapped in the car. Mad props for the Hunter S. Thompson imagery though.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at October 15, 2010 11:15 AM

chord.

Posted by: Rest In Peace at October 15, 2010 11:19 AM

Fingerbanging like the words "pickle" and "monkey" is almost always funny.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at October 15, 2010 11:20 AM

RE: DISTANCE FROM A ROAD

Notice that he's crawling the entire time because his leg is fucked thirteen ways from breakfast. I imagine someone grabbed the wheel and fought with the driver while the car careened into the wilderness. If the car was going 40-50 mph in a relatively straight line through the woods and managed to avoid direct hits with any trees, it could get a solid 2-3 miles off whatever road it was traveling before coming to a stop. And what if the "road" they left was a gravel path in the middle of nowhere where the "killer" could dispose of the bodies? Then you're moving him at least 2-3 more miles away from any realistic source of vehicular travel, bringing our total to 4-6 miles. Also, he's apparently stuck in the car for awhile, then has to gather himself physically and mentally once free of it, not to mention the complete lack of food or water to strengthen his looming attempt to escape his predicament.

People get lost 10 feet from their front doors in blizzard white-outs. You think you can find a road miles away in an unknown direction when you have to DRAG yourself (not crawl because his leg is seriously jacked up), with no food or water, just after suffering some pretty significant brain damage? Well Ku-fucking-dos, my friends. Bear Grylls has some godamned competition on his hands.

Posted by: Kballs at October 15, 2010 11:31 AM

**recoils from verbal bitch slap**

KBalls makes a valid point.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at October 15, 2010 11:35 AM

KBalls: MARRY me.

Also, I will take Adrien Brody and his fantastic giant nose and have their babies. Mmmm Brody + mmmm Brody nose.

Posted by: Anna von Beav at October 15, 2010 11:39 AM

Am I the only one reminiscing of Anthony Hopkins in that Alaska plane crash movie?

Posted by: lordhelmet at October 15, 2010 11:41 AM

thanks to that image of sexing Brody's nose, i almost lost my breakfast beer.

Posted by: idleprimate at October 15, 2010 12:07 PM

How can I imagine waking up in a car not knowing who I was? I wouldn't have any memories of imagining it, would I? Too bad the trailer, apparently, gives away too much. Obviously he's the killer. No motive, though, so that's okay. Note to people who edit trailers, take a cue from Alien, best trailer in the history of movie-making and gives away very little.

And Brody, unf, still gonna see it. At least it's something original.

Posted by: Tina at October 15, 2010 12:17 PM

How can I imagine waking up in a car not knowing who I was? I wouldn't have any memories of imagining it, would I?

____________

Guess I just got pwned! LOLZ!!!

*makes wanking gesture with right hand*

Posted by: Kballs at October 15, 2010 12:23 PM

Am I the only one reminiscing of Anthony Hopkins in that Alaska plane crash movie?

The Edge?

Horrible title. Brilliant fucking movie.

Posted by: The Other Agent Johnson at October 15, 2010 12:26 PM

Did I see Meat Loaf for like 2 seconds at 1:40?

Posted by: HappyGobo at October 15, 2010 12:30 PM

Guess I just got pwned! LOLZ!!!

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Sometimes these tag lines are so cheesy, the jokes write themselves. ;)

Posted by: Tina at October 15, 2010 12:57 PM

Tina . . .

nevermind.

Posted by: Kballs at October 15, 2010 1:49 PM

Picklemonkey!

Posted by: MM at October 15, 2010 3:12 PM

Well now I don't know if I want to watch the trailer. If it would be more interesting to find out who he was along with him...and the trailer gives that away...should I watch the trailer?

*finger hovers over the play button*

Posted by: DeistBrawler at October 15, 2010 3:16 PM

DeistBrawler,

The trailer implies certain things and shows a few very quick flashbacks, but it's ambiguous enough to leave you thinking it could go either way.

Posted by: Kballs at October 15, 2010 3:36 PM

@MM

Seeeee!

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at October 15, 2010 4:40 PM

I like a nice big nose, personally.

Posted by: replica at October 15, 2010 6:59 PM

I wish I could find the link to the original story, but here in my parts, an elderly woman in her early 80's crashed her car down the side of a mountain pass embankment and wasn't found for three days. Not only did she survive, she came out relatively unscathed (she was mildly dehydrated when found by the rescue workers).

So long story short-bushy bushes and steep angles can hide a lot of crazy shit and little old ladies born and raised in the Kootenay wilds are tough nuts to crack.

Posted by: kootenay girl at October 15, 2010 9:52 PM

Maybe a suggestive news story to a man suffering from concussion, isolation, deprivation, and pain? Perhaps there's more to the story than the obvious. (fingers crossed)

Posted by: Patricia at October 15, 2010 10:31 PM

Kballs is on fire today. In a previous post, he poetically deconstructed Kirsten Dunst, and here he schooled Dustin (and perhaps Picklemonkey). BAM!

Posted by: Uriah Creep at October 15, 2010 10:51 PM

I just named my band* Fingerbang Picklemonkey. Or Picklemonkey Fingerbang, it's a tossup.

*--Doesn't have a band.

Posted by: , at October 16, 2010 10:43 AM

I'd go with Fingermonkey Picklebang myself.

Posted by: PaulterA at October 18, 2010 2:01 PM