Mystery Solved: It Was Sinestro Who Buried Him Alive

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (21)

The new trailer for Ryan Reynolds’ Buried is another instance (like The Company Men, in the previous post) where a studio is once again trying to make a low-budget indie film a little more palatable to mainstream audiences. Not an easy task for a movie filmed entirely inside a coffin buried six feet under the ground. How do you work around that? Flashy images and audio-only, of course.

Still, I am so all over this movie. It’s too bad that Reynolds’ doesn’t have that Green Lantern ring with him, though. He’d turn that dirt into cotton candy and eat his way out of the ground.

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NOPE, not going to watch. I'm claustrophobic.

Posted by: BWeaves at July 22, 2010 10:10 AM

At least he can still do crunches in there.

Posted by: Kballs at July 22, 2010 10:11 AM

So, I can't get a signal when I walk into a tin garden shed with my pants down but Ry-Rey has a magical BlackBerry that works six feet under? The fuck?

Regardless, I think Reynolds has the ability to pull this one off. That was the worst trailer I've ever seen though.

Posted by: admin at July 22, 2010 10:13 AM

when I walk into a tin garden shed with my pants down

...

never mind.

Posted by: The Other Agent Johnson at July 22, 2010 10:23 AM

Holy Jeebus. I didn't know what was meant by "worst trailer", but now I see. That was simply awful, like a badly done storyboard with little cell phone bars every where. That was a mess.

I *might* Netflix it, and that's only if everything else that's awesome is on 'long wait' status.

Posted by: Kaleena at July 22, 2010 10:26 AM

Yeah, crapfest.

Posted by: Cindy at July 22, 2010 10:31 AM

Actually, how the hell do you make a script out of that? If they have, that's an accomplishment. I suppose the biggest problem would be that you probably wouldn't talk much, but an actor's gotta talk occasionally, but what do you make him say?

Posted by: Jay at July 22, 2010 10:32 AM

Dustin, it's a nice effort, but your Green Lantern joke just doesn't make sense.

The ring projects solid light constructs of the wearers willpower and imagination. It doesn't have the ability to transform matter. If he had the green lantern power ring he could project a giant shovel, or a bulldozer.

But turning sand into cotton candy, that's just stupid.

Posted by: Brian at July 22, 2010 10:34 AM

with little cell phone bars

Noooo, it's obviously "Dig Dug" and that desert world in "Super Mario Bros. 2"! HOMAGE, people!

Posted by: Jay at July 22, 2010 10:34 AM

Power Ring science aside, hey, he's probably hungry, and who doesn't like cotton candy?

Posted by: Jay at July 22, 2010 10:36 AM

Hey, don't bring me into this. I can't see him in anything without thinking:
"Two Guys, A Girl and a Coffin."
"Two Guys, A Girl and a Tara Reid."
"Two Guys, A Girl and a Blade, Vampire Hunter."
Guys like a piano tuner who just keeps striking the same key over and over and over. Abs be damned (I said it).

Posted by: Sinestro at July 22, 2010 10:37 AM

claustrophobia + extreme fear of being buried alive + Ryan Reynolds in a dramatic role = never ever going to see this. Ever.

Posted by: jimbob at July 22, 2010 11:40 AM

All I can think of is the old SCTV skit, Lin Ye Tan's House of Horror episode: "The Man in the Box".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOw4HSmkMSo

Posted by: Odnon at July 22, 2010 12:06 PM

Leave him down there please.

Posted by: Alex at July 22, 2010 12:11 PM

Where are the pictures of him naked in that trailer?

Because you know that Ryan Reynold's is so hot that his body heat will turn that coffin into the ultimate sauna and he'll have to strip completely naked as an attempt to achieve some sort of comfort in that steamy, dirty death box.

Posted by: gee. ay. at July 22, 2010 1:29 PM

I can't even watch the trailer for that one, my claustrophobia is that bad.

Posted by: figgy at July 22, 2010 3:27 PM

Oh, so VERY fuck that. Those abs are magical, but they can't perform miracles like getting my claustrophobic ass into a movie theater. No, no, no, no, no. Just no. I'll be over here crying in the corner, thanks to watching that trailer.

Posted by: Jen at July 22, 2010 5:39 PM

I had a hard time getting through the trailer just because of the concept. Oddly enough, I had a dream about being trapped underground last night.

UGH. UGH. UGH.

But I do loves me a good movie; I'll probably see it.

Posted by: Jelinas at July 22, 2010 5:42 PM

I can get over the cell phone working underground thing..didn't marky mark call Detroit from an Iraqi bunker in 3 Kings?

Posted by: stryker1121 at July 22, 2010 7:10 PM

I read the script for this. Not going to watch the movie, but the script was pretty interesting.
I can't see how they are going to turn it into a half-decent movie.

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Mystery Solved: It Was Sinestro Who Buried Him Alive

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