Buried

[Dukefrukem]

sounds badass


Ryan Reynolds will star in "Buried," playing a civilian contractor who's kidnapped in Iraq and awakens buried in a coffin in the desert, armed only with a cell phone, a candle and a knife.

Rodrigo Cortes will direct a script by Chris Sparling; production will begin this month in Barcelona.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118005345.html?categoryid=1 236&cs=1

[Dukefrukem]

Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3NClUkY700)

[Raiders]

This got good buzz out of Sundance. I just heard about it, actually. 90 minutes of Ryan Reynolds guarantees my interest.

[number8]

When the script was bought, I was so sure that they'd add a few stuff outside the coffin just to break up the pace. I was wrong, and apparently literally the entire movie is set inside the coffin. I'm honestly kind of impressed.

[Morris Schæffer]

I've heard some time ago about this one. Interest definitely peaked.

[[ETM]]

I don't think that's a candle. They obviously left him some kind of light source, but open flame would just use up his oxygen quickly and they could kiss their million dollars good bye.

[number8]

http://i.imgur.com/isdJS.jpg

[Lasse]

I like the new poster.

http://gfx.filmz.zfour.dk/98/52398-604x894crop0.jpg

[Spun Lepton]

How in the hell can they possibly make this story interesting without resorting to flashbacks?

[Lasse]

How in the hell can they possibly make this story interesting without resorting to flashbacks?

Really.

Finding out how they're going to make a story out of it is 50% of my interest.

[number8]

He does video chat on his phone a lot, so it's somewhat dialogue heavy. It's not like it's Ryan Reynolds just lying there the whole time.

[Lasse]

It's not like it's Ryan Reynolds just lying there the whole time.

Oh, that was my impression.

[Ezee E]

Oh, that was my impression.
Hence the cellphone being one of the items he has in the coffin.

[Spun Lepton]

Do cell phones get a signal buried six feet underground?

[Lasse]

Hence the cellphone being one of the items he has in the coffin.

Yeah, obviously. :lol: But I read something somewhere about his battery running out of power, which I might have focused too much on.

Also this.


Do cell phones get a signal buried six feet underground?

I suppose they do.

[MadMan]

Do cell phones get a signal buried six feet underground?Depends if he's using Verizon or AT&T...

[Spun Lepton]

Color me skeptical that this won't be a total bore.

[Ezee E]

Color me skeptical that this won't be a total bore.
Do you get excited about any movies?

[Spun Lepton]

Do you get excited about any movies?

Rarely. But, when I do, I tend to go Full Fanboy.

[D_Davis]

What if they accidentally gave him an iPad, thinking it was a phone?

[number8]

What if they accidentally gave him an iPad, thinking it was a phone?

Then he wouldn't have any motivation to escape, duh.

[megladon8]

He does video chat on his phone a lot, so it's somewhat dialogue heavy. It's not like it's Ryan Reynolds just lying there the whole time.



Damn. If it had been that, I could've posted a great review.


http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/8928/008barraularanas001.jpg

"He was just lying there."

[D_Davis]

Then he wouldn't have any motivation to escape, duh.

He'd just be there playing Plants vs. Zombies.

[Ezee E]

Trailers & Clip (http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=56595)

The clip is okay. The spinning might get annoying too. But I'm still interested.

[Morris Schæffer]

http://www.aintitcool.com/images2009/BuriedPos2-1sm.jpg

[MadMan]

I'm actually tired of comparrisons to Hitchcock. Or statements that say "Its the kind of movie Hitch would have made! He would have loved it! Blah blah blah...."

[Grouchy]

I'm actually tired of comparrisons to Hitchcock. Or statements that say "Its the kind of movie Hitch would have made! He would have loved it! Blah blah blah...."
Yes, that's a very lame way to express appreciation for any suspense movie.

[Raiders]

I can't see the image people are responding to but I do think the comparison to/name-dropping of Hitchcock is a little valid. He was very fond of structural gimmicks and in particular single-location narratives. It is still a bit of a lazy shorthand, but not entirely unfounded.

[Dukefrukem]

I can't see the image people are responding to but I do think the comparison to/name-dropping of Hitchcock is a little valid. He was very fond of structural gimmicks and in particular single-location narratives. It is still a bit of a lazy shorthand, but not entirely unfounded.

And not only that, but depicting tension and anxiety based on dialog alone. Rope is possibly the best example in cinema that does this.

[Raiders]

And not only that, but depicting tension and anxiety based on dialog alone. Rope is possibly the best example in cinema that does this.

Well, I don't think that is really what Rope does. I would say the real-time narrative and intimate camera movements and angles as we weave through party guests and in and around a dead body are what create the tension. The dialogue, particularly with James Stewart's preofessor, definitely add another layer on top.

For an example of what you mean, Lifeboat probably fits the bill a little better.

[number8]

I would say the real-time narrative and intimate camera movements and angles as we weave through party guests and in and around a dead body are what create the tension.

Funny enough, this is exactly what Buried does.

[Boner M]

Funny enough, this is exactly what Buried does.
Word. In fact, outside of Uncle Boonmee I can't think of another 2010 release that absolutely requires to been seen in a theatre; so much does Cortés work the frame and explore every possible way of filming the limited space w/ limited light sources (yellow zippo flame + blue phone screen are the predominant colors, and the film is hypnotic in how effectively it utilises them). Almost a structural film! Reynolds is real good too; his emotional scenes work because his character's never overtly likeable and his performance accordingly doesn't beg for sympathy. Oh, and snake scene FTW!

Admittedly the politics are a little hamfisted, also the nihilistic ending will probably seem a bit cheap to some, although it guility kinda made me wanna cheer. But above all this is classy formalist - rather than humanist - exercise, and way more accomplished at that than I'd expected. Will be interesting to see how 127 Hours compares.

[Rowland]

Yeah, can't wait. Totally seems like my kinda thing.

[Morris Schæffer]

Really wanna see this also, but I doubt the major chains in Belgium will show it.

[Ezee E]

I plan on seeing this Friday.

[Ezee E]

Worth seeing, even if I'm not going to support it in the end.

[Boner M]

Hmm, I don't really think the premise is all that great and was actually why I wasn't expecting much fro it - it's the execution, at least formally, that counts. And as a heightened portrayal of American bureaucracy, it's a brilliant absurdist comedy.

[Morris Schæffer]

Like Inception, this is a true original and one of the best movies of the year. I expected something special, knew that the movie was confined to just the coffin, but still came away very impressed by the whole thing. It is obviously intensely claustrophobic, the effect staggeringly persuasive, our time underground a privilege because a lesser director would have resorted to the expected clichés such as search parties, panic-stricken family and friends. It is kinda telling that whenever I heart the coffin creak during Conroy's attempts to escape, I became wary. I didn't want him to succeed at all because any measure of succes would have yielded something safer, would have totally disrupted the atmosphere of this movie. Nonetheless, and this may not seem like a big deal to some, but it was an unfortunate idea to play some cheery melody over the end credits. I wanted blackness, a more sombre musical accompaniment than what was chosen here. The conclusion certainly deserved that.

[number8]

Goddamn, that was a cheap ending.

Someone suggested that the ending should be him escaping and it turns out he was in his own backyard the whole time. That would have at least been hilarious.

[Morris Schæffer]

Goddamn, that was a cheap ending.

Someone suggested that the ending should be him escaping and it turns out he was in his own backyard the whole time. That would have at least been hilarious.

I thought it was the only possible ending.

[Ezee E]

Goddamn, that was a cheap ending.

Someone suggested that the ending should be him escaping and it turns out he was in his own backyard the whole time. That would have at least been hilarious.
Partly why I disliked it leaving the theater, and like it even less now. Ugh.

[number8]

I appreciated the creativity that went into straining such a gimmicky premise to an effective thriller, but I kept thinking that this director might deliver a very underwhelming sophomore effort. Because I think the gimmick carried his direction more than the other way around.

[transmogrifier]

An extended snuff film basically, one which coasts along on its premise - how are they going to stay in the box the whole time? - for a fair while, and then coasts along on Reynolds, who is very good, but the bureaucracy angle is so heavy-handed (the conversation with his company rep is groan-inducing) and the ending is all cheap cynicism.

I have no problems with him not getting out, really, because there was only two choices anyway, but the way they did it, the sand and the last-second rescue, and then the face-palm callback to Mark White......fucking cheap gotcha crap.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Couldn't agree more about that ending, but I'm overall still slightly positive on the experience, solely because of Reynolds, who I thought was brilliant.