Don’t get me wrong. I understand he’s handsome and in great shape. But the man just seems to have a way of killing otherwise serviceable movie concepts.
As a geek, I blame him for the wrecking of the Blade, Green Lantern, and Deadpool franchises. And now, my understanding is that RIPD, which is Men in Black meets the Sixth Sense (how do you screw that up?), was a box office bomb as well.
I can understand why he might do well in the rom/com genre…but why keep throwing big budget films his way?
If my perception is off, and he is a gifted thespian whose best work is cut in post-production, please let me know that as well.
I was just reading about the current big budget flops and started wondering about Ryan Reynolds too.
Poor guy. I wonder if the opposite isn’t true. It’s not that RR brings down otherwise passable movies, it’s that he’s the ray of light in crapfest movies. He needs a better agent. Join Scientology. Something.
You really think Ryan Reynolds and not Wesley Snipes is responsible for what happened to the Blade franchise?
And what Deadpool franchise? How would a Deadpool movie have been any more likely if someone else had been cast in that role? Unless you’re asserting he had some sort of effect on the writing of the Wolverine movie (or the GL movie for that matter)?
He keeps getting work because he seems like he has everything to be successful.
Good looking, in shape, kind of funny in a snarky sort of way.
I think he just doesn’t fit the hero (or anti-hero) type he keeps getting cast as. Maybe he picked bad roles, maybe it was his agent, maybe that’s all he was offered. I think he’d do much better in a not so over-the-top role like an intelligent non-slapstick/teen comedy or rom-com if he dropped about 50% of the snark and humbled up a bit. I’d kind of like to see him in a role where he plays a humble shmuck.
I saw Buried in the theater, and yes, he did. That’s an intense role and he was fantastic, showing that he has the chops if he has the right director and script. I’ve seen very few of his other films, but in general he seems very down to earth and likeable.
Wow. Are you new here? This is not even the dumbest post I’ve ever made.
This was less a question about Reynolds’ acting ability and more an issue with the folks that do casting. It seems clear enough to me that Reynolds is not ‘that guy’ that will put butts in seats even for a terrible movie just because he is attached, or can rise above the material. I realize those are 2 separate issues- quality v box office- but it seems he does poorly at both in so far as the big budget action genre is concerned.
I can accept he does good work on smaller films. I also do not blame the guy for showing up to work every day if he is getting paid. I am just mystified as to the coincidence that does saddle him with ‘stinkers.’
Also, Blade III was terrible, and while the issues may have started with the rewrite, exacerbated by Snipes’…problems…if my amnesia induced trauma lets anything through, it is that Reynolds was actively offensive on screen. Either he is plagued by horrible writers, or he really needs to be told to never ever ad lib.
My guess is that he’s a decent-to-good, not great, actor (see the aforementioned roles where he showed talent) who has terrible taste in what offers to take. Maybe a bad agent, but the actor also has a lot of say. Some actors just seem to have a way of picking really good roles, they have taste or a knack for reading scripts or something. If their taste lines up with yours you can be reasonably confident that a role they choose will be a good movie. Obviously this fails sometimes, due to other factors, but it’s a decent barometer. An example of this sort of actor for me would be Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Reynolds does not seem to have good judgement in what to take. Or he just needs money and takes crap roles with big paychecks.
You really think the actor killed those franchises rather than studios rushing to crank out the next hit flick for the manchild demographic somehow managing to overestimate the level of schlock a bunch of grown men who take comic books seriously will accept?
Well, the premise is staggeringly lazy. It probably didn’t take much to “screw that up.” The real trick would’ve been making it watchable.
The poster boy for this, IMHO, is Leo DiCaprio. Say what you like about him, but the man picks terrific projects, and works with excellent directors; the only weak film he’s made since 2000 was Blood Diamond, and even that was a calculated risk, not a sell-out.
Maybe so, but that just proves how high the bar is - since 2000 he’s worked with Martin Scorsese, Stephen Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, Sam Mendes and Baz Luhrman. Show me one other actor who’s worked with directors as good.
I’m sure he’s gotten offers to work with second-rate directors on second-rate scripts. I’m also sure he’s been offered a ton of money to do so, much more than he’s getting from Scorcese. The fact that he hasn’t proves he has one of the best-managed careers in Hollywood.