# How exactly does Ryan Reynolds keep getting work? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 23, 2013, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280 "2013-07-23T03:25:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280/41 "2013-07-23T17:21:32Z")
Just saw RIPD. Reynolds didn’t act poorly. He didn’t act at all. From realizing you’re dead to getting up after a car flattened you to sleeping… same facial expression… Did the director forget to tell him that when he’s alone in a scene, he’s no longer the straight man to his overacting partner and he’s allowed to emote? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280/42 "2013-07-23T17:46:09Z")
> [@Stonebow](#): > > 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. You must be having memory problems. Ryan Reynolds was the best thing about Blade Trinity. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280/43 "2013-07-23T18:34:13Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > You must be having memory problems. Ryan Reynolds was the best thing about Blade Trinity. He is and Patton Oswalt is good in it as well. If you didn’t know this, Patton Oswalt has written about how Wesley Snipes ruined the movie. [You can read about it here.](http://www.avclub.com/articles/patton-oswalt-on-his-most-memorable-roles-and-givi,88860/) Highlight regarding Ryan Reynolds: “A lot of the lines that Ryan Reynolds has were just a result of Wesley not being there. We would all just think of things for him to say and then cut to Wesley’s face not doing anything because that’s all we could get from him. It was kind of funny. We were like, “What are the worst jokes and puns that we can say to this guy?” And then it would just be his face going, “Mmm.” “Smiles are contagious.” It’s so, so dumb. [Laughs.] That was an example of a very troubled shoot that we made fun. You have to find a way to make it fun.” Snopes was stoned for a lot of the movie. You can tell. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280/44 "2013-07-23T18:43:01Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > You must be having memory problems. Ryan Reynolds was the best thing about Blade Trinity. Ditto. I liked _Buried_ and _Just Friends_, and I’m curious what he would’ve done with Deadpool before they transformed him. I’d say he doesn’t really have extensive chops. He’s likable, and falls back on some amiable tricks to get by, but I think part of it is simply bad choices and bad luck. It’ll be interesting to see how his career develops as he fills out and gains weight, but I think the sarcastic quipster of _Van Wilder_ and _Waiting_ gets a little old (he’s OK in \* Adventureland\* but doesn’t do as much as that role could’ve really used), so it’ll be nice to see him in more sober, dramatic, challenging films. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280/45 "2013-07-23T18:50:36Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Snopes was stoned for a lot of the movie. You can tell. Ooohhh. I was wondering why they rated that “Pot is the best thing EVAH!” UL as “true.” ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280/46 "2013-07-23T19:00:51Z")
Yeah, let’s talk about Adventureland. That should have come up before post 44. He’s good. The role is that of a cool, good looking stud. But over the course of the film, it is revealed that he’s a phony - his character is a pathetic, co-dependant douche who gets by on his looks and proto-hipster veneer. Maybe he wasn’t acting. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280/47 "2013-07-24T01:14:09Z")
> [@planetcory](#): > > Green Lantern had a lot of problems. But none of them was Ryan Reynolds. I would agree with this. > [@Alessan](#): > > …A cardboard cutout of Christopher Lambert would be an improvement on Christopher Lambert. And also this. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280/48 "2013-07-24T05:33:44Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > You must be having memory problems. Ryan Reynolds was the best thing about Blade Trinity. Actually, Jessica Biel’s ass is the best thing about Blade Trinity. ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280/49 "2013-07-24T10:56:43Z")
> [@planetcory](#): > > Green Lantern had a lot of problems. But none of them was Ryan Reynolds. I respectfully disagree. It wasn’t all on him to be fair, but he has a habit of playing each role as a complete dick. His Hal Jordan was such an unlikeable person that you end up rooting for the parallax ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280/50 "2013-07-24T11:42:06Z")
Also, with that stupid mask on he looks exactly like Ben Stiller. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280/51 "2013-07-24T11:53:32Z")
I thought Green Lantern was an alcoholic dick? One of him anyway. GL was a more grown up type superhero who seemed more Marvel than DC. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280/52 "2013-07-24T11:54:08Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Also, with that stupid mask on he looks exactly like Ben Stiller. Wait, you mean wearing a domino mask works? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280/53 "2013-07-24T12:06:49Z")
Virgil Tibbs writes: \> I’ve just realised you’re not talking about Ryan Gosling. Who’s Ryan Reynolds? You know, actor named Ryan, Canadian, thirtyish, dated Blake Lively at one point, youngest child in the family, acting career started while a teenager. Isn’t that true of all actors these days? ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280/54 "2013-07-24T12:11:32Z")
Leo DiCaprio: The guy who takes dodgy protagonists like Howard Hughes and J. Edgar Hoover and makes you root for them without backpedaling on the stuff that made them dodgy. Ryan Reynolds: The guy whose eyebrows don’t look anything _but_ plucked. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280/55 "2013-07-24T12:47:48Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Also, with that stupid mask on he looks exactly like Ben Stiller. Hah! You’re right! ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280/56 "2013-07-24T12:49:15Z")
> [@Bakhesh](#): > > It wasn’t all on him to be fair, but he has a habit of playing each role as a complete dick. His Hal Jordan was such an unlikeable person that you end up rooting for the parallax Having read _Green Lantern_ comics… that’s actually a dead-on characterization of Hal Jordan from the comics. I always end up rooting for whomever might have a chance of kicking Hal’s egocentric ass. Go, Parallax! ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280/57 "2013-07-24T12:55:20Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > I thought Green Lantern was an alcoholic dick? No. None of the major GLs have been alcoholics. Guy Gardner is (usually) a dickhole, but he does that perfectly sober. Current portrayal of early Hal is generally an egotistical, unthinking hothead - the movie got that exactly right. But that’s because he’s a young doofus, not a drunk. One of Alan Scott’s teammates, Hourman, has been portrayed as a drug addict (addicted to Miraclo, which is also the source of his powers), which is kind of inevitable for someone who gets their powers from drugs. Green **Arrow** ’s sidekick, Speedy (AKA Arsenal, AKA Red Arrow), is quite famously a heroin addict (apparently an alcoholic now - not sure if that replaces the heroin in his history, or if he’s just an overall addictive personality). So far as I know, the only alcoholic Justice League member was Major Disaster, which came up when he was with the JLElite. ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280/58 "2013-07-24T13:08:57Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > IMHO, Reynolds was pretty good in GL. The problem with that one was that the villain was lame. Don’t forget about the CGI. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-exactly-does-ryan-reynolds-keep-getting-work/664280.md?page=2)