Blood Diamond?
Blood Diamond is better than Body of Lies, J Edgar, and The Great Gatsby
All of those were failures unrelated to the acting or charisma of Ryan Reynolds. The writing was horrible, plotting trite, and utterly missed the appeal of the properties.
And RIPD – like most concepts expressed as [tired idea X] + [tired idea Y] – was always going to be a bust.
I like Ryan Reynolds, despite that his directors seem content to allow him to mug on camera instead of actually acting. However, in the final analysis, when Ryan Reynolds is the only appealing thing about a film – as with that Blade movie and Green Lantern (the Wolverine origin movie also had Hugh Jackman as a +) – it’s going to be a bad film.
He also has operated at a different level than Ryan Reynolds for years. He was recognized as a great actor young (back with What’s Eating Gilbert Grape) and has been offered meaty roles because of it.
Reynolds is a pretty boy actor who might be good, who had been scrambling for years before becoming famous. He’s a geek, and rather than having Oscar contending roles offered to him, he trends to the comic book, sci fi world. But he is charming and handsome on screen. Its really a shame that rom-coms have pretty much died as a genre - he is fine in The Proposal (where I think his major responsibility is to take his shirt off).
They both dated, and Reynolds married, Blake Lively, but other than that, they don’t exactly have a lot in common.
Speaking of rom-coms, I thought Definitely, Maybe was good, and Reynolds was good in it.
It would seem that I’ve found a sig block. 
Maybe it’s Maybelline.
I think the comparison is a fair one. Di Caprio is an excellent actor. Ryan Reynolds is what the perception of Di Caprio was in the few years following Titanic, a moderately talented pretty boy. It hurt many films that he was in, people did not take them very seriously, *Man in the Iron Mask *. It killed any chance he had of being Anakin Skywalker.
It took Di Caprio about a decade together over that perception. And he was an Oscar nominated actor even before Titanic.
Well, then, he needs to fire Maybelline.
I’ve wondered that too. It seems like he’s gotten a lot of chances to be a big star and it hasn’t happened yet. I can’t think of any off the top of my head, but it seems like there’s been other actors who are equally talented and handsome who haven’t had as many chances. I’m guessing he keeps getting big gigs because he is talented and can be the best thing in a bad movie.
As I pointed out in the movie-remake thread;
The planned *Highlander *remake had Ryan Reynolds in the role, until he dropped out.
Just let the sheer awfullness of that casting sink in for a minute.
I’ve just realised you’re not talking about Ryan Gosling. Who’s Ryan Reynolds?
I don’t have a cite at the moment but I believe Ryan Reynolds was the guy that said his chief goal was to make as much money as possible via acting, regardless of quality. It was stated more diplomatically than that, but the overall gist was that he didn’t view himself as an “artist” by any means and wanted to get while the getting was good.
Of course, I could be completely misremembering who I heard all this from - but I thought it was RR.
Because it would be too difficult for you to google it? :dubious:
… Not up to the high-quality standard of acting demonstrated by Christopher Lambert? Please. Will Ferrell would even be an improvement on Lambert.
IMHO, Reynolds was pretty good in GL. The problem with that one was that the villain was lame.
Green Lantern had a lot of problems. But none of them was Ryan Reynolds.
It could be him, but I doubt it. Mainly because I don’t think that anyone who was in it just for the money would do a movie like Buried. It’s a low budget movie where he must not have been paid much, he was stuck in a box for the entire movie which would have been uncomfortable, had no actors to play off of other than those on the phone which must have been difficult, and there was no way it ever was going to be a big blockbuster. That’s a movie that someone does if they want to be respected as an actor, not if they just want the money.
Now, maybe if he was just in it for the money, he would plan to do a movie like that, and he’d get respect and offered bigger and better roles for lots of money. But considering the other roles he’s taken, it doesn’t sound like he’s canny enough for planning like that.
Am I the first to mention his first star-turning role as Van Wilder? That movie is fantastic (as far as dumb comedies go).
I remember the first time I saw it thinking he reminded me a lot of a young Chevy Chase, as far as his comic timing and delivery.
He was great in “Blue Valentine.”
Oh wait, I’m thinking of Ryan Howard.
Turns out that he was more of a young Tim Matheson.
A cardboard cutout of Christopher Lambert would be an improvement on Christopher Lambert.