Buried Is A Burn
SPOILERS CONTAINED HEREIN: This morning I saw Rodrigo Cortes‘ Buried, the Ryan Reynolds trapped-in-a-large-coffin movie which has been shown at Sundance and was recently acquired by Lionsgate. I’m basically giving it an A for execution and a C-minus for story because I’m a nice guy. It really deserves an F because it jerks you around on a nail-bitten popcorn level (escape from a tight spot) with no intention of paying off on that level. Great filmmaking, shitty payoff = overall C grade, at best.
Ryan Reynolds in Rodrigo Cortes’ Buried.
All the critics having babies over this film are praising Cortes’ Hitchcock-like ingenuity in making an engrossing feature that takes place entirely in a small enclosed space. And they’re correct about this. Cortes is as inventive a filmmaker as Hitchcock was in making Lifeboat, if not more so. But these praising critics are deliberately ignoring how unsatisfying Buried is in terms of denying Joe Popcorn’s natural wishes while watching such a tale.
Knowing the basic premise, you may assume going in that Buried will be a harrowing mental ingenuity/physical feat/engineering movie about a guy managing to free himself from a large coffin-sized crate that’s been buried two or three feet underground. (There’s enough room in the crate for Reynolds to wriggle around and lean on his side and shift around, etc.) But what it is, really, is a darkly humorous socio-cultural message flick about selfishness and distraction — i.e., how everyone is too caught up in their own agenda to give a shit about a person who really needs help.
Reynolds’ character — a truck-driver contractor working in Iraq — manages to speak to several people on a cell phone that he’s found inside the crate. The prolonged joke is that each and every person he turns to for help (with the exception of his wife) tells him that they need him to address or answer their needs first before they”ll give him any assistance.
Boiled down, the movie is kind of a metaphor for dealing with tech support or any corporate or bureaucratic employee who specializes in driving complaining customers crazy. Everyone Reynolds speaks to patronizes him, tells him to calm down and speak slowly, asks stupid questions and in one way or another blows him off or fails to really engage and provide serious assistance.
Buried is going to be a bust with audiences once they see what it is. I felt aroused and stimulated here and there in a film-dweeb sense, but I felt pissed off and fucked with at the finish. Cortes has excellent chops and a great sense of style (the opening credits sequence is the best thing about Buried) and Reynolds may have delivered the most impressive performance of his career, but…well, I’ve said it.
you are to be commended for the spoiler warning.
Um … what exactly was spoiled here??
From what I’ve read about this movie and its “twist,” I’m guessing that he’s not actually buried underground.
Geraldo finds him. Everyone is disappointed.
I saw it. It’s not bad.
Of course, when I saw it it was called “the scene where Uma busts her way out of a coffin in ‘Kill Bill Vol. 2′”
what cell phone gets service underground in the middle of the desert?
Imagine the tie-in app they’re gonna make to coincide with the movie’s release!
Wells did you get a chance to catch the State of the Union, I thought he really came out swinging but with appropriate tones of self-deprecation and pragmatism. McDonnell’s response unfortunately was a starmaking moment.
FYI: Mythbusters determined that Uma Thurman’s coffin escape was impossible.
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Obama said “I” 92 times. A new record. Totally self-deprecating.
Travis: “Of course, when I saw it it was called “the scene where Uma busts her way out of a coffin in ‘Kill Bill Vol. 2′”"
Yes, because that never happened in a horror movie until Kill Bill 2 came along.
mrmystery, I don’t think you know what self-deprecating means.
Generally, I prefer Chris Evans as my frequently shirtless, not quite broken-out, amiable hunk of choice. Ryan Reynolds is the kind of man who over waxes his eyebrows.
so he dies at the end – neat
Burma: Actually, I’m more surprised Jeff hasn’t commented on Edwards splitting from his wife.
Of course Uma’s escape was impossible, that was the point, we’re in one (realistic) genre where toilets in titty bars have to be cleaned and she’s put in an impossible situation, then we switch genres and in the new (unrealistic) one it’s possible to escape something like that, because she’s been taught by a guy who’s several hundred years old who can jump onto an outstretched sword.
I always thought that was one of the coolest things Tarantino ever did, a great illustration of how easily we go along with suspension of disbelief in movies.
By the way, one thing I just noticed in Kill Bill– Elle Driver, for all that she supposedly has Pai Mei-taught skills, never kills anyone with a sword. She’s a poisoner, which marks her as someone of dishonor compared to a nice, wholesome assassin with a sword.
What is a “truck-driver contractor”?
Of course Uma’s escape was impossible, that was the point, we’re in one (realistic) genre where toilets in titty bars have to be cleaned and she’s put in an impossible situation, then we switch genres and in the new (unrealistic) one it’s possible to escape something like that, because she’s been taught by a guy who’s several hundred years old who can jump onto an outstretched sword.
I always thought that was one of the coolest things Tarantino ever did, a great illustration of how easily we go along with suspension of disbelief in movies.
By the way, one thing I just noticed in Kill Bill– Elle Driver, for all that she supposedly has Pai Mei-taught skills, never kills anyone with a sword. She’s a poisoner, which marks her as someone of dishonor compared to a nice, wholesome assassin with a sword.
Ronald: “I always thought that was one of the coolest things Tarantino ever did,”
Too bad he didn’t do it first.
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