RIPD
Sneak Peek at "RIPD"
What happens when you can't afford to make another Men In Black movie? You make a movie identical to Men In Black with different actors playing essentially the same characters.
The last Men In Black to in a whopping $600M despite constant production problems, a budget that exploded past the $250M mark and - more importantly - the fact it was flat out terrible. So it's perfectly logical to try and recapture that magic at half the price.
So, with RIPD, we get yet another "adaptation of a comic" which replaces aliens with dead people, Tommy Lee Jones with Jeff Bridges, Will Smith with Ryan Reynolds and the car with... an identical car.
R.I.P.D. follows the two cops (Reynolds plays the newbie, Bridges the badass RIPD veteran) as they are dispatched by the otherworldly Rest In Peace Department to protect and serve the living from the dead souls who refuse to move on to the other side
Call me crazy, but why Hollywood keeps trying to ram Ryan Reynolds and Jeremy Renner down our throats (despite a BOUNTY of information suggesting people just aren't interested in them as leading men) is beyond me. He sure as hell isn't a modern day Will Smith, he isn't even a modern day Jeremy Renner.
Ryan Reynolds is kind of like a guy who got dumped by a girl who he thinks is his soulmate (who now has a new boyfriend), there's nothing particularly wrong with him... but some time soon he'll just have to accept he lacks the X Factor and settle in with some frumpy school teacher whose life goals involve little more than "making the perfect sandwhich".
