All Hair Ryan Reynolds, King Of The Flops :blessed:

[Ayo]

Double Flop this weekend with Turbo and RIPD

- Turbo
- RIPD
- The Change Up
- Buried (more of a art house flick, but still)
- Green Lantern

That's 5 in the last 2 years. The Safe House and The Croods (animated, voice only) are the only movies to make $$$$$. And Safe House made money, but it's not Blockbuster money.

Can Hollywood finally stop forcing this pretty boy clown on us? Somewhere Gosling da Gawd is laughing at all of this.

 

[obarth]

Gosling da Gawd

 

[Young Bishop]

Flops and he still will get work!

 

[HHR]

My dude, you can't shyt on his role in The Croods while bashing him for Turbo....both are "animated, voice only"

....and really, "All Hair"?

 

[up in here]

"All hair"??? WTF. Did you mean "all hail"

Double Flop this weekend with Turbo and RIPD

- Turbo
- RIPD
- The Change Up
- Buried (more of a art house flick, but still)
- Green Lantern

That's 5 in the last 2 years. The Safe House and The Croods (animated, voice only) are the only movies to make $$$$$. And Safe House made money, but it's not Blockbuster money.

Can Hollywood finally stop forcing this pretty boy clown on us? Somewhere Gosling da Gawd is laughing at all of this.

So you think Ryan Reynolds is pretty?

 

[klientel]

"All hair"??? WTF. Did you mean "all hail

No he definitely meant "All Hair"

 

[jwinfield]

Double Flop this weekend with Turbo and RIPD

- Turbo
- RIPD
- The Change Up
- Buried (more of a art house flick, but still)
- Green Lantern

That's 5 in the last 2 years. The Safe House and The Croods (animated, voice only) are the only movies to make $$$$$. And Safe House made money, but it's not Blockbuster money.

Can Hollywood finally stop forcing this pretty boy clown on us? Somewhere Gosling da Gawd is laughing at all of this.

A movie that cost 1M but made 19M isn't a flop. It was an indy film.

But I agree that his "star" status is made up. Bill Simmons wrote an article on this, same article that had people calling him a hater for saying Will Smith doesn't make great movies.

Bill Simmons on Ryan Reynolds, Will Smith, and the perception of success in Hollywood - Grantland

Let's tackle Reynolds first. When Green Lantern badly underperformed last weekend, it shouldn't have been surprising, because Reynolds isn't a movie star (despite Hollywood's best efforts to convince us otherwise). You know how I know this? We just spent the past 10 years compiling evidence that said, emphatically, "Ryan Reynolds can't carry a bad movie." Or, really, any movie.

His best performance happened as part of an ensemble cast in 2009's Adventureland, a quality dramedy that tanked despite excellent reviews. His most successful movie was 2009's The Proposal, a Sandra Bullock vehicle from beginning to end (and the one that established her as the Nolan Ryan of rom-coms). He's never carried a quality movie that succeeded

Reynolds has three things going for him: he's likable and handsome; he dated and married Scarlett Johansson at the peak of her buxom powers (getting a nice Us Weekly career boost out of it); and he works in an industry that doesn't have nearly enough leading men.

Of course, Hollywood can be confusing because someone can feel like an All-Star without ever having a good "season." Reynolds is the best example. His movie career started in 2001 with Finder's Fee, a straight-to-DVD thriller he made while starring in Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place on ABC … a show that was more successful than you remember, staying on the air even after they jettisoned the pizza place and renamed it Two Guys and a Girl. In 2002, he landed his first starring role, in National Lampoon's Van Wilder. The good news: It made money, earned decent Rotten Tomatoes audience reviews (78 percent!)7 and spawned an eventual sequel that nobody saw. The bad news: It wasn't that funny and ended up being sentenced to a lifetime of heavy edits on Comedy Central.

Our next five Reynolds movies: a supporting role in 2003's The In-Laws (a remake of the Alan Arkin/Peter Falk classic that never should have happened); a starring role in 2003'sFoolproof (key words: "Canadian" and "straight to DVD"); a charming cameo in 2004'sHarold & Kumar Go to White Castle (overshadowed by Neil Patrick Harris's career-rejuvenating cameo); a supporting role in Blade: Trinity (the last time anyone's seen Wesley Snipes in public); and then a starring role in a 2005 TV movie called School of Life(created to fool anyone flipping channels into thinking it was School of Rock).

By 2005, Hollywood liked Reynolds just enough that it gave him not one, not two, but THREE starring roles: the Amityville Horror remake (21 percent approval rating from the Rotten Tomatoes top critics); Waiting, an ensemble comedy about twenty something waiters that desperately wanted to be a Dazed and Confused–like cult movie but never made it (24 percent); and Just Friends, which was basically Fat Harry Meets Sally (37 percent) and featured Reynolds wearing a fat suit on the poster.

Things didn't improve for Reynolds with 2006's release of Smoking Aces, a failed attempt to headline a Tarantino-like action movie featuring a cadre of name actors who thought they had signed up for that decade's Reservoir Dogs (and never saw the mushroom cloud coming). His next three movies grossed a combined $300,000 in America: The Nines($63k), Chaos Theory ($237k) and Fireflies in the Garden (straight to DVD).8 Yikes.

Just when Reynolds's return to TV in Two Guys, a Girl and a Baby seemed imminent, his relationship with Scarlett heated up and reignited the whole "Ryan Reynolds is a movie star" story line, because if he's appearing in Us Weekly every other week, then dammit, that means he's a star. He quickly rolled off the best stretch of his career: Definitely, Maybe (a decently reviewed rom-com), Adventureland (his only movie that ever topped 70 percent with Rotten Tomatoes' top critics), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (made $179 million, although he was the fifth lead and critics savaged the film), an indie bomb called Paper Man (let's move on) and The Proposal (a smash hit for a rom-com). Again, that was the best stretch of his career.

Now, you're sitting there saying, "Wait a second, there has to be more. That couldn't have been the entire list of Ryan Reynolds movies." And you'd be right: In 2010, he released a movie about a truck driver being trapped in a coffin in Iraq called Buried. (It became a Sundance hit, but that's it.)11 That was followed by the Green Lantern Stinkbomb, with one more summer flick coming: The Change-Up, in which Reynolds and Jason Bateman switch bodies, with Bateman becoming a ladies' man and Reynolds becoming a family man, only both of them realize they had it better the old way, and Good God Almighty, I can't believe they're still making body-switch movies.

All in all, Reynolds starred in 20 movies over the past 10 years. Four went straight to DVD or premiered on TV. Another four made little to no money whatsoever. Of his 16 movies that were eligible for a "top critics" approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, nine dipped lower than 30 percent; only three rose above 50 percent; and his average score was 36.3. These are the best "advanced metrics" we have for Hollywood, and really, we didn't need them to bang home the point that Ryan Reynolds isn't actually a movie star.

 

[Ayo]

at the thread title.

Can't even change that shyt on this new software

 

[Spaceman Piff]

as long as he comes up with the occasional 100mil movie.. he's safe.

besides green lantern and ripd, he's not really up for the summer blockbuster type roles.

he's just doing random shyt.. animated work.. rom coms here and there.. the occasional slacker movie.. and he's made a few action movies.

all that being said.. what a shytty weekend for the guy.

 

[Renkz]

It it a flop because of first week sales, or when revenue does not exceed production?

 

[jwinfield]

RIPD cost 130M

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

MIB4 cost 130M

 

[SunZoo]

I fux with him because it's just some roles he's perfect for, I really can't see anybody else being deadpool, but no he's not a movie "star", buried was kinda dope though.

 

[Roid Jones]

Dude really has been a flop, Hollywood has tried its best to position him as 'the next big thing' but the guy just does not have star magic about him. Green Lantern sealed his fate R.I.P.D re-sealed it.

 

[dabestkeptsecret]

i never understood why hollywood started giving him these mainstream action/drama movies. He was ok as a 2nd tier actor in stupid comedy movies. I'm guessing he got this guy making the moves behind the scenes