Ryan Reynolds speaks indirectly on Green Lantern since Box Office flop

[CBMovie]

From the DC Boards

While promoting his new upcoming movie "The Change-Up", Ryan Reynolds, not directly naming the movie in question, talked about how studios are freaking out about their films bombing in the box office simply due to "word of mouth" these days, which has the power to destroy a whole movie.

Ryan Reynolds: "The studios can't trick you now into going to see a bad movie, and still expect to make their budget back in one weekend. Because on Friday night people will come out, and if the movie sucks they're gonna go on Twitter and Facebook telling everyone they know that the movie sucked."

His comment also gives light to the explanation of the embargo on movie reviews placed by Warner Bros on Green Lantern a week before it's release.

Also apparently, his new movie "The Change-Up" is currently getting hammered with negative reviews at 27% right now almost similar to GL.

 

[The Sage]

No links to torrents...

 

[The Morningstar]

At least the guy is honest.

 

[CBMovie]

No links to torrents...

No prob. Didn't even realize the link was for a torrent.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Awaiting Dnno to spin this into something positive.

 

[shogunrua]

I don't know if it really brings something to the table, out of the fact that now Reynolds is not in "promotion mode" anymore and speaks more sincerely about the movie. But the overabundance of TV-spots/featurette released the week prior Green Lantern's release, and the embargo, already indicated that something might be wrong with this movie, like "begging a girl for sex" levels of wrongness...

 

[chiefchirpa]

No chance for a sequel eh? How can you have a sequel when the lead star is not enthusiastic anymore...

Reboot. Let Reynolds does Deadpool.

 

[Jordanstine]

Also apparently, his new movie "The Change-Up" is currently getting hammered with negative reviews at 27% right now almost similar to GL.

Speaking of Change-Up, check out the headline posted by Deadline.com for today:

http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/rise-of-planet-of-apes-1-25m-midnights/

Friday Box Office Goes 'Ape' Rising To $19M; Ryan Reynolds Flops Again: 'Change-Up' Sinking To $4.5M

The Change-Up, is bottoming in 4th place with $4.8M Friday and just an estimated $13M for the weekend from 2,913 venues. This truly isn't Ryan Reynolds' summer of stardom after the collapse of Green Lantern here and abroad. It's a disastrous start considering that stars like Reynolds are supposed to open movies to at least $20M. "It's disappointing. We're kind of confounded by it," a Universal executive says about the raunchy comedy with a $50M budget.

2011 isn't Ryan Reynolds' year at all.

 

[Ipodman]

Which year is?

 

[Pondslider]

The Change-Up looked like crap from the previews.

 

[The Sage]

Not really a fan of rom-coms. I preferred his work in Buried to that stuff.

 

[Ipodman]

He was good in Buried, but the movie itself is not good...

 

[The Morningstar]

The guy is a decent actor. It's just the films where he's had the chance to show of his range and ability are little indie films or flops. I mean, he's really good in The Nines and Fireflies in the Garden, but barely anyone has heard of those films.

And obviously his choices of big blockbuster roles have been pretty poor.

 

[truth]

He was miscast. The guy is a comedian, not an actor

 

[The Morningstar]

No, he is a good actor. Watch other movies than his rom coms and frat boy comedies.

Fact is, you could put Steve McQueen in the lead role of GL and it'd still be ****. The script was just soooo bad it's not even funny.

 

[HighFivingMF]

He was miscast. The guy is a comedian, not an actor

No he wasn't. No he isn't. Yes he is.

 

[Micromind]

I believe that Ryan Reynolds is a decent enough actor and Martin Campbell is a good director, in case of GL the main problem was the script and the choice of villains.

I would count the following factors responsible for the box Office failure of GL -

1. Lack of good script / story by Greg Berlanti, Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim.

2. Movie budget shooting above the originally planned 150 million.

3. Ridiculous Marketing and spending unnecessary amount of money on Marketing.

4. Poor choice of villains.

5. CGI special effects not getting completed on time which resulted in getting several scenes cut from the original script.

In spite of the above short comings the movie was an average entertaining summer movie.
A lot of bad word of mouth (not completely justified, IMO.) resulted in poor B.O. performance.

 

[jmc]

You know, I'm not surprised at all that studios fear the likes of Facebook and Twitter, bad word of word of mouth spreads like wild fire in today's world that's constantly getting smaller. They can't trick people as easily as the use too 10 years ago so they have to resort to tactics like placing embargoes until the day of release in an attempt to save their arses.

Awaiting Dnno to spin this into something positive.

Should we all take guesses as to how he'd do that?

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Should we all take guesses as to how he'd do that?

It is fruitless. His ability to spin anything bad about this film to good is one of a kind.

 

[Sardaukar]

In the old days, all studios had to worry about was pleasing your local newspaper critic. Now, you can go online and find out what critics are saying from across the world. Some movies appear to be critic proof, like Transformers, but lesser known properties like Green Lantern need all the help they can get.

 

[TheVileOne]

Ryan Reynolds is a proven failure as a mega star and box office draw now.

The Proposal was a hit but that was mainly because of Sandy Bullock.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Ryan Reynolds is a proven failure as a mega star and box office draw now.

The Proposal was a hit but that was mainly because of Sandy Bullock.

Did Reynolds steal your girlfriend or something?

 

[Ipodman]

Did Reynolds steal your girlfriend or something?

He's kinda right... Hollywood seems to want to turn RR into the next big action star but it's not working...

 

[Micromind]

He's kinda right... Hollywood seems to want to turn RR into the next big action star but it's not working...

Chris Evans was facing the same problem before getting success as Captain America.

(Remember Fantastic Four - 1, 2, Scott Pilgrim, Losers ?)

 

[jmc]

They're also trying to shove Blake Lively down our throats too.