R.I.P.D - Rest In Peace Department

Looked for a thread, didn't find it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvCeh8f6eqA

Ryan Reynolds died. He gets recruited for the Rest In Peace Department, charged with hunting the souls that escaped from heavenly judgement. He is teamed up with a Large Ham, Chewing the Scenery southern Jeff Bridges. They Fight Crime!.

It looks very derivative from MIB, but incredibly awesome even so. Mostly because JEFF BRIDGES.

It sounds like that show about the woman who died by toilet seat and then had to become a grim reaper or something, mixed with that show about the guy whose parents sold his soul and then he had to hunt down escaped souls from Hell in order to save himself.

Not even trying to be sarcastic with those definitions, I just seriously have no recollection of what either of those shows were called.

Dead Like Me and Reaper, respectively. At least, I'm pretty sure those are the ones.

edited 17th Apr '13 8:02:36 PM by CorrTerek

Looks like fun, at least Jeff Bridges makes it entertaining.

And for the record this is actually based off a comic book.

For a moment I thought Ryan Reynolds had actually died, since you used his real name. Had me worried there.

Saw the promo add for this movie in the trailers before Oblivion today. The rest of the movie didn't look that original and reminded me of Men in Black, but the revelation that the main character and his sidekick are desguised as a short old chinese man and a hot blond sure got me interested!

, Nah I did that because I was too lazy to look up the character's actual names.

So wait, this isn't a documentary of the escapades of the Rhode Island Police Department? Dammit.

The only reason I even know about this movie is because some time ago Reynolds said this was the movie he had to do before a possible Deadpool spin-off. Almost thought he was lying, considering how long it's been.

Would watch the trailer, but the link you got is broken. Oh well, off to lurking teh interwebz.

Pretty entertained by the trailer. This movie definitely has an MIB feel to it, but I think it still looks pretty cool!

And, as usual, our friends at Cracked aren't slow to start chucking around the accusations of plagiarism and so on.

Seems they have a point this time.

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/the-new-movie-that-clearly-men-in-black-rip-off/

They have, but as the comment section keeps noticing, it still looks like a incredibly fun movie.

MIB meets Bleach meets Ghostbusters.

On even MORE crack.

Yeah, this definitely feels like Bleach (season 1) meets M.I.B. Which is awesome.

I wish this movie just starred James Hong and a hot chick fighting ghosts.

That sounds like a prequel to Big Trouble In Little China, honestly. The story of how David Lo Pan turned to the dark side or something.

It doesn't sound that bad. However, maybe it's just me, but audiences don't seem to like Ryan Reynolds that much, his movies don't usually do that well so I don't see the movie doing too hot.

I'm sure that he's a perfectly nice guy in person, but he kinda extrudes douchiness on screen, which isn't exactly leading man material.

Looks like the western version of Bleach. Only a lot more fail.

Also the protagonist is a mix of Robert Downey Jr's performance as Tony Stark (then again this is Reynolds who tried like hell make Hal Jordan like 'em in Green Lantern film).

So yeah..It'll suck balls.

Most people go Men In Black, but I'm also reminded of that old T.V show GVSE (or Good vs. Evil) with those dudes who died and had to fight Fight demons to prevent people from making Faustian Deals.

It even had the look different to people who knew you thing going as well.

Or that show Dead Like Me?

Anyway, I think the movie looks pretty fun. Nothing amazing, but certainly a fun action flick. I'll probably see it.

edited 6th Jul '13 1:08:08 AM by 0dd1

Just came back. I don't think it deserved to bomb in the boxoffice. There's pretty funny scenes here and there. Kevin Bacon basically looks like William Dafoe. I wish more Ryan Reynolds had more films where he had a personality like this. His character was pretty good and not as bad as his Hal Jordon persona in Green Lantern. There seems to be a sense of control and quietness with his performance.

Kinda wish Jeff Bridges would shut up a couple of times in the film but he also was funny. Then again, the credits song that he wrote really made the film for me.

Is there any religious or spiritual elements about the spice Cumin? Seems like that the demons in the film seemed to be drawn to that particular spice.