Big coffin

Buried - a movie that if all the pieces fall into the wrong place, well it could be a walk-out disaster. A movie so infamous because it would clear the theatre at every showing, leaving no audience member watching because it's so bad. It really wouldn't take much for this project to be the worst film of all time. And God please tell me that this won't be a still camera job. I'm telling ya now if the camera is positioned at that fixed point for the whole movie, then it's doomed. With having just the one setting, we really need the camera to move around Reynolds, close-ups of the sweat coming of his forehead, the fear in his eyes, the p.o.v. of him looking around at his unimaginable situation. It needs all these kind of camera gimmicks if it's going to stand any chance, otherwise it'll be painful for us, and painful for the film's only visible actor Ryan Reynolds whose acting ability will be shown up as he needs the gimmicks to get him through this. I don't know why, but that image from Twitch to me just hints that it's going to be a still camera job. Surely not? I mean it's asking SO much of an audience to sit and watch an actor in such a confined space for that length of time, with only dialogue over a telephone (the gimmick of the picture is that his captors have left him a low battery phone as his only means to get rescue, but he has no clue where he is and convincing someone he really is Buried alive is not easy) and physical reactions to go off.

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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.