men in (funeral) black (R.I.P.D. trailer)

by MaryAnn Johanson

Fri, Apr 26, 2013

14 comments

He’s a dead guy in a cowboy hat. The other he’s a newbie corpse. They’re cops!

It’s just like other action fantasy comedies you’ve seen, only slightly different.

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Gemmabeta

Fri, Apr 26, 2013 1:02pm

BOOMER!

DuffPaddy

Fri, Apr 26, 2013 1:34pm

So it’s basically Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) meets MIB with a bit of McCloud and Ghostbusters thrown in? Meh.

Tonio Kruger

reply to DuffPaddy

Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:40pm

Don’t forget a touch of Reaper and Beetlejuice.:)

Danielm80

reply to Tonio Kruger

Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:16pm

There’s also a bit of John Dies at the End. But I like those movies. If you want to steal, steal from the best.

RogerBW

reply to Tonio Kruger

Sun, Apr 28, 2013 1:27pm

Reaper was what I was seeing…

Gemmabeta

reply to DuffPaddy

Sat, Apr 27, 2013 1:56pm

And the whole “dead people looking different to the living” is a gag ripped off from Dead Like Me.

Jonathan Roth

Fri, Apr 26, 2013 1:39pm

Might be fun.

The way they cut the trailer with the door knocks, gun cocks and elevator ding matching the music at 1:32 was clever.

MaryAnn Johanson

reply to Jonathan Roth

Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:52pm

The people who make the trailers are not the same people who make the movies.

Jonathan Roth

reply to MaryAnn Johanson

Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:32pm

Oh I know, but trailers are their own little art-form which can be worth commenting on as well.

RogerBW

reply to Jonathan Roth

Sun, Apr 28, 2013 1:27pm

I thought the early shots did an excellent job of making the film look iike an utterly generic actioner.

Michael in Seattle

Fri, Apr 26, 2013 2:29pm

When I saw this trailer in the theater, my first thought on the title was “Dead Men in Black.”

Tonio Kruger

Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:09pm

That’s Mary-Louise Parker as the Proctor? Odd to see her settling for such a minor role after Weeds.

Gemmabeta

reply to Tonio Kruger

Sat, Apr 27, 2013 1:57pm

MLP is doing Red2, so she’s not really slumming it.

Tonio Kruger

Wed, Sep 18, 2013 8:23pm

Considering all the movies this flick borrowed from, the result is surprisingly meh. It’s not a bad film but unlike the other films mentioned on this thread, it’s not a film I really want to see again right away. Which might explain why it flopped at the box office.

The World’s End did a far better job of borrowing from previous movies. And it seems odd as heck that the most memorable image R.I.P.D. comes up with is that of Mary-Louise Parker in a pair of white go-go boots and that the most interesting question it manages to provoke in its viewers is where the heck MLP got that big bottle of Fresca she possesses in her first scene.