I already made fun of R.I.P.D. once, and I promise that I wasn't planning on doing so again, but then, via FilmDrunk, I learned about NextMovie's mash-up of the remarkably terrible R.I.P.D. trailer* and clips from Men in Black, and... goddammit, you guys. Why are you making this so easy? Can't you at least attempt to conceal your creative bankruptcy?
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R.I.P.D. isn't screening in time for us to run a timely review (it's being shown to critics on Thursday, the night before it opens), but we'll have a review next week. In the meantime, maybe remember the last time Ryan Reynolds made a movie that was based on a comic book that then wasn't screened for critics, orβno, no, there I go. Being a dick again. Sorry! Maybe it'll be fine! Best of luck to you, R.I.P.D.! I'm sure the Men in Black thing is just a coincidence. I mean, it's not like you guys are actually wearing black, or carrying sci-fi looking weapons, right? Wait, what? Oh.
*Mercury News Reporter Dirk VanderHart to me, unprompted, a week or two ago: "Holy shit, have you seen the trailer for... what is it? R.I... R.I. something? Yeah. R.I.P.D. Holy shit! What even is that?" And this is from a man who thought After Earth looked "pretty good."