Okay, I’m one of those rare women who is left cold by Ryan Reynolds. Always and forever. I wasn’t even hot for him after that infamous shirtless Entertainment Weekly cover. I’m not sure what it is, but the guy seems like he could be a major pill in real life, and he always strikes me as smug and full of himself. Of course, there some evidence to indicate that is exactly what he really is like.

Anyway, I came across these photos and I might be changing my mind about Ryan. Because he looks like a friggin’ magazine photo shoot just walking down the street. Something about that beautiful coat that fits him really well and that I’d like to borrow, those perfect jeans, the way that he’s strutting. Okay, I finally see it, ladies. Ryan is hot. He needs to stand up straight though. That’s quite a hipster slouch. Douche. No! I like him now. Sigh… it will last a day.

In other Ryan news, his independent film Buried has been named one of the “five most likely films to face a bidding war at Sundance.” Apparently, Buried is about a civilian contractor in Iraq who gets buried alive. And that’s the movie. Ryan, buried alive for 90 minutes. High concept indeed.

Buried
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: A civilian contractor (Ryan Reynolds) in Iraq is kidnapped and buried alive, with only a cell phone, a lighter and about 90 minutes to save himself before suffocating.

UPSIDE: Reynolds is coming off a terrific year in high-visibility hits (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Proposal), and come on: Who wouldn’t want a crack at distributing the Ryan Reynolds-trapped-in-a-coffin movie?

DOWNSIDE: In the end, it is just the Ryan Reynolds-trapped-in-a-coffin movie. Despite a cast that also lists Samantha Mathis and Stephen Tobolowski, I’m told that Reynolds is indeed the only one onscreen in the film. Too much Ryan?

POTENTIAL BIDDING WARRIORS: Lionsgate, Magnet, Screen Gems

HOW MUCH? A little north of $1 million, maybe more if Screen Gems — Sony’s genre label, and not generally a huge fest buyer — gets involved.

[From Movieline]

Buried sounds interesting, I guess. It was probably an acting challenge for Ryan, and it’s an unusual concept for a film. But if I’m only going to stare at one actor for 90 minutes as I watch him sexily save himself, I want it be Clive “Sexy Motherf-cker” Owen. Can I get a witness?

Ryan Reynolds in West Hollywood on January 19, 2010, and leaving Madeo on the same day. Credit: VAH and Fame Pictures.

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