wow

just watched both fast and furiouses again and just realized what terrible actors paul walker, tyrese, and especially ludacris are. vin diesel is alright.

I went to see the first one in the drive in. lol. what a fucking joke. all these guys with their "souped" up shit. lmfao

the 2nd one's better IMO

Those movies are what started all the bullshit that goes on. I hate them.

I have the first one on DVD, I think it is the best of the two. Gotta love the end of the first race where Vin Diesel says,
"You almost had me? ALMOST had me?! You never even had you're car!"

Vin Diesel blew it. Actually, it was probably more his agent's fault.

I thought that he did a great job in Boiler Room and I liked Pitch Black. Then Fast and the Furious makes $150 million and Vin's on the fast track to the A-list and 10 million per movie.

Look at the films that he has done since then (in backward order from IMDB.com):
# Hitman (2007) (announced) .... Agent 47
# Rockfish (2007) (announced) (voice)
# Hannibal (2006) (announced) .... Hannibal Barca
# Find Me Guilty (2005) (post-production) .... Giacomo 'Fat Jack' DiNorscio
# The Pacifier (2005) .... Shane Wolfe
# The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) .... Riddick
# A Man Apart (2003) .... Sean Vetter
# xXx (2002) .... Xander Cage

The Chronicles of Riddick is where the wheels fell off. I don't know what retard executive green lighted a $100+ million budget, including 11 mill for Vin, for a sequel to a movie that only made 40 million bucks. That shitbomb made less than $60 million at the box office.

I clicked on the writer/director of both Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick. Look at how he spent the mid-90s:

# G.I. Jane (1997) (screenplay)
# The Arrival (1996) (written by)
# Waterworld (1995) (written by)
# Terminal Velocity (1994) (written by)

Every one a huge bomb. Those four movies basically ended the movie careers of Charlie Sheen, Kevin Costner, and Demi Moore. That's impressive.

One of the trivia entries for Fast and the Furious notes that the film has almost the exact same plot as Point Break, substituting street racing for surfing.

I also saw that The Pacifier was written by Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant, aka Dangle and Junior from Reno 911. They apparently wrote the movies Taxi and Herbie: Fully Loaded too. I'm always glad to see guys from The State making money. If you're a big fan of Reno 911, try to track down the VHS tape of The State: Skits and Stickers. It's top notch sketch comedy and you can see those two guys and Kerri Kenney (Wiegel) and Michael Ian Black from more than 10 years ago.

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That's a lot of research B. Nice job.

That was a decent movie, it had a good look and not bad by VD. IMO!

I'm such a big dork. I can wander through IMDB or Wikipedia for hours.

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I wanna dip my balls in it!!

IMDB has unusually little info on the film Hannibal, which I saw listed as Vin's 2006 release. I just did some reading about it.

The true story of Hannibal is amazing. When he was 9 years old his father had him swear an oath that he would dedicate his life to destroying Rome.
His father then led the Carthiginians in the First Punic War and was killed. Hannibal spent the next twenty years creating a plan to defeat Rome, which had been the dominant power on Earth for hundreds of years, and then he went and did it. Hannibal crossing the Alps is considered one of the greatest military maneuvers in history. We'll see how they pull it off on screen.

Has anyone read the novel, "Hannibal," by Ross Leckie? The film is apparently an adaptation of that.

Movie sidenote: The fight scene in Gladiator with the golden armored soldiers riding chariots is supposed to be a recreation of the battle where Rome finally defeats Hannibal in Africa.

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ah vin diesel riding elephants across the alps is going to be kickass. i wish i was joking.