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Title: Vin Diesel's Greatest Role
Post by: mirth on January 28, 2016, 07:05:15 PM
Title: Re: Vin Diesel's Greatest Role
Post by: Staggerwing on January 28, 2016, 07:18:17 PM
And that, kids, is why sniffing poppers is bad for you.
Title: Re: Vin Diesel's Greatest Role
Post by: Nefaro on January 28, 2016, 07:38:00 PM
The Nerd is strong with this one.

Title: Re: Vin Diesel's Greatest Role
Post by: Martok on January 29, 2016, 04:40:18 PM
Aw.  And here I thought we were going to see a clip from The Iron Giant




Title: Re: Vin Diesel's Greatest Role
Post by: JasonPratt on February 02, 2016, 12:09:35 PM
Or Groot.
Title: Re: Vin Diesel's Greatest Role
Post by: mirth on February 02, 2016, 01:35:38 PM
He does seem to do his best work when he has little to no dialogue.
Title: Re: Vin Diesel's Greatest Role
Post by: George on February 04, 2016, 04:44:31 PM
Quote from: mirth on February 02, 2016, 01:35:38 PM
He does seem to do his best work when he has little to no dialogue.

So true!

Title: Re: Vin Diesel's Greatest Role
Post by: Sir Slash on February 04, 2016, 11:21:12 PM
"How do you get eyes like that"? " You got to kill a few people".
Title: Re: Vin Diesel's Greatest Role
Post by: JasonPratt on February 08, 2016, 02:36:09 PM
My brother says Vin's best role is in Boiler Room, a comedy drama early in his career about marketing penny stocks.
Title: Re: Vin Diesel's Greatest Role
Post by: jamus34 on February 15, 2016, 01:24:50 PM
Quote from: JasonPratt on February 08, 2016, 02:36:09 PM
My brother says Vin's best role is in Boiler Room, a comedy drama early in his career about marketing penny stocks.
More drama than comedy and he wasn't in it a whole lot from what I recall. I believe it was supposed to be a break out movie for Giovanni Ribisi (much like F@F was supposed to be a breakout role for Paul Walker)

Don't understand the hate for Vin, everything I've heard he's a pretty stand-up guy plus it doesn't hurt that he's an ubergeek (I believe he still has a long running D&D game going on)
Title: Re: Vin Diesel's Greatest Role
Post by: Nefaro on February 15, 2016, 06:16:00 PM
Quote from: jamus34 on February 15, 2016, 01:24:50 PM

Don't understand the hate for Vin, everything I've heard he's a pretty stand-up guy plus it doesn't hurt that he's an ubergeek (I believe he still has a long running D&D game going on)

Yeah, he seems like a decent guy who happens to be a part-time nerd. 

I don't think he has a very wide "range" as an actor, but that can be said for many of them.  They tend to get type casted into some mediocre-to-bad movies with poorly written lines.  I think that's why actors such as Vin and Ryan Reynolds catch so much criticism; the crappy movies they're in, more than any single other reason.

I actually enjoyed the first two Pitch Black movies.  Even the second one, for the interesting setting content - the one with the Necro-whatevers.  But many of his character's lines were just written so terribly.  Luckily they weren't very long.