Slight squee

[arwen_lune]

The last time I spared a thought for Vin Diesel was when I saw the poster for.. whatsit... The Pacifier. Before that I thought he was kind of hot, had talent and voice to match and had been in Pitch Black (which blew me away). He got himself stuck in a bunch of unfortunate MTV-flick action things and I tuned out. Then I saw the Pacifier poster and went "That's it. Don't bother with him. He's going to spend the rest of his career doing cardboard action characters and painful tough-guy cliches. This dude has talent, and he's wasting it! He directed his own short and it went to Sundance, for God's sake!"

Then just now I saw the trailer for 'Find me Guilty' and went from "Huh? Vin?" to "Vin??" "Vin, is that YOU??". I'm so surprised that it warrants a slight squee. He has hair, he's toned down from muscle-bound to just nicely solid, he wears a slightly scruffy suit and he ACTS. It's all good. The best part is that it in no way caters to the hordes of teenaged MTV-watching girls that adopted him after the racing film.. (whatsit..) and the MTV-James Bond thing.

So well done Mr. Diesel. Stick with this trend. Show us that you have more than a good body and a hot voice.

Comments

[miss-corinne.livejournal.com]

I heard recently that he plays/played Dungeons and Dragons and is the founder member of a quite popular games company.

My mind boggled!

Games

[dashamus.livejournal.com]

He is. It's called Tigon Studios, they make the Chronicles of Riddick games

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[the-hatstand.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads-up. I'm pretty much with you on his career arc to date, but I just watched the trailer too, and it does indeed look intriguingly good.

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He Arwen

Leuke lay-out heb je nu!
En het filmpje was inderdaad erg grappig.
Alles goed verder?

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