and apparently so does Vin Diesel.
I just saw a trailer for The Last Witch Hunter and sweet zombie jesus does it look awful. Battling witches in a post-apocalyptic future with swords? I’m a comic-book/fantasy/sci-fi nerd and I think I’d rather gouge out my eyes with rusted scissors than watch this movie.
I’ve been planning on seeing it in the theatre. I think it looks like fun.
I hope you enjoy it. Really. It just looks like they threw together a bunch of tropes and slapped a name on it.
That’s what I’m getting from the trailer, I haven’t actually looked into it.
See, if it were a Witcher movie with Vin Diesel as Letho of Gulet, I’d be a lot more excited :D. But, yeah - my first impressions are not great.
You forgot…
Flaming Sword!
I’m sold.
Considering that this movie is inspired by a character Vin Diesel played for fun… no. Vin Diesel told the writer about the witch hunter he played in D&D and that’s what inspired this movie, so of course he’d be interested.
How can such a big buff man be such a nerd.
Did he steal his own lunch money in highschool?
The killer nerd: it’s rare, but it does exist. A very good friend of mine lead a double life in high school - he’d spend the afternoons playing D&D with us, and in the evenings, he’d go hang out with a completely different group of friends, drinking, fighting and fooling around with girls. The end result was a huge geek who once head-butted a guy into the hospital.
I did not know Diesel was a gamer. I’ll have to re-think my opinion of him.
Still not gonna spend MY money going to see this movie, though.
His love for WoW and D&D is fairly well-known; he’s been a gamer all his life.
There’s a lot of celeb-culture stuff I don’t know. I watch very little tv and few movies. The dope is the only mb I frequent.
You should watch this video of him breakdancing then.
Micheal Caine and Morgan Freeman seem to making a career of appearing in B movies.
I’ll bet the house will be terrific, at least.
Years and years ago I saw Michael Caine on Carson talking about the few films he’s made that he really regretted. The first was The Swarm, a 70s Irwin Allen schlock-fest. Johnny couldn’t even remember it so Caine just says in his British accent, “Ah, it’s about baaaays Johnny”. He then actually said that he was in the middle of buying a new house and needed some easy cash so that’s why he did Jaws:The Revenge which as he put it, “…was another clunker.”
There’s supposedly a Michael Caine quote where someone asked him if he’d seen a particularly bad movie he’d done, and his answer was “No, but I’ve seen the house it built.”
Caine makes no bones about it: he likes to work, he likes the money it brings in, and he’s not always choosy about the roles he takes.
If he’s offered a great role in a great movie and a lousy role in a lousy movie, and both jobs pay the same, he’ll take the great role. But when he’s idle, offer him a hefty paycheck for a piece of dreck, and he’ll take it- ESPECIALLY if it gives him a chance to spend a few months in the Caribbean (as in Jaws 4) or on the Riviera (as in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels).
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was not dreck! I poke you in the eye with a fork!
Oh wait, was that wrong. Should I not have done that?
I disagree that it’s rare, people just have a lot of preconceived notions about what constitutes a nerd. People see an athletic or buff guy and just assume that he’s not a nerd. Probably a majority of my friends are both active and nerdy. I myself and in great physical shape and almost all of my interests are considered nerdy. In fact, I probably have more nerdy discussions with my gym buddies than non-nerdy discussions; we’re much more likely to be discussion music, film, comics, science, philosophy, games, than sports, hot chicks, or even weight training related stuff. Hell, when you get down to it, other than how the guys look, body building is pretty darn nerdy; keeping up on research about diet and work out regimens, proper form, evaluations of physique and technique, etc. So, really, particularly given the types of movies Vin Diesel has chosen, I’d be more surprised if he weren’t a nerd.
That said, the film looks like it may well be mindless fun. Probably not enough fun for me to bother to see it, but particularly if I were to go to a matinee, I don’t think I’d regret it. Not every movie needs to have a deep plot and complex characters to be enjoyable. Personally, if I’m going to see mindless action, I tend to prefer it to have some sort of fantasy element to it because it makes it easier to accept whatever ridiculous rules might make the action entertaining. If I do see it, it’ll probably be something I catch in the middle of the day on cable when I just want to veg, but I suspect I’ll have forgotten about it since then unless word of mouth for it is pretty good.
Thank you, that needed to be said and you did it quite well.