…because he must be broke. I can’t think of any other reason he’d star in this piece of crap. We watched Ocean’s Twelve today and saw the trailer for that Vin Diesel flick. WTF was he thinking?
Perhaps he’s trying to expand his range.
::Sound of head exploding::
I would expect it’s the same reason that Sylvester Stallone did Stop, or My Mom Will Shoot, or Kathleen Turner did Baby Geniuses.
Two words: Kindergarten. Cop.
I guess he wanted to destroy his career.
He has a career?
Actually, I thought it looked pretty funny. I think he’s more trying to parody his own career rather than shoot it down.
I really wish that this movie didn’t remind me of this one. I’m upset that I even know the plot.
I’m with Euty. I thought it might be fairly humorous.
It’s not as if all his past work has been arthouse flicks.
I like Vin for some reason. Mebbe because he’s such a D&D geek. 
But aside from that, I look at it this way: Burt Reynolds did Cop and a Half (apologies to those for whom that dredged up bad memories), and later was nominated for an Oscar. And this after a string of bad/unpopular movies along with it.
So anything can happen in Hollywood.
PS: I think Kindergarten Cop has been the best of the cop/kid comedy genre so far. Unless someone can think of a better one.
(And have all cop/anything but a kid comedies been bad?)
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The OP is extremely generous, if I had $20 million, I might give Vin Diesel $20.00.
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I really wish people would name the movie instead of posting “this one” with a link that takes some people with slow-arse computers/connections 10 minutes to find out what everyone is talking about.
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Uh … Hi Opal!?
My apologies. The movie in question is called The Pacifier. Here’s the IMDB synopsis:
The trailer shows it as a Kindergarten Cop-style comedy.
Wow, that’s gonna be ugly. I caught XXX on cable the other night and felt really sorry for Samuel L. Jackson (who must’ve been paid handsomely to “legitimize” Diesel’s star vehicle). Anyway, that was supposedly Diesel’s best (or one of his best) movies and it was crap, so the thought of him attempting comedy sounds scary.
XXX was indeed crap.
Personally, though, i thought Pitch Black was quite a bit of fun.
I just don’t think Vin Diesel is funny. He doesn’t have the timing for it. I think he does action well, and I think he can do drama fairly well (he was good in Boiler Room). I mean, I admit I prefer to watch him diving off a bridge with an M-16 in hand, but if this movie premise had been attempted in all seriousness, I’d probably want to see it. Instead we see Mr. Handsome and Muscular making funny faces when a baby craps in his diaper.
::shakes fists at the gods:: Why can’t my sexy action stars just be sexy action stars?!
What are you talking about? It was great and super realistic. EVERYONE has 50 foot motorbike ramps in their back yards.
If I had $20 million, I’d give it to Vin Diesel to go away. He had a brief chance there to hit it really big. But his ego got the best of him and now he’s reaping the benefits.
I always think an actor’s career is in trouble when he decides it is a good idea to appear with a kid or an animal. Of course, there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood appeared with the orang in Every Which Way but Loose.
Exactly, what does someone expect Vin Freakin Diesel to be doing, a Casablanca remake?
Hamlet with The Rock?
Doing an action movie with a kid seems like the next logical career move to me.