# XXX---I actually paid money to see this!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 10, 2002, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752 "2002-09-10T02:30:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752/21 "2002-09-10T16:19:23Z")
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAAH… BEST. MOVIE LINE EVER. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752/22 "2002-09-10T16:25:59Z")
> [@](#): > > When did he take drugs? He didn’t, true. But the drugs were being taken by the lowlives, who he was hobnobbing with. It’s the decadence I’m interested in, see; if everyone around me is taking drugs and gettin’ it on with beautiful people, they won’t care if I only opt for one of those two activities. I thought Vin was hotter in [bPitch Black\*\*, myself. He was so _bad_. ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752/23 "2002-09-10T16:36:35Z")
jarbaby - I am with you, Vin Diesel is HOT, he looks like his name. I need to check out Pitch Black. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752/24 "2002-09-10T16:38:17Z")
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. Saw the movie. Thought it was stupid, pointless fun. I guess I was a little surprised at how it was _exactly_ like a Bond movie wrapped up in a teen-approved, “extreme sports” package. I was expecting it to be a little different - more edgy, perhaps. It was a completely inoffensive stunt-o-rama, nothing more. As for the writing - the minute I realized that it was a re-packaged Bond film (and by the way, try to deny that the reason that this film “works” - if you liked it, that is - is because Diesel packs a little of the Sean Connery masculinity into the mix - other than that, what is different from any other Bond film) - any hope for quality writing went out the window. Bottom line? I don’t listen to the Backstreet Boys expecting to hear the Beatles, y’know? (okay, I don’t listen to the Backstreet Boys period, but you get the idea.) BTW, the best Bond-like film, IMHO, is still _True Lies_. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752/25 "2002-09-10T16:40:03Z")
He is so hot in Pitch Black that some posters may remember that I actually pulled a muscle in my stomach “vigorously thinking” about it later. \ ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752/26 "2002-09-10T17:15:23Z")
And we eagerly await the arrival of **Riddick** , so that we may worship at his alien ass-kicking feet once more . . . ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752/27 "2002-09-10T17:42:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*I’ve seen XXX in the theatres TWICE already and I’d go again in a heartbeat. Tons of fun for a summer afternoon. > \*\* And the fact that the movie opened with a Rammstein concert has nothing to do with it, hmm? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752/28 "2002-09-10T17:44:10Z")
I have no idea what you’re talking about 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752/29 "2002-09-10T21:16:03Z")
Well, that just goes to show how huge a nerd I am. In the theater, I really really did think to myself, “Oooh, jarbaby’s going to love this.” Not that I have ever met or direcrtly spoken to jar. Viva la Internet! ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752/30 "2002-09-10T21:29:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\*His real name is Mark Vincent, for the record, and he’s thirty five, and I will bear his children within the year. \*\* According to GQ, he also likes Dungeons and Dragons. And what is Brian Urlacher going to say. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752/31 "2002-09-10T21:54:12Z")
There’s always room for two hulking babes in the Jarbaby bed of conception. J ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752/32 "2002-09-11T00:03:24Z")
For what it’s worth, I totally enjoyed the movie. Everything about it was unrealistic. How on earth would you expect an American extreme athlete to infiltrate an Eastern European gang? How is it an American is able to bark out orders to a foreign police force and they will obey him? In the movie, Vin Diesel refuses cigarettes, claiming they’ll kill the guy offering. Later on, he’s proved right. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw Rammstein in the opening sequence. I was sure jarbabyj would really enjoy this movie. ---
**Author:** ![Lala\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a9adbd/32.png) [@Lala\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lala_S)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752/33 "2002-09-14T13:43:07Z")
I took my 12 year old nephew to this - he loved it. This definitely isn’t the kind of movie you go to expecting realistic plot lines or good acting. But wasn’t it like, totally AWESOME when he like, grinded with that cafe tray!??!! RAWWWWWK!! ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752/34 "2002-09-14T13:58:11Z")
And let’s not forget how hot he looked doing it. In that faux fur coat. YEEEEOOOWCH I’d like to bake him a cake with low fat frosting…if you know what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752/35 "2002-09-14T18:17:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > I’d like to bake him a cake with low fat frosting…if you know what I mean. Uh, no, but I’m instinctively shying away from inquiry. [sub]Time to Fluff the Garfield, if you know what I mean[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![zeva4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ce7236/32.png) [@zeva4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zeva4)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752/36 "2002-09-14T18:48:32Z")
i went into this movie expecting to see a stupid action movie, but thought it would be a lot of fun, a guilty pleasure. I was totally disappointed. First problem, this guy is supposed to be a heartthrob action star, but that kiss was the UGLIEST, NASTIEST thing i’ve ever seen on film…it was just completely akward. Second, during the scene when he did a rail slide on a catering tray, that in itself was really really cheesy, but the sound effect was worse than nails on a chalkboard and made me want to rip my ears off. As a point of fact, someone had asked what VIN DIESEL’s name is, it is Mark(c?) Vincent. This movie was made with considerable effort, but all of it towards hitting a target audience, it was made much like a tv show, by committee. I’d take any james bond flick over this film and would nto see it again. ---
**Author:** ![hazel-rah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@hazel-rah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hazel-rah)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752/37 "2002-09-15T05:23:34Z")
There’s a line in the movie where someone says “Bitches, come?” I wasn’t going to bother with this one, but if they’re going to be making Robocop jokes, maybe it _is_ worth my time. -fh ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752/38 "2002-09-15T06:36:37Z")
The equivalent cackle-worthy line in Robocop was “Bitches leave!” Clarence Boddiger was a much better bad guy than generic eurotrash. My inner 13 year old child really enjoyed XXX for what it was. It made me cackle pretty much right through it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xxx-i-actually-paid-money-to-see-this/127752.md?page=1)