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Vin Diesel's Biggest Supporter Pulls Out Of xXx 3. Poor Xander.

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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/10/09

In reply to Vin Diesel's Biggest Supporter Pulls Out Of xXx 3. Poor Xander.
Sigh... I guess xXxxXxxXxxXxxXxxXxxXxxXxxXx won't be the same after all. Yes, I cubed xXx.
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
06/10/09

In reply to Vin Diesel's Biggest Supporter Pulls Out Of xXx 3. Poor Xander.
I've always enjoyed Cohen's films with a grain of salt and occasionally he's really good/bad like with xXx and Fast and Furious but too often he is a big budget Uwe Boll as anyone who has seen Dragonheart or Mummy 3 can attest to. Wait... they both had dragons hrm. Maybe that's the problem!!!

Wait, no Stealth had no dragons and was still a pile of shit even with super planes and Jessica Biel.

Point is. This franchise can continue but hand it off to someone like the Crank guys to just go crazy with it because that is all that made xXx2 enjoyable.
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AngryEddy
06/10/09

In reply to Vin Diesel's Biggest Supporter Pulls Out Of xXx 3. Poor Xander.
It's all karma for xXx - you can't go around thinking you can take out James Bond as the world's #1 spy just because you've got a go-go-gadget muscle car, Xtreme sports, and some pop culture references...
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/10/09

@AngryEddy: Yeah, you need to have tons of double entendres and bone tons of chicks, too.
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AngryEddy
06/10/09

@crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Even then, there are no guarantees you'll best Bond.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/10/09

@AngryEddy: Damn that British accent! DAMN IT ALL! All my hard work has been for nothing!
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Illogic
06/10/09

@AngryEddy: I thought Bourne already did that...
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/10/09

@Illogic: Well, Bourne jacked his cars, jerryrigged some of his devices, and instead of having pop culture references, he beat the shit out of them...

@AngryEddy: My dad knows every single 007 movie, and he still refuses to acknowledge the existence of Timothy Dalton.
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TemporalSword
06/10/09

@AngryEddy: But EVERYTHING's better with pop culture references. Just look at the Shrek sequels and all it's animated ilk, and...

Oh, wait. Those were all crap.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/10/09

@TemporalSword: Yeah, but those kinds of movies do great at the box office due to their at-the-moment appeal. Which is probably why studios have to keep releasing new ones in order to keep the public aware. My friend works at Dreamworks and he says they pretty much have the graphics down to a grindmill level now, and they're just working on the jokes. Sigh. Go Pixar!
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Aidan_
06/10/09

In reply to Vin Diesel's Biggest Supporter Pulls Out Of xXx 3. Poor Xander.
They already did "The Magnificent Seven in the olden days". Little film called Seven Samurai. Perhaps some of you have heard of it?
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/10/09

@Aidan_: And then it went full circle with the anime Samurai 7... with MECHS!
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Jeremy Linden
06/10/09

@Aidan_: Akshully, isn't "The Magnificent Seven" the "Seven Samurai" in the Western Days?

The Kurisawa movie came first, right?
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crashedpc - Haifisch
06/10/09

@Jeremy Linden: @roninpenguin: Grr, Kurosawa.

Them Samurai don't even use GUNS!
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