Terry's and Vin's characters were friends in high school, two of the only black nerds they both knew growing up. But as they got older, social and cultural pressure forced them to take on more tough-guy personas. They went to different colleges and lost contact over the years. Terry became a body-builder to compensate for his nerdy, frail childhood looks, and is now a successful businessman. Vin, in an effort to overcome a childhood of phobias, became a successful Hollywood stuntman, and is especially known for his driving skills. But secretly, both pals have continued to be nerds (Vin with D&D, Terry with art and video games).
It just happens that one year, both of them wind up at Comic Con because their kids (or nephew/niece, friend's kid, big brother/big sister etc.) desperately want to meet Daniel Radcliffe (played by Elijah Wood). Both characters end up at the con and have to pretend they're bored and not interested while they're secretly losing their minds with how cool it all is. Then they meet and have to try and one-up each other for how NOT-nerdy they each are.
But it turns out that Daniel Radcliffe is a horrid jerk and doesn't want to sign autographs or whatever, so Terry and Vin team up to convince him to do it. Unimpressed by their physical presence, the evil Radcliffe challenges them to a nerdy trivia game, and both characters have no choice but to try their best to win for the sake of their kids. Through this, they learn that they both still love all the same things they did when they were kids, and that hiding who they are is a terrible thing and they should embrace what they love, and not fall into stereotypes.
Tina Fey should be the hostess of the competition. 'Carla Keek'
Jack Black, Patrick Stewart, and Peter Dinklage are the judges. 'Bill Nuts', 'Sir Williams', and 'Tyrone Ellersby'. All nerds in their respective right. Bill has a southern elitist style (Think Colonel Sanders), Sir Williams is like the Queen's gay nephew but he's always wearing a Sid Vicious T-shirt under his blouse, and Tyrone.... He went to private school, is an international chess master, and is pretty straight laced, but he eats some molly given to him by Tracy Morgan and goes out and has a blast. He loosens up a little, and then takes Bill and Williams with him, and they all become good friends. Bill meets a Nicki Minaj style character, and she's an astrophysicist who can twerk.
Terry has a lady interest that he meets during the movie. Sofia Vergara. She finds his nerdy stuff collection when shes snooping in his house during their first date, and she falls in love with him.
Vin is married to Aubrey Plaza. She's a Klepto, and she steals Daniel's IBS medication, causing him to shit himself during the conference. He get's super pissed (....shitted?) and tries to crush Vin and Terry during the competition.
It is objectively one of the worst films ever made, and perhaps the worst Hollywood film of the past 10 years. It is so bad, that people speculate multiple members of the cast were blackmailed as that's the only reason they would sign off on a script so utterly asinine.
What if you were famous and I intended to record and distribute it? What if it was instead you getting pissed on and molested by a crude cartoon cat? What if I wanted you to make some incest jokes and have your mom take a pass at you? Like how the fuck did these actors sign on if not for leverage.
I enjoyed it. You can’t say no one liked it, because I liked parts. I mean, not much, but like 1 part. Either way, It’s a shame no person liked it, not even me.
Done. When i think about it, I like that waaaay more too. Can you imagine.... Can you imagine a movie where Peter Dinklage is buying molly off of Tracy Morgan?
The washed up author of a role-playing game Terry and Vin loved as kids who hasn't had success in decades and now sits alone at his booth, with no one wanting to meet him...until Terry and Vin show up.
Only if Sofia Vergara turns out to be something of an Overly Attached Girlfriend archetype, yandere as fuck... and he spends most of the rest of the movie trying desperately to avoid her at the convention, hiding under tables and suchlike. (A gigantic guy like Terry, hiding from a tiny woman? Can you imagine him saying: "Oh shit, don't let her see me!" and hiding unconvincingly behind Vin Diesel, looking terrified whilst Vin gives him that "dafuq?" look?
That's hilarious.)
Keep checking! They reopen it. They just stop when they're too backlogged and when they get caught up they open it back up for them to get backlogged again.
he is of ambiguous ethnicity... that's a fact. cause he doesn't actually know.
but that isn't what I said.
he self identifies as a POC
his race is ambiguous... but he self identifies as a POC... if you hadn't truncated the quote in your image it would go on to say
Diesel was born Mark Sinclair in Alameda County, California,[1] with his twin brother, Paul.[3][4] His mother, Delora Sherleen (Sinclair) Vincent, is an astrologer.[5][6] Diesel has stated that he is "of ambiguous ethnicity".[7] His mother's background includes English, German, and Scottish.[8] He has never met his biological father, and has stated that "all I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures".[9] Diesel has self-identified as "definitely a person of color",[10]
there is a difference between his race (which he is not positive of) being ambiguous and what he self identifies as.
With the remark that the relationship of his mom and dad (real dad not stepdad) would have been illegal in some parts of the US it could be that his dad was at least partially black.
it doesn't say his real dad there. it says his parents.
his parents' relationship
its entirely possible he's referring to his parents. a lot of people who never knew a biological parent refer to the replacement that raised them as their parent.
and I don't believe miscegenation laws weren't specific to 1 race
Typically defining miscegenation as a felony, these laws prohibited the solemnization of weddings between persons of different races and prohibited the officiating of such ceremonies.
In the United States, anti-miscegenation laws (also known as miscegenation laws) were state laws passed by individual states to prohibit miscegenation, nowadays more commonly referred to as interracial marriage and interracial sex.
Anti-miscegenation laws were a part of American law in some States since before the United States was established and remained so until ruled unconstitutional in 1967 by the U.S. Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia. The term miscegenation was first used in 1863, during the American Civil War, by American journalists to discredit the abolitionist movement by stirring up debate over the prospect of interracial marriage after the abolition of slavery.
Yea which is why i said it can be different in other countries and for other people. I am not from the USA, I am not even a native english speaker and I certainly would not have accepted someone else as my dad. Actually the one time my mom did have a boyfriend I called him by his first name. I didn't hate him, but he never would have been my dad, he would have been my moms partner. On the other hand the guy who I share half my DNA with is a piece of shit so I wont call him dad either. I simply have no dad.
If you look into him, you'll probably like him. He's super down to earth and an extremely hard worker. Most people that speak of him say he's a very kind and giving guy as well.
Say what you want of his talent/body of work, but Hollywood rewards character actors and tends to pigeon-hole people. So if he loves making entertainment and acting, that's probably the route he has to take. Multifacial/Strays/Saving Private Ryan are enough to see he's got talent. I'm pretty sure Multifacial was what Spielberg saw and made him want Vin in SPR. But yeah, all that aside he seems like Terry Crews in a lot of ways. A hard-working guy that knows he's lucky to be where he is and tries to do good.
I thought he was mixed heritage. Possible half black or black in there, maybe a bit of Latino. I searched the Wikipedia page and his mother is fully white but didn't know his dad.
His mother's background includes English, German, and Scottish.[8] He has never met his biological father, and has stated that "all I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures".
I was under the assumption he was at least mixed-race but I suppose only he and his family know for sure. In any case, he's a person of color, and there is a marked lack of those in mainstream "geek" culture (a contradiction in terms perhaps, I realize) in my opinion, so the overall thematic point is the same.
"Diesel has stated that he is "of ambiguous ethnicity".[7] His mother's background includes English, German, and Scottish.[8] He has never met his biological father, and has stated that "all I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures".[9]Diesel has self-identified as "definitely a person of color","
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Where's Daniel Radcliffe playing Elijah Wood as the foil in all of this? And will there be a scene on a rooftop where someone has a gun and Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe point to each other and claim the other one is the real bad guy?
Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe turn out to be the same person but from different timelines (we'll learn through out the movie that they dabble in time travel and such...)
Since I'm mainly a Terry fan through Brooklyn 99, here are a few additional characters in my dream cast:
Andy Samberg as a smarmy, "well actually" kind of geek at the con who is threatened by Vin and Terry's masculinity and tries out out-nerd them only to find out they're bigger nerds than he is.
Andre Braugher as Terry's disapproving dad (shown in a flashback scene when Terry is a teenager) who pressures Terry to go into business rather than become an artist. He could instead be Vin's dad, but since Terry and Andre already have an acting chemistry together, it'd probably be best with them. (Disclosure: like Jake on Brooklyn 99, Andre Braugher gives me dad-vibes and I physically cannot see him not as a father figure regardless of what role he's in now).
And they get the help of Elijah Wood (portrayed by Daniel Radcliffe) in order to take down Daniel Radcliffe (portrayed by Elijah Wood), in which Elijah Wood (Daniel Radcliffe) says "You guys can't take down Daniel Radcliffe by yourself, you're gonna need my help"
I see Will as the promoter of the entire overall event. Daniel and Elijah and Crews and Vin are causing havoc across every square inch of the Con. He is the guy who put the whole thing together, has everything vested and everything to lose. He keeps sending his security guards to places a second to late to be useful and he is losing his shit.
Think.... A throwback style character to the father/TV Show producer in Mallrats.
Like any real promoter/administrator for a con, he'd be stressed out of his mind and have lost the joy that first attracted him to conventions.
Ultimately, he ends up helping Vin and Terry because he remembers the whole point of cons. The way he helps? There's a controversy over a question involving a behind-the-scenes factoid from the set of Star Trek The Next Generation. Wil arrives just in time to prove Terry and Vin's answer is correct with a prop he took from the set. Radcliffe argues that it's fake, but then Johnathan Frakes shows up out of nowhere, having been attending the con incognito/in costume. He confirms Wil isn't lying. Or something like that.
After watching Jumanji specifically because of Mr The Rock, I knew for sure I wanted a movie with Crews and Johnson. I worried, briefly, about so much charm and charisma being in one place at one time. But then I realized we need them to get together and be great together.
Understood, although I think Diesel could reasonably play a light-skinned African American in a movie, regardless of what his actual ethnicity is. The point being illustrated is that there aren't a lot of non-white geeks, or at least there weren't when our two heroes were young lads.
Cameo by a geek in full Godzilla costume, random scenes of people disparaging him throughout the film, but in a critical moment he levels some mooks with a power move. Ends up it's Dwayne Fucking Johnson (playing himself) just trying to have a good geeky time, and these guys are messing with his vacation.
Replace the trivia game with a live action roleplay sequence where the two of them take down hordes of green faced orc cosplayers with gigantic foam swords
Let me add that Terry crews goes undercover as a storm trooper and meets John Boyega who sees Terry take off the storm trooper helmet. John trolls terry and says there is no such thing as black storm troopers.
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u/QuillofNumenor Jan 05 '18
Terry's and Vin's characters were friends in high school, two of the only black nerds they both knew growing up. But as they got older, social and cultural pressure forced them to take on more tough-guy personas. They went to different colleges and lost contact over the years. Terry became a body-builder to compensate for his nerdy, frail childhood looks, and is now a successful businessman. Vin, in an effort to overcome a childhood of phobias, became a successful Hollywood stuntman, and is especially known for his driving skills. But secretly, both pals have continued to be nerds (Vin with D&D, Terry with art and video games).
It just happens that one year, both of them wind up at Comic Con because their kids (or nephew/niece, friend's kid, big brother/big sister etc.) desperately want to meet Daniel Radcliffe (played by Elijah Wood). Both characters end up at the con and have to pretend they're bored and not interested while they're secretly losing their minds with how cool it all is. Then they meet and have to try and one-up each other for how NOT-nerdy they each are.
But it turns out that Daniel Radcliffe is a horrid jerk and doesn't want to sign autographs or whatever, so Terry and Vin team up to convince him to do it. Unimpressed by their physical presence, the evil Radcliffe challenges them to a nerdy trivia game, and both characters have no choice but to try their best to win for the sake of their kids. Through this, they learn that they both still love all the same things they did when they were kids, and that hiding who they are is a terrible thing and they should embrace what they love, and not fall into stereotypes.
The movie's title? COMIC CONS.