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So you know - This data is meant to be cheeky and random, if you’ve read my other dumb data posts, you know that I enjoy digging into random data and writing many words about the results.
Vin Diesel loves sleeveless shirts. He wore sleeveless shirts while bouncing, and if you check out his 1995 New York Toy Fair clips, or his 1995 short film Multi-Facial, you’ll see that long before he was rocking TWO sleeveless shirts at the same time in F9, he was all about the sleeveless life.
While watching F9 for another research assignment, I started wondering whether the amount of sleeveless shirts, or screen time in which Diesel wears a sleeveless shirt affect the overall quality of the movie. Thus, I went through all of his live-action films where he appears on screen (sorry Groot), pulled the minutes of sleeveless screen time, counted the shirts, and broke down the data to see if there is an optimal amount of sleeveless t-shirt wearing that Vin should adopt. Having done this before with Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and jet ski action scenes I felt certain that I could mine his filmography and present some incredibly random and unimportant data that might make you chuckle a bit while you read this.
Quick Note - Since I’m not a total maniac I didn’t sit there with a stopwatch and count every second of his screen time. I count the scenes that he’s in where he could appear on screen at any time. For instance, this scene in Fast Five when he’s talking to Brian and Mia about putting a team together. The toughest film to crack was Pitch Black. Diesel’s character Riddick wears a sleeveless shirt during the duration of the film. However, he isn’t always around so I only counted scenes where his presence is felt and or he could pop up at any moment.
Also, I didn’t count the scenes where he’s wearing a sleeveless t-shirt underneath a shirt. The arms had to be out for the world to see.
He’s technically wearing a sleeveless shirt, but there’s a shirt covering it. No arms = No inclusion
Fun Vin Numbers, Facts and stats
Overall Tomatometer Average - 47%
Overall Rotten Tomatoes User Score - 64%
IMDb User Score Average - 6.38
Worldwide Box Office Average - $335.5 million
# of Fresh Movies (Tomatometer score of 60% or more) - 8 - Saving Private Ryan, Boiler Room, Find Me Guilty, Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6, Furious 7, The Fate of the Furious, F9
If you're interested in listening to me talk about how all the data came together, check out the podcast episode I recorded about my quest. You can listen to the Movies, Films and Flix podcast wherever you listen to podcasts.
Just got out of a screening. And Damn, I hate seeing that this movie is flopping. It was the most surprising Block Buster for me since Free Guy. Pure fun but it had a lot of heart. I was also shocked how much it actually felt like how a D&D campaign would play out.
Oddly it felt like a “classic” Marvel movie. Closer to first Guardians of the Galaxy. I also appreciate that they used so many practical effects too. You can just tell there was a lot of love poured into this one.
9/10 for me. I hope they take the good reviews into account when deciding whether to greenlight more.
And no, this isn’t a paid advertisement. It’s probably too late to save it from flopping.
Now where is Jarnathan?
Edit: Wow I guess there is already more people loving this film than I thought. Maybe it won’t flop after all? Also, I see a lot of people mentioning the practical effects, stunts and sets. The director has been posting BTS on Twitter and it is really cool to see. Beware of spoilers though (Obviously).
Edit: Seeing a lot of questions about how this is could become a flop. The film has a $150 Million budget and has grossed just shy of $130 Million so far, with steep competition ahead. That budget also doesn’t consider the marketing budget. However, it just came to my attention that apparently Hasbro footed half the budget, so maybe that does increase the chances of profit for Paramount and the likelihood for a sequel? Just thought I should clear that up.
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