However, while we can all agree about Vin's art, I have a problem with Vin's ethics. As we all know, Vin's master plan for Hollywood stardom involves creating deep, artistic, and meaningful movies like The Fast and the Furious, Pitch Black, and xXx so that after he has become rich and powerful, he can take a step back and turn the B-movies he wrote and produced as student films into full length features.

And evidently the money he makes from artistic triumphs such as xXx is not enough to fully fund his B-movie projects. Recently, Vin has started prostituting his art in order to hawk mattresses and box springs for the company Mattress Giant. The style, image, and phrases he has revolutionized the movie industry with are now just a slick way of getting you to buy a new mattress.

Here is a Mattress Giant print ad I found in the newspaper featuring Vin. The zen philosphy he so masterfully worked into The Fast and the Furious now just describes the soft pillow-top comfort of a posture-pedic.

While I still admire Vin's work and hope that one day he will graduate from movies about cryo-sleep and NOS so that he can make the popcorn movies he always dreamed of, any tribute to Vin must be witheld until he stops prostituting his art for corporate America.

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