I'm one of those people who can watch a stupid movie and end up crying.
I think it's interesting to have a cool character not look so cool, you know?
I've shot films in locations that have seemed haunted. I shot a film in a maximum-security prison in Russia. Part of it was on a psychiatric ward - there were definitely some creepy vibes there.
Yelling Irish you can sound like an angry Leprechaun.
You can't not look cool with a crossbow.
You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.