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I Live My Life a Quarter Mile at a -- Oh, Sorry. Wrong Crappy Diesel Franchise

By TK | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (17)



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I wish I was more excited about this. Really, I do. I adore Pitch Black. It was such a surprise when I first saw it, a brilliantly violent homage to about a half-dozen science fiction films, and a hell of a good time. It made me all the more excited when I heard that director David Twohy was making not just a sequel, but that it would be part of a huge, space-opera trilogy that would be unlike anything before it.

Except, of course, for the small, baby, tiny, itsy-bitsy, little, wee miniature problem — The Chronicles of Riddick end up being really, really, really fucking stupid.

Which brings us to the next entry, The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking. I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating — that’s a really bad title. It’s the kind of title a 14-year-old drawing his first comic book would come up with. But whatever. Twohy is back directing, Diesel is back to flex and look menacing, and a few weeks ago we showed you some early production art an a rough plot outline that mainly had to do with Riddick being stuck on an alien planet fighting “trisons” and “mud demons” and that there would be jetcycles. Now, ShockTilYouDrop has the official synopsis:

Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick (Diesel) fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.

Huh. OK, so that sort of ties into the title, but it’s still a dumb title. Also, I thought that Riddick was supposed to be the last of his kind? So who’s betraying him? Other outlaws? Guys at the gym? Other bad actors? SUCH MYSTERY ENSHROUDS THIS.

Eh, whatever. There it is. Like I said, I wish I was more excited about this, but I’m just… not.









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left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick (Diesel) fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before.

I'm choosing to only see that portion of the synopsis. Everything else is only in my imagination.

Posted by: admin at May 10, 2010 10:42 AM

I already saw this film when it starred Clint Eastwood and was called High Plains Drifter.

Posted by: PaddyDog at May 10, 2010 10:44 AM

left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick (Diesel) fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before.

I already saw this film when it was called Pitch Black.

Posted by: superasente at May 10, 2010 10:48 AM

...before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.

I was hoping they might forget that ever happened. I liked Riddick better when he was just a really badass, highly-trained human, rather than an alien who was born that way and just happens to look exactly like a normal human.

I guess I liked Riddick better when he was Batman, not Superman.

Posted by: James at May 10, 2010 10:59 AM

Didn't we leave off with him being the royal uber emperor of the deadites, or some such thing? Are they his "kind" now, even though he skipped the freshman hazing ceremony? Aren't all of the other Furries dead?

I already had enough trouble with him magically morphing to superhero status, when we met him as a dude getting his ass handed to him by a bounty hunter addict.

Oh, and I'm really pissed that I have to come up with a new name for my comic book now. Fuck you, Twohy!

Posted by: altan at May 10, 2010 11:24 AM

Uhhhhh, Furya was destroyed.

Like...destroyed, destroyed.

Like...there's no coming back from that.

Like...the Necromongers pulled an Alderaan on that motherfucker.

Like...the Lord Marshall eliminated all of his kind because one of them was supposed to kill him. Except for that one that saves Riddicks life and then lets himself burn even to the point where he's still walking as a skeleton.

Whatever, I will still see this movie AND love it.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at May 10, 2010 11:53 AM

Is it stupid? Yes.

Will I see it? Yes.

Will I love it anyway? YES.

Posted by: cydeleida at May 10, 2010 12:25 PM

Yes... je suis confused. Wasn't Furya essentially already destroyed? And all its male children killed? Save one, who, like Moses, managed to get sent down the river and spared from destruction?

Oh, who cares, I'll still see it. Such is the dearth of sci-fi movies to watch. (SyFy movies DON'T count.) I watch The Chronicles of Riddick when it comes on TNT. I admit it. It's not the most terrible movie in the world. The main problem with it is that you can see how it MIGHT have actually been awesome, and it fell so very, VERY short.

Posted by: MM at May 10, 2010 12:31 PM

Wait, is this Riddick or Lobo? I'm so confused. Either way, I'm with Deist, I'm watching it.

Posted by: Xtreme at May 10, 2010 12:34 PM

Fuck yes i am excited. Chronicles of riddick is one of the worst movies ever made. It is battlefield earth bad and I love every second of it. This news *exaggerated and awkward extended sniff* "smells like beautiful"

Posted by: "luker" the barbarian at May 10, 2010 12:53 PM

What's sadder; that they're blatantly ignored the plot they thoroughly established in the first Chronic(WHAT?!)-les of Riddick, or that everyone on this website is acting up a mini-shitstorm calling them out on it?

I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND THE POINT OF THE NECRONOMICONGERS AND THE UNDERVERSE CAN SOMEONE PLEASE FINISH *BRAINFART*

Posted by: D-Day at May 10, 2010 1:03 PM

So, now I'm thinking as Riddick-ulous' biggest enemy...

My nemesis is stranded on Bumfuck Centuri IV, a planet which has inexplicably spawned several super-predators to sit upon a food chain whose only other link is Riddick himself.
I'm guessing Trisons order in a lot of Chinese...

If I do absolutely nothing, my enemy will be forever playing keep-away with slavering hordes of creatures till one day, distracted (probably trying to sync his iPod), he becomes dinner for some alpha Trison (Guy Fieri in his breakout role).
Vin au Vin, as it were.
He cannot escape...Riddick rendered redundant.

Or...
I can put an exorbitant price on his head, notify hundreds of bounty hunters and assassins (many of whom will need to arrange time off from their day gigs in retail) of his whereabouts and conveniently provide him with weapons and means of escape.

It's the ability to make executive decisions like this that propelled my meteoric rise to power and justifies the big bucks I earn.

Door number two please, Monty.

Now I'm no longer Riddicks biggest enemy, instead I'm a movie producer which current anthropological theory classifies as a subspecies of human...
Ah, I smell sequel.
Green light.

Now I'm neither Riddick nor a producer, just me...
Yeah, I'll go see it.

Posted by: clocker at May 10, 2010 1:12 PM

SHUT UP IT COULD STILL BE OKAY JUST SHUT UP!!

Posted by: Nadine at May 10, 2010 3:17 PM

Well ...

If the 'splody planet can come back & the other furries ain't dead-dead (just mostly dead, which means a little bit alive) does that mean they can bring back Kyra, too? (Alexa Davalos)

Priorities, people.

Posted by: BierceAmbrose at May 10, 2010 5:51 PM

You are not afraid of the dark, are you?

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at May 11, 2010 2:28 AM

I like Chronicles of Riddick, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. The art direction alone is killer. Tell me those giant ships are not epically terrifying.

Unlike some, Vin Diesel doesn't annoy the shit out of me, his fight scenes are awesome, and his body and voice are pleasing to me.

I've been wondering this doe a while, VD (haha) plays D&D and is an avid gamer, why do so many gamers I know hate him? You'd think they be happy to see one of their own being a badass.

While I wish that they would have gone in the direction of Conan, king by his own hand, with the plot, I could be down with seeing what they do with Furya.

I think that Chronicles of Riddick and Pitch Black are going to age well.

Posted by: Mebe at May 11, 2010 4:50 AM

I don't care what the plot is, another Riddick movie sounds awesooooome!

Soooo baked.

Posted by: HappyGobo at May 23, 2010 7:42 PM