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You cock-eyed optimist, you.

I'm just glad I'm not the only person that liked the second one...sorry TK, but it was good, in spite of the the overwrought dialogue and Thandie Newton. Also, not Karl Urban's finest hour, though I thought Colm Feore was pretty good, and I love Linus Roache.

Oh, Below was massively great. I don't understand why it disappeared; definitely an Underappreciated Gem.

David Twohy is not a man. He's a holy Half-Dead who has seen the Underverse.

*sqeeeee*

What does the "B" stand for? Bald?

At one point, he SNIFFS a girl, and says "i forgot what beautiful smells like." Best pick-up line ever.

Posted by: "luker" the barbarian at December 3, 2009 5:41 PM

So I have heard my fair share of pick up lines. However if I heard that one, I think a swift punch to the throat would be in order.

I think at one point there was a Comment Diversion about bad movies that you must watch when they're on TV. Well The Chronicles of Riddick is that movie for me. It's like torture to watch, but dammit if I can't turn that sucker off.

Hope the third is good.

I'm looking forward to this. Pitch Black was awesome and I liked Chronicles too (even if slightly less). I figure, he's got nowhere to go but up. The mythology is kickass and the possiblities are endless.

This movie will, no doubt, be riddickulous. See what I did there?

I'll get me coat.

So Vin "set" to be "attached" to the project?

I mean...

He kills a man with a tea cup!

God Damn It!

I liked Pitch Black, and I confess I liked Chronicles as well. I got a kick out of trying to figure out why such baroque monstrosities were considered a design aesthetic for starships. Chronicles is a Hangover Theater classic - just pound down the aspirin and vitamins, peel your brain back and let the Stupid wash the toxins out.

Alexa Davalos always plays the best electro-mutant, mercenary Goldblum-head-6es.

Why is she not a regular in the TV land? This must be fixed.

I liked pitch Black a lot, honestly, but only watched "Chronicles" in the middle of a Tyler Perry/Madea marathon, which may have contributed to my dislike of the movie. I look forward to this third movie, though the word "precarious" comes to mind.

Pitch Black was merely o.k. The visuals were often beautiful, and the premise was very good. The supporting characters, however, were very thin and underdeveloped.

The Chronicles Of Riddick is worthy of an immense shrug. Talk about overwrought.

I once got into a debate at a bar with a guy that claimed - ready for this? - The Chronicles Of Riddick is the greatest sci-fi movie ever made. The greatest. Number one with none ahead of it. It didn't matter what movie I used to challenge his statement. He wouldn't budge, and his arguments - though ultimately ridiculous in my opinion - were logical and intricate. This guy was convinced. Even more puzzling was the fact that the guy seemed to have great taste otherwise in books, film, etc.

THIS IS WHY I LOVE YOU CRAZY DRUNK BASTARDS.
I loved Pitch Black, LOVED IT. My dad took me to see it without either of us ever knowing what it was about. We thought Riddick was on a team of explorers or miners on the planet, who got trapped underground with the aliens and somehow changed or infected before being reunited with his team...sort of like Event Horizon meets Alien but still looking pretty cool and half decent.
Obviously we where way wrong but only for the better since it turned out to be one of the better indie sci fi flicks ever produced.
Chronicles....I did sort of enjoy it because it had a certain charm and the same blue/yellow colouring of the first which I dug on a purely film student cinematography sense, plus the cast was pretty amazing.
I will admit I basically hated the plot though...well no...Not the whole plot, the Riddick kicks EVERY BODIES ASS IN THE ROOM stuff was wicked cool, what I hated was the Warhammer/HAVOC/40K (or 50K, what the fuck ever) Games Workshop bullshit 'saga'. The whole super badass bad guys thing ripped right off the gaming table of....well actually, my dad and brother (though you'd never expect it from the brother who is a six foot four gym hitting Paratrooper brother who is currently ranked as one of the best recruits in the country who isnt actually yet serving, nor yet my snakey salesman movie loving dad dancing weird hat wearing dad)

What I wanted in the sequel to PB was like....I dont know...the original Jack, for one. No offence to the Zappy Girl from Angel but Jack's original charm and awesomeness was the fact she did look like a boy and did have a streak of bad ass in her, like, if they hadn't been in the highly unusual situation they where, she'd have fucked people up in a major way.
Turning her into some little sex pot who clearly spent more time strategically applying eyeliner and flattering streaks of grease and dirt, in between doing stomach crunches and squats,than she did trying to survive, and totally removing her acting ability, just ruined her and the whole relationship between her and Riddick. I mean, in the original, she survived by hiding her sexuality and pretending to be a boy. Fair enough. In this one, she got by byyyyy fucking everyone? Like...If you want to read gender issues into it, yeah I take issue with the second. They dropped the awesome first actress so had to drop the boy thing, and instead made her a skank...why not have had boyish looking Jack being all sexy and combine the two aspects?
I'd have preferred something where Riddick and OJ(Original Jack) had paired up to work as mercenaries, him turning her into the soulless bad ass she wanted to be.
I mean in the original, she was great, a runaway 12 year old girl disguised as a boy, WHO STILL PLAYED MAKE BELIEVE ABOUT THE DANGEROUS SERIAL KILLER IN THEIR MIDST WHILE STRANDED ON THE PLANET WITH THE DANGEROUS ALIENS.
There was so much charm in that, and it was a big part of why I loved the film. Yeah she'd had to grow up more than she needed to, yeah she was passing as a boy, but she still retained this hugely important aspect of her childhood and personality. It was such a brilliant touch.
The BANG, she's little miss tough girl prison bitch, like, bullshit man. OJ was such a well done character, like Original Riddick, so I really was upset about what was done with her, plus the whole 'I now randomly resent Riddick because he left me to survive on a safe planet AND THROUGH MY OWN DUMBASSERY I ENDED UP ON A PRISON PLANET FOR WHICH I TOTES BLAME HIM BECAUSE IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE' BULLSHIT man.
Just. Gah
What would be cool though implausible would be to retcon and pretend CoR never happened, start ten years after PB with ORIGINAL JACK, alive and well, and have it be he's trained her to be a merc and a killer like him.
Thats the basic shit, just go forward with it from there in a natural vein.
I mean, NOTHING about the first film suggested anything that happened in the sequel. The only real link between the two was the characters, the names, and the concept that if one planet containes animalistic aliens, surely there's some dark, demonic force in the universe that posseses people and fucks em up.
Hmmm...looking back maybe I didnt like the sequel so much. Wanted to.
But shit man, it had Thandie fucking Newton in it.
Fuck that noise

Posted by: Nadine at December 4, 2009 5:06 AM

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OOOH! OOOH! Do the Toy Story movies next!!!

*bounces excitedly on chair's edge*

DeadBessie,
You nailed the part I found hilarious. The fact that you can see the sun's fiery path moving across the face of the planet from space attests to its incredible speed. They would have to run about 8,000 mph to keep pace.
Oops! My nerd is showing. *zip*
Sooo, how about Russell, huh? I wanna give that guy a noogie and buy him a gift card. That's right. Get whatever you want buddy. You've earned it.

Kballs--oh, I'm not saying it wasn't stupid as hell. I just enjoyed the camera work. Being a nerd myself, the only part I found more stupid than that was when he doused himself with water to keep himself "safe" from the heat while he rescues the chick. You know, the incredible searing heat that atomizes a guy before it even gets near him. Yeah, a tiny layer of lukewarm water should do the trick.

I can't believe there will be a third one. My dog ate my copy of the Chronicles of Riddick.

I don't know if there's been any official word on this, but I always liked to think that Riddick's name is just Riddick, that he made up the Richard B. bit on the spot to mock Paris P. Ogilvy.