The topic of Riddick
PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 12:22 pm
I liked the riddick charicter when i first saw pitchblack way back when. I liked him because he was kind of a sci-fi rehash of one of my favorite charicters in any medium Conan the barbarian.
Conan/Riddick are kind of anti-heros, they have their own agenda, their own code so to speak, and they dont have any problems doing things in an unorthadox manner. That being said I will say I think that Pitchblack was ten times the movie that Chronicles of Riddick was. Thats not to say that CoR wasn't worth a theatrical viewing, Im guessing it would be much better in the theater as it would be a rental. What im saying is this is an example of letting big budget make your movie instead of charicter development and storyline. Yes it had some interesting special effects, and i would love to own a negromonger rifle, but ......... wow, was it lacking.
Its like the 3rd and 4rth batman movies. Their budget went up, and here we have the ruination of a gritty world. Pitchblack was cool because of its lack of budget, it gave the movie a very realistic feel (along with some very inovative camera work). CoR lost its gritty edge and became a polished hollywood plot graveyard (imo).
Things i didn't like about the new movie where the unrealistic fighting scenes. [spoiler] Such as backbreaking rider of rohan, and the Riddick Kira/Jak Xena strap twirl of doom, the only person who should have had any type of special powers was of coarse the leader of the Necromongers and thats just because he went to a wierd part of the universe and came back messed up. [/spoiler]
The other thing was again the lack of charicter development and dialog. There was no explanation for most things, and i can see where over explaining would slow the movie down, but they opted for none at all. That was a mistake, they just basically gave the audience a blank script and said draw your own conclusion. Thats not a plot tactic, thats laziness on part of the writer / director / producers/ and anyone else involved.
I am glad however that this charicter is getting his own franchise. After I watched pitchblack I thought to myself how cool it would be to see some more movies or read some books or something.
In case anybody dosn't know they are extending it further with the game on the x-box(
) CoR: Escape from Butcher Bay, and an anime (yes anime) CoR: Darkfury wich takes place directly after the happenings of Pitchblack.
Anyway i'll drop it here and leave it to discussion if in fact there are any Riddick fans out there.
Conan/Riddick are kind of anti-heros, they have their own agenda, their own code so to speak, and they dont have any problems doing things in an unorthadox manner. That being said I will say I think that Pitchblack was ten times the movie that Chronicles of Riddick was. Thats not to say that CoR wasn't worth a theatrical viewing, Im guessing it would be much better in the theater as it would be a rental. What im saying is this is an example of letting big budget make your movie instead of charicter development and storyline. Yes it had some interesting special effects, and i would love to own a negromonger rifle, but ......... wow, was it lacking.
Its like the 3rd and 4rth batman movies. Their budget went up, and here we have the ruination of a gritty world. Pitchblack was cool because of its lack of budget, it gave the movie a very realistic feel (along with some very inovative camera work). CoR lost its gritty edge and became a polished hollywood plot graveyard (imo).
Things i didn't like about the new movie where the unrealistic fighting scenes. [spoiler] Such as backbreaking rider of rohan, and the Riddick Kira/Jak Xena strap twirl of doom, the only person who should have had any type of special powers was of coarse the leader of the Necromongers and thats just because he went to a wierd part of the universe and came back messed up. [/spoiler]
The other thing was again the lack of charicter development and dialog. There was no explanation for most things, and i can see where over explaining would slow the movie down, but they opted for none at all. That was a mistake, they just basically gave the audience a blank script and said draw your own conclusion. Thats not a plot tactic, thats laziness on part of the writer / director / producers/ and anyone else involved.
I am glad however that this charicter is getting his own franchise. After I watched pitchblack I thought to myself how cool it would be to see some more movies or read some books or something.
In case anybody dosn't know they are extending it further with the game on the x-box(
) CoR: Escape from Butcher Bay, and an anime (yes anime) CoR: Darkfury wich takes place directly after the happenings of Pitchblack. Anyway i'll drop it here and leave it to discussion if in fact there are any Riddick fans out there.
