Pitch Black/The Chronicles of Riddick

POSTED BY: Fastmover
UPDATED: Thursday, January 18, 2007 16:00
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FASTMOVER

Thursday, December 7, 2006 6:13 AM

I was wondering how many of you here have seen these movies and what you guys thought of them? I really liked them, but unfortunately there were many apparent flaws in them that led to them being relatively unsuccessful.

Josh Gray

GROUNDED

Thursday, December 7, 2006 11:26 PM

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=8&t=24814

TURQUOISEBOAT

Thursday, December 7, 2006 11:38 PM

Pitch Black was great when I saw it on DVD after a friend recommended it, who saw it in the theater.

I don't know if I was able to make sense of all of Chronicles - still arguably impressive in some parts but I didn't like it as much. I saw Pitch Black as more of a Survival type story, which usually keep me more engaged than sweeping, non-stop thrill rides of action and adventure. blah.

"Nothing like fresh powder!"

Turq

TURQUOISEBOAT

Thursday, December 7, 2006 11:39 PM

Pitch Black was great when I saw it on DVD after a friend recommended it, who saw it in the theater.

I don't know if I was able to make sense of all of Chronicles - still arguably impressive in some parts but I didn't like it as much. I saw Pitch Black as more of a Survival type story, which usually keep me more engaged than sweeping, non-stop thrill rides of action and adventure. blah.

"Nothing like fresh powder!"

Turq

REAVERINA1985RIVIERA

Saturday, December 23, 2006 7:41 PM

Play the Xbox game Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. It's the preqel to Pitch Black and it's quite good.

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GIXXER

Wednesday, December 27, 2006 11:24 PM

Pitch Black.

Low budget, good characters, good acting, good script. Good film. I'd almost call it sort of unique-ish, in its own way, except that it had a real feel of something Roger Corman would do. Should have been a one-off, as it was quite neatly squared away. Could easily have starred Claudia Black even more than it did.

Chronicles.

No-one can ever let anything alone, can they? Non-stop rollercoaster action big budget ton of CGI cash-in. Oh, and if we can find someone to do a script, there are a few dollars set aside for that. A noisy irritant. Could easily have starred Jean - Claude Van Damme.

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You can't stop the sequel.

FASTMOVER

Thursday, December 28, 2006 6:12 AM

Well I doubt you'll have to worry about any more sequels ;). I actually liked Chronicles a lot, but there are a lot of things I think it could have done better. I would have really liked them to have gone into more detail about the Necromongers and build up the storyline more slowly. Also, unfortunately the Necromongers were a bit too similar to the Borg in some respects, and I think that hurt it.

Josh Gray

NOVAWO1F

Thursday, December 28, 2006 8:10 AM

Aye, in my eyes Pitch Black was great, I loved the gritty low-tech style it had. Then, chronicles. It was ok, but I honestly don't think it fit in with pitch black. They seemed like two completely different settings.

I bought the trilogy dvd a few weeks ago. It came with a animated short movie type thing, that fit even less in with Pitch Black than Chronicles did (IMO). But hey, the story was, semi-ok. :P

FASTMOVER

Thursday, December 28, 2006 7:35 PM

Unfortunately I got both PB and TCOR before the trilogy came out, so I've never seen the animated Dark Fury or whatever they call it. I really liked PB because in a way it was similar to Firefly with its low-budget simple style. I think TCOR would have been much better had they been able to go for an R rating and make the Necromongers the real dark plague that they were supposed to be, as well as making Riddick more of an outlaw. The show suffered from being really subdued in those respects.

Josh Gray

UNCOMPREHENDING

Saturday, January 13, 2007 5:29 AM

Pitch Black is one of my favorite movies of the action/sci fi/horror type. It's dark, it's edgy, it has giant man-eating creatures. The plot is simplistic, but it's supposed to be that way.

Chronicles I did not like. I have the same opinion of this series that I did of the Matrix movies-- the first one is engaging and thrilling. Then they had to go and give it a back story.

Pitch Black stands alone well, but Chronicles requires so much exposition to get you to where Riddick is and then leaves so many unanswered questions that it is frustrating to watch. And the Necromongers are simply not believable as a menace.

Don't get me started on Dark Fury. Lack of any discernable plot, poor animation... yikes. Just yikes.

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