hopefully the next movie(s) will go back to being horror survivor instead of action. I did enjoy the last 2, but it such a departure of what the first one was.
no, it was a straight up action. the creatures weren't scary because we see them early on and how riddick trains and kills them easily. the rest is just mercs/action flick.
And failed to because Riddick is no longer ambiguously scary
>hopefully the next movie(s) will go back to being horror survivor instead of action
Too bad Vin Diesel's ego won't let him actually play the Pitch Black version of Riddick, as an Hannibal Lecter-style unrepentant murderer that the heroes only team up with out of sheer necessity. We're stuck with dindu nuffin noble anti-hero version.
The less trusting characters spend the entire movie questioning whether or not Riddick is going to leave them for dead, but have no choice but to follow his lead if they want to survive
2 years ago
Anonymous
I guess the disconnect comes for what qualifies someone as a psychopath
Riddick struck me as a guy who had a shitty life and made bad choices because of it but when the chips were down he was still capable of caring about others and didn't go out of his way to murder. Remember when the first guy got eaten by the creatures and Claudia Black gets within 10 feet of Riddick? He could have ran her down and cut her throat rather than run away and let her inform everyone he was there. I'm not saying he wasn't selfish or was trustworthy but psychopath puts me in the mind of someone who is fundamentally broken
A psychopath is like that serial killer in Predators because even though he was on an alien planet being hunted by aliens he still couldn't contain his desire to murder someone just because he could
The less trusting characters spend the entire movie questioning whether or not Riddick is going to leave them for dead, but have no choice but to follow his lead if they want to survive
>Hannibal Lecter-style unrepentant murderer
That was never a thing though.
Riddick being a dangerous killer was a red herring for the viewers. The real antagonists were the monsters and Johns himself.
Sure he's a killer and only cares about surviving because he's been chased for so long. But at the end he warms up to other people.
I guess the disconnect comes for what qualifies someone as a psychopath
Riddick struck me as a guy who had a shitty life and made bad choices because of it but when the chips were down he was still capable of caring about others and didn't go out of his way to murder. Remember when the first guy got eaten by the creatures and Claudia Black gets within 10 feet of Riddick? He could have ran her down and cut her throat rather than run away and let her inform everyone he was there. I'm not saying he wasn't selfish or was trustworthy but psychopath puts me in the mind of someone who is fundamentally broken
A psychopath is like that serial killer in Predators because even though he was on an alien planet being hunted by aliens he still couldn't contain his desire to murder someone just because he could
The moral issues or ambiguities in the first film are great. All the main characters struggle with them - Fry, Johns, Riddick. And there is no clear resolution either. Fry gets taken out in part because she went back for the kid and Imam, Johns get killed by Riddick in part because of his own survival instinct, and Riddick aided Johns in killing the kid but chose not to out of his own conscience or something. And then Riddick agrees to go back with Fry and get the others, for reasons which are not very clear. Great movie, still very underappreciated.
>Hannibal Lecter-style unrepentant murderer
That was never a thing though.
Riddick being a dangerous killer was a red herring for the viewers. The real antagonists were the monsters and Johns himself.
Sure he's a killer and only cares about surviving because he's been chased for so long. But at the end he warms up to other people.
I absolutely love how Riddick gives his opening monologue, gets into the scuffle with Johns and then is barely seen again for another half hour. It gives him so much more power and gravitas when he does come online.
>for reasons which are not very clear.
She was the pretty girl, the love interest.
>for reasons which are not very clear >She was the pretty girl, the love interest.
Wrong, she actually managed to awaken his conscience. I dont remember exactly what she said, but he agreed to help because of that, not because she was just a pretty girl.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Wrong. She didn't awaken his "conscience". He kept asking her if she would die for them and she refused to answer for the longest time until she finally came clean with a knife to her throat. She answered yes she would die for him. He responded "interesting". It was more curiosity than anything. If anything he was impressed with her conviction and wanted to test it. It was never about him suddenly caring
2 years ago
Anonymous
For them* not him*
Key point to correct
2 years ago
Anonymous
Nope and you missed the point completely brainlet
See this
Wrong. She didn't awaken his "conscience". He kept asking her if she would die for them and she refused to answer for the longest time until she finally came clean with a knife to her throat. She answered yes she would die for him. He responded "interesting". It was more curiosity than anything. If anything he was impressed with her conviction and wanted to test it. It was never about him suddenly caring
This is 100 percent correct. It was about awakening Fry's conscience. She originally wanted to blow the passenger bay and right up into that moment is the completion of her arc saying she would die for them. Riddick simply facilitates that. He being relatively free of regular feelings for others finds this change in her interesting and wants to see it through
>Hannibal Lecter-style unrepentant murderer
That was never a thing though.
Riddick being a dangerous killer was a red herring for the viewers. The real antagonists were the monsters and Johns himself.
Sure he's a killer and only cares about surviving because he's been chased for so long. But at the end he warms up to other people.
I think he's alright. There are stories about him being a dick in real life but I don't particularly care about that because most Hollywood types seem to be a bit dickish or weird in their personal conduct. Cruise, for just one example.
>'Necromonger' >Toombs >'Breeder' >The guys hanging off Toombs' ship >The crippled guys with the scuba masks >Been a long time since I smelled beautiful >The guy with the random knife stuck in his back >The knife spin >Half gram heavy on the back end >'THRESHOLD! TAKE US TO THE THRESHOLD!' >Pretty much everything else that happens in the group conversion/knife spin scene >Dust my balls when you get the chance >Kill you with my teacup >The Hispanic that gets fried by the sun-fire on Crematoria >Thandie Newton's acting >RIIIIIIIDDDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >All of Judi Dench's lines
Not just sci-fi, really. The whole concept of showing a character as a brooding antihero in order to make the character feel deep in the absence of actual character development is as old as fiction.
From a filmmaking perspective, it makes the shot much easier to do in terms of props.
Notice how at 0:26, they cut from Riddick plunging the knife downwards to the knife being imbedded up the handle in the top of the Lord Marshal's head. Then Riddick "breaks" the knife off at 0:34 kicks the Lord Marshal to the ground. You don't actually see the knife enter his head, that happens between frames, nor do you see the knife pulled out.
In practice, all they had to do was film Vin swinging the knife down, then film him holding a bladeless knife handle against the other guy's head. It would have been much trickier to film from a prop standpoint if he pulled the knife out, or left the whole knife stuck into his head when he fell.
Which version do you mean? Chronicles has two different DVD releases. There's an old one that's nearly identical to the theatrical release, and an extended cut that has janky half-finished CGI and a bunch of extra supernatural bullshit.
I didn't know there were multiple dvd releases. The one I watched had weird cuts where the film would glitch back and forth during action scenes. The director did a short commentary about it.
Escape from butcher bay is no longer in circulation. You can find it on abandonware but have to do a bunch of shit to make it actually run on windows 10. The easier option is to pirate/buy assault on dark athena since it includes the first game as well and will run without complication (if memory serves)
2004 was the best year for videogames, I think chronologically you would play:
Escape from Butcher Bay
Assault on Dark Athena
Pitch Black
Dark Fury
The Chronicles of Riddick
Riddick
>Fast & Furious 10 >movie ends with Vin's character being cryogenically frozen and waking up on a space ship in the distant future
You know the Riddick/F&F crossover is coming.
hopefully the next movie(s) will go back to being horror survivor instead of action. I did enjoy the last 2, but it such a departure of what the first one was.
But the last movie was just an attempt to make Pitch Black again
And failed to because Riddick is no longer ambiguously scary
no, it was a straight up action. the creatures weren't scary because we see them early on and how riddick trains and kills them easily. the rest is just mercs/action flick.
this.
>hopefully the next movie(s) will go back to being horror survivor instead of action
Too bad Vin Diesel's ego won't let him actually play the Pitch Black version of Riddick, as an Hannibal Lecter-style unrepentant murderer that the heroes only team up with out of sheer necessity. We're stuck with dindu nuffin noble anti-hero version.
>the Pitch Black version of Riddick, as an Hannibal Lecter-style unrepentant murderer
The what?
Did we watch the same movie?
Not him but Pitch black Riddick was a psychopath with no real motive or moral.
In what way, though?
The less trusting characters spend the entire movie questioning whether or not Riddick is going to leave them for dead, but have no choice but to follow his lead if they want to survive
I guess the disconnect comes for what qualifies someone as a psychopath
Riddick struck me as a guy who had a shitty life and made bad choices because of it but when the chips were down he was still capable of caring about others and didn't go out of his way to murder. Remember when the first guy got eaten by the creatures and Claudia Black gets within 10 feet of Riddick? He could have ran her down and cut her throat rather than run away and let her inform everyone he was there. I'm not saying he wasn't selfish or was trustworthy but psychopath puts me in the mind of someone who is fundamentally broken
A psychopath is like that serial killer in Predators because even though he was on an alien planet being hunted by aliens he still couldn't contain his desire to murder someone just because he could
The moral issues or ambiguities in the first film are great. All the main characters struggle with them - Fry, Johns, Riddick. And there is no clear resolution either. Fry gets taken out in part because she went back for the kid and Imam, Johns get killed by Riddick in part because of his own survival instinct, and Riddick aided Johns in killing the kid but chose not to out of his own conscience or something. And then Riddick agrees to go back with Fry and get the others, for reasons which are not very clear. Great movie, still very underappreciated.
I absolutely love how Riddick gives his opening monologue, gets into the scuffle with Johns and then is barely seen again for another half hour. It gives him so much more power and gravitas when he does come online.
>for reasons which are not very clear.
She was the pretty girl, the love interest.
>for reasons which are not very clear
>She was the pretty girl, the love interest.
Wrong, she actually managed to awaken his conscience. I dont remember exactly what she said, but he agreed to help because of that, not because she was just a pretty girl.
Wrong. She didn't awaken his "conscience". He kept asking her if she would die for them and she refused to answer for the longest time until she finally came clean with a knife to her throat. She answered yes she would die for him. He responded "interesting". It was more curiosity than anything. If anything he was impressed with her conviction and wanted to test it. It was never about him suddenly caring
For them* not him*
Key point to correct
Nope and you missed the point completely brainlet
See this
This is 100 percent correct. It was about awakening Fry's conscience. She originally wanted to blow the passenger bay and right up into that moment is the completion of her arc saying she would die for them. Riddick simply facilitates that. He being relatively free of regular feelings for others finds this change in her interesting and wants to see it through
>Hannibal Lecter-style unrepentant murderer
That was never a thing though.
Riddick being a dangerous killer was a red herring for the viewers. The real antagonists were the monsters and Johns himself.
Sure he's a killer and only cares about surviving because he's been chased for so long. But at the end he warms up to other people.
>But at the end he warms up to other people.
Well he lets everyone die just to get his exit ticket...
He literally saves the little girl and the arab guy. Would have saved the other girl too but she got killed.
Yeah I still don't get why he didn't kill the imam on the spot.
He saves them because fry convinces him to come back. Pay attention, he was on his way out
Yeah, so he saves them like I said.
And like he said fool, he would have let everyone die just to get his exit ticket. Completely unrepentant. Keep up, this shit ain't hard to follow
dick b***h riddick
dick butt riddick vs butt butt dick diddick
Me too.
SOVL
its a shame hes old and fat now. never get to the underverse. feelsbadman.
He will get in shape, one last time.
AHAHAHAHAHA
Did they think that looked good? They wanted to do le teacup meme again but even bigger? Jesus!
It does look good, nerd.
The framing and speed of the action make it look like a slapstick comedy bit with gore.
The shot with his eyes in the darkness was good though.
It was a fun scene. Special effects look pretty mid during the entire movie, but it's still good.
It was a comedy bit, basically. That character is a punching bag for about a third of the movie.
What do you mean pretty mid? I don't speak raging homosexual
I mean they dont look great, moron boomer.
So you can communicate properly, boggles the mind why you choose to behave like a dumb Black person then
get with the times old man
>just act like a Black person
no
Kys you embarrassing bandwagon homosexual
>acting like an angry b***h because of a single word
Stop taking estrogen pills.
Which one is this?
2013 Riddick
it is cool. the best part is right before that he said he'd put his head in the box in 5 seconds when the chains came off
>i like to be a man of my word
I don't care what anyone says. This is dope.
Kino
no cap, riddick is cool as frick
tummy kino
>subtle subversion of the anime meme where a cool aloof guy rejects women
Only Pitch Black and Escape from Butcher Bay are canon
I think he's alright. There are stories about him being a dick in real life but I don't particularly care about that because most Hollywood types seem to be a bit dickish or weird in their personal conduct. Cruise, for just one example.
He is talking about the character dumbass
Poor man’s The “Dwayne Johnson” Rock.
Vin Cinematic Universe when? Riddick and The Last Witch Hunter crossover is possibld since he both owns the IP.
the duality of man
profound
made me think
Took a date to Riddick 3. She walked out of the theater when cut off some guy's head with a knife. Shit was cash. b***hes can go to hell.
The only movie franchise where video games are better than actual movies
Best boy
FAMIRY
>'Necromonger'
>Toombs
>'Breeder'
>The guys hanging off Toombs' ship
>The crippled guys with the scuba masks
>Been a long time since I smelled beautiful
>The guy with the random knife stuck in his back
>The knife spin
>Half gram heavy on the back end
>'THRESHOLD! TAKE US TO THE THRESHOLD!'
>Pretty much everything else that happens in the group conversion/knife spin scene
>Dust my balls when you get the chance
>Kill you with my teacup
>The Hispanic that gets fried by the sun-fire on Crematoria
>Thandie Newton's acting
>RIIIIIIIDDDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>All of Judi Dench's lines
This film was comedy gold
Yeah.
Frick you that movie was pure kino
Its pure 2000s edgy yet campy sci fi
It's basically a remake of Conan the Barbarian, but in space. Right down to having a version of the classic "King Conan on the throne" shot.
Is this the tips fedora of sci-fi?
Not just sci-fi, really. The whole concept of showing a character as a brooding antihero in order to make the character feel deep in the absence of actual character development is as old as fiction.
Why did he break the knife off
for effect dummy
From a filmmaking perspective, it makes the shot much easier to do in terms of props.
Notice how at 0:26, they cut from Riddick plunging the knife downwards to the knife being imbedded up the handle in the top of the Lord Marshal's head. Then Riddick "breaks" the knife off at 0:34 kicks the Lord Marshal to the ground. You don't actually see the knife enter his head, that happens between frames, nor do you see the knife pulled out.
In practice, all they had to do was film Vin swinging the knife down, then film him holding a bladeless knife handle against the other guy's head. It would have been much trickier to film from a prop standpoint if he pulled the knife out, or left the whole knife stuck into his head when he fell.
I like the cuts they did to the second movie (the dvd release).
Which version do you mean? Chronicles has two different DVD releases. There's an old one that's nearly identical to the theatrical release, and an extended cut that has janky half-finished CGI and a bunch of extra supernatural bullshit.
I didn't know there were multiple dvd releases. The one I watched had weird cuts where the film would glitch back and forth during action scenes. The director did a short commentary about it.
I liked the game much more than any of the movies
>game
There were two games although the second one wasn’t quite as cool
Escape from Butcher Bay is certified game kino. The voice acting and dialogue is pure gold.
Where the frick can I get a copy The Chronicles of Riddick, I've wanted to play it for years.
Escape from butcher bay is no longer in circulation. You can find it on abandonware but have to do a bunch of shit to make it actually run on windows 10. The easier option is to pirate/buy assault on dark athena since it includes the first game as well and will run without complication (if memory serves)
https://oldgamesdownload.com/the-chronicles-of-riddick-assault-on-dark-athena/
Friendly reminder that all 3 Riddick movies are great.
This is real and true. Only absolute shit taste homosexuals dislike any of the movies.
Jonesy is right
riddick is kino. cant wait for netflix to do a revival and completely ruin it
2004 was the best year for videogames, I think chronologically you would play:
Escape from Butcher Bay
Assault on Dark Athena
Pitch Black
Dark Fury
The Chronicles of Riddick
Riddick
is that mr worldwide ?
>Fast & Furious 10
>movie ends with Vin's character being cryogenically frozen and waking up on a space ship in the distant future
You know the Riddick/F&F crossover is coming.
If only
I adore him