I didn't enjoy the movies all that much but Escape From Butcher Bay was absolutely fantastic.
[QUOTE=Chicken_Chaser;40014166]Can you find a source? I need to refresh my memory of the Riddickverse soon and it'd be good to know.[/QUOTE]
Can't find a source I must have seen it some time ago. I've seen a still of what appears to be Urban in the role of Vaako again and the plot description says he is betrayed by his own kind, so I guess it is a sequel.
If they drop that Furian bullshit and get the basic predator/prey scenario it should be good.
I am hyped, I hope that there will be a sequel to the games too. Those were damn good.
Riddick's character has so much potential, if he's just spouting anti-hero one-liners and being an action movie cliché I'll be entertained but I want to be impressed, to see the character fleshed out and actually utilised. He's so fucking cool. I really hope it's not shit.
It probably depends on how much Vin Diesel has a say. He loves playing Riddick
[QUOTE=Dr.C;40015727]It probably depends on how much Vin Diesel has a say. He loves playing Riddick[/QUOTE]
He was pretty ecstatic about it not long back mainly because it got the go-ahead to be an R rated movie.
I can't stand most PG-13 Action movies.
Always loved the Riddick movies, can't wait for this one. Also one of the very few franchises where the video games made for it were actually really good. Escape from Butcher Bay is an amazing game, not something you can say about many movie games. Dark Athena was kind of strange but still pretty good.
I think they have so much appeal because Diesel loves the character and his passion really shows in the movies. It's not tear-jerking acting or anything, but you can just tell he isn't in it for the paycheck.
escape from butcher bay wasn't a movie game.
[QUOTE=BeardyDuck;40016479]escape from butcher bay wasn't a movie game.[/QUOTE]
It was created based off of a movie character/setting so it counts as a movie game.
I fucking love Pitch Black and the games.
The games are probably some of the most underrated games ever, they were a little bit unpolished but I was pretty much as immersed into the game as much as I was for Half-Life 2. The story was amazing, the stealth was amazing, the graphics were amazing, the atmosphere was amazing. Because of the games I love the Riddick character. I heard Chronicles of Riddick was pretty bad though so I avoided watching it.
I've been waiting for this.
I hope this move lives up to the original/the games. The second movie was terrible.
I never could get myself to like pitch black, no matter how much I love Riddick. It just wasnt the same.
Hyped for this one.
[QUOTE=PulpedFiction;40015162]Riddick's character has so much potential, if he's just spouting anti-hero one-liners and being an action movie cliché I'll be entertained but I want to be impressed, to see the character fleshed out and actually utilised. He's so fucking cool. I really hope it's not shit.[/QUOTE]
In Pitch Black and Chronicles he seems pretty damn smart, being able to work out what happened to the colonists on the planet in Pitch Black as well as how the confrontation between Toombs' mercs and the Crematoria wardens went down; almost like a psychopathic Sherlock.
So yeah, if they flesh him out more, let his interesting sides shine through in the dialogue and action, Riddick will probably be a pretty great movie. Being a grumpy anti-hero and spouting one-liners is one facet of him; the psycho Sherlock inside is another interesting facet.
Also I heard that apparently one of the things a certain critic liked about Riddick was [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brOZoC30oPY"]that he was apparently unpredictable yet vital to the survival of the other characters in Pitch Black[/URL], though in Chronicles he became more of a grumbly one-liner spouting action antihero. D'you guys think this is the case or is it something different?
[QUOTE=Benjimon007;40012859]Has potential indeed.
Any reason why it's going to be R-rated?[/QUOTE]
I expect mainly because of the violence but also because Riddick features Katee Sackhoffs first ever on screen nudity :)
Check out the interview on the [URL="http://www.riddick-movie.com"]Riddick website[/URL].
[QUOTE=ironman17;40026169]
Also I heard that apparently one of the things a certain critic liked about Riddick was [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brOZoC30oPY"]that he was apparently unpredictable yet vital to the survival of the other characters in Pitch Black[/URL], though in Chronicles he became more of a grumbly one-liner spouting action antihero. D'you guys think this is the case or is it something different?[/QUOTE]
It's either a total retcon of chronicles or a prequel. Either way, it's non-overlord riddick doing non-overlordy things with sharp knives and diver-goggles.
IMO Chronicles was a fucking great fantasy movie and Pitch Black was goddamn tense. Maybe Riddick is just something they can do whatever they want with and it'll work.
From wiki:
[quote]Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick 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.[/quote]
With Vaako there, this turns into a movie even before Pitch Black. It'll probably be both combined. I mean. Pitch Black had ZERO story.
[QUOTE=H4ngman;40012832]I loved Pitch Black, it was just a good movie. But Chronicles was more about vin diesel being badass than the character riddick. Pitch black was great because you never knew if riddick was and antisocial hero or a pathological villain.
In everything else -riddick they tried to keep up this vibe by baking riddick badass-bad but still social and protective towards certain key characters and everyone he fought a baby killing prick. It's kinda hard to justify such a character saving the day, if he is characterized as beyond all moral and conscience.
He'd be better off being thrown into situations where the people around him rely on his help and struggle to the end to win over his support while being endangered by his unpredictable personality. AKA Riddick is not as interesting as the people having to put up with him and the resulting situations.
Really, he works best if he's just out for bloodshed, vengeance and saving his own skin with other people trying to benefit from him. That's why Escape from butcher Bay worked so well, it used exactly that formula. Riddick wants to escape prison, wardens, gangs and whatnot try to get in his way. Some asshole with a grudge against riddick takes the opportunity to tag along for his own benefit and they form a fragile, short-lived and mostly just pretend-alliance that relults in unpredictable outcome. I hope someone realizes this before writing another installment of the series[/QUOTE]
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