Little Tony DeFranco
06-12-2004, 07:30 AM
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I was disappointed with "The Chronicles of Riddick" the way I was with John Carpenter's "Escape From L.A.", good lead character lost in a big stupid movie. I love Riddick the way I love Snake Plisken, tough anti-heroes that set the pace of a series. The good thing is that Vin Diesel fits the action mold and rocks the screen every time he is in the action. The bad thing is the storyline that is so chopped from other scripts like "Mad Max", "Stargate" and even the classic bad film "Battlefield Earth".
This is a sequel to "Pitch Black" and is a few years later, Riddick is still a fugitive and wanted by bounty hunters (New York actor Nick Chinlund is going to be around for future sequels). A total baddass, Riddick is from a race of people called Furians, they are few but the toughest guys in the galaxy. The Necromongers are invaders that take over other planets and make the people one of them (a direct dig against Bush, one of the leaders of the planet is a Muslim). Riddick wants out but he is not a guy to push around, he wants to find his ward Kyra on a prison planet. Riddick must fight!
Director-writer David Twohy is at fault for doing stupid things like fight sequences that use wires, every person that gets hit flys about 30 ft, and the prison planet (700 degrees) has about 12 people on it(?). A subplot rip-off from Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (very beautiful Thadie Newton doing Eartha Kitt). The design of the film looks fine and the F/X are good enough, but the midsection of the film is boring. Maybe Twohy can get the story going into another direction the next time out. BTJ says "You want my help to save the world!....Make better movies! BAMMMMMM"
Heartbeat is a Love Beat
This message was edited by Little Tony DeFranco on 6-12-04 @ 2:39 PM
I was disappointed with "The Chronicles of Riddick" the way I was with John Carpenter's "Escape From L.A.", good lead character lost in a big stupid movie. I love Riddick the way I love Snake Plisken, tough anti-heroes that set the pace of a series. The good thing is that Vin Diesel fits the action mold and rocks the screen every time he is in the action. The bad thing is the storyline that is so chopped from other scripts like "Mad Max", "Stargate" and even the classic bad film "Battlefield Earth".
This is a sequel to "Pitch Black" and is a few years later, Riddick is still a fugitive and wanted by bounty hunters (New York actor Nick Chinlund is going to be around for future sequels). A total baddass, Riddick is from a race of people called Furians, they are few but the toughest guys in the galaxy. The Necromongers are invaders that take over other planets and make the people one of them (a direct dig against Bush, one of the leaders of the planet is a Muslim). Riddick wants out but he is not a guy to push around, he wants to find his ward Kyra on a prison planet. Riddick must fight!
Director-writer David Twohy is at fault for doing stupid things like fight sequences that use wires, every person that gets hit flys about 30 ft, and the prison planet (700 degrees) has about 12 people on it(?). A subplot rip-off from Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (very beautiful Thadie Newton doing Eartha Kitt). The design of the film looks fine and the F/X are good enough, but the midsection of the film is boring. Maybe Twohy can get the story going into another direction the next time out. BTJ says "You want my help to save the world!....Make better movies! BAMMMMMM"
Heartbeat is a Love Beat
This message was edited by Little Tony DeFranco on 6-12-04 @ 2:39 PM