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Originally posted by ecgordon:


Until last night I had never seen The Chronicles of Riddick. IMO, they went in entirely the wrong direction with that movie, overloading it with too much CGI and an esoteric death-cult empire that didn't make much sense. They went from a low-rent Alien vibe to a high budget Dune wannabe. And even though I like Alexa Davalos, I don't think she was the right actress to play Jack/Kyra.

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Originally posted by GWEK:


I'm a little surprised that no one has mentioned a certain... Firefly-ness to the movie. Although I've always felt the Riddick saga has a similar "texture" to the 'Verse (and, really, couldn't you see Jayne and Toombs hanging out together?), there are a number of dialogue bits that recall the cadence and language of our little world (there's even a variation of a "special hell").

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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:


It was actually pretty good, I think it was done by the same folk who did Aeon Flux,
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Originally posted by GWEK:


I'm a little surprised that no one has mentioned a certain... Firefly-ness to the movie. Although I've always felt the Riddick saga has a similar "texture" to the 'Verse (and, really, couldn't you see Jayne and Toombs hanging out together?), there are a number of dialogue bits that recall the cadence and language of our little world (there's even a variation of a "special hell").

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Yeah I thought that, but we see Firefly in everything Spacey and Jaunty I just immediately dismissed it as a mirage, hah.
For what it's worth the words "special hell" are in and have been used in almost every article comment section where someone does something unconscionable for YEARS, and I still don't know if that should be attributed specifically to Firefly, but I have a feeling that was out there before it was used by Joss.....

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Originally posted by ecgordon:
I had been thinking of checking it out. I liked Pitch Black and recently re-watched it, maybe even liking it more the second time. It's a fairly tight, suspenseful, and at times even an unpredictable film. But essentially a horror story more than it is SF, sort of like a low-rent Alien movie.

Until last night I had never seen The Chronicles of Riddick. IMO, they went in entirely the wrong direction with that movie, overloading it with too much CGI and an esoteric death-cult empire that didn't make much sense. They went from a low-rent Alien vibe to a high budget Dune wannabe. And even though I like Alexa Davalos, I don't think she was the right actress to play Jack/Kyra.

The trailers for Riddick seemed to indicate they were getting back closer to the original, and from your report and as I suspected, maybe too close. I may eventually see it, but probably won't bother while it is in theaters now.

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
Yanno, It's funny....Every time I come here and critique a movie as unbiasedly and logically as I can, a few of the people here think I HATE every one of them..... If I wasn't as least vaguely interested I wouldn't have gone and for sure wouldn't have come here to give my opinion. On my scale even saying "rent it" is moderate praise, because I don't rent every movie, and I don't think most do either...I simply try to point out the positives AND the negatives, which I refuse to gloss over just to agree with others. And I gave it a B. It's not like I gave it an F....

It WAS better than "Chronicles", but that really isn't saying much, and I felt it had SOME things in it that were pretty irritating.

Is giving a movie a "B" rating really a fail grade????

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Originally posted by GWEK:


Yeah, but to me, "a special hell" was what sealed the deal. There were a ton of less obvious lines before that. In fact, Boss Johns' entire way of speaking is, at times, very 'Verse-y.

Also worth noting: the mercenary shops have tilting engines just like Serenity. Not unique, but another possible connection.

You don't have to agree with me -- we clearly don't agree on RIDDICK to begin with... :)

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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
I wanted a glimpse of the rest of the verse, more than the 10 seconds or whatever of the beginning.

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