I have mixed feelings on the movie........
- I love the Riddick character
- I liked how the plot was more complex......my wife couldn't follow everything, kept asking me questions. It didn't dwell on anything in attempt to beat it into the audience's head. It presented things once then moved along with the story. If you weren't paying attention, you missed it.
- pretty decent story.....even though I didn't like the whole "supernatural" element to the necromonger leader....
- I didn't like the change in the Jack character....a complete 180. I think they should have had the same role in CoR, but her not be Jack from Pitch Black.
- I didn't really mind the fx all that much......but for the first hour it looks like you're watching a video game. It got a tad annoying.
C-dic.........I think the point RZA was getting at is that Riddick isn't an "earthling" human.....he's a furion. He was the chosen one prophesized that would defeat the Lord Marshall.......which led to the Lord Marshall having all the Furion children killed, except Riddick was the sole survivor adding more drama to the final scene when he does fulfill the prophecy. I think maybe RZA misunderstood the movie and thought because he was a Furion he was magical or something......not that he is just a human from another planet, just as a human born on Mars would be a martian.
all in all.......pretty decent sci-fi flick. it has its flaws but more than makes up for it by adding depth to the Riddick character.
Any news on if they are going to continue with the series even though the movie completely bombed? I know Pitch Black only made $53 million worldwide...but it only cost $23 million to make. They still made a cool profit of $30 million off of it. The Chronicles of Riddick cost $140 million in production/advertising and only made $115 million worldwide........they lost $35 million on it. I know dvd revenue will make up some of the difference but $35 million is an awful big deficit to climb out of in dvd sales just to break even, especially for a movie that was blasted as much as this one.
Originally posted by Evil DeadYeah, but it did very good in terms of Dvd sales, and it definetly made more than $35 million in DVD sales, so it's anyone's guess if they're going to make a sequel. They for sure are going to make another game though.
I have mixed feelings on the movie........- I love the Riddick character
- I liked how the plot was more complex......my wife couldn't follow everything, kept asking me questions. It didn't dwell on anything in attempt to beat it into the audience's head. It presented things once then moved along with the story. If you weren't paying attention, you missed it.
- pretty decent story.....even though I didn't like the whole "supernatural" element to the necromonger leader....- I didn't like the change in the Jack character....a complete 180. I think they should have had the same role in CoR, but her not be Jack from Pitch Black.
- I didn't really mind the fx all that much......but for the first hour it looks like you're watching a video game. It got a tad annoying.C-dic.........I think the point RZA was getting at is that Riddick isn't an "earthling" human.....he's a furion. He was the chosen one prophesized that would defeat the Lord Marshall.......which led to the Lord Marshall having all the Furion children killed, except Riddick was the sole survivor adding more drama to the final scene when he does fulfill the prophecy. I think maybe RZA misunderstood the movie and thought because he was a Furion he was magical or something......not that he is just a human from another planet, just as a human born on Mars would be a martian.
all in all.......pretty decent sci-fi flick. it has its flaws but more than makes up for it by adding depth to the Riddick character.
Any news on if they are going to continue with the series even though the movie completely bombed? I know Pitch Black only made $53 million worldwide...but it only cost $23 million to make. They still made a cool profit of $30 million off of it. The Chronicles of Riddick cost $140 million in production/advertising and only made $115 million worldwide........they lost $35 million on it. I know dvd revenue will make up some of the difference but $35 million is an awful big deficit to climb out of in dvd sales just to break even, especially for a movie that was blasted as much as this one.
are you sure it made $35 million in dvd sales? I was under the impression that one million units of a dvd sold was big time......not a whole lot of movies reach that, and that would only be around $20 million dollars, minus actual production costs for the dvd, packaging and promotion.
I'd love for them to continue the series......especially the way Chronicles ended, just don't want to get my hopes up.
COR was a great sci-fi action flick, i loved it thought it had great fight scenes and pretty decent diologue although there were some cheesy one liners, but that is excpected from Vin and to be honest some were actually pretty cool, kinda like When Vaako tells him to bow to the Lord Marshall and Riddick says " I bow to no man " pretty cool line if you ask me, anyway i am a Vin Diesel supporter, and still think he will show us his true potential soon.
Yeah I did notice - actually in the TCoRiddick game it was sum strange voice from yonder goin on about how Riddick has been blind and that she is goin t make him see buy givin a new gift and then in the game ya can see in the dark and nasty creepy DWELLERS attack u left right and centre but a blast from the shotgun soon takes care of them 馃槃 body parts flyin every where hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaha *funny* 馃槃
Anyway there u gan