Patient_Leech
Perfect Organism
Originally posted by Esau Cairn
Yeah I didn't get the point of her character...I mean the merc ship looked pretty big & powerful & yet they had to sacrifice her to make room for Riddick?
And considering they really only needed Riddick's head in the first place...
That was weird.
Keri Hilson's character did seem a little random at first, but Santana did say something like, "I was beginning to get attached to her." Spoken like a true misogynist. He truly hates and mistrusts women. And it made for an effective little moment when Riddick removed his goggles and looked her in the eyes as the blood emptied from her body. As if he realized in that moment, "This guy is extremely fu#cked up," which is why he promised that when the chains come off, he would go in the first 5 seconds. He really didn't like the guy for his unnecessary cruelty. It gave justification for Riddick's brutality, although, the death he gave Santana was probably too short and merciful for what he deserved.
Originally posted by Tzeentch._
violence = gritty?
To some extent, yeah, absolutely. The movies he mentioned were pretty damn violent. But sometimes less is more. Twohy knows that. And sometimes more is more: hense the violently displayed decapitation. It made for a big laugh and shock moment in the film. Pitch Black didn't have a lot of blood and guts. Just enough to haunt the imagination, and that's often the best way to go. But fu#k, if we get to see Underverse with an R rating, shit is probably gonna get REAL. lol
And tonally (perhaps that's what Esau means by "gritty"?) it was at least on par with Pitch Black, if not darker. If Esau expected it to stray tonally from the previous films, then I think he had the wrong expectations. It sounds like I am one of few who had the proper expectations for this movie. I've seen lots of picky peeps griping about it. I didn't expect much development as far as the expanded mythology, but I still expected it to have the same tone, which they have been very careful to maintain. It's not a "reboot" (that word is annoying these days); it's a continuation, so it had to stay somewhat in line with CoR, too.
And contrary to some people's interpretation of Riddick (Robtard most likely), I don't think Riddick is a psychopath or someone who murders for fun or something like that. It's a survival thing. He fu#ks with people whom he feels deserve it. He's been driven to this lifestyle where mercs are always after him ("I had mercs on my neck. I'll always have mercs on my neck!"😉. He just wants to be left alone. Hence why he's an "anti-hero." I think he liked Boss Johns. Even though Johns junior was a dick, he didn't hold it against Johns senior, because clearly he didn't know his son very well. Didn't know he was a morphine jumky. I think Riddick respected Johns for simply being a grieving father wanting answers about what happened to his son. I think that's why they cast Johns senior the way they did. He had a very likable demeanor. Boss Johns said, "That blade was meant for me, wasn't it?" Riddick responded, "Anyone who deserved it, really." And at the end Johns confronted Riddick about all the death on the planet and said he'd have trouble "over-looking it." Riddick said something like, "It would be different if they were trying to put my head in a box."