movies are cool. here is a place to talk about how cool they are. or maybe how much they suck, sometimes. like that fucking piece of shit 'mac and me'. worst fucking movie ever, a two-hour ad for fucking coca-cola.
Vin DieselFour years after his character Richard B. Riddick last graced the silver screen, and some years after telling reporters that there would be another Riddick film in his future, Vin Diesel told MTV News that he no longer thinks there will one day be a Riddick sequel.
He now thinks there will be two.
“David Twowy right now is writing the scripts. The only question is whether we take a page from the ‘Lord of the Rings’ guys and try to shoot the two chapters at the same time. There are two more in mind,” he said of Riddick, the Furyan warrior first introduced in the 2000 film “Pitch Black.” “‘The Chronicles of Riddick’ was presented as a three part trilogy that would answer ‘Pitch Black’ in the same way that ‘Lord of the Rings’ answered ‘The Hobbit.’”
Those are lofty goals indeed for a movie that was very poorly received when it opened in 2004, and had a mediocre performance at the domestic box-office (where it made just $57 million). Diesel, though, is undaunted, insisting that the long space between sequels has nothing to do with convincing others to get on board, and everything to do with wanting to get it right. (To be fair, “Riddick” performed well overseas, and also spawned a best-selling video game which many considered to be better than the movie.)
“Everyone knows I love the Riddick character and I’m always working on it,” Diesel asserted. “It just takes five years to make another one because David Twohy and I are so precious about it.”
So where will Riddick go next? After taking the throne of the Necromonger King at the end of the last chapter, is there any doubt?
“Sooner or later we all end up in the Underverse,” he said of where we can expect the next chapter to take place, adding in a Riddick-like voice, “Sooner or later.”
I really don't Vin Diesel, but I did like Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick, so I'm all for more of this series.
When I saw Pitch Black I expected a bad Sci-fi Channel-type movie (which I initially saw only because the first X-Men trailer was rumored to be attached - it wasn't) and ended up enjoying it quite a bit. They used some old tricks to make up for a small budget (like using darkness to hide the monsters instead of a ton of CG) and made them work.
The Chronicles of Riddick was almost a total 180 from Pitch Black but it was a fun popcorn sci-fi flick that had a well thought out universe.
Dark Fury, the animated DVD that connected the two movies was hit-and-miss.
"As they say in China, 'Arrivederci'!"
*For the creation of the Golden Deuce Award.
i was entertained by both of them, but not inspired to own them to watch over and over again or anything. perhaps i should invest in one or the both as a 'work from home movie'.
vynsane wrote:i was entertained by both of them, but not inspired to own them to watch over and over again or anything. perhaps i should invest in one or the both as a 'work from home movie'.
The "Riddick Trilogy" of Pitch Black, Dark Fury, and Chronicles goes on sale all the time for $10.
In fact I think Target has it on sale this week.
"As they say in China, 'Arrivederci'!"
*For the creation of the Golden Deuce Award.
Just saw a commercial for the new film. I didn't even realize they had bothered with a sequel. And by that, I mean another sequel.
"No Tom Foolery today, Ron. I'm tired of looking at your dreadful, speckled mug." "Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?" ”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
Riddick has its own Topic, but the Fast & Furious movies do not?
I’m hijacking this thread and it’s now the F/F Topic where anarky can post his thoughts on each absurd film as he watches them.
Oh, and I rewatched the 4th one today, just because they were mentioned in the other thread.
"No Tom Foolery today, Ron. I'm tired of looking at your dreadful, speckled mug." "Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?" ”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
The Fast and the Furious. Originally it was titled ‘Redline’, but the director bought the rights to some old B-list racing flick from the 50s cause he liked the name.
2Fast 2Furious. I’m pretty sure Tyrese’s character was originally supposed to be Dom, but Vin didn’t come back for the sequel, so they rejiggered the script. Same with Ludacris replacing JaRule from the first one.
Tokyo Drift. Had never seen it until this weekend. The plot is The Karate Kid, except in cars. The lowest grossing film in the franchise. The studio lured Vin Diesel back for a cameo by giving him the sequel rights to Riddick.
Fast and Furious. Universal taking a flyer on the 4th film in a franchise that had been having diminishing box office returns paid off. It’s opening weekend beat Universal’s previous best opening weekend:Jurassic Park:Lost World(ten years worth of inflation probably also helped, but still…) Gal Gadot’s feature film debut.
Fast Five. The screenplay for this movie was a repurposed script to a sequel from a different car heist franchise. The Italian Job with Wahlberg and Charlize Theron. It was called The Brazilian Job. (I guess technically TIJ isn’t a franchise since no sequels were made…because the script was taken and repurposed….forget it.) Adding the Rock to the cast is where this franchise officially became a cartoon.
Fast & Furious 6. The runway at the end of the movie has been estimated to be 18 miles long, based on the speed of the vehicles and the length of the scene.
Furious Seven. For me personally, this is the pinnacle of the franchise. Part of it is probably Walker’s death. But also, The stunts reached the limit of unbelievable, but not ‘fuck physics’ laughable. The three skyscrapers stunt makes me giggle every time at its audacity. I rewatch 4 thru 7 quite a bit. But I’ve only seen 8 thru 10 twice or once. I enjoy every movie after this one to some degree, but it feels like every one of them is trying to recapture 7 and not achieving it. All the subsequent films also have a lot of built in soap opera bullshit with Dom’s kidnapped kid and his long lost missing brother, etc. Also, finding new ways to keep Brian out of the action, but still reference him gets tedious. Just recast him. People will understand.
Fate of the Furious. Apart from the obvious fued going on between Diesel and Johnson that affects the film, I didn’t like that they brought back Luke Evans and tried to make him heroic when the Shaw brothers do the mid-air rescue or whatever. That guy was running over people in a tank. He doesn’t get to be redeemed.
F9. Dom is wearing a lot of long sleeved shirts in these later movies. I’m not saying he's getting into Steven Seagal territory, but to paraphrase Rocket in Infinity War, he’s one sandwich away from fat. A movie is only as good as it’s antagonist. John Cena is not as good as the Rock or Jason Statham. But y’know every villain in these movies ends up becoming an ally.
Fast X. I’ve only seen this one once. When it came out, they said it was the first part of a finale trilogy. But from what I’ve seen, maybe the next one is the last one. The trailers for the last three or four have all made it like that was gonna be the swan song for the series. The team was always spouting catchphrases like ‘Ride or Die’ or ‘One last time…’ making you think someone was gonna die. But the opposite is true. They’ve brought back more characters who died than they’ve killed them off.
"No Tom Foolery today, Ron. I'm tired of looking at your dreadful, speckled mug." "Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?" ”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
I got on another F+F kick and watched 4 thru 9, either on bluray or on streaming. Fast X is only available with $ so I didn’t rewatch it.
But it occurred to me during this rewatch…these people are all mass murderers. Sure, 95% of their kills are ‘self defense’ or their victims are not decent people themselves. But goddamn everybody on the ‘team’ has a humongous body count.
Brian has over 30 kills.
Dom has close to 100.
Hobbs has close to 40, and then a whopping 100+ in the Hobbs/Shaw spinoff.
Roman has about twenty, but most of those were in F9.
Tej’s wrecking ball at the beginning of F8 alone claims close to 50. But apart from that he also has another 20.
Han and Letty have less, but still over a dozen each.
Even Mia has at least two.
"No Tom Foolery today, Ron. I'm tired of looking at your dreadful, speckled mug." "Why do you hurt me in this way, Harry?" ”It’s a grid system motherfucker. Eleven up and one over, you simple bitch.”
