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Chronicles of Riddick: just save your time and money. This was as bad as XXX. These "let's make Vin Desiel a star" films are just god awful. There is NO story in this and every scene is "let's make Vin Desiel look cool and kick ass". B
PostPosted:Sun Jun 20, 2004 9:11 am
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Chronicles of Riddick: just save your time and money. This was as bad as XXX. These "let's make Vin Desiel a star" films are just god awful. There is NO story in this and every scene is "let's make Vin Desiel look cool and kick ass". BLAH!</div>
PostPosted:Sun Jun 20, 2004 2:27 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>I for one enjoyed the movie. It won't win any awards but I found it fun to watch.</div>
PostPosted:Sun Jun 20, 2004 2:36 pm
by Eric
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Heh, Riddick is an awesome anti-hero dude. He's just bad ass, I enjoyed watching him do impossible shit that normal people would die doing. :P</div>
PostPosted:Sun Jun 20, 2004 3:23 pm
by Ishamael
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>You act like there is something wrong with "no story" and "let's make Vin Desiel look cool and kick ass". I mean, damn, when did all you movie fans start turning into Harvard illerati wannabes. :)</div>
PostPosted:Sun Jun 20, 2004 3:25 pm
by Torgo
<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I thought Riddick was a badass in Pitch Black. But after XXX, A Man Apart, hell, even his supporting role in The Fast and the Furious, I can't stand Vin Diesel. Whenever I watch Saving Private Ryan, I love rewinding the part when he gets sniped.</div>
PostPosted:Sun Jun 20, 2004 6:07 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I liked Riddick and Pitch Black, which is why I went to see this one...</div>
PostPosted:Sun Jun 20, 2004 6:09 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>The story at least has to be coherent and not written by a grade-school. There's very minimal requirements, even for an action flick. This one didn't even meet that. Other greats, like, say, Terminator 2, excelled at the story.</div>
PostPosted:Sun Jun 20, 2004 6:10 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I actually liked Fast and the Furious and Boiler Room was great, but his string of shit has completely turned me off of his films. He just can't choose a good film. They're trying WAAAY too hard to market him as the next action star using 80's techniques</div>
PostPosted:Sun Jun 20, 2004 9:20 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Of course, Zeus came from Bizzaro World, where every good movie sucks, and every bad movie is a Oscar-nominee. This is just his way of saying that it was a great movie.</div>
PostPosted:Sun Jun 20, 2004 9:22 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Just because a movie has time travel doesn't mean the story automatically kicks ass. When you think about it, the story in T2 was pretty cliched and lame.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 7:44 am
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>You liked Fast and the Furious? That was one of the most craptastic piece of garbage ever...and you liked it? Your bad taste in movies is legendary. It's quite vomitous.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 12:21 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Actually, that award goes to 2 Fast 2 Furious.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 2:16 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>haha I forgot about that for a second...but yeah, F&F was a "craptastic" movie...talk about a shitty story. I loved Riddick's tantalizing stories...what's the Underverse? Who are the Elementals? Where did he get those eyes? :P</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 2:31 pm
by Julius Seeker
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>The aspect of T2 that I liked was that it allowed itself to spoof the first movie (which is incredibly cheesy) and its characters while actually managing to remain a sequel to that movie. It's a comedy under the guise of an action drama.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 2:40 pm
by Baldarov
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I liked chronicles of riddick. Riddick is so hardcore. The directing was horrible though. In half the battles you didn't know what the fuck was going on.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 3:17 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I liked it. Best action sci-fi I've seen in a while.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 3:26 pm
by Gentz
<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Agreed on all points</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 4:43 pm
by Julius Seeker
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I bet if they replaced Vin Diesel with The Rock nobody would notice.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 5:46 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I think that's a way to cover up for sloppy (or no) choreography.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 6:42 pm
by Eric
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Where he got his eyes was answered in the first movie. He got them polished in a pitch black prision or something like that so he could see in the dark.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 8:50 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Stephen Norrington and David Twohy: seperated at birth? Actually, LXG's choreography was much worse.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 8:51 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Wrong flavor of badass. The Rock can't act, anyway.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 8:57 pm
by Julius Seeker
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>He's Vin Diesel's identical twin =)</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 9:00 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Uhhhh...no. I can tell them apart very easily. The Rock is more of a comedic badass. Diesel plays it off more seriously. I doubt The Rock could play a criminal type role.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:26 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Oh, it wasn't a well made film and had a completely formulaic storyline, but I liked it. No real reason, I just did.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:28 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>This is exactly the type of film that gives sci-fi a bad name, IMO</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:31 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>That was one of the major turnoffs of the film. Also, what the hell was with the Grade 8 - level names? "Hmm, this planet is hot and if you go outside, you'll be creamated, so let's call it Crematoria". Dear Lord, man!</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:33 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>The blew the entire budget on effect (which were gorgeous, BTW). In fact, they didn't even have enough coin to hire a screenwriter, so they hired Twothy's 12 year old to write it</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:34 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>NOt overly original (Terminator started the cliche, BTW) or complex, but very well done.</div>
PostPosted:Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:50 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Actually, I really digged the universe they created within the movie. I could easily see this as a series, as long they pulled it off as well as Farscape or SG-1.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jun 22, 2004 2:08 am
by Ishamael
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>That's exactly what it is and it happens in 99.7% of Hollywood movies. And it's a good chunk of the reason I enjoyed the Matrix trilogy (*especially* Reloaded) so much....</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jun 22, 2004 2:10 am
by Ishamael
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Now I'm not gonna say this was anywhere close to Terminator 2. But what is? I would never compare it to that, but it's cool for what it was...I guess a film doesn't need to be transcendent for me to enjoy it....</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jun 22, 2004 7:55 am
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>What name would you prefer? "The Hot and the Furious Planet"?</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jun 22, 2004 7:57 am
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>This is why you shouldn't make comments about movies you've seen. Your taste is Buddahmn awful!</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jun 22, 2004 8:00 am
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '><img src="
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20030804l.gif">
Probably "Heatonia".</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jun 22, 2004 10:18 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>and that's why we don't listen to you anymore :P</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jun 22, 2004 10:19 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>I'd definitely watch it.</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jun 22, 2004 10:58 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>ANYTHING but a pun on a heat-related word. Mind you, I would love to visit the planet Blowjobnia or Orgeria in that world :-)</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jun 22, 2004 11:00 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Considering this movie is sinking down the charts faster than a brick in water, there's basically no chance there'll be a sequel. Even the people who ignore everything but effects aren't spreadin' the word (word of mouth is still the best form of advertising in movies)</div>
PostPosted:Tue Jun 22, 2004 11:37 pm
by SineSwiper
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Zeus, you are the only person in this place that doesn't like it.</div>
PostPosted:Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:25 am
by Gentz
<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Not everyone can get Yuen Woo Ping...</div>
PostPosted:Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:26 am
by Gentz
<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Dude, if they managed to make a sequel to Pitch Black they can make a sequel to anything</div>
PostPosted:Wed Jun 23, 2004 12:53 pm
by Ishamael
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Yes. That plus the several months of training. It definitely shows...</div>
PostPosted:Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:50 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Leave this place and I'm in the majority</div>
PostPosted:Thu Jun 24, 2004 1:51 pm
by Kupek
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Out of everyone I know who's seen it, you're the only one to dislike it.</div>
PostPosted:Thu Jun 24, 2004 1:58 pm
by Baldarov
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I understand that every movie can't have a 5 trillion dollar budget. But I shouldn't have to see a half assed laser light show to cover that fact up. : )</div>
PostPosted:Thu Jun 24, 2004 2:06 pm
by Baldarov
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>People do actually like this movie. It has flaws and everything, but there's a certain sci fi rpg draw to it.</div>
PostPosted:Thu Jun 24, 2004 2:08 pm
by Baldarov
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I hated the fucking underverse thing. That's a gay ass name.</div>
PostPosted:Thu Jun 24, 2004 2:28 pm
by Baldarov
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>The only thing that induced vommitting for me in Fast and Furious was the main character. He can't act. I saw him in Timeline too. Both movies would've been at least decent had he not been in them. I think slitting his belly open is the only way to go for that man.</div>
PostPosted:Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:18 pm
by Zeus
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>YOu're right, it rules. People are loving it in general, regardless of what the box office says. How could I have been so wrong?</div>
