Riddick

[The Old One]

Pitch Black is the first film I got to stay up late to watch.

[Huggs]

"Other buildings weren't secure"

[Immortan Jonesy]

Pitch Black is the first film I got to stay up late to watch.

^ this

I kinda prefer the last one over the second.

I was not a fan of the more esoteric stuff they introduced. I would have prefered more crime, bounty hunter and prison action than prophecies, oracles and ghosts.

The first game for the old Xbox had it right IMO.

Although we're talking about a less impressive and cheaper film: the criminals, wasteland planets and monsters gave me an Alien 3 vibe 

[KiramidHead]

Well Twohy wrote the Alien 3 script that introduced the space prison concept, so that's not surprising.

[[cancerblack]]

Yeah it's not really a coincidence.

[Immortan Jonesy]

*Feeling like a rookie now* I didn't know that 

Well, there is one thing for sure..."The Chronicles of Riddick" is like Prometheus in the sense that they were trying to change the original formula into something else.

[Xenomrph]

I adore Chronicles. It gives this universe whole new spinn. The abilities of main baddie is something different altogether.

If you like Chronicles, read the novelization - it has a whole appendix that goes into the history and practices of the Necromonger culture, it's pretty cool.

[Kimarhi]

I used to hate Chronicles for the same reason I hated Resurrection and to a lesser degree Prometheus (I dislike Prometheus for a variety of reasons and this is just a minor one).  It just didnt feel like the same universe.


But over the years it grew on me quite a bit. 

I think probably the difference between Chronicles and Resurrection is that Chronicles is balanced with Riddick being pretty much the same character in both films with the other recurring characters also helping anchor the movie, whereas Resurrection continues to be an Alien movie with NONE of the same characters.

Ripley 8 is just the bizarro version of Ripley. 

You don't NEED to have the same recurring characters in every movie, but if you are, don't go Ripley lite. 

I'd go PB, Riddick (more true to the original), and then Chronicles.  But the margin between Chronicles and Riddick is very slim.

[blood.]

Well, the last one ended with him f**king a lesbian character straight, which was weird for what was the gayest action movie I'd seen in some time (and also considering Chronicles' camp appeal). Nonetheless, I'm in for whatever Diesel and Twohy give us next.

lmao damn i forgot about that... makes me wonder how much input vinnie D has in what gets put to screen...

I thought my friend was joking when he told me xander screws like a dozen women for literally no reason at the start of the latest triple x movie

[The Kurgan]

Makes you wonder how an average D&D session with Vinnie would look like 

[Biomechanoid]

I adore Chronicles. It gives this universe whole new spinn. The abilities of main baddie is something different altogether.

I liked Chronicles as well. I liked how it changed its sci-fi subgenre from horror scifi to space opera in the middle of the continuing adventures. Sort of like Halloween III switched its horror subgenre in the middle of that franchise. I know some viewers don't like it when the filmmakers stray from a given film universe's norm, but I more often than not, like those hard left turns.

Like From Dusk Till Dawn. I knew nothing about the film, never knew it even existed until I saw it in the bargain bin. Rodriguez/Tarantino crime thriller....sounds good, popped it in. My mindset was fully focused on a real world-like premise crime thriller - meaning, supernatural elements didn't exist in this story - until it turned on a dime with its hard left turn to vampire movie. Totally unexpected. I dig it.

[Drukathi]

Although we're talking about a less impressive and cheaper film: the criminals, wasteland planets and monsters gave me an Alien 3 vibe 

Well, as Andrews said: Here are the facts.
Riddick 4: Furia. Also the name of the planet.
Alien 3. The planet called Fiorina "Fury" 161.
AR. IIRC, Gediman said something like hybrid-name - "Furia".

So. Maybe it's all the same universe?

Anyway, it would be curious to see Riddick versus Alien.
Something like: Ripley crashed on Fiorina "Fury" 161. Then the same plot. In the end Riddick survive and WY redirects him to the Butcher Bay.

I'd go PB, Riddick (more true to the original), and then Chronicles.  But the margin between Chronicles and Riddick is very slim.

Yeah. Like Alien, Alien 3, Aliens.

There - https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=61565.msg2409912#msg2409912

[Stitch]

Although we're talking about a less impressive and cheaper film: the criminals, wasteland planets and monsters gave me an Alien 3 vibe 

Well, as Andrews said: Here are the facts.
Riddick 4: Furia. Also the name of the planet.
Alien 3. The planet called Fiorina "Fury" 161.
AR. IIRC, Gediman said something like hybrid-name - "Furia".

So. Maybe it's all the same universe?

Anyway, it would be curious to see Riddick versus Alien.
Something like: Ripley crashed on Fiorina "Fury" 161. Then the same plot. In the end Riddick survive and WY redirects him to the Butcher Bay.

I'd go PB, Riddick (more true to the original), and then Chronicles.  But the margin between Chronicles and Riddick is very slim.

Yeah. Like Alien, Alien 3, Aliens.

There - https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=61565.msg2409912#msg2409912

Never thought about the Fury 161-Furya connection... Can't remember offhand, but in the Twohy script is it set on Fury?

[Master]

I adore Chronicles. It gives this universe whole new spinn. The abilities of main baddie is something different altogether.

If you like Chronicles, read the novelization - it has a whole appendix that goes into the history and practices of the Necromonger culture, it's pretty cool.

I'll search for it though I imagine  it won't be easy to come by in my country.

[Kimarhi]

I'd go PB, Riddick (more true to the original), and then Chronicles.  But the margin between Chronicles and Riddick is very slim.

Yeah. Like Alien, Alien 3, Aliens.

There - https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=61565.msg2409912#msg2409912

My dad feels that way.  He thinks Alien 3 is a whole lot closer to Alien than Aliens is.

I don't feel the same way though.  Drop a Marine with a pulse rifle in Alien, and he'd have the Alien sinking through the floors in no time.  It's the same movie, but with different circumstances.