Chronicles of Riddick (Spoilers)

[Kai Lord]

That's just what I got from Pitch Black, interviews and such by Vin and the Director/Writer.

So would you agree that the movie itself (CoR) paints a different picture?

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

So would you agree that the movie itself (CoR) paints a different picture?

Well at one point it seemed like he was about to kill the holyman and everyone there, but was interupted by the local guards. He basically kept being put in situations where it was kill to survive and not kill to kill.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I am very interested in see more of this myth they have created, wonder what a full-dead necro was like, plus the location they were going to.

 

[ArcOfCorinth]

When they first started running the trailers I presumed that the Necromongers would be Neutral Evil with Riddick being Chaotic Evil.

I'd say the necromongers were Lawful Evil and Riddick Chaotic Neutral/Neutral Evil.

 

[blindrage]

I'd say the necromongers were Lawful Evil and Riddick Chaotic Neutral/Neutral Evil.

Riddick is the walking proof of a CN PC if I ever saw one. Looking out for number one, himself.

 

[Aaron L]

I'd put Riddick on the evil side of Chaotic Neutral. Not quite evil all out, but one step away. He doesn't kill for pleasure, he kills out of necessity and on impulse.

 

[Hand of Evil]

At one time in his past I would say Riddick was CE but now more NE/CN. I also think he has a thing for little girls.

 

[mmu1]

That said, anyone else get the feeling that parts of the story were ripped directly from TV shows and Movies. I swear, when I heard the prophecy about a Furyian warrior being the one to kill the Lord Marshal, and about how the Lord Marshal launched an attack on Furyia to destroy all the Furyians and the Furyian babies with their own ambilical chords, I had to stop and make sure it was really the Chronicles of Riddick I was watching and not the Chronicles of Goku, otherwise known as Dragonball Z.

You hear a story about a ruler ordering the killing of all babies in a particular land, and the first thing you can think of is Dragonball Z?

That particular theme's been around a bit longer than that...

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I liked the movie. It was fun to watch. I'd say the thing that I liked the least were the names. "Necromonger" seem to be a conglomerate of necromancer/warmonger, or just necro/warmonger. The fire planet was in the Ingeon system, planet Crematoria. Heavens to Betsy, maybe it's just part of the Vin Deisel's idiom but it really irritated me. I really liked the movie, though. The Lord Marshal's little spirit-thing trick reminded me of the way they did the Weirding Way for Sci-Fi's Dune movies, and that's a good thing.

 

[Jeremy]

I enjoyed the movie, though those 50 minutes really hurt the consistency of the movie at some points.

Some of the transitions were, "Wait, how did we get to here?" While others just seemed extremely convenient. Poor Vin got railroaded through the plot in whatever manner took the least screen time to get back to the action.

I found it very strange that the 3 minute kill contest to take the ship before the sunrise had only music and none of the visceral sound effects such a fight should have...

And I had a problem with the sunrise repeatedly catching them and then suddenly them being in shade again somewhere else. Did they just go through the mountain from their lower perch? What happened to the 700 degrees bit? Shouldn't they be having some trouble once the sun is up? Or is it just the superheated wind that blows people apart that is the problem?

I continue to enjoy Riddick's knife fighting though. All except for the CGI testing of the notched necromonger knife.

So what was the deal with the double greataxe fighter who was walking around with the knife in his back all day?