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Posted By: Neurolanis Dec 06, 2004 - 12:02 pm

Sigh. Another stand-alone hero movie where the guy sounds like he has a bad cold, with one-dimensional villains, loads of FX ... need I say more? Highly visual story telling, and if you can appreciate good cimeophotography (excuse my spelling) then this film should impress you. If you prefer a human connection to the character, however, as well as a story that's believable, with memorable scenes and likable supporting characters, stay clear.

Posted By: ~*FallenFaerie*~ Dec 06, 2004 - 12:44 pm

i liked the way the movie looked, but Pitch Black was way better. Notice how Riddick's love interests don't fare too well in these movies?that made me mad that the same thing happened in both movies...

Posted By: Hyperion Dec 08, 2004 - 03:50 am

A sequel that did it's job I thought.

Obviously it wasn't going to be any kind of monumental story and plot, but it was a good scifi entertaining movie.

And also gave more scope to the world and universe of Riddick.

They tried to copy the Matrix in a sense, using what the matrix did with cartoons and and game to carry on telling the story.

I wouldn't class this movie as superb, but then I wouldn't say it was rubbish either.

Hyperion

Posted By: Magus Dec 08, 2004 - 03:52 am

Well, Neurolanis, it's not so surprising when you consider that it's a Vin Diesel movie. My brother saw Pitch Black and said it was a terrible movie.

Posted By: ~*FallenFaerie*~ Dec 16, 2004 - 12:38 pm

I LIKED PITCH BLACK!!!!! whoa, that looks psychotic...i thought it was pretty good...granted i was like 13 when i saw it and the aliens scared me, but still...

Posted By: Neurolanis Dec 16, 2004 - 07:05 pm

Yes, you make it all sound very fun, FallenFaerie. "Pitch black." "Aliens". Until one realizes that you are describing a film and not a ride at some theme park. Maybe most moviegoers prefer theme-park-like films. I ... just don't.

Posted By: manji Dec 17, 2004 - 07:30 am

FallenFaerie, i liked the movie as well. Magus, you really should start developing your own opinions about things. Neurolanis, Pitch Black and Riddick were not films. They were movies. A film is serious and has a meaning. Movies are there to entertain. I'm quoting Rodriguez there.

Posted By: ~*FallenFaerie*~ Dec 17, 2004 - 11:59 am

go manji! rodriguez is one of my all time favorite directors, and i fully agree with that quote. and "pitch black" is the name of the movie, not adjective i used to describe it.

Posted By: Magus Dec 17, 2004 - 01:20 pm

You didn't like Pirates of the Carribean Neurolanis?

On that same not of liking something when you're younger...

I remember that I loved Alien the first time I saw it. I thought it was o.k., that is until the end where you see Ridly strip down. Realize, please, that I was young and beginning puberty at the time. Now I think it was decent, nothing more.

***PLease take note that the last comment was reserved for the movie as a whole, not he stripping.***

Posted By: Neurolanis Dec 18, 2004 - 09:03 am

Actually, surprisingly, I did like "Pirates of the Caribbean"! It was a real shocker. You know, you'll probably laugh but that's how I discovered Johnny Depp. Never heard of him before. Great character actor.

Posted By: Magus Dec 18, 2004 - 12:49 pm

Same here. And now I have several of his other movies, Don Juan DeMarco and The Ninth Gate. I've also seen more of his movies Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow, to name two of them. I've also seen and want to own, A.S.A.P., Finding Neverland. He's easily one of the best actors in the history of cinema.

While Disney got Pirates of the Carribean right, the flunked out with The Haunted Mansion, crap from start to finish.

Posted By: Neurolanis Dec 18, 2004 - 07:00 pm

He is one of the best living actors, I'd agree to that. I also feel that Jack Nicholson is a great actor. Needless to say Jim Carrey's more brilliant that these two, but by my opinion the best living actor in the world is Tim Curry. Talk about genius. His first and I think last major role was as the bi-sexual, transsexual vampire in "A Rocky Horror Picture Show". That ruined his career from the start, and unfairly so. He played the psychotic clown creature Pennywise in Stephen King's "It", and the lead demon in "Legend". He never wins awards -- screams and tears win Oscars, not biting and growling (he only plays monsters), but I think he's of Charlie Chaplin's class of genius. He just never got big roles, critical appraise, or awards, and THAT is one of the biggest reasons why I hate award shows.

Posted By: ~*FallenFaerie*~ Dec 19, 2004 - 07:18 am

really? i hate award shows because they're totally fixed and 80 zillion hours long and full of stupid comercials and just a chance for big hollywood a-listers to start new stupid trends that show up at my school and annoy the hell out of me. (case in point: ugg boots. lord those things are hideous. no offense meant to anyone who disagrees, thats just what i think)neurolanis, i fully agree about tim curry, but he doesn't only play monsters. he provides the voice of nigel thornberry on nickelodeon's "the wild thornberrys" (but i think they stopped making it, since abc bought nickelodeon and now all you see are horribly acted sitcoms, spongebob, and britney spears' insanely annoying little sister.) and he played the bad pirate whose name i forgot in one of the treasured movies of my childhood, the genius "muppet treasure island" lol seriously though, he is an amazing actor. ditto johnny depp. among some of my all time favprite actresses is winona ryder (pre- shoplifting crime spree)

Posted By: manji Dec 19, 2004 - 12:39 pm

The first time i seen Alien i liked the feeling of helplessness that was present for the entire movie. However, i wished there had been more guns and aliens. Now, when i seen Aliens, i almost shat myself. A war movie and a monster movie mixed into one. However, even with all that ordanance, the movie still gave a hell of a feeling of helplessness because even though the soldiers came armed and were trained to handle those kinds of situations everything got FUBARed and they were only fighting for their lives.

Posted By: Magus Dec 19, 2004 - 03:08 pm

I love award shows, at least ones that I can at least respect the reasons why they choose their recipients. I do not enjoy the VH1 movie awards, those have no credibility at all.

But I love Oscars. We have a huge, just immediate family and sometimes a friend or two, party on Oscar night. We stay up and have dishes themed to the nominated movies. Last year we had "Sea Biscutes" and "Lord of the Onion Rings", among others. We then make a list of what we think should win each category. Then the person who gets the most right get's our own plastic statue that looks exactly like an Oscar.

A friend of mine can do a spot-on Tim Curry "It" impression. I guess that's what you get when you'renin drama and have a job at Statesville Haunted Prison as a killer flesh-eating chainsaw-wielding clown.