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You excited/into Riddick?
It's quotes like this that get me excited:
Star and producer Vin Diesel describes the environment he tried to create on set, which was heavily indebted to his experiences with role-playing games:
I try to create an environment where, when we step onto the set, we’re all in character. A funny thing we used to say while we were playing Dungeons & Dragons, when someone would say something random like, “I’m tired, so I might just take a nap,” the DM would say, “Everything that you say is in game,” which is a similar approach to the way we approached making this movie. When you come onto the set, everything should be focused around your character and you should stay in the pocket, as much as possible. Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I’m on set and I’m in character, I’m not thinking like a producer. If I’m on set and I’m not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I’m just coming on set for the moments that I’m not shooting, then I’m able to be the producer. This was tricky because it wasn’t like being the producer of Fast & Furious. This was being the producer of something that, if it didn’t work, I would have lost my house. Everything that I had on my life was leveraged to make this movie. So, the stakes were higher than for any producer I know because the skin in the game was real. I was so committed to answering this growing request from the social media fans to continue this character, and the only way that I could pull it off was by leveraging everything.
Sooo looking forward to this, but kinda nervous that it's so Pitch Black in theme. I don't handle horror well, so I was only really okay with PB because I saw it on dvd. (It had been out of theaters for a looong time before I even knew who Riddick was.)
Yes, I am afraid of the dark. :o
Honestly I don't even care if the movie is good. I'm going to put my money where my interests are and support Diesel for his attempt to make an RPG based movie. If it's good, that will just be gravy.
Hadn't heard about this. Guess I could give it a go.
Yes, I am afraid of the dark. :oNothing wrong with that. I have trouble with horror movies too.
I have not much liked horror movies since I snuck into a showing of "The Exorcist" as a child and had nightmares for months....
I picked up the directors cut a few years back and found it tame. Probably would have been a different story twenty years ago.
Twenty? Actually the Exorcist was first shown 40 years ago. I was 13 when I snuck into the theater.
Twenty years ago I would have been ten. :P
Actually my memory is faulty. I didn't sneak into the theater to see "The Exorcist". I read the book when it first came out. Meaning I was 11. It was the BOOK that gave me nightmares. I didn't see the movie until just a few years ago and I agree, it was "tame" by modern standards. Still quite gross though.
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Yeah, Riddick.
Sour grapes. I really wanted to see Elysium a couple weeks ago, but the nearest theater did not have it. The lamers probably won't have Riddick either.
Horror that has monsters does not bother me. It's clearly not real. It's the human, doing horrible stuff to human, that I don't care for. Too real because it is real. Human brutality, that is.
I have not much liked horror movies since I snuck into a showing of "The Exorcist" as a child and had nightmares for months....Hadn't heard about this. Guess I could give it a go.
Yes, I am afraid of the dark. :oNothing wrong with that. I have trouble with horror movies too.
It was Jurassic Park for me. Those 'raptors were f#@%ing scary.
The movie version, that is. The book was loads of fun!
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One movie that scared the crap outta me as a kid was Pet Cemetery. My mother rented it and turned out all the lights. I had a friend over who lived like 6 blocks away. I had to ride bikes with him home after the movie......
I have to say hell yeah to Vin I love the Riddick character. However, I am a little skittish about him putting it all on the line for this flick. Pitch Black was a sleeper hit. Great drive in style sci-fi movie. Chronicles was all kinds of bad. Space Opera? Really? Vin had to put the money up because nobody thinks another Riddick will make money. I am glad he seems to at least be getting back the roots. It will at least get my money. Best of luck Vin!
Sour grapes. I really wanted to see Elysium a couple weeks ago...
This was a blessing in disguise. Elysium left a lot to be desired coming from the District 9 guy. It looked great that is about it. I was disappointed and recommend anyone wait until TV.
American Werewolf in London at a friends house, then having to cut through the woods to get back home afterwards. Every little sound..I think i was 12 or 13. I'm a bit more able to stomach them these days, but some can still tweak me unexpectedly and creep me the hell out.
Contrary to many, I loved Chronicles of Riddick. This will be much scaled down from the last movie, but I hope that it still will be good. Of course I'll support it, Diesel does good work and is an RP'er like us. Gotta help a comrade out.
I'm not sure how D&Dish it'll be. I hope lots. Vin Diesel has really been playing up the D&D angle in interviews. If it's as good as Chronicles, i'll be happy.
I'm not sure how a movie can be D&Dish without, ya know, being a D&D movie...but the D&D movies have been persuasive in making me think that I don't want any movie to be D&Dish.
It's like in debates about game balance, someone always says "Well in movies and books, there's none of this balance nonsense!" And then someone like me replies that this is because they're totally different mediums. Well, I think the reverse is just as true. Not specifically in regards to balance, but I imagine that directing a movie with the same attitude one DMs D&D leads to certain...poor results.
I think it's great to have celebrities who publicly talk about playing D&D as kids -- not least of all celebrities who break gamer stereotypes -- but I like Riddick regardless of Diesel's past hobbies, and I'd be psyched about this new movie regardless of who directed it.
I loved Pitch Black, I also love Chronicles of Riddick, but it took time for me to warm-up to the character (thought Diezel was pretty full of himself; it took me PB, which I only saw after Chronicles, to see the character for what he is). I particularly like the narrated versions, whichever they are (there seems to be so many of them...)
I'm going to see this new Riddick with a free mind and as neutral expectations as I can.
Pitch Black has, IMO, one of the best ship-crash scene in sci-fi movies ever. Chronicles has a lot of background "richness" that isn't developed in the movie, but contributes to the universe of Riddick. Not many movies "dare" not to explain everything (and then have a character re-explain it again, in case you were too dumb to get it yourself in the first place).
I still haven't forgiven him for the horror that was chronicles of Riddick. Not looking forward to this movie in the slightest but I do respect the man for his high level geekery and his encouragement for other actors to come out of said closet.
I loved both Riddick movies even the animated piece between PB and chronicles. Though I still don't agree with killing all the survivors from PB. So I'm excited :)
Bonus is my BDay is this month so t was released especially for me. And none of you can convince my ego otherwise.
I saw this in a screening here in NYC about 2-3 weeks ago.
It is closer to PITCH BLACK in tone, but it's also kinda hit or miss. Overall I liked it but felt that it was setting up the further adventures of rather than just being it's own movie.
It's funny but I realized that I've seen all THREE Riddick movies in screenings.
I saw PITCH BLACK at a screening when it came out and I knew who David Twothy was from THE ARRIVAL but knew nothing else about the movie and wound up loving it.
I saw CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK at another screening that I barely got into but I really wanted to see this movie. I was fine with it not being a complete repeat of the last movie and felt that it was kind of refreshing that they didnt do that. Once I realized I was watching a Conan movie set in the Warhammer 40k Universe (in terms of set design and costumes...) I was able to enjoy the hell out of it.
I fell assbackwards into passes for RIDDICK and when I heard that they were moving back into PITCH BLACK territory due to budget constraints (actually what I'd heard was that Universal wanted them to bring this in as a PG-13 but Twothy and Dissel wanted to be unfettered in terms of content. They basically told Universal that let us do the R rating and you can cut the budget. Universal agreed and that was that.) I was a little concerned.
But the movie I got was good. I feel like it was the first part of a longer film. You'll see what I mean when you see it. I still enjoyed though.
Isn't it just Pitch Black again?
I hated Pitch Black.
I saw this in a screening here in NYC about 2-3 weeks ago.
It is closer to PITCH BLACK in tone, but it's also kinda hit or miss. Overall I liked it but felt that it was setting up the further adventures of rather than just being it's own movie.
we have got to hang out.
Yay! Finally moved to the "movies" section where I keep looking for it!
Stereofm, I think it starts tonight. But so does the NFL so....
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I still catch myself afraid of raptors. And then I see this.
Edit: Also relevant.
Totally awesome. The other night I dreamed my wife and I were driving through a burned out city (NYC). We tried to cross a partially cratered road surface and the station wagon got stuck. I got out and tried to steer and push. I made some comment about the car being too heavy, so my wife started chucking all our survival gear and canned foods. For whatever reason (I believe it's the fact that I couldn't find this item when it came time to outprocess CIF a few weeks ago, and it amazingly retails to the USG at $170), I determined the most important thing she chucked was the Gortex outer sleeve of my Army sleeping bag. I jumped down into the ditch to get the thing when I was suddenly surrounded by Compies. When I turned around they were on the roof of the car. One jumped at me...and I woke up.
Yeah, that's right. Nothing to do with Riddick. Nothing at all.
Compies?
RIDDICK!
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Did anyone here ever play Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel? Good squad-based tactical RPG if not a great Fallout game, but one of the coolest parts of the game comes when you happen into a random encounter in a mostly pitch black field and find a man standing within a glowing light. Text appears above his head reading things like , "Stay in the light," and "I can see in the dark," and he starts running toward the edge of the battlemap. Following the mysterious warrior through the patches of glowing light is safe but, if you go into the dark areas of the map, you get attacked by a pack of deathclaws. When you leave the screen, you gain a new recruit for your squad: a man named Riddick who begins with the Night Vision perk and has Sneak, Unarmed and Melee skills tagged. He even kind of looks like Vin Diesel in his profile image. This game came out before Chronicles of Riddick and, as a fan of Pitch Black, I thought this was one of the most BA easter eggs in a video game ever.
Totally going to see this movie.
Ah well, saw it tonight. Wasn't terribly impressed. Wasn't terribly bad, mostly my response is "meh".
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I saw it and I liked it a lot but, well, there are times the film reaches Frank Milleresque levels of machismo. It's definitely got the feel of a D&D game. Unfortunately, there are times it feels like a D&D game being played by a 13-yr-old boy...who only plays alone and still cheats at his dice rolls.
Also, the thing with Dahl was weird. I mean, for one, she's basically the only female character in the movie and her name is Dahl (as in Doll.) Then she says she's a lesbian, and she's a total hardass, but she can't seem to wait to drop her panties for Riddick. Given how little she actually contributes to the story, it's like she's only in the film to show how inferior every other man in the universe is to Riddick.
Aside from the things I spoilered, I honestly did really like the movie.
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saw it ill keep thoughts into spoiler for now. The spoiler is mostly about feel and no plot giveaways or critique ill go that route after some folks get a chance to see it.
If you enjoyed Chronicles and PB you should enjoy Riddick. I wish they would have kept the tone more serious throughout the movie to catch more of PB feel but Riddick definitely gets back to the roots of the character.
I enjoyed the movie as a whole, though the ending felt so weird that for a while I thought it was a dream sequence at first. Overall I think of it as sort of like Mass Effect - I loved it right up until the last few minutes. It felt like a lot of it came out of nowhere to wrap things up.
It definitely had more of a Pitch Black feel to it than a Chronicles feel, and the low budget was evident. I thought the gore went over the top a little bit at times, but I've seen far worse. Overall I thought it was worth the money I paid to see it, though I really liked Pitch Black and Chronicles both.
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For those of you who might be considering taking a non-gamer or non-Riddick-watching significant other to the movie, my wife was decidedly unimpressed. Her only comment I can repeat here was "I never could figure out what was going on."
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For those of you who might be considering taking a non-gamer or non-Riddick-watching significant other to the movie, my wife was decidedly unimpressed. Her only comment I can repeat here was "I never could figure out what was going on."
Which is funny because they spent so much time trying to tie in the first two movies.