If you enjoyed Pitch Black,

[fuzzybluemonkeys]

I'd recommend skipping The Chronicles of Riddick.
First of all, they recast Jack, which, no. The new actress was actually pretty good (electricity girl from Angel), but she was not Jack, and even the people involved realized it because they had her change her name to Kira.
Then, they went and changed it into big honkin' destiny save the universe crap because goodness forbid there should just be people. Doing their thing. On a planet or multiple planets and yet somehow not having the fate of millions resting on their shoulders.
The cool thing about Pitch Black was that it was a character study. Limited number of cannon foddercharacters contained in a location is a total horror movie trope, I do not deny, but they did what the cool horror movies do and made it about those characters instead of them having special powers and Fate and Destiny and Prophecy. Oh yes, there was PROPHECY. Because Riddick can't just be a guy who is, you know, a murdering criminal, and yet tragically human at the same time, he has to be super speshul last of his kind just shoot me now.

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[somnolentblue]

Chronicles of Riddick was so disappointing. One fo the things I adored about Pitch Black was that it was an actual anti-hero movie - not a reluctant hero, *anti*hero. And then Chronicles decided to deal with Grand Destinies and it was all disappointing.

What is it about disappointing movies tonight?

[fuzzybluemonkeys]

For me it's because SyFy re-aired Jurassic Park (which I watched the last time they showed it) instead of a new disasterously cheesy movie that I do not have high expectations for. But I will trade Riddick on SwapTree and hopefully get something better.

I wasn't interested in the Girl With The X series anyway, but it is possible the movie screwed up a good book* (it wouldn't be the first time).

*If you like that sort of book, which I dont, because taking place in the Real World™ type stuff is not what I look for in a book.

[somnolentblue]

Based on poking around the internet, I'm pretty sure that the elements that maddened me about the movie are present in the book.

[fuzzybluemonkeys]

Ah. Well then. At least you only devoted <2 hours to watching the movie instead of lots of time reading the book.
Come to think of it, they implied JackKira got raped with that bit about her hooking up with mercs and being slaved out. Sigh.

[somnolentblue]

I ♥ed Jack so much - the Kira switch was so baffling to me. (Although I didn't realize that it was Gwen from angel, heh.)

[tobimonkee.livejournal.com]

omg thats lame and totaly messes up the original coolness

[tobimonkee.livejournal.com]

also no one cared about pitch black till vin disel got famous for fast and furious and then they made the crappy sequel to cash in on that

[tobimonkee.livejournal.com]

Did goliath live till the end

[fuzzybluemonkey.livejournal.com]

No. He died earlier on. And the last we saw of his family they were alive, but the planet they were on was about to be destroyed by planet-destroying devicey thing and they never actually showed us what happened with that, so meh. Also JackKira dies saving Riddick at the end. So lame.