Riddick, Riddick, and more Riddick

[Sindawe]

Pitch Black was pretty good, the rest was a snore fest.

Convert now, or fall forever. 

Vin Diesel has a pretty fair range as an actor, and does well in venues that suit his skills, like the Riddick series or the first XXX.  He also did a pretty good job dying in the rain in some little village in France.

[The Annoyed Man]

Yeah, his character in the scene in France WAS fairly believable...

[Perd Hapley]

I bought it for ten bucks.  Ten bucks should cover shipping costs.  Ten bucks and it's yours.  Who wants? 

[BlueStarLizzard]

i really liked cronicles of riddick.

it was actually intresting compared to most si-fi these days. which is usually ripped off from star wars (which is ripped off of dune). i was sad when it did so badly and the trilogy was not completed.

as for vin deisal. i wish he would go back to the action movies. type casting really isn't so bad, if the type your cast as is the type your good at. 

[Manedwolf]

i really liked cronicles of riddick.

it was actually intresting compared to most si-fi these days. which is usually ripped off from star wars (which is ripped off of dune). i was sad when it did so badly and the trilogy was not completed.

No, Star Wars was a mishmash of human mythology from Arthurian to Greek to old Kurosawa movies, with a heavy dose of the Campbellian archetype. Dune was just a rather boring mess.

[BlueStarLizzard]

re read it and pay attention this time. 

why do you think hans solo mentions smuggling spice in IV ?

[Manedwolf]

Because it a was a generic, inoffensive term meant to imply some sort of narcotic or otherwise banned substance, and in both works, was likely a reference to the historic period in which the real spice trade and smuggled spices such as cinnamon, pepper, and incredibly expensive saffron financed the fortunes of many powerful people.

[Perd Hapley]

Who cares?  Do you mooks want my Riddick trilogy, or what? 

[K Frame]

Not just Mle 1873 French Ordnance Revolvers, Maned...

Mle 1886 Lebels, too.

Stuff the French Foreign Legion actually would have been toting around in Africa in the 1920s.

Someone did some serious work on the firearms side of things.

The only real issue I saw was in the opening battle scene in which Madis were carrying Mauser rifles that wouldn't be adopted, or even developed, until the 1930s.