this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2024
182 points (95.5% liked)

Movies

7210 readers
494 users here now

Lemmy

Welcome to Movies, a community for discussing movies, film news, box office, and more! We want this to be a place for members to feel safe to discuss and share everything they love about movies and movie related things. Please feel free to take part and help our community grow!


Related Communities:

[email protected] - Discussing books and book-related things.

[email protected] - A place to discuss comic books of all types.

[email protected] - LW's home for all things MCU.


While posting and commenting in this community, you must abide by the Lemmy.World Terms of Service: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/

  1. Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist, or advocating violence will be removed.

  2. Be civil: disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally insult others.

  3. Spam, self promotion, trolling, and bots are not allowed

  4. Shitposts and memes are allowed until they prove to be a problem.

    Regarding spoilers; Please put "(Spoilers)" in the title of your post if you anticipate spoilers, as we do not currently have a spoiler tag available. If your post contains an image that could be considered a spoiler, please mark the thread as NSFW so the image gets blurred. As far as how long to wait until the post is no longer a spoiler, please just use your best judgement. Everyone has a different idea on this, so we don't want to make any hard limits.

    Please use spoiler tags whenever commenting a spoiler in a non-spoiler thread. Most of the Lemmy clients don't support this but we want to get into the habit as clients will be supporting in the future.

Failure to follow these guidelines will result in your post/comment being removed and/or more severe actions. All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users. We ask that the users report any comment or post that violates the rules, and to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

I'm all for it. Love the Riddick franchise, so fun.

all 33 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't care what people say. I like these movies. They're not good, but they're fun

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 weeks ago

I think Pitch Black is a fantastic movie, period. They accomplish so much world building through “show don’t tell,” it’s visually great despite being dark most of the time, and it makes great use of suspense at all stages.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

THANK YOU!

I always say a fun "bad" movie is often better than a high production value meh movie.

Give me comic book ridiculous Hellboy, not some serious brooding slop.

I want the movie to understand exactly what it is, and lean into it.

Give me Spaceballs. Give me Godzilla. I have seen so many "artsy" films. sometimes I just want to watch a guy punch another guy with a teacup so hard he dies, and scare three other dudes with a can opener.

Sometimes I just want to see a couple normal looking people absolutely wreck a gang of thugs who underestimated their opponent.

And hope if they make sequels, the sequels don't get too full of themselves.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Chronicles of Riddick, Waterworld, Fifth Element. I love those cheesy, weird-ass movies

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They should make another game while they're at it. Escape From Butcher Bay was heaps of fun back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And the graphics for the time were spectacular.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Fast and the Riddickulous

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Furyaosa: A Rad Riddick Saga.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Riddick: Family

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Encountering videos of him in real-life has had a sort of Steven Seagal-esque effect on my ability to enjoy his movies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

This. Guy is weird af in real life. I'm willing to ignore it all for 2 hours of another Riddick film is as good as the previous ones but I'm no fan of this guy anymore after some of the videos I've seen of his behavior off set.

Another actor that Hollywood just turned into a freak.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And Ron Perlman doesn't really have horns. It's okay.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

How do you explain this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have a very brief Ron Perlman story: I went into my favorite North Hollywood diner one day and as I was walking in, I turned and saw Ron Perlman. He looked at me, gave me a brief look that communicated, "yes, you recognize me. Not now." in a way that only Ron Perlman could do. I wasn't going to talk to him anyway, so I was fine with that. But that guy is damn good at giving you that sort of "don't bother me right now" look and you don't feel like he's being a dick about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds on brand for Ron, tbh. I wouldn't look at him poorly over that, personally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh I don't. I thought I made that clear, sorry if I didn't.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Chronicles is under-rated. It's Macbeth in space with Riddick in the Macduff role, but I guess people just didn't want a movie about Macduff. ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It’s honestly my favorite of the bunch. The Pitch Black /Riddick monster plot style dying one by one has never appealed to me in any genere. I loved the mystic sci-fi space world building that was going in Chronicles. Does it do it better than a movie like Dune? No, but this also came out a very long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I had no idea he was making another one of these. He really likes making movies.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

They've all been passion projects AFAIK.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Making movies takes family

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

I'm game. I enjoyed the first 3 quite a bit. they did alien worlds pretty good I second 2, although the whole "bonded with space dog" from the 3rd one had me flinching from the cringe.

but still a solid B+ overall.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Finally, they're making a Riddick movie for furries.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I hope they ignore the plot of the last one and just wrap up the plot from the other movies

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I have been waiting for this news since the last movie. 😀

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Think it’ll suck as much as the last two?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Chronicles was fun, the last one was meh because it was too similar to Pitch Black but without the interesting characters.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

100% agree; I was so bummed Riddick was just inferior Pitch Black. The animated one, Dark Fury, was fun, though, iirc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Hope hes somewhat debulked