I unironically love this movie. It is so batshit insane that it has a certain charm to it. I love all the Riddick movies. Got to love the sheer balls to the wall insanity they bring to the table.
Realy strange, because i love the first one and like the third one, but i cant force myself to watch the whole second Movie. Drinker pretty much pointed out why so many stuff is wrong with the Movie and its just bad.
Same here. I love it. Sure, it’s not pitch black. But I didn’t want to watch a repeat of pitch black. I love the world they created and the story they told.
"Why would you even construct a prison complex in such ridiculously dangerous environment?" As an Australian, that's not a question I expected to hear in a British accent.
Australia was basically a prison for the undesirables of the British Empire, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong. Oh, and everything in Australia can pretty much kill you....even the Koalas lol jk jk 😜
I didn't watch either the 1st movie or this one, but just hearing Drinker's description of the film, I thought "huh. This may be a film I would enjoy because it would be pretty funny"
Not gonna lie, this movie is really entertaining to watch, kind of a coherent story, neat visuals, Vin being cool af. I frankly pick it over most of modern action/fantasy flicks.
Yeah I've always enjoyed the Riddick movies too, crazy as they are. But Diesel would rather make 145 douchie Fast and Furious movies, which was always a shame.
@@_Luluko_ I beg to differ good sir! I watched about a month ago and it’s still awesome! Maybe it’s just because I identified with Conans childhood. I too am the son of a blacksmith and started my apprenticeship as a boilermaker when at the tender age of 15 the Vanir Raiders decimated my village and for the next 4 years I was tied to the “wheel of pain” aka an ancient radial overhead drill where every day I physically lifted giant steel plates onto the table and drilled holes in them which turned me from a weedy little kid when I started to nearly 2 metres of angry 20 year old muscle. Anyway, long story short, eventually after many adventures treading the jewelled cities of the world beneath my sandalled feet, I managed to usurp the crown of Aquilonia and I wear it upon my troubled brow....
Its very much a Sword-and-Sandals movie, because Scorpion King is one too and both movies have the similar plots using that genre's tropes. Both movies feature a protagonist who is the last of his kind, known for their warrior abilities. Both fight against an army led by a king that uses supernatural help. Both end with the protag killing the evil king and taking his throne for themselves.
I'm glad to see the commenters are standing up for this movie. Was it the best Sci Fi ever made? No, probably not. Is it damn fun to watch? Absolutely yes.
I love this film. There’s something to be said about turning your brain off and just enjoying some expensive cheap sci-fi. I’m genuinely upset they didn’t make a sequel along the same lines.
@@thinkbeforepostingnow Yeah, the 3rd one was kinda...meh, but I still enjoyed it. Thinking about the three movies, I really need to check Amazon and see if they have a cool trilogy collection or a steelbook. Also, I actually bought the goggles that Riddick wears cause I loved his character so much. Lol!! I still have them in one of my drawers. I need to wear them, but I think they got fogged up really easily.
@@They_drew_first_blood they have an animated movie that bridges pitch black and the chronicles of Riddick also a fourth movie is rumored to be in the works
@@thinkbeforepostingnow yeah and a lotta people wondered why they didn’t make a sequel to pitch black along the same lines as… pitch black. Instead we got this bloated embarrassing space opera. How can you go from Aliens to Dune?
@@LeePatekar I wouldnt say the movie was structurally bad .It has 3 well defined cookie cutter acts as most of the hollywood movies have...Its problem are the tonal inconsistence between its parts and its world building,which in short means that the necromongers plot doesnt mix well with the first movie and the escape sequence tone wise...
That's exactly how I feel. First time I watched it I thought it was dumb but this came out during a time when cinema was trying to be too dark and edgy. After revisiting this film I actually had a lot of fun with it. The same way I can enjoy Batman & Robin now by not taking it seriously. I like Drinker's views and opinions most of the time but I do think he's wrong in some cases. Sometimes a film is just meant to be fun. It doesnt need to be logically flawless.
@@Day7Reset I found the most insane romance novel series that was improperly placed in the Sci Fi section at my bookstore called the Dragon Lords of Valder. It’s about advanced aliens who can also shapeshift into dragons because why not who also somehow end up finding humans in space to instantly fall in love with (despite this taking place in our time when we don’t have interstellar travel) . But it’s also a romance novel series (aka cringey porn in written form) so I wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re into that sort of thing or just that desperate for dragons in space.
I actually saw this film before Pitch Black when I was a kid and I absolutely loved it, it’s almost like it isn’t even a sequel, it’s so removed from the first that you don’t even need to have seen it. To this day I think it’s such an underrated film
I did the same thing, but was confused the whole time about the relationship of the people in it cuz I didn't see Pitch Black. So you kinda need to see the 1st one. It made a lot more sense after a rewatch once I saw Pitch Black. But you're right, you can still enjoy it cuz so much of it is all new.
It was a fun movie. I'm surprised Drinker disliked it so much. It's certainly better than any of the comic book movies we're stuck watching for Hollywood big budget action these days.
Yeah, I think Drinker might not get the reaction he was hoping for with this vid, The section where there running from the sun is very memorable, can’t think of anything remotely similar.
I did rewatch this movie many times and I think I'm not the only one here. How many movies nowadays deserve the respect of re-watching them, out of pleasure? But this one deserves that. That sais it all......
Honestly, of the 3 this is the worst. I like to rewatch pitch black and like even more riddick. It was the same movie as the first, but in my opinion is better
This film is guilty of all the Sins you call out... but I've watched it every time it showed up while channel surfing, and would watch it again. It just works- maybe in spite of its flaws, maybe because of its flaws, or maybe because it does not apologize for its flaws and wholeheartedly embraces them.
It's like if Star Wars went in self aware it never would have worked. If you wanna be different, then be different. You can't make an all new concept and hold back. It's either a new world/universe or it isn't. That's why this movie works, they went all in and made something genuinely interesting.
It's a guilty pleasure. And you have to give credit it's very creative, yes it would of been better as a separate film franchise with better writing. But hey at least it's watchable, that scene where Lord Marshall rips that man's soul out will always be cool. Not smart but cool.
yeah same, i didn’t think it was meant to be taken too seriously just a fun movie there’s a third movie that’s actually not half bad, more like the first one less space fantasy
Agreed. Chronicles ruled. The Directors cut is the best. That scene on Crematoria where he jumps and hacks off that guys head with the two knives ripped! Well underrated film.
@@jeremysmith9291 "Shoudda taken the money, Toombs." "If I owned this place and Hell, I would rent this place out and lived in Hell." "Soon he will be promoted to fully dead."
This ^ - I couldn't tell why I had this sense of déja vu for this movie, but you nailed it. Totally feels like something out of HM / Métal Hurlant. I didn't like it, but I couldn't bring myself to actually dislike it.
@@nekograce7914 the first third, where it's just Riddick learning how to be a survivor again, was the best part. It had so little dialog, but if they'd made an entire film like that, it would have been incredible and unique.
I find both Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson pretty bland compared to Schwarzenegger. It's probably not their fault. It's the politically correct age we're living in. Most action movies have been bland and forgettable since the late 90's
the chronicles of riddick has so much world building that for years i was convinced that it was actually made from a real book series that for some unexplained reason was impossible to find at bookstores. So disappointed when I finally googled it.
I thought the same thing. And I actually found such a book, called "The Chronicles of Riddick", but it turned out to be what they call "novelization", that is just a book retelling the movie and not very good at that. The only interesting thing about it was that they have added a short history of the "necromongers" as an appendix in the end - not a bad world-building if it was a series, but the story was nothing more than we already knew from the movie...
Agreed...it was far from perfect but I still watch it every time it pops up on TV/streaming. It's more original and daring than a lot of sci-fi these days
I think the reason people love this movie so much (myself included) is because you can see the passion behind it and some creativity creating something new
He didn't make them take him there. It was Toombs decision, not Riddick's. He only told them that there is only one "diabolical" place Toombs was referring to, that is within the range of their ship.
@@shtimpo no Riddick kinda lists a few places ending with him saying that crematoria is the only "real" choice and Tombes is like yeah, riddick made tombes think it was his own idea, least thats how i took the scene. Make the idiot do what you want by making him think that you expect him to make that choice cause he is so smart and badass
@National Socialism Oh yes I.m in an minority interestingly small that thinks all Hoodwink studio's steaming subversive _arxist efforts are not good to ingest . . enjoy your meal
@@The420kingchronic It's not that the movie isn't a remaster of Pitch Black, it's that it essentially took Riddick into a different universe with different rules and tried to pretend it didn't. Imagine if the next CSI spinoff took place on Mars, complete with native Martians and breathable atmosphere, and we were expected to believe that it was the exact same universe as every other one.
yep, totally agree. surely they could have found a better way to give Riddick a puppy to bond with.... Would have been more bad ass if Riddick and Varko actually messed up a few worlds first, Riddick leads the Necromongers to the edge of Underverse, hands over the reigns to Varko and walks away, even more badass if they have a bro-down first, Riddick wins, but gives the keys to the kingdom to Varko anyway..... Free will and all that. in return Varko gives him a ship and a crew, some hot Necro chicks and the coordinates to Furia to start anew, and a token repayment for the previous Lord Marshall's genocidal rampage, closing scene of the movie... Varko at the gates of Underverse with an intentionally cringe video call to Riddick.... "i'll be back" License to print sequel dollar dollar bills y'all 😵
It´s not remake, it´s basically Pitch Black 2 - it´s like poetry, it rhymes! And it was made because of people like Drinker and because of lack of budget. It has IMO the best scene of all these movies: that one where Riddick trolls Johns senior and he totally explodes: "Maybe in the last minute of your life you could be something else than GODDAMN SAVAGE!!!!!"
If the last 10 years of Pop Culture _entertainment_ dreck has proven anything it's that we need _Riddick_ now more than ever. An underrated character and franchise.
I agree. I've rewatched this so many times and always loved it. Such an ENTERTAINING film. I feel like Riddick as a character was still honored in this film, even if the movie surrounding him was just so out there compared to the previous one. It shows there's a lot going on in this universe worth exploring, and even to this day it is still unique and interesting. The first and third movies were better and stuck to the concept more faithfully but I wouldn't say the second movie was bad. It had a lot of flaws but also a lot of fun and charm. Like you said compared to most of what comes out today, this is actually almost necessary to combat the blandness. It is no different from a comic-y style batman or blade film.
100% agree. In a dimension just a hair's breadth from ours, SJWs and Antifa died on the vine where they deserved to, Riddick #12 is coming out this Summer and people are playing the trailer on loop in anticipation. Also, Star Wars is still good.
@@okramoffacebook1381 Man, I loved his xBox game, he voiced acted it himself, it's like a comic book world, there is magic, there is science, there is wit and there is grit, but in the end, it is about the title hero of the series, and redek was a badass of the highest order
It wasn't too bad a movie, especially in light of the rest of the junk out at that time. I liked "Pitch Black" the best though, then the 2013 "Riddick", then the "Chronicles of Riddick" and the animated film "Dark Fury". Its a toss-up between the last two, though. The sequel was a lot of fun, but as Critical Drinker says, left alot to be desired....
its dumb as shit but teenager me probably watched it 4 times and the video games were fun too once you got the hang of the melee combat the last movie really kicks the bucket tho
When my brothers watched it, we loved it. There's something very, very charming about a movie that's completely bonkers, takes itself completely seriously, and tries to do something way beyond its actual capabilities. We said it then and I'll say it now: The movie would be 120% better if the entire cast was Bionicles.
Batman & Robin was an awful disjointed incoherent mess of a movie. We love it! I aint gonna try and convince you Chronicles of Riddick is good. But its dumb fun ie. Commando.
@@heatherphillips5983 sorry for your loss, I hope when you watch Chronicles of Riddick you will always feel the love you shared and remember the good times you had together
This movie was an homage to the 80’s swords and sandals epics like Conan, Red Sonja, Krull, and Beastmaster. Instead of taking place in some weird alternate past, it takes place in space, during some weird possible future. I love it- despite its obvious flaws- for that reason.
Say what you want, I still enjoyed the movie as an over-the-top action film. The scenes look epic, and everything is shamelessly overdriven. It is a true guilty-pleasure masterpiece in my book.
I agree except for the masterpiece bit. We all know and agree that this movie is trash. If you cut out all the Necromonger nonsense it is actually a pretty tight little heist movie (or escape movie).
Personally I’m waiting for the next one. I mean riddock survived his assassination attempt and got off of not furya. Plus that prison scene and the escape is so awesome
@@MikesGlitch that's what he's referencing. Krone betrays Riddick and attempts to kill him, and leaves him stranded on the planet Riddick dubs "Not Furya". He gets off the planet at the end of the film, Elyas was saying he can't wait for what comes afterwards.
I actually liked this movie, it's the closest on screen depiction we've gotten to to a Dune universe. Desert worlds falling in one night to unstoppable armies, humans with mental abilities that let them calculate the future, fighting styles that transcend biology through spiritual enlightenment and above all the "you keep what you kill" honor code of the fremen and necromongers.
As I recall from the Dune books (enjoyed the 1st tremendously, but found the sequels as tedious as Asimov's Foundation series), there's no intelligent alien life anymore. There might not be any alien life forms at all, with all the planets having been teraformed.
And the whole universe being colonized by humans without shoehorning aliens in just because it's space. You could replace aliens with humans in almost every science fiction space movie nowadays and plotwise it wouldn't make a lick of difference.
@@EvilDoresh The Spiffing Brit can attest that, yes, using tea-based accessories, as opposed to coffee, gives you superpowers. All hail the Queen, as she outlives us all.
All of its flaws aside, I actually loved the movie, as well as the entire trilogy (yes, there is a third movie, Riddick). And this mashup of ideas makes it somewhat original and unique. Never expecting from it to be a masterpiece, I had a lot of fun with it. Edit: judging by the comments and likes, many (if not most) other people liked it too, so it's apparently not that bad.
it was refreshing, there's not enough high concept media out there, so you can only enjoy what little you can get your hands on id rather ten low budget films that are interesting and high concept, but not perfect, like riddick series than one big budget film that's safe over designed but ultimately mediocre, like justice league or modern star wars
Riddick is basically Pitch Black, only set after the events of Chronicles. Would've been nice if they stuck to the theme of trying new genres for every movie. Like romantic comedy for instance.
Nah imma have to disagree with you for the first time ever on this one mate, i love all the riddick movies (and games), each one is different from the next, but the character or Riddick is awesome and it's great to watch him thrust into different scenarios.
Yes. The movie had a few small problems like exploding rocks but nothing that would make it a bad movie. Like, Riddick getting to a "good" planet right before the invasion seems unlikely at first. But then you remember that guy from the first movie sent mercenaries for Riddick exactly *because* he knew about invasion coming. Very logical. And mercenary/bounty hunter catching up with him happened because Riddick used his ship. He tracked his property. Again, makes sense. Etc, etc. - Overall it's a good movie, and vast majority of its problems can be solved with some editing. A few seconds of explanations here and there and some calm periods between action letting confused people to process and understand what's happening and why.
Yeah I am in the same boat, but that's ok. Personal tastes factor in majorly, and I'll be the first to admit that I love all the Riddick movies (and games) despite their flaws, and I love that Vin Diesel clearly likes playing the character.
I love how the first 20 odd minutes of the third film is like a silent movie. Just a survival story of Riddick trying to escape mutant dogs, survive injured on a alien planet and overcome a monster blocking his path. Just the action and images telling the story.
@@dylansmit3883 I was happy with that, Pitch Black is a 10/10 Creature Horror Movie, while the second Movie is hot garbage. It was good that they went back to the Roots with the third one.
I saw this before I ever saw Pitch Black -and enjoyed the mythology and "impossible" missions. If you watch this as a stand-alone as opposed to a sequel, there's much to enjoy.
As I noted elsewhere, Vin Diesel actually CAN act, and reasonably well. Check out "Find Me Guilty", a courtroom drama/comedy directed by the great Sidney Lumet with zero action scenes, which Diesel ably carries on his shoulders. The guy gets typecast in a bunch of CGI action movies, most of them terrible, but give him something with an actual coherent plot and ideas, and he can rise to the occasion.
I respect how balls out they went with it. It's cheesy yes, but it's ambitious cheese which is commendable. I really liked the "kneeling" Necromonger fleet ships. Never seen anything like that before.
When you find out that Vin Diesel is a massive D&D nerd, this movie makes a weird kind of sense, or at least you can kind of understand why Vin thought it was a good idea. I wonder if he had been playing in a Dark Sun campaign around the time he was making it?
Vin Desiel is on record for saying that his take of Riddick was basically as a Scifi version of Drow Assassin he played in D&D. A lethal killer with a preference for knives and the ability to see in the dark.
Riddick is a bad ass character and I want more films + Anime. I don't need Vin Diesel to act, just to be tough and moody. His universe could be endless.
@@shadowfox8425 there is also a movie that came out 10 years after this one or something, in the 2010s I think, simply called "Riddick." It's the spiritual successor to the first because it's just him on a planet with a dingo dongo dog thing that he saves. It's like I Am Legend in space ? Anyway it's way less grandiose and a lot more like Pitch Black than Chronicles.
I honestly liked this movie. Riddick seemed shoehorned in as if the script wasn't strong enough to made into a movie unless Riddick was there. Overall, I liked it.
It was a good movie! One of those movies you can watch over and over again. Vin Diesel's not a bad actor the hate is copmpletely undesreved. Drinker should switch to beer...
I always though of him as amoral and wanting to be left alone. It doesn't help that the few people he had any respect for, let alone liked, all die (RIP alien doggo).
Drinker does make some excellent points about this fillum, The run to the spaceport from the prison always bugged the hell outa me - they're going cross-country on foot across ridiculously un-crossable terrain expecting to both beat the sunrise AND the mercs who took the power sled there - seriously? and the whole sunrise of death was indeed incredibly selective about who it burned to a crisp.... But I also have to say it's a guilty pleasure of mine - One of my favourite fillums. i also thought the follow up flick was pretty decent.
@@jamied1579 -So much in Chronicles doesn’t make logical sense but it still works. A true fable set in a bizarre universe that is so much fun to escape to.
I agree, there's too many Sci Fi films where they take the concept way too seriously. But they really embraced the camp, OTT nature of the story and ran with it. Its a lot of fun.
So, I saw this in theaters when I was in grade 10 with my mates. None of us had seen the first one so this was our only exposure to the character. I loved this movie. I thought it was campy fun and something to enjoy without thinking too much.
@@EvilDoresh Totally agree. For me, Chronicles was still an awesome spectacle even though it really didn't make a lot of sense. I'm glad they returned to the original premise for the character in the third movie though.
@@EvilDoresh it's funny. Many years later I got all 3. I started watching pitch black 3 times after work and fell asleep every time. I've never made it past halfway lol
It’s fun but let’s be honest with ourselves it’s not good in the objective sense. However I’ll take sleazy and dumb action popcorn movies over some tired and dull corporate crap they push out or worse boring crap.
I actually liked this movie. I think the Riddick universe is a pretty cool one. And the Purifier's death scene was moving and visually memorable. The most jarring thing was the vast difference between the technology we saw in Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick.
I think it is half a good movie. I watch the prison break stuff and do the dishes or laundry through all the necromonger crap. If they would have just stuck with the small-stakes personal story and ditched all the "let's save the universe" crap it would have been much better.
Riddick didn't get his soul ripped out because he made the saving throw. Also Lord Marshal must've borked his character build something fierce to be defeated by a non-spellcaster.
Yeah I've heard that about him. I think he's kind of a nerd in real life. And he seems like he's fairly down to Earth, actually. He gets pooped on but I like him.
I know this movie has a lot of flaws but for me it was saved by moments of badassery. Being chased by the Sun is still one of the most fun idea's I've seen in Sci Fi movies.
It is fun, yes. But just like in The Mummy Returns, sunrise is portrayed wrong: 1. You absolutely cannot run fast enough to be quicker than a planet's rotation cycle 2. Light from the star shines from the horizon over higher places first, and then the lower ones. It's like a wall of light descending from the sky on you. To put it simply, their heads will burn before their legs. Ergo, unless you wear some freaky sci-fi sneakers, you can never outrun a sunrise. Edit: I do need to correct myself, though. The sunrise is NOT portrayed wrong. As our heroes climb the ridge and the sunlight catches up to them, it is visible how it moves down the stone wall. And that is how it is in reality. I was going to go on a tangent about planet mass, surface types and so on, how they are related etc to shed a bit more light on why you cannot outrun a sunrise, but in the end - who gives a shit. The film not making a lick of sense does not stop me from liking it. Was my favorite for years.
@@shtimpo #1 purely depends on the rotation speed of the planet. It varies a lot. In our own solar system, the longest day belongs to Venus, at 243 earth days, and the shortest is Jupiter, at 9 hours 55 minutes. The only gripe that Drinker had regarding this scene that is hard to explain is how the planet would have an atmosphere or oxygen to breath, given the extreme daylight temperature. Atmospheric oxygen is generally regarded by astronomers, planetary scientists, and exobiologists as being created by life, which is how a lot of them are, and will be (when we get better telescopes), searching for extraterrestrial life, via the specific oxygen signature in exoplanet spectroscopy. Explaining how oxygen producing life could survive on such a planet would be difficult to explain, but not impossible, especially in a scifi universe.
HAHAHAHA! Dude, this movie is awesome. Seriously, you took this film wayyyy too seriously. This film is literally just good ol escapist fun. And doesn't take itself too seriously. It's like watching Firefly or something. It's just meant to be fun. Hehehehe
Vin Diesel is a huge nerd. I like to think that he genuinely enjoyed the Riddick movies despite them being in a different vein than all of the F&F and action stuff he's been in. I certainly did.
I'll gladly dissagre with you on this one - I like this movie verry much. It have its flaws, but is verry entertaining. It's verry different than Pitch Black - for me it is positive, because why not. And I'll gladly return to this universe - I have it on my DVD collection :D EDIT: Congratulations on 733k subscribers - you deserve this kind of rapid grow!
Same for me. I’d like to see a proper sequel to CoR. The lore of this universe with necromongers is intriguing. Plus Karl Urban as Vaako. I want to see Vaako come back from the underverse.
@@clarity2199 While I really liked Pitch Black, I also really liked Chronicles of Riddick. The follow up Riddick where they tried to take the franchise back to Pitch Black's formula not so much.
I think the point is "Pitch Black" was kinda the small budget teaser and with "Chronicles" it was supposed to be the big budget masterpiece when the reality is it was just a "shut your brain off" B-Movie. I don't hate this film but I thought the character of Riddick could've done something much better.
The riddick movies are so very strange. The first is brutal, the second batshit crazy, then the third is both. Riddick is up there with some of my favourite movies and the scene where the other furian walks into the sun in the chronicles of Riddick is one of the most powerful scenes I have ever witnessed in a movie.
The Riddick movie subscribes to the Highlander 2 school of sequels. ignore everything that was good about a movie that was never meant to have a sequel, and make it some bonkers plot that makes no sense.
There's an animated movie called "Dark Fury" that takes place in the transition between The 1st two films. Its a merc ship/prison escape plot that fleshes out several of the plots in Chronicles. Vin still voices Riddick like in the games.
The Chronicles of Riddick is just one of those crazy bonkers movies that some people just liked. Including me! And he killed that guy with a tea cup. The type of cup is actually part of the joke. Did I mention bonkers?!?!
@@BlackstarSI I LOVE The Chronicles of Riddick, i love all the Riddick movies, i cannot understand that people do not like The Chronicles of Riddick, but the best version is The Chronicles of Riddick Unrated Director's Cut, that one is fantastic. The Chronicles of Riddick Unrated Director's Cut is a great movie with great actors and a great special fx and a great story.
To be honest, I'm a little surprised the Drinker is so hard on this film. I really only agree with his sentiment that the film is bonkers. Perhaps that's one of the reasons I like it. It is all over the place, and completely nuts. I hope, before Vin is too old to play the character, that somebody or some company ponies up the cash to give us his journey into the Underverse. My Dad also really likes the movie, to the point that he's the only 60+ years old retired podiatrist that I know that would unironically say "you keep what you kill....it's the necromonger way!" while eating a steak.
Came back to add - Karl Urban’s costume, hair, makeup and demeanor here are absolute perfection. We need a film with this character as the lead. Ditch the harpy wife of course.
I unironically love this movie. It is so batshit insane that it has a certain charm to it. I love all the Riddick movies. Got to love the sheer balls to the wall insanity they bring to the table.
Realy strange, because i love the first one and like the third one, but i cant force myself to watch the whole second Movie.
Drinker pretty much pointed out why so many stuff is wrong with the Movie and its just bad.
Same here. I love it. Sure, it’s not pitch black. But I didn’t want to watch a repeat of pitch black. I love the world they created and the story they told.
Love this movie as well. I tend to think it's highly underrated. Very re-watchable.
Ditto. This series is off the wall, and I love it. It even tempted me to read the comic series, that it came from.
Yep. i fucking love it myself. Watched it many times.
"Why would you even construct a prison complex in such ridiculously dangerous environment?"
As an Australian, that's not a question I expected to hear in a British accent.
actually lol'd
@@orbitalpunch4711 Yes & no.
Australia was basically a prison for the undesirables of the British Empire, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Oh, and everything in Australia can pretty much kill you....even the Koalas lol jk jk 😜
Lmao😂😂😂😂😂
Nice comment! :-)
Not gonna lie this film is pure guilty pleasure for me. I know it isn't great but I have such a fun time with it!
Having fun is not the Necro-monger way.
I didn't watch either the 1st movie or this one, but just hearing Drinker's description of the film, I thought "huh. This may be a film I would enjoy because it would be pretty funny"
This movie does so many things wrong, and yet I can't stop enjoying every minute of it. Plus it has Dame Judi Dench.
more power to ya. i have a library of guilty pleasure movies that i know are terrible.
@@purplecipher6961 No, you're not the only person alive :P
"Then he walks outside and vaporizes himself because he's not Vin Diesel."
Ah; death by not being Vin Diesel. It's a surprisingly common affliction.
That was tight!!
i'm bald, no one's killed me yet so it must at least have a placebo solution to that
@@elikyiael8740 Can you drive a car to space too? 😂
@@Shadow__133 ... fast and furious did that?
@@elikyiael8740 I suspect so on F9, and that was probably the least unreasonable scene.
I’d take a Riddick - Return to the Underverse over Disney Star Wars or Dumb Trek any day!
*Dudney
I read your post in my mind with the drinkers voice. Sounds like something he would say.
Except for the movie Riddick I.e. pitch black 2
Hell yeah
There exist no counter argument to this sentiment.
Not gonna lie, this movie is really entertaining to watch, kind of a coherent story, neat visuals, Vin being cool af. I frankly pick it over most of modern action/fantasy flicks.
Yea, this is one I love, and give it an 11/10... but I understand why people don't
@@spamwaffles1419 Yup, absolutely. And you dont even have to turn your brain off, those arent dumb.
I enjoyed both movies. Still do.
Yeah I've always enjoyed the Riddick movies too, crazy as they are. But Diesel would rather make 145 douchie Fast and Furious movies, which was always a shame.
And it's not just a retread of Riddick vs the Monsters. Full marks for them for doing something a little unexpected.
"Cool story, Drinker."
*Proceeds to rewatch the Chronicles of Riddick*
Seriously, this movie is great. He drank led or something.
I must have watched it at least 5 times by now. Coming to think of it, it's been a while.
PS: Threshold! Take us to the Threshold!
Love re-watching this film with all my friends who haven't seen it yet, and they all freaking love it.
I really enjoied this one too. Drinker is way to critical here.
@@peterrevens8454 It's almost as if he's some kind of Critical Drinker even.
"A bonkers farce of a movie" yes, yes it is. And i love every god damn second of it.
Yeah, just because a movie is over the top and pretentious doesn’t mean it’s not really fun and awesome.
I watch it like every year lol
amen!
I agree, this is one of my favorites!
Yeah, there are plot holes. A completely entertaining movie though.
Which is all it has to be.
That shot of Vin Diesel sitting on the throne made me realize: This is meant to be Conan the Barbarian in Space!
We keep what we kill
Conan the destroyer is better
And he wore his crown upon a troubled brow....
@@_Luluko_ I beg to differ good sir! I watched about a month ago and it’s still awesome! Maybe it’s just because I identified with Conans childhood. I too am the son of a blacksmith and started my apprenticeship as a boilermaker when at the tender age of 15 the Vanir Raiders decimated my village and for the next 4 years I was tied to the “wheel of pain” aka an ancient radial overhead drill where every day I physically lifted giant steel plates onto the table and drilled holes in them which turned me from a weedy little kid when I started to nearly 2 metres of angry 20 year old muscle. Anyway, long story short, eventually after many adventures treading the jewelled cities of the world beneath my sandalled feet, I managed to usurp the crown of Aquilonia and I wear it upon my troubled brow....
Its very much a Sword-and-Sandals movie, because Scorpion King is one too and both movies have the similar plots using that genre's tropes.
Both movies feature a protagonist who is the last of his kind, known for their warrior abilities.
Both fight against an army led by a king that uses supernatural help.
Both end with the protag killing the evil king and taking his throne for themselves.
"Vin Diesel's got big muscles, and... well, not much else."
He's got _family._
lol
Cringe
And Corona beer
How do you know? He *never* mentions it 🤷♂️
@@josephsalmonte4995
Bruh, that's how he always defeats the bad guys.
I'm glad to see the commenters are standing up for this movie. Was it the best Sci Fi ever made? No, probably not. Is it damn fun to watch? Absolutely yes.
I didn't have to be. Someone finally made something that wasn't a rip-off of Star Wars.
I love this film. There’s something to be said about turning your brain off and just enjoying some expensive cheap sci-fi. I’m genuinely upset they didn’t make a sequel along the same lines.
they did riddick (2013)
@@dieLX479 But not in the sence of a "Chronicles of Riddick" sequel. I think, that is what he meant with "along the same lines".
@@thinkbeforepostingnow Yeah, the 3rd one was kinda...meh, but I still enjoyed it. Thinking about the three movies, I really need to check Amazon and see if they have a cool trilogy collection or a steelbook. Also, I actually bought the goggles that Riddick wears cause I loved his character so much. Lol!! I still have them in one of my drawers. I need to wear them, but I think they got fogged up really easily.
@@They_drew_first_blood they have an animated movie that bridges pitch black and the chronicles of Riddick also a fourth movie is rumored to be in the works
@@thinkbeforepostingnow yeah and a lotta people wondered why they didn’t make a sequel to pitch black along the same lines as… pitch black. Instead we got this bloated embarrassing space opera. How can you go from Aliens to Dune?
Im with the overwelming majority of the comments. i really liked this movie when it came out and i still enjoy whatching it every couple of years
Just because the movie structure is bad doesn't mean its not entertaining to watch ^_^
same
@@LeePatekar I wouldnt say the movie was structurally bad .It has 3 well defined cookie cutter acts as most of the hollywood movies have...Its problem are the tonal inconsistence between its parts and its world building,which in short means that the necromongers plot doesnt mix well with the first movie and the escape sequence tone wise...
Nostalgia is one hell of a drug. And I'm addicted too.
Same bro
I know it's a rediculous movie but I actually really like Chronicles of Riddick, it feels like a throw back to 80's fantasy and sci fi.
This is nothing like Beastmaster or The Last Starfighter.
That's exactly how I feel. First time I watched it I thought it was dumb but this came out during a time when cinema was trying to be too dark and edgy. After revisiting this film I actually had a lot of fun with it. The same way I can enjoy Batman & Robin now by not taking it seriously.
I like Drinker's views and opinions most of the time but I do think he's wrong in some cases. Sometimes a film is just meant to be fun. It doesnt need to be logically flawless.
Riddickulous*
Same!
@@yousircantknow8987 I have not seen either of those movies.
To be fair, lord of the rings in space sounds pretty fucking lit
Any excuse to have space dragons is a go 👍🏿
Vin Diesel wanted more sword and sorcery in his space adventure. It was a far more competent attempt than Jupiter Ascending.
I thought while flawed, the series had a lot of interesting new sci fi concepts. Just could have been done better.....
I thought Avengers: Infinity War was going to be "Lord of the Rings in Space". Chronicles of Riddick felt more "Conan in Space".
@@Day7Reset I found the most insane romance novel series that was improperly placed in the Sci Fi section at my bookstore called the Dragon Lords of Valder. It’s about advanced aliens who can also shapeshift into dragons because why not who also somehow end up finding humans in space to instantly fall in love with (despite this taking place in our time when we don’t have interstellar travel) . But it’s also a romance novel series (aka cringey porn in written form) so I wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re into that sort of thing or just that desperate for dragons in space.
I actually saw this film before Pitch Black when I was a kid and I absolutely loved it, it’s almost like it isn’t even a sequel, it’s so removed from the first that you don’t even need to have seen it. To this day I think it’s such an underrated film
I saw this one before pitch black and enjoyed both very much
Watch dark fury and it all makes sense you do need to watch pitch black
@@Soul27Hacker I watched it dark fury that awesome !!!
I did the same thing, but was confused the whole time about the relationship of the people in it cuz I didn't see Pitch Black. So you kinda need to see the 1st one. It made a lot more sense after a rewatch once I saw Pitch Black.
But you're right, you can still enjoy it cuz so much of it is all new.
I honestly enjoyed this movie. Especially when it was somewhat hinted at in Pitch Black via a throwaway line from Riddick about God
It was a fun movie. I'm surprised Drinker disliked it so much. It's certainly better than any of the comic book movies we're stuck watching for Hollywood big budget action these days.
@@CaffyPvP I know. I thought this would be something he would enjoy because it’s original
Yeah, I think Drinker might not get the reaction he was hoping for with this vid,
The section where there running from the sun is very memorable, can’t think of anything remotely similar.
In fact, if it hadn't been for that 'Riddick" character, the movie could have been a nice gothic scifi. It definitely had a distinct taste.
I'm with Critic. That movie is a fucking disaster and a complete Piece of Shit.
I did rewatch this movie many times and I think I'm not the only one here. How many movies nowadays deserve the respect of re-watching them, out of pleasure? But this one deserves that. That sais it all......
Agree. Think drinker is drunk on this one
Facts!
Love this movie. I tend to think it's highly underrated. Very re-watchable.
Ditto!
Honestly, of the 3 this is the worst. I like to rewatch pitch black and like even more riddick. It was the same movie as the first, but in my opinion is better
I unironically liked this movie when I was a teenager and watched it several times on the merit of it being so wonderfully bizarre.
it's a great movie, this is a shit review
@@amvlabs5339 you do know the channels Name is CRITICAL drinker, right ? Lol just wasn’t sure.
@@williamharbuck8575 You do realize that you can still enjoy this channel and also still think this was a shit take, right?
Me with all three movies and the one animated one lol
@@amvlabs5339 the review is ok, i loved the movie but yeah sometimes we love terrible movies.
This film is guilty of all the Sins you call out... but I've watched it every time it showed up while channel surfing, and would watch it again. It just works- maybe in spite of its flaws, maybe because of its flaws, or maybe because it does not apologize for its flaws and wholeheartedly embraces them.
I agree.... most movies he rips to shreds are total shit but this one despite being just as ripable is actually a really good movie
It's like if Star Wars went in self aware it never would have worked. If you wanna be different, then be different. You can't make an all new concept and hold back. It's either a new world/universe or it isn't. That's why this movie works, they went all in and made something genuinely interesting.
_WORD!_ @@bassmunk
It's a guilty pleasure. And you have to give credit it's very creative, yes it would of been better as a separate film franchise with better writing. But hey at least it's watchable, that scene where Lord Marshall rips that man's soul out will always be cool. Not smart but cool.
i liked Chronicles of Riddick, the world was interesting and fun.
yeah same, i didn’t think it was meant to be taken too seriously just a fun movie
there’s a third movie that’s actually not half bad, more like the first one less space fantasy
Agreed. Chronicles ruled. The Directors cut is the best.
That scene on Crematoria where he jumps and hacks off that guys head with the two knives ripped!
Well underrated film.
It definitely has its bruh moments but it's a really awesome film.
"Do me a favor... dust my dick when you get the chance"
Agreed. This movie rules. Not because it's intelligent or original, but because it's *fun.* You can tell that the actors enjoyed it, too.
@@jeremysmith9291 "Shoudda taken the money, Toombs."
"If I owned this place and Hell, I would rent this place out and lived in Hell."
"Soon he will be promoted to fully dead."
This is a great movie, very Heavy Metal Magazine feel. We all need more Riddick movies.
This ^ - I couldn't tell why I had this sense of déja vu for this movie, but you nailed it. Totally feels like something out of HM / Métal Hurlant. I didn't like it, but I couldn't bring myself to actually dislike it.
It is metal as fu*k! Crematoria is perfect name for metal band.
All Riddick movies are metal, while the overhyped generic superhero movies are pop.
I didn’t love the 3rd one as much as the first 2 but for my own stupid reason but I still liked it. And Katee Sackhoff was in it and kicked ass.
Katee is kick-ass
@@nekograce7914 the first third, where it's just Riddick learning how to be a survivor again, was the best part. It had so little dialog, but if they'd made an entire film like that, it would have been incredible and unique.
The end scene, with Riddick on the throne, is a callback to the end of Conan. Vin Diesel reminding us of that "next Arnold Schwarzenegger" thing.
@Tano I can only imagine how much Vin envies the Rock. Dwayne has MORE muscles AND ACTUAL ACTING SKILLS. He got it all!
I'm surprised the they didn't give him the title "Riddick of Steel" to drive the point home.
Many wars and feuds did Conan fight. Honor and fear were heaped upon his name. In time, he would become a king by his own hand.
I find both Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson pretty bland compared to Schwarzenegger. It's probably not their fault. It's the politically correct age we're living in. Most action movies have been bland and forgettable since the late 90's
@@Antihero297 Arnold is naturally a bigger than life persona. Johnson and Diesel just don't fit into that.
the chronicles of riddick has so much world building that for years i was convinced that it was actually made from a real book series that for some unexplained reason was impossible to find at bookstores. So disappointed when I finally googled it.
I won't google it, it came from a series I just know it ;)
It came from Vin Diesel's love of Dungeons & Dragons. Fantasy nuts will always take the opportunity to worldbuild!
Ditto
I thought the same thing. And I actually found such a book, called "The Chronicles of Riddick", but it turned out to be what they call "novelization", that is just a book retelling the movie and not very good at that. The only interesting thing about it was that they have added a short history of the "necromongers" as an appendix in the end - not a bad world-building if it was a series, but the story was nothing more than we already knew from the movie...
Vin Diesel, loves playing Riddick. He willingly took a 50% paycut to help get the 3rd movie off the ground
That film sucked soooo hard
@@clarencetuurngait7628 what?! That movie was fuckin awesome
@@DJ-3D no he's right. It was a ripoff of the original but less original and didn't progress character or plot.
There’s a 3rd movie?
Katie Sackoff helped
John Wick has pencils. Richard Riddick has tea cups
So did val kilmers doc holiday
Perhaps you could do a video on Butcher Bay? 😉
F***ing pencils.
@@hillaryclinton2415 You mad lass, remembering Val Kilmer in what's possibly his best role. ^_^
"I'm your huckleberry..."
Love this movie. With reboots and lack of originality, this movie tried to make something of its own mythology.
Agreed...it was far from perfect but I still watch it every time it pops up on TV/streaming. It's more original and daring than a lot of sci-fi these days
@@ministryoflies1344
I second that👌👌
But back in the early 00s there wasn't the same reboot/remake mania of today (it was mostly limited to horror franchises).
This movie was entertaining
I love it too
I think the reason people love this movie so much (myself included) is because you can see the passion behind it and some creativity creating something new
I love this movie, gotta say the fact that they go to crematoria isnt a convenience, Riddick gets them to take him there
Yeah, the Drinker fumbled with this one!
@@walt_man He got a lot wrong. Including the fact that it was a _tea_ cup, not a coffee cup!
He didn't make them take him there. It was Toombs decision, not Riddick's. He only told them that there is only one "diabolical" place Toombs was referring to, that is within the range of their ship.
@@shtimpo it's been so long lol. Let's all rewatch it!
@@shtimpo no Riddick kinda lists a few places ending with him saying that crematoria is the only "real" choice and Tombes is like yeah, riddick made tombes think it was his own idea, least thats how i took the scene. Make the idiot do what you want by making him think that you expect him to make that choice cause he is so smart and badass
"Critical Drinker: This movie will be remembered as shait!"
"All your fans: Naaaa... it will be fine!"
It is shait . . tried to watch it a few times & never got past more than 10 minutes
haha from the comments practically everyone likes it. what must he think of us all now? :) I dare Drinker to review... Xanadu
@@joebobhenrybob2000 never ending story
@National Socialism Oh yes I.m in an minority interestingly small that thinks all Hoodwink studio's steaming subversive _arxist efforts are not good to ingest . . enjoy your meal
@National Socialism It was a slow burn but I got you now man . . good one & I don't mean the ovens haha
I usually agree with your analysis but this movie is fun and a decent effort.
Agreed. Was quite surprised way back when.
@@badbilly7499 why does a sequel have to follow the exact formula of the original lol? What kind of cultist weed are you smoking?
@@The420kingchronic It's not that the movie isn't a remaster of Pitch Black, it's that it essentially took Riddick into a different universe with different rules and tried to pretend it didn't. Imagine if the next CSI spinoff took place on Mars, complete with native Martians and breathable atmosphere, and we were expected to believe that it was the exact same universe as every other one.
@@angrymokyuu1951 what different universe? Pitch Black had no universe or story to speak of, just a boring low budget crap.
Exactly.
Underrated sci-fi movie. It depicted a great universe that made me want to learn more about it in a future sequel that sadly never came
Always enjoyed this movie...it's a shame they abandoned the story they've built in this one to revert back to a pitch black remake in the next one
Exactly. What a waste.
agreed but the movie still gets mad probs for what riddick dared to say to katee sackhoff's character and the dog was cool
yep, totally agree.
surely they could have found a better way to give Riddick a puppy to bond with....
Would have been more bad ass if Riddick and Varko actually messed up a few worlds first, Riddick leads the Necromongers to the edge of Underverse, hands over the reigns to Varko and walks away, even more badass if they have a bro-down first, Riddick wins, but gives the keys to the kingdom to Varko anyway..... Free will and all that.
in return Varko gives him a ship and a crew, some hot Necro chicks and the coordinates to Furia to start anew, and a token repayment for the previous Lord Marshall's genocidal rampage, closing scene of the movie... Varko at the gates of Underverse with an intentionally cringe video call to Riddick.... "i'll be back"
License to print sequel dollar dollar bills y'all 😵
You're correct
It´s not remake, it´s basically Pitch Black 2 - it´s like poetry, it rhymes!
And it was made because of people like Drinker and because of lack of budget.
It has IMO the best scene of all these movies: that one where Riddick trolls Johns senior and he totally explodes: "Maybe in the last minute of your life you could be something else than GODDAMN SAVAGE!!!!!"
If the last 10 years of Pop Culture _entertainment_ dreck has proven anything it's that we need _Riddick_ now more than ever. An underrated character and franchise.
I agree. I've rewatched this so many times and always loved it. Such an ENTERTAINING film. I feel like Riddick as a character was still honored in this film, even if the movie surrounding him was just so out there compared to the previous one. It shows there's a lot going on in this universe worth exploring, and even to this day it is still unique and interesting. The first and third movies were better and stuck to the concept more faithfully but I wouldn't say the second movie was bad. It had a lot of flaws but also a lot of fun and charm. Like you said compared to most of what comes out today, this is actually almost necessary to combat the blandness. It is no different from a comic-y style batman or blade film.
100% agree. In a dimension just a hair's breadth from ours, SJWs and Antifa died on the vine where they deserved to, Riddick #12 is coming out this Summer and people are playing the trailer on loop in anticipation.
Also, Star Wars is still good.
The underrated games were good too.
Current entertainment is mostly schmutz
@@okramoffacebook1381 Man, I loved his xBox game, he voiced acted it himself, it's like a comic book world, there is magic, there is science, there is wit and there is grit, but in the end, it is about the title hero of the series, and redek was a badass of the highest order
Glad to see I’m not alone in my appreciation for this ridiculous movie.
I guess you can say it was a…Riddickulous movie!
Ok, I’ll leave now.
It's dope why ridiculous
Didnt you mean to say riddickulous? ;)
The third one is a little closer to pitch black. Plus it has a Katie sackhoff shower scene so it's obviously the best one. Lol
It wasn't too bad a movie, especially in light of the rest of the junk out at that time. I liked "Pitch Black" the best though, then the 2013 "Riddick", then the "Chronicles of Riddick" and the animated film "Dark Fury". Its a toss-up between the last two, though. The sequel was a lot of fun, but as Critical Drinker says, left alot to be desired....
This movie is a guilty pleasure for me. Watched it more times than I should, probably. Gonna watch it again now that you reminded me of it.
When I saw it, it wasn’t as good as Pitch Dark but I still had fun with it.
Same. About to watch the entire trilogy again.
Chronicles of Riddick is a masterpiece. I love this movie.
agreed. drinker missed the mark on this . honestly surprised
also agreed. I wish it spawned sequels
its dumb as shit but teenager me probably watched it 4 times and the video games were fun too once you got the hang of the melee combat
the last movie really kicks the bucket tho
Agreed, its what led me to pitch black.
@@suqmadique9762 I'm 60 and the teenager in me LOVES this movie lol.
When my brothers watched it, we loved it. There's something very, very charming about a movie that's completely bonkers, takes itself completely seriously, and tries to do something way beyond its actual capabilities.
We said it then and I'll say it now: The movie would be 120% better if the entire cast was Bionicles.
Good god you're right
Drinker: Chronicles of Riddick was an awful disjointed incoherent mess of a movie.
This comment section: We love it!
Well he's right, but I still enjoyed it.
Drinker: (reaches for whiskey bottle)
A rare miss, but indeed a miss. Next ambiguous good?/bad? sci-fi fantasy film to review: Reign of Fire
Batman & Robin was an awful disjointed incoherent mess of a movie.
We love it!
I aint gonna try and convince you Chronicles of Riddick is good. But its dumb fun ie. Commando.
Even though I have a soft spot for TCoR, I still side with the drinker on this one.
Chronicles of Riddick is a guilty pleasure.
I feel no guilt when I watch it. Only the pride of a Furyan.
It’s fun for sure.
I like it, because it was the last movie my stepmom, father, and I watched together, before she died of breast cancer.
@@heatherphillips5983 sorry for your loss, I hope when you watch Chronicles of Riddick you will always feel the love you shared and remember the good times you had together
Right?
I rewatch this movie every few years. I can see all the flaws but I actually still love it deeply.
Same here. It's my go to for when I want to watch something but don't know what.
Riddick was good as well. I really like all three movies. This one was my least favorite though.
This movie was an homage to the 80’s swords and sandals epics like Conan, Red Sonja, Krull, and Beastmaster. Instead of taking place in some weird alternate past, it takes place in space, during some weird possible future. I love it- despite its obvious flaws- for that reason.
Exactly what I was thinking. A sword and sorcery story.
True
Say what you want, I still enjoyed the movie as an over-the-top action film. The scenes look epic, and everything is shamelessly overdriven. It is a true guilty-pleasure masterpiece in my book.
A masterpiece has to actually be good though. It might be fun but we cant say its good though right?
I fully agree
I agree except for the masterpiece bit. We all know and agree that this movie is trash. If you cut out all the Necromonger nonsense it is actually a pretty tight little heist movie (or escape movie).
So are we gonna ignore the actual riddick sequel the animated second movie ? No? Ok
@@blkvnm6003 What??? 😲
I loved the Chronicles of Riddick. There’s so much potential to explore.
Personally I’m waiting for the next one. I mean riddock survived his assassination attempt and got off of not furya.
Plus that prison scene and the escape is so awesome
I love the Riddick movies. I hope they make a 4th one where he finds his home world.
@@MikesGlitch that's what he's referencing. Krone betrays Riddick and attempts to kill him, and leaves him stranded on the planet Riddick dubs "Not Furya". He gets off the planet at the end of the film, Elyas was saying he can't wait for what comes afterwards.
I actually liked this movie, it's the closest on screen depiction we've gotten to to a Dune universe. Desert worlds falling in one night to unstoppable armies, humans with mental abilities that let them calculate the future, fighting styles that transcend biology through spiritual enlightenment and above all the "you keep what you kill" honor code of the fremen and necromongers.
Thank you for speaking my mind
As I recall from the Dune books (enjoyed the 1st tremendously, but found the sequels as tedious as Asimov's Foundation series), there's no intelligent alien life anymore. There might not be any alien life forms at all, with all the planets having been teraformed.
Glad to see I'm not alone. The story is completely fawked but I like it
And the whole universe being colonized by humans without shoehorning aliens in just because it's space. You could replace aliens with humans in almost every science fiction space movie nowadays and plotwise it wouldn't make a lick of difference.
I adore Chronicles. It's one of my favorite movies. I like that it's so unique
"This entire sequence is absolute insanity" - so is the entire movie and that's why I love it.
but really the way the Drinker broke it down was amazing, lol.... "Vin Diesel had to outrun the Sun".....great content
Not the entire movie, but yeah that sequence where they had to run like 15 miles on that surface is kind of unbelievable.
Vin Diesel might not be a great actor, but his voice is one of a kind and is perfect in the action genre
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I do love the way he introduced himself in Pitch Black: "Richard B. Riddick. Escaped convict. Murderer."
I am Groot.
He's no worse than Arnold and look how icon many of his movies are
He’s not a bad actor either. He’s just a rather niche dude. He’s great in specific types of roles. Like this.
Drinker: Don't watch this movie, it sucks!
Me: Nah, it'll be fine.
yeah... I don't think I will like it if I rewatch it. but it's one of my childhood favorites.
I honestly found Riddick to be a worse sequel than chronicles
@Cody Ingram I thought they tried to repeat too many beats from Pitch Black in Riddick. Still a fun third entry but the other two I enjoyed more.
Riddickulous indeed
@@beaulachance7439 Agree.... third movie was painfully slow and boring
I love Chronicles of Riddick. It's an amazing Sci Fi schlock fest.
He didn’t kill them with a “coffee cup”...it was a tea cup. There’s a BIG difference lol.
It hurts more, I assume.
@@EvilDoresh The Spiffing Brit can attest that, yes, using tea-based accessories, as opposed to coffee, gives you superpowers. All hail the Queen, as she outlives us all.
irrelevant. more important, did he stir or chop?
My Tea Cups are normally bigger than my Coffee Cups. So they would hurt more xD
Only De Niro can pull off an ambush with a coffee cup.
All of its flaws aside, I actually loved the movie, as well as the entire trilogy (yes, there is a third movie, Riddick). And this mashup of ideas makes it somewhat original and unique. Never expecting from it to be a masterpiece, I had a lot of fun with it.
Edit: judging by the comments and likes, many (if not most) other people liked it too, so it's apparently not that bad.
Two things can be true at the same time ;) The movie sucks on a technical level, there's no doubt about that. But that's not always what matters.
@@Volkbrecht Just in the same way that Fallout Frontier is technically awesome, but storywise...an abomination.
I didn't hate this movie but it was a bit too dense. I prefer to watch Riddick, even though it's a bit of a re-hash
it was refreshing, there's not enough high concept media out there, so you can only enjoy what little you can get your hands on
id rather ten low budget films that are interesting and high concept, but not perfect, like riddick series
than one big budget film that's safe over designed but ultimately mediocre, like justice league or modern star wars
Riddick is basically Pitch Black, only set after the events of Chronicles. Would've been nice if they stuck to the theme of trying new genres for every movie. Like romantic comedy for instance.
The most pretentious movie ever made, I fuckin love chronicles of riddick
Fuckin' A
Same, its awesome. Pitch Black bored me to tears
Nah imma have to disagree with you for the first time ever on this one mate, i love all the riddick movies (and games), each one is different from the next, but the character or Riddick is awesome and it's great to watch him thrust into different scenarios.
Yes. The movie had a few small problems like exploding rocks but nothing that would make it a bad movie. Like, Riddick getting to a "good" planet right before the invasion seems unlikely at first. But then you remember that guy from the first movie sent mercenaries for Riddick exactly *because* he knew about invasion coming. Very logical.
And mercenary/bounty hunter catching up with him happened because Riddick used his ship. He tracked his property. Again, makes sense. Etc, etc.
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Overall it's a good movie, and vast majority of its problems can be solved with some editing. A few seconds of explanations here and there and some calm periods between action letting confused people to process and understand what's happening and why.
Yeah I am in the same boat, but that's ok. Personal tastes factor in majorly, and I'll be the first to admit that I love all the Riddick movies (and games) despite their flaws, and I love that Vin Diesel clearly likes playing the character.
He needs Irish content
There's games?
@@mildlydazed9608 The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
I actually liked his acting in Guardians of the galaxy.
That's funny
He nailed every line.
lol
he also wasn't bad in the iron giant
Wait is heinous guardians of the galaxy
Not going to lie, Chronicles of Riddick is one of my guilty pleasure movies. It's bad, but it's not that bad.
I love how the first 20 odd minutes of the third film is like a silent movie. Just a survival story of Riddick trying to escape mutant dogs, survive injured on a alien planet and overcome a monster blocking his path. Just the action and images telling the story.
It's just too bad they used it to retread Pitch Black. I really expected more of that movie.
@@dylansmit3883 yeah
@@dylansmit3883 I was happy with that, Pitch Black is a 10/10 Creature Horror Movie, while the second Movie is hot garbage.
It was good that they went back to the Roots with the third one.
@@dylansmit3883 if we’re being completely honest, there’s not a lot of places you can take the premise of Pitch Black.
@@Ebalosus But there are a lot of places you can take Chronicles of Riddick.
Are you kidding? This is one of the most original antihero movies I've ever seen.
Glad to see so many in the comments giving Riddick some love. Sorry Drinker, not with you on this one - haha
well he's not wrong, this middle movie in the Riddick trilogy is really out of place next to the other two, and pretty shit.
Yeah, I'm not with him either this time.
But his record is still pretty good so he gets a pass this time.
Yeah I was a bit surprised to see him make a video like this about the film
I kinda like the movie but it is rather dogshit if you're objective about it. Doesn't mean you can't enjoy it though.
I'd like the movie more if it wasn't the polar opposite of Pitch Black, which was plenty gritty and grounded.
I don’t care what anyone says, this is one of my all time favorite sci-fi movies.
Agreed
I never knew people thought it was bad, I've always liked both movies
Out of curiosity can I ask why? I didn't hate it but didn't like it.
took me forever to notice your handle. thumbs up, sir.
I saw this before I ever saw Pitch Black -and enjoyed the mythology and "impossible" missions. If you watch this as a stand-alone as opposed to a sequel, there's much to enjoy.
My most favorite underrated sci-fi series.
Agreed all 3 of them are amazing!
Yeah I remember watching this at night when I was younger I enjoyed it.
The videogames are also very good.
@@redharrison894 is there 3 ?
@@redharrison894 4 if you count the animated movie between 1 and 2.
The uncut version makes it a whole different & brilliant movie 😎
Say what you will about Vin Diesel- he does a great job of playing an emotionless character struggling to remain emotionless.
it's not that hard to believe that he is really this way or people act like this
@@ironmonkey1512 I know. This is by far his best role.
Vin Diesel>>>>>Brie Larson
As I noted elsewhere, Vin Diesel actually CAN act, and reasonably well.
Check out "Find Me Guilty", a courtroom drama/comedy directed by the great Sidney Lumet with zero action scenes, which Diesel ably carries on his shoulders.
The guy gets typecast in a bunch of CGI action movies, most of them terrible, but give him something with an actual coherent plot and ideas, and he can rise to the occasion.
Dude best comment of the year
I've always had a soft spot for the Riddick movies despite their varying degrees of quality.
Same, hope we get a 4th a final one for closure
Pitch Black, imo, is probably the best of the bunch.
They had that unique, stylish feel to them.
It was a fun character. The "Long Lost Furian" bit lost me. He was fine just being a touch stronger / tougher, than a normal man.
@@Clint52279 Hes meant to be Conan in space. The last furian is basically meant to be like the last Atlantian.
I respect how balls out they went with it. It's cheesy yes, but it's ambitious cheese which is commendable. I really liked the "kneeling" Necromonger fleet ships. Never seen anything like that before.
I love this movie. It's in my 'watch once a year' rotation.
Hit me with that list
When you find out that Vin Diesel is a massive D&D nerd, this movie makes a weird kind of sense, or at least you can kind of understand why Vin thought it was a good idea. I wonder if he had been playing in a Dark Sun campaign around the time he was making it?
I want Riddick to be in my Dark Sun campaign, but set in the Dune universe.
Vin Desiel is on record for saying that his take of Riddick was basically as a Scifi version of Drow Assassin he played in D&D.
A lethal killer with a preference for knives and the ability to see in the dark.
My thoughts exactly!
@@Mister-Thirteen Thought that was The Last Witch Hunter?
@@leadpaintchips9461 He was a fan prior of that movie but yea,
Riddick is a bad ass character and I want more films + Anime. I don't need Vin Diesel to act, just to be tough and moody. His universe could be endless.
I was surprised he didn't get into that as well.
There was one animated movie
i agree.. more Riddick movies.. i liked them all...
I always wished for my Riddick anime, the kind of battles you could tell the series wanted could've been some phenomenal scenes in anime
@@shadowfox8425 there is also a movie that came out 10 years after this one or something, in the 2010s I think, simply called "Riddick." It's the spiritual successor to the first because it's just him on a planet with a dingo dongo dog thing that he saves. It's like I Am Legend in space ? Anyway it's way less grandiose and a lot more like Pitch Black than Chronicles.
To each their own, personally I love this movie.
Same here
Agreed!!
Agreed
Why?
Same
I rewatched all the riddick movies again and I genuinely liked it all. 1st one is the best but they all have good moments.
I honestly liked this movie. Riddick seemed shoehorned in as if the script wasn't strong enough to made into a movie unless Riddick was there. Overall, I liked it.
Yes, I felt that Riddick was just the epitome of chaos and you introduce him into any situation he would work his way out
Yea same in my opinion I thought it was pretty alright movie
yeah me too...
It was a good movie! One of those movies you can watch over and over again. Vin Diesel's not a bad actor the hate is copmpletely undesreved. Drinker should switch to beer...
i really liked it as well honestly.
I love how they keep saying Riddick is evil in this movie but he keeps doing heroic things
I always though of him as amoral and wanting to be left alone. It doesn't help that the few people he had any respect for, let alone liked, all die (RIP alien doggo).
Chaotic Good or Chaotic Neutral, I guess.
@@ZeroBeat1 wait there was an alien doggo?🤣
@@ZeroBeat1 Yea, All I ever see is everyone coming to mess with him. He just wants to live his life in peace.
@@sheikhu1039 Yeah, in the third movie.
Love your videos, Drinker, but you're never going to take away my love for The Chronicles Of Riddick.
Drinker does make some excellent points about this fillum, The run to the spaceport from the prison always bugged the hell outa me - they're going cross-country on foot across ridiculously un-crossable terrain expecting to both beat the sunrise AND the mercs who took the power sled there - seriously? and the whole sunrise of death was indeed incredibly selective about who it burned to a crisp....
But I also have to say it's a guilty pleasure of mine - One of my favourite fillums. i also thought the follow up flick was pretty decent.
@@jamied1579 -So much in Chronicles doesn’t make logical sense but it still works. A true fable set in a bizarre universe that is so much fun to escape to.
Yet every time I see it showing on tv…. I will watch it. I actually enjoy it
“But then Vin Diesel remembers he can’t actually act, so it’s time for another fight scene”
Pretty much sums up every Vin Diesel movie ever
Not entirely true, some times they cut to a some hot chick or a quick gratuitous sex scene. He has range!
His acting was really good in 'A man apart'..
Except _The Iron Giant._
@@WakenerOne Well that was animated, maybe in the future CGI will get good enough the computers can act for him too.
Except for "Find me Guilty"
If your gonna go all in, go all in. And they went all in. Not gonna lie I really like this movie.
Oh they went all in, and then some.
And then a little more on top of that
“I’m gonna go balls deep into Dahl...”. Ok, from “Riddick” but had to be said.
This films was incredible
I agree, there's too many Sci Fi films where they take the concept way too seriously. But they really embraced the camp, OTT nature of the story and ran with it. Its a lot of fun.
So, I saw this in theaters when I was in grade 10 with my mates. None of us had seen the first one so this was our only exposure to the character. I loved this movie. I thought it was campy fun and something to enjoy without thinking too much.
The connections to Pitch Black are strenuous at best. They're really just two wildly different movies that happen to share characters.
@@EvilDoresh Totally agree. For me, Chronicles was still an awesome spectacle even though it really didn't make a lot of sense. I'm glad they returned to the original premise for the character in the third movie though.
@@EvilDoresh it's funny. Many years later I got all 3. I started watching pitch black 3 times after work and fell asleep every time. I've never made it past halfway lol
I swear you can tear apart any movie in this manner..... I actually loved this movie
I actually liked the movie, it's a real fun time.
It’s fun but let’s be honest with ourselves it’s not good in the objective sense. However I’ll take sleazy and dumb action popcorn movies over some tired and dull corporate crap they push out or worse boring crap.
@@asher8754 It's not a good movie, but it's enjoyable ... somehow.
I like this movie as well. It's a pretty original take on space science fiction.
Its a fun to watch, but it does have some really cheesy lines that don't fit well with the tone the movie is going for.
Its a really fun movie i don't get the hate
I actually liked this movie. I think the Riddick universe is a pretty cool one. And the Purifier's death scene was moving and visually memorable.
The most jarring thing was the vast difference between the technology we saw in Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick.
I enjoyed this movie and rewatched it a hundred times. I enjoyed the story and the universe it exists in.
100% agree.
Same here. Animated film is good too.
I think it is half a good movie. I watch the prison break stuff and do the dishes or laundry through all the necromonger crap. If they would have just stuck with the small-stakes personal story and ditched all the "let's save the universe" crap it would have been much better.
@@chuckhoyle1211 imho the "necromonger crap" is the best part of the movie :-))
@@chuckhoyle1211 del thus mobis is motcile star wars
I loved it...especially the extended cut. Original and interesting universe building and solid casting.
It's the 1st time I disagree.
Actually had a good time watching this film.
Yep he's right about a lot and yet I love the film.
This movie makes no sense but i love it
Welcome to the comments
I love it, so goofy it is cool.
Once you realize Vin Diesel is a huge D&D guy, the direction of these movies makes much more sense.
Riddick didn't get his soul ripped out because he made the saving throw.
Also Lord Marshal must've borked his character build something fierce to be defeated by a non-spellcaster.
Yeah I've heard that about him. I think he's kind of a nerd in real life. And he seems like he's fairly down to Earth, actually. He gets pooped on but I like him.
I thought he was a Warhammer 40k fan
@@narutoniichan hes into all the good nerdy stuff
Yeah, I was about to make that point. BIG into fantasy action and every kind of coolness.
I know this movie has a lot of flaws but for me it was saved by moments of badassery. Being chased by the Sun is still one of the most fun idea's I've seen in Sci Fi movies.
Only one speed XD
It is fun, yes. But just like in The Mummy Returns, sunrise is portrayed wrong:
1. You absolutely cannot run fast enough to be quicker than a planet's rotation cycle
2. Light from the star shines from the horizon over higher places first, and then the lower ones.
It's like a wall of light descending from the sky on you. To put it simply, their heads will burn before their legs.
Ergo, unless you wear some freaky sci-fi sneakers, you can never outrun a sunrise.
Edit: I do need to correct myself, though. The sunrise is NOT portrayed wrong. As our heroes climb the ridge and the sunlight catches up to them, it is visible how it moves down the stone wall. And that is how it is in reality.
I was going to go on a tangent about planet mass, surface types and so on, how they are related etc to shed a bit more light on why you cannot outrun a sunrise, but in the end - who gives a shit. The film not making a lick of sense does not stop me from liking it. Was my favorite for years.
@@shtimpo Maybe the planet's rotation is slower hence the large temperature difference?
@@shtimpo #1 purely depends on the rotation speed of the planet. It varies a lot. In our own solar system, the longest day belongs to Venus, at 243 earth days, and the shortest is Jupiter, at 9 hours 55 minutes.
The only gripe that Drinker had regarding this scene that is hard to explain is how the planet would have an atmosphere or oxygen to breath, given the extreme daylight temperature. Atmospheric oxygen is generally regarded by astronomers, planetary scientists, and exobiologists as being created by life, which is how a lot of them are, and will be (when we get better telescopes), searching for extraterrestrial life, via the specific oxygen signature in exoplanet spectroscopy. Explaining how oxygen producing life could survive on such a planet would be difficult to explain, but not impossible, especially in a scifi universe.
Agreed!
HAHAHAHA! Dude, this movie is awesome. Seriously, you took this film wayyyy too seriously. This film is literally just good ol escapist fun. And doesn't take itself too seriously. It's like watching Firefly or something. It's just meant to be fun. Hehehehe
Vin Diesel is a huge nerd. I like to think that he genuinely enjoyed the Riddick movies despite them being in a different vein than all of the F&F and action stuff he's been in. I certainly did.
Didn't he have a game development studio?
@@JohnDoe-cz5yz Yeah they made a prequel to Pitch Black, the game and its remake are actually good first person stealth and shooter.
Me too!
I was so bummed when I found out there weren’t any more of these Riddick adventures coming. Huge missed opportunity
I wish they'd used the butcher's bay or assault on dark athena story lines.
Rumor has it he'll be joining the MCU. ;)...lol
So true
They made a third movie ripping off Pitch Black beat for beat. It's called Riddick, amazingly enough.
@@whiskeysour1179 its actually fun too.
I'll gladly dissagre with you on this one - I like this movie verry much. It have its flaws, but is verry entertaining. It's verry different than Pitch Black - for me it is positive, because why not. And I'll gladly return to this universe - I have it on my DVD collection :D
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Funny thing for me, I hated Pitch Black. But I loved the Chronicles of Riddick!
Same for me. I’d like to see a proper sequel to CoR. The lore of this universe with necromongers is intriguing. Plus Karl Urban as Vaako. I want to see Vaako come back from the underverse.
@@clarity2199 While I really liked Pitch Black, I also really liked Chronicles of Riddick. The follow up Riddick where they tried to take the franchise back to Pitch Black's formula not so much.
It was entertaining, but formulaic and pretentious at the same time. The 3rd movie was just a pitch black nostalgic remake.
I think the point is "Pitch Black" was kinda the small budget teaser and with "Chronicles" it was supposed to be the big budget masterpiece when the reality is it was just a "shut your brain off" B-Movie. I don't hate this film but I thought the character of Riddick could've done something much better.
The riddick movies are so very strange. The first is brutal, the second batshit crazy, then the third is both. Riddick is up there with some of my favourite movies and the scene where the other furian walks into the sun in the chronicles of Riddick is one of the most powerful scenes I have ever witnessed in a movie.
I honestly loved "Pitch Black" the entire mystery surrounding Riddick was the best part. Not knowing what he'll do next was exhilarating.
Pitch Black was soooo good! It was everything I could ask for in a cheesy sci-fi horror.
Pitch Black is an old favorite of mine.
The Riddick movie subscribes to the Highlander 2 school of sequels. ignore everything that was good about a movie that was never meant to have a sequel, and make it some bonkers plot that makes no sense.
"How does it look now?"
"...Looks clear."
There's an animated movie called "Dark Fury" that takes place in the transition between The 1st two films. Its a merc ship/prison escape plot that fleshes out several of the plots in Chronicles. Vin still voices Riddick like in the games.
I had to dig for that. Unique animation
dark fury is so epic. short to the point action packed. i loved the animation. i remember screen recording with a vhs!
The video game that ties all of these stories together is still in my top 10 of all time. "Wanna live? Get a shiv."
I've seen it..was pretty dope seeing riddkck fight that animal
@@ShinySephiroth1 "cuts through a belly like a soft-boiled egg."
The Chronicles of Riddick is just one of those crazy bonkers movies that some people just liked. Including me!
And he killed that guy with a tea cup. The type of cup is actually part of the joke.
Did I mention bonkers?!?!
What's that? You're gonna kill us? With a soup cup?!
Man, this was a really cool movie. Still is. I might just watch it again.
I love The Chronicles of Riddick.
Hell yeah! I’m still mad to this day that they didn’t follow it up properly with ‘Riddick’ and instead made that more into Pitch Black again 🤦🏾♂️
@@BlackstarSI I LOVE The Chronicles of Riddick, i love all the Riddick movies, i cannot understand that people do not like The Chronicles of Riddick, but the best version is The Chronicles of Riddick Unrated Director's Cut, that one is fantastic.
The Chronicles of Riddick Unrated Director's Cut is a great movie with great actors and a great special fx and a great story.
@@AmigaWolf couldn’t agree more my friend 💯💯
@@BlackstarSI I agree. I enjoy the 3rd one but it’s obviously just retread of Pitch Black. But at least it has a Katee Sackhoff topless.
To be honest, I'm a little surprised the Drinker is so hard on this film. I really only agree with his sentiment that the film is bonkers. Perhaps that's one of the reasons I like it. It is all over the place, and completely nuts. I hope, before Vin is too old to play the character, that somebody or some company ponies up the cash to give us his journey into the Underverse. My Dad also really likes the movie, to the point that he's the only 60+ years old retired podiatrist that I know that would unironically say "you keep what you kill....it's the necromonger way!" while eating a steak.
I like The Chronicles of Riddick, its one of my all time favourite films. I wish they had made another.
There is a third movie but it's just a rehash of Pitch Black. However Katie Sackoff boobs.
They did but skip it.
@BASIL!!!!! The musical and pumpin' Seagull actual boobs.
Came back to add - Karl Urban’s costume, hair, makeup and demeanor here are absolute perfection. We need a film with this character as the lead. Ditch the harpy wife of course.
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@@Xuhybrid Except his pretty face is covered!
Ragnarok
Karl Urban looks good in almost everything he's ever been in, that man could probably make a table cloth look badass. JUDGEMENT TIME.
I actually love this film. It's batshit crazy and that's what I enjoy and there is no MESSAGE!
They i don’t care...I LOVE THIS MOVIE...I love the riddick movies.
MAKE MORE OF THEM.
Amen 🤘
*PREACH!!!!*
A fourth film was confirmed last year I think.
As long as it builda on this superb fun film and not the pointless mess that was the third film. Now that was a major disappointment.
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