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The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris jump back into the world of Richard B. Riddick for both the 20th anniversary of The Chronicles of Riddick and the debut of The Boys season 4, which stars Riddick co-star Karl Urban.
Set five years after Pitch Black, infamous convict Riddick (Vin Diesel) has been hiding out from mercenaries but gets drawn into a larger universal conflict and on the bad side of the Necromongers, a powerful race that is sweeping across the galaxy, conquering and destroying every planet in their path. Riddick also learns that he is a Furyan, an ancient warrior race that was the only one who could stand against the Necromongers. Zach and Chris discuss if Riddick's "eyeshine" is really a tactical advantage, how the sequence on Crematoria could have been the entire movie, the massive expansion to the universe of Riddick, the dodgy early aughts CG effects, and more.
You can watch The Chronicles of Riddick on Hulu or Peacock. Next week, we're getting shrunk with Honey, I Shrunk the Kids to celebrate its 35th anniversary.
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Introduction to the Podcast
00:00:03
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Welcome to the Everything Action Cast, the official podcast of EverythingAction.com.
00:00:18
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Everything Action Cast podcast week of June 10th, 2024. I'm your host Zach. I'm your co-host Chris.
20th Anniversary of The Chronicles of Riddick
00:00:27
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And yeah, this week we are, ah you know, ah learning about the Furions and the Elementals and Necromongers, because we were talking about 2004's The Chronicles of Riddick, two-fold reason for talking about it. It's 20th anniversary this week, and it also co-stars Carl Urban, who is back on The Boys, we're hearing it's The Boys season three has, or season four has started. ah doesn Does it, does it really have a lot to do with this movie, a like surprisingly, even though he's like probably like
00:00:58
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the the Second before it's Bill person. Yeah, okay. Just like he gets more but yeah, he's he's not Like doing a lot. and I don't I don't even think he and like Vin Diesel have like a scene together until the end and they then even then it's not like a fight they're just like oh You're here. All right. Yeah, I not you like I think they have like two scenes together honestly, like how I was chasing him the entire movie but they they don't have like a like any like big like conflicts or like dialogue scenes together like No, no. Well, I think he's just grimacing at him from like, he does like grimacing and then he gets all like, uh, like his wife is like Lady of Bethlehem, trying to like, make make him like, become the leader of the necromogers.
00:01:45
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But, uh, yeah, the sequel to pitch black, the 2000 kind of surprise
Impact of Pitch Black on Vin Diesel's Career
00:01:51
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hits. Um, that kind of was like one of the first big, uh, Vin Diesel movies.
00:01:57
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Um, and that movie had a pretty small budget and it made like a, I could, I think it doubled this budget. And then, uh, you know, Vin Diesel, obviously you started a fast to furious triple X post pitch black. So then they're like, Oh, Vin Diesel is a brand now we we'll give you a ton of money to like, make whatever you want. And it's like, all right, we're going to make chronicles of Riddick. Me and my boy, David two, we are going to make chronicles of Riddick. Yeah. That movie where I wore goggles and I wasn't the main star for like half of it. That's the movie I want to make um be star of my next one that like very very simple like it was like one location and then we're just like running through like a desert basically with like these monsters facing us now we're gonna like blow it up this a giant sci-fi universe with Yeah, different factions different planets all these like crazy like
00:02:45
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concepts we're gonna introduce ghosts people we're gonna introduce uh fire planets another another ju another universe and then you know what's gonna happen i'm gonna get imprisoned again yeah do you think that's him saying that that if it's like oh it's a riddick movie i have to get captured i mean i feel like that's like a central part of his character is that riddick is like you know super good at escaping prisons But that means he's super bad at not being captured. You know, like if he's good at escaping, but he just keeps getting captured. Or if he just does it for fun, like he just gets captured for fun and just like breaks out his presence. Could be. I mean, some escape artists do that just because of the thrill. But I feel honestly,
Riddick's Complex Character
00:03:31
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Hrithik just tries to avoid people. Like his whole thing is not to get captured, but he ends up being captured. Yeah, because he because he starts out this movie like he's been hiding for like, was it five years after ah Pitch Black?
00:03:45
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he's been i on this like frozen wasteland planet like growing like a beard and like it's it's it's very disconcerting to see like like a hairy Vin Diesel. Yeah. ah Well, I guess in that ice planet that they find him and you need to look as grizzled as possible and he doesn't like ah like a caveman like a Viking or something. Yeah, yeah.
00:04:10
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Yeah, it's it's such it's such a crazy leap from like pitch black which is like, you know a very simple concept like survivors trying to like like Sir fight these monsters and it's like and it's this like very desolate planet to Now it it feels like it feels like they like blew it up to like dune levels or something. You're like That's like all I was I was getting that vibe too because like they're very Conan and Uh, they're, they're very like, okay. They have like this thing where they're all, they're religious base is something, I guess they worship death or God. The underverse is like, but only one person really went. I think that' that's transcendence. It's a lot of things they sort of explain, but then they back out of it because they realize they don't want to. And also you, you kill what you keep or you keep what you kill.
00:05:05
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You kill what you keep cool rule. I think that's a whole neck around like group word and then and then they they convert people into into necromongers, but then it doesn't seem like they're like they're not zombies. They're not like dead. It's just like you're like they go through some sort of process and then they become necromongers. I mean, you just wear like space cloth clothes and then you um wear a lot of leather. Like Cenobite lights kind of style. Very. and It's not like they're like being horribly mutated. It just seems like you put on some mascara. It's like you you hang out at courts a lot. Yeah. It's it's like Cenobites mixed with like um like they took like the aesthetic of like ah Russell Crowe's like Gladiator mask and made that the entire aesthetic of like their culture.
00:05:57
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No, those those are their gods, like but yeah like statues, which that and that's another thing. So Lord Marshall, the role that they try to really make as like a leader, right? But then the Marshall is the Emperor? Yeah, he rules them. And then they like, like so they're, they're traveling to like, like cross the universe and just like destroying plants, but they're staying out of plants for a little bit. And then when they get sick of the planet or like they like, I guess drain all the resources, they like blow up the planet and leave. That makes sense. I mean, it's either conquer or, um, destroy. That was that Lord Marshall's, um, yeah. And they and they they convert like all the entire population to like necromogers.
00:06:42
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or force it to like join or things force them. It's just like i we're in charge. We've made like a new bureaucracy, basically. Because they go on that first planet and that they land on, like Prime, whatever it was. Or Helium, sorry, heat Helium, something like Helium Prime. Yeah. Yeah. um The only reason Vin Diesel goes there is because he told the one guy, Keith Davids, like where he would be. And then David tells, like, the bounty hunters? but Like, i got ah another religious group? Well, I think, did did didn't Judi Dench put the the but bounty on him? But then he told her where to go.
00:07:25
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piece but They basically put a bounty on Riddick so that he'll, like, come and find them because they need his help, to like you know, because they think the necromogers are coming, which is true. but So they're correct about that. And then they believe that Riddick is a Furian, which is this ancient race of warriors that were like all wiped out ah from Furia. And they're the only ones, they're the only warriors that can stop the necromongers.
00:07:52
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Like for reasons, I guess because of a prophecy she made up. this Yeah. She's like, well, there was some sort of prophecy about, Oh, the Lord Marshall is going to be killed by a child of Furia or something. And so that's why when he finds out like Riddick is like, kill him! Don't ask why, his guy needs
Significance of Riddick's 'Eyeshine'
00:08:13
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to die right now. And I think he like single handedly wiped out all the Furians. Okay, but then no one recorded where Furia was? Yeah, they wiped out and then everyone forgot like it existed or there were people that called Furians existed.
00:08:35
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I mean, that's the that's another like puzzling thing. It's just well, I think I think that's the premise. Like if they ever make the fourth movie, they keep talking about like, that's going to be the premise of the fourth movie is that but Riddick finally goes to goes to Furia. A spoiler alert for the third movie. He still doesn't know where the fuck it is. Yep. But this whole movie is not about that. This whole movie is about him trying to embrace a destiny he doesn't want. But and that gets dumped in the third movie. Yeah, Riddick does not want to help anybody at any time. And he's got a point. So in Dark Fury, the prequel animated short that came out, I think. same The exact same the the same time as this movie. like It all came out. It was the movie and the short film and
00:09:26
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Butcher Bay of the game all came out in 2004. So this is a huge Riddick push. like <unk>re like We're blowing the universe up. We're putting out three different things. It's like the transmedia franchise. It worked to some degree.
00:09:46
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and But it also explains tombs, like the prequel explains where he was. It it sort of explains why Riddick needs to stay away from Jack. It does a lot of good work on establishing like his character and with Jack. It's not like if you saw the first movie and then this, you just think like, oh, he got away from her because she was young and it's like five years and now she's a like a different person. It's like, no, like he, he made a moral choice surprisingly where he didn't want to corrupt her. He didn't want her like, like the criminal outlaw life for her. Yeah. Like the the only person he actually cares about. Yeah. And then, uh, yeah, she ended up, I don't know, going to space Australia.
00:10:39
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So Uh, I mean, that's why he lived on ice planet. He lived on Hoth for basically. Yeah. And, uh, he was able to commandeer a bounty hunter ship, which is also the bounty hunter, like from dark fury. Uh, and then wait, are they able to, does he show up again, that same bounty hunter? Yeah, he does, with a five man team. Yeah, he shows up after the Necromogers take over Hell in Your Prime, and it's like Riddick's ticket to escape from them. He's like, oh, I'll let you capture me.
00:11:21
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like
00:11:24
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Yeah, because he's smart about that. he like This movie, everything kind of works in his plan, because he he's thinking eight steps ahead. It is pretty cool. like That's why I kind of... forget how clever Riddick the movie does show that like it doesn't seem too plot-holy but it does sometimes backfire where Riddick is so good you just think like oh like the movie is just kind of showing us he's incompetent but then he gets captured all the goddamn time and then you realize he's just lucky like in this movie hands down he just gets away with it by being lucky
00:12:03
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there's a lot of like like there's like Vin Diesel like i all of his all those characters are they have that similar like i'm the most badass i'm the most badass guy in the universe like that is true he has not changed that um and i've seen was like the The one where it's like a sci-fi, it's like a Blade Runner movie he was in. Babylon. Oh, Babylon 80 or whatever. And then I saw the, I saw Blush Shot. And I saw The Last Witch Hunter. Which, The Last Witch Hunter, because like it's, it's weird, like, because this feels like this is like his like, like his role playing, like, like campaign of like, I would create this whole, like, universe for like a role playing role universe called the Riddick universe. But then,
00:12:49
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The Last Witch Hunter is like his actual like D and&D character. Is that all D and&D rules? And it has nothing to do with D&D, it's just like like his character that he plays in D&D, Colder, is like that is' like i'm putting a game to movie making him into a movie. Wow.
00:13:13
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But yeah, but the like especially Crocs of the Wreck, this it definitely feels like some sort of like Role-playing universe that they they're adapting but even though it isn't it's all from like that like the mind of David Tubi and Vin Diesel But think we were we're talking about before we started recording like it's it's got like ah like like that Warhammer 40k kind of feel or like some sort of like but Huge expansive universe that they're trying to like adapt into a movie. Yeah, there's a whole big thing that Um, it is kind of cool to see like how vast is this, I don't know, Gothic army of undead, but not undead people do. And just their, their wield their power so well. I think it really does a great setup of them because of just how like, how powerful and militant they are. Especially in that out the alley scene where they, and they show you the, the like ball strike.
00:14:12
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Oh yeah. yeah like so And then you see like when the light hits like before that like when basically the Hellion Prime army is fighting them you think that's like that one squad and then it like there's lightning and you see like every all the extra soldiers from the the Necromonger group just hanging around waiting for this blast to go off. Yeah. I like that shot. That was a very fun shot. um I give it a ah to the director. He he shows like these creative sci-fi cuts at times. because um Again, confusing maybe this one and Riddick, but there are some slow-mo shots and special effects, whatever, like kind of interesting camera work that just seem like it's a 90s music video.
00:15:04
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Oh, yeah, this this has very music video vibes like it's like the it's like tons of like quick cuts and like flashes and
Visual Style Critique
00:15:11
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yeah, ah especially later when they're on the fire planet and they have to fight through another squad and suddenly just like cuts out of music and they're just doing like drum beats. Yeah. So that's why I'm like, all right, this is a little too much now. It's just up until that point. Pretty good. There's also things where it's like um It's very jarring going from like the CG to like the practical stuff. Cause the practical stuff is pretty, like throughout is pretty great. But then the CG is very bad looking. Like is that age well at all? It reminds you, this is 2004. Yes. Some points you think, Oh, that holds up, you know, some, some effects, some set pieces, you know, they, they built a whole thing and the,
00:15:55
Speaker
they they color graded it well so the metal looks very metallic and then the you know debris looks believable then who then you see some early 2004 all approach all the spaceships and stuff look terrible and then yeah quite a like um some of the creatures and stuff like you see later on look pretty bad some of the I guess like weaponry, because, uh, you've noticed in this movie when they use guns, they're all like Nerf guns. So they all have this, like, they're like, yeah, some do it's like a concussion rifles or something. It's like, they like they're not they're not like bullets. It's just like blasting them. It's like it's like concussive force. But I give the stunt work credit for that. It makes the stunt looks better when they bring out the stuntmen around on wires. But when it's just like a blob of Photoshop coming at someone,
00:16:58
Speaker
That is great. They're definitely trying to like use their massively expanded budget, because like like I think they got like four it's definitely it's like four times the budget of like Pitch Black. They got $120 million to make Rockles and Riddick in 2004. Wow. So it was like yeah it it was like a huge budget movie.
00:17:26
Speaker
uh what was the um what was the return on this oh it was a it was a this like it only made like 115 million that's what i thought worldwide so which which is it's even more shocking that they made like that they were allowed to make like a third one because you think that would like kill the franchise
00:17:50
Speaker
Well, I mean, I guess that's this movie, oh, it was Existence of the Fast and Furious, then, like, the Riddick was Existence of the Fast and Furious, because, like, all those Fast and Furious sequels between Chronicles of the Riddick and Riddick, basically, like, let them make Riddick.
00:18:09
Speaker
Because Vin Diesel was making, like, Universal so much money.
00:18:13
Speaker
that they just gave them like a check and said, yeah, make whatever sci-fi thing you want. yeah You could go back to like your weird side like weird side project. Hey, you know, I give it credit. I just think the marketing could have been better for the general audience, but for someone like me, who's just like, yeah, this is is acceptable. ah Though the villain's plans are kind of strange. The Lord Marshal, who is obsessed of fulfilling his prophecy, which is like the monkey Paul problem where it's like him trying to kill Riddick is actually fulfilling the prophecy or is it like, uh, Julie Dench just fucking with the but Lord Marshall and just sort of like guessing. So I'm like, Oh, you know, like, look at me. I'm a prophet. Everything I say is coming into place. Yeah.
00:19:10
Speaker
and I'm kind of hung up on that fact just because she got so goddamn lucky.
00:19:18
Speaker
And she yeah, but she's like, an she's an air elemental, air elemental. And then does that mean there's like other is is there like water elementals and like fire elementals like in this universe? I don't know. See, this movie introduces some crazy concepts. And then before you delve too deep, you're just like, we're going to back off. And I'm like, so this guy with eyes. and escapes like terrible prisons is like the most feared man, not like ghost people, not elemental people, just this guy. Like yeah, she's like she's like ah like a goddess basically. She's like this like with like unkillable, like she can teleport, she like is like go like, you know, intangible. If she knew how to do some martial art, she could have been like a sat an assassin just flying through things, nothing tangible.
00:20:05
Speaker
I do know I do love the ridiculous like like instantly like it's a senses where she is going to be and like just like holes it's like I got the knife to your throat well maybe that's where the eyes come in and the I smelled you I smelled you whirring through the wood through the air I mean that that's probably it he he's so keen but Also, we mentioned this at the beginning, like, Furian people are just people from that planet. It doesn't seem like they are superhuman, or they were have some sort of talent. they Apparently, they were like really good warriors, but then they don't have they yeah they don't have the eye they don't have like the special eyes that Riddick has. Riddick got those later in prison somewhere. like He's like, make my eyes make vision.
00:20:58
Speaker
I'll pay you like five packs of cigarettes. That happens in the game? No, I don't I think he I think Yuri has him in the I think in which way he has because which way is like a prequel to all of the movies. um But I think Yuri has he already has his vision in like the that game, too. ah So you don't actually see him get the eyes? No, he he says that in Pitch Black. And then I think there's like i think Jack, who becomes Kira in this movie, she's like, i was I talked to a bunch of people about getting my eyes shined. No one knew what I was talking about.
Humor in Riddick's Goggles
00:21:30
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So were you lying about that?
00:21:34
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So who knows where Riddika's eyes shined?
00:21:38
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or why are why Why are more people not getting it shined? yeah right yeah i mean Besides the obvious disadvantages when you step outside or... If it's yeah it's if yeah like if if it's sunny or you don't have goggles on, you're basically incapacitated. And I don't understand why he doesn't wear anything that is a little more, like, space goggle-y. He literally has to, like, always have one hand-free. Yeah. And he has to, like, grab it from, like, the underside of his head. And it's not, you know what I mean? It's not just as easy. It looks cool. It does look cool, but he does it a lot in this movie. Anytime he has to see for more than, like, four feet, he has to grip off his goggles. Yeah, he basically...
00:22:19
Speaker
Every time he like goes into a room or like goes outside, he has to take his goggles off and then like looks and he puts his goggles back on. Actually, do you see that see a lot in the movie where he has to like fumble up? like When's the last time you put on like pool goggles? It's not a slick movement. In this movie, they really don't show you that a lot. You don't see Vin Diesel fumbling with the goggles, getting it right on the back of his head and like pulling it up.
00:22:51
Speaker
He just said they had the cost to remind you that he has specialized. Yeah. I get, I get it. Cause like the budget eats into it to keep doing those eye effects. Cause that can't be cheap. Or like, or like Riddick, like Riddick vision. You don't really see Riddick vision too often in this movie. Like they do it like that. Like i the the first big action sequence where you he's like, um, stalking the necromongers and like, uh, or like when he fights like the guards in like ah David's house.
00:23:18
Speaker
Yeah, it was like, are you are you afraid of the duck? Those are just helium prying soldiers. Those are yeah there're like, mongers so yeah, there's like beat cops. It's murder. And they're like, oh, he's supposed to help you people. And it's like the man that's murdered the cops, the entire squad of cops. Yeah.
00:23:40
Speaker
Like, no wonder the necromogers came and just sort of dominate this group.
00:23:46
Speaker
Yeah, goggles beat them um yeah their their defenses are terrible. it's like the It's like the last one night and that's it. The whole planet got dominated. yeah yeah and then And then the Necromoggers are just hang out there for however long until they get sick of the planet and move on. Well, I think they're like using their resources, so they're refueling, and then they're converting some citizens into and more necromonger soldiers. So eventually, like like they're they're on a journey to like the Underverse, I guess.
00:24:22
Speaker
So that's like a Warhammer thing. there's always like or Or that's like ah another classic sci-fi trope where you get people, these militant armies are trying to basically portal into hell. There's really no profit into it, but it's more of a power surge, because if you make a deal with demons and you mix it with sci-fi stuff, you might get some cool shit. Or you might um might start like a revolution within your community. um That happens a lot of Warhammer with Hell Angels. Well, did they? like like Or like the chaos? The chaos. breaths Yeah.
00:24:57
Speaker
ah camera Did the Lord Marshal actually go to the Underverse, or he just saw the Underverse, I
Analysis of the Lord Marshal's Abilities
00:25:03
Speaker
think? I think he went. I think that's the thing. It's like he went and then he came back different. Yeah, so he came back with shadow powers. Yeah, that's why no one else can do his shadow thing. Again, everyone thinks it's like hot shit, but if two people fight him at once, that's it, you know? And he can rip people's souls out? But it's not an instant thing. It's not like the... And you can... It's like a whole process. And apparently, if you're strong enough, you can fight it. You can fight your soul being ripped out by him. Because just that's the thing. You know what I mean? Like, it's not an instant, I have your soul. It's like, alright, stand still. Don't fight it. That one guy, he instantly does it. Whereas it's like,
00:25:51
Speaker
when they, like, capture your plane drive. Yeah, he's like, why why should we, like, we're not gonna bow to you, we like we're like, we're not gonna follow you, then let's hear him just soul out. He's like, anyone else, anyone else wanna fight us? Well, you know what's an all interesting part? In this space universe, that could just be, like, a thing, you know what I mean? Like, that's just like, oh, so he's got soul-sucking power. Okay, that's not. Mm-hmm. Because it's like, oh, we have an elemental who is part air and glide. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So, what else you got?
00:26:22
Speaker
It's like, oh, soul sucking from a guy, an unarmed priest guy or whatever role bureaucrat was there.
00:26:34
Speaker
And then they just let, they just let ridiculous, just like fight. It's like, I want to fight that guy. And they're like, all right, cool. We're into that. Yeah. c a circle The, um, necromorph though, they're like honorable people to some degree. It's like, if you challenge them, they'll accept it. Yeah. And then if if I'm just wondering, has Riddick like later on get challenged a lot?
00:26:59
Speaker
I think that was like, I think it was like the like beginning of Riddick was like people have been trying to kill him because he was like Lord Marshall. Let me try to assassinate him. Yeah. But it showed up in a fight, I guess you can't. And plus, I don't think you can reject a duel.
00:27:21
Speaker
I don't know. It doesn't make it seem like, okay, we don't have to do this. It's like, all right, we have to do it. It's just honor code. Yeah. They didn't give it a word. You know, this was like a dune thing that they'll say, uh, make up another fake name. Like, Oh, we have to do, um, I don't know. Shallon King. All right. Hey, shallon King's been called. And that's, and it seems to be like the main way that you become over Marshall is you killed the the the previous Lord Marshall. Yeah, I guess there's no retirement plan. it just you You're in it until someone better kills you. But granted, that Lord Marshal went to a demon planet or whatever and then came back with way more powers and I guess no one mess with them for years.
00:28:08
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But then Carl Orban's character's like, yeah, I've got a chance. Let me try to take the this dude.
00:28:15
Speaker
Like his plan is maybe I'll stab him like when he's not looking. Yeah.
00:28:23
Speaker
Well, he he he only like really like puts in the action at the end when like the marshals like actually wounded. He's like, that's my chance now. He's weak. but Oh, his wife screams that where it's like, ah you know, I mean, like it's just like I maybe should keep that a secret until. It happens. Yeah, the other way to do is like, is like, definitely, she's just like, possibly push a girl over like, you should kill him. Maybe you should kill him. Maybe you should kill him. Hey, it's a good time to kill him probably.
00:28:55
Speaker
But yeah, there's the yes's whole thing where like, yeah, Rick fights like the bit the big dude and then when wins like a knife. um And then they they they put him in like that room with like all the weird, like, i meant like they're supposed to like, they're like like half dead witches that like reveal he's a furian. And so Lord Marshall is like, Oh God, a furian to kill him. Like he even he doesn't know what he is, I guess. Yeah. No, no, knew no, no one knew what he was.
00:29:26
Speaker
He's like, he doesn't even ask, like, what's the fear? And he's just like, cool. When can I escape out of this? Yeah, he so but yeah yeah which, yeah yeah, so Riddick escapes together and he runs into two tombs, who's like the guy he, like, escapes in the movie.
Crematoria Prison Planet
00:29:41
Speaker
And then like we were saying, like, he lets himself be captured so that he can go to ah probably probably the bit like the but the best part of the movie is what they go to Crematoria, which is like this prison planet where it's with half Half the plants always like freeze it like 300 degrees below zero, but the rest of the plants are constantly on fire. or it's like The sun makes it 700 degrees like regularly.
00:30:07
Speaker
like the sun just like Every time it like rotates around a new day, happens like the entire plant's engulfed in flames. Pretty cool. It's like the opposite of pitch black. Now it's called frying pan.
00:30:23
Speaker
And the prison's like under the surface and it's run by Russians some for some reason. Just staff or like European guards who are a bit A bit rapey and creepy. I do i do like that you have to like negotiate the price of like like oh yeah we'll we'll pay you like this much for Riddick.
00:30:48
Speaker
And then Tubes and his crew just like hang out there because they want to like they're like well got negotiate for more money. So we'll hang out here for a day. So we'll haggle these Russians, or these European men who are just gross. And then we while they're negotiating, Riddick's doing Cirque du Soleil-style like ah like so like line work to break through his handcuffs.
00:31:14
Speaker
Yeah, I still think about that scene just because he's got no one to talk to to explain what he's doing, so you just know he's doing something, but no one's asking what. Everyone's watching him just like, is he doing Cirque du Soleil? Yeah, is he doing those trendy rope aerobatics? Yeah, he's doing like aerials, whatever.
00:31:38
Speaker
the guards don't even care you know the that it's not just the top people in that pit like like you know like there's no cameras i guess they're just watching this man twirl well they're lowering him in but then i guess i guess they were they would like raise him back up if they like didn't negotiate a price but then they like they decided they're like what'll we'll do this tomorrow whatever but then they're still like he's just hanging there in the prison That's true. but It seems like this prison world is very unforgivings and there's no like conventional human law. So yeah whatever. um Especially when once in a while they'll just unleash like demon dogs to eat people in that prison. And yeah, no reason just whatever they want.
00:32:26
Speaker
I think I think this is the first time they established that like, you know, Riddick has like some sort of like, ah like kinship with vicious beasts. Which you didn't have in the dogs. Yeah, dogs. Yeah. Because because in in Riddick, that's like the whole first half of movies that he like, refriends like this like alien wolf pup and then they'd be like, they're hanging out for like, the entire the entire first effort for the movie. See how you're doing this, too, where you kind of need to see this and Riddick together for a full Riddick story just because this movie is just three acts and they do take you into other places, but they don't spend a lot of time in each area for us to get accommodated. It really is just like like they could have set the entire movie in crematoria that could have been the entire movie.
00:33:13
Speaker
Yeah, it feels like it could like that. That set is like from aliens three. It's a prison work planet. There are guards there that like are they got their own issues and they're all creepiness and then and occasionally the planets on fire. Yeah, but yeah there's there's there's enough going on and ah in the first entire like second act of the movie that like You could have just been like a diehard kind of like prison escape movie, where he gets brought there, and then but playing the entire time because he wanted to find Kira, and then they escape, and then that's the movie. But they decide they really do a lot, which is fine.
00:33:55
Speaker
I just kind of, like you have no time to absorb it at some points. They're just a bunch of cool scenes, which again, very cool. Yeah, Riddick kills the guy with a teacup.
00:34:07
Speaker
And then Riddick could just wait for these mercenaries to say the wrong thing and then- Yeah, he- It's a massive shootout. Like, I love that- Yeah, there's a huge shootout, like Rocket Launcher goes off, they sabotage the doors, like the guards are like leaving everyone to die, and then Riggs is like, that was my plan, they did my plan. I was gonna do the same thing, but now they did it before me. he So he like just worked so he like anticipated like all all this happening that was gonna be like his like plan to get out Yeah, Riddick definitely I guess is like He honestly is like a villain person who thinks about these like crazy scenarios Lisa Yeah, yeah i mean figures it out yeah he's I mean he's a full-on like anti hero. Yeah, he's not like yeah like he's in it for himself basically and
00:34:59
Speaker
Yeah. and he say He's a good anti-hero just because in this universe, it's either you are like a soldier for an opposing army or you're a mercenary or you're a riddick who is a little bit of both. Yeah, he's just he's just like a like of a famous criminal. That's like his job is to be a famous criminal. That's case of prisons. And occasionally does aerial acrobatics. Yeah, where did where did he learn that skill? Is that a fury thing? Or is that just like, I took ah took some dance classes in prison. They say it really helps you de-stress from where you are. Yeah. Helps keep you limber.
00:35:43
Speaker
I don't know. ah That's another thing about his mystery escape artist pass, which is great because essentially at any point they can just go in and just like recant things or make up new rules where it's like, hey, did you know Riddick speaks Spanish? Like what? Yeah, Riddick's uh, he's uh, trilingual. Have a, have a, have a space Corona.
00:36:09
Speaker
Also, uh, I remember in Riddick, he used the word jamoke. And I thought that was something he uses throughout like his, his like catchphrase. He doesn't. I was like waiting for that in this movie. Cause he says it in Riddick. And I thought that's something he said. and it's a ri thing ridiculous Yeah. I thought it was a running thing. And it just like, no, he just randomly just did jamoke. Like that even now is something that and a lot of people don't use as a slang. So it comes like full circle in the future.
00:36:41
Speaker
Uh, where it's like, uh, hipster word, I guess.
00:36:51
Speaker
And I just thought that was funny. I was like, what's he going to say? And he never did.
00:36:59
Speaker
Well, yeah, I think I think definitely the best the best sequence of Crunk's and Riddick is when like Rick and his crew are like running across the surface and the guards are like running through
Standout Scene on Crematoria
00:37:07
Speaker
the tunnels. They're like racing each other to try to get to the hangar where the one ship is. Yeah. And then that part is so good that it is distracting from the rest of the plot. Yeah. Because that is a climax to another movie. Yeah, that that should have been the climax of like the crematoria movie. like yeah They run basically like miles or three miles. I don't know, they go over like a mountain, too. It's like on another part of their step. Yeah. And i'm still I'm still trying to figure out like the like how the like the temperature works, though, because like if you apparently if you just hide in like a crevice that has shadows in it, you're fine, even though the entire surface of the planet is like 700 degrees. I think you just won't burn, but you'll definitely like lose oxygen, because oxygen is on fire.
00:37:56
Speaker
it's i think Well, it's like it's weird because it's like it starts out and it gets warm, but then there's a it's it's not just like the temperature rising. There's a wall of flame is flying towards you. That's true. It is a legit firestorm. Yeah. yeah think i mean The scene where he is doing the like swinging on the mountain, that is ridiculous. That's what I just was going to bring up. like ah My favorite scene in this entire movie is like that Riddick, to rescue Kira, who is trapped in this mountain, ah to protect himself from like this 700 degree temperatures, he just pours some water on his head and then jumps off the mountain.
00:38:35
Speaker
and then rescues her, and then when it gets back like when they get back to the top of the mountain where they're like safe, quote unquote, I guess, because they're in the shadows now, he's just use' just like steaming a little bit. I mean, it's badass looking. It's it's such a crazy, like that that's I doubt that's going to protect you from, because they they they specifically showed earlier that like the guards have like a thermometer in their base where it shows like, oh, it's 700 degrees now on the surface of the planet.
00:39:06
Speaker
I mean, I think like that's like a pizza oven, basically. He just flew around in. Yeah. But see, he's protected. She wasn't. No, she would have been like burnt a bit like he would have been burned. He was steaming and was still kind of red. She was still fine. Yeah, it's just it's very like it's just very consistent, like how how the father temperature, like how the crematory works, like where it's just like, where you're safe, where you're not, how we can avoid the, cause it seems like, if yeah, if you just, like the surface doesn't seem that bad. If you, if you find this like a crevice, that's like a shadowy, you're fine.
00:39:52
Speaker
Well, we don't know how long you can, for how long? Yeah, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. This movie does a good job of just introducing stuff and then moving on. Because the longer you linger, that's where you're like, I've got questions now about this. Yeah, visually, it's cool. It's like ah it's a really cool, kind of like tense like yeah you know race to sun. And then it's also a race against the guards. And then there's like ah kind like a shootout a little bit where they had the guards keep popping out of these holes.
00:40:27
Speaker
Yeah, that that say like there's there's good points like that where very creative. but why when no but no was smart like Why would they kill the guards? Because like Riddick kills one of the guards. and then you know for ah keep that Try to keep like that little foxhole thing open and then have it just like get down there and kill them all or something. Well, they all got guns. I'm sure i'm sure they could like the it could have been like Rick, Riddick, he's so badass, he's probably going to kill all of them with like a knife or something. but like It's like, I kill all the gods, we're the turtles now.
00:41:03
Speaker
Well, they also didn't have time, right? I got, yeah. So they're trying to erase the sun. They don't know how long it was going to last. but But if they got the tunnels, they would have been they would have been fully protected. for the yeah I don't know. The the tunnels, definitely the the top surface is the. shorter way but dangerous way the tunnels is the longer way but safer way i would have sent two teams i would have done a team one team two because the tunnels are connected to that hangar and the guards don't seem that out of breath you know it seems like when they're setting up for the ship and all that they just and they're all like hard not all riddick shaped
00:41:44
Speaker
I spread like like figure out a way to like make turn off the lights in the tunnel and then Rick does his like pitch black thing It was like you're my world now. I think that's a once per movie Like fully just like turn the lights off and be like not now it's now it's it's ri's time to shine Like my eyes that shine ah Yeah, man, I'm still king of the fact that that was an elective surgery
00:42:13
Speaker
For like, it had to be like one specific prison that was like really dark. And then everywhere else he goes, it's like a hindrance. Yeah, literally it is for two more movies. Well, this one and the third one. And the first one, it's a little different, but. Cause then he's like, he's gay. Cause he's like, cause then he has to always mention like, the light hurts my eyes, turn the lights down. Like.
00:42:40
Speaker
Oh, I'm sorry. Is the world fame is galactic really famous criminal have a light sensitivity. So he's a weakness. Mm hmm. Which they don't exploit. You know, this man has a weakness. They leave like always let him have his goggles on. but Blasted in the face like a flashlight. He'll it'll go down like or like a strobe light or something. He don't keep him in dark prisons. Keep him in a light cell. He got an all lamp. Mm hmm. Like a like a magneto style like where it's like He put him in the plastic cell like put put yeah put ridiculous like a superside The bracelet you possibly shine on him. What a mirror the Sun. I don't know yeah, yeah It's like no no every person is like no throw up in the pit throw them in the dark pit You'll never get out We paid 700,000 credits for him
00:43:36
Speaker
Yeah, the money system is kind of interesting with them. I think, wasn't he like worth a million or something later on? Does that, does that like make the, like, how, what does the prison get from paying for like a famous criminal? Does that make that, it makes their prison like higher profile or something? It's like, we got rid of here. i guess i's gonna Yeah. is There's no space government. Yeah. you The only government is necromoggers who are slowly destroying all the other governments. Yeah, they're they're trying to re-terraform everything so I don't see them ah trying to negotiate wage prices for prisoners. so The necromoggers show up and they're just there just to fuck up whatever they find.
00:44:25
Speaker
there's no no communication to the base people because they just know Riddick is there somewhere. Yeah. And I do like Riddick the shootout between the three forces, Riddick's team of three, like four, three to four guys. Yeah. Yeah. And then um the necromogre team, which they but they point out that they use the like a small squad. I don't know why they would just use like a small again. Lord Marshall is weird because he can spare more people to send to that planet with our orbit.
00:44:58
Speaker
you know, like it just like you and 20 guys go, you get one, one Legion or whatever, or one one ship full of dudes. And it wasn't like a whole ship full of guys came down. It was just a party of a dozen, a dozen came.
00:45:18
Speaker
And, uh, I mean, it's cool because you see their, um, scanner people again, and those guys spot, the heat vision, like they have better Riddick version than Riddick. Yeah, they may say like they have like predator vision. But that's such a convoluted like system where it's like yeah you got yeah one like dude, it's like the it's just just like the vision guy. And then you have yet to hook up another guy to use the screen up to him to see what's going on.
00:45:50
Speaker
And then the vision dude can't talk. He can only see things and make noise. Yeah. So you have to like interpret what he saw. Just just build build that like infrared tech into like all the necromogers' helmets or something. Yeah. Is this such a weird design? I'm just like, this is the future tech? Can you imagine if some army in the future just said, all right, we're getting rid of the standard military outfit. What we're doing is we're going to start lab developing like sonar people. And that's how we have radio now. That, that, just that gave me like very like rebel moon vibes. That felt like a, like a Zack Snyder thing. I'm just like, I don't really, like, who cares what it like, how this, like, it just makes any sense logically. it like It looks cool. Or it's like a cool concept of these infrared slave dudes. so like Okay. you'd be it's not speaking You know, that's from, that's from Dune.
00:46:46
Speaker
it's all yeah It's not like the like like what are like the the computer people. not like yeah so yeah know it is it is It's because in the future of Dune, ah that there was an AI rebellion, so they don't trust machines. So that's why they convert people into basically becoming computing machine people. Yeah, just because their brain waves and they can store things and they're basically are designed to be super logical like a machine. But like, that's why none of them have a fucking thermal vision because it's like, but then they figured it out here.
00:47:28
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's it's like visually it's cool. But then if you think about it, it's just like it's so super impressive. It's it's so much so much like use like use like like ah like useless energy to like for like one so that you could like do have with like goggles or like a like Or you you use a screen to make a screen that has the technology and it's waving around and look it through it I'm in a screen I mean you could you could but you could just have like a drone just ah yeah Ariel like robot just scanning Star Wars did that they had a little ball and
00:48:04
Speaker
No, no, we're shooting on the goggle people. But I mean, this movie points it out. where Like, look how cool Riddick's goggle is. And it's like, look at all these goggle people. These weird set up by guys like shuffled shuffled around. Honestly, they're the only thing that makes this like group seem crazy, right? Like if they didn't have those guys, everything about it seems efficient. Yeah, they this seem like kind of like, you know, like, yeah, like religious religious warrior, like the all their armor and stuff is like very kind of like I don't know, ancient Rome. It's like, it's kind of like medieval, but like, yeah, there's sort of like a standard kind of Imperial space force. that Their weaponry is like Roman inspired. So is their armor. They have an honor code. um They throw cool parties. ah but They have like awesome makeup that you have to burn onto your skin. um it's that because Is that because they're like, neck they're dead or is that just like, yeah. Who knows?
00:49:04
Speaker
They're half dead or whatever. They're part of the necromogre conversion. They have that Mandalorian thing where they just recruit people, you know random people. It's like, i well, we've dominated you, so now you're joined our army. it's like That's actually what like humans would do when you dominate another side that bad. You're just like, now you're enrolled in our army. But then the thing is like, when they convert people, like, it's like, it seems like it doesn't really like, it you know, it doesn't like take total control over you you still have like all your like, previous memories and like, will because like the purifier guy that saves Riddick after he gets like knocked out and almost burst death.
00:49:44
Speaker
Like he was like, the he was, I think he was a serious program. I think I, at least I'm assuming that's what that was supposed to be. Like he, and I think, well, earlier he helped Riddick escape because yeah he like, like, he like turned off the like, uh, magnet floor, like the, like, you know, like the force field floor that was like, keep keep holding him in like that weird room with like the witches. Oh, I thought that was Riddick's will. No, I think i think the purifier did that. Like he like turned the switch off and then let Rick escape. And then you find out later, then you find out in this scene where he's like, oh yeah, by the way, I'm also a furious. That's why I helped you. I mean, it's a cool scene. His, his like, uh, exit, uh, just because he kills himself because of just his regret. But it's pretty bad ass. Like he walks into a pizza oven and becomes like a scallop burning man.
00:50:38
Speaker
i i like I like his, where he he's on fire and then it's then he like he like, he's still able to like, he kind of stumbles a little bit and he's like, I'm i'm still walking. I have a little bit of like strike left. I'm like, walk is like the skeleton, flaming skeleton. he What he does is like, ah okay, but in that scene, it just seems like he's the only thing that's burning. I think there are like other soldiers and stuff on the ground that isn't burning. Yeah, there's all kinds of bodies out there and other stuff that's like, yeah, it should be burning, but it's not. Just him. Yeah. I can't tell if just fearings are like, it's like inflammable. He took off all of his, uh, you know, knickerbocker jewelry and stuff. That's why he's burned up now. Maybe he's just pure like theory and skin. He didn't add the couple water on his body. Like he's all dead.
00:51:33
Speaker
Um, but yeah the movie then just like super, like, I thought it would be a little more drawn out about the the final confrontation, but it really just like skips to that.
Climax: Infiltrating the Lord Marshal's Ship
00:51:43
Speaker
it Yeah. Just hard cut back to Hellion prime. And then Rick has somehow infiltrated the, like infiltrated like the, like Lord Marshall ship and like stolen like a necromogre, uh, armor. And then it just like sneaks away to like the main like council chamber.
00:52:06
Speaker
Yeah, he gets in there pretty quick for an assassination though. Yeah. And then he's like, he's just like, Lord, bo I'm going to fight you now. And he could, like I mean, he does the surprise attack because I don't think Lord Marshall wants to have a full on fight, but then he accepts the full on fight. Hmm.
00:52:30
Speaker
And then, he like, Lord Marshal, he's using all his, like, shadow powers. But then he also brings out Kira, who's been, like, quote-unquote, converted into a necromogre.
00:52:40
Speaker
Yeah, I thought maybe they'll fight or whatever, but nah, she's just, like, hanging out. Yeah, or, yeah, just like, like, yeah, she's, like, like because of, like like, the conversion, like, she fights Riddick, or, like, it's less, like, so something. She's just like, she's just like it's like, hey, join us, it's cool. Like, they think you're paid away.
00:53:01
Speaker
but like But then but then but then shes she's like, oh, no, i'm um actually, I'm still i'm i'm still cool. like i' um I'll help you fight this guy. like Yeah. ah So that's another running thing. So Kira helps Riddick fight the last villain in Dark Fury, and almost not the same fashion. but And OK, if she wasn't there, this would have ended differently kind of deal. Though, it seems like when she was enough, Carl Orban shows up and just like, I'm going to be like the surprise heel at the end. Yeah. Though, not really, because his wife's screaming from the balcony to like kill him.
00:53:43
Speaker
Yeah, cause because, yeah, because Kira manages to stab the Lord Marshal, but then he like punches her with the spikes and then she gets, she's like horribly injured. And then, uh, yeah, Carl Orban's like tries, to like, He's going to attack him, but then the Lord Marshal is shadowing his way to like the other side of the room, and then Riddick is like just standing there waiting for him to appear, because cause he he knows he's teleporting outside the room. Well, you figure out Lord Marshal's pattern, I guess?
00:54:14
Speaker
Well, it's because you can I think you can see like like his shadow forms, like, um like, because it's like, whenever he does it, it's like stretch across like it's like this. it's It's like his like soul or whatever is like stretching you out across from his body means the shadow form. So it's not so I can't tell who's Riddix was perceiving. He finally caught the speed of the Lord Marshal and then he was able to sort of figure out where he was going to go. But i feel I feel like everyone can just see you like, like that, like, oh, he's like, he's like stretching over to like where Riddick is. Like he's trying to get away from Carl Urban, like trying to like slam his head with like a but giant like mace thing. But then he like teleports over to the other side of the room and then Rick just is just standing there and just stands in the head.
00:55:01
Speaker
Yeah. And like I was saying, like the Lord of Marshalls had a weird plan. I'm just going to stretch this way and hope no one's going to be there. And holy shit, someone's there.
00:55:11
Speaker
Yeah, I don't. I don't. Yeah, I don't think it it seems very slow. Like he's doing it very slowly, too. He's just like taking his time to like I guess cause he's he's wounded. I guess it's taking him longer to like teleport himself. But that makes sense. It's still like like a very like obvious like. Hope no one sees I'm going over this way.
00:55:32
Speaker
Yeah, that's true. um It's still cool looking. It's aged a little weird because I feel like this is something that ah
00:55:42
Speaker
I guess like is acceptable in the two thousand early 2000s. But if you imagine you saw like a Marvel movie end this way where a shadow person ran into a knife. Where your hero was just like standing, awkwardly standing off to the side of the villain waiting for him to teleport to like yeah where you're standing. So it's a little different. And I also feel like he just showed the Necromon group that like, oh, you can kill him if as long as like you can figure out where he's going of one of four directions. Yeah. Though he's supposed to be like the embodiment of that for God thing that they all pray to.
00:56:28
Speaker
I don't know. yeah i did I just wish Karl Orban did more things in this movie. Yes.
00:56:35
Speaker
i wish I wish he like, yeah, Vin Diesel had like an actual like, you know, confrontation or something. Uh, I think that they're definitely we're building up towards that, but then that they went different direction for the third movie.
00:56:51
Speaker
But yeah, but but because Riddick kills the Lord Marshal, now he's the Lord Marshal. He's the ruler of the Dickermangers, but Kira's dead.
00:57:01
Speaker
I mean, he's sad because basically the only thing he managed to keep innocent is he dies by accident. Mm hmm. But now he rules, but now he rules these ah weird shadow warriors. Well, honestly, they should have just been trying to fight him like the next day or the next, you know, just like, all right, well, like we we challenge you now. Mm hmm. Let them rule for a while. Yeah, apparently, so like, Riddick takes place like five years after this, so like, they just like, like, Riddick was just, I'm shocked that Riddick lasted that long being like the ruler of these people. That all they know is conquering and stuff, and then when as Riddick is just sort of like, I'm looking for my house. And yeah, I don't think, I'm sure Riddick, maybe he was, I don't think Riddick was like, like, continuing the conquest of like, planets and blowing them up.
00:57:59
Speaker
But then that whole group of people is all about that. It's like their annual. Yeah. It's because they yeah they're trying to get to like the underverse. It's like, I don't give a fuck about the first. I'm just I'm just sitting on my throne.
00:58:21
Speaker
Bring me a. Give me a I need to give me a car. I need a car. He needs a- I need a dirt bike. He needs a Chevy. Yeah. He needs a 1972 Chevy. You gotta forget the underverse. You gotta fight my fury and family.
00:58:46
Speaker
You know, I'm surprised. I'd be surprised if the next critic, uh, Riddick movie doesn't have him in like ah but a bunch of people, like almost every sequel franchises that he's been in, just his squad grows. And it's like, now that it's a family squad.
00:59:06
Speaker
Yeah, I don't think that you don't think have cast like anybody in new one. There's like, there's basically, it's like if he's only able to, we're going to be, or. working on a fourth one. I mean, I kind of want a more short forms of him. You know, I want him the animated movie wasn't so bad. It's it's the thing is it's jarring for someone who hasn't seen Ian Flux, the Peter Chung animation. It's like there's no proper body size. It just sort of goes and does his own thing. And it puts your base a great game. I actually haven't played it. I've seen let's plays, but I haven't played it.
00:59:48
Speaker
it's like yeah it's ah It's a stealth heavy. um
00:59:55
Speaker
in yeah it's like you're in You're in Butcher Bay and you're basically like you're yeah you'd like gather like you the supplies you need to like escape from the prison. You need to yeah get like screwdrivers and key cards. and stuff You need to steal stuff from the guards and like do jobs for like other prisoners to get get stuff you need to escape.
01:00:17
Speaker
I could remake it a third time. Yeah, Dirk, Dirk, I think is not as good as Butcher Bay, but it's still pretty good.
01:00:30
Speaker
And Vin Diesel is the voice for the game, too, because I think I think I think it was his like tie gun is like is like his video company. Is that still around or that one under? I think it might still be around. I mean, they basically, all they made was like, um, like Vin Diesel games, like the two, the Crocs and Rick games. Um, and then Fast and Furious crossroads, which I think was the bad one. That was like a terrible, terrible game. Yeah. I think that one was just like misunderstood because it's like, who's this game for?
01:01:12
Speaker
And then apparently they're working at some sort of MMO. Well, in 2006, they were developing it. And it's almost 20 years later, so I don't think that's happening. It's like Barca BC they're working on. This is some sort of ancient Roman MMORPG. I kind of remember that.
01:01:37
Speaker
I kind of remember like they were saying that. Because I know another big Vin Diesel thing he's been wanting to do was like the Attila the Hun. Like a movie? You're like, yeah. Yeah. He was supposed to be Attila the Hun or like one of those like conqueror people. And then just because he's got the look of like a thorough beard on him and a helmet. And he looked like a Viking like a warrior conqueror. and his ah his His look from ah the beginning of Chronicles of Riddick, his like yeah Viking look.
01:02:09
Speaker
Uh-huh, yes. Um, but yeah, I, I still think crying overdose holds up. It definitely is like, it's a good series of sci-fi movies that people keep forgetting. And just because it's not super strong, but it's not super, um, like preachy, you know, like Dune is a movie that you've really got to invest the time and pay attention to all these small details and made up words.
01:02:36
Speaker
Riddick is just like easy. But you get it gets repetitive. Between the first, second, and third movie, they all have like the same outline.
01:02:46
Speaker
Yeah, Riddick gets dropped like he escape trying to escape from mercenaries or trying to like escape from Z-1. Ends up in a worse situation, and they just like fight his way out of that situation. I was able to like escape from that using his like mind and body. You know what this movie doesn't have? It's another staple in the other movies. Him carrying a battery. There is no battery carrying in this one. like Almost in every Riddick movie, he fights a monster with like a tail.
01:03:26
Speaker
A battery to power lights that he hates. Yes. And then he also needs to, um,
01:03:38
Speaker
Maybe mention how, like, how he's excaped other prisons. Yep. I think he says that in like every movie. So this is ain't nothing. I've escaped from blah, blah, blah. And, you know, Oh, think this is worse. Blah, blah, blah. Like I saved from there.
01:03:56
Speaker
Well it's cool in this one they were thinking about the expanded universe because he mentions like Butcher Bay in the crimes of Riddick. It's like, oh, that's the game. It's in stores now. I played that. Go play it. Yeah.
01:04:10
Speaker
It should have popped up on screen like when it was like comic book things like available now on PS3, Xbox 360. Tell your parents to buy four copies. Yeah.
01:04:24
Speaker
But yeah, Chronicles of Riddick, some of it holds up, some of it doesn't. Story-wise, it holds up. I think um visuals kind of lack.
01:04:39
Speaker
it's It's definitely interesting to see how much they like blew up. They took this like very simple premise and was like were blowing it up to this huge sci-fi epic universe. Oh yes. I think when Chronicles of War was coming out, I just was like, the Plitchback movie? Like the, this is getting a sequel? who Who's demanding this? Apparently a handful and then no one. videcent answera was But then I think this was a good rental. I think I saw this movie like from Blockbuster. I didn't go in theaters to see this. Maybe, yeah.
01:05:15
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I mean, I think it had like a like a director's cut. So maybe that was like people were like like watching it. Oh, now we get we get to see the true version of the director's cut. But did yeah, it definitely did not do well in theaters.
01:05:34
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That's why I took them another, I don't know, um like almost 10 years. Yeah, it was like nine years. Yeah. Because because Riddick was 2013. so
01:05:48
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Again, some scenes in Chronicles still look pretty fresh, just because it's practical sets. and yeah All the practical stuff looks great. And then, yeah, ah this is just it's just the CG is like, oh, this is that's what they did. Or it does the CG.
01:06:05
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Yeah, then that's what like really nails into, like, whoo, this is is old.
01:06:18
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But ah yes, they I think they'll do it this week for Chronicles of
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01:06:21
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the Riddick. Come back next week, we're going to be talking about Honey I Shred the Kids, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary. ah Crazily enough, that movie came out the same day as Batman. They they both came out in 1989, Batman and Honey I Shred the Kids, same day. But ah yeah think I think we talked a lot about Batman 89, other people talking about Batman 89. We're going to talk about Honey I Shred the Kids. Betcha no one's talking about that. Some people probably are, but not not recently. I haven't seen a lot of the kids discourse recently. So <unk> we'll dive into all the all like all the all the practical effects of that movie, all the crazy, you know, super huge things. And and another Rick Moranis movie, because we just talked about shoot a fire like a week or two ago. So back in the Rick Moranis mode.
01:07:11
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And Head over to the site, we got all of our usual stuff. I got a review of Bad Boys Runner die up on the site if you wanna read that. We're gonna have our commentary up soon for Madam Web where we're actually recording that this week and then we'll be up in a couple weeks. So stay tuned to the site for that. And all the other trailers, news, all this stuff is up on the site. Head over and check all this stuff out. And yes, I'm Chris, I am Zach, and we will see you next week. For more from Everything Action, head to www.everythingaction.com. You can also find us on Facebook at facebook dot.com slash everything dot.action and follow us on X at Evieaction. We're also on Instagram and threads at everything.action. Find more episodes of the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your at podcast epic choice and be sure to rate and subscribe.