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    The Next Riddick Movie Aims For R-Rated Gold

    Kirk's First Battle! Spider-Man 4 Villain Hints! Deadpool Speaks! Riddick's Odyssey! And Doctor Who's Regeneration!

    Riddick 3 Details Reveal What's Next For Our Furyan

    Riddick Coming Back To The Big Screen

    Chronicles Of Riddick Is New Lord Of The Rings, Diesel Says

    All The Nastiest Parts Of Pitch Black

    Pitch Black Coming Back?
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    Image of disatess disatess
    08/04/09

    In reply to The Next Riddick Movie Aims For R-Rated Gold
    and yes , I liked both films , but I like the idea of returning to a smaller budgeted movie if vin diesel allows .
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    Image of disatess disatess
    08/04/09

    In reply to The Next Riddick Movie Aims For R-Rated Gold
    About friggin time , we need another Riddick film .
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    08/04/09

    In reply to The Next Riddick Movie Aims For R-Rated Gold
    Great.I am sick of having to see PG13 stuff as I am a 53 year old adult who loves blood n gore.
    Bring on the gore !!!
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    08/04/09

    In reply to The Next Riddick Movie Aims For R-Rated Gold
    The problem with Chronicles of Riddick was that it didn't feel like the same universe. The first one was this sort of gritty realistic future similar to Alien while the second one was this Gothic space opera similar to Dune or Lord of the Rings in space. I liked the second one but it didn't feel like a sequel, more like an alternate version of the same character.
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    08/03/09

    In reply to The Next Riddick Movie Aims For R-Rated Gold
    I'm actually really, really excited by this news.
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    Image of despsuno despsuno
    08/03/09

    In reply to The Next Riddick Movie Aims For R-Rated Gold
    Am I the only person that actually really, really enjoyed Chronicles of Riddick, flaws and all?

    I thought everything about it was incredibly creative, cool and interesting.
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    08/03/09

    @despsuno: Me too!
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    Image of twDarkflame twDarkflame
    08/03/09

    In reply to The Next Riddick Movie Aims For R-Rated Gold
    Ratings are never a judge of quality, your just as likely to have pointless gore, as unrealistic avoidence. So the fact it isnt "PG-13" is neither here nor there.

    However the other comments, like modestly scaled and character-focused etc, its a positive sign.
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    03/16/09

    In reply to Kirk's First Battle! Spider-Man 4 Villain Hints! Deadpool Speaks! Riddick's Odyssey! And Doctor Who's Regeneration!
    When Doctor #10 goes, I hope it's as a result of licking some random alien object he just picked up off the ground.


    You just know that sort of behavior is bound to catch up with him sooner or later.

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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    03/16/09

    @bluehinter: That's pretty much how Doctor #5 went.
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    03/16/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders:
    Actually, if I remember correctly, Peri stepped in a big pile of Spectrox, and the Doctor got it on his hands attempting to brush it off her.


    I used to think that the 6th Doctor's death was the most embarrasing way to go, but I suppose you could chock up the 5th Doctor's demise to "lack of sensible shoes"


    Still, neither of those incidents can hold a candle to that bizarre scene in 'Dragonfire' where the 7th Doctor inexplicably decides to climb over the railing of a bottomless chasm and dangle precariously from the tip of his umbrella, for no particularly logical reason other than setting up a (quite literal) cliffhanger for the next episode.

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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    03/16/09

    In reply to Kirk's First Battle! Spider-Man 4 Villain Hints! Deadpool Speaks! Riddick's Odyssey! And Doctor Who's Regeneration!
    Think of Pitch Black as Tolkien's The Hobbit, and the Chronicles films as the more epic Lord Of The Rings trilogy, Diesel suggests.


    Yeah, cuz the inherent quality is so obviously there...

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    Image of ninjajazza ninjajazza
    03/16/09

    @alphanumeric1971: as mindless as they are, i quite enjoyed the riddick movies.

    and oddly enough for me escape from bucher bay is one of the most playable FPSs in recent memory. probably because it dispensed with 'story' and went straight to 'killing a heap of dudes like a badass furyan'
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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    03/16/09

    @ninjajazza: isn't it kinda telling though, when the video games are more interesting than the movie?
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    03/16/09

    @alphanumeric1971: Not if you find video games stupid, they aren't.
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    Image of Tiber Tiber
    03/16/09

    @Lassus: Careful, them's fightin' words.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    03/16/09

    @Lassus: what, all video games? that's just absurd, have you played ever video game?
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    03/16/09

    @Tiber: Don't worry, he hates everything, like Plague, but stupid.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    03/16/09

    @ggodo: so like pope john peeps II?
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    03/16/09

    In reply to Kirk's First Battle! Spider-Man 4 Villain Hints! Deadpool Speaks! Riddick's Odyssey! And Doctor Who's Regeneration!
    "nd he says he's known how the Tenth Doctor will die for a long time"


    it's the brick isn't it. *trip arrgh snap regenerate*

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    Image of Dormouse: Corporate Tool Dormouse: Corporate Tool
    03/16/09

    @KhaiJB:


    He dies??

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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    03/16/09

    @Dormouse: Corporate Tool: yup the end of each Regeneration is refered to as 'dying' ... nothing to worry about there.
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    Image of Tee for Ten Tee for Ten
    03/16/09

    @KhaiJB: Singing in the shower and trips on a bar of soap?
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    03/16/09

    there's these ideas of how 8 went to 9 ...


    [comics.shipsinker.com]

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/12/09

    In reply to Riddick 3 Details Reveal What's Next For Our Furyan
    You're welcome, Meredith.

    I prefer Anekanta's "death by puppy" concept.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    03/12/09

    In reply to Riddick 3 Details Reveal What's Next For Our Furyan
    I loved Pitch Black. Didn't think much of Chronicles.


    Chronicles did well on DVD, I hear, so that suggests another sequel is possible.

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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    03/12/09

    In reply to Riddick 3 Details Reveal What's Next For Our Furyan
    Since it's Riddick 3 should it be called Riddic3, or Thriddick?
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    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of SuperTuna SuperTuna
    03/12/09

    @Garrison Dean: The Total Recall reboot just called. Please stop taking their terms/ideas.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    03/12/09

    @SuperTuna: huh? you mean TR2N?
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    03/12/09

    @Garrison Dean: i gotta go with 'th3 riddick'
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    03/12/09

    @tetracycloide: Dood, its the net...


    T3h Riddick.

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    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/12/09

    @Garrison Dean: Nope. It's gonna be RiddIIIck
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    Image of smurph0404 smurph0404
    03/12/09

    In reply to Riddick 3 Details Reveal What's Next For Our Furyan
    Sorry, they can't just ignore the fact that he was the king of the most powerful evil empire in space the last time we saw him. I hope there is at least a flashback to show how he screwed it all up. And I hope it involves a huge space fleet battle against the good guys.
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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    03/12/09

    @smurph0404: Ah, you but you forget Riddick's frequent habit to say, "Fuck it," and just walk out.


    I could totally see him sitting there in the throne room, looking around for a few minutes, maybe with one or two glances at his brainwashed former sidekick, and then he just gets up and silently walks out, killing anyone who tries to stop him.

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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    03/12/09

    @corpore-metal: True, but I agree that ending was so badass and made me want to watch a third film where he just leads an army of mother fuckers all over the galaxy tearin shit up and saying silly things in growly voices.
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    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    03/12/09

    @Garrison Dean: Riddick does need companions and supporting characters to play his lines off of but I kinda think his badassery works best when he's alone.


    He's not a leader, he's not a follower, he's a rebel without a cause. I can totally see him rejecting all the furyan prophecy nonsense and returning to bar brawls with space truckers.

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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    03/12/09

    @corpore-metal: I'm down with that but I don't want a movie version of a video game of him silently going through an enclosed space murdering people. I am just a little nervous that is what he could do because it seems that some of this is banking on the success of the games vs. the films.
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    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of SimonMay SimonMay
    03/12/09

    In reply to Riddick 3 Details Reveal What's Next For Our Furyan
    The Chronicles of Riddick could have been great, actually, like Space-Conan* great, if it wasn't so weirdly paced, and if it didn't have that massively long bit in the middle where he's stuck on the planet where everything's too bright and it's deadly (as opposed to that other movie where everything was too dark and it was deadly... you see what they did?)


    I don't think the Necromongers were a bad idea, either, but they were presented in a weird, lop-sided manner. The stuff with the whole "let us brainwash you in horribly painful ways or die" thing was really interesting, and the fanaticism, and the great design, but they focussed in on all the rubbish bits. You know?



    ___________

    *Of Cimmeria, not O'Brien. Although American friends have assured me that would also be great.

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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    03/12/09

    @SimonMay: Space Conan O'Brien would be fantastic.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    03/12/09

    @AngryEddy: Space Conan O'Brien the Destroyer.


    I like the Riddick/Conan analogy. First one was excellent, second one was cheesy and over the top. This third one sounds promising.

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