Pitch Black (2000)

[a|one]

Re: Pitch black

Cube was enjoyable but some parts seemed kind of obvious to me. I mean... that whole thing with their retard who just happend to be an idiot savant, as soon as you saw that their way out was all based on numbers you just KNEW that he was going to turn out to be one of those, like was there really any other possible reason for him being in the film?

Really liked Pitch Black too, but seeing the commercial for Chronicles of Riddick was more than enough for me to know it would be trash. Vin Diesel just lost all appeal after The Fast and The Furious.

 

[Neon]

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This movie was only "ok" for me .... I'm not a big Vin Diesel fan whatsoever. Although I do think it's funny that he didn't get/refused the role in XXX 2, and is being replaced by Ice Cube.

 

[Foxbat]

Please put your thoughts on May's movie here

 

[cornelius]

is this the Vin Diesel pitch black? if so I might pop up in thios thread from time to time

 

[weaveworld]

Pitch Black...

Pitch Black was one of the best movies I have seen in awhile when it was first released. Vin Diesel is the main character, Riddick, a known criminal.

The film was great to look at it, Riddick's eyes kinda cool, and the creatures quite scary.

 

[Foxbat]

I thought this was a decent enough movie but with nothing very groundbreaking and with some fairly cliched characters. I'm not a big fan of Vin Diesel but watching this was a nice easy way of spending a couple of hours. Not bad....nothing great...but I've seen worse.

 

[Winters_Sorrow]

I tried watching this during a power cut, but it was Pitch Black.

fnar, fnar.

I thought this was fairly straight forward action/horror movie. I don't really understand how it has achieved cult status as its very predictable and generic. The Vin Diesel character is your cliched anti-hero who ends up saving everyone else (for reasons which are vague at best) in spite of his entire makeup being to look after number one.

The alien design was decent but nothing special.

 

[Paige Turner]

I liked the first half of this movie quite a lot. It had a very cool look. The character development was quite subdued, and achieved with fairly economical writing. The overexposed film really helped to drive home the unrelenting heat and light. In the cinema I drank a whole coke in the first half hour. At the midway point, it devolved into another creature feature, and I thought it lost a lot of its momentum. The suspense of the first half was frittered away on some pretty standard and improbable monsters.

 

[Trollkien]

I quite liked Pitch Black - I began it with zero expectations and thought it was a fairly engrossing sci-fi thriller. The only downside of seeing it was it made me beleive checking out xXx would be a good idea *-(

 

[sanityassassin]

I wasn't too impressed by pitch black it seemed to be another poor storied hollywood cr*p. None of the charecters appealed to me and when the creatures came I didn't care if the charecters lived or died, but strangely found the sequal a better film

 

[GrownUp]

Pitch Black...

Pitch Black was one of the best movies I have seen in awhile when it was first released. Vin Diesel is the main character, Riddick, a known criminal.

I completely had the same feeling when I first watched it. The shell of the film is an Aliens copy, just like many others, with fairly TV-movie style special effects. But the film itself is closer to a rather good stage drama. One can almost see the list of 'characters' that you get at the beginning of a play. Or, if not a play, a book, more like a book than a film. And when Riddick (played by Vin Deisel) begins his initial lyrical monologue, it's as if he has 'protaganist' written on his forehead.

 

[cornelius]

the monsters weren't that impressive, and the storyline was a bit too much coincidenses poored into one, but I did like the characters tho.

 

[GrownUp]

the monsters weren't that impressive, and the storyline was a bit too much coincidenses poored into one, but I did like the characters tho.

Oh absolutely. The story, the skin of the film, was just ridiculous. The ship crash landing on the planet the one time in twenty-something years it would be dangerous to do so? And of course, there has to be a dangerous criminal on the ship. Whouldn't be cliche'd enough otherwise. Heh heh. And then when they are trapped in a cave and need light to keep the monsters away and they're saved by glow-in the dark bugs? Good grief. Plots worthy of the A-Team.
Suns orbiting planets? Science worthy of McGyver.

But the characters inhabiting the story were worth watching.
It was like watching a pop video and discovering it had been written by Dostoyevsky.

 

[phase38]

Pitch Black

Cinematic masterpiece, or a bit naff?

I think the lighting effects were outstanding, colourising different scenes. Chronicles of Riddick was a disappointment, but Pitch Black remains one of my fave films.

What say you lot?

 

[C. Craig R. McNeil]

Re: Pitch Black

A truly brilliant film, far far superior to the pathetic Chronicles of Riddick. I've seen Pitch Black several times and it really is quite an amazing and criminally under rated film. Great plot, great characters, stunning lighting and special effects. What more do you want? If you haven't seen this film then do so. NOW!

 

[phase38]

Re: Pitch Black

A truly brilliant film, far far superior to the pathetic Chronicles of Riddick. I've seen Pitch Black several times and it really is quite an amazing and criminally under rated film. Great plot, great characters, stunning lighting and special effects. What more do you want? If you haven't seen this film then do so. NOW!

Well said. Best is to watch it in the dark on DVD with the sound up high... thrilling.

 

[steve12553]

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Movie was interesting with some interesting characters. Riddick was much better in the first film as an anti-hero than as a hero in the sequel.

 

[Paige Turner]

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I drank four cokes during that movie.

 

[carrie221]

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I liked that movie... it was kinda scary but it was good

 

[Tau Zero]

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Pitch Black was excellent. I think it's the best spacecraft crash scene i've ever seen. The native animals were well done, even the lighting under a blue sun was fine. Riddick was a great character, tough, confident, and understated. My only complaint, and it's a personal bias, was

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why did they have to kill off the girl at the end? It is a common Hollywood device to kill off someone you like, but i don't think it added to the film.