Sunday, March 11, 2007

TV: Movie: The Chronicles of Riddick was not as ridiculous as expected

Yesterday eve and again tonite, I watched the 2-eveningsful scifi epic starring Vin Diesel, The Chronicles of Riddick (2004). Vin has an animal-eyes thing, and can't stand the lite, especially can't stand the glare of day lite. He's a Furian. The marathon was billed as "The fite of evil against evil," so I assumed that animal has something ontologically to do with evil. Thandi Newton and Judy Drench (she's an Elemental, so she glides ephemerally).

But in the moral shakedown of these Riddick filmic events, Vin was on the side of good after all, with his chief opponent the godlike leader of the Necromongers (yes!, the deathmongers who had surrendered their souls and adopted a religion against all religions, a secularistic anti-religion so absolute it had become a religion itself).

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The extremes of weather, climate, environments natural and unnatural, with shifting landscapes to complement shapeshifters all added to the superhero cartoonic quality of the scenes thru which Vin travels, mostly at h+ speed.

Want a plot summary? See Daniel Williamson's write-up.

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