Dont get the Haters...

Man fk the haters. They dont understand how hard this type of movie to make is. For some reasons americans dont like greeks, they panned this, the hulk, and Alexander all great stories. They dont like too much dialog, intimacy, psychology, drama. When I first saw this and I saw it several times in the theatres I thought it was going to be huge. Everyone in my city liked it and I did too. Almost liked it too much I thought it was too good. That for sure it was going to blow up and make several sequels. Only a few years later did I realise the hate in the boards. I didnt get it. Yea pitch black was good, really good. But this one had more of humongous blockbuster feel to it the type you see in the theatres and as a hyped up sequel to pitch black it didn’t disappoint.

I did love the fantasy space opera. It was amazing on the big screen and it wasnt just a showy movie it had a lot of thought they left with you when you left the theatre. The plots holes I could handle because it was a blockbuster film and at least they tried to answer some questions. Nowadays they just squash all that and create new irrelevant stories. There was also different cuts to it that helped the movie a lot and you can see why they made it like that for the theatres but you liked the other cuts but the theatre was still good. They did the same thing with Pitch. You can tell as you said if they really wanted to they couldve filled the holes with the third sequel but for no good reason they failed. They had it right there but vin got lazy. I didnt really like Riddick as you can see( by this I mean I did like it but not as much as the first two)because it completely squashed this one and tried to go back to the first one but not as good. He also looked old to me which didnt match his chronicles appearance. The stellar cast in the second was gone. It’s strange but being independent you wouldve thought it was going to be so much bigger but seeing how commercial Chronicles was you can pretty much see the producers had it right with the plots, cgi, and action. The lower budget and more personal approach didnt help this one and though I would love them to go back to this I dont think they will. The cast got too big and wont comeback and seeing how successful Riddick was they’ll probably stick to a low budget.

I also love cheese which is probably a big reason I love this but fk yea the costumes were amazings. Dame Vaako was stunning, Strangely I always liked Lord Marshalls outfit and character. The Necromongers costumes were bad azz.

The sets were amazing. I always liked The Kings Throne and the final battle didn’t disappoint. The spacious was lovely. I liked that vin took a shot at this and continue with the story instead of ghosting it.

This was the first time I saw Urban and I didnt like him mostly cause he looked to be like another actor and a wannabe but then I saw him in Doom which I really like and then in some other ones and then I became a fan and accepted him in this role. Its not that I didnt like his acting which was pretty good it was his look and part also that I didnt like the character. At times he seemed afraid of Riddick and never really fought him, Dame Vaako seemed to have more balls then him, and he betrayed the Lord Marshall.

I actually think when this came out it was era for these films more so than today and maybe decades before because many of the themes are too mature for most and most people dont like to combine too much thought with an action flick. The original Batman didnt have as much and once returns did they axed the entire franchise.
Im thinking maybe 70’s.

Also it didnt really bombed as it made over 100 million the problem was the over inflated budget but now it states huge video sales and cult following but all these late bloomers missed out cuz this movie is made for the BIG SCREEN!

Same here. Even the beginning when they are in the stones buildings were amazing.

But this one was more of a collaborative effort between the director, Vin, and the producers. With the producers having most of the hand in it. Riddick 3rd is more like Vin and the Director.

I dont really know which audience cause everyone I know loves it.

Audiences seemed to like it more than the critics. This has a 65% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 6.6 on IMDB which is pretty good for a sci-fi action film. The critics score on Rotten Tomatoes is a criminally low 29%.

Just finished rewatching this and I enjoy this film a hell of a lot. I always watch the unrated director's cut as it keeps the brutal and violent action scenes uncut like Riddick's fight with the Necromonger army on Crematoria. I also love the more abrupt ending of Riddick just uttering "You keep what you kill" and then cut to credits.

I agree that I'm glad the director decided to do something different. I don't mind the third film but it's a bit of a rehash of Pitch Black at times, enjoyable enough don't get me wrong but I really want to see a fourth film where Riddick gets to Furya and we get something different for this franchise.

29% on Rotten Tomatoes for Chronicles is criminally underrated I think, critics were far too harsh on it. This is a far better sci-fi sequel than say Alien: Covenant which has a 65% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Oh well, hopefully we still get a fourth film one day when Diesel is done with his cash cow Fast & Furious franchise.