[Multimedia] Chronicles of Riddick

I think I will start a new thread, where I will review movies, music, computer games, books and TV (while I still have cable).

Experience: Movie
Location: Carmike Wynnsong Theaters
Overall Rating: C

Comments:

Compared to Van Helsig, this movie should win an academy award. Compared to anything else this movie was an example (to me) of the doldrums of that which is the Hollywood movie. They had a great idea, a continuation of where Pitch Black left off, with an interesting character Riddick, criminal scurge of the galaxy versus a religious cult bent on annihilation of the human race. I am usually a sucker for all types of sci-fi as it is my favorite genre. However I am sad that Hollywood can rarely get sci-fi right anymore concentrating on CGI effects instead of plot and developing characters to be about as deep as a mud puddle. I lament and complain like a fickle conaisseur of the genre, vowing after every bad movie that I will refuse to see another one, but as my friends know, I will be one of the first in line to the 3rd installment of Star Wars, where George Lucas will continue to break my heart and destroy my memories of childhood (Star Wars A New Hope was one of the first movies I remember seeing and it started my love of sci-fi, Attack of the Clones nearly destroyed it). I know Hollywood has changed, and so have I.