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Vin, you are a dummy! These movies honestly SUCK!!!!


These movies are SO cheesy and hacky and stupid. Vin diesel is the only reason they still keep happening. Not in a good way. He pushes and pushes til they're made. Otherwise, the first one would have been it, and just a forgotten about movie. Which it should have been. They are an excuse for vin to try and look cool. And he always looks the same, like a HORRIBLE actor, trying to look bad a*s. Stop vin. You're acting is like a pro wrestler, turned actor. Like when the rock first started acting. But vin hasn't gotten better with ongoing years. That's the difference. He was good in saving private Ryan, and that's it! Probably cuz he had good direction. And spielberg probably told him to put his "wannabe bad a*s" looks he likes to give the camera in check. Cuz after and before that movie, everything he's done is total crap. Fooling idiots who know nothing about real cinema and acting into liking him. He has a semi good look to him. But he wastes them by being an idiot, and acting like one. Have you honestly ever heard him speak? He's a dummy.

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Hehe, you don't have a clue. From the moment we get to see that -totally- awesome crash at the start of Pitch Black, we're connected into this new world and mainly through the character of Riddick (meaning Vin).

Then, surprise, surprise, the next film - CoR - flips the script and it's a multi-planet space-adventure of epic proportions... A monster movie, into a BIGGER monster movie - that whole experience, so amazing...

Shame if it, really, did nothing for you. For me, it was as if I were 12 years old again and managed to (somehow!) dig-out that beautiful, perfect, SF novel from the book store. Except it's live, right there, in front of my eyes!! Ah, words can't describe the joy!..;) :)

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(Oh, yea!! Then, there were the TWO games! Omg., like my ex used to put it -so- eloquently: "sex"! :))

*Just because most of his new(er) films are nowhere close to this whole experience, including the last Riddick - where they lost the plot, also literally - doesn't necessarily mean that he's not the greatest man that ever lived, for giving us those (what seemed to be) brief years of everything.

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I agree, the movies are really cheesy, hacky and stupid. But I really like them. A very guilty pleasure to be sure.

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Dont know why your ranking on vin. There are a million actors like him less successful including the rock. Look there are a million fans that like these films. Ive heard from a lot of action fans and intellectuals that they like riddick. Its an action packed film and the character is an escaped convict I dont see why he cant be jacked. This is one of Vin's most popular roles and one that got him in the big shot. If you dont like it its one thing but to come here and rank on it and say he shouldnt make it anymore when its been successful to him and the fans love it is ridiculous.

Why am I such a misfit? I am not just a nitwit.

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Actually, Dwayne Johnson is considerably more successful than Vin Diesel, but when it comes to the Riddick films, I agree with you.

Time wounds all heels.

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By what metric? I doubt Johnson has ever been paid as much for a movie as Vin. He's still mainly a TV actor while Vin is a Hollywood guy.

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Dwayne Johnson is presently the highest paid actor in Hollywood. Vin has NEVER been at the level he is. We get it, you like Vin, and that's fine, but facts are facts.

Oh, and one successful HBO show and some guest spots doesn't make Dwayne "mainly a TV actor."


Time wounds all heels.

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No, these movies are great, Fast & Furious suck. People just don't know what's good.

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No, these movies are great, Fast & Furious suck. People just don't know what's good.

BWAHAHAHAHA! They actually both suck but at least the Riddick films are fun.









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I love these movies lol! Every move can't be Aliens, Blade Runner, Terminator, etc. The Riddick trilogy is just pure enjoyment and sci-fi fun. I'd take Riddick over most of the recent sci-fi films (Life, Alien: Covenant, Jurassic World: FK, etc...).

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Me too. I like all three but chronicles is my favourite. Great sets and action, just a really fun movie to watch. I would have loved a fourth one.

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Chronicles of Riddick is such a unique film, even by today's standards. Chronicles came out in 2004, and Riddick came out in 2013. This gives me hope that Vin will return to do a 4th film, eventually. I think the only two reoccurring characters needed for a 4th is Vin and Karl Urban, which shouldn't be too hard to negotiate.

The "Riddick" franchise is Vin Diesel's passion project, and I don't think he'd just leave it incomplete. At least, I hope he wouldn't lol

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Pitch Black is a good film, quit being such a snob.

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You don’t realize that snobbery is fun, looking down on all the ants beneath. Try it some time.

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