OK, I don't understand how this movie made so much money - watched it last night on TV.
It's a remake of Point Break!!! Close your eyes and listen to Paul Walker speak and he sounds just like Keannu Reaves. Undercover cop trying to break into the world of the "extreme" and hooks up with the main leader who is a guy everyone loves, falls for girl caught in the middle, blah blah blah.
It was a horrible movie that was saved by the coolness of Vin Diesel (can't wait for Pitch Black 2!!!!)...cheesy dialogue, stereotypical characters, etc...
>Vin Diesel (can't wait for Pitch Black 2!!!!)...
Really!!! Is suh a thing going to happen!?!? Yes! I loved that movie, and was thinking of seeing both F&F and XXX to see Vin in something else
Now if only they hadn't sliced up Aeryn Sun er... Claudia Black
The Chronicles of Riddick starts filming in October.
Supposed to be a very big budget film - The director of Pitch Black, David Twohy has said it's a "dark Star Wars" film. 3 movie trilogy.
> The Chronicles of Riddick starts filming in October.
So I see from IMDB
> The director of Pitch Black, David Twohy has said it's a "dark Star Wars" film. 3 movie trilogy.
Cool. Just curious how it's going to go because although the front of the story was about Riddick, the backdrop for the story was so intense, I wonder if they can duplicate the feel?
I heard that they were shooting Pitch Black 2 and 3 back to back (I think that might turn into a trend, shooting 2 or more sequels as one huge movie - that way it saves time and money)
It probably saves a lot of production costs so you don't have to spin up and spin down. Also you can get your key actors under contract for the whole series easier. Plus you don't run the risk that your actors will visibly age (or get a lot more famous and want more money)
The Fast And The Furious is just another in the long line of "lifestyle" movies that gets the lifestyle completely wrong. Blue Crush looks like one. "In a world dominated by men these women will have to prove themselves," that sentence alone proves how little the filmmakers actually know about surfing. FATF had some of the worst dialogue I've ever seen in a major movie, and it took three people to write! My biggest problem is that Paul Walker is just too friggin' white. If ever there was a honkey posterboy...
Found this:
"Diesel Teases Riddick Trilogy "
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2002-07/29/13.00.film
I thought F&F was only popular because it was a guy flick. Not the acting nor the plot, just the fact that guys love cars and anything in a movie that focuses on cars is popular. Since that film everybody in my city thinks they're straight out of the movie, street racing and even copycat motercycle gangs that all dress alike. Mostly young men. You know who you are!
I liked "Pitch Black", i don't know about a sequel. I liked Diesel in "Boiler Room". "XXX" looks like it's trying to make him into an action hero - not sure i'd care to see that. Btw did anybody catch him on Leno the other nite? Man he sure looks puny from his musclebound movie physique in real life.
And they KILLED THE CHARGER! *cry cry cry*
Am I the only person on this board that liked The Fast And The Furious?
GAAH! Even in cyberspace I'm the odd man out! :)
I surprised my friends in the industry last year by predictiing Fast and The Furious would be a big hit. I knew who Paul Walker and Vin Diesel were, knew that every racial group would be encompassed by the movie, and heard lots of young Latinos here in LA say they were going to see it (even though the leads were not Hispanic).
I thought the movie was an enjoyable popcorn summer movie at the theater but it may not play as well on TV.
And you're right that the plot is identical to Point Break and Paul Walker sounds identical to Keanu.
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no offense to Lee, you liking must of been a fluke of some sort! But belive it or not, most people are very dense, and an easy to follow, hackneyed, politically correct, un-offensive, bland action movie is right up their alley! One scene could have been a saving grace though, but it was not made
- picture this-
the cars are racing underneath the semi-trucks, darting hither and thither, then paul walker whatever see's that his jack in the box antenna ball is about to fly off due to the air pressure, in a daring rescue attempt he crawls out of his vehicle via the sunroof, THEN, right as he reaches for his jack in the box antenna ball, he realizes that his car is ABOUT TO GO UNDER THE SEMI! . . . but alas, it is too late and he is decapitated! his severed head then soars through the windshield of another car, onto the crotch of its male driver, the flabbergasted driver thinks he's getting fellated by the stunning woman in the passenger seat and smiles, but when he hears her scream he sees the horrible truth! The severed head of Paul walker whatever is fellating him! duhn duhn daaahh! he slams on the brakes, but because hes a cool street racer, and never wears a seat belt, he is thrown out through the windshield and he lands in front of the moving semi, his head is crushed. the girl from the front seat is now roadside, unharmed, she lifts the blood soaked head of paul walker whatever and guzzles his blood, proving to us what we all had suspected, yes, she was a vampire all along.
now its a shame this wasnt in the final product, proving that a mass audience is not intelligent enough to appriciate such brilliant socio-economic commentary and in depth looks at mans curruptable state and original fall from gods grace.
Matt...if you tweaked the idea of the decapitation thing so that it was reminiscent of the scenes in Tromeo & Juliet and Terror Firmer (where they use the Kabukiman car crash footage), I'd joygasm.
Pitch Black was a good movie, man...even my mother liked it (and the only other sci-fi/action/horror movie she likes is the original Alien).