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Good to know it's going to be more like Pitch Black than the stupid bullshit that was Chronicles of Riddick.
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# ? May 15, 2013 22:53 |
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Vagabundo posted:Good to know it's going to be more like Pitch Black than the stupid bullshit that was Chronicles of Riddick. You can go ahead and go straight to the Underverse.
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# ? May 15, 2013 22:55 |
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Holy hell, that was unbelievably badass. edit: vvv Yeah, I'm curious about this too... I mean, where's Karl Urban? I thought he was returning? Deakul fucked around with this message at 23:19 on May 15, 2013 |
# ? May 15, 2013 23:11 |
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So where does this movie fit in the... Riddickverse?
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# ? May 15, 2013 23:15 |
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Mierenneuker posted:So where does this movie fit in the... Riddickverse? Chronologically, it's after Chronicles of Riddick - which is still canon - but they tie up some loose ends from CoR and return to a setting more similar to Pitch Black.
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# ? May 15, 2013 23:22 |
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Why is Riddick stranded on some backwater planet, again? Isn't he Lord Marshal of the Necromongers, now?
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# ? May 15, 2013 23:23 |
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Gonz posted:Why is Riddick stranded on some backwater planet, again? That's going to be explained.
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# ? May 15, 2013 23:24 |
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Gonz posted:Why is Riddick stranded on some backwater planet, again? Or IS he?
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# ? May 15, 2013 23:24 |
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PaganGoatPants posted:Or IS he? *dramatic musical upswing*
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# ? May 15, 2013 23:25 |
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Vagabundo posted:Good to know it's going to be more like Pitch Black than the stupid bullshit that was Chronicles of Riddick. It looks like it'll be exactly like Pitch Black. It's a shame, I really enjoyed (conceptually that is, Chronicles was a lousy film) the franchise moving from a taut action film into a sprawling space opera. It was just so inexplicable.
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# ? May 15, 2013 23:50 |
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This looks beautifully 80's. Well, not in terms of it's aestehtic look, but in terms of tone. If that's a dumb comment it's probably because I haven't seen the other Riddick films though. For shame.
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# ? May 16, 2013 00:04 |
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That trailer made it look almost identical to Pitch Black. I mean I liked Pitch Black, but I'm not sure I have to see the exact same movie again.
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# ? May 16, 2013 00:13 |
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Good job, Internet, all your cries that Chronicles weren't Pitch Black have been heard! At least they did not listen to gamers, the previous one already was a a prison movie. Riddick is Space Conan, his stories should fit every adventure template, not retell the same story. That said, cautiously hyped.
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# ? May 16, 2013 06:39 |
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For a film with a $38 million budget, it looks pretty sweeping. I'll see it for the cute Space German Shepherd that Riddick befriends.
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# ? May 16, 2013 07:37 |
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Vagabundo posted:Good to know it's going to be more like Pitch Black than the stupid bullshit that was Chronicles of Riddick. Chronicles of Riddick owns and is a really cool Conan-style D&D adventure put to screen! Put aside your cynicism gentlemen, today is the age of enjoyment
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# ? May 16, 2013 07:49 |
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Vin even agreed to do this one for scale just to get it greenlit. All the cynics should be ashamed. Alehkhs fucked around with this message at 18:43 on May 16, 2013 |
# ? May 16, 2013 07:54 |
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Hey have you had your fill of Pacific Rim footage yet OF COURSE NOT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5guMumPFBag
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# ? May 16, 2013 21:39 |
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It does look like a bit of a retread of Pitch Black but I kind of loved Pitch Black so I'm not sure I'm bothered by this. I'm curious to see what the Necromongers roles are in this though. I know Urban is in it but I didn't spot him in the trailer, only some generic Necromonger guy
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# ? May 16, 2013 22:57 |
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Sure hope that they evacuated most of the cities that they dropped the Jaegers in.
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# ? May 16, 2013 23:48 |
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Here dear, have some more space! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbw9hlBnG74
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# ? May 17, 2013 21:05 |
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Alehkhs posted:Here dear, have some more space! They were warned three years ago not to attempt landing on Europa!
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# ? May 18, 2013 00:22 |
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I don't understand why there's this glut of awesome looking sci-fi movies coming out soon, and I don't care. I'm just gonna enjoy it while I can.
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# ? May 18, 2013 04:01 |
Alehkhs posted:Here dear, have some more space! This looks like it's been influenced heavily by Apollo 18. As someone who liked that movie, that makes me tingly.
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# ? May 19, 2013 09:10 |
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Slashrat posted:This looks like it's been influenced heavily by Apollo 18. As someone who liked that movie, that makes me tingly. I fuckin' loved Apollo 18, so I'm happy as a pig in poo poo.
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# ? May 20, 2013 03:58 |
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I think its kind of weird how the first part of the trailer makes a big deal about how realistic it is, then MONSTERS.
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# ? May 20, 2013 04:07 |
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Slashrat posted:This looks like it's been influenced heavily by Apollo 18. As someone who liked that movie, that makes me tingly. It's weird how Apollo 18 was savaged before even premiering (I haven't seen it but don't hate its premise) for having the same things that this movie has. I suppose it's because the Apollo missions actually happened. io9 which has two separate quotes in that trailer has been pushing Europa as a candidate for alien life for years so it might just be because of the connotations of the destination amongst sci-fi fans (plus 2010 references). Corek fucked around with this message at 04:33 on May 20, 2013 |
# ? May 20, 2013 04:30 |
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Alehkhs posted:Here dear, have some more space! 2001 + Apollo 13 + Prometheus
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# ? May 20, 2013 05:46 |
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Corek posted:It's weird how Apollo 18 was savaged before even premiering (I haven't seen it but don't hate its premise) for having the same things that this movie has. I suppose it's because the Apollo missions actually happened. io9 which has two separate quotes in that trailer has been pushing Europa as a candidate for alien life for years so it might just be because of the connotations of the destination amongst sci-fi fans (plus 2010 references). I'm fairly sure it was savaged because of the big twist halfway through the movie and also the ending. They're both really bad. If Europa has the same sort of thing going on it is going to get the same treatment. I doubt it will since Apollo 18's ending is only possible in a found footage movie, and is also the absolute worst ending a found footage film could possibly have. Europa doesn't seem to be a found footage movie so it'll avoid that particular pitfall.
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# ? May 20, 2013 08:11 |
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As someone with no interest in ever seeing the movie what was the twist/ending in Apollo 18?
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# ? May 20, 2013 12:22 |
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muscles like this? posted:As someone with no interest in ever seeing the movie what was the twist/ending in Apollo 18? As I recall, the ending was parts of the moon's landscape were monsters and they kill everyone.
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muscles like this? posted:I think its kind of weird how the first part of the trailer makes a big deal about how realistic it is, then MONSTERS. To be fair, one of the movies it said it's as realistic as was 2001: A Space Odyssey. And that a Starchild.
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# ? May 20, 2013 16:01 |
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Dan Didio posted:As I recall, the ending was parts of the moon's landscape were monsters and they kill everyone. The official term was Moonsters. Also, Harvey Weinstein thought they landed on the moon too easily and wanted there to be a storm that made it difficult to land. A storm on the moon.
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# ? May 20, 2013 16:40 |
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When I went to see Star Trek we got a trailer for Anchorman 2 but for some reason its pretty much a retread of the first one. You'd think they'd have something with a little more substance by now.
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# ? May 20, 2013 21:03 |
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Dan Didio posted:As I recall, the ending was parts of the moon's landscape were monsters and they kill everyone. That's the big twist, but not the ending. The ending is all the footage (of the found footage film, in other words the footage you are watching) was either destroyed or rendered unrecoverable. There is absolutely no possible way for that footage to have made its way to Earth and be assembled into a movie.
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# ? May 20, 2013 21:09 |
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muscles like this? posted:When I went to see Star Trek we got a trailer for Anchorman 2 but for some reason its pretty much a retread of the first one. You'd think they'd have something with a little more substance by now. The first one had substance? I always felt that it was massively overrated. But, it might also be that by the time I finally saw it, I had every joke and scene spoiled for me 10x over.
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# ? May 20, 2013 21:20 |
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TTBF posted:That's the big twist, but not the ending. The ending is all the footage (of the found footage film, in other words the footage you are watching) was either destroyed or rendered unrecoverable. There is absolutely no possible way for that footage to have made its way to Earth and be assembled into a movie. Who's to say that it did? We could be watching the aliens' holiday video. "Look, here's that nice couple we met in the Sea of Tranquility ... how did we kill them again, G'hrarg?"
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# ? May 20, 2013 21:29 |
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Corek posted:It's weird how Apollo 18 was savaged before even premiering (I haven't seen it but don't hate its premise) for having the same things that this movie has. I suppose it's because the Apollo missions actually happened. io9 which has two separate quotes in that trailer has been pushing Europa as a candidate for alien life for years so it might just be because of the connotations of the destination amongst sci-fi fans (plus 2010 references). I'm sure that part of that was that Apollo 18 sort of tried to do the Blair Witch thing by pretending to be footage from a "secret mission to the moon." Except that the premise is completely ridiculous. The liftoff of a Saturn V can be seen from hundreds of miles away, and detected by seismographs thousands of miles away. Plus the Soviets could easily track American spacecraft, and I'm sure there were independent facilities that could do that as well. So it would be slightly difficult to keep something like that a secret. From the trailer, Europa Report is either set in the future or a District 9 style alternate history. So it never asks the audience to believe that the events of the film "really happened."
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# ? May 21, 2013 01:17 |
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INH5 posted:I'm sure that part of that was that Apollo 18 sort of tried to do the Blair Witch thing by pretending to be footage from a "secret mission to the moon." Except that the premise is completely ridiculous. The liftoff of a Saturn V can be seen from hundreds of miles away, and detected by seismographs thousands of miles away. Plus the Soviets could easily track American spacecraft, and I'm sure there were independent facilities that could do that as well. So it would be slightly difficult to keep something like that a secret. Although in the movie, the launch is disguised as an unmanned Saturn mission, like Skylab. Also, the Soviets knew about it the whole time, since 18 was reactivated because a Soviet lunar landing met with disaster.
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# ? May 21, 2013 02:05 |
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Byzantine posted:Although in the movie, the launch is disguised as an unmanned Saturn mission, like Skylab. Also, the Soviets knew about it the whole time, since 18 was reactivated because a Soviet lunar landing met with disaster. Well, I guess that makes a bit more sense. Though it still can't work as a "secret history," because we know that the only Saturn launch after Apollo 17 was Skylab, which obviously wasn't a secret moon mission. Also, did the movie bother to provide a reason why the Soviets kept the fact that their space program had caught up with NASA a secret, even before things went bad? Still, if the marketing hadn't tried the Blair Witch "this movie really happened" schtick, I would have found it a lot easier to swallow. I still cringe at the "there's a reason we never went back" tagline. On topic: The Europa Report trailer looks pretty awesome. I really liked the look of the spacecraft and technical stuff. Reminds me a lot of real space footage. Also, I love the way the probe/helmet cam feed at 1:06 has a noticably lower frame rate, presumably for bandwidth reasons. That really shows good attention to detail.
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# ? May 21, 2013 02:57 |
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Well, there are some theories that the Soviets actually sent up people before Gagarin, they just all died so it was hushed up.
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