The best movie quotes, movie lines and film phrases by movie quotes. When the craft is damaged in the wake of a comet and makes an emergency crash landing on an isolated desert planet, riddick escapes. The chronicles of riddick, is a science fiction action media franchise created in 2000 by david twohy spanning three liveaction feature films, a directtodvd animated film, two video games for pc and consoles, one motion comic, one mobile game, and two novelizations the series follows the adventures of antihero character riddick either portrayed or voiced by vin diesel in the 28th century. A commercial transport ship and its crew are marooned on a planet full of bloodthirsty creatures that only come out to feast at night. Twohy had to cut several dialogue scenes from his stylish scifibmovie pitch black for the theatrical release. Pitch black has its flaws, but is worth seeing if you enjoy mindless action sci fi films. The resulting damage badly cripples the ship, kills some of its crew and eventually causes it.
Pitch black trailer directed by david twohy and starring vin diesel. Bioraptors are highly aggressive and animalistic creatures capable of flight and are incredibly photosensitive, with even an artificial flashlight beam capable of severely burning their bodies. The top ten most badass movie characters 1 john rambo rambo series john james rambo is a fictional character in the rambo saga. Presumably, the pitch black world is analogous to its holy world counterpart, fumus world. Usually, it takes between 15 to 25 minutes until it happens, but not always. Parents need to know that pitch black is the scifi action movie that spawned vin diesels riddick franchise. This is the first time the riddick character is seen in a movie. Pitch black was one of the five haunted houses that was featured during halloween horror nights xi. After the release of its sequel, it has also been retroactively called the chronicles of riddick. The rest of them is all black, just like they are made out of nothing. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies.
They are assumed to be native to the planet m6117 in the m344g system and are implied to be responsible for the extinction of most life on the planet. Take a ride on the pulsepounding adrenaline rush that usa today calls the best excuse to root for the bad guy since arnold in the original terminator. He has silvergolden yellow eyes resembling an eclipse, dull palegray skin, and glossy black hair that is. I think theres absolutely no reason why he should be placed in third place, especially not below north. Bearing the hallmarks of the lowbudget science fiction thriller deserted locations, hidden alien enemies, squabbling characters, pitch black 2000 may have used up its fair share of alien 1979 franchise derivatives, but added a few original twists of its own to the format. Radha mitchell born 12 november 1973 is an australian actress. Aug 02, 2018 pitch black was filmed in the australian desert, for both budgetary reasons and the overall look. She started her career acting in various australian tv series and movies, and later became known for her appearance in hollywood films. Twohy, who also made the scifi cult item, the arrival.
Fully loaded clip, safetys on, one shot if you spot him. At the age of, she won the modelquest98 grand final for the 12to15yearold division. Pitch black on its dvd rerelease is a 2000 science fiction action horror film cowritten and directed by david twohy. The other performances are good, but not great, and the film relies on array of effects to really set the. Pitch black on its dvd rerelease is a 2000 american science fiction action horror film cowritten and directed by david twohy. It was located in soundstage 22 along with scary tales. Pitch black 2000 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The pitch black world is where a number of deepsea prisoners characters reside.
Every aspect of the movie was well made and it is a work of art pitch black is a thrilling science fiction movie with terrific acting and visual effects. This bluray is quite nice, with very good video and audio, plus an array of bonus features and exclusives. Pitch black is the main antagonist of the 2012 dreamworks animated film, rise of the guardians. This week in horror movie history pitch black 2000. Especially when conditions were far from moviestar glamour. My pitch for a black widow netflix miniseries black widow is an integral part of the marvel cinematic universe. Pitch black is a 2000 american science fiction action horror film cowritten and directed by david twohy. Pitch black is a 2000 science fiction action movie written by ken and jim wheat and later largely changed by director david twohy, and is widely recognized as the acting breakthrough of vin diesel.
With radha mitchell, cole hauser, vin diesel, keith david. Kubrick had the good sense to know that sound does not travel in space, but star wars, with its deep bass rumbles, demonstrated that it certainly should. The actors are amazing, radah mitchell high art, love and other as fry is truly a joy to watch on screen, while vin diesel as riddeck is so captivating that you are dying just to hear him speak again. Since the dark ages when his power was at its peak and his later defeat, pitch became embittered by no longer being believed in by children and even more sadistic as he only relished in turning the dreams of those. The only member of the crew to survive is junior pilot carolyn fry radha. The story involved riddick being transported to prison on the hunter gratzner, a commercial cargo spaceship. The reigning devil is satanick, and his godly counterpart is fumus. Pitch black in the year 2678, the huntergratzner, with its crew and passengers in stasis pods, passes through the debris of a comet. The film was initially released as pitch black, but after the release of the chronicles of riddick it was renamed the chronicles of riddick. The catch is a light activated alarm system impelling the men to. Sep 05, 20 the budget was also close to five times of what pitch black spent so although the sequel scored more bucks, it didnt seem to make nearly as much profit as the first movie.
In this science fiction thriller, a spaceship is transporting a. On the one hand these slow down the speed of the movie, on the other hand they allow interesting insights into the characters. The dc is represented by the old rc1, the theatrical version by the australian rc4. I found one of the finer aspects of pitch black to be its pacing. Implied to be the case with johns, who steals morphine from the medkit and injects it into his tear duct, possibly to avoid leaving visible needlemarks.
While most of the movies plot focuses on standing captain carolyn fry radha. It starts with big movie energy and in the midst of this chaos carolyn fry, played wonderfully by the underappreciated radha mitchell, makes a decision to jettison the passengers of her ship to secure her own life. It features strong scifi violence, with creature attacks. Riddick opens the movie with an expository voiceover that. The planet caused an eclipse, and cloud cover then formed and blanketed the area, so you wouldnt see any stars. Pitch black was filmed in the australian desert, for both budgetary reasons and the overall look.
He is the evil nightmare king who plots to make children forget their beloved guardians and send the world into eternal darkness, an era where fear is the only thing that can be felt anywhere by anyone. Whoever thought those dumbass goggles and shitty one liners is cool had to be high. Pitch black is a fun, if derivative, horror movie that is also notable for almost having launched a franchise. Riddick trilogy pitch black the chronicles of riddick. This movie seemed like it would have sounded absolutely terrible on paper, but director david twohy the arrival, below somehow made it all work. The modern visual rules for these shots were set by stanley kubricks 2001, which used a detailed model moving slowly instead of a cheesy model moving fast. Among the survivors are the ships pilot carolyn fry. Pitch black, the nightmare king, is the rise of the guardians reimagining of the boogeyman, the mythical creature that haunts the closets and dark corners of childhood nightmares and the main antagonist of the film.
Pitch black is a wonderful combination of science fiction, horror and drama all in one movie. Jul 16, 2015 last month, empire magazine released the results of their online poll of the greatest movie characters of all time, and it was, well, depressingly predictable pretty much the same crop of. The plot of the movie is pretty simple but the nice thing about this scifi movie is. This sets up a moral momentum that pushes pitch black past genre thrills and into genuinely moving spiritual epiphanies. After all, it started raining at the end of the movie. I continue to enjoy it a lot more than the chronicles of riddick, so you can just skip that one and start here. Now calling himself pitch black, the nightmare king, he razed the galaxy, plundering planets and extinguishing. Vin diesel in pitch black 2000 cole hauser in pitch black 2000 one of the.
Once again, yn managed to get lost and she wasnt able to find her basement. This novel was published a few years after the film, following its growth in popularity. No other movie opening thrills me more than a vast ship in interstellar space. Before 2000s pitch black, vin diesel was relatively unknown, more. The budget was also close to five times of what pitch black spent so although the sequel scored more bucks, it didnt seem to make nearly. Pitch black is just such a weak movie, theres really just not a lot going on here and a lot of the time the movie is dummy boring. He is the cunning, tyrannical and manipulative nightmare king who plots to make children forget their beloved guardians and send the world into eternal darkness, an era where fear is the only thing that can be felt anywhere by anyone. Last month, empire magazine released the results of their online poll of the greatest movie characters of all time, and it was, well, depressingly predictable pretty much the same crop of.
May 05, 2000 pitch black favorite movie button overview. This movie is very underrated and it is one of the few movies to take place in space. Pitch black is a survival movie in space that subverts character expectations. This was changed to leave an opening for a sequel with vin diesel returning. Whenever i play, at some point, some characters turn pitch black. Shes a member of the avengers, shes a close ally to captain america and shes a. Pitch black 2000 riddick vs bioraptor resound youtube. It takes place four years after pitch black and involved riddicks meeting with jack and imam, survivors from the first film, his escape from the prison planet crematoria, and his battle with the necromonger fleet, which ended with the. Riddick diesel is being transported to prison in a spacecraft. See more ideas about vin diesel, the chronicles of riddick and i movie. Pitch is dark and malevolent one would say everything a child fears. Pitch black 2000 fullhd movie, pitch black 2000 fullhd movie, pitch black 2000 fullhd movie. He is a prisoner on a space ship which crash lands on what first appears to be an uninhabited.
Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing pitch black near you. But then, they learn that a monthlong eclipse is about to occur. This category contains all rise of the guardians and the guardians of childhood characters. Vin diesel was born to play this tough, vicious and strange antihero riddick character. See more ideas about vin diesel, i movie and pitch. There are eighteen large deathclaws that patrol this map nine to the north in three clusters, nine to the south also in three clusters along with a special, friendly npc named riddick who walks east. Pitch black, better known as the boogeyman by children, is the main antagonist of the rise of the guardians. The first installment of the franchise, pitch black, was a lower budget production compared to the later ones. You start to feel quite fragile even though youre playing these cyberbabes.
The film stars vin diesel, radha mitchell, cole hauser, and keith david. The chronicles of riddick tries more to be straightforward star wars. In 2001, universal decided to have yet another pair of haunted houses in soundstage 22. He combines it with the challenges to the characters survival, whether through death from the alien threats, or through treachery of a member of the group, or through. Characters that appears in the pitch perfect franchise. Pitch black cast and crew cast photos and info fandango. About pitch black film pitch black filmed in forbidding winter conditions in the isolated australian town of coober pedy.
Twohys pitch black plays upon several of those primal fears such as fear of the dark, outofthecorneroftheeye suspense, alien nightmares, gore, and violence. Pitch perfect 2012 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Screen rant is one of the top authorities on movies on youtube. Once a great warrior and a hero of the golden age, kozmotis pitchiner was tempted and tricked by the fearlings, creatures of shadow.
Mitchell, a native of melbourne, began acting when she was still in high school and had her professional debut on the popular australian soap. Chronicles of riddick films, pitch black october 21, 2011 09. Top ten favorite characters from rise of the guardians. While they were a shifting, useless mass by themselves, kozmotis had the power to shape them into his own army of darkness and command them himself. The catch is a light activated alarm system impelling the men to embark on a pitch black heist. Not much is known about the history of this world yet. As a child she began modeling, doing runway work, magazine shoots, and catalogue ads for childrens clothing. I mean the substance of the plot is extremely shallow and riddick is such a doofus its hilarious whenever he tries to act badass. In this encounter, your group will start off in the center of the map, completely surrounded by darkness and a few pools of radiation. Rhiana jade griffith was born on april 16, 1985 in the hunter valley region of new south wales, australia. This first movie, however, is mostly about characters working together to survive a greater threat. The thing, its a visceral and exciting examination of characters behaving badly.
You just call on whatever strength you can to portray that sort of role, she says. We upload daily videos and movie theories about marvel, avengers, disney pixar, nickelodeon. North acts far more childishly with absolutely nothing being added to his character anywhere in the movie. Apr 30, 2008 the dc is represented by the old rc1, the theatrical version by the australian rc4. Pitch black is the original scifi hit that introduced the world to the character of riddick, the ultimate antihero.
Liam liam cunningham and michael michael fassbender are professional safe crackers who meet on a simple job to relieve an office safe from its contents. Pitch black is a special encounter in fallout tactics. It features strong scifi violence, with creature attacks, blood splatters, shooting, fighting, and death. Pitch black is the first entry in the chronicles of riddick series. Its a rather short book under 200 pages, and doesnt really achieve much other than outline the story presented in the movie. Community content is available under ccbysa unless otherwise noted. This is the novelisation of the film pitch black blurayregion free, starring vin diesel. The second feature film in the series, the chronicles of riddick was a considerably more expensive production and was more action oriented than its predecessor. It had nothing to do with the vin diesel film at all. Pitch black, which begins in deep space and ends with a manhunt on a.
Rent pitch black 2000 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. The movies 2005 lionheadea game pitch black character. Kozmotis pitchiner is the main antagonist of dreamworks 25th fulllength animated feature film rise of the guardians. The movie starts off with a bang, but slows down to a crawl as everyone is trying to figure out what happened. The pitch black night covered the whole blocky word, the moon watched her silently with the little lig. Pitch black is a thrilling science fiction movie with terrific acting and visual effects. Soundstage 22 is one of the smaller soundstage facilities designed to be used as filming locations. When riddick vin diesel and the other passengers aboard the hunter gratzner crash land on the planet designated m6117 in the movie pitch black 2000, they are unaware what the planets approaching total eclipse will unleash.
637 4 707 1139 1253 747 1370 940 1303 963 574 1247 1171 100 1066 117 506 1354 407 883 1527 1017 812 1579 111 1441 937 1224 262 1448 99