The MOVIE REVIEW Thread

[jdturbo18]

kelan pala showing k*ll bill2?

[binoyski71]

watched the third installment of harry potter... eto yung pinakamaganda among the three para sa akin... try to watch it in a good cinema to enjoy the sound & effects fully... :)

[jologsparin]

Watched "Dawn of the Dead." Didn't enjoy it. All about zombies who turn everyone into zombies like them. Predictable plot. But if you like gory stuff where thousands of people die violent deaths, this movie is for you.

[jmork63]

any reviews on Chronicles of ERiddick? Is this the sequel to Vin Diesel's Pitch Black?

[Anaheim]

any reviews on Chronicles of ERiddick? Is this the sequel to Vin Diesel's Pitch Black?

haven't seen riddick but I've read about it and it is a prequel to the movie PITCH BLACK.

[kayesantos]

any reviews on Chronicles of ERiddick? Is this the sequel to Vin Diesel's Pitch Black?

i just watched riddick last night.

 

it was riddickulous.

 

ill give it 2 stars out of 5.

[lapongga]

just watched riddick last night.

 

it was riddickulous.

 

ill give it 2 stars out of 5.

 

Sorry but I have to disagree, "Chronicles of Riddick" is a good movie...Siguro di mo lang napanood yung "Pitchblack" which is the prequel to Chronicles...

 

 

You have to know where he is coming from to get the feel of his character...and for me that makes it a good movie...you are watching RIDDICK not VIN DIESEL.

 

For me that's what makes a movie with a hero character good..when you get to watch the character, not the movie star...

 

That is the ingredient of failure in the past few batman movies we've seen...the hollywood stars are casting such a shadow on the character that you end up watching them..not Batman per se.

 

Back to Riddick, once you get to know riddick's real backround and character , you'll appreciate the movie better.

 

I really suggest that you see "PITCH BLACK" first before you go see "CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK" so you know somehow where the story started. But I sense a pre-quel coming....masyadong vague yung depiction ng character ni Riddick, maganda yung story ng buhay niya eh..hehehehehe

[jake_speed]

Movies I watched:

 

Chronicles of Riddick

Ladykillers :sick:

Troy :cool:

You got served

Harry Potter

 

Disappointed ako sa movie ni Tom Hanks :cool:

[Gideon]

Chronicles of Riddick - it's movie that you need to watch the 1st part to understand the 2nd. A good Action packed movie from start to finish.

[pedro_del_norte]

I actually watched chronicles of riddick twice :cool:

 

I'm just wondering if they are gonna make a prequel of pitch black... still don't know why riddick is wanted all over the universe... hope they make one, and i hope they show when he got those eyes of his

 

or maybe they can make a sequel of the chronicles... wonder what happens when the most wanted outlaw suddenly controls the most fearsome army of the universe. :evil:

[pedro_del_norte]

any thoughts on this upcoming movies...

 

spiderman

catwoman

the punisher

blade 3 (i saw it on mtv)

 

i was really disappointed with the 1st spider man because of green globlin's odd looking mask... as for the 2nd, i'm not impressed with the trailers so far.

 

as for catwoman, i think it's only a movie to show halle berry's "assets". i think this is gonna be a dumb movie.

 

for the punisher, it looks like a typical action movie. me pagka pinoy action ang dating... hehehe

 

for blade 3, i'm having high expectations. the previous 2 were very good. actually, i think this is the best comic-to-cinema adaptation, IMHO.

 

what about you guys?

[bong9191]

any one here who's watched 'the day after tomorrow'? what's your review of the movie?

[ribbit]

for the punisher, it looks like a typical action movie. me pagka pinoy action ang dating... hehehe

looks like a low-budget film

[Randerthall]

Review: Vin Diesel attempts an action comeback.

 

June 10, 2004 - With so many uber-franchises put into development in recent years, each competing to ascend the throne of trilogies like Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings, it seems only natural that studios are now looking to their back catalogue for material from which to create the next successful film series. The Chronicles of Riddick, technically speaking, is the follow-up to 2000's Pitch Black, but you'd hardly know it from the lavish production design, augmented cast of characters and broadened narrative scope, and that's just the way Universal wants it. The first film did moderately well in theatres and flourished on DVD, but not nearly well enough to make a household name out of Riddick. Thankfully, Vin Diesel, star of the first film, returns to the role that made the film famous, this time perhaps slightly over-inflated from intervening years of commercial success (if also critical derision), and invigorates this ambitious play for cinematic mythology without lessening its visceral impact as a solidly entertaining summer jaunt.

 

In the opening scenes, we are introduced to a series of characters and worlds that could scarcely have been imagined at the time of Pitch Black's release, and which exist in the same universe as such creations as Star Wars' Empire – except this time with an added dose of Shakespearean intrigue. The Necromongers, led by the sixth in a line of Lord Marshals (Colm Feore), swallow planets whole in their efforts to conquer the universe, offering each orb's inhabitants one of two options: join them or die. As Lord Marshal's armies, led by vigilant, dedicated commanders like Vaako (Karl Urban), rapidly approach their latest conquest, the planet's people – unofficially led by an "elemental" named Aereon (Judi Dench) – enlist Riddick's reluctant aid to help save their planet.

 

Before long, however, Vaako and the Necromongers overrun the planet, unleashing hordes of soldiers to dispatch the people and enslave them to their will. Riddick is captured, and is granted special audience with Lord Marshal, who mysteriously offers to release him on the condition he leave the planetary system and never return. Refusing but escaping nonetheless, Riddick jumps from one imperiled situation to another as he's captured by money-hungry mercenaries who seek to claim the reward placed on his head. Taking him to a remote prison colony on the planet of Crematoria, where the surface boils at over 700 degrees during the day, Riddick is cast into a pit of thieves and bandits to die while the mercs await payment for their recovery. Vaako and a crew of assassins follow hot on the mercenaries' heels, and Riddick finds himself once again caught between two extremely difficult sets of circumstances.

 

 

Aided by a few of the inmates, including Kyra (Alexa Davalos), a young woman whose life he saved five years prior, Riddick races to escape the fiery planet before he is left there to die, and then must choose whether to fulfill his destiny as the last member of his race (fierce warriors known as Furions) and fight against the seemingly insurmountable power of the Necromongers.

 

Confused yet? Well, take heart, all of you who know nothing of the characters and worlds of which I speak. Most of the back story matters little except to shuttle Riddick from one set piece to another. In this case, however, that isn't such a bad thing. Just weeks ago, as considerably less talented directors like Stephen Sommers were trying to create their own mythologies on screen to ensure the future of long-established big screen characters, and further to that end, their own careers, the summer movie season emerged stillborn after a generally lackluster winter and spring. With Riddick, audiences finally have the kind of movie for which terms like blockbuster were born; David Twohy's film is enormous, bigger than anything you've likely seen this year, and its scope counts for much after you've finished scratching your head at the seemingly endless series of new and fantastic creatures that Twohy's script has thrown your way.

 

 

Vin Diesel, his own tarnished pedigree as an A-lister notwithstanding, is actually the perfect kind of actor for a film of this size, when the broad strokes are truly what's important (or at least are what will be effectively conveyed). His physicality resembles a latter-day Conan, rippling with muscles the rest of us layabouts only fantasize about, and his personality – here sculpted down to reveal the essence of Diesel's charisma without asking for too much verbiage – maintains a laconic edge that the film wisely never loses in the interest of making him more likeable or kid-friendly. His co-stars, thankfully, are also up for the task of such weighty, theatrical material, and give their respective characters the same minimally conflicted senses of obligation that make the overall arc of the story work.

 

 

Colm Feore, a stalwart cinematic bad guy (of Paycheck amongst others) who closely resembles Alias' Victor Garber (I must admit I occasionally confuse the two), plays his own role as Lord Marshal closer to the vest than one might expect, and gives the character a believability that one wouldn't expect from the film's centripetal villain, while Karl Urban, winning in a small role in the Lord of the Rings films, lends Vaako the heavy-hearted resignation of a commander who loves his general but knows he must be overthrown. Thandie Newton (Shade), perfect for the multi-culti approach of the emerging series, does well as Vaako's Lady Macbeth, a woman who as David Twohy himself described as possessing "enough ambition for both of them," while Davalos' turn as Riddick's female counterpart/ daughter figure/ potential love interest shoulders too much of the film's self-appointed responsibility to create and resolve an emotional arc. She does kick a fair amount of ass, though.

 

Whether The Chronicles of Riddick eventually takes its place among the Matrixes of modern movie trilogies (or even makes it to a third film) remains to be seen; regardless, Diesel has chosen his comeback project wisely, and proves that there still yet may be more to see from his hulking brand of anti-heroism. David Twohy, while not being a particularly inventive director, has latched onto a project that will surely catapult him above the low-key projects he's done in the past (such as Below and, well, Pitch Black), and he proves for now that he can at least run alongside the big boys of action. As the launching pad for a new film series, Riddick demonstrates how single volumes can often fly further when unencumbered by the burden of the series they came from; as a unique entity, it soars high above the low-level ambition of its competition, and makes us anticipate subsequent summer movie installments rather than reminisce about their predecessors.

[weslay]

harry potter 3- parang minadale, sobra sa editing,puro short cuts,mas maganda talaga basahin yung book..cool effects though