New Galactica Series

[Suicide Junkie]

Atrocities said:
I recall reading a review or two that said that Riddic was the best sci-fi movie since the original Star Wars, and well, it was not.

I will reserve judgement on any movie now knowning what I know now about shaddy advertising and bought off reviews. (My fingers are crossed though - but they were also crossed for wing commander and starship troops..... and again we know how those turned out.)

You mean you didn't know that advertising is all "lies, damned lies and statistics" already??

[ZeroAdunn]

You know, I thoroughly enjoyed riddick. It took all these sci fi cliches (old and new) and rolled them into one batch of gimmickee goodness. I mean, the names alone drew me in, The Necromongers, The Furians, Etc... I mean, come on, how can you not love this stuff.

[Makinus]

Riddick is cool, but you can see that it was inspired in the Dune mini-series... (not the sons of dune, or the original Dune movie, but the Dune miniseries... i found it on DVD some time ago and bought it and it is a faithful rendition of the first Dune book from Frank Herbert)

[Atrocities]

Oh don't get me wrong, Riddick was a great sequal to Pitch Black which was one of the most under rated movies of year. I remember posting here about Pitch Black and recommending it to people. Riddick was a great departure from the norm and that alone made it worth seeing. However the story was convoluted and seemed more toward a video game than an actual attempt at movie making. Basically it made you take a huge leap of faith from the universe set up by pitch black to the one they showed in Riddick. In essence, the two movies are as differant from each other as Star Wars is from Ground Hog Day. The only simularity are the characters and the desire to create a franchise for Vin. (I like Vin, I think he is one of the better action / drama / talented actors to come down the pipe in many years.)

Riddick was a very stylish movie, but IMHO definatly not better than Star Wars, but worlds better than PM or AOTC.

And no, no plans for any Stargate ship sets. Although they should have made a FPS adventure game based on the series years ago. The one they have planned now is a day late and two dollars short.

[David E. Gervais]

I saw a preview of the new BSG series and it looks like Richard Hatch will be joining the cast, cool! Maybe I'll start watching it now. (Who's next? Dirk Bennedict? after all I haven't seen him since he did the A-Team, he must still be around.)

Cheers!

[geoschmo]

David E. Gervais said:
I saw a preview of the new BSG series and it looks like Richard Hatch will be joining the cast, cool! Maybe I'll start watching it now. (Who's next? Dirk Bennedict? after all I haven't seen him since he did the A-Team, he must still be around.)

Cheers!

You know David, if you didn't spend all your time in those silly post padding threads you'd have already known about Hatch's reocurring guest role when we discussed it here a couple weeks ago.

[Atrocities]

Episode 13 - Simply excellent. The series is getting better and better. The ending was - TOTALY UNEXPECTED.

[Nodachi]

Tell me about it! It's driving me crazy that it's the last episode of the season.

[Atrocities]

I tell you, I expected the "P" issue back on Capraca, but not what happened at the end. When that went down, it cought me off gaurd and that VERY rarely happens. The episode was very well done. It kept my intrest the entire time and that very rarely happens as well.

If this episode is any indication on what we can expect in season two, then, we have a hit folks.

[Nodachi]

From what I understand, SciFi has already ordered eight more episodes. Let's hope that they get good ratings here in the states so they'll order more!