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The sort of #Mithridatism that is in the 3rd #Riddick movie is theoretically possible, as it can be done with snake venom. But it does rather hinge on how well the biochemistry of the alien world matches Riddick's Furyan #biochemistry.

Of course, it's a bit of a suspension of disbelief point in the Riddick universe that all planets seem to be capable of supporting Terran life; even Crematoria which has (per the effects department) a continuous semi-circle of combustion circling the planet once per day eating up the oxygen in the atmosphere. (And, magically, no convection currents causing a permanent windstorm.)

Riddick certainly seems to be able to survive on the alien organisms as food.

Consistent planetology and ecology is not this franchise's strong suit. Vide the organisms in #PitchBlack destroying their own food source entirely, yet being able to survive in large numbers for decades. In the real world, overpredation causes population collapse.

#SciFi

JdeBP Jan 12

Well that has cleared the 3 #Riddick movies out of the TiVo, watched in order for the first time.

Some of the dialogue in the third movie is Riddick being oblique, and only really makes sense if one has actually seen #PitchBlack, which as I recall wasn't the case when I first watched movie 3.

It's basically a #SciFi slasher movie with a bit of man+dog buddy movie (Sci-Fi style) mixed in. #TheChroniclesOfRiddick is still the best one of the three by a significant margin.

It's interesting that movie 1 had Australian locations and several Australian actors, and movie 3 was Canadian locations and mostly U.S.A. actors.

Also interesting is that the set-up for what we know about the forthcoming movie 4 has been dangling at the end of movie 3 for 13 years. Movie 3's dialogue established a 10-year in-universe gap from movie 1, the real world gap being 13 years. I wonder whether it is going to be another decade in-universe.

#USMovies #CanadianMovies

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JdeBP Jan 12

Reading how #RhianaGriffith who played Jack in #PitchBlack lost out to #AlexaDavalos as Jack/Kyra in #TheChroniclesOfRiddick sparked a random thought:

It's high time that #KiraKosarin got this sort of rôle.

I can see M. Kosarin as (say) Elektra Natchios, or as the gender-reversed lead in a Cliffhanger remake.

Having just written than off the top of my head, I looked up the date of the original movie only to find that there's actually a gender-reversed remake of #Cliffhanger with #LilyJames coming out this year. So something else.

Or as another attempt at the Bionic Woman, or a reimagining of Chuck 2.0.

It'll likely be something else entirely, though.

Just as long as it isn't #ChristmasMovies.

JdeBP Jan 12

I am continuing the TiVo clearance, which is going rather slowly, by watching the 3 #Riddick movies; in order, which I haven't done before.

It's interesting to hear #ClaudiaBlack in #PitchBlack speaking in her native accent. I've never seen her early Aussie and NZ telly stuff, so I've mainly only heard her doing other accents.

From the first movie, there's no real clue about the wider universe. They *could* have made it one with mega-corporations (as with Alien) without contradicting anything established, because the only things established were that that Islam and France still existed, as did bounty hunters for chasing escaped prisoners.

The on-screen ambiguity about who was going to be the 'final girl', in what is basically a #SciFi slasher movie, apparently extended into real life with the actors vying over who was actually the lead.

In retrospect, knowing the series, it's obvious; but without prior knowledge the last death would have been a shock.

#AustralianMovies #USMovies

quangobaud Jan 4

I never even got to see France.

#PitchBlack #TheRidiculesOfChronic #ParisPOgilvie

quangobaud Jan 4

I was supposed to die in France.

#PitchBlack #TheRidiculesOfChronic

https://youtu.be/k0z4xZ1Ltjs

I Was Supposed to Die in France | Pitch Black | All Action

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Tally Michelle Dec 16

#Bales2025FilmChallenge
#FilmMastodon
Dec1️⃣7️⃣
Planet with rings 🪐

#PitchBlack (2000)

A transport ship crashes and leaves its crew stranded on a desert planet inhabited by bloodthirsty creatures that come out during an eclipse.

Tally Michelle Dec 16

#Bales2025FilmChallenge
#FilmMastodon
Dec1️⃣7️⃣
Planet with rings 🪐

#PitchBlack (2000)

A transport ship crashes and leaves its crew stranded on a desert planet inhabited by bloodthirsty creatures that come out during an eclipse.

Strypey Nov 30

#Listening to The Light Within;

https://pitchblack.bandcamp.com/album/the-light-within

A 2020 collection of remixes from Pitch Black's Third Light album, released in 2019;

https://pitchblack.bandcamp.com/album/third-light

Along with Avotor, Pitch Black were one of the first fully instrumental groups I got into. Seeing shows by both bands opened up my understanding of what live music could be. Sadly Avotor were fairly shortlived, only saw them once, but I've seen PB many times, and both members as solo artists too.

#music #dub #PsyDub #PitchBlack