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If you thought The Core was crap, there's a new version of Journey To The Center Of The Earth coming out. Lots of hard science in that one, I'd wager.
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Why would you compare the two?
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Well, I did say crappy scifi. I don't think Catwoman and Vin Diesel babysitter movies qualify for that. Neither, really, did Chronicles of Riddick to me; it was more like a lame jock-adapted fantasy movie with SF trappings.
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Ah The Chronicles of Riddick, another classic(piece of crap). How Judy Dench ended up there I'll never know. And Planet Crematoria.
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Plus the open-air bounty-hunter ship and the art-deco building spaceships of the "Necromongers". I saw that movie with a date and we giggled through it: the part where Riddick gets that knife was such an obvious setup, we both predicted it would be used to kill the main bad guy at the end.
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I like the part when Riddick splashes water on himself as protection against the extreme heat on Crematoria and by the time he makes back to the other characters the water is steaming off of his skin. That's just a whole new level of over-the-topness.
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It's a shame because Diesel is a good actor, he just seamed to fall into the same trap that the likes Stallone and others found themselves in. That is where they always have to be larger than life characters that save the world through heroics (or anti-heroics) and loosing boxing matches. Riddick, XXX, Fast and the Furious...all crap. Not because of Diesel, just that they were shallow commercial tripe that used his presence as the main selling point.
It's always a shame when a good actor becomes successful enough to be a "star" that they can't seam to go back to supporting roles and instead get sucked into these rubbish "star vehicles". I've lost count of how many times this has happened. In fact I can only think of a handful of "big names" that have managed to avoid it, or even survive it.
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Well I never watched it, so I can't say if I'd like it or not. The general consensus however seams to be about what I thought it'd be like.
But hey, if it makes you feel any better, I'm one of the three people on the planet that actually liked (and owns a copy of) "The Postman". I also hear some people liked "Hudson Hawk". Go figure.
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