Pitch Black or The Chronicles of Riddick?

[Rz_Samurai]

Pitch Black or The Chronicles of Riddick? which is a better movie if you only had the money to buy one of them? i have never seen either so it would be a blind buy for me! Tips and suggestions?

[rickah88]

Originally Posted by Rzone_XI

Pitch Black or The Chronicles of Riddick? which is a better movie if you only had the money to buy one of them? i have never seen either so it would be a blind buy for me! Tips and suggestions?

IMO, Pitch Black was the better of the two. It had a more believeable script. Not to say that Chronicles is bad.
You could wait and save up then get the Riddick Collection...it also has Dary Fury(albeit on dvd).

[HyperRealist]

Get Pitch Black first then Riddick when you have enough money.

[eddievanhalen]

For plot/movie I'd go for Pitch Black, for special effects and sound (of reference quality for me as well as picture quality), The Chronicles Of Riddick.

[Rz_Samurai]

out of the two movies which has a better story and more ACTION?

[TriuneImpurityRites]

Pitch Black >>>>>>

[wormraper]

pitch black easily. much better thriller

they turned the 2nd one into some kinda goofy superhero almost

the first one easily is the better of the 2 movies. more of a sci-fi horror with some great action/monster scenes

second is one is kinda a goofy sci-fi action movie with less plot

[DeeEmEcks]

Technically Pitch Black is also the first of the two. A few characters from it will be in Riddick, so if you want the most out of the series I'd start at the beginning.

[Cplhicks]

Definitely Pitch Black, as all the others here have said.

[Ite]

Get both.

[HD Goofnut]

Pitch Black has a better story with better acting, but lacking special effects while Chronicles of Riddick had a much larger budget with better special effects, but a weaker story.

[mzupeman]

Pitch Black is better.

[ScarredLungs]

Pitch black is a better movie, as well as, the first movie. Chronicles has character relationships that build off Pitch Black.

[El_Jay]

Pitch Black, hands down, no question about it.

Chronicles shows you what happens when they take a sweet idea from a fairly low-budget, indie sci-fi and try and spin a shitty "epic franchi$$$e" out of it. It's like the drop in quality and awesome-factor of the Matrix to the Matrix sequels, except a little bit moreso.

[crow2k5]

I guess im the only one who likes Riddick better, but you have to see Pitch Black 1st.

[j2raymond]

I also prefer Riddick, but I'm a sucker for fleshed-out alternate universes with wacko backstories that want to be Dune when they grow up. Not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination. Bonus: Thandie Newton.

Pitch Black is a better movie by any conventional measure. Biceps galore, but as the saying goes, seen one, you've seen them both.

[stevo4264]

I thought Pitch Black was the best of the two

[AgentOrange]

Pitch Black I thought was at least a good solid sci-fi movie. It was more a standard horror/sci-fi along the lines of aliens. It holds up pretty well in that genre.

Chronicles of Riddick I didn't know WTF was going on. It was nothing at all like the 1st movie, and almost not even related to it except for the Riddick character. Although admittedly I really didn't pay too much attention to the story, I found Chronicles so bad I really couldn't even stand to finish watching it.

[Ite]

Originally Posted by crow2k5

I guess im the only one who likes Riddick better, but you have to see Pitch Black 1st.

I like Riddick better as well.

[surfdude12]

Pitch Black....by an effin mile!!!!