So who is this Stam anyway?

Ok - first off, as describing Pitch Black as a horror movie... I have frequently been told that my perception of scary movies is way, way off. Ask Liz sometime about my recommendation of "Reservoir Dogs" to her. I thought it was a very good, interesting movie and Liz will probably never forgive me for it. Because I forgot that she's a lot more squeamish than I am. I have, she says, forever ruined the song "Stuck in the Middle" for her.

Because of this, and many many other similiar events, I am very, very careful about how I describe movies. Besides, the very definition of a horror movie is that it's a relatively small group of people against a monster or monsters in which the monsters nearly win. That there are only one or two (or maybe as many as three, but almost never more than that) survivors and that the rest of the people die in painful and unpleasant ways. And Pitch Black does fit that billing.

Moving along... I enjoyed Riddick in a completely eye-candy sort of way. Vin Diesel is hot.

I understand that there's about 50 minutes of film that was cut and I'm hoping a director's cut of the film will explain some things that had been left out of the movie.

My view on the Furians is that they were simply another race on another planet. No, they didn't have the eyeball shine. You see one of the other Furians - remember the blonde guy who killed himself? He was Furian - and he looked mostly normal. Space movies do that a lot though - assume that everyone on a planet must be alike, when looking around at our own planet, you know that can't be true, won't ever be true. Anywhere. Ever.

I'm planning on seeing that cartoon short - I saw a copy for sale at the Best Buy, but I didn't want to get it until I'd seen it. I also understand that the novel-adaptions of both movies are very helpful to the understanding of the general plot outline.

I'm glad you enjoyed Pitch Black. I think it's a fairly good movie... fun, exciting, good eye candy. What I particularly like is how the perception changes from Riddick as evil and Johns the savior to Johns as evil and Riddick as the only possible means for escape. The lighting in that movie, too, as to show the different ways a non-yellow sun might look... very cool. Anyway, I've blathered enough.

Actually, I blame Matt for showing me Reservoir Dogs, but maybe you were at the root of it. :D And it was only that one scene that really got to me. I freely admit that the rest of the movie was really fantastic. I just think the one scene went a little further than it really had to.