The Reel Rejects - PITCH BLACK (2000) MOVIE REVIEW!!

Episode Date: November 29, 2023

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It was a vibe is what it was. I thought you were going to rhyme. He did not join in. He did not yes and. He did the classic comedy booth. I said my name. Yes, and. He did it.

A deadpan move. I guess ending was filling in the book. I'm not having it. You know what he was? He was pitch black and that's a movie we are watching today. Pitch black in his soul because he didn't go with the rhyming with me. Pitch black. We're watching it today.

There's no rhymes happening. Neither of us. I have seen it or done a, nope, I can't do it. I can't rhyme. Not today, guys. Sometimes I'm good at it. Today I'm not. You better leave a like.

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We're going to watch Pitch Black. It's got Ben Diesel in it. I'm a huge fan. So huge. You haven't seen Pitch Blach. So huge. He's a huge man. I'm a huge fan. Ha! That was a rhyme. You guys heard it right here. What are you talking about? That was I rhymed. I said he's a huge man and I'm a big fan.

Oh, okay. You're right. I did. You did. I wasn't listening. What are you talking about? He wasn't even, he's complaining about my rhyming. He doesn't even register it. I can't. It's a good first video. Yeah, we should watch some movie now, huh? Yeah. He's so funny. We're ready.

I'm pretty sure I'm your biggest fan. You can sit up with your own copy. Gregory's my only, he's my only fan here on the channel. There's only fans and then there's only fan. And I have Tara's only fan. He is my only fan. Everyone else is like, she's a lot. She's a lot to deal.

She's a lot. She's allowed. I'll edit the intro. I'll be like, I don't know why I find this woman so funny. But I think she's hilarious. All right, Tuhi, David Tuhi. How is this movie so big? I don't know, maybe because there wasn't a lot going on when this was released in sci-fi.

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One year after the Matrix. I made a concerted effort. And then seven out of ten on IMDB. Wow. No. People really like it. And I... That's seven.

I mean, I would maybe... I kept trying, man. I would maybe go seven out of ten, I guess. It would be like there's some cool effects. I love me some Vin Diesel. The monsters were very, very cool. Like once we got to the Dino Dragons, it was cool. And especially when he...

The one shot, when he did. drinks the thing and then he blows it through the lighter and you see all them light up. Like there's some definite cool shots in here that I was like, that's awesome and so inventive. But yeah, I mean, I think like we both were saying, if anything doesn't, if there's not a heart to the story, I don't like it. Like we, I think we felt that way with despicable three. Something was some other movie we talked about. You can compare to this to despicable. No, I know, it's terrible.

I was just, I was thinking about the movies, the last movies we watched that we said we didn't like because it didn't have as much heart in it. And this one, except for at the end of, you know, of her dying, we did start to care.

But as you said in the beginning, we didn't care really about any of them from the top. It was mainly just look at this movie because it's sci-fi and it looks different. Sure. And there's this guy that we're all trying to figure out whether he's good or not, Riddick.

And what is he going to do? and then random creatures around. Yeah, I mean, the through line of it was not strong, but still interesting, and I liked the monsters a lot. I like the end, like if they had started at the end where they were already with the monsters and like, we got to find our spaceship, right? I would have loved that movie way more.

Like start towards the middle of this movie and keep going and like maybe she dies and now we have to still live with ridic and the guy and i don't know some other stuff i would have really enjoyed that that would have been a good move listen i'm just telling you how to rewrite it too he yes go back do what i just said maybe maybe hawk it up to a nine i want to see because it's interesting because this one's like called pitch black yeah and the sequel's called the chronic of Riddick, so that's different. And then the third one is just called Riddick.

So I feel like Vind Diesel gained power and was going. Yes. Make this more about me, more about me. More about him. So much so that we're not even going to call the third one, Chronicles of Riddick 3. We're going to just call it. Ridd. He probably obviously became an executive producer at the time the Chronicles of Riddick came out.

He was like, let's spin my camera. character off from this because he probably really liked playing it. Yeah. I did believe him. The acting didn't bug me as much as it did, Greg, with that one, with the other guy, 9-0-2-0. And the blonde girl, I recognize her. She was a strong, like, 90s, early 2000s actress, and I can't remember her name. But I really liked Vin Diesel on this, especially when he first starts speaking in his

voiceover role, which is why I was making the joke, can he please do an audiobook and Vendiesel me to sleep because it was so soothing and it's also a voice that and a tone that I don't hear from Vendiesel from at all anymore and I really like that. That's, I thought he, yeah, was just like relaxed and not as corny except for that one line, but that's not his fault. That was just one line that I think I said it and I don't remember what it was because that's my brain that I thought was a little corny when the thing died. But anyhow, I would probably, with the monsters and stuff, give it probably a seven, seven out of ten.

That's still very kind. I know. It's like, I want to go six and a half, but I'm like, but the monsters and how they look do bring it back up. But the story, the story, I'll give it a six. It's just, it's really just the monsters and the ending of it for me. And the cool way that they worked with light in it, I did enjoy. I did enjoy how when Riddick goes to kill the guy that the music swelled in a different way. I like that.

Anyway, tear it apart. Take it away, Greg. I'm not going to tear it apart. I think this movie, it has a lot. I think it's very derivative of a lot of other sci-fi movies. There's going to be a Riddick in 2024. Yeah, they announced it. Apparently, I found that out.

Okay. Riddick Furio. What the hell was that mean? Yeah, so apparently, like, the world of Riddick is big. So it's got a fan base, man. It's got a fan base. And I know fandums can be very sensitive. I understand this.

So let's just, I'm going to kind of rate everything on scale. I think production design is probably the one quality of this that I enjoyed the most. I like the sets. I liked a lot of the practicality to it. I would give that like a nine out of ten right there. I agree with that. I like the sleaziness. It was really cool.

Vin Diesel, I thought, was excellent because it's like, it's pitch black. We're just doing this one sci-fi movie. Now we're going to make a Riddick franchise. And I could see how taking this character, I totally get the choice. to go let's not do a pitch black too because it would just be a repetitive premise to go after these nameless creatures and all that and focus on riddick i understand that because vin diesel is excellent he is he is excellent uh what is that actress's name who her character was growing on me as we went yeah she's she's she's a great uh she's a great actor she works all

the time. Yeah. Rodha Mitchell. Oh, that's her name? Yeah, I just know her from a ton of movies. She works constantly. Yeah, yeah. She's a...

But also, did the director... Did I just see that the director and the writer of Pitch Black wrote G.I. Jane? Because that's a great script. Wrote G.I. Jane, wrote The Fugitive. Yeah. He's a great writer. I mean... Wrote Waterworld.

Oh, look at him. Wrote terminal velocity. Wow. I mean, wrote the arrival? Oh, no, I'm thinking, I'm thinking, I was thinking of arrival. Arrival. I was like, holy shit. Yes, you're right.

That's crazy to me because those are some good. Yes, yeah. He's written some good stuff. But, you know, it's ultimately a director's movie in the end. Absolutely. Yep. um so i i liked that the action i would put it the action i would give like a five the violence i would give like a seven the music i surprisingly liked didn't comment on it at all during the film

um the music i would probably give like an eight there was that i thought that helped keep a pace to it. Yeah. The editing, I'm very conflicted on. Yeah, that's, I mean, they went into some shots where it just went in, remember with the eyeballs, where I went eyeball, eyeball, a lot of it felt like afterthought choices in post. Yeah.

Like, you're messing with footage and let's do this. Let's just do it. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of it felt like that. Or maybe it really, because is he. also the right he's the writer and director of it so maybe maybe he just had a vision and this is what happens when when he's like i finally have control over my screenplay here's all the

weird eccentricities that really pop up in my mind that i i can't put down in my script here's what i really wanted to do with the fugitive but then they changed it up you know here's the weird perspectives i wanted they didn't kill a body and lay down the skull and then transition into where a light comes through the eye and into a whole view of the sun because that's what happened here they made some bold choices like the editing was so like there was a the thing is i i would say the directing and editing um was such a mixed bag for me because as much as i appreciated intent on style it was so such a surface experience and the surface of it initially I was like oh this is going to be interesting like I love the opening scene honestly the crash that was was gripping it was frantic I really like that opening and then when it started to become the movie is what's happening like why is it so overexposed when they're on the land I get it because it's it's it's the solar eclipse and when it's pitch black,

but still like that did make me go like it wasn't as great to look at. Yeah, it felt, and granted it was 2000, but then again, you know, Matrix was like a year before. And that film, I think, still looks great. There are some parts that look dated, but still looks great for a heavy sci-fi action film. This is a different kind of movie. However, I do think that there's a lot of,

things in here that did feel cheap for a universal film and like it did feel like a B movie and I think the best compliment you could pay is like it feels like an above average sci-fi channel movie absolutely that the sci-fi channel went on and that's why I can continue yeah and I could see how we can gather that fan base

because of what it's derivative of the things that plays on tropes and whatever I think that it just didn't really have a sense of atmosphere to me that it didn't evoke the things it was playing on didn't ultimately evoke the emotion and mood that it needed to in order for the things it was playing on to ultimately work like there's no real dread it's not intense it's not

suspenseful there's no wonder there's like i'm trying to think of like the opposite emotions of those there's there's nothing there where even what it's ultimately building to is not quite doesn't quite make you don't quite know where it's building to yeah exactly until it seemed like the where it was rushing to get to where the darkness consumes the planet and that's about close to an hour into the movie and they don't introduce the eclipse thing until five minutes before that happens. And I think that's where the movie, because the movie didn't start to really breathe

or have a real voice around it until we entered pitch black terrain. Right. Which is why I was like, start the movie there. Yeah. Get there quicker or clue us in that's where we're leading. Yeah, I agree. But the hour preceding it,

no, pre-leuding, right? Proceeding, right? Proceeding. Proceeding is after. Yeah, proceeding is after. No, following. Preceding means like that, yeah, the prelude. The antecedent, that means before.

Okay. Okay. Is what he's talking about. The antecedent. The one hour prior. Prior. Prior. So the part that we started to like just rub me the wrong.

Kept. Kept rubbing me the wrong way and I kept trying to give it a shot. and and before I knew it I was like up the movie you lost me too much because I'm like I'm in here for an hour I'm giving a shit about anyone here yeah I don't care about anyone here and and I thought they had a it's a cool concept man you got to survive the night it's like you got to survive the darkness with these nocturnal alien creatures with your one person who can protect you it's the criminal can you trust who can, who has nocturnal sight abilities as well. And then you got your main character. It's lacked focus. And it's kind of surprising from the person who wrote it to also directed, who has clearly written some great scripts before to really lack a focus here.

Yeah. And, and that was the part of it that I find most baffling because, yeah, you had a cool setup with the characters and the creatures and the world. And conceptually, lot of very interesting things here idea wise there's a lot of interesting things and i can't and all when all is said and done i can see how you can build a riddick franchise because you have space exploration you don't really know this guy's backstory you don't really know where he comes from there is things that you can do with the character where you can take it in a different

direction or it doesn't even have to like mood wise follow what this movie did right so i would be curious to see the chronicles of rick not saying we're going to watch it but but i would be curious only due to the fact that uh i really like vindia so but yeah overall it's uh for the amount of hype of her around this i

i am i can't say i overall enjoyed i'm like a he's like a five i'm like a four and a half five point five yeah i mean i get it story's not great i wasn't it i'm like but start in the middle and keep going i liked it yeah

i mean and i love I love me some men diesel, those muscles. Oh, man, he looked great. What? Hello. Yeah, because it didn't start to care about anybody until like the last 15 minutes. Until the last, like when she starts to die and she's like, yes, I would die for them. That was like the last five minutes.

Except for when they, when he, when the guy that you hate was saying, go kill the girl and I'll watch her back, you started to kind of feel for the girl of like when she's like, oh, I've hidden, you know, hidden. my identity away because it'd be better to get away as a guy as it would keep her safe or whatever. Move on. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Which I like that turn there, but I feel like that, even that reveal could have been, could have meant more, could have like felt it more, but I didn't, it was just like,

oh yeah, I mean, I was literally five minutes before she said that, I was going to make a comment saying, I feel like this boy is trans because he's presenting with a girl's voice and he does come off still as a female very much to me so I was wondering what the casting choice was and then yes it was finally revealed but we didn't really care very much about that turn and we should have

we did care a little bit that she was like I would yes I would die for them she convinced him to go back and then when she dies was like oh all right that sucks there's a lot of there's one thing about when you like leave things up for the audience to fill in the fill it in that makes it more effective and there's a lot of things where I can see people justifying stuff or using their imagination to come up with things because like they have elements here where you can see a heart even if it feels cliche I would

have preferred the cliche honestly of like why is she so attached to Riddick and wanting to emulate her whole personality off of Ridic. I would want to know that. Zero it on that. Yeah. Do something with it. The whole time I just felt like there's no real chemistry with anyone here and some might justify that

going was because a lot of them are strangers. I'm like well, you can still feel chemistry amongst actors and an ensemble. And yeah, it just it felt like a lot of listless melodrama I was watching, like just very unaffective melodrama

when I didn't really feel the drama until like the last few minutes at the film where it just finally felt like a real scene work and not actors in different movies talking to each other. Right. Like even them just walking through the locations and in the beginning, there could have been side conversations about that girl

and why she might be presenting as another person and why this guy is here with his two kids and where does he come from doesn't have to take a lot of time but would give us something as to like maybe why they're in disagreement or maybe why hey fuck off I'm here with my kids because of so and so reason

which would give us a little more of a backstory so that we cared about them as a whole as a unit so as we started to lose them and that wouldn't take too much time we did we did some just looking at stuff a lot and a lot of repeat of like we've got to move and we got to get this stuff together that yeah i just feel like if they had dug in a little bit more with each character when we

start to lose them it it might have made the movie raise up from a i don't know 30% on rotten tomatoes to more than that it is actually the oh it's 59 it's the highest rated one out of the Highest rated one and Chronicles of Riddick only is 65. Okay. Chronicles of Riddick has second highest audience score. I don't like this rating here because G.I. Jane is at 53%. And y'all, I like that movie. That movie is fun.

I mean, give me a break. 53%. Oh, thank God. The fugitive is 89%. Yeah, he didn't. He did. Do you know who directed it? Well, sure, it's somebody great, right?

Because he only wrote it. Ridley Scott. Oh, that's why. There we have it. It's great. See, that's why I just go, G.I. Jane is a great film, and I didn't even know who directed it,

but I knew it's good. And I'm like, 53% get out of here with that. Anyway, yeah. I would, I agree with all the points that Greg was rating it low for a lot of stuff, but high for Vin Diesel. And the set design, very cool. The monsters, as I said.

dope love it um yeah i mean i don't that's all i got to say about this movie i don't i don't know much more except i would maybe give chronicles redick a try i just wouldn't be looking forward to it i wouldn't sit down and go can't wait i'd be like i need candy for this movie and maybe a possible beer or a glass of wine there we have i need ibuprofen can we end the video that too I mean, it did kind of give me, it's that floating. Yeah, the movie's just like, I just not. There's a lot going on here. I was irritated me.

He's irritated. I feel all right, but I'm always walking around with a headache. So, you know. Do you operate at headache level? I do. That's your secret cap. That's it. I mean, leave us a like, leave us a comment.

Tell us how you like it. I don't think people are going to leave likes. I'm pretty sure they're most disliked you. Leave a like about us. you know because we're cool we're here we're taking time from our day to watch a movie with y'all so you know be be cool be nice but kind be awesome and you know do you got any last words what are you looking up he's looking up i'm going to watch the chronicles or verdict trailer and then we'll decide if we'll watch it if yeah but we're not going to do that on camera no we will not

but you got some inside juice right there. You guys will see. Maybe we'll watch the other one. Let us know if we should. We love you so much. And we will see you on the next one. Bye-bye. Bye.