Pitch Black (2000) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching | Riddick is a Bad Dude! 

'I would die for them!' "How interesting." He takes his goggles off and sees how absolutely sincere she is, and then of course that follw-up moment "Not for me!" kind of I think suggests he didn't believe he was worth redeeeming - or anything at all, and Fry dying for him was a significant awakening.

This franchise had one of the best movie-to-video game adaptions ever in my opinion. Escape From Butcher Bay was great fun.

Throughout the movie we the audience get to see how Riddick Sees especially when the people are getting eaten😮 when Caroline is killed and Riddick is screaming "not for me", he is looking up at the sky as she is getting brutally ripped apart but we the audience don't see that, I think that's a nice touch👌

Riddick is actually Vin Diesel's favorite character to play. In fact once he became a more established actor, he bought the rights to Riddick and owns the franchise. He was also closely involved in the making of both video games which take place in the Riddick universe and has written the lore.

There's actually an animated Riddick short called Chronicles of Riddick Dark Fury that takes place between the first and second movies. Made by Peter Chung the same guy that created Aeon Flux. It's worth the watch if you guys are interested 👍

I love how the color grading shifts when the yellow sun sets and the blue one rises. The cinematography is outstanding.

This movie is awesome. There’s so many little details that makes it stand out. One thing that I didn’t catch the first time I watched it was that Johns accidentally loaded one of his morphine cartridges into his shotgun, which is why he had a misfire. Basically, the morphine killed him in the end. As always, you guys are great! Always love your reactions!

I know im the minority but i like all the riddick movies

this is a brilliant minimalist movie - I recall how it blew the top of my head off when I stumbled upon it two decades ago

I'm a fan of this whole trilogy. Very underrated IMO.

The lighting in this film is amazing!

Before Battlestar Galactica became the best TV show ever there was Farscape. Claudia Black, the darkhaired woman along with Ben Browder played one of the best couples I think I've ever seen depicted on TV. They got so comfortable in their characters that in the later seasons the writers stopped writing dialogue for them and instead wrote instructions and they improvised most of their scenes together. No idea if it would get any views but I'm 100% sure you'd both love it. The Jim Henson Company made the aliens, it's mostly well acted (especially Ben and Claudia), well written, proper sci-fi with some seriously insane things happening and lots of world-building, good music and really fun effects.

This is one of those movies that you go into without any over the top expectations, but when it's over it amazes you how it isn't recognized by more people. This movie is terrific and I love everything about it. I remember the first time I saw this I had no clue what it was about, but boy was it FUN. I was hooked. Although I may be in the minority, even though many people do enjoy it, but I think I may like Chronicles of Riddick even more because it fills in a ton, plus it was always on TV so I had it on in the background a good amount of times. It's just one of those movies I can watch whenever.

Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay is such an underrated game, blows my mind how good that game is.

Riddick was a breath of fresh air when I first saw pitch black. Watched a bootleg copy at a mates house and then over the next couple of years, after Vin Diesel got huge props for fast and furious, pitch black finally started to get some buzz. It was the John wick of its time and the fan base quickly made it into a cult classic.

37:17 He said "How interesting", cus he overheard her telling Johns that she was about to sacrifice all of the passengers to save herself, and now she's willing to die for a handfull of survivors

Riddick is one of my favorite characters created in film. They even made two games, first came out around the same time the second movie came out, I loved it. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay.

PB also has my favorite spaceship crash scene! It's just so dynamic.

When she says "yes, I would die for them", Riddick says "how interesting"

I was one of the few who saw this in the cinema when it came out, and that crash at the beginning is absolutely superb. Superb movie, terribly underrated at the time. And like someone else said, I enjoyed all three and I'm excited for part 4.

THANK GOD SOMEONE ACTUALLY DID IT! I've been waiting for this reaction guys. Thank you =)

Have you ever seen the TV show called "Farscape"? Claudia Lee Black is an Australian actress, best known for her portrayals of Aeryn Sun in Farscape, Vala Mal Doran in Stargate SG-1 and Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery in the film Pitch Black

Ah, the movie that introduced me to Vin Diesel. Went into this back in the day for Claudia Black; I was a fan of Farscape, another fun Sci Fi show. Been a fan of the Riddick series ever since.

Fun fact: the creators of the video game Gears of War drew inspiration from the aliens in this movie to create their own called the Kryll, a type of mutated underground flying animals that burn up in sunlight and eat anything in the darkness of night.

So cool to hear you guys are doing the whole trilogy! As others have said, if you can get your hands on the director's cut of Chronicles, that's the one!

For the 2nd one "The Chronicles of Riddick" make sure you watch the Directors cut (NOT the theatrical cut). The Directors cut adds in some parts that help the entire movie make a lot more sense.

Solar systems with three stars are actually extremely common - the myth is that they would necessarily have hot worlds. That part all depends on distance from the star(s), but I can really respect this movie, as much as it's got all the cheesy horror tropes, that they represent an alien world in such a unique way. So much sci fi just depicts alien worlds as some extended version of an earth biome. Desert world, arctic world, jungle world, etc.

I also like all of the Riddick movies. My husband and I saw this in theaters, we still really like it. To this day, "Looks clear" can enter into conversation randomly. And " Kept calling it murder when I did it", next to "Looks clear" remains a favorite quote. And when you get to the end, remember the Caroline paid the RANSOM for Riddick's soul. Nothing like having a quote from a Different movie haunting your thought. Would it haunt Riddick? "Pay it forward." "How interesting" Riddick found it interesting because during the crash she did something that he understood when she was purging the load, dropping section after section of the ships's partitions - or just one unit - of passengers in stasis, Sleeping, and helpless. Thank you for even mentioning this yourselves, which you discussed these points while I was typing. Looking forward to the. Next Riddick reaction. I like II, emphasizing that since the ship in I was carrying colonists to space, that it's big enough out there to spread out, and that different cultures will evolve due to their different experiences...their different traumas. 4 or 5 communities...and races were - Are revealed in II, and I do find them interesting, but Riddick's story arc so far, my favorites, or ranking in this franchise are 1, 3 and then 2. That's just preference, and getting to 3 by going through 2 is definitely fun character growth for Riddick, and US, the audience too. For Vin Diesel, being indifferent to "car" movies (I watched 1 of Fast and Furious, got bored halfway thru 2, and tapped out) I would check out XXX before Furious...jjust an opinion

'Looks clear' instantly entered my lexicon after seeing this movie and is still in frequent use today with my gaming buddies. "Any bad guys down that way?" "Looks clear!"

Riddick and Malcolm Reynolds from FIREFLY are wild characters. They're primarily seen (unconsciously) by everyone around them as a reflection of the person's own dark side, of the moral and personal failings they have or think they could. Everyone sees something wrong with *themselves* when they look at them and don't like it. (Note that these two characters don't undergo a ton of character development themselves, though Riddick has a huge turn at the end when it really, finally sinks in that not everyone is terrible and going to repeat the hurt that made him who he is.) Other characters basically test their own morals and souls by interacting with Riddick and Mal. Often they fail, and sometimes they die even when they pass the test against their own weaknesses.

When she said she would die for them Riddik said "how interesting" because he knew she tried to purge them when the ship was going down but it didn't work. He's testing her.

I love how this film plays with light more than any film I have ever seen. From the blackness of space to the interior of the spacecraft pods, everyone in weird lighting and Riddick with a strobe light on his pod. Then the crash into bright orange-red light of the twin suns, shifting later in the day to the blue sun. They did special effects for how Riddick sees in the darkness vs how he gets blinded by light. And the creatures, they too had their own representation of "vision". Also, the music was terrific.

Riddick never wanted to be a bad guy. His backstory is, he was once a mercenary himself, part of a team. One day he found out his team was corrupt and wouldn't go along with their plans. There was a fight and he ended up killing one of his team. A bounty was placed on his head. Now, every time he kills someone or escapes from another prison, his bounty keeps increasing. They keep sending more mercs after him, and he is now on the top wanted list in the galaxy. The guy just wants to be left alone.

The whole solar system model and planetary alignment is awesome. Combined with the visuals of a huge ringed planet rising. It was jaw dropping watching it the first time. There's something about the space scenes in this movie that just feel "real", and not CGI. Gives it a really awesome quality.

YESSS!!! I can't believe y'all are reacting to this underrated gem!! One of my favorite Reaction Channels reacting to one of my favorite Movie franchises 🔥🔥🔥

You're doing some fantastic deep dives here lately! Haven't seen any other reactors do this really great alien/horror movie. It creates such visuals and atmosphere, tension & fear, great cast...just amazing.

This was one of those movies that surprised the hell out of me. I love this movie and the following two. I really wish they would have made an origin story for Riddick. I fell in love with Radha Mitchell (Fry) after this movie. :)

For a low budget film, this was well executed. The sequels take a dramatic turn so you may or may not enjoy the sequels. That little "Riddick" girl was hysterical.

Most of this movie was filmed in South Australia in and around Coober Pedy (It is pronounced Coober Pee-Dee). Claudia Black (Shaz) stared in the TV series Farscape and Stargate SG1.

This was followed by Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury, Chronicles of Riddick and Riddick. Vin Diesel was also in Saving Private Ryan, The Iron Giant, Boiler Room, The Pacifier, The Last Witch Hunter, Bloodshot, XXX and XXX: Return of Xander Cage. There are also videogame adaptations that followed this film

I saw this when it first came out. Was great as you had no clue which character would survive or who the good guys were.

I've never heard anyone say anything close to your outro. People say "huh, good movie." And that's it. So glad people do think about the journey even if it's a single day story. Vin Diesel is a huge nerd, actually, started out breakdancing and wanted to direct. Wrote some stuff that never made it. But they told him to come back because he had the looks they were looking for. With the money from fast and furious and this he directed his first independently produced film called Strays.

Good reaction ! i recall seeing this in the theatres at the time and it was a great surprise to be introduced to Vin Diesel and Radha Mitchell does a great job as well . somehow my feed got cut off partway and i wound up back in the beginning of the movie 🤔 but i'll catch the rest of it , more importantly i'm dealing with a hernia now and am in a lot of pain 😩 it's good to be entertained for a moment so i'm grateful and always look forward to your reactions MR and MRS MOVIES 😄 CHEERS .

The cinematography in this film is fantastic, especially for this type of film at the time it was made. Pretty cool.

The Riddick franchise is my guilty pleasure + they officially confirmed a few weeks ago that Riddick 4 is happening!

Riddick is Space-Conan. That's the way to understand him. That's why Chronicles of Riddick is my favorite one, for it is the closest to getting that realized.

I love this series! Riddick is awesome and maybe my favorite antihero. The lore of this setting is also fascinating!

"Pitch Black" is a masterpiece! I've watched it over 20 times and still shivering. It's bad that David Twohy is an underrated director.

Love this series, and the games. One of the most underrated films/series, IMO. Glad to see a reaction to this, and hope you dive into the rest of the series soon.

I just rewatched this movie like 2 weeks ago. It is just as good now as it was when it was released. And a 4th movie is already being worked on. At the moment, it’s called Riddick 4: Furya.

For the 3rd movie Vin Diesel put up his house to fund it, without telling his wife. If it had failed he would have been screeeeeeeeeeewed! That gives me alot of respect for him as an artist. He was willing to take that big of a risk to get it made.

as mixed reactions others have for the other movies... i really enjoyed the other 2 aswell. Also watched the chronicles of Riddick extended cut or directors cut whatever. For the first time. It was surprisingly good.

In their fight outside the shuttle while the others are in the cave, Riddick asks Catherine "Would you die for them?". He asks her this because he was awake during the crash and heard her declare "I'm not gonna die for them!" before pulling the lever to eject the passengers. When she tells him, "Yes! I would die for them." he replies, "Interesting." For all the things he is, Riddick is someone who notices. He watched her change her entire outlook during their crisis. So later when she is taken by the bioraptors he yells, "Not for me!" up to her. This is to assure her in her last breaths that he will get the others away because when she found him she said, "I said I die for them, not for you." to get him moving. When Catherine is taken it's left ambiguous in the camera shot whether it was the bioraptor that cuts her or Riddick. It was a subject of many fan theory videos in the years after the film released.

I appreciate as a veteran of most Riddick media - movies/games that they never define more of what a Furyan is than was needed at that time.

FINALLY SOMEONES GOING TO WATCH THIS!!

Just out of curiosity I was wondering if you guys have seen the movie: Paul. It's an alien-ish type comedy starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost; along with a whole lot of talent and cameos. If nothing else it's one of those "turn your brain off movies" where you just don't try to think too much and just enjoy the ride.

"He's just enjoying the sights." Interesting choice of words.😂

The blonde girl also played Peta's mother in Man On Fire with Denzel Washington. Claudia Black the dark haired girl was on 4 seasons of a show called Farscape which was great. I'm confused by why almost nobody does reactions to it.

Oh, fuck yeah!! This movie RULES!! Hope this starts making the rounds on the reactor channels.

Love this one for its very closed in atmosphere but also love The Chronicles for the huge amount of lore and being shown so much of all that universe as the story moves through it. Very different movies both quite enjoyable when watching them again.

Me and my brother drove down (2 counties away) to a theater as our town only had a crappy 2 screen theater at the time to go see this movie in theaters at the fancy new multiplex that had just been built a year or 2 before, it was storming like crazy that night and the power went out 3 times during the course of the movie. I will never forget watching this in theaters because of that.

They say most of your brain shuts down during cryosleep...

I love how Johns caused Riddick to target him the moment he suggested killing the kid. He would have gone along with murdering any of the others, but he has a soft spot for kids.

"Riddick"... "The Fifth Element"... They started out as Stories in the Graphic Novel "Heavy Metal". The Character Corbin Dallas was also one of the Stories in the animated "Heavy Metal" movie as well.

Love this movie. The other Riddicks are not bad, but this is the best one. And of course, David Keith makes everything better.

Pitch Black is my favorite Riddick movie, and it isn't even close.

This movie was filmed in my home state of South Australia. The desert scenes were all filmed outside of Coober Pedy, a town about 8.5hrs from the capital city of Adelaide 😁

Watch the unrated directors cut for The Chronicles of Riddick.

The dark haired lady was in two of my favorite SCIFI shows at the time this movie came out. She was Officer Aron Suun of Peacekeeper Command AKA Farscape and Valla Malderon/Katech a Gould of Stargate SG-1.

I read somewhere that Vin Diesel was actually able to do the thing when he dislocates his shoulders to escape from where they had cuffed him.

Pitch Black really stood out to me when I first saw it when it came out. I still like it better than the Alien movies. Chronicles of Riddick was a really cool and unique concept revolving around the anti-hero fighting another evil sort of story and the antagonist(s) really suit this universe's lore (also Karl Urban is in it) and is very creative and, again, unique. But the film doesn't quite measure up to Pitch Black's greatness despite that. I still love it, but many call it the lesser of the films. Riddick (the third film) kind of goes back to the roots and I think really rivals the first one in a lot of ways. I still haven't decided which one is my favourite. I've been waiting for the forth one for like a decade now because Riddick ends on a cliffhanger and Vin Deasel kept teasing the 4th film entitled "Furya" for years and years. A few years ago he let loose on social media that the script was finally done. I think he's making all these Fast/Furious films to fund its production (like he basically did for Riddick). I believe he bought the total rights to the Riddick franchise and owns them himself now. Also, there's a short Riddick anime film set between Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick called Dark Fury that I recommend watching.

At the ship, when Carolyn said she would die for them, Riddick replied "that's interesting" On the ship when asked what do we tell them about you? Ridick said "tell 'em Riddick's dead" not your dad.

riddick and blade are up their in my top action franchises and the character of riddick is extremely interesting. the reason why he acts the way he does is because he had a lets say not so forgiving past and had to learn the only person u can trust is ur self everyone else is out for them selfs which is why it left a impression on him when she said she was willing to die for those people

This movie is a great introduction into the character. You don't even get I to his storyline until the next movie. Even more badass.

I think Riddick latched onto Carolyn in the beginning because she did what he would have done. She tried to purge the passengers to save herself. She was like him but unlike him she was in a moral crisis over it so once she decided to do everything to save the others even if she would die trying, he decided to follow her out of the darkness, to risk having faith in humanity.

From what I hear they put in the stunt where Riddick brought his shackled hands over his head to get off the pole because Vin Diesel can actually do that. The problem was that he couldn't do it when his hands were bound together, so that had to use a bit of cinematic trickery.

Gotta do the rest of them now, can’t wait for y’all to do chronicles 🙌🏻🙌🏻

When you said "Hopefully they don't need those things." I was chuckling to myself. "Those things" were passenger pods. There were people in cryo-sleep in those containers. Hence that's why Fry says "I'm not going to die for them!"

Such a fun movie. Helped propel Vin Diesel to stardom. Night wild about Chronicles of Riddick, the sequel. This one has some depth.

This was such a fun reaction. 🙌🥰 Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick are my favorites. 💕

Pitch Black is a study in role reversal, the theme is recurrent in the film. Riddick begins as a villain but becomes a hero. Johns begins as a hero but becomes a villain. Carolyn begins as someone who doesn't care about the people in her charge, and ends up willingly sacrificing herself for them. Jack begins as a wise-cracking young boy and becomes a vulnerable young girl. Even the planet itself reverses roles -- changing from a world locked in eternal sunlight to a world locked in lasting darkness.

Amazing how this movie was a throwback to classic monster movies and completely fresh at the same time.

my favourite is actually the 3rd movie, which seemingly a lot of people don't like, but I love it

Very smart choice for the screenwriters to incorporate Complete Darkness ... it definitely helps to mostly hide the fakeness of early 2000s CGI monsters. Very creative use of sounds, shadows and Riddick's POV. I don't think the movie would have been nearly as good otherwise.

The movies are ok, but the first Riddick game ("The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay") is even better. Fun fact: Vin Diesel himself was involved in the production of the game as executive producer.

Fun fact about 8:20 - Vin Diesel actually popped his arms like that.

Cool thing about this movie is that this is about 90% practical effects in camera techniques, lens filters, and film negative manipulations.

Triage is deciding who needs care first based on the severity of the injury. Someone who who's got an open chest wound will be seen before someone who is throwing up food/water.

0:42 The movie that launched Vin Diesel's stardom was Saving Private Ryan (1998).

"Oh, nooooooooo. This movie isn't scary at all!" LOL. This is my favorite of the Riddick films, by a mile. What can I say? I like a good sci-fi horror story. Number Two for me is probably the third movie, _Riddick_ - I don't recall it being quite as ridiculous as the second film (which... the second movie is just... _bonkers),_ plus it has Katee "Starbuck" Sackhoff.

An extremely fun world. The films are great bits of sci-fi fantasy. Agreat anti-hero and one which Vin Diesel plays extremely well. "It looks clear." The delivery of both of those is so spot on.

I hope you'll watch second movie "Riddick Chronicles", but there is a trick to it. If you watch extended version then it's a 100% fantasy genre; if you watch theatrical release - it's still sci fi. So think how you would feel if Riddick goes from sci -fi to fantasy and decide which version you want to watch.

The writer/director on this film, David Twohy, has done surprisingly little of note since, given how well this film is put-together. He's had hits, to be sure, but with the level of quality here, you'd kinda expect to have seen a lot more. He is writing and directing the fourth Riddick film (as he did the other two), Riddick: Furya, which was just announced this past February. Another film he wrote/directed which kinda flew under the radar is a WW2 sub-based horror movie called "Below". Worth a watch! It will stick with you, though. Not gory, as I recall, but very tense.

I love this movie , I remember the trailer shot was just dude out alone and does flame up from his mouth, he surrounded by creatures, the back off the flame and than close in . Brilliant it has fond memories because it was one of the last movies I went to see with my father, he love it also. Just bad ass performances throughout the movie

I remember when Chronicles of Riddick came out and people told me it was a sequel, I never knew what the first one was until now! Lol.

I saw this in the theater when it first came out, and for t.v. and dvd's they lightened things up a bit visually. in the showing I went to we saw as the characters did, you could hear the sounds all around you but visibility was through their eyes, and Riddick's it was a VERY immersive experience.

37:26 "I would die for them." "How interesting..."

I remember watching this with my dad when I was 9 nine years old. We rented it from Blockbuster and I’ve loved it ever since.

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This is my favorite Riddick movie. Saw it in the theater 3 times. 🤘 I made a fan edit of the second one and still haven't finished watching the third. 🤷🏻‍♂️