I'm a bit down.

[kandrathe]

I have to admit that I like Pitch Black more than Chronicles. Chronicles is a good time if you like chase-them-down, beat-them-up, blow-it-up movies (and I think we all need that sort of thing every once and a while) but I think the character development of Pitch Black was more successful as a story telling element than the loose string of action scenes in Chronicles. I was also exceptionally let down by the ending it leaves you imagining too much about where our anti-hero goes from here. I want a complete movie. If I want to think about what happens next, I'll read a book.

Chronicles was a better constructed movie, but it lost the flavor of Pitch Black in the Hollywood homogenization machine. Same with Robert Rodriguez's "El Mariachi" and Desperado. The Hollywood version was a better quality, but most of the flavor was boiled out of it.