01-23-2005, 07:50 AM
Please, Please. Say what you will about Chronicles of Riddick. Vin Diesel can't act, there were plot holes you could drive a truck through, the names were corny, the lines were cliche, et cetera. All well and good, everyone can voice their opinion.
But let's not go throwing out comparisons to Battlefield Earth like it's no big deal. To even bring up the idea of a comparison to Battlefield Earth, a movie must already be widely acknowledged as spectacularly bad. And not just your ordinary run-of-the-mill bad. Not just flat, or dry, or lame, or unenjoyable. No, we're talking about agonizingly, excruciatingly, mind-destroyingly bad. The kind of movie that not only makes you wish you had your two hours back, but that actually causes you to lament the fact that your entire life is now in some way stained by the movie, no, the atrocity, you have just witnessed. And that's just to merit a possible comparison with Battlefield Earth; I don't want to go into the kinds of crimes a film must commit to be ranked against Battlefield Earth itself.
Disparage Chronicles as you will, but please, let's not lose all sense of proportion.
But let's not go throwing out comparisons to Battlefield Earth like it's no big deal. To even bring up the idea of a comparison to Battlefield Earth, a movie must already be widely acknowledged as spectacularly bad. And not just your ordinary run-of-the-mill bad. Not just flat, or dry, or lame, or unenjoyable. No, we're talking about agonizingly, excruciatingly, mind-destroyingly bad. The kind of movie that not only makes you wish you had your two hours back, but that actually causes you to lament the fact that your entire life is now in some way stained by the movie, no, the atrocity, you have just witnessed. And that's just to merit a possible comparison with Battlefield Earth; I don't want to go into the kinds of crimes a film must commit to be ranked against Battlefield Earth itself.
Disparage Chronicles as you will, but please, let's not lose all sense of proportion.