Sorry for so many entries in rapid succession. One last thing for tonight:<\/p>\n
Another of the previews I saw before Return of the King<\/cite> (which, btw, I quite liked, but more on that another time) was for The Chronicles of Riddick<\/a>.<\/cite> As someone noted the other night, the preview wavered on the edge between \"could be excellent\" and \"could be terrible.\" But then I figured out who the movie is about and what it's connected to, and now I'm pretty firmly in the \"could be excellent\" camp.<\/p>\n Specifically, Chronicles<\/cite> is a sequel to the 2000 horror\/sf movie Pitch Black<\/a> (see my review<\/a> from a couple years ago), and although he never appears in closeup in the preview, Chronicles<\/cite> stars Vin Diesel. (If you know he's in it, it's pretty obvious that a certain shadowy figure in the preview is him.) Also, Judi Dench and Thandie Newton are in it, though I have no idea how big their parts are.<\/p>\n Chronicles<\/cite> is directed by David Twohy, who directed Pitch Black.<\/cite> It's also written by him, which may or may not be a good thing; he co-wrote the very solid Pitch Black<\/cite> screenplay and the excellent screenplay for The Fugitive,<\/cite> but he also co-wrote G.I. Jane<\/cite> and Waterworld.<\/cite><\/p>\n So anyway, I'm tentatively looking forward to this one.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sorry for so many entries in rapid succession. One last thing for tonight: Another of the previews I saw before…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}