The entirety of the chronicles however is based on nearly every character having been ruined by happenings in their lives.  Every character focuses on their failures….................and this is where I started having problems with this book.

While ALL have been toted as being fantasy, there was little dialogue and the focus was on what the main individual was thinking, and what ‘she’ [in this last it’s a psychiatrist who is the lead character] thought others were thinking and how she could communicate well enough with others to reach them and all this is based on her own continual fear of failing, always failing. 

After reaching just beyond page 100 I closed the book understanding that this was not so much a story but a therapeutic effort: 

It’s cumbersome and not so much a story I think as a dubious journey through the mirrored damaged parts of the human psyche that the author attempts to dissect and understand (The Land).  Thomas Covenant becomes a sort of previous map or diagram from which all the damaged rest [of the characters] try to find a way back to innocence (the way The Land should be), or the complete destruction of innocence/The Land. 

-Life itself takes that away from all of us by varying degrees even while we try to protect a small fragment of it.  Amazing, many of us succeed and do not believe life as a series of failures but rather a journey….I’m not sure the author has a goodly view of this though-

So I don’t see this as a fantasy as much as an unusual group of extremely damaged characters.

How about you? What is the movie you like most?

My intent wasn’t really to write a funny comedy but to highlight the trash that
seemed to be coming out on an almost daily basis.

For a start every character in the screenplay/sitcom I wrote would be swearing
with every sentence. I’m talking strong swear words such as ‘F’ ‘MF’ and their ilk
secondly the conversations would all be about bodily functions and sexual positions.
I was going to fill the thing with people farting and soiling themselves.
This all seemed to be stuff that I found totally purile and yet seemed to dominate
the comedy world.

What ever I wrote I was going to ensure that I didn’t let a single actual joke get
through. Nothing actually funny was going to find it’s way into my intended screen play

I didn’t write it, first because I didn’t think I could take the crassness and secondly
because I actually feared that with the type of comedy being produced these days that
some big movie executive was going to see it and think it great. I’d end up adding to the
misery and probably asking for a Smithee which I wouldn’t get.

The point to all this. My wife and I went to watch a movie yesterday. We went mainly
because we liked the lead actor. Suddenly I realised that I hadn’t been the only one to
have the idea I described above. The guy who made this movie had obviously had the
same idea, as I feared the movie company had jumped at the opportunity and had
even gotten an actor the caliber of Bruce Willis to be in it. Shame he wasn’t hired
as the lead but rather as the straight man to some non-entity that couldn’t act. On the
other hand I doubt it would have been watchable even then.

Cop Out was awful, I’d advise everyone not to go and see it.
However my wife and I did walk out after about thirty minutes so maybe it got better
(Idoubt it, but maybe)

Smerk posted about the original movie  a couple of years back.

Vin Diesel Confirmed for Third Riddick
Source:Variety
February 12, 2010

Vin Diesel is confirmed to star in and produce a third installment installment in the “Chronicles of Riddick” franchise, reports Variety.

Universal Pictures will handle domestic distribution and Lionsgate is currently selling international rights.

David Twohy, who wrote and directed both Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick, will direct again from a screenplay he wrote.

According to the trade, the third film will hew closer in tone to the cult hit Pitch Black and will focus on the character of Riddick as opposed to the universe he inhabits.

Diesel is first expected to star in Universal’s Fast Five, the fifth installment in the “Fast and Furious” franchise.

Hmmm. Gotta Luv that Riddick!

Current Shows:
+ The Office (full episodes not on web)
+ 24 (fox.com)
+ Heroes (nbc.com)

And everyone has just received word from Disney’s Facebook page that they are changing the name of the movie to Tangled.

And now everyone is wondering if Disney is trying to do some Shrek cash-in or something. *sigh* Oh Disney…