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I don't want to say that Trump made you a favor, but I realized that I had completely forgot about Canada. Are you aware of this? (lemmy.world)
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I mean, sure, it's not as population dense as the USA, or Mexico, but Canada is huge, your people are nice, you have some of the best entertainment companies on the planet (namely Cirque du Soleil and Pornhub), your natural resources and attractions are unbelievable and your actors are the best (especially the BSG/Chronicles of Riddick cast).

And yet, as an Italian with an international perspective (lived abroad for the last 16 years and visited the USA and South America repeatedly), I have been not "Canada-aware" for most of my life.

I get it that you are not boasting like your neighbors (and that alone makes you better than them imho), but how come that I was left to realize only today that the Manitoba flour I used to make pizza all my life takes its name from one of your provinces, while I know about all the shitty pizzas the US made up in a century.

Same thing goes for Latin American countries, even the ones I never visited, like Mexico or Argentina.

I shall visit soon and I hope you can take the chance to teach me more in the meanwhile.

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Almost nothing in the story line followed through the next two, it was a stand-alone movie. I should have said ‘both of them’ instead of ‘all of them’. Maybe the next one will be filmed in Canada as well.

I don't know about that... the primary motivation of Riddick in the second one was to help the girl from Pitch Black. She's in the prison mentioned in Pitch Black because she wanted to get eyes like Riddick had, which was something she asked about in Pitch Black. He finds out where she is from the priest from the first one. The Necromonger plotline was new, but that plotline and the prison plotline felt like they were from different movies.The Necromonger plotline was abandoned in the third movie (which was disappointing since I liked that part) and the third movie has more in common with Pitch Black than the previous Chronicles of Riddick movie.

I think it's more accurate to say the Necromonger plotline in the second movie was the outlier in the series. Which is unfortunate since I would've like to see where that went, but it wasn't a good fit for a "Vin Diesel is an awesome baddass" kind of movie.

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The only connection between the two (or three or maybe four) movies is to promote Vin D's public persona as a 'badass action figure'. The franchise is all about Vin D, not anything related to a plot.

The franchise tag 'Chronicles of Riddick', or even the promotion of the character 'Riddick', did not jell until the second movie. I tis like 'The First World War' only became 'the First...' when the Second World War started. Without the second, there would be no purpose for the term 'First'.

If you had to wear the 'Necromonger' costume, you would know why it was impractical to do another movie featuring these creatures.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Well it was actually called the First World War before the war ended because people already knew there was going to be another one.

Anyway, only three characters survived Pitch Black and Chronicles features two of them prominently, only the priest didn't have a big part. But it's a priest, not too much they could do with a character like that in an action movie.

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Sure they did. That's what they called it. If you say so. You are the expert. I suppose you were even around then, so you know first hand.

But here is al the history books saying it was called The Great War.

And of course they expected there to be another war. That's why they also nicknamed it The War to End All Wars.

Historical revisionism, replacing historical reality with a mythical fantasy world.