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Author Topic: Riddick Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 09-20-2013 06:52 PM                        So I have a question about Riddick. Either I missed something major (most likely) or there is a tremendous plot hole in this movie. When Riddick is chained up and the chap with the sword is about to execute him (with everyone else standing around watching), nobody knows where Riddick has hidden those battery packs that they need to get the space ships going again. Therefore, if they let that chap go ahead and kill Riddick (as everyone is quite prepared to do at that moment), everyone else is going to be stranded on that planet. Killing Riddick seems to be a really bad idea at that point, but none of the folks that are standing around seems to realize that. What did I miss here?  |  IP: Logged Joseph L. Kleiman Master Film Handler Posts: 380 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Apr 2005 posted 09-20-2013 07:55 PM                     As far as I know, the emergency beacon was still operational.  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 09-21-2013 01:19 PM                     If that was the case, why was it such a big deal that those two "nodes" went missing in the first case? Additionally... who designs a SPACE ship with such lack of redundancy anyway? What when one of those "nodes" fail in outer space? And... Pulling this one "node" out of the space ship also disables all long range communications? I could probably go on forever on this one.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-21-2013 02:25 PM                        quote: Marcel Birgelen Additionally... who designs a SPACE ship with such lack of redundancy anyway? What, you never saw "Apollo 13?"  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 09-21-2013 04:30 PM                     Actually, Apollo 13 did have three redundant fuel cells, nobody accounted for explosions to happen though So, experimental designs of about 40 years ago do have more redundancy than far-in-the-future space-age technology. Heck, even modern drone technology would do a better job at finding Riddick than that eye-on-a-clunky-robot-arm they were using in this stupid movie.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 09-24-2013 09:54 PM                     there seemed to be quite a few plotholes with this movie, also the rape scene that abruptly ends/goes nowhere. word is that the home video release will be an expanded director's cut with some 10-17 minutes put back into the film to make it seem less jumpy than the theatrical cut. I quite liked the first half of the film , it reminded me of 'A Boy and his Dog' and 'Robinson Crusoe on Mars'  |  IP: Logged

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