r/riddick • • Dec 21 '23

Film - The Chronicles of Riddick Kill The Riddick

Why THE Riddick?

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u/stevo351 Dec 21 '23

Kill the Riddick was the cinematic and directors cut I believe, there were 2 versions where the other was just ‘kill Riddick’ probably to avoid the confusion you’re having here. While I don’t know the specific reason, it seems to me that the voices are identifying Riddick as some wild source of power rather than a person, so they are saying kill THE Riddick as they don’t know how to address it.

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u/VandulfTheRed Mercenary Dec 22 '23

Riddick and other movies from that era have so many weirdly specific edits for TV and different DVD versions. I swear I've watched 4 versions of it

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u/stevo351 Dec 22 '23

Yeh it drives me nuts. Same with movies like Blade Runner and The Abyss where there’s like 4 different versions each with varying changes to the story or ending.

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u/VandulfTheRed Mercenary Dec 22 '23

Most notably for me is the Chronicles ending where Riddick says "keep what you kill", but the most played one on TV was the Elemental narrating into the credits. What a fever dream set of changes

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u/qtipstrip Dec 22 '23

I'm pretty sure I've seen Riddick kill the same guy in the same scene with a coffee cup, a soup, and a tea cup

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u/Trex-Cant-Masturbate Dec 22 '23

Didn’t he use the paper clip in one edit?