Corrected entry: When Riddick drinks from the tea cup and places it down on the rock it has smooth edges. When Kira pulls the cup from the corpse the rim of the cup is very jagged.
Corrected entry: On Crematoria, it's stated that the temperature on the day side is 700 degrees and on the night side -300 degrees Celcius. Absolute zero is at -273 degrees - you can't get any colder.
Correction: They do talk about 700 degrees and -300 degrees, but nobody says anything about it being celsius. 700 fahrenheit is little over 371 celsius and -300 fahrenheit is about -184 celsius, which explains the scene.
Corrected entry: When the sun hits the surface of the planet, it would superheat all the air and Riddick as well as the other prisoners would die because their lungs would get fried.
Correction: This would be true only if Riddick and the prisoners were caught within the "VTF", or Visual Thermal Front (the rushing wall of flame) where the air is heating up to its full daytime temp of 700 degrees C. Opposing that "VTF" is the night side temperature of -300 degrees C. Where the day and night temperatures meet is the narrow semi-habitable band where Riddick and the other prisoners ran through during their escape. Sunlight, even in the moments of pre-dawn, takes time to heat up the air. This is true even in our world, particularly in mid spring (particularly noticeable in northern climates) when the days are warming up but the nights are still very cold. The sun can be cresting the horizon, the sunlight beginning to shine brightly, and the air can still be very cold. When the sun actually does heat up the air, it has already been shining for some time. That increasingly heated mass of air was shown in the film as the "VTF".
Corrected entry: In an early scene from the Imam's house, Riddick is facing away from the camera while talking but the sound is coming from a voice-over rather than his own mouth as there is no movement of the facial muscles.
Correction: Riddick's face does not even come into view until he tells Imam that his wife is in the shower (directors cut).
Corrected entry: During the mental interrogation scene with the "snails," Riddick has his hands firmly secured to the floor, yet somehow manages to move his goggles from his forehead over his eyes and then back to his forehead.
Correction: It's not "snails", it's the Quasi Dead and (in the directors cut) the goggles don't change. Riddick's goggles stay on his forehead the entire time. However, in that scene, his hands go from flat on the floor to balled fists.
Corrected entry: Riddick, Keira and others make a 29.4 kilometer (18.2 mile) run across the tortured surface of Crematoria, sprinting the whole way to stay in the narrow survivable-weather band between darkside and lightside. And yet, upon arrival at the hangar, they still have enough energy left for an all-out brawl with the Necromongers? More likely they'd merely collapse with exhaustion, especially those who have lived for years underground on 'protein waffles'.
Correction: They have been living in a kill or be killed environment in the prison, that kept them tough. Perhaps if the other prisoners hadn't been so worn out from the run they wouldn't have been slaughtered by the Necromongers.
Corrected entry: On the DVD full screen version, choose "Fight" instead of "Convert". This will lead you to a menu that shows Riddick's knives on the surface of Crematorium. Press the left arrow key until the holes in the top of the knife are highlighted. This will lead you to a short sequence of the practice for the end battle scene between Riddick and the Lord Marshal.
Correction: You can also pick "convert" and merely press up until a yellow tile highlights under "play" to also see this scene.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the Lord Marshal has Riddick in a headlock, we see from Riddick's point of view his knife laying on the floor. Yet, Riddick doesn't see his knife in his normal "night-vision" way, rather he sees his knife like a normal human being on the verge of unconsciousness would.
Correction: A person on the verge of unconsciousness sees things increasingly darker and darker. Hence the term "blacking out". That wasn't the way it was depicted in the movie. During that scene, Riddick's vision is depicted as normal, but blurry. So why was Riddick's vision different? This happened after Riddick fully tapped into his Furyan ancestry on Crematoria. The results of that experience(assisted by his "guide", Shirah) produced massive biological changes throughout Riddick's body. Riddick was able to not only heal himself from the injuries he'd suffered up to then, glow strangely, and blast a whole platoon of Necromonger soldiers to bits as well. Largely correcting the prison surgeon's "shine job" on his eyes apparently happened as well.
Corrected entry: When Riddick does that neat trick to break his chains while being lowered into the prison, he breaks several links of the chain at once, but in reality, only the weakest link in the chain should break, not more than one.
Correction: That wasn't the traditional chain. The chain was magnetic and held together by some sort of wire string. When he broke that all the pieces slid off.
Corrected entry: In the film, a comet always precedes the arrival of the Necromongers, but surely the advanced technology of the future would be able to easily distinguish a comet from giant spaceships.
Correction: If you look at the arriving ships, you will see ice smashing off them from a comet. They are really arriving in and around a comet. Plus it's not meant to be a literal description - everyone knows what it means, so there's no point saying "their arrival is preceded by something that looks exactly like a comet but actually isn't one".
Corrected entry: They would not be able to run the surface to get to the hangar on Crematoria. On a planet where it reaches such extremes(-300 at night to 700 degrees during the day), It would be impossible for breathable air to form either due to lack of an atmosphere or lack of plants to create oxygen. It would be sort of like Mercury.
Correction: Oxygen does not necessarily always come from plants. Depending on the minerals of the planet, the Oxygen could come from the ground, possibly from a chemical reaction caused by the sun.
Corrected entry: In the final scene when Riddick kills the Lord Marshall, all the people in the room kneel to him as he sits on the throne. As the camera pans out and you look at the very left side of the screen you can see one of the soldiers is still standing. (01:53:00 - 01:54:00)
Correction: A lone soldier standing could simply be due to a lack of respect. They are all taught to kill Furions and one soldier may simply refuse to bow down to him. It may not be a mistake, it might be a challenge.
Correction: That's because, before he slams it into the guy's chest, Riddick picks up the cup and smashes it against the stone surface just to break the edges and rough up the rim.
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