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.
Sol Parker
21st Jun 2004
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
21st Jun 2004
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
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.
21st Jun 2004
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
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".
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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".