Last night on the Sci- Fi Channel, I caught a showing of Pitch Black , a 2000 sci- fi flick about a group of passengers on a transport who crash land on a desert planet infested with flesh-eating pterodactyl-like creatures that come out in the darkness. I must have seen this movie at least half a dozen times (admittedly, mostly the edited version they show on television, heh ). I’m with those who think it’s a pretty descent film as far as science fiction films go (and I have hard time thinking of another planet-rise as amazing as the one in this film), but I think what draws me back has more to do with Riddick (Vin Diesel) and his story. Riddick cuts a ruthless figure. When we first see him, he’s a convict bound in chains, like a buffed out Hannibal Lector . For Riddick , it is all about survival—his own. He kills without remorse* and walks through the film with a confidence that borders arrogance (except that his self- assuredness in his superiority is unquestionably justified i
So Paul took his stand in the open space at the Areopagus and laid it out for them: "I'm here to introduce you to this God.... He doesn't play hide-and-seek with us. He's not remote; he's near. We live and move in him, can't get away from him!" ~Acts 17