Dredd the movie

[Aman]

OK, I finally saw Dredd the film.

My opinion, in brief...

visual realization: A
Dramatic quality: C+
Humor: B+
True to comic: C (Dredd gets romantic at the end...not bloody likely!)

So I'd recommend this to anyone who wants to get ideas for scenery, gaming, etc. For an evening's entertainment, s'alright, worth watching if you really like Dredd. I'd buy it just to get scenery ideas.

 

[Shadow Queen]

Got that in my DVD Collection was thinking about watching it lastnight but watched the New NCIS instead

 

[umw]

Hated the movie for the destruction of the story line and its obvious Hollywood aspects, hated Stalone drooling all over my idea of how Dredd should be, hated the flying bikes... :x

Loved the sets, loved the Angel Gang (expecially Mean...too bad about no Fink/Ratty thou...), loved Rico Dredd (Bad ass!) and loved the A.B.C. robot...

And the ending just wrecks the whole thing for me...the whole "mumble...mumble" (Manhandles Hershey) (Big Sloppy Kisses) "mumble ...Du Laugh!...END. So bad I had calluses on my eyes for a month! :shock:

Still would rather watch Demolition Man...closer to the mark, in my opinion...

Anyone know the latest news on the "Re-Do" of this movie franchise?

 

[Soylent Slide whistle]

Here's an intense scene from the director's cut;

http://dredlawwww.ytmnd.com/

 

[human_target]

And seeing Dredd's face?

I can't recall ever seeing his face in the comics.


S

 

[Rob_A]

Never does this happen.

The humour I would rate a U. What humour?! It lacked any intelligent humour.
The general feel (setting) I would rate C, not colourful enough, not enough humourous signs.
The storyline was shite. E.
Truth to the comic; D/C, some references but slowly turned into someone elses vision of the comic.

So that's
U
C
E
D/C

Which works out to around an 'E' by the general UK mark-scheme standards.

 

[lastbesthope]

Which works out to around an 'E' by the general UK mark-scheme standards.

You mean England or England/Wales, etc at least for High School.

At Scottish schools Standard Grades (GCSE equivalents) you get numerical grades

LBH

 

[Rob_A]

Yeah.

Just trying to prove a point of how crap I thought it was...

 

[anevilgiraffe]

And seeing Dredd's face?

I can't recall ever seeing his face in the comics.

did happen in a very early one, he had to take his helmet off as his visor was blocked with instant plastic or something - I remember reading that the plan had been that Dredd was supposed to be horrifically scarred by fire or something, but the art was pretty poor and didn't convey the horror, so the strip went something like:

Panel 1 - Dredd takes his helmet off
Panel 2 - perps recoil in horror at how ugly he is
Panel 3 - shot of Dredd face on, but with a massive CENSORED sticker over his face

so technically you didn't see his face in the comics, but you kind of did but had to make up how horrible it was yourself....[/quote]

 

[Shadow Queen]

seen it last week on my laptop, could of been better

 

[JoseDominguez]

I bet he takes his helmet of to wash and eat........ bloody pretentious if you ask me.

 

[The Greek]

I bet he takes his helmet of to wash and eat........ bloody pretentious if you ask me.

He wears the thing in the bath!!!! And when he sleeps.

Too weird...

(but in a recent story regarding paparazi you get an inkling WHY (and not the stupid ugly/scarred angle, either), although it is still OOT in the comic as a whole)

 

[Ray]

Block War was great, but the movie went "Bye-Bye" for me when he took the helmet off.

I saw it in the theater the first week it came out. Been trying to find it on DVD, however... I had hoped to get a copy with the "Judge Dredd: Dredd Versus Death" as that came with a DVD, but it turned out to be a different Stallone movie for some stupid reason.

"It comes with a free movie! What a deal!" *Looks at movie* "Can I pay more and not take the movie?" "NO! Take it, get it out of here!"

 

[Ulkesh]

I didnt like it... I did like the concepts though like the clone thing and liked the costumes of those prison guards and elite black armoured soldiers.

 

[Neo]

I didnt dislike it... my only major gripe was he took his helmet off! absolute NO NO!!

 

[Mage]

It could have been better. Costumes spot on. The first five minutes was the best. If it was like that all the way, awesome!

 

[Ben2]

I'm not going to go against the majority view and say I liked it, because I didn't. It has some good actors in. Stallone isn't one of them.
The way it is realised in terms of set and costume is quite good though. Just the plot is awful and the humour is dire.

Demolition man came out fairly close to it (another future cop movie starring Stallone pretty much back to back, huh?) which did both better.

I guess the reason two came along at once is the same reason we are now up to our asses in penguin films - because one original idea gets turned into a movie project in Hollywood, other people here about it and leap on the band wagon.

 

[JoseDominguez]

Maybe the new mongoose license is march of the penguins?

 

[Greg Smith]

No, Happy Feet Evolution.