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Dredd (2012)

Started by Goaty, 06 September, 2011, 11:51:16 PM

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Bubba Zebill

Quote from: Steve Green on 21 August, 2012, 07:45:14 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 21 August, 2012, 07:38:52 PM
DREDDREPORT is a piss-take on the right-wing news-site DRUDGEREPORT

There should be someone vetting these stories regardless.

Right. It doesn't do Dredd any favours.
Judge Dredd : The Dark (Gamebook)
http://tinmangames.com.au/blog/?p=3105

JOE SOAP

Quote from: Steve Green on 21 August, 2012, 07:45:14 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 21 August, 2012, 07:38:52 PM
DREDDREPORT is a piss-take on the right-wing news-site DRUDGEREPORT

There should be someone vetting these stories regardless.


I wasn't defending it.

Steve Green

Fair enough.

Not sure if these are random stories or they've actually decided that was a suitable angle to use real world rape and murder stories.

If it's the latter they were either a naive fucking idiot, or some crass publicity stunt-seeking fucking idiot.

Diminished Responsibility

Yup, some of those links leave you feeling kinda awkward. I wonder if that's the intent, going for a bit of controversy?
"DANGER! DO NOT TOUCH THESE MONSTROUSLY HAZARDOUS CITRUS FRUITS, MAN!"

Bubba Zebill

Quote from: Borntohula on 21 August, 2012, 07:46:30 PM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 21 August, 2012, 07:27:00 PM
Quote from: chuffsteruk on 21 August, 2012, 06:55:41 PM
Some of those links on The Dredd Report link to actual stories,such "Mega-City One Dealer Sentenced to Iso-Cube For Stabbing Man to Death..."which links to a BBC Tayside and Central Scotland page "Perth drug dealer jailed for stabbing man to death" Poor form, I thought. :-[
Got to agree with you there. While links to stories such as 'Judge Dredd endorses Mitt Romney' (a real news article) kind of work, I don't think it's a good idea for The Peach Tree News to have a 'Judges suspected of rape' link that takes the user to a real story about Liberian policemen suspected of gang raping a teen. Not comfortable with that.

Right - here's a great Slo-Mo link for starters....Light in slow motion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_9vd4HWlVA&feature=player_embedded

I was thinking the same thing. There has to be some better choices of news to turn turn into head lines than that.

For example, this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19323061 "Obesity 'bad for brain' by hastening cognitive decline" could easily be translated into something.

or http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7557799/Oriental-yeti-discovered-in-China.html being turned into something about "strange creatures of the waste land"

Should be at least one or two hundred different Cracked.com articles about crime fighting and what not to get some inspiration from. Because "judges suspected of rape" and alike will only likely inspire people to give the movie a bad rep.

I'll post this to the Facebook-page and on twitter. A heads up to those behind it. The idea "is good", but not in the long term.
Judge Dredd : The Dark (Gamebook)
http://tinmangames.com.au/blog/?p=3105

Bubba Zebill

I buried that by accident...here it is again.


Right - here's a great Slo-Mo link for starters....Light in slow motion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_9vd4HWlVA&feature=player_embedded
Judge Dredd : The Dark (Gamebook)
http://tinmangames.com.au/blog/?p=3105

Apestrife

I got some replies.

On FB from Dredd 3D(I think Lionsgate is behind it): "Thanks for the feedback Carl! We're definitely looking into it."

and from the 2000ad Twitter: "Yes, we noticed. Have passed comments on to Lionsgate, but nothing we can do beyond on that."

They're doing a great job responding. Hope it's sorted as quickly too!

Frank

Quote from: Steve Green on 21 August, 2012, 08:00:25 PM
Not sure if these are random stories or they've actually decided that was a suitable angle to use real world rape and murder stories. If it's the latter they were either a naive fucking idiot, or some crass publicity stunt-seeking fucking idiot.

They're making the point that Dredd reflects and relates to real world exigencies, rather than the revenge schemes of vengeful Nordic deities. The fact that some of the links lead to light-hearted items and others to things that are particularly grim seems to reflect the tone of the source material perfectly.

The links to items about drugs and Mexican cartels is particularly pertinent, but I'd agree that the wisdom of risking the perception that they're trivialising the use of rape as a military tactic seems questionable. That story doesn't seem to relate directly to the themes or content of the film, as far as I'm aware.

Steve Green

I think that's giving them too much credit.


Frank

Quote from: Steve Green on 21 August, 2012, 08:43:14 PM
I think that's giving them too much credit.

Authorial intent is secondary to the interpretation of the reader; and, like I say, it's only the rape association that seems mis-judged to me.

My abiding interest in the epic, gothic levels of sadism and corruption in Mexican law enforcement and politics was sparked by the paralells between the hypocrisy of that failed state and the rule of the judges in Megacity One. The fact that today's news sometimes reflects this weeks prog, and vice-versa, won't be a revelation to anyone here.

JOE SOAP

Quote from: bikini kill on 21 August, 2012, 08:32:28 PM

They're making the point that Dredd reflects and relates to real world exigencies, rather than the revenge schemes of vengeful Nordic deities. The fact that some of the links lead to light-hearted items and others to things that are particularly grim seems to reflect the tone of the source material perfectly.




It's a perfectly valid angle and the fact that they've done it at all is enough proof of concept despite the jarring nature of some of the associated content.

Toni Scandella

Looks to me like it is probably randomised headlines where key words such as "Police" are replaced with "Judges", - you can tell by the grammar on some of the headlines where the changed keyword doesn't quite work - "Judges Raid Exposed Money Trail..." for example - other headlines work really well, though, so maybe they are hand picked... "Sexmek Sales Are Up! Are Pleasure Robots A Woman's Best Friend..."

Frank

Quote from: Toni Scandella on 21 August, 2012, 09:49:07 PM
other headlines work really well, though, so maybe they are hand picked... "Sexmek Sales Are Up! Are Pleasure Robots A Woman's Best Friend..."



Are they meant to be that shape? If that's The Shape of Things To Cum, it explains a lot about my life.

JOE SOAP

Anyone notice a particular moniker of someone get namechecked - the atrium-shaft shot as the inhaler spins down - in the SLO-MO public-service-announcement: