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Anyone heard a complaint about the 2d when it was screening in theaters (should be the same version)?

http://screencrush.com/top-movies-2012-20/

Dredd on nr 20 on a list that didn't include either Bond, Dark Knight Rises or The Hobbit harr harr harr!

Love this comment too!

"Ken Coutu · New Liskeard, Ontario
Another top 20 tying to be smart and artsy. Half of the movies nobody will ever care about, and anyone who puts Dredd, Cabin in the Woods, and a movie that hasn`t been released yet over T.D.K.R. is trying too hard to impress people with his movie knowledge."

Rorsarsch has been a bit predictable, but it's only two issues in and I'm sure Azzarello have some trick up his sleave

What, like writing some dialogue that actually sounds like Rorschach?

Cheers

Jim

Could be too much of optimism for my part since I love Lee's art, and always hype Azzarello's stuff.

But of course. Rorsarsch saying "serious smack" sounds fun, but it isn't nowhere up there with monolog about the night he flipped. But still, it's not often Azzarello is a let down for me, and I certainly hope not in this case either.

A bit reluctant to kick start this thread as it can course bad blood and all that BUT interesting (and possibly annoying for some people) to see what DC are doing with the collections of these.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/12/10/before-watchmen-to-double-up-for-hardcover-collections/

Lucky with these doubling up of stories it leaves the stories I'm interested in together and while I'll probably  wait longer for the trade rather than the hardback, I'll be getting the Darwyn Cooke collection (Minute Men and Silk Spectre) and I'll consider the Len Wein one (Ozymandias and Black Freighter) as and when.

I guess the logic behind this is giving book shop readers who have picked up the original a similarly chunky lump of comics rather than a smaller collection that might feel light weight in comparison to Watchmen?

I was actually thinking about the possibility of them doing something like this, and I can't complain how they're paired the books. Especially not the Azzarello stuff (which I'v liked the best together with Cooke's Watchmen), even if I hope for a better cover (Rorsarsch issue one is too damn mint to pass up!)

Thing is with the comedian is that it started slow, but the stories are starting to connect with each other. And I'v actually started to feel a bit sad for the guy (). Rorsarsch has been a bit predictable, but it's only two issues in and I'm sure Azzarello have some trick up his sleave (his wording that ends 100Bullets, Joker, Luthor and Spaceman are insanely good, so I'm expect no less from his two watchmen books).
Cooke's Silk spectre was good fun, but minutemen really shines.

So maybe it'll be the deluxe version of Watchmen (got a hardback, but in swedish) paired with Rorsarsch/Comedian and Minutemen/Silk Spectre. Good times in june/july

457 minutes of Nolan's Batman movies in one sitting.

In no way perfect (Loads of too much spectacle to achieve that and moments when I thought to myself how easy it'd be to cut fat and make the movie flow better), but still really powerful fun.

Especially like the ending of DKR. A bit to much focus on how many minutes that's left to save everything (Even 24 have handled it more elegantly in some of it's most "THIS IS GETTING MORE TENSE BY THE SECOND!!!"moments), but still really great in a number of ways. 

It looks like the uniform's much closer to the camera than the model.

http://media9.dropshots.com/photos/1052396/20121023/135849.jpg

Looks like a bobble head.

I love the fact that even if they're based on his persona Dredd doesn't trust them haha.

That seemed fairly important and interesting in the first book, didn't it? Never really developed, though.

Nah, they could have done more with it, especially since Body count is quite long (I think it's almost as long as the first two combined). It's a shame. But still, it did much to push both Dredd and McGruder over the edge.

Have you read Death of a legend by the way?

It always confused me as to why it wasn't considered a part of the Mechanism 'Trilogy', though that title would of cause be deffunct.

Besides Mechanismo and Wilderlands, what would the third part be of such trilogy?

And yes, I'v seen them in at both Dredd vs Aliens and Tour of duty, and I hope for more. They look quite bad ass, and I love the fact that even if they're based on his persona Dredd doesn't trust them haha.

I think Dredd should've just shouted at the criminals and tried to get them to stop with threats of imprisonment! If only we had the bland DC/Marvel tosh that seems to go down well with the lobotomised masses and watered down the whole Dredd mythos, at least then it would've been amazing!
I was disgusted that we had a true to character portrayal on screen and was left fuming as Dredd and that female Judge (who was just a sex object) went about killing people who never really had a chance in finding their potential in life.

Disgusted of Maidstone!!!

Sex object!? The female Judge was atrocious. I came to the cinema and hoped for a couple of good side boobs or cleavage and that she'd stay out the way!
But nooo: she had to have a fully devolped and good character (aren't those meant for men!?) and not a single sexualised moment... Yeah sure "one": but it took the fun out of picturing her naked

And why was that Dredd-cop such a villian? I constantly had a hard time telling him apart from the bad guys. My head almost hurt since I almost had to THINK

They could also have possibly got away with 'from the makers of District 9'....

That too!

So why didn't they ask them this time round?

Probably because "obscure-to-the-only-country-that-matters British comic geek who has a surname like a Nazi" doesn't have as much cachet with the cinemagoing public as "THAT GUY WHO WROTE THE FAST-ZOMBIE MOVIE!"

Thing is, from what I recall they didn't really capitalise on that either - I don't remember any references to 28 Days Later on the poster/trailer.

That's a real shame they didn't! The beach, 28 days later and Sunshine. Not to say I'm the biggest fan of either of those, but I know quite a lot that are. And they could'v easily watched Dredd thanks to it.

The new film Gambit makes very good use of stating it was written by the Coen brothers. I'm sure at least a couple of people will see it just because of that.

Body count isn't my favourite of the 3, but it still serves for some seriously good laughes and brings some essential things to the story as Radiator says.

But by the way Radiator.

What would you think of a wilderlands tpb collected this way?

"Prologue"
"The Tenth Planet"
"Wilderlands" (the 2000AD-progs.)
"The Candidates"
"Farewell to the Chief" (From the Judge Dredd magazine)
"Death of a Legend"

A thought!

I think the story could do very well without Conspiracy of silence.

Not only shorting down the pages, but Prolouge also gives a much better introduction to the "robot problem" and establishes the council of 5 business through getting Dredd set for Titan.

For a reader new to either Dredd or the mechanismo this would work better. It lays out the pieces from the start, what you need to know, instead of you as the reader needing to piece it together as a 30 pages long prologue.

Dredd will also be put in a light where he not only take responsibility for a wrong he did to "right" regarding the robots, but also when they gonna do old McGruder in -the end (where he instead lets her die in glory.)

And the story would both start and end on with Peter Doherty at the art helm.

But with Cass and Joe in more of a buddy-stance, and Ma-Ma instead of Lo Pan. Motorbike chase to the left, crooked judges on the right and slomo-glitter all over. A pic that would work as a flipper game background