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DREDD reviews. (SPOILERS!)

Started by blackmocco, 30 August, 2012, 10:17:57 PM

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darnmarr

Quote from: Mark Taylor on 14 September, 2012, 10:28:01 PM
Being a very frequent cinema goer to films both 2D and 3D I've said the same myself in this forum in the not too distant past and been mercilessly flamed for doing so... so good luck!
I reckon, that what with plentymany folk on these boards having seen the same 3dfilm in more than one location... you may find many new converts to your point of veiw.

Spikes

Really liked the 3D in Dredd, worked really well in the places it needed to (the slo-mo scenes etc), but a lot of the time, i didnt really notice a lot of difference.
Thought the 3D trailer to the Hobbit, shown beforehand, looked stunning, though i guess theyve got mega millions at their disposal.

SuperSurfer

Just got back from second viewing, this time with my wife. Went to Vue Islington hoping to see it on the Xtreme screen but is only showing on standard. Shame.

My wife loved the film. Soon as it finished she was beaming and said "It's a brilliant film" and "perfect casting". She wants to get the music.

That film is a bloody work of art. Sure it's an action movie but in places it is like an art house movie. The visuals are stunning.

I would say it was about 70% full (19.10 viewing).

Compared to Empire: I think 3D a touch more effective at Empire but colours cleaner at Vue. Bit of ghosting at Vue in places.

I pointed out to my wife Karl Urban's delivery of "I am the law" compared to Sly's and she agreed Urban's was spot on. 'We' agreed that was it for her taking the michael saying that line in a Sly accent and that we close that chapter.

I do feel it's a shame we don't have a high profile figure to root for the film such as Jonathon Ross.

DeFuzzed

Quote from: SuperSurfer on 15 September, 2012, 01:27:12 AM
I do feel it's a shame we don't have a high profile figure to root for the film such as Jonathon Ross.

It's succeeding without them which soothes my peed off soul somewhat.

MR. ELIMINATOR

As good as Dredd is, I must be honest, the 3D did fuck all for me.

Granted the Ma-Ma out the window was good, and the slo-mo, but they would have been equally as stunning in normal vision.

I don't mind 3D, and I don't mind paying extra for a film like Dredd, but I still just don't really see it.

Danbo

Depth in the long corridor shuts
Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.

Keef Monkey

I am starting to think the Cineworld screens aren't calibrated right or something. I mean, watching a 3D film there I notice a bit of a depth-of-field effect going on, but nothing like what people are describing on here. Apart from IMAX films I've never had the illusion that anything was actually leaving the screen, and even then I've only experienced that at the Science Centre, the Odeon IMAX was again just a bit of extra depth.

That leads me to believe that I'm not someone who just can't see 3D, but that the screens I'm going to are just set up badly. Weird, I would have thought Cineworld being such a big chain would know what they were doing.

Jim_Campbell

Quote from: Keef Monkey on 15 September, 2012, 07:12:19 AM
That leads me to believe that I'm not someone who just can't see 3D, but that the screens I'm going to are just set up badly. Weird, I would have thought Cineworld being such a big chain would know what they were doing.

Saw it at Cineworld Nottingham and the bath and window shattering both had 3D effects that looked like they were within arm's reach. The latter, particularly, felt like they were practically at the end of your nose.

Cheers

Jim
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SmallBlueThing

That's what i was hoping for, Jim. I love 3D- being one of those simple souls for whom a severed arm flying straight out of the screen at me is enough to add a couple of stars to my rating. The two screens ive seen Dredd on didnt have any of that- there's a couple of stand-out shots that have incredible depth (the opening city shot, a corridor in Peach Trees, and Anderson pushing Ma Ma's entry coder) but the explosions of glass and wotnot never once came out of the screen. It pains me that this could be down to individual experiences and individual technologies. It was bad enough when people had to worry about their vision and the effect problems with sight has on the experience, but now they have the concern that literally each and every screening may be different.

It also means that 3D film makers may check the finished product on their own screen before signing it off, never knowing 50% of the public will never see it as they intended, and wondering why all the reviews were bad.

SBT
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Jim_Campbell

Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 15 September, 2012, 08:27:44 AMIt pains me that this could be down to individual experiences and individual technologies.

To be fair though, it was ever thus with cinema. I'm one of those who doesn't particularly mourn the rise of digital projection, having had a significant number of films ruined over the course of my entire cinema-going recollection by really lousy prints. Yes, digital is colder than traditional film, but if that's the price of never having to sit through an almost unwatchable print that looks like it's been unspooled and kicked around the projection room floor a couple of times, so be it.

That said, I'm off for a second viewing this afternoon, and I'm quite nervous that we just got lucky with the 3D on the first showing!

Cheers

Jim
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hazy efc

For some reason stupid here thought that he clocked a bit of a cock up in DREDD were after being shot dredd patch`s himself up and then stands up were i thought i didnt see the bullet hole in the front of his armour or so i thought but after seeing the film for a second time the bullet hole is indeed there i only bring this up because i posted about it thinking i spotted said cock up but i my friends cocked up haha  :thumbsup:

Mark Taylor

Quote from: Dandontdare on 14 September, 2012, 10:46:59 PM
Quote from: Mark Taylor on 14 September, 2012, 10:28:01 PM
Being a very frequent cinema goer to films both 2D and 3D I've said the same myself in this forum in the not too distant past and been mercilessly flamed for doing so... so good luck!

Really? This place has never seemed very flamey, and I'm rather shocked that you had that reaction. But I've been avoiding the movie threads for months pre-release, so I probably missd the whole thang (DAMMIT - IF I'D KNOWN, I COULD'VE BEEN GRAFFITI!)

From the wildly varying opinions and "facts" that I see  every day on the internet,  it seems pretty obvious that the 3D experience varies a great deal from place to pLace or film to film.But everybody's got an OPINION on 3d, that must be hammered onto whatever movie they are reviewing I guess.

Eh, I'm not complaining. These boards are one of the friendlier corners of t'internet but it's still t'internet.

Tiplodocus

If you quite like gory and violent movies then I don't think you realise how gory and violent DREDD is until you watch it with someone who doesn't.

Mrs Tips really didn't like it. Appreciated the simple set up, the three central performances especially urban but really didn't like the overall tone. She found little or no fun in it and thought Megacity 1 especially grim. Left her feeling like 'THE ROAD' and noted that even 'BOY WITH STRIPED PYJAMAS'had her leaving the cinema in a better mood.   It actually ended up with me having to defend the comic as she thought it all so dour, grim and statistically violent.  Did we really need to see the skinning so many times or at all?

I did feel a tad upset myself. I mentioned before that I felt MC1 was totally wrong in character. And also that I'd have loved a family friendly DREDD. I know why they've approached it this way thouGHOST.
Be excellent to each other. And party on!

Hairwolf

Yeh I have to admit, i was surprised when i didn't find it too bad after all the 'most violent film I've ever seen' tweets, also on exiting the first screening I went to, two of my mates talking about how violent it was...me? densensitized?...never!

To be honest though while there are some pretty violent moments (one in particular that shocked me) I think it's quite measured throughout the film and not needless splatter every five seconds and i certainly think most of it's not done just for shock value.
I was waiting for a 95 minute sequence of blood, entrails, viscera splattering everywhere. Yes there are some violent scenes but I think some of the reviews have made it sound almost scarily violent...seen much worse to be honest.

Something Fishy

Very violent?

Just to check, it's not torture porn bad is it? as i really ought to leave the wife behind if it is, she won't like that.