Just been informed and thought you'd all like to know that the UK television premiere of DREDD will be on Channel 4 on Saturday May 2nd
Huh. I thought it'd be a 4, but was expecting Film4 rather than C4. Wider audience potential on terrestrial. Good.
Wow. Just what I have been waiting for.
Channel 4 means HD on Freeview as well.
The day of the FCBD signing! Was this planned? ;)
Quote from: Spikes on 24 April, 2015, 04:05:44 PM
The day of the FCBD signing! Was this planned? ;)
Apparently not, just a nice bit of serendipity.
Excellent!
I will watch again to show support! ;)
I'll have to give it a miss, as I'll be still up London enjoying the aftermath of FCBD ;)
Me too! Is it too late to have it changed to the Sunday? The premiere of Dredd, that is?
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 24 April, 2015, 04:34:41 PM
I'll have to give it a miss, as I'll be still up London enjoying the aftermath of FCBD ;)
You should record it - it's quite good. :D
Cool.
(http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x141/mycenaean/Various/dreddscreenshot_zps4gtgruea.png) (http://s180.photobucket.com/user/mycenaean/media/Various/dreddscreenshot_zps4gtgruea.png.html)
Quote from: dweezil2 on 24 April, 2015, 04:30:35 PM
I will watch again to show support!
Broadcasters have no way of knowing what you're watching on telly. Ratings are a best guess based on asking a few hundred folk what they watched last night, so feel free to catch up on that box set of documentaries about Czech political history instead.
Quote from: Dandontdare on 24 April, 2015, 05:48:51 PM
Quote from: COMMANDO FORCES on 24 April, 2015, 04:34:41 PM
I'll have to give it a miss, as I'll be still up London enjoying the aftermath of FCBD ;)
You should record it - it's quite good. :D
I think he hasn't seen it at all. After all he hardly mentions it.
Quote from: Jock Savage on 24 April, 2015, 06:13:49 PM
Broadcasters have no way of knowing what you're watching on telly. Ratings are a best guess based on asking a few hundred folk what they watched last night, so feel free to catch up on that box set of documentaries about Czech political history instead.
Is this not more a hang-over from the analogue days? I know that even before the digital switchover Sky were able to release very exact numbers of viewers using their digital boxes, I'd assume it's the same across the board these days?
Even though I've seen it and it'll have adverts I'll still be watching to show support - always a bit of an event when a favourite film comes on telly, adverts or not.
I'll be setting the timer on the VHS for this
Quote from: Skullmo on 28 April, 2015, 01:07:12 PM
I'll be setting the timer on the VHS for this
That's very flash! I'll have my Alba tape deck perched next to the TV's speaker.
Anyone know the Video+ code?
I'm going to splash out and record it sp on a new tape, rather than lp on that tape that I've got some space left over after headbangers ball
Hmmm, too much tec talk for me, I'm cine caming the thing and enjoy it projected on the wall. Z
Quote from: ZenArcade on 28 April, 2015, 05:33:55 PM
Hmmm, too much tec talk for me, I'm cine caming the thing and enjoy it projected on the wall. Z
I watched it with my optical nerves and then commemorated it via my cerebral organ
Quote from: JudgeOiNK! on 28 April, 2015, 11:36:50 AM
Quote from: Jock Savage on 24 April, 2015, 06:13:49 PM
Broadcasters have no way of knowing what you're watching on telly.
Is this not more a hang-over from the analogue days? I know that even before the digital switchover Sky were able to release very exact numbers of viewers using their digital boxes, I'd assume it's the same across the board these days?
2/3 homes watch telly on freeview boxes & they don't send data back to the broadcaster.
Looking at Sky data only tells you what folk who can afford to pay for Sky watch. Sky's highest rated show ever was watched by less than half the number of viewers as a cooking show on BBC1 at the same time and their biggest channel (Sky 1) averages an audience share of less than 1%: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32299006
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/sky-1s-ratings-take-a-tumble/5049908.article
Quote from: radiator on 28 April, 2015, 04:57:52 PM
Anyone know the Video+ code?
Video+!
Jesus, I'd forgotten all about that! Nostalgia a go-go!
Anyway, I'm taping it on my Phillips 2000 - you get a much better quality of picture there. But I'm going to sit up and watch so I can pause at all the ad breaks.
We had to return our VHS recorder to Radio Rentals, so I'll just have to settle for reading the novelisation.
Well my mates got the laser disc. So there. Z
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 28 April, 2015, 08:03:07 PM
Nostalgia a go-go!
Speaking of which, I'll be able to support it on Sunday, then watch it again and again with no faults whatsoever (and with no ads!) thanks to this chap!
(http://i325.photobucket.com/albums/k389/TheOinkBlog/scotch-tape_174406_zps2qykxlek.jpg) (http://s325.photobucket.com/user/TheOinkBlog/media/scotch-tape_174406_zps2qykxlek.jpg.html)
Quote from: Richmond Clements on 28 April, 2015, 08:03:07 PM
Quote from: radiator on 28 April, 2015, 04:57:52 PM
Anyone know the Video+ code?
Video+!
Jesus, I'd forgotten all about that! Nostalgia a go-go!
Anyway, I'm taping it on my Phillips 2000 - you get a much better quality of picture there. But I'm going to sit up and watch so I can pause at all the ad breaks.
Don't forget to unpause it after the adverts have finished. You'll miss 6 minutes of the film until the auto-unpause kicks in.
Ruined my Empire Strikes Back video that did.
I'll be hoping for some good work by the TV censorship over-dubbers.
They'll have to go some to beat the all time classic of Robocop's 'You're gonna be one bad mother-crusher'.
Quote from: JamesC on 29 April, 2015, 10:27:50 AM
I'll be hoping for some good work by the TV censorship over-dubbers.
They'll have to go some to beat the all time classic of Robocop's 'You're gonna be one bad mother-crusher'.
"Flip you, melon farmer!"
"forget me! forget me!"
"once I even called him .. air head"
"Peas and rice!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k18Q_63KpE
I'm going to record it by drawing it on my Dead Sea Scrolls as I watch it. I'll be able to return to it at my leisure for the next 2,000 years.
Quote from: James Stacey on 29 April, 2015, 11:00:43 AM
"forget me! forget me!"
"once I even called him .. air head"
Really! How many other people will get that one!
:lol:
Quote from: Skullmo on 29 April, 2015, 04:07:30 PM
Quote from: James Stacey on 29 April, 2015, 11:00:43 AM
"forget me! forget me!"
"once I even called him .. air head"
Really! How many other people will get that one!
:lol:
Or even:
"So you lied to me?
"It wasn't a lie - it was bamboozle ... I just bamboozled you"
Scorcese's Casino - the TV edit. Swearing on TV is unacceptable, but apparently anti-semitism is just fine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdbkhW_6yAc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdbkhW_6yAc)
Quote"This is what happens Larry! This is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCcKBcZzGdA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCcKBcZzGdA)
This makes me laugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Fe1DFjhgM
Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 29 April, 2015, 12:20:34 PM
I'm going to record it by drawing it on my Dead Sea Scrolls as I watch it. I'll be able to return to it at my leisure for the next 2,000 years.
Look at you with your poncy latest technology. We'll be smearing dirt and paint on the walls with our fingers in this cave...
I still have the tv version of Midnight Run on VHS somewhere.
The Dredd movie has been voted Film of the Week in The Suns TV guide magazine today and it's given it a steering review :D
Just before the news the Ch4 continuity lady said 'later tonight Gaze Into The Fist of Dredd'.
Hurrah!
Quote from: BPP on 03 May, 2015, 04:30:39 AM
Just before the news the Ch4 continuity lady said 'later tonight Gaze Into The Fist of Dredd'.
Hurrah!
Did she? Awesome! lol
Saw it last night, still great, also surprised to see it was long each advert breaks not short as other channels! Also no cuts!!
I missed that, but 2000 AD got a namecheck just before it, which was nice.
Yep Channel 4 did really detailed intro, the movie looked great as well. Z
I went to bed early last night thinking I'd watch it fully awake while doing the ironing this morning - such is my middle-class, middle-aged life - only to find that it's not on the channel 4 catch-up thingy. No fair!
It still seems lean and mean. Enjoyed it despite the ad breaks. Dredd almost never seems to get angry yet can perform the most sadistic retribution like casually tossing Caleb to his most deserved death. Still my favourite scene in a Movie packed full of good 'uns.
I missed the "fist of Dredd" announcement but the shout-out to 2000 AD before the film was a nice touch. It took all my willpower not to watch the whole movie (I'm showing it to a friend next weekend) - it's one of those films - like Predator or The Thing - which are almost impossible to switch off.
I loved that introduction by Channel Four, though I'm not sure why people are surprised it wasn't cut (or thought it would be), it was on after the watershed - actually a good hour after it - and these days cuts rarely happen after 9pm, with films which are going to be shown after the watershed anyway being put on at a suitable time. For example this couldn't have gone out right at 9pm, and after the watershed they'll just piss off adults if they start to fiddle. Hope it got good ratings.
Quote from: JudgeOiNK! on 03 May, 2015, 05:05:20 PM
I'm not sure why people are surprised it wasn't cut (or thought it would be), it was on after the watershed
Scenes are often trimmed or removed completely so the film is the right length to let the next show start on time. I thought the shot of Anderson getting on the bike at the very end was missing, but I was dozing on and off by that point.
Quote from: Echidna on 03 May, 2015, 12:36:04 PM
It took all my willpower not to watch the whole movie (I'm showing it to a friend next weekend) - it's one of those films - like Predator or The Thing - which are almost impossible to switch off.
Yeah, I forgot it was on, happened to channel-hop onto it half an hour in and before I knew it I'd watched right to the end! That was only my third or fourth viewing.
Cutting enough violence to show it before the watershed while keeping the story intact would be tricky. I'd quite like to see a version censored for language though, with all the effing and blinding replaced with stomms and drokks.
Quote from: JudgeOiNK! on 28 April, 2015, 11:36:50 AM
Quote from: Jock Savage on 24 April, 2015, 06:13:49 PM
Broadcasters have no way of knowing what you're watching on telly. Ratings are a best guess based on asking a few hundred folk what they watched last night, so feel free to catch up on that box set of documentaries about Czech political history instead.
Is this not more a hang-over from the analogue days? I know that even before the digital switchover Sky were able to release very exact numbers of viewers using their digital boxes, I'd assume it's the same across the board these days?
Even though I've seen it and it'll have adverts I'll still be watching to show support - always a bit of an event when a favourite film comes on telly, adverts or not.
There is a panel of 5,000 people representing a cross-section of every type of broadcast (conventional terrestrial, freeview, digital, Sky, etc) who are broken down by age, gender, marital status, employment status, how many and who occupy the property.
When they operate their television what they watch is recorded (along with who is in the room with them while they're watching - they get paid for this in case you're wondering why anybody would bother to go to that much effort). If it is being watched on playback then pauses and fast-forwards are also recorded.
It's a bit more complex than that - weighting, algorhythms, etc.
Source: girlfriend (who many of you have met) used to work for a media company and her job was to analyse this kind of data.
My 70-yr-old Father-in-Law stayed up and watched it as he knows I'm a fan, and whilst probably not in the target market, he was very complementary. Top man.
Quote from: Jock Savage on 03 May, 2015, 05:30:17 PMScenes are often trimmed or removed completely so the film is the right length to let the next show start on time. I thought the shot of Anderson getting on the bike at the very end was missing, but I was dozing on and off by that point.
They usually just cut the credits first if it's running a bit long rather than scenes. Dredd's a short enough film so there's not much reason to trim it.
If it's the last shot you're talking about, rather than Anderson's walking shot, it's Dredd on the bike.
Yeah they speed up the credits these days but that's it. You'll sometimes get a film starting at 8 and running past the watershed which may see some bits trimmed way after 9pm as it would've started out with a pre-9 audience (Skyfall last Christmas Eve being an example). I still think films should be shown at a time that suits, end of, so no need for cutting. But trimming can mean they can show them earlier for a larger audience unfortunately.
Knew with Dredd being at 10pm it wouldn't be cut, no matter the channel, but Channel 4 did a nice job of the intro too!
One of my female work colleagues in the office told me that she caught a bit of it and said it was 'rubbish, the acting was terrible' and also 'there was a lot of people getting killed'
She said she was going to text me all that on the night, which was lucky for her, as it gave her an extra 24 hours of life!
I forgot Dredd was on tv and came across on C4+1 while channel surfing on my high tech (well it was when I bought it in 1996) cathode ray tube. I caught the last 20mins or so.
(http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x141/mycenaean/Various/dredd-on-tv_4293_zpsiq7eu2kl.jpg) (http://s180.photobucket.com/user/mycenaean/media/Various/dredd-on-tv_4293_zpsiq7eu2kl.jpg.html)
Yes, it is time for a new tv but the picture quality is fantastic. Damn thing is too reliable.
Same here - widescreen CRT bought in 1999 still does everything asked of it. I'll upgrade when SMART TVs actually work and are £200 from ASDA.
Quote from: Jock Savage on 05 May, 2015, 04:53:26 PM
Same here - widescreen CRT bought in 1999 still does everything asked of it. I'll upgrade when SMART TVs actually work and are £200 from ASDA.
The image on flatscreen tvs look to me like lores oversharpened jpeg images. I am regularly mocked for that tv by some fellows I know, who seem to think that just because something is new it must be better and has to be purchased. All I am interested in is picture quality and that tv suits me fine at the moment.
CRT TVs still have their uses. If you ever get rid of it make sure it goes to a retro gamer.
whilst assembling my new comic shelves, my old portable CRT took a tumble and died - sad because it had a built in VCR and now I have nothing to play all my old tapes on.
I use all my old VHS as a stand for my lovely flatscreen 3D telly, which Dredd looks awesome on BTW! :D
Quote from: Jock Savage on 05 May, 2015, 04:53:26 PM
Same here - widescreen CRT bought in 1999 still does everything asked of it. I'll upgrade when SMART TVs actually work and are £200 from ASDA.
Same here. I was reluctantly hanging on to my old 32" wide screen CRT - it had seen four world cups - but still going strong and reliable as anything. Then one day last year the wife came home with a 32" flat screen Smart HDTV. It worked a treat - netflix, lovefilm, youtube, iplayer, you name it all work fine. It wasn't £200 from ASDA though (£349 from John Lewis). I reckon these will only get cheaper as they push 4K more and more.
Got word from a contact at Channel 4 that the audience for DREDD was one million, which apparently is very respectible for a Saturday night screening that they didn't really advertise (oh, the irony).
http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/weekly-top-30?_s=5 (http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/weekly-top-30?_s=5)
Quote from: Molch-R on 14 May, 2015, 12:30:05 PM
Got word from a contact at Channel 4 that the audience for DREDD was one million, which apparently is very respectible for a Saturday night screening that they didn't really advertise (oh, the irony).
Good to see it beat Gogglebox, where we sit around our TVs watching people watch TV. That could be right out of one of Wagner's more chilling stories about the general apathy of MC-1's populace.
Well it tied with/lost out to Gogglebox, and the repeat at that (see Channel 4 #1...).
I wonder if it nice to be featured in Googlebox? Would love to see their reactions to Caleb scene ;)
Quote from: Goaty on 14 May, 2015, 04:35:15 PM
I wonder if it nice to be featured in Googlebox? Would love to see their reactions to Caleb scene ;)
Would be nice but I think it is too violent for them to show clips on Gogglebox.
I may just buy this on Blu-Ray since I only have the DVD version. Wish Netflix would make a Dredd mini series already.