Dredd (2012)

[ming]

Seeing Twitter comments along the lines of 'very violent, with dark humour; Crank meets The Raid' are wonderful to see.  Seems the buzz for this is just growing and growing...

[JOE SOAP]

There's also a fair amount of black humor surrounding Mega-City One's poverty and familiarity with blood, although Dredd doesn't always feel the need to zoom in on the joke.

[Goaty]

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/07/12/i-went-to-see-dredd-last-night-and-i-want-to-tell-you-about-it/

Well done production!

The production design of the film is, to a very large extent, extremely naturalistic. While Mega-City One was conceived and portrayed as being American, at least wherever the comic has to give specific bearing, the components of Mega city life, and the elements being satirised and lampooned, were often particularly British. Again, the cityscapes of Dredd on the big screen seemed English to me. These images of masked, hooded rioters seemed to come from the BBC news archive, not CNN. It's much more Children of Men than I Am Legend.

[Beeks]

io9 like it:

Dredd is, first and foremost, though, an action movie, a self-contained sequence of events that comes to simple and satisfying ending. It does not force its Judges to confront any larger truths about their function in society

Hey, that's what sequels are for...

http://io9.com/5925364/dredd-is-a-brutal-action-flick-with-both-a-high-body-count-and-a-brain

I like that review!

[DeFuzzed]

I haven't seen one 'helmet too big' comment yet. Just goes to show that it was always nonsense.

*cringes* - you just had to tempt fate, didn't you?

[CraveNoir]

it's back up
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/07/12/dredd-review

[radiator]

I haven't seen one 'helmet too big' comment yet. Just goes to show that it was always nonsense.

It was never nonsense - unless you think that there's nothing at all funny/strange about this particular, unfortunate shot:

[radiator]

The decision to leave the helmet on for the entire film works -- the character of Dredd is held purposely at a distance from the audience. We see him very much from the perspective of Anderson – a forbidding examiner. When Dredd first meets Anderson, [spoiler]she's asked to read Dredd's mind to demonstrate the extent of her impressive psychic abilities. Her description broadly sketches out the character of Dredd, but as she is about to unearth his hidden motivations, the Chief Justice cuts her off. It hints at a deeper character that you know is there -- you feel it -- but it's intentionally kept obscured.[/spoiler] The decision to keep the helmet on for the entire movie underscores his character. You know there's something there, but it's ambiguous; purposely obscured.

[JOE SOAP]

Best bit in that review:

The decision to leave the helmet on for the entire film works -- the character of Dredd is held purposely at a distance from the audience. We see him very much from the perspective of Anderson – a forbidding examiner. [spoiler]When Dredd first meets Anderson, she's asked to read Dredd's mind to demonstrate the extent of her impressive psychic abilities. Her description broadly sketches out the character of Dredd, but as she is about to unearth his hidden motivations, the Chief Justice cuts her off. [/spoiler] It hints at a deeper character that you know is there -- you feel it -- but it's intentionally kept obscured. The decision to keep the helmet on for the entire movie underscores his character. You know there's something there, but it's ambiguous; purposely obscured.

[JOE SOAP]

Snap

[JOE SOAP]

It was never nonsense - unless you think that there's nothing at all funny/strange about this particular, unfortunate shot:

It's nonsense outside of context.

[Beeks]

it's back up
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/07/12/dredd-review

Brilliant

[radiator]

The new Judge Dredd movie is a gripping character study that's fuelled by action and violence.

That'll do, pig.

[TordelBack]

Well this is all enormously heartening, I must say. 

[Beeks]

Has Blackmocco posted about it on here yet?