Dredd (2012)

[Pete Wells]

Bu... Wha? Gibber!

I'm stunned. Simply brilliant!

[TordelBack]

Oh my.

[Beaky Smoochies]

Anyone a little disappointed about the supposed 96-minute running time, or is it about right for a tight and focused Dredd movie?  I actually thought it would be closer to 106 minutes - mostly because the leaked script was about 110 pages in length - but I'm fine with it as the film is going to ROCK, so whatever!  Will say one thing though, and no-one's brought this up yet, but Dredd is exactly  the same length as the 1995 debacle, a coincidence or supreme irony...!?

[blackmocco]

Anyone a little disappointed about the supposed 96-minute running time, or is it about right for a tight and focused Dredd movie?  I actually thought it would be closer to 106 minutes - mostly because the leaked script was about 110 pages in length - but I'm fine with it as the film is going to ROCK, so whatever!  Will say one thing though, and no-one's brought this up yet, but Dredd is exactly  the same length as the 1995 debacle, a coincidence or supreme irony...!?

That's about the only thing they have in common...

[Beaky Smoochies]

... and thank drokk for that!!!

[Beaky Smoochies]

Hey blackmocco dude, as someone who's actually seen Dredd, did it feel short or about right to you?

[Bubba Zebill]

Interview was posted already (http://badassdigest.com/2012/07/12/comic-con-2012-karl-urban-talks-dredd-and-abrams/) but I quite like this bit, even with the silly mistake at the start...

The "hard story" is that one day while shooting in Cape Town, Urban heard a "high-pitched scream, this raspy noise" like nothing he'd ever heard before. A man, fully engulfed in flames, fled onto the set because he saw the on-set ambulance. He didn't work on the film, but he was working on a generator nearby when there was an accident. All of the crew stopped what they were doing and put out the flames and administered to the man, but he died that day at the shoot.

I'm surprised we hadn't heard that before. That's a strange one...particularly odd this morning for me as I've been working on a number of burning people running through frames for an upcoming Dredd Zarjaz story.

That poor man. How fucking sad is that.

[PreacherCain]

Personally I prefer action films to be shorter. There's usually no real need for films like Transformers or Spider-Man to be pushing 2 1/2 hours. It's ridiculous. In my opinion Nolan's The Dark Knight is one of the few films that earned its running time. Avengers and many, many others would have been improved with a reduced running time. A couple of the criticisms I've read of Dredd say it lags in the middle a bit so maybe it could lose another few minutes 

100 mins is generally the average length of films anyway. Evil Dead II is 88 minutes and that's damn near perfect.

[radiator]

Yep, 96 mins is spot on for me, and it totally suits the 80s vibe they are going for.

[dweezil2]

No excess flab, just like Dredd himself!

[DeFuzzed]

A quick trawl through twitter and it's amusing how a lot of the reactions are stunned ones. Dredd good?!! *g*

Anyway, I echo the guy above who thanked y'all for a brilliant day here yesterday. Hand on heart, never had such a good time by, technically, myself. Thanks, all

[Goaty]

Oi! where the link gone? Sorry as look for it and found youtube link

http://youtu.be/g8lMmRe6Z44

[Michaelvk]

Gibber!

Whoah! I haven't seen that since when I used to read the Beano!

[Spaceghost]

Wow. That is fantastic. Brutal, visceral, relentless. It might be too early to say this, but I'm saying it anyway.

Dredd is going to be MASSIVE.

[Psidude]

just read the empire dredd review sounds like a good solid film cant wait a dredd right from the comic to the big screen come on sep