Dredd (2012)

[shaolin_monkey]

Ha! It's funny, but only a fortnight ago a colleague asked if Anderson was Dredd's love interest, and was shocked when I revealed Judges aren't allowed personal liaisons. I described the Sladek/Yolanda story as an example of why not. Conflict of interest and all that. Personal feelings getting in the way of duty and suchlike.

I think the intricacies of the story were a bit much for her, as her eyes glazed over after a while.

[Bubba Zebill]

I think the intricacies of the story were a bit much for her, as her eyes glazed over after a while.

Oh...I love that look. I get it a lot.

[Goaty]

Watch Dredd for 26th tonight, still awesome... Please let there be Dredd 2.

[Goaty]

well there new camera set in iPhone 5s camera - it's called Slo-Mo...

[QuickQuag]

Watched it again for the first time since the cinema (a pre-Day of Action purchase thanks to a recent birthday) Still very good, and well-plotted. I found myself enjoying the centering on Anderson so much though that I'm wondering whether her character could hold a movie solo?

The other thought that occurred to me is that an Anderson movie could be a better fit for Death & co along Psi lines rather than introduce them via Dredd.  Manage that and a Dredd sequel could then do, say, a Democracy Now/Chopper storyline without having to address the popular call for Dark Judges as the 'natural' sequel fodder.

Oh, that and putting another dent in the current comic-to-movie sausage fest!

(apologies if these opinion are already over-familiar to some)

[DKCX]

well there new camera set in iPhone 5s camera - it's called Slo-Mo...

Wouldn't that make a great app, put in some rough sparkly after effect filters and turn up the colours! Throw in some of the slo-mo music on top of it! 
I like it!

[Danbo]

Coolbit of Dredd film cosplay thats just been posted on FB,dunno if you lot have already seen it but I'll post anyway.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.642229155810527.1073741849.342969449069834&type=1

[Danbo]

Can't remember changing my name,must have been drunk.


Again.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Those are from D-Con and thank Drokk they didn't include the kissing one

[JOE SOAP]

Those are from D-Con and thank Drokk they didn't include the kissing one

I'm sure Lex was often paid with more than just creds.

[Bolt-01]

I know this ain't the right thread, but on bbc4 the programme just finished about film music. It included a nice chat with Clint Mansell, who was wearing a drokk t-shirt. Still a squaxx? Hope so.

[dweezil2]

SFX Magazine have just issued a Super-hero special, which prints the results of their readers top 50 super-hero movies of all time poll, and who's that sitting pretty at the top spot?
Yep, Dredd!   

[Hawkmumbler]

SFX Magazine have just issued a Super-hero special, which prints the results of their readers top 50 super-hero movies of all time poll, and who's that sitting pretty at the top spot?
Yep, Dredd!   

Although its a debatable poll to be placed in, it is still a wonderful occation.

[Goaty]

Just back from week break with gf, so any news?

[Arkwright99]

I finally caught up with Dredd thanks to my recent #DayofAction Bluray purchase. First thing to say is I thought the 2D version presentation of the BR was fine (I had visions of horrible compression artefacts but they weren't there); the second thing is once the film moved to Peach Trees proper I loved it.

Initially I felt the modern-day Jo'berg scenes weren't really the MC1 I'd known and loved since Prog 2 and they did feel a little 'cheap' - the vista of MC1 in the Stallone film was one of the things I thought they got right - even allowing for a 'this is MC1 in its early days' spin, but once the action moved indoors it was possible to forget/forgive that. Given Dredd's antecedents it was nice to hear Karl Urban channelling Clint Eastwood in his speech patterns and Olivia Thirlby was very good as Anderson. Making her [spoiler]a mutant[/spoiler] was an interesting 'twist' to the original (unless [spoiler]Psis are designated as mutants in 2000AD these days?[/spoiler]). Also interesting that they went with the CJ they did rather than any of the established comic ones.

Plotwise the film had a good strong narrative and didn't feel padded (which is more than I can say for The Raid!*). I thought the costumes were great, particularly the judges' uniforms - with one proviso - and it goes without saying that the visual FX were excellent, although I probably didn't need to see [spoiler]Ma-Ma's face open up like it did[/spoiler]. My only real gripe about the uniforms - and I've had this since I saw the first on-set photos - is I still think  the Judges' helmets sit too high on the actors' heads; I'm just not a big fan of how much their noses are exposed (really the glass 'visor' should come lower down, in line with the comics imo). But that's a very tiny gripe in an otherwise great film that was just as good second time around. 

I may have missed the film at the cinema but on the basis of Dredd I'd love to see a sequel get made.

*I'm going to mention The Raid only because I did watch it after seeing Dredd (didn't want to spoil my enjoyment of seeing Old Stone Face by watching it first!). I know there are similarities - having an illicit drug den in both films doesn't help - but I do feel you might as well say The Raid 'rips off' The Rock with its crack team of SEALs/SWATs being wiped out in a turkey shoot as quibble about any lack of originality in Dredd's plot. The other thing to say is, The Raid genuinely bored me with its constant team bickering and the interminable - and unbelievable - chop-socky fight scenes. I'm not sure how much punishment the human body can really take but, sorry, if you smash someone's face into a concrete floor (hard) a couple of times they're going to have a pulped nose at the very least if not a few teeth missing. The Raid may have got out first - much as Robocop did - but it wasn't nearly as enjoyable - or as much fun - as Dredd was.