I am looking forward to any new movie with a kind of carefree abandon. What the hell, it can't get any worse than the last one and I'm sure the powers that be will do their best to see it is done well.
Having said that you can't often tell if a movie is good or bad till it's been made and then it's too late. Harry Potter was supposed to be a very faithful adaptation of the book but to me it was a good waste of a rainy day. Lord of the Rings chopped and changed and made a pretty good adaptation of the books I thought.
The problem for me with the last movie wasn't that they changed so much, but the fact that film was just not very good (I wonder if the director's cut on dvd will make it any better?) and Stallone made me feel embarreessed about Dredd.
I could have probably done without seeing Dredd's face or the love interest, but I didn't really mind the fact the unform was different or the flying bikes (which combined two existing methods of judge transport) or even the mixed up history.
I understand people keep asking why they change stuff, but that's the movies, the films usually become entities of their own. You didn't pay up the money for the movie, some executive who gave up comics when he was seven did. He just wants to make a profitable movie.
Well, anyway just to say I'm not getting worked up over the new movies this time. I'll only do myself an injury.
Oh well my laser squad beta download is nearly done so I better go. Two last questions.
What happeend to the clones, they were bloody useless the arm waving wazzocks? (Will we find out in the attack of the clones dvd edition?)
Why did Dredd and Rico look differently and why couldn't they have got the guy who played Rico to do both? He wasn't backward. I guess he wasn't a big enough name to carry it. Would arnie have been better? :)
Okay not really two questions but there you go :)
The main problem with the film lay not with the miscasting of Stallone but with its stripping the basic concept of its inherent ideology.
Besides, it wasn't funny.
Seeing Stallone as Dredd was!
scojo laughing tears
How true. There was much merriment among the cinema audience I was a part of when Stallone first made his appearance wearing that rather fetching gold codpiece.