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There are many comicbookreaders around the world who by rights could and should have been huge fans of Judge Dredd, but for reasons of Stallone or circumstance, just haven't been introduced to the awesomeness of the comics.

A Judge Dredd fan is trying to do something about just that, by converting a Punisher fan into a Judge Dredd fan, in a public forum.

Part one of the series was posted here a while back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjBd0GzXs0M

Some myths were dispelled, some misconceptions clarified, the movies were covered, and some reading recommendations were given.

In the new video, The Punisher fan has read and reviews one of those recommendations, "America":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JA4rYYA_AA

What should he read next?

Excellent input, everybody!

I have a good feeling it will be taken into account for the future installments of the series.
Next up, the Punisher fan will give histhoughts after actually reading some of the Judge Dredd recommendations, before moving on to the movies, now with a better understanding of the world of Dredd.

Also, if some of the Judge Dredd fans on Youtube feel like supporting the effort by subscribing, that would be most welcome!

There are many comicbookreaders around the world who by rights could and should have been huge fans of Judge Dredd, but for reasons of Stallone or circumstance, just haven't been introduced to the awesomeness of the comics.

In this new video series, a Judge Dredd fan is trying to do something about just that, by converting a Punisher fan into a Judge Dredd fan, in a public forum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjBd0GzXs0M

Some myths are dispelled, some misconceptions clarified, the movies are covered, and some reading recommendations are given.

Do you agree with the sales pitch? Do you agree with the recommendations?
Anything you would like to add, that can be added to the next video in th series, after the Punisher fan has actually read some Judge Dredd?

Oh, and mods, please feel free to move thread if this is the wrong forum for it...

I hate "Dirty Laundry" every bit as much as I hate the full length so-called "Punisher" movie Tom Jane starred in. Insults to the character both of them.

But if this proposed short brings back Karl, and stays true to the comic and the movie "Dredd", then I'm all for it.

Those French collections have MUCH better coverart than the, IMO, crap designed UK coverart and even crappier US artwork.

Also, you still have to hack said computer to be permanetly region free.

Out of the box, you can only switch between region codes a single digit amount of times before the computer becomes locked to that region.

[The PAL speedup effect]

The discrepancy between the French DVD and the French Blu-ray is probably NOT a mistake.

What is more, there will be a similar discrepancy in running time between the Blu-ray and DVD releases of "Dredd" (and any other movie) in all other Mainland Europe contries, and the UK for that matter. If any European distributor puts the exact same running time on the Blu-ray and DVD release of the same movie, they are just being lazy because it's not correct.

There are no cuts mind you, the movie is exactly the same; there is a technical issue at play here:
The PAL speedup effect. Anything filmed in 24 fps will be sped up by 4 % when played back on any PAL based video system - including all European DVDs. Blu-ray's however aren't PAL, and so this speedup doesn't affect them.

Here is the lowdown on international DVD and Blu-ray compatibility with UK players:

For all intents and purposes, all DVDs are region locked.
The US DVD (region 1) and the Australian DVD (region 4) release of "Dredd" (or indeed anything else) will not work in your UK region 2 DVD player.
(At least not out of the box. Depending on the brand, your DVD player might easily be made region free.)

By contrast, the vast majority of Blu-ray releases discs wordwide are regionfree. However, any distributor has the option of enforcing region locking, and LGF, sadly, are one of the exceedingly few that consistently does enforce region locking. This means that unless LGF suddenly changes their policy, the US Blu-ray  release of "Dredd" will be locked to region A and thus NOT work in your UK region B Blu-ray player. However, Australia is, like the UK, Mainland Europe and Africa, region B land. Even if the Australian distributor enforces region locking, the disc will work on a UK player.

So to sum it up:
Forget the US Blu-ray.
Also forget the US and Australian DVD (unless your DVD player is hackable).
Australian Blu-ray is however safe to buy.

Yup, all my DVD and Blu-ray covers are custom, and as such that shelf is a beaty to behold, all spines matching and aligned and everything.

Very nice mondo posters, those are some awesome covers!

I could be wrong, but it looks like you've printed them on normal A4 paper?
I print mine on a Canon printer set specifically for the Canon Semi Gloss photo paper I use.
No way to tell the difference between my covers and the official ones as far as paper and print quality goes.

Looks like we have a lock on the packaging.

'Dredd 3D' it is then. And a quote from Alex fucking Zane. Ho hum.

I'm tempted to make my own custom sleeve.

Like 95 % of all other official DVD/Blu-ray covers, that one is hideous. This is why I use custom covers for ALL my Blu-ray's and DVD's, the official covers just aren't up to par. It's as if the studios try topping each other in making the lamest, most generic looking covers possible!

Maybe I'll use Jock's poster as the basis for my custom cover.

[Button Man]

Those that did see it seem to have enjoyed it no end so let's hope if the rumoured Button Man Film gets made it appeals to a larger demographic than Dredd did.

It probably will.

The Button Man brand may be known among 2000AD fans and some fans of genre comics outside the 2000AD fanbase, but beyond that, Button Man has ZERO brandawareness. That is a far better to place to be than being associated with Stallone punchline, which Dredd was.

American satire does nothing for me, its too damn obvious. Judge Dreck, har har. MAD only worked in cartoons that said nothing, the whacky stuff, that worked, but the satire was like a David Letterman monlogue.

I actually have the complete collection of Pyton, from first to last.
If anything, they are better to today, as piece of history and how they caught the zeitgeist of the time.

Did you have the Pyton magazine in Denmark in the 90s? They published some truly great parodies, for example "Teenage mutant ninja burgers".

I read it when I was young and stupid, and I still can't shit symmetrical because how hard I laughed.

That's what i mean, all the promotion has been directed towards the geek sites, the built in audience that were going anyway. But what about the general audience? Those that don't check out the geek sites?
For them there was nothing but posters (that alone won't convince anybody), TV-spots (that alone won't convince anybody) and that ONE trailer, which we know recieved a VERY mixed reception from non fans. Most people express shock and surprise that a movie that had written off in no small part because of the trailer could get such good reviews.

[LionsGate Films Marketing Department]

American audiences haven't failed the movie, they just haven't seen it. And why should they?
It's not like they have a compelling reason to if they are not already fans who have followed the movie.

No, the only ones that failed where LionsGate Films Marketing Department, the weakest link in Dredd's entire chain. It doesn't help that everyone else did their job to perfection when Tim Palen & Co failed so miserably at doing theirs...again. If anyone else still wonders why I keep going on and on about them, then this is why. They have, as feared, delivered the worst marketing campaign bar none this side of Conan, and in the process poisoned the Judge Dredd brand on film and killed even the remotest chance of a sequel happening.

Thankfully, we now have one proper Judge Dredd movie.
It is the only one we will get.

Other posters in the US have said Dredd has been marketed very heavily ,making a big impact.So a bit puzzled by this...?

I didn't say that LGF didn't market the movie, I said that their marketing campaign was a disaster.
Plastering posters all over the place and running TV spots non stop won't do a damn thing for attendance unless they are part of a larger marketing strategy which aims to bring reluctant audiences into cinemas. LGF have time and again proven themselves useless in coming up with a working marketing strategy.

More to the point, LGF Marketing creates visibility, but that is all they do.
When promoting a genre movie, they preach to the choir, but fail to give the general audience who weren't going anyway a single good reason why they should go. Their marketing campaign has been late and misguided, featuring pretty posters, but these are not backed up by trailers that intrigue the paying moviegoing audience.

Where more competent studios release three trailers (teaser=hook, trailer1=line, final trailer=sinker), LGF only releases trailer 1. In fishing terms, they have a line, but no hook and no sinker. This approach has NEVER worked for them in the past, yet they carry on NOT releasing the all important final trailer in the weeks before release.

Then it doesn't help how many posters they plaster all over the place, nor does it help how many millions they waste on TV spots. Without the trailers aimed at convincing the target audience that already goes to cinema at a regurlar basis, it's all money down the drain.

I do not understand how Joe Drake (head of LGF) can still have a job after he malicously dumped 19 in development movies greenlit by his predecessor, thereby costing LGF untold millions and at least two potential franchises.

Furthermore, while Tim Palen may be a decent photographer, he has proved himself utter useless as a Marketing exec time and again, yet he still runs LGF marketing. Tim Palen first and foremost is the one responsible for Dredd's inevatble failure, as he was the one who signed off on the one trailer we have, which has done the movie no favours. Furthermore, he had the power to make a final trailer and attach it to Resident Evil, which should have been a no brainer, but he didn't.

[LionsGate Films Marketing Department]

American audiences haven't failed the movie, they just haven't seen it. And why should they?
It's not like they have a compelling reason to if they are not already fans who have followed the movie.

No, the only ones that failed whereLionsGate Films Marketing Department, the weakest link in Dredd's entire chain. It doesn't help that everyone else did their job to perfection when Tim Palen & Co failed so miserably at doing theirs...again. If anyone else still wonders why I keep going on and on about them, then this is why. They have, as feared, delivered the worst marketing campaign bar none this side of Conan, and in the process poisoned the Judge Dredd brand on film and killed even the remotest chance of a sequel happening.

Thankfully, we now have one proper Judge Dredd movie.
It is the only one we will get.