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Ah yes, I remember now. Didn't he normally wear a cape during this period, too?

I just saw this amazing Gibson Dredd on Guru Mog's Tumblr. I used to love Gibson in the eightes but his appeal ran out for me. This pic seems so much more raw than his super-cartoony, painted work of late.



http://gurumog.tumblr.com/post/31653581759/early-ian-gibson-dredd-art

Can anyone tell me what's going on with his badge there?

BTW Well worth following that blog if you get the chance (are you on these forums Mog?)

I read my digital comics in Comic Book Lover on iPad 3. I use Landscape mode because the width is closest to the actual page width - scrolling down to read the whole page. It's a great (free) app - especially the way it handles page flipping.

On Mac I use Simple Comic - another free CBR CBX reader.

I left a comment but the admin removed it (surprise, surprise).

I have no idea how one can kill a forum. However, please, please don't tell me! I am well aware that mentioning his name here is rather like mentioning the name of the Scottish Play in a theatre...

Re the Hot Shot - I suppose I meant the drawn out death was a bit odd.

I don't think we could have got a better movie for the money. Well, maybe if the 3D portion of the budget could have gone to something else... Whilst I'm on the 3D here's my (quite personal) experience.

I was very reluctant to watch it in 3D, but the Empire Leicester Square trip was worth it. I don't have binocular vision. My right eye was deemed useless by my brain at a very young eye (due to it being turned in about 90 degrees). After a couple of operations I do get some peripheral image in it (albeit very blurry).

I've never seen a 3D image through red/green glasses, or been able to do a magic eye picture. Whenever I watch a 3D TV I see no 3D effect at all. I've avoided going to a 3D cinema screening as I see it as a waste. Extra ticket price just to watch a murky version of the film (potentially at half the frame rate).

Well, the showing we saw on Saturday night was via polarised glasses. The image was a little darker than normal, but I think the film is purposefully brighter than you'd expect to account for this. Frame rate wasn't an issue (as it would be with shutter glasses). But most amazingly of all I did get a 3D effect for the first time ever - in one, 2 second scene (right at the end, with Dredd behind the brken glass)!

I can only imagine that the 3D throughout would be quite something to see. However, I still think it's a gimmick employed almost entirely to extract more money out of customers. I applaud Christopher Nolan for avoiding it.

My other thoughts on the film.

RESPIRATOR: Sad it wasn't the badge of the helmet (maybe it'll make an appearance as an upgrade in the sequel).
HOT SHOT: Stood out as an odd type of round.
ANSERSON: Superb, especially how she was a completely different person inside her psychic world.
DREDD: A previous post nailed it when they said he used the minimum number of words to get his message across, without any need for shouting. Beautifully understated and at the same time utterly menacing. I was actually scared of him at one point.
CURSED EARTH: and not Curse-ed Earth a la James Earl Jones. Nice.
SOUND DESIGN: Brutal. Excellent. Right from the explosive Dredd logo. Later, the sound of things like bodies hitting the floor were spot on.
MC1: 
SLO-MO: The 1% thing bugged me. I thought it was like 10-20%.
HUMOUR: Wagner would have been proud: "No, wait for her to shoot you."
VIOLENCE: They found whole new ways to show bodies coming apart. Gruesome, but brilliant.

I'm a little sad that if we do get a sequel then it's likely to be set in the Cursed Earth. For me Dredd is as much about MC1 as it is the Judges. But I'm sure it would be great nonetheless, and it would mean the money could be stretched further, no doubt. Conversely, I quite dislike Death and the Dark Judges but the way Alex Garland (briefly) described how he might handle them sounded intriguing and I think it would be great to see.

Overall: The perfect antidote to all those sugary Marvel superhero movies. A proper, grown up, action film, with an astonishing realisation of a british comic book legend. Thank you Alex and Karl.

It was a fantastic night Commando Forces, I can't thank you enough. Good to meet a few of the boarders and see it on such a great screen.

And, for the briefest of moments, I saw the 3D effect! In the shot (which is in the trailer) where Dredd has just pushed someone through some glass. Wow, if the whole film is like that for you people that must be crazy!

A superb movie with a perfect portrayal of Dredd. Would loved to have seen more of Mega City One and it's citizens... Perhaps, one day.

Empire, Leicester Square, If Commando Forces manages to pull off his wonder-plan!

Judge Burdis - I'd love to come. Can you secure a place for me and a friend?

Thanks Glenn.

18 hours to go! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Judge-Dredd-Sun-Glasses-Comic-Book-2000-Ad-Mega-City-Justice-Movie-Rare-Toy-/251143043865

I bet there's already a pair in the cellar of Dredd...

I just listened to Karl Urban on the Empire podcast - he must have mentioned Alex Garland fifty times, and then we get "...and of course we mustn't forget the amazing work of..." at which point I was expecting to hear Pete Travis. No, "...our oscar winning DP, Alex Dodd Mantle."

Ah, okay. Any idea when you'll be switching the forum over?

"Forum migration'? Isn't it just a case of updating the plug-in?