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Just saying it as I see it. If you can point out anything I said that was wrong, please do. If you can answer my question with a different answer to Beaky's, then please do. I have absolutely no problems with admitting when I'm wrong.

My question was an honest one, since I was too lazy to research the answer for myself and as I was trying to stay awake for Dredd news, I explored this forum and discovered you lot talking politics here. Seemed a good place to get my curiosity sated.

By the way, I'm a LibDem (standing by Clegg despite heckling from all sides; it's a tough job but someone has to do it) - if you're going down the path of accusing me of being rightwing; or if accusing me of racism, I'm a brownie with a yellowish tinge. But as I'm sure we all know, being both of those doesn't mean I can't have rightwing or racist tendencies, so I'm just laying this out for full disclosure purposes only.

Thanks. For a minute there, I thought I was missing something and being all thick like but it turns out it's that same cognitive dissonance that happened when I heard about Palin's VP bid, and thought - 'at least they can't go at her from the experience point since he has none' - only to see them going at her experience.

And going further back, when Hillary Clinton got more votes than him and he still got the nomination. The result is there, clear as day, and yet. Democrats indeed.

Do we know it's not going to be region locked? Cuz that could add hours on top waiting for some kind American to upload a copy to youtube.

[Variety]

• Variety : http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947892/

Anthony Dod Mantle's cinematography, which eschews the jittery handheld imagery of Travis' earlier films for more careful compositions...[/i]

Yay for no handheld jitteryness. I was prepared to risk the motion sickness for Dredd but it's much better to not have to.

And this has been the longest I've been online since I don't know when. Waiting for SDCC panel reports, vids, pics and reviews and tweets. Every crumb.

Can someone fill me in on this voter ID issue that's upsetting the Democrats so much over the pond? They're against it and I'm a bit confused as I thought having ID would help prevent the fraud issues they are constantly harping on about at every single election.

Awesome! And for extra whatevah - Awesomecakes!!!! 

Shucks, whatevah probably falls in the no-no list too. Sorry, Joe dude - shucks again, I bet my courgette plant dude is defo in that list. I fail so hard!

So! Yes, I definitely see more 2000AD in the cards. The unexpected thing now would be if that didn't happen. The way the mood out there seems to be now, and I don't mean after the screening - I'm talking more zeitgeisty thingabobby - it's teh right time. BUT and this might upset some, I see adaptation towards reality being the focus. Not sure how that will work out, but since I'm liking what they've done Dreddwise, I'm quite happy to go down that route with them.

Happy for you, blackmocco, while dying of envy.

That full Empire review takes the prize for most mentions of the Raid in a Dredd review. Ho hum.

Personally, the sheer fact it's not the Raid is fanf*ckingtastic in my book, since I didn't see that because I had had it up to here with martial arts movies. I love Jackie and Jet and when they were beginning to bore me, making me yell "just put him down already, Jesus H!" I knew I had to step away before my love for them was forever tainted... anyway! Back to the point! =

Anyone seen both now? I'd love to hear your opinion on it all. I promise not to leap down your throat if Dredd suffers in comparison for you, since the fact it's Dredd on top of all I'm hearing from the reviews puts it tops for me. As always, just curious.

Realistically, the girls will probably opt out

@radiator: do not underestimate the hidden love of double-R movies and girls. "I" have to pull my guy to Dredd.

More girls than guys want to go, my side. Trufax! I am truly blessed.

The reviews are astoundingly good, with the most substantial negative being a lack of ambition - which is fantastic! Because they have ambition, they just didn't have the budget to realise that ambition, and hopefully Dredd will be successful enough that budget will not be the stumbling for the sequel.

Fantastic reviews, I still can't get over it. Refreshing the pages to keep up and still fantastic reviews from new sources. Surreal. What a freaking good day!

36 going on 18, me - and we're lucky, chuffster, I feel sorry for the old sods who act their age! Miss out on all this? Not on yer life!

[with an economy and rugged authority that's a delight to behold.]

http://www.sfx.co.uk/2012/07/12/dredd-the-sfx-verdict/

"Karl Urban is a fantastic Dredd, never removing his helmet and never letting lawbreakers get away with it. Relentless, unforgiving and compelling, he encapsulates all the complexity of Mega-city One's foremost fascist lawman with an economy and rugged authority that's a delight to behold. "

Exactly what I wanted. Efficiency. Not endless martial art repetition. God, I could cry I'm so happy.

I haven't seen one 'helmet too big' comment yet. Just goes to show that it was always nonsense.

*cringes* - you just had to tempt fate, didn't you?

Awesome - That tight nod of dread despite being outwardly hopeful, desperately outwardly hopeful, has totally dissipated. Feels like a ton just slipped right off my back.

And not to harsh the squee, but was it this positive for Scott Pilgrim too? I remember the CCon crowd loved that and yet it flopped outside it. And yes, I know comparing the two ain't fair, different genres yadda yadda, but I'm asking cuz I'm simply curious. I never saw Pilgrim and never paid attention to the Con reaction at the time.

I watched that Inside Hollywood the other night, but no Dredd. Did I get the dates wrong or something?

[In the Name of the King]

Have you seen The Bank Job, more of a crime drama than an outright action movie, he's pretty decent in that... it's also the first film shot in digital that I thought looked shot on film, it was then I realized that film was doomed.

I have seen it - (pretty much seen everything he's been in except for the more recent ones, including In the Name of the King which was *shudder* SO SO BAD. So bad. You will look at the cast names and get intrigued and watch it - and you will regret it forever. Don't do it!!) - but I have no eye for film/digital so had no idea about all that. You're right about the less action, but I'd still like to see him in a completely non-action jobby, some serious thinky drama where he doesn't flex his muscles at all. Doesn't even play tough.

Saw John Carter of Mars recently too. I think marketing really was to blame for this being a flop, because it was entertaining all the way through whereas when I saw the trailers, I wasn't in the least bit interested in seeing it in the cinema. However, it didn't leave me hankering after a sequel - even though Taylor Kitsch was amazingly confident, and good, for someone new to being a lead man.

Caught Passchendale last night too! About ten seconds of it - enough to make me get meself to bed instead and this despite loving Due South. Loved that show.

I agree with Beaky on the motion capture - a meatsuit job might just look too TOS Star Trek. Should be interesting to see what Weta does with Cumberbatch as Smaug. On the other hand, LOTR suits the unreality feeling from special effects, that airbrushed look, whereas for the grim realness that we're hoping for Dredd, that might just look completely wrong, BUT on the other hand again! - Dark Judges could suit a dose of unreality.