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It suits me perfectly, but I'm completely biased and perfection is an odd concept when it comes to a creative endevour: fairly hard to prove it.

It's perfect for me because it reminds me of the old Clint Eastwood actioners with a bit of Robocop and Madmax and Escape from New York, and it reminds me of these films, notsomuch because it's has some sort of contrived 'retro'-vibe to it, but because these films share something of the... um... 'balls-to-the-wall' nature of Dredd that I haven't seen in a long time from anywhere else. It also helps that it's also a faithful adaptation of my favourite character and I think it has a depth that can be easily overlooked upon first viewing. Anyway, yeah, for me; perfect.

Sweet. The bike is my favourite.

Apparantly, there's a Saint Elvis* of Munster and there is a 'Sir George Elvis' in an 18th century play and there was a U.S. administrator born in 1916 called Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr (junior so I presume his Papa might have been Elvis too).

*Although because it was 5th Century Ireland, there seems to be a lot of varied spellings of the name.
Th'interweb is great!

Old men rants were way more entertaining in my day: it's shocking to witness the decline of top -quality curmudgeonliness.

'Madness' you say?

Greetings Rin!

Welcome Mr Macheath!

Congrats to winners; exceptional standard in this comp!

Helsinki rocks: don't forget to get yourself some Salmiakki from the State-sponsored off-licence: 'Alko'.

[WhizzBang]

I think maybe what WhizzBang means is this type* of thing:


Ostensibly sunny, airy, graffiti-less, even foliage visible, but the posture of both Dredd and the citizens tell you all you need to know.

*( from 'Alone in a crowd' prog 205 : better in the original B&W IMHO, but I've no scanner and this is all I could find on t'web)

When I think of MC1 I still think about Mike McMahons MC1, but one other thing is Steve Dillons version...

Also my two faves. Good point about the Utopian face for Dystopian experience that Dillon, in particular, did so well too.
I dont think it would have worked for this script tho', even if they had the money; this Meg kinda had to be a bit more of an out-and-out dump.

Not every film with a future-city is based on Blade Runner despite what critics tell us. I see more of a utilitarian, communist/social-housing vibe in Dredd than Blade Runner's retro-fitted art-deco future. Apples & Oranges to me.

Wet,smoke-choked, neon lit, film-noirish Apples and dry dusty, poisoned and parched lone-city-in-the-radland Oranges at that; I sometimes reckon that 'Blade-runner' has just become shorthand for 'The future with dirt and broken things' to differentiate future visions from the 'Jetsons'/'Star Trek' super-clean, 1960's idea that was so popular before.


Still, I do think it's a fair point that the city of the film is not really like any of the disparate versions of the Big Meg that we've been given by different artists over the years. As a recreation of the strip, I can see how that element would be a disappointment to some, but the film isn't a recreation of any of the strips and the vision of the City that the film-makers went for, works so perfectly as a setting for the story they told (and the budget they had) that personally I'm delighted they didn't go for a comic recreation.

Cool; worth a repost.

May he find a way to Paradise, even if it must be burglary.

Great part II, loving Mr Smith...
only downside being mispronuniuniuniounciating of names; 'Henderson' I can live with ( because Ron Smith's earned the right to make a mistake), but 'Slane'?... 'Slane'? Really? Flint's irish FFS! What does Flint say for goodbye 'Slannn'? What does he say for 'cheers!'; 'Slaynt'?
GGRRRRrrrrr!

If an irishman can't pronounce a fada when he sees one, then I don't know where we are at all, at all.

Sláine