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Here's a question then: Do you suppose the circumstances of yesterday's tragic events in Denver are likely to sour the reception of  an ultra-violent comic-book-film due in cinemas this September?

Yes. One film will do that.
Honestly though, this really is Anderson's story and she's no damsel either. To quote Fink:"Mega-City Judge wimmin is tough".

Christ.

...bit of a collage:

Oh.
Terrible about the Do-Do, though,
For even though,
there was loads,
the people and the cats and the rats,
They chopped them up,
and ate their eggs
ample
example
ample eggs there was, though,
Now no Do-do though.
As Homer Simpson might say:

"The historically cavalier approach by humans
to the disruction of species and by extension
delicate ecosystems hardly bodes well for a
sustainable future for mankind on this planet.

Off-topic somewhat, but doesn't this make you smile?

1. FLUFFERS by Blue Meanie for being brilliant.
2. HOT GOSSIP by a chosen rider; great fun and good ending.
3. HOW TO SCARE by strontium_dog_90, nice twilight-zoney,future-shocky feel to this.

Honorable mention: IT'S A DIRTY JOB by Mogzilla, for taking the 'ewww!' factor up to eleven.

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To be honest, the only thing that's massively wrong with that article (aside from 35 being "nearly 50") is that "the comics started off as satire but are now played straight", or words to that effect. If that were the case, I'd certainly not be reading Dredd anymore. I have always taken Dredd (and much of 2000AD's output, to be honest) to be one long protracted scream of "Americans- STOP! OR THIS WILL HAPPEN!".

My worry, on reading the script for the movie, was that the satire was almost entirely missing and we had a straightforward action movie that did indeed suggest that this future was inevitable and only "heroes" like the "elite cop" Dredd would be of any use. Some of that worry has been alleviated somewhat by the comments people have made since it premiered. Or "premiered", possibly. But there still seems to be an awful lot of "Whoa, it's really violent and action packed and Dredd rocks!" as opposed to "what a horrible place to live, Dredd's a bastard."- which is what I expect from a good adaptation of the strip...

The words to that effect are: "...The initial comic may have started life as a satire, but by now the storyline is increasingly presented with deadly seriousness..." Those words are inaccurate of course, not only about where the story is now, but also about where it started; when you look back at the progs, the earlier stories, ( while they are not 'presented with deadly seriousness' ) are hardly satirical: they provide a comic-reading child with a 'guy in the future with a cool bike and gun who always gets the baddies' which is great, but no satire.
The satire crept in slowly, in increments.
Somebody on some Youtube vid* described the movie as 'an episode', which is a nice indicator of the Dredd film solidly establishing a franchise with legs, & If that comes to pass, then perhaps, ( as Dredd and his world develop in the minds of his new audience,) then the satire can develop too.

For me, the 'Peach Trees' script always read like the 'Judge Whitey' story from prog : it establishes a future-cop ( with a cool gun and bike ) up against  some low-level creeps: that's all you need to know to begin with...I reckon that the satire should come in slowly as it did in the script: –
because "one long protracted scream of "Americans- STOP! OR THIS WILL HAPPEN!"
in the first Dredd film would probably come across as preachy and, ( in the genre of dystopian sci-fi,) completely unoriginal, at the moment.

I think of Dredd as episode one, and I think if we get more movies we will get more satire, ( the creative team have shown such a solid grasp of what makes Judge Dredd work so far I don't think it's overly-optimistic to presume that that's the intention ).
If we do, then it's gonna be subtle: subtle is best, I reckon.

I do love that early '90s thing Olivia has going there.  It's as if Tori Spelling had had successful plastic surgery.

I very rarely actually do "Laugh-out-loud" on th'interweb: this has been one of those times.

hmmnnn...fair point; I'm just so used to the concept since I can remember...

This is great: clearly the rumblings are that this will be a popular film.
If it's on the radar at all for american audiences, then I reckon we can expect more of this nonsense. This man is advertising our film only because he believes it will be popular: he's band-wagon jumping... and I say 'how bad?': the people  who hate him (of which there must be many) will be driven to the cinema in droves by this kinda crap.

Expect more 'Judge Dredd glorifies violence and is corrupting America, won't somebody please think of the children rameis' as the film gains popularity/notoriety in its target market.

That kinda ruins it.

Positive podcast review:


http://www.killerfilm.com/spotlight/read/killercast-episode-50-108212

Wow. Does anybody have anything bad to say about 'Dredd'?- I feel like I'm dreaming...

I don't understand you Roger, why don't you just ignore conversations that dont interest you?
(also , I think you might have hit 'caps-lock' by accident )

I brought this up WAAAAYYYY back in the thread - but do folks who enjoyed this movie REALLY have to be labelled as 'deluded'?

Is it not simply enough for some folks to have enjoyed the movie, and continue to enjoy it in spite of its problems?

'folks who enjoyed this movie' are 'folks who enjoyed this movie' : so them, no.( I wouldn't count myself among their number ,but 'different strokes': I also hate rhubarb) a theoretical future fan-base who claim that this film's  lack of  popularity  is the result of it's depth, ( or attribute genius to all of the  narrative mis-steps ), yes.

STOP TALKING ABOUT PROMETHEUS
PROMETHEUS IS OVER

But the debate about Prometheus will never be over: it addresses fundamental questions about how and what a story should be (and maybe how much we, as consumers of this media, are prepared to put up with).