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Judging by inter-web broo-ha, — it might maintain a dedicated and deluded core fan-base who are convinced that it really is well-thought out and 'deep' and that just seems like a narrative mess to those who aren't smart enough to get the deeper meaning, man.

Also he was an unstoppable sex-machine.

Also, if she's truly psychic, she can take comfort in the fact, that while the marraige is off: I will still consider her for a sordid encounter.

....somewhere on the other side  of the pond she's punching the air in disappointment and frustration, right now.

She had her chance: hmmnn I wonder if Lena's available?

Dark Judges for a sequel? Booo! Hisss!
-I am so disappointed with you Ms. Thirlby!-  I don't think I'll marry you after all!

When I hear people, (who have seen it ), say things like:"Forget about the Stallone film" I can only conclude that Dredd already has succeeded, artistically at least.

I dont think it's stupidity to acknowledge a (striking) similarity of  premise between two, modestly budgeted , action films released in the same year, ( leaping to accusations of plagiarism is a bit silly though ). Either way,- Defuzzed is right, it's never going to stop, -  just like the people who will always believe Stallone was the definitive Judge Dredd: they may have a tenuous grip on reality, but they exist:

let us take a moment to pity them.

How about CF in his Zardoz pants and helmet?

This is an instance where a vision-restricting visor might be an advantage: I'd gladly wear one!*

*Nothing personal CF, the Zardoz mankini is never a good look...

In fairness, if the thread is used to extoll the virtues of the uniform: it's natural to assume that criticism of the uniform is not out of place on the same thread.

one very on every.
damn.

It's good (in one way anyway) that they made the helmet like the comic one but here's my problem with it.   The cross seems to be right in front of Urbans vision and I think they should have made the actual cross smaller and thinner.    They've altered the rest of the uniform (some parts good...some parts not so good) to be more practical but they could have made the helmet faithful to the comic and practical if they'd made the cross smaller.

Jesus wept.

Heh, yep. The forum at the moment is like a lovely newly cleaned carpet. There's always that one speck of dirt that you find lingering 

Sorry to go back to all this again, -( frankly, from the film reaction- it's clearly not an issue ) but...

I just wanted to defend ABCwarbot because, after all, it was meself who brought the whole 'cross-piece' thing up. It works in the film, and that's all that matters,-- but I honestly believe that, in 'Real-Life', a  Helmet designed like that would be something of an unecessary liability, and probably be very unpopular with those expected to wear it in the field: this is a teeny-tiny trivial inconsequential niggle,- but surely these boards exist as a place for discussing trivia?
And why do we have to have positive consensus, one very single minor element, anyway?
Surely there's room for somebody to opine against the grain without being dismissed as either 'the-sad-and-troubled-troll-of-much-reknown' or a piece of carpet dirt?

Erah...one bad run out 'first-world's most 'first-world problems'- and DREDD seems the business!

I've been away working on a project:*
I'd written and directed a show
that nobody came to see
(well some did, but one night
there was only six people
and one of them walked out)
I was not a happy bunny, lost money/ felt like a fraud e.t.c. 
Reading the post comic-con reviews and comments puts all that trivial personal nonsense into perspective:

I feel like Goaty's avatar. 

Brilliant.

I would say the best reason it's like that is because it looks cool.

The problem is, of course, that how cool/silly something looks is a matter of opinion.

I hate to be the one to say it, but – If someone, ( in some comment box somewhere on comicbookmovie sc-ifi.com) , doesn't like the look of the uniform, on aesthetic grounds, well then I don't see how they can argued into thinking differently; certainly not by an argument based on pure practicality, – because pure practicality explains the riot-gear aspect of the new design, but it patently doesn't explain the cross-piece: the cross-peice is there for style and for style only, and if people, (who are seeing that element for the first time ), dont find it 'cool' and instead find it distracting or impractical... well then, I imagine that they're quite likely to keep on thinking that no matter what any of us might say.

I suspect it's one of those things that wont matter three minutes into the film anyway, ( nobody worried about the practicality of V-for-Vendetta's vision because audiences quickly accepted the mask as his face
, and I suspect it'll be similar with Dredd ).