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[Mardroid]

That was great! I thought Urban's voice a bit over the top (but maybe he was exaggerating for comic effect) but his chin actually looked the part!

[Tiplodocus]

Top stuff.

[John Caliber]

Oh dear  , Urban sounds like a piss-take of what Dredd should be like ... doing a 'Batman' which in the context of the Batman movies is intended to be a disguise, doesn't work for Dredd, who doesn't need to exaggerate to effect authority, gruff and menace. Doesn't mean the movie won't still be good, of course.

[dweezil2]

Oh dear  , Urban sounds like a piss-take of what Dredd should be like ... doing a 'Batman' which in the context of the Batman movies is intended to be a disguise, doesn't work for Dredd, who doesn't need to exaggerate to effect authority, gruff and menace. Doesn't mean the movie won't still be good, of course.

I'd say he's doing an "Eastwood" rather than trying to ape Christian Bale/Batman.

The Batman comparison is just something made up by some lazy movie sites with nothing better to report.

[blackmocco]

Oh dear  , Urban sounds like a piss-take of what Dredd should be like ... doing a 'Batman' which in the context of the Batman movies is intended to be a disguise, doesn't work for Dredd, who doesn't need to exaggerate to effect authority, gruff and menace. Doesn't mean the movie won't still be good, of course.

I agree. Batman sounded fucking naff in TDK. I'd never imagined Dredd having a gravelly voice a la Eastwood in all the years I've read the comic. I'd always thought he has to do so much shouting and ordering that his voice should project some fear and order and just watch Heartbreak Ridge with Eastwood to hear how sad he sounds trying to scare people with his growl. No-one would even hear Dredd railing at them with that voice...

Anyway, not that big a deal...

[Richmond Clements]

I'd always thought he has to do so much shouting and ordering that his voice should project some fear and order

Whereas I have always thought Dredd wouldn't have to shout to get his point across. I reckon he'd speak, as everyone including you have pointed out, in an Eastwood voice.
Josey Wales didn't have to do no shouting to be a mean, scary sumbitch.

[TordelBack]

Nor did William Munny out of Missouri.

As Anderson says in (probably the best scene in) City of the Damned:  "Dunno where you did your voice training, but I gotta take a course there".  Dredd has always sounded like Clint to me, and thus like Urban in that message.