Links to film reviews and reaction posts

[ABCwarBOT]

Funny how Empire give the Raid 5 stars, and Dredd 3, even though he is saying they are too similar?

Chris Hewitt is famous for being the man who once gave Attack of the Clones 5 stars.

I suppose that all depends on whether different people reviewd AOTC.   

Its smart to reserve judgement, but This particular reviewer has made mistakes in the past.  The constant comparisons to the Raid are quite blind-sighted being that he  is aware all the similarities are coincidental. Its all down to personal taste.

Other than that it is a positive review just like most them are so far.

Actually.....seing as this started filming before the Raid....maybe he should be saying the Raid is similar to Dredd?     Especially as the script was leaked a year or two back.

[mygrimmbrother]

And is Blade Runner a particularly clever film anyway? I always just thought it was a bit pompous and arty but ultimately quite shallow.

Nothing shallow about it in my book. Greatest sci-fi film ever made. In my book.

But I digress, Dredd: looking epic!

[blackmocco]

I still have reservations about Dredd but at least it's getting mostly excellent reviews so far.

I fixed that for you.

[a chosen rider]

Four reviews up on Rotten Tomatoes so far, all positive.  Anybody know how many they require before they give a film an overall score?

I'm sure it will be news to Carlos Ezquerra that he wrote the movie, though.

[CraveNoir]

• Comic Book Resources: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=39771

[CYCLOPZ]

• Comic Book Resources: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=39771

"Dredd" is a brutal film that has earned its R rating. Within the first 30 minutes alone, Dredd dispatches enough baddies to fill the roster of a professional baseball team. During the course of the story, throats are crushed, people are skinned alive, multiple heads are blown up and there is no shortage of creeps falling 200-stories to solid concrete. One of those falls, in particular, near the end of the movie is responsible for one of the most breathtakingly gorgeous scenes of violence I've ever witnessed and is sure to be a talking point for everyone who sees the film"

[blackmocco]

Four reviews up on Rotten Tomatoes so far, all positive.  Anybody know how many they require before they give a film an overall score?

That won't happen until closer to the movie's release date.

[Fisticuffs]

Just a warning that the CBR review above is a little spoilery, a couple of scenes are described in more detail than strictly called for.

[CYCLOPZ]

http://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=34579 Karl uban Interview at around 07:20 mins in.

[CYCLOPZ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkFIRKydjIs Joblo Interview

[dweezil2]

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

Reveals 96 minutes rutime.

At a time when most comicbook adaptations try to be all things to all people, "Dredd" makes the radical choice of playing to the base. Dredd-heads disappointed by the creative liberties and concessions to conventionality made by the Stallone version will find little reason to quibble with the determined and unapologetic approach to the one-man judge, jury and executioner here...

The film's unforgiving version of Dredd is something of a cross between Christian Bale's Batman and Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name. He's a badass of few words and a gravelly voice. While Urban isn't permitted to reveal much humanity behind the man (we never even get a peek at Dredd's eyes beneath his uniform helmet, let alone his soul), he does a fine job embodying the more mythic qualities of Dredd as an upright law enforcer no lowlife would want to confront...

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

That Variety review must be especially gratifying for the filmmakers, considering how generally difficult they are to please! 

[Durendal]

Prepare your minds for this retarded shit
http://www.barrowjournal.com/archives/6977-BROWN-Seriously-Hollywood.html

[blackmocco]

I told her, I did.

[Beaky Smoochies]

Who, Roger's mum?

[Frank]

Prepare your minds for this retarded shit
http://www.barrowjournal.com/archives/6977-BROWN-Seriously-Hollywood.html

The article admits "they have completely changed the storyline ... and use(d) different characters".

So Dredd (2012) is a remake of Judge Dredd (1995) in the same way that The Big Sleep (1946) is a remake of Farewell My Lovely (1944)- since it tells a completely different story and uses completely different characters, except for the male lead.