"Dredd" Topic

Oh yes Judge Dredd is coming back to the big screen and this one looks far better than first and I think Dredd keeps his helmet on the whole time.

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Where is the humour though? It looks like it's playing it straight and not showing its satirical roots at all.
At least the Stallone version was kind of goofy in places (intentionally or otherwise).

What V said. Stallone's was too goofy, but this one looks too grim. I still plan to see it, though.

Does not look anything like MegaCity One to me.

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I'm beginning to think the Stallone might be better, at least truer to the original….

Given the last one, not sure this one will be worth watching.

Perhaps on a really boring, weekend afternoon, with nothing better to do, on the TV at home.

thats what i think, angel. that looks nothing like the big meg. the uniform is just plain goofy(yes, i know the early dredd had a uniform like that, but he should have the pads and the the eagle pad on the left.) i'm a long time dredd fan, and this looks like crap…

and the lawgiver holster has always been in the boot, not on the hip. i guess if you're not gonna bother to make the uniform correct, no need to have the boots correct.

Or the lawmasters…
Or the crazy mega-city fashions..

Chopper would not surf those skies and NO Squaxx dek Thargo.

Looks lime its based more on the US comic version that failed rather than the proper Dredd…

Mick

I think it looks like an episode of Dr Who and Dredd doesn't have the chin.

IMO a good Judge Dredd film would be better done as animation.

Meh…

Looks like another run-of-the-mill pop-fascist adolescent power fantasy to me. At any rate, I'll pass.

I am going to see it. Cast looks decent. May not be the truest to the comics but who knows. I think it looks good.
I also liked the Stalone one. It wasn't the best but it was good for what it was a B grade Comic book movie.

Looks like it'll be a fun sciffy flick! :)

The Stalone movie was crap he should have never taken the Helmet off.

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"Karl is a great Dredd and Olivia gets Anderson completely. This is Dredd as it should be done – true to character, visceral, unrelentingly violent (but not off-puttingly so)." – John Wagner, creator of Judge Dredd

It's difficult to tell the tone of the movie from the standard action movie trailer fare.

It could have a more toned-down satirical approach than a downright goofy one, but of course they also could've dropped the ball completely (as does the comic itself on more than one occasion) and indeed made it into a nihilo-fascist of the sort the comic is intented to lampoon.

But the actors do look decent for their roles and at least the movie makers didn't start at the top and throw in Judge Death as the baddie like IIRC they originally meant to.

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PS. It looks like the combination of the words "wet" and "dream" is a . Isn't that verging on the ridiculous already?

Just need to do Judge Dredd against Judge Death.

"Karl is a great Dredd and Olivia gets Anderson completely. This is Dredd as it should be done – true to character, visceral, unrelentingly violent (but not off-puttingly so). – John Wagner, creator of Judge Dredd"

Hmmm any money involved in that by any chance?
Did anyone expect him to slag off his own creation and miss out on royalties/rights/fame/other..

Did anyone expect him to slag off his own creation and miss out on royalties/rights/fame/other..

Strangely, a few noted cases have happened.

Clancy pitched a fit over Patriot Games until the studio finally got him to shut up.

I know I've read of a few others, but for the life of me I can't remember them off the top of my head.

As for Dredd… could be decent rental, which is about the highest praise I'm willing to offer. Fair or not, it can't help but look derivative with all the other movies of this type that have come out over the years (many clearly influenced by Judge Dredd).

Philip K Dick hated the idea of anyone turning "Do androids" into a movie.

Until after Ridley Scott took him to the set, showed him sketches, models and concept art. Then he became a fan – and sadly, died before it was finished.

Then he became a fan – and sadly, died before it was finished.

I did not know that.

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I know I've read of a few others, but for the life of me I can't remember them off the top of my head.

Heinlein's widow made them take his name off "Starship Troopers".

Angel, if you read the article, Wagner had a lot of complaints, but they addressed/fixed most of them.

Additionally, there's another article that talks about Wagner's involvement in the script:
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looks good to me – I frankly can't see what anyone could complain about except that the visuals are a bit more "realistic" and that his helmet is a bit too large. Frankly, Dredd had no sense of humor, so any humor in the movie will have to be ironic / satirical which is hard to show in a trailer. Now Dirty Harry – he was funny.

My own personal pet peeve is they have once again insisted on portraying women in ludicrous roles that are simply unbelievable, even in Hollywood. But that's the new normal, and apparently guys get off on it.

"Frankly, Dredd had no sense of humor, so any humor in the movie will have to be ironic / satirical which is hard to show in a trailer."

Undeed, Grandview; The best example of Dredd approaching funny form hig orbit was in "The Game Show Show" case -

Cheif Judge McGruder:"All other judges are working the post-war reconstruction – I want this solved fast and that means YOU! Recover those game show hosts!"

Dredd:" Dead or alive?"

*As Dredd leaves* MacG:" Funny . . . not like Dredd to crack a joke . . . "

Assistant:"Are you sure he's *Joking* Ma'am?"

nice example. The comic has humor, but the joke is that Dredd does not.

I think it's pretty clear that he intends to engage in "Game show host retrieval" with a dead or alive approach.