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As a huge Judge Dredd fan, this film made my day, it was everything I had expected it to be, my Mother who came to see it with me, she knows little about the series so came in blind, thought it was great, she loves violent films so she was in her element here. The best scene for me was probably The bit when Ma-Ma orders her goons to use the Gattling Guns on Dredd, there was so much poo poo flying at him it was crazy, the whole area got blown away.
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Judge Tesla posted:
My favourite part was right after that when Dredd walks out of the smoke and throws her main henchman over the edge and walks back into the ruins without a word. That poo poo was badass.
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Sep 10, 2012 16:05
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Just chiming in to say I got gangraped £13.60 for a non-special 3D version of this and it was worth every penny. It feels really odd saying that people getting merked in ultra-vivid slow motion is very beautiful.
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Sep 10, 2012 16:27
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Have to admit I thought the gatling gun sequence was one of the weaker bits of the film, simply because there was so much being thrown at Dredd for so long, and he came through it more or less unscathed even as everything around him exploded. I fully expect a Yakety Sax overdub for all those shots of him running down corridors. But yes, disappearing silently back into the smoke after tossing the henchman over the balcony was a great moment.
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Sep 10, 2012 16:31
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I loved this movie! really great fun and hope it does well so we get more. To add to the 3D vs. 2D argument I saw a 3D version and there's one shot where they tried something interesting, it's a slow motion shot of a perp getting shot in the face and the blood breaches the boundaries of the screen (it flew into the black border at the bottom of the screen) it was interesting to see.
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Sep 10, 2012 16:42
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Looking back at it, the ending is kind of bugging me. So ma-ma puts on the heart monitor dead hand detonator macguffin. What kind of retarded design is a dead hand device that relies on transmitting a "oh poo poo" instead of the absence of an "everything's fine"? Surely you'd want it so it should have gone off as soon as it moved out of range, which not only prevents Dredd from killing her but would stop him incapacitating her and just dragging her rear end out of the tower for a tek-judge to disarm it. Maybe ma-ma is just a dumbass who didnt think of these things? Nitpicky I know and otherwise its still an awesome film.
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Sep 10, 2012 16:45
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I've never read any Judge Dredd comics and I loved the film, what books would people recommend picking up?
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Sep 10, 2012 18:17
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Leyburn posted:I've never read any Judge Dredd comics and I loved the film, what books would people recommend picking up? Start with Case File 2, and just keep on going.
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Sep 10, 2012 18:21
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So just read the whole thing? That could and up being quite expensive...  Is Case File 1 not worth bothering at all?
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Sep 10, 2012 18:29
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Leyburn posted:So just read the whole thing? That could and up being quite expensive... It is pretty chessy and they have not discovered what they wanted Dredd to be. Case File 2 is a good start as it has almost all the Cursed Earth (lousy McDonald) and also Judge Cal. If you like it you can go on to Case File 3 and that has Judge Death.
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Sep 10, 2012 18:31
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If you want to go with current stuff, this Wednesday's 2000ad issue 1800 is supposed to be a jumping on point with 4 new stories. Judge Dredd Megazine is out Wednesday as well I think and has a movie prequel story.
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Deathroller posted:If you want to go with current stuff, this Wednesday's 2000ad issue 1800 is supposed to be a jumping on point with 4 new stories. Judge Dredd Megazine is out Wednesday as well I think and has a movie prequel story. This week's Dredd story is called The Death of Dan-E Cannon.
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Sep 10, 2012 18:47
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Have to add I used to read 2000ad when I was younger was disappointed by the stallone film and went into this with high hopes. I am so happy Dredd delivered the violence was insane and I generally just loved the film alot. Dredd was played and written exactly how I wanted him to be and MaMa was a cool little villian (I think a good introduction to the universe for people who know nothing of Dredd villians) I hope to gently caress that they make more Dredd films, I actually liked watching this in 3D and I'll be going with my Dad next as he really wants to see it. I enjoyed this more than batman 3 I really hope it does well at the box office
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Sep 10, 2012 18:52
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Comics-wise, Case Files 2-5 cover The Cursed Earth, The Day The Law Died, The Judge Child, Judge Death, Unamerican Grafitti, Block Mania and The Apocalypse War, all of which are pivotal classics. (Plus you get probably over a hundred smaller stories that show off Dredd's awesome/lovely world and the weirdos who inhabit it.) America isn't part of the main run (it appeared in the spin-off Megazine), but it's pretty much an essential read as it shows the other side of Dredd - the unrepentant fascist monster - at his worst.
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Seen this twice now. loving loved it. Urban absolutely nailed Dredd. Loved the little references to Kenny Who? and such. I can only hope for sequels, or even better, a TV series. Now I just have to pray for a Nikolai Dante or Glimmer Rats film.
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How is the cinema attendance looking for you guys? Full, partially full? UK is more familiar with the material of course, but I hope the America attendance might at least be similar.
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Nutsngum posted:Can anyone who has seen it in both 3D and 2D recommend one or the other? Yeah, I don't really want to see it in 3D, as it's often just a nuisance/gimmick/too dark, but the cinema I like is only showing it in 3D, and the cinema I hate has it in 2D and 3D. Life is hard!  edit: Think I'll resubscribe to the Megazine. I'm in my forties, and drat it I'll read comics if I want to! Stoatbringer fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Sep 10, 2012 |
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Sep 10, 2012 21:10
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Teek posted:How is the cinema attendance looking for you guys? Full, partially full? UK is more familiar with the material of course, but I hope the America attendance might at least be similar. I went to my local VUE at the first showing of the day, 1.30 pm and there was about 7 people other than me and my Mother there, only cost 9.70 for 3D tickets too.
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Sep 10, 2012 21:35
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Due to me making foolish promises to various different people, I have ended up seeing this twice. Both showings weren't very busy, about 20ish people in the cinema.
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Sep 10, 2012 21:45
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Looks like Dredd made over £1 million in the UK over the weekend. Over 2% of the way to a sequel already! 
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Teek posted:How is the cinema attendance looking for you guys? Full, partially full? UK is more familiar with the material of course, but I hope the America attendance might at least be similar. Attendance was pretty poor in my showing, but I had the day off and went to the first screening I could on release day at about 4pm, bought a beer and premier seating and had the time of my life. Every nerd I know has reported enjoying it, but there seems to be something repellent about it to every non-nerd I know and they're writing it off for some reason. Sex Vicar posted:I thought I would miss the lo-fi 'Drokk' soundtrack that was originally composed but the one they use in the film is absolutely fantastic. It's like a really hosed up distorted mix of 80's synths, Drum n' Bass and industrial metal that's atmospheric and emphasises the action accordingly. I really enjoyed the score we got, but were Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury ever involved at all? I was always under the impression 'Drokk' was really just an exercise in creating an imaginary soundtrack for an 80s era Dredd film. Disco Pope fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Sep 10, 2012 |
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Sep 10, 2012 22:08
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Hopefully the high word of mouth in reviews and potentially higher home video $$ will get a sequel green lit, even if it doesn't explode at the box office.
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Dredd finally fell from 100% to 95% on Rotten Tomatoes today, with the Daily Mail and Digital Spy slamming it, for being a "fascistic bore."
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Jefferoo posted:Dredd finally fell from 100% to 95% on Rotten Tomatoes today, with the Daily Mail and Digital Spy slamming it, for being a "fascistic bore." 
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I love that RT's quote from the Daily Telegraph makes it sound as if this ultraviolent, bloody tale of post-apocalyptic fascist policing is being approved by Alexander Armstrong's character from the Pimm's adverts: "It's really rather good." 
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Jimbot posted:I never read the comics but by going by that it seems like Dredd could be used as a title along the lines of "Dread Pirate Roberts" instead of being clones and whatnot. Seems like it'd be a way to have there be a Dredd but allow for some growth or something. It's been tried. About 20 years ago Dredd was having doubts as well as getting older and he began planning to take the Long Walk, where a Judge who feels he can't cope with the streets any more goes into the Cursed Earth to bring law to the mutant territories. The Justice Department felt that they needed Dredd on the streets as he was known city-wide as a symbol of the Law, so began grooming a clone to take his name. Needless to say, it all went horribly wrong. Just got back from the movie. It isn't perfectly Dredd-like, but it's as close as a movie can ever come. I recommend that you all go to see it, if only because you will want there to be sequels. If there are no sequels, you will never see this on-screen: http://i.imgur.com/SqjI3.jpg
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I think Dredd has a disadvantage box office wise in the UK, I'm not sure about England but here in Ireland the distributor Entertainment have gotten into fights with a lot of the cinema chains so some big chains here aren't showing their movies. Our biggest screen, The Savoy, isn't showing the movie.
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Jedit posted:It's been tried. About 20 years ago Dredd was having doubts as well as getting older and he began planning to take the Long Walk, where a Judge who feels he can't cope with the streets any more goes into the Cursed Earth to bring law to the mutant territories. The Justice Department felt that they needed Dredd on the streets as he was known city-wide as a symbol of the Law, so began grooming a clone to take his name. Needless to say, it all went horribly wrong. Come on how bad could it be with the clone? It is not like horrible murderous creatures take over and start murdering thousand of people daily while taking over the Judge Dredd replacement and making him like them. bobkatt013 fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Sep 10, 2012 |
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Payndz posted:Block Mania and The Apocalypse War Apocalypse War is one of the best comics ever for the sheer visceral impact. Especially if you read the lead-up to it and know who the side characters are the whole thing just blows you away. What I wouldn't give to see it in big screen.
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Jefferoo posted:Dredd finally fell from 100% to 95% on Rotten Tomatoes today, with the Daily Mail and Digital Spy slamming it, for being a "fascistic bore." The loving Daily Mail throwing around the word "fascistic"? Pot meet kettle.
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Flatscan posted:The loving Daily Mail throwing around the word "fascistic"? Pot meet kettle. Not to mention that the whole loving point of Dredd is that the system is fascistic.
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The Daily Mail calling a Judge Dredd movie a fascistic bore is literally the most perfect response I could imagine.
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This movie is making me feel really loving uneasy. Most of the stuff I was disgusted about on page 7 of this thread is still very much in the final product, so by all accounts I should despise Dredd and think it's a misogynistic piece of poo poo. But then the rest of the film is so loving beautifully done and it's clearly on the level of being super-critical of Dredd and the Judges as an enterprise, so... the misogyny is also there as something the movie is criticizing? I want to believe this. I didn't get it at all from having watched it, but... gently caress, I guess I watch it again now? I was really hoping this movie would either just be abject poo poo or it'd be fantastic and have no sincere misogyny to it. The latter seems a lot more likely right now, but I still can't tell if that's just wishful thinking on my part.
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I'm really looking foward to seeing this, the way it's being described here makes it sound like exactly the movie I want to see. And a sequel featuring Judge Death would rock so hard.
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Jonny Angel posted:so... the misogyny is also there as something the movie is criticizing? I want to believe this. You're going to have to let us know exactly what you are referring to here? From what I seen Anderson is pretty much the protagonist of the story (since she's the one with an arc) and even when she gets captured, she rescues herself and then goes and rescues Dredd too. Edit: Nevermind, I read your post regarding the script. It look like most of the stuff in there regarding Ma-Ma was missing from the final film. Leyburn fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Sep 11, 2012 |
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This movie's not coming to Australia for over a month for some reason. This sucks.Flatscan posted:The loving Daily Mail throwing around the word "fascistic"? Pot meet kettle. Like the pot calling the kettle blackshirt?
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Jace Madan posted:I'm really looking foward to seeing this, the way it's being described here makes it sound like exactly the movie I want to see. Apparently, this movie was originally written as Judge Dredd vs. Judge Death, but then they thought the script was a bit "too surreal" and that the whole thing would be incomprehensible to non-fans. Also budget. So they went with an everyday "day in the life" sort of approach instead with eyes towards doing sequels later. Personally, I hope they get a big-budget sequel and then blow the budget on fads and crazes, fatties, robots, and mutants. I want to see a city perpetually in a state of self-destructive boredom and consumerist misery, at least in the less slummy parts. OXBALLS DOT COM fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Sep 11, 2012 |
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The Nitpicker in me noticed something early in the film, Anderson was still a rookie Judge and she was wearing the helmet of a full Judge, it should have been a white helmet, which is the colour of the Rookie helmets! EDIT: I know Psi Judges don't wear them much andits horribly petty but I couldn't not notice it. I am glad that comic relief characters were kept out of the film, I don't think I could have handled seeing 2 hours of Walter the Wobot or Max Normal. Judge Tesla fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Sep 11, 2012 |
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Threw caution to the wind and saw this alone after work. Such a brilliant, kinetic film. I was grinning almost non stop. Plus I was vocal in a couple of parts too which I tend not to do. Letting out a "SHIIIIT" when Dredd headbuts the perp and crushes the crooked Judge's throat. Really felt those moments.
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Judge Tesla posted:The Nitpicker in me noticed something early in the film, Anderson was still a rookie Judge and she was wearing the helmet of a full Judge, it should have been a white helmet, which is the colour of the Rookie helmets! It would require extra explanation. Your inner Nitpicker seemingly missed that rookie Judges also only wear a half-eagle badge with no name on it and Psi-Judges wear a different badge that has a circle with "PSI" in it instead of the name strip, but Anderson is wearing an ordinary full Judge's badge. Again, though, this is all something that would require explanation. Keeping it simple is always best.
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