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Party Plane Jones posted:How far is the extent of Mega City One in Dredd? I remember Central showing an extent at least to Virginia/North Carolina, but doesn't it actually go all the way down to Florida in the comics? I have no idea in the comics but the movie states "From Boston to DC"
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Party Plane Jones posted:How far is the extent of Mega City One in Dredd? I remember Central showing an extent at least to Virginia/North Carolina, but doesn't it actually go all the way down to Florida in the comics?
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Feb 8, 2013 11:48
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Has anyone else noticed the way he says America at the beginning? He says "Uhmurca" 
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Feb 9, 2013 17:47
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Physical posted:Has anyone else noticed the way he says America at the beginning? He says "Uhmurca" I heard it more as "Amerikerr," which is what you do when you have a British/Australian/New Zealand accent and you are following a word that ends with a vowel with 'is' or a similar word. I still think it's a bit funny that the first word in the film, being the country of origin of the main character, is the word where he sounds the least American.
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Feb 9, 2013 17:56
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Well, drat. The Dredd prop auction has put up its last items, and my dream of paying a silly amount of money for a Judge's helmet is dead, because the only ones they had that weren't part of a complete costume (and therefore going for several thousand pounds) were pre-production prototypes rather than ones that actually appeared on screen. Guess I won't get to pretend to be the LAWWWWW. 
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Feb 9, 2013 18:52
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Payndz posted:Well, drat. The Dredd prop auction has put up its last items, and my dream of paying a silly amount of money for a Judge's helmet is dead, because the only ones they had that weren't part of a complete costume (and therefore going for several thousand pounds) were pre-production prototypes rather than ones that actually appeared on screen. Guess I won't get to pretend to be the LAWWWWW. I wanted the giant Halls of Justice sign, so I could put it outside my house and have my letters addressed to 'Crashbee, Mega-City One Justice Department'.
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Feb 9, 2013 22:40
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"It'd save me a lot of paperwork if you just confessed right now." The thought of Dredd sat at his desk or doing his taxes with that scowl cracks me the gently caress up. 
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Feb 9, 2013 23:44
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poptart_fairy posted:"It'd save me a lot of paperwork if you just confessed right now." How do you think he got the scowl? Enough forms, and your face is likely to freeze like that.
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Feb 9, 2013 23:49
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poptart_fairy posted:"It'd save me a lot of paperwork if you just confessed right now." It's a nod to the comics. Dredd hates paperwork because it cuts into his catching lawbreakers time, and he will delegate it at any opportunity.
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Feb 10, 2013 00:25
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Hewlett posted:I heard it more as "Amerikerr," which is what you do when you have a British/Australian/New Zealand accent and you are following a word that ends with a vowel with 'is' or a similar word. I still think it's a bit funny that the first word in the film, being the country of origin of the main character, is the word where he sounds the least American. There are a few American accents on the east coast that follow those same rules. Not that I really think that's the case, and I'm sure it was just Urban's accent slipping. I did think it was kind of funny that for a second that Dredd sounded like he was straight out of New Jersey. poptart_fairy posted:"It'd save me a lot of paperwork if you just confessed right now." Haha! Me too now.
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Feb 10, 2013 02:40
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I'm sure he puts on some reading glasses and does them diligently because it's the law. Dredd hates that filing TPP reports takes him off the street but it is his duty to complete them. Maybe a kickstarter will be the way to get a sequel made.
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Feb 10, 2013 02:45
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poptart_fairy posted:"It'd save me a lot of paperwork if you just confessed right now." "Triplicate? Notorized? Not on my desk, creep!" 
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Feb 10, 2013 09:36
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Physical posted:I'm sure he puts on his reading helmet and does them diligently Let's be reasonable here...
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Feb 10, 2013 18:30
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Wow so I watched this and then I had to watch it again the next day because it was so enjoyable. Really great film and I've never read the comic but maybe I should. I got a question. What is the song that plays when Dredd & Anderson bust into the drug den and shoot everyone while they are all high on slo-mo? Is it a regular song or did they make it just for the movie? Actually the music for the whole movie was really, really good. Really got the blood pumping and ready for the action.
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Feb 10, 2013 23:52
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PlesantDilemma posted:Wow so I watched this and then I had to watch it again the next day because it was so enjoyable. Really great film and I've never read the comic but maybe I should. It's a slowed down soundalike of a Justin Beiber song that the composer made just for the film.
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Feb 11, 2013 00:26
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PlesantDilemma posted:Wow so I watched this and then I had to watch it again the next day because it was so enjoyable. Really great film and I've never read the comic but maybe I should. The soundtrack is awesome, you should pick up a copy. All of the slo mo parts were done using a copy of the Beiber 800% slower meme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QspuCt1FM9M
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Feb 11, 2013 00:43
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PlesantDilemma posted:I got a question. What is the song that plays when Dredd & Anderson bust into the drug den and shoot everyone while they are all high on slo-mo? Is it a regular song or did they make it just for the movie? Actually the music for the whole movie was really, really good. Really got the blood pumping and ready for the action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2dfGC1oziE VITALIC - Poison Lips <- drug den scene Then there is this other one, that I found erronously said was playing during the bust scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=138AnFonZMg La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream Remix HQ) <- not even sure where it got used, but it was listed all over. I think its from the trailer.
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Feb 11, 2013 02:49
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Capn Beeb posted:"Triplicate? Notorized? Not on my desk, creep!" Is there any good source of Dredd gifs? I feel like spamming my tumblr with them.
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Feb 11, 2013 03:38
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Physical posted:Then there is this other one, that I found erronously said was playing during the bust scene Yes, that's the trailer music.
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Feb 11, 2013 09:06
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Anyone else notice they lifted part of the Dredd soundtrack for the new Micael Bay film?
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Just watched this. I was expecting a cheesy-as-gently caress, libertarian, authority-worshiping wank fest of a movie. Did not leave disappointed.
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Feb 14, 2013 10:12
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counterfeitsaint posted:Just watched this. I was expecting a cheesy-as-gently caress, libertarian, authority-worshiping wank fest of a movie. Did not leave disappointed. Satire 1 Goons 0
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Feb 14, 2013 10:33
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counterfeitsaint posted:Just watched this. I was expecting a cheesy-as-gently caress, libertarian, authority-worshiping wank fest of a movie. Did not leave disappointed. A libertarian film would praise Mama for fighting the state's attempt to regulate her free enterprise. Don't watch films.
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Feb 14, 2013 12:49
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counterfeitsaint posted:Just watched this. I was expecting a cheesy-as-gently caress, libertarian, authority-worshiping wank fest of a movie. Did not leave disappointed. Libertarian and authority-worshipping. Great. That's great.
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Feb 14, 2013 13:12
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Jedit posted:Satire 1 Goons 0 Unless he's taking the piss, in which case... well, your post would still work! Seriously though, yes.
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Feb 14, 2013 14:19
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counterfeitsaint posted:Just watched this. I was expecting a cheesy-as-gently caress, libertarian, authority-worshiping wank fest of a movie. Did not leave disappointed. I'd sincerely love to hear you expand on this.
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Watched the film today, loved it. A film that's only 1.5 hour long and largely self-contained in an apartment block? Moon was cut from the same cloth (same length, confined setting) and it was great too. God I love a self-restrained film. Also I like the way they did Olivia Thirlby's hair. She looks way better in blonde.
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Feb 14, 2013 16:29
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Vegetable posted:Watched the film today, loved it. A film that's only 1.5 hour long and largely self-contained in an apartment block? Moon was cut from the same cloth (same length, confined setting) and it was great too. God I love a self-restrained film. Seriously; I love smaller genre films like this, where the fate of the world isn't in the hands of the protagonist. Dredd's decision to be "day in the life" film was one of its greatest assets, I think, as it managed to say more about the world it inhabited than a movie where Dredd would have to save ALL OF MEGA CITY ONE from some crime boss.
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Hewlett posted:Seriously; I love smaller genre films like this, where the fate of the world isn't in the hands of the protagonist. Dredd's decision to be "day in the life" film was one of its greatest assets, I think, as it managed to say more about the world it inhabited than a movie where Dredd would have to save ALL OF MEGA CITY ONE from some crime boss. This was definitely a major asset to the film ("Drug bust", what a perfect response), but it also made it feel (to me) rather like a double-length, super-high-budget pilot for a series. This is NOT a bad thing - I would watch the poo poo out of a nicely-budgeted, hyper-violent Dredd show.
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Vegetable posted:Also I like the way they did Olivia Thirlby's hair. She looks way better in blonde. No joke here. I'd never heard of her before this film but she is incredibly gorgeous in it.
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Feb 14, 2013 19:51
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Omnicarus posted:No joke here. I'd never heard of her before this film but she is incredibly gorgeous in it.
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Feb 14, 2013 20:12
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Well yeah, it's satire. I guess I could have specified that, but I thought it went without saying. I don't think the movie would have been near as fun if I thought it was serious.
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Didn't you just say you hated it? Aslo, how is it libertarian in any way shape or form?
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NESguerilla posted:Aslo, how is it libertarian in any way shape or form? 
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Feb 15, 2013 14:12
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Payndz posted:A police force that can only respond to 6% of reported crimes is "small government".
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Feb 15, 2013 16:29
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Kegluneq posted:Given how many everyday actions are considered to be crimes in Mega-City One, that's actually a pretty brutal response rate. You're probably committing an arrest-worthy crime right now.
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Payndz posted:Hard to see where they'd find the time to carry out a Crime Blitz, though. "17 murders, five rapes, 23 robberies... nah, let's take a squad of Judges and rip some schlub's apartment to pieces looking for overdue library books and non-synthetic coffee." This is actually a growing trend in IRL America. The way it works is that once you find a Bad Guy, you don't have to figure out whether he broke a law or not - you just charge him with one of the laws that everybody breaks. It's all very convenient.
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Payndz posted:Hard to see where they'd find the time to carry out a Crime Blitz, though. "17 murders, five rapes, 23 robberies... nah, let's take a squad of Judges and rip some schlub's apartment to pieces looking for overdue library books and non-synthetic coffee." The 24 hours shifts (with 10 mins in a sleep machine) may help with that somewhat. The exact number of Judges in relation to the population as a whole isn't really made clear in the comics, but it looks to be a lot more sparse in the movie, if a block has gone without an effective police presence for so long. Besides, to the Judges, an overdue library book is a significant breach of the Law and needs to be taken as seriously as murder even if the punishment is not as harsh.
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Kegluneq posted:Besides, to the Judges, an overdue library book is a significant breach of the Law and needs to be taken as seriously as murder even if the punishment is not as harsh.
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KoRMaK posted:Well no because wouldn't they prioritize their responses (loitering guy at beginning of movie)? So I'd guess that there is always something more important going on. Movie Dredd is rather more lenient of minor offences, almost certainly because that setting is significantly understaffed in comparison to the comic - had the guy not been killed and not moved, movie Dredd would certainly have arrested him later on though. Comic Dredd could have called on a wagon (I forget which one) to pick the vagrant up and moved on. Crime Blitzes normally serve the purpose of stopping a block from descending into the kind of mob rule Peachtrees is seen suffering from in the film, by sufficiently intimidating the inhabitants into not committing crimes of any kind and monitoring gang activity at early stages. Obviously serious crimes still happen everywhere even in the comic universe, but Judges there (especially Dredd) will apprehend every perp they encounter on a case, making a long chain of arrests spatially and temporally over the duration of their shifts. Kegluneq fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Feb 15, 2013 |
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