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Hewlett posted:She could have also been spooked and panicked from having a gun to her head, not to mention how quickly the whole situation happened anyway. There are all number of reasons. That's what I was saying - a gun to your head panics you and makes you unable to focus, likely weakening your mental state. The point above about her powers causing Kay to tense up and pull the trigger are another good point.
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Count me as one of the fans of this movie. I was really unsure if I would as I loved the cheesy Stalone version of the movie, not as a comic adaption but just a b rate, but I was blown away. I do hope there is a sequel at some point as the guy who played Dredd was top notch in my book.
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Feb 20, 2013 20:20
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You may not have realized this, but Karl Urban (who played Dredd) is also Dr McCoy in the new Star Trek movies. He definitely has some range on top of the talent.
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Feb 20, 2013 20:34
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moths posted:You may not have realized this, but Karl Urban (who played Dredd) is also Dr McCoy in the new Star Trek movies. He definitely has some range on top of the talent. And Eomer in Lord of the Rings. Loved him since then. I figure Anderson didn't use her powers against Kay because the gun made it too volatile, but he got the jump on them to begin with because they were distracted by a bigger threat, so it takes focus do do that stuff. She needed to get calm to take back the advantage so she put up no struggle and saved her fight for later.
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Feb 20, 2013 21:07
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Croisquessein posted:And Eomer in Lord of the Rings. Loved him since then. I knew he was Eomer before he was cast as Dredd, and I was very dubious - I honestly didn't believe he had the chin for it. Dude must have been lifting weights with his mandible for weeks.
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Feb 20, 2013 21:11
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Jedit posted:I knew he was Eomer before he was cast as Dredd, and I was very dubious - I honestly didn't believe he had the chin for it. Dude must have been lifting weights with his mandible for weeks. I had the opposite reaction. I had my doubts about him playing McCoy, and he kicked rear end at that, so now I assume he can do anything.
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Feb 20, 2013 21:14
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moths posted:You may not have realized this, but Karl Urban (who played Dredd) is also Dr McCoy in the new Star Trek movies. He definitely has some range on top of the talent. To be fair, old McCoy was like the scowlinist character on Star Trek by a wide margin. 
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Feb 20, 2013 23:11
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"I'm a Judge, not a milkman, creep."
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Feb 21, 2013 00:43
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Jedit posted:I knew he was Eomer before he was cast as Dredd, and I was very dubious - I honestly didn't believe he had the chin for it. Dude must have been lifting weights with his mandible for weeks.
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KoRMaK posted:Weirdest critique ever, but I was disappointed with Urban's jaw line. His throat skin looked a little too loose, like his body fat percentage was too high for someone as fit as Dredd. I feel like such a douche for saying that. Never feel ashamed for making a critique like that. I felt the same way when I saw Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now. VVVV - You don't see Karl Urban's face in Dredd either, but it's still obvious he's fat. 
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Feb 21, 2013 01:30
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Alcholism Rocks posted:Never feel ashamed for making a critique like that. Unless you're watching the Redux version I don't even think you see Brando's face in full light.
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Feb 21, 2013 05:42
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Saw this film finally, and although the action was a little underwhelming, I loved the characters. I'm not familiar with the comics but the idea of Dredd never growing up, never growing a heart and never learning a life lesson is wonderfully hilarious to me. At first I thought it was a mistake that Anderson was the one with all the struggle and drama, but in hindsight it was more clever that she has the major character arc and Dredd doesn't. Her psychic powers allow her to have sympathy for the criminals and be aware of extenuating circumstances, etc... her becoming "aware" of criminals' situations automatically gives her a better appreciation of justice for them. Totally the opposite of Dredd and it's incredible how these two opposites are paired together.
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I saw a hotdog stand in the food court and I'm not sure how they raise cattle or import meat when they're in a severely overpopulated city surrounded by desert and apparently cut off from other cities...quote:resyk 
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Steve Yun posted:Saw this film finally, and although the action was a little underwhelming, I loved the characters. I'm not familiar with the comics but the idea of Dredd never growing up, never growing a heart and never learning a life lesson is wonderfully hilarious to me. At first I thought it was a mistake that Anderson was the one with all the struggle and drama, but in hindsight it was more clever that she has the major character arc and Dredd doesn't. Her psychic powers allow her to have sympathy for the criminals and be aware of extenuating circumstances, etc... her becoming "aware" of criminals' situations automatically gives her a better appreciation of justice for them. Totally the opposite of Dredd and it's incredible how these two opposites are paired together. I thought the city, vehicles and Dredd's bike were great too because they allude to a future that isn't all that different than ours. Great new technology, some lofty but ultimately failed goals, and things just always somehow stay the same, because humans are always the same. Croisquessein posted:I saw a hotdog stand in the food court and I'm not sure how they raise cattle or import meat when they're in a severely overpopulated city surrounded by desert and apparently cut off from other cities... Oh god I went through the whole movie, a ba-jillion times, and didn't know what resyk meant. I thought it was like cremation or they would bring them back to life (I don't know I think some recent PS2 lore seeped in). RESYK IS PEOPLE! KoRMaK fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Feb 22, 2013 |
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Feb 22, 2013 02:04
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Seriously, I can't overstate how brilliant it was that Anderson is psychic. Knowing that the woman whose apartment they barge in on is taking care of the baby of the man they executed earlier gives her a completely different view of dispensing justice than Dredd, who just doesn't give a poo poo. edit: So... got a question. Does Anderson hand in her badge at the end because she thinks she failed, or is she quitting because she decided that she didn't want to be a judge anymore after the poo poo she went through?
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Feb 22, 2013 02:25
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Because she thinks she failed, in the final sequence you can see her walking out to from what's probably a sector house as a full judge.
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Croisquessein posted:I saw a hotdog stand in the food court and I'm not sure how they raise cattle or import meat when they're in a severely overpopulated city surrounded by desert and apparently cut off from other cities... KoRMaK posted:Oh god I went through the whole movie, a ba-jillion times, and didn't know what resyk meant. I thought it was like cremation or they would bring them back to life (I don't know I think some recent PS2 lore seeped in). RESYK IS PEOPLE! Resyk doesn't process bodies into food - corpses are broken down into valuable, reusable components for industry, etc. Food in Mega-City One is all things like various sorts of synthetic stuff, meats and other crap grown at farms in places like the cursed earth, or made from other kinds of gross crud. Sugar is illegal. Coffee is illegal. Resyk does not make food out of dead citizens, citizen. Stop spreading rumors or I'll put you in the cubes.
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Feb 22, 2013 07:34
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Plenty of meat sources in Mega City One too (hope you like giant mutant rat). As bad as the Dredd universe is, eating human flesh is still frowned upon.
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Feb 22, 2013 08:15
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There was a story in the comic ('Gunge') about entrepreneur Otto Sump turning disgusting but edible stuff like rats, mould, spiders and slugs into food, and most citizens being fine with it partly because of food shortages, but mostly because they're suckers for a clever ad campaign.
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Payndz posted:There was a story in the comic ('Gunge') about entrepreneur Otto Sump turning disgusting but edible stuff like rats, mould, spiders and slugs into food, and most citizens being fine with it partly because of food shortages, but mostly because they're suckers for a clever ad campaign. Oh hey, a plot line that is actually really relevant right now 
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Steve Yun posted:Saw this film finally, and although the action was a little underwhelming, I loved the characters. I'm not familiar with the comics but the idea of Dredd never growing up, never growing a heart and never learning a life lesson is wonderfully hilarious to me. At first I thought it was a mistake that Anderson was the one with all the struggle and drama, but in hindsight it was more clever that she has the major character arc and Dredd doesn't. Her psychic powers allow her to have sympathy for the criminals and be aware of extenuating circumstances, etc... her becoming "aware" of criminals' situations automatically gives her a better appreciation of justice for them. Totally the opposite of Dredd and it's incredible how these two opposites are paired together.
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Arschlochkind posted:Resyk doesn't process bodies into food - corpses are broken down into valuable, reusable components for industry, etc. Food in Mega-City One is all things like various sorts of synthetic stuff, meats and other crap grown at farms in places like the cursed earth, or made from other kinds of gross crud. Sugar is illegal. Coffee is illegal. Is there a particular reason why the comics have sugar and coffee being illegal?
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Nutsngum posted:Is there a particular reason why the comics have sugar and coffee being illegal? Addictiveness and the fact that they are unhealthy for you.
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Baron Bifford posted:I think Wagner once said that Dredd has developed over the years, but at a glacial pace (it maybe simply be because the writers would otherwise get really bored). If you read some old comics from the 80s and compare them with comics from the 00s, you'd say "yeah, there something different about him". Dredd's a pretty vastly different character from his earlier publishing history and his attitudes and characterization have changed with almost every major storyline.
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Terror Sweat posted:Addictiveness and the fact that they are unhealthy for you. Although tobacco is not illegal. However, you can only smoke it in an official Smokatorium where everyone has to wear a special helmet so that nobody else - including the other smokers - inhales their smoke. Juves caught smoking in public sometimes have their sentence in the cubes commuted to one minute in a Smokatorium without a helmet, which is pretty good for putting most of them off.
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Kegluneq posted:Plenty of meat sources in Mega City One too (hope you like giant mutant rat). As bad as the Dredd universe is, eating human flesh is still frowned upon. I knida thought resyk was simply turning the bodies into fertilizer / bone meal. Dead person does make for a very neat nutrition source for crops or even animals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_meal 800 million humans mean a lot of dead ones and that pretty much gives you all the base for production you could want.
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I just saw this and I'm loving hating myself for not seeing this on the big screen. Just checked its boxoffice results, and unfortunately a sequel looks out of the question. Bummer.
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Feb 23, 2013 00:52
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Cat Terrist posted:I knida thought resyk was simply turning the bodies into fertilizer / bone meal. Dead person does make for a very neat nutrition source for crops or even animals.
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Considering the nature of Judge Dredd, the only way resyk would make people into food would be if eating human flesh was noted to be illegal.
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mr. stefan posted:Considering the nature of Judge Dredd, the only way resyk would make people into food would be if eating human flesh was noted to be illegal. Which it is.
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I think we've found the plot to the sequel. Seriously, if they do a sequel (I doubt it) they should take note of this one: Just make it a small self-contained 90 minute adventure. Don't go all, "ONE MAN... AGAINST A WORLD GONE BAD" bullshit.
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If this movie's box office is any indication, they won't have the money to make a large-scale epic sequel anyway.
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Vegetable posted:If this movie's box office is any indication, they won't have the money to make a large-scale epic sequel anyway. )
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Payndz posted:Perfect opportunity to do 'The Cursed Earth', then. A couple of VFX shots of MC1 and MC2 at the beginning and end, then the rest of the film is filmed on a small budget in a desert wasteland with some mutants, Mount Rushmore and the occasional dinosaur. (Though I suppose they might actually have to buy the rights to Damnation Alley, unlike the comic. Nothing cheap about filming in the desert.
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Bugblatter posted:Nothing cheap about filming in the desert.
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Croisquessein posted:I saw a hotdog stand in the food court and I'm not sure how they raise cattle or import meat when they're in a severely overpopulated city surrounded by desert and apparently cut off from other cities... Eat recycled food, it's good for the environment and okay for you! Seriously though, it's canon that Munce (the setting's meat substitute) is made from head-shaped plants/veg/fungus/whatever grown on farms out in the Cursed Earth. Kerbtree fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Feb 23, 2013 |
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Kerbtree posted:Eat recycled food, it's good for the environment and okay for you! Nothing helps the appetite than seeing the "Organically Grown in the Cursed Earth" label.
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Im starting to feel guilty about not going to see this in the theater. It just looked cheesy and the tacked on 3D idea really soured me. I want a sequel or nine and I promise to go see them opening weekend at full price and bring friends. Please :[
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AlternateAccount posted:Im starting to feel guilty about not going to see this in the theater. It just looked cheesy and the tacked on 3D idea really soured me. I want a sequel or nine and I promise to go see them opening weekend at full price and bring friends. Please :[ Me too, I just didn't care to see it and almost didn't watch it when a friend Netflix'd it. Now I regret not seeing all those great Slo Mo scenes in 3D.
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Croisquessein posted:Me too, I just didn't care to see it and almost didn't watch it when a friend Netflix'd it. Now I regret not seeing all those great Slo Mo scenes in 3D. Well, go get it on blu-ray, it's a combined 2d/3d disc, so sooner or later, you'll get to see it 'properly'.
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