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Payndz posted:Weeeeell, that does depend on the story and the writer (and even the artist). A lot of the violence isn't so much satirical as blackly comic, such as just about anything the Angels ever did, most of PJ Maybe's killings, and even the Dark Judges when they slipped from horror to wacky through overuse. And it's hard to see something like Dredd killing Junior Angel as anything other than "gently caress yeah, Dredd threw that guy into a loving volcano!" I haven't seen the film itself yet, but between this and the 3D clip with all the face-shootings, it makes me wonder if Dredd's idea of "nonlethal force" could just be "shoot the living gently caress out of perps, but don't kill them unless they're still an active and credible threat to you". Hey, as long as they have a good chance of living through the ordeal to serve their sentence then justice is served, right?  That could satisfy both satirical and comedic ultraviolence purposes, all the loving slo-mo images highlighting how horribly grotesque and mutilating, yet calculatingly non-fatal, his shots are unless someone's actually about to directly harm him.
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, while the Chopper story where he competed in the Mega-City Two Supersurf was basically carnage porn - "How many ways can we see human bodies ripped apart in lovingly painted detail?"
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Young Freud posted:Holy poo poo, I thought the links were just fake, but it turns out they're Dredd-itized news items of current events. And most of them are quite amusing/unsettling when you follow the links to their real counterparts. I really hope the film has the same parallel satire/commentary on current society, especially the drug war stuff (even if it's just in the background behind the dispensing of LAAAAAAAAAH). McSpanky fucked around with this message at 10:31 on Aug 30, 2012 |
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Hob_Gadling posted:Following this tradition I would have liked a movie with current themes, such as War on The War on Drugs and subsequent militarization of the police are hugely relevant right now. Pretty sure it's not an accident that the redesign the Judge's uniform resulted in a look reminiscent of modern paramilitary anti-drug task forces, and that they're solving the drug problem with prohibition and smashing users' faces in instead of attempting to address the societal issues which lead people to turn to highly addictive mind-altering substances to escape their hopeless, impoverished lives in the first place. That said, I kinda hope you're right and any sequels continue with the modern satire themes instead of going into the really weird poo poo like Judge Death. Unless they use Death as a metaphor for corrupt privatization of prisons or something. McSpanky fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Aug 31, 2012 |
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Crappy Jack posted:The commentary track is an offscreen Dredd, silently glaring at the footage without emotion. No, Dredd should speak, but only to point out more crimes not cited the first time around and more critiques of Anderson's performance. Pop-Up Video: LAWWWWWWWW edition.
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Either that or his eyeliner Sharpie ran dry.
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Jimbot posted:Is it wrong to pine for more people being punched out of windows of really tall buildings in these kind of movies? It was pretty great in Robocop. Hell no, I love it when the climactic battle happens somewhere north of 20 stories and you know some motherfucker's taking a dive through the plate glass.
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Groovelord Neato posted:Oh it was still terrible, Torque was actually funny. I don't know how you couldn't find Power/Rangers absolutely hilarious. It only could've been better if the Rangers were using their actual weapons so the hardcore bloody FX were even more juxtaposed against the old cheesy sparks and rotoscoping.
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100% faithful Doom/Metroid movies would be avant garde as all getout. No dialogue, no supporting cast, quite possibly no direct transfer of information to the viewer of any kind (scroll text, interstitials, etc.), and for Metroid no seeing the only protagonist's face until perhaps the last 10-30 seconds of the film. Everything communicated through body language, cinematography, music, and hella loving explosions. Are you a bad enough director to make this insanity work?
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Common sense should take care of that the first time you notice a grey sky and blue water. Once someone gets a notion in their heads about abstract forces like this they'll go to amazing lengths to keep it. Most people like feeling right more than finding out for sure.
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