Thoughts on 'Dredd'

Karl Urban is too manlet to play Judge Dredd

>Thoughts on 'Dredd'
Amaziballs

>Was it faithful to the comics?

I have no idea

Yes it kept faith as much as humanly possible with the adaption. It lost all the humour but that was only to be expected.

When I first saw the trailers and promo shots I didn't have any faith whatsoever, Urban looked like his head was swimming in a literal bucket, the bike looked rubbish and the slo mo appeared to be a gimmick. I was 100% wrong on all counts when I finally saw it though, best action flick in years.

Not enough fat shaming

More than Sly's at least.
Still needed a bit more of grunt and scowls but then it would be called turbo edgy.

>amaziballs

>It lost all the humour
It had some dark humor moments, mostly in the first half. The homeless guy getting killed was kind of funny.

No one wanted to pay extra for 3D as well

Grimace/10 tho

>comics

who gives a shit

the movie was good

>Thoughts on 'Dredd'
Very entertaining action movie.
>Was it faithful to the comics?
Not at all. Don't listen to anyone who tries to say it was.

Absolutely great flick, but not particularly faithful to the comics. That's okay too, and I think it did it's own thing successfully.

Anyway, I do love me a good Dredd Thredd.

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>I have a giant X across my visor

Look at this faggot and laff

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>reading up on the law

It nails most of the character of the comics while missing some of the aesthetics.

Sly's version nails the aesthetics of the comics while missing most of the character.

More faithful than the first one that's for sure.

>held true to source material
fuck off reddit

It was faithful in atmosphere and story-style, but had its own style too.

dedd dredd thredds are no fun guys

Ironically enough, the first person slo-mo shots probably would have been one of the few good excuses to use it.

>"Tell the canteen to get the chips on"
>Megacity One is in the Eastern US

Not really, only because the comics are much more silly and bombastic in the designs

British people aren't the brightest.

You've obviously never read the comics and are only basing your opinions of the Dredd Universe on 30 year old one page vignettes that were used as quirky page fillers between the proper stories.

true that. every single fucking scene... its almost hilarious at some point

its a fairly good action movie,and at least a bit closer to the comics than the 1995's one with stallone. still not on the actual comic's level tho. it would be kinda cool that we get a sequel somehow

>im-fucking-plying
Want me to scan my case files? Any requests?

Judge Dredd has always been a biting satire/criticism of the late 20th century. It's a funny comic that takes place in a bizarre world with an odd definition of "justice." As just one example, you have the fatties, morbidly obese jackasses that resort to terrorism to achieve their ends.

Were Stallone not such an arrogant jackass, and Rob Schneider never born in the first place, the original Judge Dredd would have to be considered the objectively faithful adaptation.

Really the only thing Dredd stayed faithful to the comics was the helmet, scowl, and Dredd's unwavering sense of "justice." It does nothing to show how Judge Dredd's universe is absolutely absurdist in nature.

That's okay, good even. As we've seen with the first Judge Dredd movie, it doesn't translate well into film. So Dredd just kept the most basic tenets of the character and slapped it onto a post-apocolyptic society.

And they did a great job. They, arguably, created the best comic book movie EVER. However, you cannot say, by any reasonable metric, that it was "faithful" to the comics.

Anyway, here's another side-strip since it triggers you so.

I was hoping that the new Dredd was supposed to be grounded more in reality in order to help world build for normies, and then in the sequels that never happened, they could get more absurd.

The problem is: what do you do with the sequels? Lot's of people want a Judge Death villain for the movies. Good idea, but I can't see how it works.

My only gripe with Dredd is that it kind of tries to establish Dredd's world in the beginning; mutants, megacities, etc. But it is, as you said, grounded in reality for the most part.

How to you take that setting and add a zombie judge? But hey, maybe they can make it work.

It would have helped if Dredd had to fight some sort of weird mutant the gang kept locked up at some point or something to remind everyone that the setting is weirder than megacities with super harsh cops. I think I've seen Dredd like five times and I didn't remember him even mentioning mutants.

Only movie ive watched more than four times, pretty gud.

>3D
>marketing was shit
The studio had no idea they had a sleeper hit on their hands, they honestly believed it wasn't going to sell so what meager marketing there was, was setting the movie as a 3D showcase instead.

I understood that reference.

Well I'll admit I only know some entry level Dredd, but the second movie could incorporate the badlands, or whatever the wasteland outside of Megacity one is called, and could include some mutants and other freaks.

I remember reading that whoever wrote Dredd screenplay really wanted Death in the next one.

Anderson is explicitly called a mutant, no? Because, well, she is.

the Stallone move had a non cgi ABC warrior tho

hope we see that again

>I didn't remember him even mentioning mutants
Right in the beginning, when he and the black lady are assessing Anderson. "She's a mutant" is all that's given.

And it's weird, the first ~20 mins kind of work to build up Dredd's world. Mutants, crime rate, ISO cubes (the guy who gets "the Hot-Shot" is charged with homicides for his driver's death).

And that's largely abandoned once they get to Peach Trees. It's pretty clear they were open to the possibility of a sequel, but that, unfortunately, won't happen.

I'm okay with it though. I just love the ending. It's just a normal day for Judge Dredd.

>tfw this thredd made me re-watch Dredd for the 8th time

"Psychic" isn't really what most people think when they hear "mutant" though. Again, I've seen the movie several times and forgot they mentioned mutants at all.

I'm talking about some sort of half human monster.

I've seen aquaman order fish and chips.
I think the fish part changes things.

IDK this isn't Cred Forums and I've never read any Dredd comics
however I did like the movie

it flopped because it was called
Dredd 3D
and had fuckall marketing, I only remember one ad for it

It's a movie that just works. Plain and simple.

youtube.com/watch?v=wv6pfQTl-d4

I have only read the older 70s and very early 80s judge dredd comics. I loved them but just got kinda bored and didn't want to read through almost 40 years of stuff honestly. The movie is alright but doesn't have a ton in common with the old comics, I'm sure the newer ones are super grimdark and stuff though. The old comics are way more satire oriented than the movie was but I still enjoyed it

Dredd was just The Raid with guns instead of martial arts. They had the same level of style and substance.

Honestly I'm hoping for a sequel, even if it doesn't expand on the lore much. For the average person, it gave out just enough to get people interested.

I was talking more about "canteen" and the phrasing of "get the chips on." Nobody in America talks like that.

Yeah but Dredd has a better story than the Raid and its gunfights were much better. The Raid is filled with shitty CGI blood and muzzle flashes, plus its third act gets really muddled. At least it was significantly better than its sequel, though (which would have been great if not for self indulgence and a dumb story disguised as a smart one). Both Raids had good martial arts though, except in the second one the fights go on too long and become really samey and kind of boring

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Dredd's action was focused on gunplay, the Raid's was focused on martial arts, of course they're gonna do their thing better than the other.

I know that, I'm just saying the low budget on the Raid really showed in a negative way with the gunfights (normally I don't mind a smart way around a low budget but this just looked too fake and dumb to me). Same reason I didn't like John Wick, which was focused on guns but did the same shit (albeit better than Raid). Also think of all the martial arts films with great gun fights, look at Showdown in Little Tokyo, Jackie Chan movies, etc. It's doable, but not with the CGI

Just a little expansion

Unfortunately the "average person" never saw Dredd. Terrible marketing and the 3D schtick kind of sunk it.

But I would love to see a sequel. Urban killed it as Dredd. I've said throughout the thredd that Dredd wasn't a particularly faithful adaptation, but it's okay. Urban nailed it as Judge Dredd, and I would like to see more of it.

I'm rewatching it right now, and god damn that scowl is perfect, I don't know how he did. Seriously, try the scowl right now and do it for 30 secs. How the fuck did he do it?

I don't know but I wish I could do it.

that grimase deservers a oscar

One of the few times the 3D was worth it

>Judge Dredd visits a GeoCities webpage.mov

I still want to see it in 3D. Still, the 3D moments (I assume) worked in the movie with Slo-Mo.

Dredd went grimdark back in the late 80's/early 90's.

I guess it's time to watch dredd again

Can you really call it grimdark though? It's always been satirizing the (perceived) "police state."

Only the 2012 movie can be fairly called "grimdark." The comics (created and drawn by Marxist sympathizers) have always critiqued.

The intention is to NOT sympathize with Judge Dredd, where there's a whole arc grappling with the "fascist" society he not only lives in, but enforces.

Fuck I miss the 2012 threads

>The intention is to NOT sympathize with Judge Dredd, where there's a whole arc grappling with the "fascist" society he not only lives in, but enforces.
I'd call it grimdark. It was about this time that Dredd developed a little bit of character and conscience of his own. Before that he was just a faceless fascist cracking skulls and killing people but he started to have doubts about the system he was enforcing. It's usually accepted that this change happened around the America storyline but from what I can recall (I haven't read the comics in nearly 2 decades, stopped reading in the middle of The Pit story because I couldn't afford them anymore) it started with the Dead Man story arc.

There is always a bit of whimsy and comedy in Dredd but it has gotten I think it got progressively darker and less on the nose as the comics matured.