5yrs ago Today Dredd was unleashed into British Cinemas

Honestly, what makes people gush so hard over this film? I watched this expecting the second coming of comic book heaven and started fast forwarding this hokey thing 40m in lol. I have no idea what drugs people are on watching this. Maybe I just come from a different generation where 4/5 films in Hollywood are not comic book films.

It was OKAY guys.
 
I hadn't this on my Netflix watchlist but never got around to it.

Is it streaming anywhere, like Netflix or Prime? Hbo? Starz?
 
AlteredBeast said:
Wrong.

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Right
 
Neith said:
Honestly, what makes people gush so hard over this film? I watched this expecting the second coming of comic book heaven and started fast forwarding this hokey thing 40m in lol. I have no idea what drugs people are on watching this. Maybe I just come from a different generation where 4/5 films in Hollywood are not comic book films.

It was OKAY guys.
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Or maybe your taste isn't the bar. Can't take you seriously either since you previously stated you move on after you let everyone know how much better your standards are, but here i am quoting your second post in the thread.

The film was highly enjoyable... awesome even. Cool if you don't like it.
 
Yeah, remember when Rob Schneider got 5 years for hacking the spaghetti machine. Haha, so good.

Code: 
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Also a top tier movie gun. R.I.P. Kay's right arm.
 
theWB27 said:
Or maybe your taste isn't the bar. Can't take you seriously either since you previously stated you move on after you let everyone know how much better your standards are, but here i am quoting your second post in the thread.

The film was highly enjoyable... awesome even. Cool if you don't like it.
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I meant in real life when people bring this film up. Have a cow man. My taste in film is pretty decent I'd say. I been watching film for over 30 years. Nothing in Dredd ever convinced me this was anything but some random comic book film with cool special effects.

That is how I saw it.

To be honest I don't really like all that many comic book films, but this one in no way stood out to me as some great piece of acting or writing.
 
Neith said:
I meant in real life when people bring this film up. Have a cow man. My taste in film is pretty decent I'd say. I been watching film for over 30 years. Nothing in Dredd ever convinced me this was anything but some random comic book film with cool special effects.

That is how I saw it.

To be honest I don't really like all that many comic book films, but this one in no way stood out to me as some great piece of acting or writing.
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Did you ever read the Comics, not the IDW one's though, If you didn't then maybe you wouldn't understand the passion from those of us that grew up reading 2000ad I guess.
 
My first time watching it, I felt like the slow-mi violence was... it made me think the director had some pornographic relationship with realistic gore. And when I say pornographic I mean it, the slow-mo bullet gore is not "cool hero", not "funny brutal" and not of the disgusted-by-violence type either, it feels like someone is getting off on it.

That being said, I adore this movie. The dialogue and actors are great, the art direction is perfect and the music makes it feel fucking raw and good. I wouldn't want the slow-mo gore edited, but I've seen the movie 4 times and they're the only thing that makes me second guess how much this movie nails what it's going for.
 
Neith said:
I meant in real life when people bring this film up. Have a cow man. My taste in film is pretty decent I'd say. I been watching film for over 30 years. Nothing in Dredd ever convinced me this was anything but some random comic book film with cool special effects.

That is how I saw it.

To be honest I don't really like all that many comic book films, but this one in no way stood out to me as some great piece of acting or writing.
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Cool... your condescension towards those who love it showed. Just seems like you can't understand how someone can like something you don't.
 
It is a great movie perfectly fits the tone of the comics. I only wish it was more popular so it revitalised other franchise's so I could have got a Nemesis the Warlock movie.
 
Neith said:
Honestly, what makes people gush so hard over this film? I watched this expecting the second coming of comic book heaven and started fast forwarding this hokey thing 40m in lol. I have no idea what drugs people are on watching this. Maybe I just come from a different generation where 4/5 films in Hollywood are not comic book films.

It was OKAY guys.
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Oh lawd go wank to some foreign film about incest and let this thread live its life
 
Neith said:
Honestly, what makes people gush so hard over this film? I watched this expecting the second coming of comic book heaven and started fast forwarding this hokey thing 40m in lol. I have no idea what drugs people are on watching this. Maybe I just come from a different generation where 4/5 films in Hollywood are not comic book films.

It was OKAY guys.
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It's a really tightly focused focused movie that has solid action sequences, characters, and a story. It knows exactly what it needs to be and doesn't bite off more than it can chew. It feels like a 80s era action movie more so than a 2010s era action movie.
 
GhaleonEB said:
Seeing this in the theater, in 3D, was a real treat. Tiny but enthusiastic audience.

One of maybe 4 movies I've seen to use 3D right. And the movie itself is ridiculously badass.
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I saw this in theaters in 3D around when it came out and it was empty in there :( That was a bummer, because I loved the movie. I actually had an extra for some reason and had trouble finding someone to go with me (for no charge). I eventually found someone that would go. Afterwards I tried to tell the rest of my friends they were missing out, but no one else I knew went to go see it. Once it got a home release and they saw it they all loved it.

Also, you should check out Mad Max 3D. The use of 3D in that is fantastic imo. Left me really wowed.
 
Still watch this every couple months. My gf and I saw it on our second date. Good memories.

Recently got Fitzgerald's Dredd variant print. Can't wait to have it framed. They used a UV reactive ink and it looks amazing under a blacklight.

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Extra Sauce said:
It's okay fellow Dredd fans, now that a TV show is in the works we no longer have to overstate the movie's quality in a desperate attempt to build buzz for a sequel. We all know it's good but not great. Time to drop the act now. You may also lower your imdb score down from 10.
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Ok hotshot.
 
Outside of the central premise of both films being about their respective protagonists being locked inside a building, I never felt the Raid and Dredd were all that similar.

Both are simply exceptional, unapologetically hard-R action films that deserve equal love and veneration.
 
Sgt. Kabukiman said:
A Dredd x Les Cousins Dangereux crossover would be pretty sweet though.

"-Incest! 50 years in the cube for you.
- Non, monsieur Dredd, c'est injuste!"

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This is a masterclass post and I just got called out for not working via the chuckle you got outta me. 11/5 would Judge Death again

Dredd was a cut above anything else in the game. The proper amount of weird and colorful and dour. They knew exactly what they had to do and they did it perfectly.

"You look ready." is low key the best compliment/character development I've seen in a action film in forever. Gotta go home and watch it again tonight if I can pull away from Destiny.
 
Neith said:
Honestly, what makes people gush so hard over this film? I watched this expecting the second coming of comic book heaven and started fast forwarding this hokey thing 40m in lol. I have no idea what drugs people are on watching this. Maybe I just come from a different generation where 4/5 films in Hollywood are not comic book films.

It was OKAY guys.
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Honestly, the fact that it’s a comic book film is incidental.

What impressed me that it was visually gorgeous, incredibly violent, and filled to the brim with talented actors.

It’s relation to a relatively lowkey comic book IP isn’t why people love this movie.
 
Afrikan said:
So this WAS actually a good movie?

I hate that there are soooo many remakes now a days, which are horrible in comparison to the originals.....and unfortunately I lumped this movie in with the others without doing any research.

Edit- I don't know why I thought Colin Farrell starred in this... I'm so confused right now.
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Yeah it's pretty great.

Neith said:
Honestly, what makes people gush so hard over this film? I watched this expecting the second coming of comic book heaven and started fast forwarding this hokey thing 40m in lol. I have no idea what drugs people are on watching this. Maybe I just come from a different generation where 4/5 films in Hollywood are not comic book films.

It was OKAY guys.
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Shame on you.
 
Bill R Boggess said:
Honestly, the fact that it's a comic book film is incidental.

What impressed me that it was visually gorgeous, incredibly violent, and filled to the brim with talented actors.

It's relation to a relatively lowkey comic book IP isn't why people love this movie.
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I'm just not seeing the great writing thing going on here. I'd have no problem admitting if I did. It's not like this film is on my hitlist or anything lol. I didn't hate it, and I didn't like it much. Really no harm in that. But the fans of this film seem overly passionate to me to the point they can't even have a discussion about the film.

BlueTsunami said:
Oh lawd go wank to some foreign film about incest and let this thread live its life
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I mean, it's nice of you to have assumptions, but more than a couple American action pics are some of my favorite films of all time, e.g., Predator, Robocop, Die Hard, et cetera. More than a couple European ones as well fit that mold for me.

I even really enjoyed the Rambo reboot Stallone put out if you want to talk about violent films, but dislike his other stuff for the most part. I mean, I wanted to like Dredd. I actually don't mind the comics and like the artstyle. Hell, even Stallone himself possibly could have been a good Dredd if the movie was written better.

But this, as someone else put it, seemed weirdly obsessed with violence. IDK. Kinda like Avatar and maybe something like Elysium I just ended up disappointed with poor writing. I probably should not blame it on the actors.
 
To me is seemed like one of the many cases where there were two movies released around the same time with the same general premise, only one was far inferior than the other.

In this case ( storm a building full of bad guys), that other movie was The Raid: Redemption and as that was just amazingly good, even though Dredd wasn't a bad movie, it just looked so weak in comparison.
 
Absolutely love Dredd

Lena Headey gave a fantastic performance as Ma-Ma in this film. She owns every single scene she's in.
 
I enjoyed the movie, but I feel like I'm missing something because I liked it nowhere near as much as some of you seem to have liked it.
 
Its a good movie but i watched Raid redemption before, so It lacked the impact of the First time in some things, since Raid redemption already made before
 
Jesus Carbomb said:
Gatling gun sequence was dumb but other than that Dredd is a fun little action movie.
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That sequence only existed for Dredd to emerge from the dust and debris only to toss one of Mama's thugs off the ledge and turn right around and walk back like a boss as a giant middle finger to her.
 
GhaleonEB said:
Seeing this in the theater, in 3D, was a real treat. Tiny but enthusiastic audience.

One of maybe 4 movies I've seen to use 3D right. And the movie itself is ridiculously badass.
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This was exactly my experience. I went with 3 buddies to a midweek matinee showing in 3D DnD it was just us and two other people and we were blown away. This and The Life of Pi are the only two movies I have seen in 3D that used it to full effect. The slo no scenes were mesmerizing.
 
Jason Frost said:
So, what is the situation with the rumored upcoming Judge Dredd TV show, Mega-City One?
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Last I heard, it's being developed by Netflix and Karl urban is in talks to play Dredd. Haven't really heard anything else.

I hope it's like a ten episode season and every season is a different arc. Maybe even a dark judges arc or his brother as a bad guy. So many possibilities.
 
I am really curious to see if the show eventually tackles
Judge Death and the Dark Judges
and people's reactions.
 
Snaku said:
That sequence only existed for Dredd to emerge from the dust and debris only to toss one of Mama's thugs off the ledge and turn right around and walk back like a boss as a giant middle finger to her.
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Oh I understood what they were going for but in a movie where the violence is already a bit excessive and over the top that sequence just took things to a silly cartoonish level that wasn't really needed. Like I said, it didn't ruin the film for me but I do feel like I have to completely shut my brain off every time I watch that scene.
 
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