I know that you have a tiny dick... Would you rather us talk about that? Because I'm going nowhere you little fuck nut. I was here before you had hair on your balls, and I'll be here long after they've removed your balls because of the cancerous growth that is eating them up. And when you finally die, just before you go, you'll see an image of my retarded face, grinning at you like you have candy and a puppy behind your back.

Do you act like a cunt to get attention or is that how you normally are, and can't help it?

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Originally posted by Jon_Snow Do you act like a cunt to get attention or is that how you normally are, and can't help it?

Lighten up you tit, it's the fucken' COR.

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Originally posted by itsamemario And when you finally die, just before you go, you'll see an image of my retarded face, grinning at you like you have candy and a puppy behind your back.

That is just completely out of line. People with Down Syndrome are not retarded.

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Originally posted by OrangestO This isn't about physics, this is about waves.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I both agree and disagree with what you're saying here. While it is clearly true that even the most useless piece of cinematic shit is always an ideological expression, there is an important distinction to be made between films which are deliberately creating an artistic framework which intends to communicate a certain set of ideas or messages, and films that are unwitting ideological vehicles. You may still be able to write a film-student essay on films like Transformers or Battleship, but that does not make them good or thoughtful. I also think you're far too eager to reach for extremely tenuous meta-textual justifications for god awful films.

Regarding meta-textuality, I'm not sure if you're referring to the last example I made about Battleship, but I have to consider its genre context to clearly explain why it's interesting. In other words, it's similar to what Russian formalists called estrangement or defamiliarization: a certain tactic a text employs to "make the content of the story seem unfamiliar."

Battleship portrays a conflict that is based on misunderstanding and the problem of "reading the opponent" becomes a major part of the film. You could say that some important aspects of the original board game are used here to a defamiliarizing effect - to make us watch an "alien invasion film" in a slightly different way. Also, Battleship repeatedly goes out of its way to point out similarities between both sides of the battle to further problematize a "good & evil" distinction that is usually typical for blockbuster movies. Aliens don't destroy all humans, just those wielding a potentially dangerous weapons (showing signs of some kind of "humanity"), and one of the marines is a black crippled veteran with robotic legs - essentially a half-alien. These are some interesting things (observed on a textual level) in an otherwise average film, though hardly such a disaster some make it out to be.

Anyway, the main reason why I mentioned it was to illustrate that films like these are never "just action/eye-candy", not to praise it as an unacknowledged masterpiece.

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Dredd is not a film laden with messages or subtexts, but it is an extremely artistic film. The artistry invested in almost every second of screen time on almost every level of cinematic function - visual design, editing, writing, acting, music, sound design - is first rate. This film is a work of concentrated art, and the fact it's basically an ultra-violent science fiction action flick should not detract from that. "Making you think" is only a small part of an intelligently made film. You only have to look at shit like Prometheus which trips over itself to "make you think" and thus apparently ascends from entertainment-movie to serious-film, but as a piece of narrative it's an amateur, incoherent mess.

I'm quite sure you just made use of this opportunity to describe how Dredd is such a great film (which is fine), but I'm fully aware of what you're saying. Formal virtuosity/originality is why I love films like Speed Racer - they may not offer much when it comes to symbolic or subtextual value, but they're such an entertaining and stimulating watch because of their use of cinematic language including narration as a process.

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Originally posted by srussell0018 That is just completely out of line. People with Down Syndrome are not retarded.

Oh shut the fuck up, fatty. You might've lost "forty" pounds, yeah more like fifteen, but your still a fatty in my eyes, fatty. Go eat your flavour-fucking-blasted doritos with cheese, and clog up your arteries rather sooner than later. You're a disgrace to haters and trolls everywhere, you fucking amateur. IN FACT you're a disgrace to men everywhere, and a dissapointment to all ladies, in view of your penis. Congratu-fucking-lations; You're a dissapointment to the human race.

You know, the thing I despise most about alfi is there is so very close to nothing that can be said to insult him, to criticize his absolutely nonsense and unfunny postings; nothing to say of his interests or dreams or character, only a whirling void of abject absence, like the incessant schlorping of a toilet that has run so long and bereft of its flow that its sucking is but a drone of hopeless percolation that could only inspire the most suicidal of people to seek other, more worthy means of depressing stimulus to fuel their untimely demise.

Really, alfi saves lives.

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It's a little much, but pretty funny. I'd change out the "interest or dreams or character" part. It get's a little repeaty and.. I'd like to say non-specific but that's not it.. Maybe try summing them up in a word like.. i dunno.. You're the writer, you can probably come up with something, right?

Hahahaha omg has Alfi seriously been right fighting about a fucking WORD for 2 pages???


On topic - thanks for the review. My bf and I were wondering about this FILM. Prob gonna go see it tomorrow.

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Originally posted by GoSpeedGo! I'm quite sure you just made use of this opportunity to describe how Dredd is such a great film (which is fine), but I'm fully aware of what you're saying. Formal virtuosity/originality is why I love films like Speed Racer - they may not offer much when it comes to symbolic or subtextual value, but they're such an entertaining and stimulating watch because of their use of cinematic language including narration as a process.

I'm sure you are. I say all of this because I don't personally think that the way to defend "low" culture is to try and talk about it in faux-academic terms. I think it's better to draw up a separate critical framework that acknowledges the differing aims of differing types of stories and analyse them accordingly to demonstrate how just as much skill, creativity and thought goes into a good pulp film as an art house one.

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Based on the trailer and reviews it's not my type of movie. Maybe I've seen one too many post-apocalyptic action FILMS or I still haven't forgiven myself for watching the original Stallone version.

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"Dredd" proves a surprisingly unimaginative cops vs. drug lord story, complete with the weathered veteran forced to take a rookie under his wing.

So good. See it in the theater for sure.