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Dredd 3D (pg. 14)
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| itsamemario |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
The original plan was to make a trilogy, and the simplicity of this film was because it was a simple case of establishing the character and the feel of the universe. The latter films would tackle some of the bigger storylines from the comics, and confront the questionable morality/politics of the Judges. Sadly, it's unlikely those sequels will ever get made, because not enough of you s listened to me and went to see it. |
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| WittyHandle |
you you ing , I paid to see it in 3D and told everyone to do likewise :D
I'm not surprised it didn't do well, they had a hard sell with a remake of a film not many people liked in the first place. |
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| Redd |
| quote: | Originally posted by WittyHandle
I'm not surprised it didn't do well, they had a hard sell with a remake of a film not many people liked in the first place. |
remake of what? |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Redd
remake of what? |
Judge Dredd? |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| It isn't a remake of Judge Dredd anymore than Batman Begins was a remake of Tim Burton's film. It's a separate adaptation of the comic. However, WittyHandle illustrates a basic problem with the Judge Dredd intellectual property: it isn't actually very well known, and so doesn't have the ready-made fanbase of more famous comics/graphic novels/sequential art/pretentious picture wank, thus harming its box office chances. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
i want the dialogue track so bad. His lines are great. Even Robo cop had more emotion in the voice.
I thought it was ok. I feel like the production style was somewhat dated given the setting. Thankfully only a few slowmo edits. Would of been cool to get a better idea of the world they live in but not much is said.
What was it rated ? i felt like they were holding back on the violence for some reason.
Was ok for me. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Huh? By modern PG-13 action standards, the film is very violent. There's a scene about 15 minutes in where pulped brains fall out of the shattered skull of a skinned corpse, and you think this film is holding back? Without straying into the realms of horror/splatter, I'm not sure how much more violent this film could have been.
Not really sure what you mean by "dated" production style, either. The "dystopian future metropolis" setting has been done a lot in the last 30 years of science fiction, but given the Judge Dredd comics were canonical texts for ushering that trope into the genre it would be incongruous to dispense with it. I think the film's look does a nice job of rendering the sprawl, but as opposed to the rain-soaked neon-noir [sic] of Bladerunner and its imitators, the look is brighter, more open and more obviously grimey and cobbled together, blending in shades of post-apocalyptic desert imagery, which is fitting given the context. Mega City One is a glorified shanty town hammered together from "the ruins of the old world". To expect it to look sleek and shiny is completely missing the point. |
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| Watts |
I don't like watching movies, but I actually went to go see it a while back because of this thread.
I liked it a lot. It was probably one of the few films I've seen recently that I wouldn't mind watching again. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
well there you go. PG 13 for a world that is consumed by drugs and violence is kinda hard to narrate.
They should of mated it R. That would of made it better. Way better.
I found the production just normal. The acting is normal. Everything is kinda normal and production is usually something you tend to focus on when that is the case. Those slow edits were painful to watch tho.
Anyways enough with the bad, his voice and script was worth the price of the torrent alone. |
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| WittyHandle |
| Looney, you're a smart guy. You know that they made it PG-13 to hit the sweet spot audience-wise, not because it would be the most true to the content. You also know that this decision is not made by the people who care about the film the most. I hear you on the slo-mo. Generally it's overdone, but I found it so vivid in this that it overcame its cliche usage in other films. It stood out for me. The acting is normal, you're right. Dredd himself is so one dimensional but that really works in this case I think. I dunno, I saw it in the theater with very little knowledge of it beforehand. I've never even seen the original. I just really enjoyed it when I saw it, and that's pretty hard to come by for me. I just DL'd it, and I probs won't enjoy it as much the 2nd time around, but I really think a lot of people who wrote it off would enjoy it more then they might have expected, and that's the only reason I'm putting in the effort here to bring it to their attention. |
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| Sand Leaper |
| Uh....what are you all talking about? It WAS rated R: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343727...e#certification If anything, I'd say THAT was the reason it didn't recoup its budget. After all, you're trying to sell a comic book based, R-rated movie from a far less well known franchise than anything out of the Marvel/DC universe to a non-PG audience. |
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