Anyone see the new Judge Dread movie??

[vargis14]

I just watched the remake of Judge Dread the other day. I have to say i was impressed it has spectacular effects and was very entertained. All i can say is I hated the original Dread movie......it was so corny and BoBo. But this remake is pretty dang neat. I suggest if you like action movies to give it a watch. Note: very very gory movie

Let me know if anyone else thought is was OK or horrible.....but i know for a fact it is way better then the original that's for sure!

[clone]

both Judge Dread movies failed for the same reason, the story of Judge Dredd is not about Judge Dredd, it's about how the citizens manage to survive in the dystopian (opposite of Utopia) world that is the world Judge Dredd practices his craft in.

with this in mind their will never be a decent Judge Dredd movie until that is considered, the homogenous action movie you watched was better than the horrid piece of trash that was the first Judge Dredd but neither matters because instead of "getting it" those that have tried to adapt movies to the franchise aren't honoring it, instead they are using the Judge Dredd name as an opportunity to create yet another homogenous piece of trash.

in the case of the latest Judge Dredd they went darker while exploiting 1000 frames per second slo mo which would have been ok leaving it only as just another homogenous action film had it not made up the bulk of the movies technical resume.

I'm glad both Judge Dredd movies have been financial disasters, both deserved to die as failures, it gives hope that their is an audience out their somewhere that wants some quality in their films, that would prefer a little more of the budget get put into the story... preferably being more true to the story.... but then again one looks at the success of Dances with Wolves... OOPS, I meant Avatar and then has to ask why bother?

if you liked the latest Judge Dredd film try watching The Raid: Redemption, similar in concept yet vastly superior in every way.... except of course the 1000 frames per second slo mo/production values.

either way The Raid: Redemption despite it's much lower production costs should be on your action list and is arguably one of the best martial arts films done over the past decade.

[Myrmecophagavir]

I just watched the remake of Judge Dread the other day. I have to say i was impressed it has spectacular effects and was very entertained. All i can say is I hated the original Dread movie......it was so corny and BoBo. But this remake is pretty dang neat. I suggest if you like action movies to give it a watch. Note: very very gory movie

Let me know if anyone else thought is was OK or horrible.....but i know for a fact it is way better then the original that's for sure!

It shouldn't really be considered a remake, as the "original" wasn't really original. Just a (terrible) first stab at a movie version of an existing world. Dredd's been around for nearly 36 years now...

[BIF]

Okay, did they have the fat people with the "belly wheels" in this movie?

One of the Dredd comic book stories had fat people who's bellies were SO HUGE that they had to have a wheel fitted underneath for support. Think "small wheelbarrow-sized" and you'll get the gist of how low their bellies already were to the ground! If I recall correctly, it was both men and women of a certain "preferred class" who were fat enough to require bellywheels.

I don't remember details about that storyline, but I remember that to me it spoke directly to the dystopian/utopian thing, and showed that even though it was supposed to be a utopia, there were classes of people who were "better than" others; who had more rights, were "more important", who were not held to the level of responsibility that the population at large was held to.

And to be so fat as to need a bellywheel, man oh man to me, that is GORY! Who needs violence?

[ClickClick5]

either way The Raid: Redemption despite it's much lower production costs should be on your action list and is arguably one of the best martial arts films done over the past decade.

That movie honestly met everything I wanted in an action film. And I read that there is going to be an American remake....which will probably fail.

But, the same group is working on a sequel.

[clone]

That movie honestly met everything I wanted in an action film. And I read that there is going to be an American remake....which will probably fail.

But, the same group is working on a sequel.

roflmao, and I agree it'll likely be a piece of S&#t, they'll most likely undervalue fight choreography and try to cover it up with lots of "Style", lots of "splosions", slo mo, incoherent cut scenes & camera angles, totally butchering what made Raid so amazing.

regarding the sequel it's doubtful it'll be decent, consider El Mariachi and Desperado.... the first excellent the 2nd disposable trash.... money & success has a way of taking the hunger out of the process... steals the soul.

[Darkmage]

but then again one looks at the success of Dances with Wolves... OOPS, I meant Avatar and then has to ask why bother?

Personally, I refer to it as Dances with Smurfs.

[Forge]

Watching it right now. I'll let you know after.

[Scrotos]

I liked it. Reminded me of bloody 80's action movies. Kinda like Punisher: Warzone in relation to the "first" attempt at the series (ignoring the Dolph Punisher for this example).

Not being a huge comics nerd, I just went into the movie with the expectation of violence and a dark future. Not disappointed. Better than the Stallone take on it but then again comic-based movies have grown up quite a bit from as a genre since then.

And come on guys, how can you be negative on a US remake of The Raid: Redemption? I mean, Hollywood did such a wonderful job Bangkok Dangerous, it'll probably be fantastic!

[Forge]

Oh. It was so wonderful that I forgot to come back.

No, seriously, it was massively, massively better than the Stallone abomination. This one did brush over and largely ignore the horrible state of the larger world that Dredd lives in, there was no discussion of corruption or nepotism, though nobody seemed surprised when the corrupt Judges showed up to off Dredd and Anderson. I certainly got a small idea of what life in MegaCityOne is like, and it was properly horrible. Psy-Corps has been rebooted, though, and there was no mention of the Wastelands, and Mutants only got a very oblique reference, but nothing that was missing impaired the story. They left enough things open that they could very easily add and flesh out the rest of the Dredd universe(s) without too much disruption. This movie was the greater whole, in microcosm.

I have no complaints, really, though I do agree that the Slo-Mo effects were a bit overused. I was waiting for someone on that to display enhanced reaction time or SOMETHING that made it relevant and not effects pron, but it never happened. They also seem to have done some odd things to colors when they were adding 3D effects, and those didn't work too well.

All in all, I would watch it again, and I wouldn't mind seeing a sequel, as long as it's going to break more ground, as opposed to providing the same material again with some small plot details changed.

[MadManOriginal]

I liked the first Judge Dredd Not because it was especially 'good' in any objective or subjective way, but I liked the cheesy, campy goodbad-ness, to coin a word.

[Starscream]

Just watched it last night and I loved it.

It's too bad it was a box office bomb, I would have enjoyed a sequel.

[clone]

I liked the first Judge Dredd Not because it was especially 'good' in any objective or subjective way, but I liked the cheesy, campy goodbad-ness, to coin a word.

I'm more interested today in watching the original than I am the remake.... while I applaud the growing tendency in films to be darker/more honest many fail to actively pursue the " honest with the material." part.... so now instead of films being campy/cheesy like the First Dredd the new action films are violence fetishes..... both are good and bad in different ways while neither prefers to even try at being ideal.