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Yeah, i thought Dredd was just full of gallows humour and dark humour that was the point, it's probably one of the best adaptations of the material that you could hope for. It's pretty much perfect on every level. It's not for everyone though, but if you grew up reading Dredd then you probably loved it. I mean Dredd is a huge social commentary book and just send up of a fascist system in a democratic state. Specifically the idea that we have a basically fascist organization to protect us and how just hilariously hypocritical that is. Basically , the Dredd movie is amazing. Hollismason has a new favorite as of 15:55 on Aug 26, 2014 |
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Dredd should have asked it as a question like he's unsure of what he's actually supposed to be doing. "I'm the law?"
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Aug 26, 2014 16:33
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"Am I the law?" - Judge Dredd Jr., Dredd Rising, 2014
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Aug 26, 2014 16:34
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eating only apples posted:I think The Prestige is my favourite movie, but there's a bunch of dialogue at the end that bugs me. A few pages back, but there were plenty of goons in CineD who went to see the Departed when it came out, couldn't tell the difference between Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon, and came out thinking it was a cerebral existential thriller. The Inglorious Basterds thread had a recurring multiple page derail from people not understanding how Michael Fassbender's character blew his cover. There were goons in this thread who didn't understand why Professor Xavier could walk at the beginning of First Class but not the end. People are terrible at watching movies, and goons aren't even the worst of it. That's why circling the black SUV is a thing.
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oldpainless posted:Dredd should have asked it as a question like he's unsure of what he's actually supposed to be doing. 
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Aug 26, 2014 17:10
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Heres Hank posted:A few pages back, but there were plenty of goons in CineD who went to see the Departed when it came out, couldn't tell the difference between Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon, and came out thinking it was a cerebral existential thriller. Pretty sure I got that beat. First time I saw The Fellowship of the Ring, I did not clue in until the death at the end that Boromir and Aragorn were two different people. 
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Aug 26, 2014 17:21
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MorgaineDax posted:Pretty sure I got that beat. First time I saw The Fellowship of the Ring, I did not clue in until the death at the end that Boromir and Aragorn were two different people. All those Gondorians look the same
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Hollismason posted:Yeah, i thought Dredd was just full of gallows humour and dark humour that was the point, it's probably one of the best adaptations of the material that you could hope for. It's pretty much perfect on every level. It's not for everyone though, but if you grew up reading Dredd then you probably loved it. I loved the new Dredd. I especially loved that Urban has basically no backstory or growth, he's just playing a force of nature all the way through. There isn't even a scene where he dramatically has to remove his helmet. He never removes his helmet. How rare is that in a costume hero movie? That's straight up commitment to the role to not require a bunch of face-time for the actor.
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Aug 26, 2014 17:35
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I love that movie and Karl Urban is the man.
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WeAreTheRomans posted:All those Gondorians look the same drat those Gondorians, coming over here, taking our royalty.
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Aug 26, 2014 17:44
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WeAreTheRomans posted:All those Gondorians look the same That's because they only had like 30 extras and had to digitally duplicate them. Didn't you watch the behind the scenes stuff?
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Heres Hank posted:A few pages back, but there were plenty of goons in CineD who went to see the Departed when it came out, couldn't tell the difference between Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon, and came out thinking it was a cerebral existential thriller. The Inglorious Basterds thread had a recurring multiple page derail from people not understanding how Michael Fassbender's character blew his cover. There were goons in this thread who didn't understand why Professor Xavier could walk at the beginning of First Class but not the end. I don't understand this, how prevalent is face blindness? How can you confuse the two when they don't have similar faces. This is an example of two people who look exactly alike:  These two do not look similar at all:  What is wrong with people?
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If only 50% of all actors always wore baseball caps to help us distinguish them.MorgaineDax posted:Pretty sure I got that beat. First time I saw The Fellowship of the Ring, I did not clue in until the death at the end that Boromir and Aragorn were two different people. I was pretty sure there were two Dwarfs in the Fellowship. And I like all that fantasy crap!
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I got through most of L.A. Confidential before I realized that Russell Crowe and Kevin Spacey were different people.
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I once spent the entirety of Faceoff confused about the premise until someone explained to me that Nick Cage and John Travolta were two separate people.
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Big Grunty Secret posted:I got through most of L.A. Confidential before I realized that Russell Crowe and Kevin Spacey were different people. How is this even possible, besides the obvious visual aspect, they sound and act nothing alike. You must have thought he was some sort of schizophrenic cop who was simultaneously a loose cannon and a sly playboy/wanne be actor cop.
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I was at least halfway through Fight Club before I realized Brad Pitt and Edward Norton were the same person.
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nucleicmaxid posted:I once spent the entirety of Faceoff confused about the premise until someone explained to me that Nick Cage and John Travolta were two separate people. 
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Aug 26, 2014 18:25
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MorgaineDax posted:Pretty sure I got that beat. First time I saw The Fellowship of the Ring, I did not clue in until the death at the end that Boromir and Aragorn were two different people. When I read the book as a kid, I got sick of all learning all the stupid made-up names and just sort of read over them. This led me to thinking Sauron and Saruman were the same person and wondering why everyone was so surprised that the White wizard turned out to be evil.
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Gorilla Salad posted:When I read the book as a kid, I got sick of all learning all the stupid made-up names and just sort of read over them. This led me to thinking Sauron and Saruman were the same person and wondering why everyone was so surprised that the White wizard turned out to be evil. Didn't the Ralph-Bakshi movie confuse the two as well?
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Aug 26, 2014 19:15
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I mix up Bill Murray and Robin Williams all the time
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Probably not so often anymore.
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I've got you all beat; the first time I watched "Contact" I didn't understand that William Fichtner's character was blind.
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I mix up Charlie Chaplin and Robert Downey Jr. like daily
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LoonShia posted:Didn't the Ralph-Bakshi movie confuse the two as well? Kinda-sorta, they (inconsistently) renamed Saruman to "Aruman" so people wouldn't confuse him with Sauron.
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theironjef posted:There isn't even a scene where he dramatically has to remove his helmet. He never removes his helmet. How rare is that in a costume hero movie? That's straight up commitment to the role to not require a bunch of face-time for the actor.
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Aug 26, 2014 21:47
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My most idiotic confusion was a verbal cross wire that led me to mix up Mel Brooks and Mel Gibson. I still maintain that Mel Brooks' Passion of the Christ would be awesome.
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Heres Hank posted:A few pages back, but there were plenty of goons in CineD who went to see the Departed when it came out, couldn't tell the difference between Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon, and came out thinking it was a cerebral existential thriller. The Inglorious Basterds thread had a recurring multiple page derail from people not understanding how Michael Fassbender's character blew his cover. There were goons in this thread who didn't understand why Professor Xavier could walk at the beginning of First Class but not the end. Are you sure it was Dicaprio & Damon? Shamefully, for me it was Damon & Marky Mark.
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In all the ads for We Bought a Zoo, I thought Matt Damon was Mark Wahlberg. I spent all of Watchmen thinking Jeffrey Dean Morgan was Robert Downey, Jr.
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mng posted:Loudness Post those graphs for Nolan's Batman trilogy. I swear to God, I've never had to reach for the volume remote so much in my god damned life. The music and sound effects shatter my teeth while I can barely hear the dialogue at all.
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Gorilla Salad posted:When I read the book as a kid, I got sick of all learning all the stupid made-up names and just sort of read over them. This led me to thinking Sauron and Saruman were the same person and wondering why everyone was so surprised that the White wizard turned out to be evil. I made the exact same mistake when I was around 11. Why did Tokien give them such similar names? Guess he ran out of ideas after a while.
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Medieval Medic posted:Are you sure it was Dicaprio & Damon? Shamefully, for me it was Damon & Marky Mark. I got Dicaprio, Damon and Marky Mark confused. Not for long periods, just at the start of scenes. I thought it was intentional that they looked similar.
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Jedit posted:After I've finished shooting you in the face, would you mind explaining how it was unintentionally funny? Were all of the one-liners supposed to be delivered horribly? Was I supposed to be laughing with the writers when the camera zooms up to him after he throws Mama to her death (in one of the most anti-climactic action movie endings ever) and he just says "Yeah."?
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theironjef posted:I loved the new Dredd. I especially loved that Urban has basically no backstory or growth, he's just playing a force of nature all the way through. There isn't even a scene where he dramatically has to remove his helmet. He never removes his helmet. How rare is that in a costume hero movie? That's straight up commitment to the role to not require a bunch of face-time for the actor. I believe he was contractually obligated not to remove his helmet for the role. He was not only cool with that, but he wouldn't have considered doing it even if they'd put it in the script. I was looking for him for three quarters of the movie until I started to catch his accent and realized HE was Dredd.
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The only irrationally irritating part to me was the "hotshot" instead of "flare" moment. Everything else was basically spot on to the comic, and god damned amazing.
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gallop w/a boner posted:I made the exact same mistake when I was around 11. Why did Tokien give them such similar names? Guess he ran out of ideas after a while. Tolkein is probably the one author you can't say just named people whatever for the hell of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauron#Names_and_titles "The name Sauron (from an earlier form Thauron)[45] originates from the adjective saura "foul, putrid" in Tolkien's invented language of Quenya, and can be translated as "the Abhorred" or "the Abomination". In Sindarin (another Elf-language created by Tolkien) he is called Gorthaur, "the Abhorred Dread" or "the Dread Abomination". He is also called the "Nameless Enemy". The Dúnedain (the descendants of the Númenóreans) call him "Sauron the Deceiver" due to his role in the Downfall of Númenor and the forging of the Rings of Power. In the Númenórean (Adûnaic) tongue he was also known as "Zigûr", The Wizard."
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Henchman of Santa posted:Were all of the one-liners supposed to be delivered horribly? Was I supposed to be laughing with the writers when the camera zooms up to him after he throws Mama to her death (in one of the most anti-climactic action movie endings ever) and he just says "Yeah."? Throwing her off the balcony is a gambit. He says "yeah" because his suspicions that the bomb wouldn't go off when she hit the pavement were confirmed. Her slo-mo death is a cool call-back to the intro with her brutal murder that brought Dredd to the scene in the first place. They also emphasize that even when she's going to die, Mama doesn't really care. It was thematically appropriate and, sorry, also cool. How do you expect one liners to be delivered? Because they seemed spot on for me given his personality and the tone of the film. marshmallow creep has a new favorite as of 03:50 on Aug 27, 2014 |
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Dredd just says "yeah" a lot and its usually hilarious. Anderson: [reads Kay's mind] Sir, he's thinking about going for your gun. Judge Dredd: Yeah. Anderson: [reads it again] He just changed his mind. Judge Dredd: Yeah.
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An irritation of mine is how most trailers today are more like short films then actual trailers. i know they're supposed to get people hyped up for the movie but sometimes it's ridiculous. I saw a trailer recently that was 3 minutes long.
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Gaunab posted:An irritation of mine is how most trailers today are more like short films then actual trailers. i know they're supposed to get people hyped up for the movie but sometimes it's ridiculous. I saw a trailer recently that was 3 minutes long. Conversely, having trailers FOR trailers (teasers). Just show the trailer or don't show anything at all!
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