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it has heads exploding awesome slo mo  beautiful colors  an effortlessly cool and interesting female villain  etc. etc. it's pretty much the best movie Paul Verhoeven never made, only if Paul Verhoeven took a bunch of drugs or hired Benoît Debie as his cinematographer. also it doesn't gently caress around like most superhero movies and gets in and out in only 90 minutes. there's no bullshit love story or brooding grimdark psych-drama, he's just a fascist cop who kills people really well and we get a day in the life of him killing people real well. so of course we're getting like eighteen Marvel movies in the next five years and every five year period until the day we die while a Dredd sequel is an improbability. seriously why would anybody rather watch The Avengers or w/e (which I like okay) instead of this, you don't even have to get all pretentious and talk about the movies' politics, all you have to do is point out that this movie is hard-R and gets to blow poo poo up way more graphically. when did people stop liking that? 
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I wish it made enough money so that the director could have pursued his Judge Death sequel
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Dredd owns, got shafted due to coming out at the same time as The Raid which had almost the exact same plot.
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Dredd was really good, absurdly good. I am hard pressed to think of a better superhero or comic film. (As long as Robocop doesn't count) I would say there are scenes and bits of The Watchmen that I like more but as a whole film that one is much worse than Dredd. Even the best Marvel films have not felt as on point as Dredd, that is a ruthlessly efficient film. Also because I'm getting old and don't pay attention to things anymore, it was only like 2 days ago that I made the oh poo poo that was McCoy connection cause I didn't look to see who Dredd was after the movie, that was a fun moment for me. Cyberball 2072 fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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Aug 5, 2014 09:52
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Wurzag posted:Dredd owns, got shafted due to coming out at the same time as The Raid which had almost the exact same plot. Nah, basically nobody saw The Raid in America anyway (which is a pity, because it also owns)
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I remember a film critic saying that this would probably become a cult classic despite its poor showing at the cinemas
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there's no such thing as a good superhero movie
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I'll stick with the Stallone version, thank you very much.
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Wurzag posted:Dredd owns, got shafted due to coming out at the same time as The Raid which had almost the exact same plot. Raid made like $5 million. Nobody went to see it (which is sad because it owns).
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Loved the movie but the ending was a tad  . What was Mama thinking? He could have simply shot her in the kneecaps and take her in.
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clicked this thread thinking "this nigga better be talking bout the karl urban one" and I was right also smh @ not having the best scene in the op https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiQoN1-Ks6Q incendiary cis_eraser_420 fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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I tried watching the Stallone version a few days ago and it was loving awful. That was after a marathon of Stallone movies which were comparatively good.
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Dredd was great. I agree OP. I think part of the problem is that audiences don't know how to deal with the Dredd character. People like vigilantes and superheroes but not police. Popular cop characters tend to be cops who don't follow the rules, or get cut off from the chain of command (like Die Hard), but Dredd follows the rules precisely.
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judge dredd isnt a superhero. close thread
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bunky posted:judge dredd isnt a superhero. close thread defense noted *gives u slo mo and throws u off megablock*
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88h88 posted:Raid made like $5 million. Nobody went to see it (which is sad because it owns). Plus I remember buying it on blu-ray in mid-July. Dredd didn't come into theaters until September, which is only second to January for a box-office dead zone. The Stallone movie hurt Dredd way more than anything.
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being r-rated did also limit its returns. You can make a smash hit R-Rated film, but there's a reason none of  or the marvel films have beenOmi-Polari posted:Dredd was great. I agree OP. he was cut off from the chain of command though
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Doctor Spaceman posted:he was cut off from the chain of command though
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It was gross. I almost threw up a couple of times watching it. Best superhero movie is Unbreakable.
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Yeah, Dredd was alot of fun.
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When the girl cop reads his mind and said that she sensed something "deeper", when the camera cut to Dredd I thought to myself "JUSTICE."
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op, i take it you have never seen a little film called "The Watchmen"
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It's also got a great soundtrack.
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I like the scene with the three miniguns just tearing up the place good movie good thread would read again
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it is not only a good comic movie but an amazing action film
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Kleen_TheRowdyDog posted:op, i take it you have never seen a little film called "The Watchmen" I thought the Watchmen movie was pretty bad. Wooden, stilted delivery.
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Great movie. Only complaint is I wish magic brain lady would have melted the rapists brain.
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Kleen_TheRowdyDog posted:op, i take it you have never seen a little film called "The Watchmen" There aren't enough faces exploding in the watchmen.
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Dredd also has the best one-liners since Arnold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXzs5nuGNpg
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Johnny Aztec posted:I thought the Watchmen movie was pretty bad. Wooden, stilted delivery. Watchmen was a 3hour long borefest with 3 awful sex scenes and the 'baddest' guy in the film was a short ginger dude missing words out of sentences to sound like a comicbook hero.
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88h88 posted:Watchmen was a 3hour long borefest with 3 awful sex scenes and the 'baddest' guy in the film was a short ginger dude missing words out of sentences to sound like a comicbook hero. Yep. I also thought that it was the worse off for being EXACTLY like the comic)except for the ending and a couple other bits), as in word for word, scene for scene. Some things just don't translate well from page to screen.
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My only complaint about Dredd, was Dredd should have shot those kids, because at this point in Dredd's overall story he's an unrepentant fascist who is THE LAW!!! Great movie. It's on Netflix.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Yep. I also thought that it was the worse off for being EXACTLY like the comic)except for the ending and a couple other bits), as in word for word, scene for scene. Some things just don't translate well from page to screen. there's a massive difference in how the film handles violence compared to the comic, and it's part of why it failed as an adaptation
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Dredd was some of the most fun I have had at a movie theater in years. OP did not mention one of my favorite scenes, baiting a dozen or so gang members and then setting them on fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiQoN1-Ks6Q I loved the scene where Dredd gets shots and his expression never changes. He then just staples the wound closed. Everyone and Everything in this movie was great. I want a Dredd sequel really bad, but I doubt we will get one.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Yep. I also thought that it was the worse off for being EXACTLY like the comic)except for the ending and a couple other bits), as in word for word, scene for scene. Some things just don't translate well from page to screen. I didn't care about any of the characters at any point, it was 3 hours long and all I got from it was Manhattan is bored and skinny fast man wanted to destroy the world for some reason. All the other cast could've been from the back of the huge fight in Kickass 2 for how much they seemed to matter. Just a bunch of people wearing spandex and vinyl fighting random hoodlums in the street. Why was it 3 hours long for what amounted to a few boring fights?
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Reason it failed was because they put "3D" right in the title. Shouldn't have done it. Great film, though.
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I agree actually, DREDD was easily one of the best comic book movies released in the last few years. It's tight and compact and probably won't blow your mind but it was just super solid all around. It's especially impressive considering their meager budget compared to poo poo like the marvel or dc films gently caress you if you didn't go see it because it sold poorly and now we're not gonna get sequels 
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Sorry man, I just don't go to the movies anymore. I think the last one I saw was Iron Man 2, and that was because a friend wanted to see it.
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