Colin Droidmilk
Sr Member
Sympathise with your view here, except the notion that Bolland sucked at vehicles. That fat-tired 6-wheeler with the Eagle-like nosecone that Dredd uses to escape the Kleggs in The Day The Law Died is fantastic. As is that refuse wagon with the gigantic wheels sticking out from the body like a dragster's in Punks Rule. But yeah, the cover here is for a later US re-print, and the vehicle shown isn't really representative of the kind of thing we generally got every week in the original comic, and certainly not from the defining Dredd artist, the truly visionary Mike McMahon. Still, it does have 6 wheels at least!
One of the design problems I'm seeing on the trailer is that if you're going to have vehicles that are no different from anything you'd see on the street today, then Dredd's outfit - particularly the helmet - simply looks like fancy dress. I just can't buy that helmet co-existing with those vehicles. The total design-realism of the vehicles makes the helmet look as real as a plastic kids' toy Roman helmet. There's a visual consistency problem. In comic graphics form, the fancifulness of that helmet design works, but if you put it in a movie, its design difficulties become obvious, meaning you've got to bring the fancifulness of everything else around it up too, or else it sticks out like a sore thumb and doesn't convince as a designed object that's been designed in the world in which we're seeing it.
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