Oh no the new Dredd Movie could be a stinker

[Nwerke]

This is all my personal opinion. The City is definitely an element of Dredd's character, but for me it's not the most interesting one.

His milieu is absolutely critical to me I'm afraid. Johannesburg shanty towns were a superb choice for District 9, but will say nothing more than "we're going direct to DVD" for Dredd.

I admit the vehicles shown in sneak shots look waaaaay too ordinary. Hopefully the city itself will be okay to look at.

If we get brick and tin and chicken wire and dog turds at street level, with glitzy matte skyscrapers overhead, it's gonna look like Space Precinct. If we just get the brick and tin and chicken wire, it's not going to be Megacity 1. And the vehicles are already an outright disaster. I'm not at all sure I want to waste a couple of hours of my time to see this. Maybe if they pay me. :lol

I know quite a few fans who believe Robocop is the film Dredd should have been It could be said that Peter Weller's performance in Robocop, was at times much closer to Dredd than Stallone's performance.

Did you know that Robocop was actually spun off from a Dredd project which was floundering in development hell? There's a story about that in Cinefex or Cinefantastique or somewhere.

 

[crusher38]

Nice to know we have time travellers amongst us! :thumbsup

The problem so far is that the new movie - not a remake - is NOT copying the same look.

At least the Stallone Dredd TRIED to make Megacity 1 LOOK like Megacity 1. They had huge buildings, Lawmasters that looked the part, H-wagons that actually hovered.

The H-wagons in this thing should be called G-wagons. Or just Fords.

the first pic of urban as dredd makes me think im watching the original film. i know its not a remake,but how do you copy the same dark gritty look?


if anything good comes of this just like the original captain america movie is that the original will come back on dvd with a special edition

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

I agree his frown looks a little TOO forced. With Sly, it was a natural facial expression - plus he was bigger and had an overall better look - but to pre-judge the movie based on photos alone is juvinile and absurd. I will reserve judgement when I see it in theaters.

I do hope you understand that I'm not pre-judging the totality of the movie, I'm judging the costumes and other crucial design elements, that's all. And I'm not pre-judging those elements. They are here, we have them, and we can judge.

On other elements I have passed no judgment. The plot may be great, the acting stunning. So don't tell me I've pre-judged the movie. I have dismissed it, though, utterly, and here's how:

I have no interest in seeing any Dredd movie, no matter how brilliant it may be in dramatic terms, if it has the costumes, bikes and vehicles we've seen in this thread. Brilliant drama alone doth not a great Dredd film make. You need great costumes and design. For me, the film has already shown that it does not have these. Therefore I am totally justified in saying that the film is, at this point, for me, dead in the water.

For me the absurdity would be to pay to see a movie while hating every single piece of that movie's advance visual publicity.

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

His milieu is absolutely critical to me I'm afraid. Johannesburg shanty towns were a superb choice for District 9, but will say nothing more than "we're going direct to DVD" for Dredd.



If we get brick and tin and chicken wire and dog turds at street level, with glitzy matte skyscrapers overhead, it's gonna look like Space Precinct. If we just get the brick and tin and chicken wire, it's not going to be Megacity 1. And the vehicles are already an outright disaster. I'm not at all sure I want to waste a couple of hours of my time to see this. Maybe if they pay me. :lol



Did you know that Robocop was actually spun off from a Dredd project which was floundering in development hell? There's a story about that in Cinefex or Cinefantastique or somewhere.

Agreed on all counts.

Robocop clearly took its satirical tone from Dredd. Social satire dominated Dredd during the peak years of the early 80s. Wagner has said he was reacting to the Thatcher government in Dredd during that period. He changed Dredd from a straight hero to something more blackly ironic. What the reader was supposed to work out was that HE, the reader, if he were living in Mega City 1, was just as likely to get thrown in an iso-cube by Dredd as any super-villain was. You too, the ordinary schlub, were Dredd's target - for dropping litter, for not returning library vid-slugs on time, for being 2 miles an hour under the speed limit ('Slowster in the fast lane! Banned for life!'). For such offences Dredd is seen ruthlessly pursuing ordinary Joes to their deaths or handing them ten year jail sentences. This is what sets Dredd apart from all the other tough, determined, ho-hum yawn, resilient comic heroes with which we're saturated. And if this film, having already dispensed with the visual treasure trove on offer in the comics, makes no use of this unique character quality either, then that'll be just one more opportunity wasted.

 

[Nwerke]

Amen. Goes straight to the Just Should Not Have Been Made shelf, to sit alongside Highlander 2, or Spawn, or Avatar TLA.

 

[Larry Young]

Spawn should not have been made? No way am I holding that up as great cinema, or anything, but its creation at that time seemed rather inevitable.

 

[Nwerke]

I saw it on a comp ticket at the premiere. There were about ten - okay, maybe twenty - people in the audience, none of whom were very happy afterwards. Me, I wanted compensation!

Hated that POS.

 

[Skor]

I feel like I'm cheating on 2000AD by saying I'm still looking forward to it. Please Dredd, don't put me in the cubes for this...

 

[Nwerke]

TEN YEARS, CREEP!!!! :lol

 

[cayman shen]

I've been a Dredd fan since Anthrax introduced him to me with "I am the Law" way back in the late 80s. That being said, I don't think the comic uniform would translate well into a serious, gritty on screen costume.

I like the more riding armor style look in the stills I've seen so far. I'm holding out hope that this is a good flick!

Oh my God, I haven't thought about that Anthrax song in ages! Man, I used to love those guys. I remember they inspired me to write a Robocop song for the poxy little garage band I played in. :lol

I agree with your assessment on the costume: sometimes literal recreations plain don't work, and this might be a case of looks good on paper, not so much in the real world.

 

[Chronos]

Not sounding good...

Has the director of Dredd been booted from the editing room?

 

[JPolacchi]

The first one wasn't that great,why would a "new" one be any different?The only thing good I can remember in the first Judge Dredd film was Diane Lane in a tight fitting outfit.Other than that...it was a waste of tallent and a sucky film overall.

 

[Wes R]

This is a franchise who I think would be better off as an animated movie much like most of DC's other properties to do it right.

 

[Hovito loincloth]

tbh the costume looks like the original ezquerra/mcmahon Dredd before the Elton John style pads took over........saying that, the vehicles and Lawmaster suck.

 

[JPolacchi]

Nuff said...:behave