The helmet looks too big.
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Is it just me, or do the helmets look wierd? They got the pattern right, but it's just too wide or something
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Karl Urban is a decent actor, so I think he'll be fine, barring a really bad script. The girl looks like your typical Hollywood starlet. For being a Judge, she's giving the camera a serious "wanna go to bed with me?" look.
Helmet's awfully big, but they do seem to be going for an almost practical (and a lot more toned down) look to the Judges.
Tales of Judgment. Also here, instead of that other place.
good luck D.B.B.
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Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
The helmet looks too big.
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Originally Posted by Kinetic_Kitten
Is it just me, or do the helmets look wierd? They got the pattern right, but it's just too wide or something
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Originally Posted by dbuter
Karl Urban is a decent actor, so I think he'll be fine, barring a really bad script. The girl looks like your typical Hollywood starlet. For being a Judge, she's giving the camera a serious "wanna go to bed with me?" look.
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Olivia Thirlby is a darn good choice to play Anderson as a rookie Judge. The character Anderson was always better at expressing her emotions, had a sense of humor and many friends amongst the other Judges.
Not all Judges control their emotions as rigidly as Dredd. In fact there was only one Judge that surpassed Dredd's emotionless control.
Deputy Chief Judge Fish.
Introduced in the story line "The day the law died"
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Well given that in the comic the helmets have things like sensors and comm systems, it's possible that the wider helmets in the movie are to accommodate having such tech in them.|
Originally Posted by Kinetic_Kitten
Is it just me, or do the helmets look wierd? They got the pattern right, but it's just too wide or something
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As long as he keeps the helmet on, unlike Stallone-Dredd.
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Originally Posted by Agonus
Helmet's awfully big, but they do seem to be going for an almost practical (and a lot more toned down) look to the Judges.
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1. Not everything from comics translates well to the big screen
2. The more distance this movie puts between it and Stallone-Dredd the better.
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This. Judge Anderson is a psi-Judge and very human in terms of how she behaves in the comics. Dredd on the other hand was cloned and raised to be basically the penultimate Judge. He lives and breathes the law and will one day perish enforcing the law, which is perhaps his greatest wish. |
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Olivia Thirlby is a darn good choice to play Anderson as a rookie Judge. The character Anderson was always better at expressing her emotions, had a sense of humor and many friends amongst the other Judges. Not all Judges control their emotions as rigidly as Dredd. |
Also here's a bit of Dredd trivia: a long time ago they goofed regarding the "reader shall now know Dredd's face" rule.
Judge Fargo, the first of the Judges was introduced in 2000AD #107, and ish #377 it was revealed that Fargo's DNA was harvested to produce clones, but that the time it wasn't yet decided by the writers that Dredd was a Fargo clone until ish #389. Thus the face of Fargo shown in flashback in #377 is not considered his real face and all depictions of Fargo ever since show him with helmet on face obscured somehow just like Dredd's.
Also a few years back there was a story where one of Dredd's clone brothers was working with Dredd as a trainee Judge but decided that he didn't like feeling like he was built on a Judge assembly line and opted to not be a judge. As part of his mustering out they altered his skin color, eyes, face and hair so that he bore no resemblance to Dredd.
Anything to keep his appearance a secret
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Originally Posted by Nericus
Which is good for two reasons imo:
1. Not everything from comics translates well to the big screen 2. The more distance this movie puts between it and Stallone-Dredd the better. |
Armand Assante should have played both Dredd and Rico.
that helmet just looks stupid...
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technology in the future really sucks...
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Originally Posted by Nericus
Well given that in the comic the helmets have things like sensors and comm systems, it's possible that the wider helmets in the movie are to accommodate having such tech in them.
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Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
that helmet just looks stupid...
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To those bulky ugly *** helmets?
The future tech really really sucks.
The helmet isn't too big. It's a motorcycle helmet. Any person of average build who puts a motorcycle helmet on looks that way.
Which is why it looks too big - Urban isn't proportioned like Stallone. Additionally the shoulder pads have been reduced in size from the comic and previous movie, further exaggerating how normal Urban's build is.
That's always the problem with action movies that want to try and take themselves seriously: You can get someone who looks the part, or someone who can play the part. If you want the best of both worlds you really have to pull a Vader (or many monster movies): Hire a person with the physical size you want, cover their face, and get a voice actor for the performance you want.
Weight training: Because you'll never hear someone lament "If only I were weaker, I could have saved them."
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Originally Posted by TheBruteSquad
The helmet isn't too big. It's a motorcycle helmet. Any person of average build who puts a motorcycle helmet on looks that way.
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That is what it should look like. The first movie was spot on.
In this movie the helmets looks goofy.
The first movie's sets and costuming were fantastic. I wish they'd kept elements for the reboot - my complaint isn't so much the helmet as the drabness of the uniforms. Yes, they look like functional swat gear, and that's a good thing, but they're also supposed to be *uniforms* - something you can identify at a distance.
I would have liked to have seen the gold trim kept. Adding the shoulder flares to that picture would make the helmet look smaller.
Weight training: Because you'll never hear someone lament "If only I were weaker, I could have saved them."
The helmet looks better in the second pic. Might be the lighting in the first one that exaggerates the size. As for the costume, though, I agree that Stallone's looked better (painful as that is to say...)
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yeah that first shot gives the helmet a 'Special Needs' look. But the 2nd shot isn't so bad. Maybe we'll have to see it in motion.
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The first movie's sets and costuming were fantastic. I wish they'd kept elements for the reboot - my complaint isn't so much the helmet as the drabness of the uniforms. Yes, they look like functional swat gear, and that's a good thing, but they're also supposed to be *uniforms* - something you can identify at a distance.
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It's the lack of spit and polish that bothers me. Judges are living examples of Law and Order and should always have shining spotless uniforms that are easily recognized like in the first film.
Sure it's okay to get grunged up in a firefight but the new uniforms detract from what a Judge represents.
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Originally Posted by Agent White
yeah that first shot gives the helmet a 'Special Needs' look. But the 2nd shot isn't so bad. Maybe we'll have to see it in motion.
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I can't take Dredd seriously with this mental image.
Visually the helmet is a spot on representation of what's in the comic. As for being oversized, I'm not gonna knock any helmet where it protects my precious brains from being damaged. 
I remember posting it when this movie came out, but the costume design is far closer to the early Dredd look by Ezquerra(sp?) than the more iconic 'big shoulderpads' look we associate with him now. I think all the highlights would just make me a target rather than anything else.
And in a city of four hundred million potential perps, I wouldn't be that anxious to get recognised too quickly.....
S.
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Indeed in Dredd's first appearance his uniform was rather conservative in terms of the shoulder pads. Still had the chain attached to his badge but the pads were smaller. |
Originally Posted by SuperOz
Visually the helmet is a spot on representation of what's in the comic. As for being oversized, I'm not gonna knock any helmet where it protects my precious brains from being damaged.
I remember posting it when this movie came out, but the costume design is far closer to the early Dredd look by Ezquerra(sp?) than the more iconic 'big shoulderpads' look we associate with him now. I think all the highlights would just make me a target rather than anything else. And in a city of four hundred million potential perps, I wouldn't be that anxious to get recognised too quickly..... S. |
I think this movie is early in Dredd's career and he is supposedly helping train Anderson if the rumors are true. Not sure what the main villain/threat will be, but here's hoping a sequel has Judge Death if he isn't in this one, and a third movie have all the Dark Judges.
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Granted I haven't looked into it much, but the only thing I've read about the threat for this movie is that it will not be Judge Death.
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Originally Posted by Nericus
... Not sure what the main villain/threat will be, but here's hoping a sequel has Judge Death if he isn't in this one, and a third movie have all the Dark Judges.
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Tales of Judgment. Also here, instead of that other place.
good luck D.B.B.
Good. Judge Death and the Dark Judges should be for the sequels as they would be a bit much for the opening movie story.
Ah well, as long as Stallone and Rob Schneider aren't the villains....or maybe they can appear in the movie and be arrested by Dredd for impersonating a Judge..
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Originally Posted by Nericus
Good. Judge Death and the Dark Judges should be for the sequels as they would be a bit much for the opening movie story.
Ah well, as long as Stallone and Rob Schneider aren't the villains....or maybe they can appear in the movie and be arrested by Dredd for impersonating a Judge.. |
Maybe it's just me but I thought Rob Schneider did a good job as one of the bizarre Mega City One citizens I remember from the comic books. The only problem was he never should have been a major character.
From imdb.... No Judge Death is listed in the credits and Lena Heady is playing the part of Ma-Ma Madrigal.....
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