New teaser trailer for Judge Dredd
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Posted on: 2012-08-27 20:27 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
That was really boring.
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I get that feeling from all of the Dredd trailers.
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Originally Posted by _Klaw_
That was really boring.
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That's been my take as well - more faithful, but dull.
Dredd is hard to do. It's filled with over the top situations and characters that visually the first movie captured well. At the same time, it's certainly not a buddy-cop action comedy and never should have been played as such.
We need a Dredd movie with the art direction of the first attempt, the serious tone of this second pass, punctuated with an underlying dark comedy/wit/social commentary all of its own.
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I have nothing against Sylvester Stallone in general but I actually thought the 1995 Judge Dredd he starred in was very forgettable. I've only seen it once and have had no conscious desire to ever see it again. To me it rightly deserves the 5.1/10 rating it has on IMDB.
Frankly I'm always skeptical of any movie I'm introduced to via trailers. I have no real idea if this new Judge Dredd will be any good as a movie, but at this point I still have an open mind about it and will probably give it a chance. I could think of a lot of adjectives to describe the couple of trailers I've seen for it so far but "boring" is simply not a word I would use as an instant reaction to it. Sure it might not turn out to be wall-to-wall non-stop action, but if it's done right it doesn't -need- to be wall-to-wall non-stop action. *shrugs*
I agree that a movie with this character is probably a difficult movie-making challenge. The fact that by all accounts the 1995 movie did -not- nail it proves that. So again unless this new movie gets rated less than 50% by RottenTomatoes it'll probably be worth at least a matinee sometime, if for no other reason than to compare/contrast it to the 1995 movie.
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The new Dredd isn't buddy cop, rest assured. Yes Anderson is with him but she is a rookie trainee that is assigned to ride with Dredd and see how it's done. Training with Dredd is indeed the school of hard knocks |
Originally Posted by TheBruteSquad
That's been my take as well - more faithful, but dull.
Dredd is hard to do. It's filled with over the top situations and characters that visually the first movie captured well. At the same time, it's certainly not a buddy-cop action comedy and never should have been played as such. We need a Dredd movie with the art direction of the first attempt, the serious tone of this second pass, punctuated with an underlying dark comedy/wit/social commentary all of its own. |
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The Stallone version was a nice try, but they screwed up too many things not just the fact that for about 75% of the movie he isn't wearing his helmet. |
Originally Posted by Lothic
I have nothing against Sylvester Stallone in general but I actually thought the 1995 Judge Dredd he starred in was very forgettable. I've only seen it once and have had no conscious desire to ever see it again. To me it rightly deserves the 5.1/10 rating it has on IMDB.
Frankly I'm always skeptical of any movie I'm introduced to via trailers. I have no real idea if this new Judge Dredd will be any good as a movie, but at this point I still have an open mind about it and will probably give it a chance. I could think of a lot of adjectives to describe the couple of trailers I've seen for it so far but "boring" is simply not a word I would use as an instant reaction to it. Sure it might not turn out to be wall-to-wall non-stop action, but if it's done right it doesn't -need- to be wall-to-wall non-stop action. *shrugs* I agree that a movie with this character is probably a difficult movie-making challenge. The fact that by all accounts the 1995 movie did -not- nail it proves that. So again unless this new movie gets rated less than 50% by RottenTomatoes it'll probably be worth at least a matinee sometime, if for no other reason than to compare/contrast it to the 1995 movie. |
John Wagner the co-creator of Judge Dredd visited the set of new Dredd a few times and is reported as being quite pleased with the cast and the movie.
Karl Urban stated in an interview about Stallone Dredd "When you can learn from your own mistakes that is good. When you can learn from other people's mistakes, that is even better!"
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For what it's worth I think it's kinda cool that Karl Urban is doing this. He's clearly a good actor and even though he's played hard-line sci-fi action parts before for some reason the idea of the guy now playing Dr. McCoy being bad-a$$ is geek-tastically ironic. |
Originally Posted by Nericus
The Stallone version was a nice try, but they screwed up too many things not just the fact that for about 75% of the movie he isn't wearing his helmet.
John Wagner the co-creator of Judge Dredd visited the set of new Dredd a few times and is reported as being quite pleased with the cast and the movie. Karl Urban stated in an interview about Stallone Dredd "When you can learn from your own mistakes that is good. When you can learn from other people's mistakes, that is even better!" |
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Yeah it is ironic that new McCoy is playing Dredd. Still I am confident that the movie will be faithful to the comics and well done. The only problem I foresee is that not many people in the states will know much about the character and thus not enjoy the movie very much. |
Originally Posted by Lothic
For what it's worth I think it's kinda cool that Karl Urban is doing this. He's clearly a good actor and even though he's played hard-line sci-fi action parts before for some reason the idea of the guy now playing Dr. McCoy being bad-a$$ is geek-tastically ironic.
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Kind of like how some stated that John Carter of Mars was a cheap Tarzan ripoff.......
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Originally Posted by Nericus
Yeah it is ironic that new McCoy is playing Dredd. Still I am confident that the movie will be faithful to the comics and well done. The only problem I foresee is that not many people in the states will know much about the character and thus not enjoy the movie very much.
Kind of like how some stated that John Carter of Mars was a cheap Tarzan ripoff....... |
To be honest if this new Judge Dredd movie turns out to be a genuinely good movie regardless if it strictly follows the source material or not I'll probably be satisfied with it. I've done my best over the years to not let comic book movies "upset" me like that anymore.
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I don't know about strictly following the source but they said we can expect the same type of dark and dry humor as well as things like "Drok" and "Grud" appearing on shirts or on walls at times. |
Originally Posted by Lothic
I consider it a standing challenge for any "book" based movie (comic or otherwise) to be a good enough movie on its own that a person coming in off the street can sit down and enjoy it without knowing the "details" that the book's enthusiast might know. We both know that a major motion picture studio will probably never make a comic book movie that ONLY comic book hyper-geeks would understand/enjoy.
To be honest if this new Judge Dredd movie turns out to be a genuinely good movie regardless if it strictly follows the source material or not I'll probably be satisfied with it. I've done my best over the years to not let comic book movies "upset" me like that anymore. |
The costumes, bikes and lawgiver guns look to be faithfully replicated and Karl Urban looks and sounds like he's nailed the character.
He also hopes that if there is a sequel that we get the Dark Judges
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Because they already learned their lesson from Scott Pilgrim.
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Originally Posted by Lothic
We both know that a major motion picture studio will probably never make a comic book movie that ONLY comic book hyper-geeks would understand/enjoy.
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Yeah and the fact that movie only earned about -half- of its estimated budget means that the ONLY people who probably saw it were the comic book hyper-geeks. Obviously there aren't really enough of those to go around...|
Originally Posted by Starflier
Because they already learned their lesson from Scott Pilgrim.
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I actually liked Scott Pilgrim myself - but clearly it was a movie that no "average civilian" went to see and because it did so poorly at the box office I suspect the "lesson" the studios learned was that they'll never do something like narrowly focusing a movie like that again.
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