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2 hours ago, ZOK said:

I’m amazed that any real Dredd fan wants a sequel to this movie, the original was bad enough.

 

If you’ve never read any Dredd, I can  understand why you might think it’s good.

 

Oh dear. 0/10 hot takes.

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I’ve been saying this since the film was in production, so it’s a very odd definition of a hot take. And I know no-one likes admitting it, but it’s true.

 

In many ways, the original Dredd film is the better flick. It may be a hot mess from start to finish, but at least MC1 looks like MC1, and Dredd has both a visible chin and a helmet that isn’t clearly made for a man with a more capacious bean. 
 

The less said about the plot, such as it is, the better…but of course that applies to both movies.

 

 

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On 19/11/2010 at 19:13, Harsin said:

He looks like a bobblehead.

I'll probably be negged back to the stone age for saying this, but I think I prefer the Stallone Dredd uniform. That film had a hell of a lot of problems but production design wasn't one of them.


Harsin gets it.

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2 hours ago, ZOK said:

I’ve been saying this since the film was in production, so it’s a very odd definition of a hot take. And I know no-one likes admitting it, but it’s true.

 

In many ways, the original Dredd film is the better flick. It may be a hot mess from start to finish, but at least MC1 looks like MC1, and Dredd has both a visible chin and a helmet that isn’t clearly made for a man with a more capacious bean. 
 

The less said about the plot, such as it is, the better…but of course that applies to both movies.

 

 

 

Utter nonsense. Particularly egrigious is the "no one likes admitting it" sneering. I don't 'admit' it because I don't agree. It's a excellent film. A tight thriller. I don't give a fuck about production design if a film is utterly terrible, which Judge Dredd is.

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4 minutes ago, K said:

Dredd is good.


I think the absolute best you can say about it is it’s coherent, as in the story plods from A to B to C in an understandable way.

 

If it had been the same story but not about Judge Dredd at all, I might be less harsh about it. Just some dude with no chin going upstairs.

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All I really wanted was Clint Eastwood wandering around the Cursed Earth as Deadman.

 

Although at 90+ I guess that isn't going to happen any time soon. 

 

However, the idea of having someone make this genuinely horrific and creepy tale (in black and white, obviously), as a prelude to entering Megacity one in full on colourful Necropolis mode would probably blow my mind.

 

That, or a little series about the failed scams of Otto Sump.

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1 hour ago, sandman said:

Judge Dredd has a a special place in my heart as I saw it in the cinema the night before my wedding with my best man so it was my last film as a single man!


Now you’re doing life, in an isocube, perp

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I came to 2000AD late and started with the Dredd case files, been a subscriber to the prog and meg since 2015.

 

Modern Dredd is nothing like classic Dredd at all, but you need to go through at least some of the early stuff. It’s got a very particular vibe, with comedy being the norm rather than the rare exception that it is these days. Some of the throw away lines written by Alan Grant and John Wagner were laugh out loud funny - I can still remember a few things that stuck with me but you can’t really explain it to other people - you need to read it! I say that as someone who experienced it with a modern perspective.

 

I think I started from Blockmania (the first ‘epic’? or was Helltrekkers/The Cursed Earth before that…). The development into what it is today probably started with the ‘America’ story - been collected many times and is a perfect little snapshot of the serious side of that universe. Always a good read for people to get interested in Dredd without a massive investment.

 

I always felt that when we inevitably lose John Wagner should be when they retire the character. It won’t happen (I do wonder if he ever wrote Dredd’s death story like he said he wanted to, and they just won’t publish it). Wagner very rarely writes any of the weekly Dredds these days, they’ve been future proofing themselves for a while.

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Wagner hadn't written any Dredds for the Prog for ages (years?) but he's written the last two.

 

I do miss the comedy stories from the Grant / Wagner days.  They were peak Dredd for me.  In my head Dredd is still a comedy / satire strip about modern city life extrapolated into the future, starring Mega City One, with Dredd as a kind of side character.  But, the strips aren't really like that these days, and are mostly serious crime stories or about the old cop reflecting on what he's done.  We do get the odd story about kooky citizens, but they rarely have the cleverness or relevance of the Grant / Wagner ones.

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