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Overall rating
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5
DREDD 3D
PostedSeptember 4, 2012
blackmocco
from Los Angeles, CA
Age:35 to 44
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:monthly
Dialogue
4
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5
Special Effects
4
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5
Art Direction
4
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5
Acting
4
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5
Story
4
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5
Camerawork
4
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5
Going to start with this: Judge Dredd does not begin and end with Stallone's terrible 1995 movie. Dredd's been at the forefront of British pop culture for the last 35 years and anyone with a passing knowledge of the comic strip would have seen Stallone's movie got just about everything wrong. Therefore, this is not a remake anymore than Christopher Nolan 'remade' Batman.
Saw DREDD at San Diego Comic Con. They got everything right. The tone, the violence, the humor. It's everything I wanted from a Dredd movie. Budget shortcomings show up a little here and there but nothing that would rip you out of the movie.
To be honest, the thing I loved most about it was it feels like it was made in the 70's right down to the design of the city. If you try to think where they would have gone without the likes of Blade Runner, Fifth Element to influence modern production design, this is what you would have got. That whole look's been done to death and would have been far too obvious for this.
VERY bleak, depressing vision of the future and to be honest, sells the idea of why the Judges are needed much more effectively than the comics ever did. There's a dangerous atmosphere off the movie. Reminded me of Deliverance. Always something poisonous bubbling under what you're watching.
If there was a sub-genre of movies this would belong to, it would be Mad Max, Escape From New York, Magnum Force. Tough, harsh, streamlined movies with no fat and simple plots. No sugary character arcs or morals. There's huge themes to be taken from the movie in regards to where our society is potentially going and the role of the people assigned to safeguard us but the movie's not going to waste the time pointing that out to you if you're not interested in that kinda stuff.
The casting elevates the material. Urban's absolutely perfect as Dredd but it's Thirlby as Anderson who raises the whole thing up from what would have been a disaster with the wrong actress. Tough role and she pulls it off like a champion.
Glad they went with the R-rated approach. Sets it apart from the usual family-friendly lowest-common-denominator bilge. Hope it does well enough for a sequel, obviously, but even if it's just stand-alone I'm happy. It's been made by people who worship the material it's based on and that's all you can ask for in the end.
Pros well paced, great story, great actors
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Overall rating
4
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5
DREDD 3D
PostedAugust 30, 2012
blackmocco
from Los Angeles, CA
Age:35 to 44
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:monthly
Dialogue
4
/
5
Special Effects
4
/
5
Art Direction
4
/
5
Acting
5
/
5
Story
4
/
5
Camerawork
5
/
5
Going to start with this: Judge Dredd does not begin and end with Stallone's terrible 1995 movie. Dredd's been at the forefront of British pop culture for the last 35 years and anyone with a passing knowledge of the comic strip would have seen Stallone's movie got just about everything wrong. Therefore, this is not a remake anymore than Christopher Nolan 'remade' Batman.
Saw DREDD at San Diego Comic Con. They got everything right. The tone, the violence, the humor. It's everything I wanted from a Dredd movie. Budget shortcomings show up a little here and there but nothing that would rip you out of the movie.
To be honest, the thing I loved most about it was it feels like it was made in the 70's right down to the design of the city. If you try to think where they would have gone without the likes of Blade Runner, Fifth Element to influence modern production design, this is what you would have got. That whole look's been done to death and would have been far too obvious for this.
VERY bleak, depressing vision of the future and to be honest, sells the idea of why the Judges are needed much more effectively than the comics ever did. There's a dangerous atmosphere off the movie. Reminded me of Deliverance. Always something poisonous bubbling under what you're watching.
If there was a sub-genre of movies this would belong to, it would be Mad Max, Escape From New York, Magnum Force. Tough, harsh, streamlined movies with no fat and simple plots. No sugary character arcs or morals. There's huge themes to be taken from the movie in regards to where our society is potentially going and the role of the people assigned to safeguard us but the movie's not going to waste the time pointing that out to you if you're not interested in that kinda stuff.
The casting elevates the material. Urban's absolutely perfect as Dredd but it's Thirlby as Anderson who raises the whole thing up from what would have been a disaster with the wrong actress. Tough role and she pulls it off like a champion.
Glad they went with the R-rated approach. Sets it apart from the usual family-friendly lowest-common-denominator bilge. Hope it does well enough for a sequel, obviously, but even if it's just stand-alone I'm happy. It's been made by people who worship the material it's based on and that's all you can ask for in the end.
Pros well paced, great story, great actors
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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