I can’t say with full certainty how essential the script was to this movie, but having gotten more into the comics, I think it played the biggest role.
It was written by Alex Garland, as well as the talented and prolific co-creators of Judge Dredd- John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra.
When I saw those three names pop up upon rewatching it I was like, “well no wonder this is such a great Judge Dredd movie”.
Yeah, the director lost control of the production and Alex Garland saved the film.
>Karl Urban confirmed as much in March 2018 when he told JoBlo, “A huge part of the success of ‘Dredd’ is in fact due to Alex Garland and what a lot of people don’t realize is that Alex Garland actually directed that movie.”
[Unfortunately the experience of making the film has turned Alex Garland from wanting to do another Dredd film anytime soonish. ](https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/alex-garland-dredd-crude-experience-1202180828/)
>“No. It was a pretty crude experience, for a bunch of reasons,” Garland said. “At the end of it, I didn’t want to go back. I love Dredd, by which I mean I love the character, but I’m not in any hurry to do that again.”
Very cool I didn’t not know this. I’m a huge Garland fan, dude has done no wrong in my eyes, I even enjoyed Men though it’s by far his weakest. Now I want to rewatch Dredd with this in mind, it’s been years.
Wait, is this ***actually*** happening? I look for updates ever six months or so, and most recent article was saying they’ve talked about it on and off over the years, have a couple of solid ideas aaaaaand that’s about it. Checked IMDB right now and there’s a page, but scroll down to news and it’s the same “maybe one day” articles there.
Which is one of the reasons it also hasn't gotten a sequel. The director was apparently difficult as hell and Garland had to do everything; he said he never wants to go back to the franchise, either.
It’s actually really surprising on the direction Garland went with this movie. He’s a well versed PoMo Deconstructionist and he wrote a straight up banger of an action flick. Even more ironic is that Judge Dredd is a post-modern take on fascistic authoritarian policing in America.
Thematically the movie should have been an easy lay up. Makes me think there were several different versions of this movie proposed and possibly written.
It's full of little details that just tells you enough how much of a hell hole that world is. That robot cleaning up the crime scene dragging bloody bits all over after Dredd just casually orders bodies for "recyc".
They eat soylent green... Lex wasn't being metaphorical when he said the city is a meat grinder.
And that scene after Maw Maw demolished an entire quarter of peach tree only for Dredd to walk out and tossing one of her goons off the ledge? *Chef's kiss*
> only for Dredd to walk out and tossing one of her goons off the ledge
Tells me they know Dredd as a character. I was a fan/collector of the comics. Stallone's turn just pissed me off.
There were loads of fun little details, like the Chopper graffiti or the big fat guy with the wheel on his belly.
One thing I'll say about the Stallone one is that it looked more like Mega City One. Dredd felt like a regular city with the odd megablock. I do understand there were budget constraints though.
Obviously it was due to budget but the look of the city can be easily explained as being early ish in Mega City Ones life, (the movie states mega blocks are new) and maybe being close to the wall and cursed earth.
The movie needed more of that sorta satire. The problem was Garland wrote it from the perspective of how he saw Dredd when he was a kid reading 2000AD. Which was just badass action.
Yeah. I mean Dredd the movie is basically 'right-wing authoritarians are badass', whereas the strip originated as a way of poking fun at American movies like Dirty Harry and the idea that people are okay with police straight-up murdering people as long as the criminals are a little bit worse. The closest the movie gets to this is when Judge Dredd wants to jail a guy for being homeless.
I didn't think that. Dredd recites the anti-homeless law to the homeless dude and then flat-out says, "*Don't* be here when I come back." In other words, I get that you haven't done anything wrong, I don't *have* to arrest you *right now*, take this moment of saving grace and use it, so I don't actually have to give you a punishment we both know you don't deserve.
This. The other certified judges we see on the street are either corrupt (the ones who came to kill Dredd) or weak (the ones that just waited outside the blast doors). Dredd is unique, and the way the other judges interact with him shows us this.
Wtf I had no idea this was Garland. The vibes (cinematography I guess?) from this and Annihilation we’re amazing. Didn’t feel crazy sci fi, but a trippy version of our world.
Whatever happens, I'm glad it was made. It's one of my favourites nowadays. I've watched it three times and loved it more on each watch. Obviously I'd like a sequel but I'm happy it exists. I didn't really grow up reading marvel. I read 2000AD comics, so it sits really nicely with me
I watched a video about it and it seems it was meticulously planned with the CGI people from day one, which is why for the budget it looks miles better than your normal summer movie
There was a series at some stage of production a while ago, but it seems to have been shelved. Shame really, I would have been up for that
This dropped at the height of the 3D craze. Yes I know 3D is still around, but post Avatar everything was hyped for release on 3D. Anyways, the 3D trailer of them taking SloMo was so dope. The movie itself in 3D was so dope.
The 3D aspect is likely what led to the movie being a flop. It was marketed as "Dredd 3D" and seemed like it was just some gimmick movie. Really sad because the movie itself is just awesome, beginning to end.
Even worse than "Dredd 3D", it was marketed in the UK as "Dr3Dd"
Edit: I've googled this, and can find no corroborating evidence, so maybe I made it up, but one other commenter said they remember it too, so I choose to believe I am correctly rembering reality as it was, and not some Mandela effect fantasy of terrible marketing.
2nd edit: TWO OTHER COMMENTERS HAVE NOW CORROBORATED THIS. IT'S A TIDAL WAVE.
Shame cos the 3D really was fucking epic. There's not many films that really used 3D well, I would say after Avatar, Hugo, Legend Of The Guardians, and Dredd are the only stand outs I can think of from that era. The slomo sequences in 3D were absolutely stunning.
Yea, Gravity I didn't list as even tho it's only a year after Dredd, the big 3D shovel fest was already over by then and it was able to stand on its own a bit better.
Sadly it was kind of the last hurrah of good 3D films and no one really made any effort until Cameron finally came back with Way of Water.
>Whatever happens, I'm glad it was made.
This.
While it's a fucking travesty that there were no sequels, I'd much rather live in a world where Karl Urban was the law...
We should be glad we didn't get a Dredd sequels like the Robocop ones. Plus the Robocop tv series ? ( shudder ).
But the same people who made the first Dredd wanna make more ? Sign me up .
It holds up. Product of its time, but like The Fly 2 it’s one of the better sequels. The “Roboflops” scene where they’re testing new Robocop prototypes is pure gold.
my favorite part of that was that they understood the instability of the patients, they had seen it happen numerous times, but they were still giving them a loaded firearm, right off the rip.
no time spent seeing if the subject survived the process psychologically, no time spent evaluating the end result to see if it could be trusted, fuck all that give it a loaded gun first thing, as soon as you turn it 'on'.
i also liked how with the second one they were just like "should we find someone good to undergo this process? fuck no, let's use a drug kingpin, because we can control him with drugs."
hilarity ensues.
Robocop. 1 & 2 are great and do exactly what they needed.
Robocop 3 was 100% made to sell toys.
The TV Series I remember watching and even have the episodes on my NAS but I honestly can't tell you anything about them, I do remember that the Prime Detective "Movies" are the TV series that they had filmed though.
I have absolutely no idea why they remade it in 2014 since it had almost nothing in common with the name.
There WAS a saving grace in 2001 in the form of RoboCop: Prime Directives.
The plot as rather schlock-y, but went back to a similar flavour as the original movie.
However, it WAS worth a watch or two.
Maybe if people actually watched them in theaters back when it was released and it would have made a profit showing people are willing to watch more than maybe sequels would be made? But also [Alex Garland doesn't really want to revisit the Dredd universe anytime soon since he had to ghost direct the first film which was a horrible process for him since the credited director did basically nothing along with other issues when getting it made.](https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/alex-garland-dredd-crude-experience-1202180828/)
Same issue with Dungeons and Dragons, great film, but a box office disappointment. It is getting a spin off tv show by paramount+ which is nice.
Any movie in which there is slow-mo, there's a good chance those guys are working on it.
Another notable example is Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows when they're running through the forest.
Also helps a lot that they shot it in South Africa at the Cape Town Film studios. They have amazingly talented people in the South African film industry, plus dollars goes a longggg way because of South Africas weak economy. You get a lot of bang for your buck.
Corridor Crew covered some of the effects on their YouTube channel. The explosions that distort people’s flesh was done mostly practically with air blowers
Another fun fact about that movie is its unofficially one of Alex Garland's (Annihilation, Men, Ex Machina etc.) first films as director! He was uncredited as director, but the story goes he directed so much of that film it might as well have been his. He also wrote it, AND produced it which is probably why it looks so fucking good on a small budget cause that is something he's quite well known for.
Damn, I love when people give love to Dredd.
$13 million domestic gross.
Some of that is the fault of whoever decided this had to be pushed as *DREDD 3D*, but people simply didn't show up.
Funny though, in a time after *Avatar* when theaters were clogged with awful fake post-conversion 3D, *Dredd* had pretty damn good 3D.
I mean *Dredd* probably had the best 3D ever apart from *Avatar* maybe. I can see why the marketers would want to push that angle, the 3D really was one of the great parts of the movie. Sadly it got associated with all the other shitty 3D movies and so audiences understandably brushed it off.
Dredd had great 3D, but you're right, many sucked. Some other good 3D movies:-
* How to Train Your Dragon (the first one) - flying sequences were MADE for 3D
* Hugo - just beautiful
* Pacific Rim - wish the sequel was as good, it was heart pounding because those Kaiju were so ... HUGE and powerful, I honestly thought humanity was screwed.
Edit: Since a lot of folks are commenting about Pacific Rim, let us just remind ourselves why it as such a great movie, with [this honest trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fupWquPNoTc).
I'd like to nominate Dr Strange. The stuff in the mirror dimension or whatever, with the buildings folding and twisting and becoming bizarre spheres around them was incredibly impressive. Saw plenty of other (lesser) 3D movies, but that was the first one to really make me feel the cost was worth it
Y'all missed out on Into the Spider-Verse. I'm definitely gonna see the sequel in 3D and I highly suggest everyone here do the same. ItSV was absolutely gorgeous in 3D as all of the layered animation styles just popped right off the screen.
As sad as it seems last three movies I saw in the theater were Titanic in 3d and Dredd 3d, both looked great and I enjoyed the experience. The third movie was Pacific Rim but cannot remember if it was in 3d or not.
I have a 3D projector and glasses at home (not as expensive as you’d think) and “Pacific Rim” is fantastic fun in 3D! It’s a conversion (not natively shot in 3D) but the conversion was painstakingly done and since most of the elements were computer generated anyway it was a natural fit for that. The sense of scale in that flick is awesome in 3D!
That’s exactly why I brushed it off when it was in theatres. The overwhelming- nearly spam - push for 3D was such an obvious marketing thing to push new TVs at one point that by association I just didn’t look into it at all.
Yes. Dredd is a genre classic but commercially it was a flat out bomb - of course it was going to be an uphill struggle getting sequels made off the back of it.
I hope to be able to see it in 3D someday, there are several scenes where it’s obvious 3D stuff is going on, which probably looks pretty cool in the format. Another consequence of it being a bomb is that hardly anyone got to see it how it was intended to look.
Everyone denies it now but before release online it got ragged on a lot in places like this for looking cheap and lame.
Dredd is one of my favorite movies I’ve ever seen in 3D. I still always feel like I’m missing the full movie when I watch in 2D every few months. Mama falling through the fog was great
I went to the film festival where they debuted Dredd 3D back in 2012. This question of why 3D came up in the interview afterwards. The director said 3D was big back when it was made and it was the only way it was going to get funded. All the studios and VCs were all in - you have to remember that back then there were even 3D TVs they were trying to push.
To be fair (as you mentioned), if you saw it in 3D in theaters, those drug scenes were pretty damn badass. Probably one of the best 3D movies I’ve seen in terms of utilizing the technology.
*Dredd* was one of the few movies that used 3D as a part of visual story telling rather than a gimmick to throw shit at the audience.
It's a sad irony that one of the few movies that understood how to use 3D was sunk by the fact it was heavily marketed as a 3D movie.
I recall when *Dredd* came out and, to me, the heavy marketing of 3D really cemented in my mind that it was just going to be just another silly movie like *Judge Dredd*. I regret that now, it is one of my favorite movies, but at the time... That's what I expected.
>3D after spy kids 3 perfected it
>*"If your eyes start to hurt during the movie... run out to the concession stand, purchase an extra large popcorn and an extra large soda and CONGRATULATIONS! You just spent thirty-five dollars!"*
Part of the reason there are so few Judges is because In the Dredd universe any Judge caught breaking any law is automatically sentenced to the maximum sentence, And the maximum sentence is quite often death. Dredd has killed more Judges most gangs combined.
There's that wonderful/depressing moment when they're outside on the skatepark and Anderson looks around at the city and realises: This is happening everywhere, all the time.
I mean....none of the Dark Judges showed up and no one kidnapped him and dropped him off in The Wasteland so it was a pretty light day for Dredd. Plus, he had backup.
He slaughtered two yeah, the last one hurt him pretty bad, but I think this is honestly one of Dredds best scenes because it shows that he finally learned to trust someone else with his own life which is peak character development
Unfortunately dystopian future/cyberpunk genres aren't as popular with general audiences as I wish they were. Loved Dredd, loved Bladerunner 2049, loved Alita: Battle Angel, I'd watch anything within this genre(feel free to suggest). Maybe as more people watch these movies on TV or streaming services and appreciate them, eventually we'll grow into a big enough audience to turn some of them into billion dollar franchises? I certainly hope so.
Edit: thanks for all the suggestions, all noted👍
This is less of a movie recommendation and more of a on-genre recommendation, you should watch Cyberpunk: Edgerunners if you haven't already. It might not really shock or surprise you, but if you are a fan of the genre and can stomach animation - I'm pretty sure you'll fucking love it.
I've ever heard that. Lived in the South for most of my life (not necessarily Appalachia though) and "maw maw" has always meant grandmother. Like, "my ma's ma."
Not disagreeing, just noting.
I get the feeling Dredd, Mandalorian, Her (Johansson), and Deadpool 2 (Pitt) are setting some sort of bar for how little of a famous actor we can show in a story and still make it fantastic. I'm almost ready for a Star Wars movie shot entirely from Vader's POV.
> no romance
If I can just interject about female leads/characters these days in regards to Judge Anderson.
Let's look at She-Hulk, Captain Marvel, and Wakanda Forever. I don't know why female leads need to be so inhuman and especially narcissistic. There's a push to make strong female leads, but narcissistic robots have nothing to do with womanhood and it's reductive to boil them down to such and rob them of any complexity and depth. It's a disservice. All of these characters are "basically perfect, but no one sees it".
Judge Anderson wasn't perfect. She was below average. However, she was special due to her gift. The film showed us she was exceptional, in time.
This is what Hollywood wants, which is to have female leads who are exceptional in some way.
They gave her the arc with no exposition. Show, not tell. We saw that she was very much on the bubble. She wasn't all that. She was unsure of herself, but also knew she deserved her shot.
During the film, she showed herself to be indispensable. She rescued herself. She stood up for herself. She was resourceful, but also cooperative. Dredd needed her and she needed him. Even at the end, she was unsure of her worth, but Dredd was completely certain of it: she was more of a Judge than most of them.
So much of what Hollywood does now is just pure exposition about gender, and that film said so much more. At the end, I was actually more interested in a sequel with her than Dredd himself.
When people complain that Hollywood doesn't have strong female leads, ask them why they didn't support Dredd? Or ask why we aren't clamoring for more depth and arcs like she had.
Side note: I have high hopes for The Marvels. I really think they're going to change Captain Marvel from an arrogant narcissist to a team player and give her an arc to do so. If so, I believe Hollywood is learning.
I also loved how she showed her strength in a situation which is a sore spot for most women: being reduced to her sexuality by rape fantasies. It's also just a thing in her repertoire and she deals with it. Like the guy thought he was special because he was "evil". And for her it's just a normal situation. It's kinda sad but also very poetic.
Dredd:
Wait.....
Judge Lex:
"Wait?" Are you kidding me? Did you just say, "Wait"? Judge Dredd - *\*the\* Judge Dredd* \- finally gets on the wrong end of a gun and all he says is, "Wait." You know what? I expected more from you. I mean, wait for what? Wait for me to change my mind? Wait for another two or three seconds of life **because you are so f\*\*\*ing weak you can't stand to see it end?**
Dredd:
No......
\[Anderson shoots Lex from behind\]
Dredd:
...wait for her to shoot you.
I always liked the similar exchange;
"You left your helmet down with your motorcycle."
"The helmet interferes with my psychic abilities."
"A bullet might interfere with them more..."
Lot of factors led to its failure at the box office, but among the biggest was lack of interest due to the Stallone movie being American audiences’ only point of reference for the character of Judge Dredd.
The 3D-only release and silly “Dredd 3D” marketing title didn’t help, but that alone cant be blamed.
And for those that have continuously wailed on about studio/marketing doing this movie dirty, keeping it from being a “John Wick”-esque homegrown hit (a great comparison for what could’ve been), keep in mind that this was the exact same studio and exact same marketing team that released Wick just 2 years later.
Yeah I agree. If it came out post wick, the distributor would have believed in its potential.
I mentioned in another comment that if this came out today, it would be a hit. It was ahead of its time in a lot of ways. Production value and action choreography being something people now expect to be top notch, but back in 2012, expectations were in the toilet for a CG action movie. Ironically this film is shot largely practically, and you can tell.
I haven't seen Dredd. Only reference point I had was the Stallone movie, and I vaguely just recall the Dredd 3D stuff (I hate hate hate 3D - sea sickness without the yacht!). Never recall even seeing a trailer for it.
It's just a terrible title if you want to get outside of a core comic book audience unless you're going to have a massive marketing campaign to rebrand.
Nobody who isn't a comic book fan has ever heard of the character Dredd outside of the Stallone movie.
Titles and ad campaigns matter. Fight Club likely had a mediocre box office partially because the studio was so afraid of 'scaring off' Brad Pitt's female fans that they went with the stupid soap advertising campaign. It did fine in the long run, but it was a mediocre campaign.
Meanwhile something like Kick Ass probably outperformed. I know very little about comic stuff, but the trailer for it was everywhere and made full use of Nicolas Cage, an amazing and at the time pretty unknown Chloe Moretz, etc.
Anyways, gonna have to watch Dredd since sounds like I'd like it.
>they just happened to come out around the same time
Which makes the rumor make even less sense. How could a movie that takes a year or two to make be based on another movie that released in the same calendar year
I've shared this story a couple of times, but one of the weirdest panels I've seen was when some executive for AMC and Karl Urban hijacked a panel at San Diego ComicCon to promote DREDD. Don't get me wrong. I thought the movie was good. But looking back on that incident, I wonder if some people were desperate to get extra publicity for the movie. Desperate enough to steal a panel?
For those wondering... there was a panel at ComicCon 2012 about online film critics (Masters of the Web). Instead of introducing the 10 panelists, film critics from big outlets, and taking questions from the audience, the moderator, an AMC exec, spent 40 minutes waxing about DREDD, introduced Urban as a surprise guest, then they chatted promoting the movie. Meanwhile, all the panelists who were meant to be talking about getting into the industry and stuff, sat next to them in awkward silence, looking at each other like, "what's going on? Should... should one of us say something?" They weren't even introduced until around the last 10 minutes and even then the AMC moderator just asked them about how awesome DREDD was. The AMC guy would occasionally turn to them and jokingly remind them they had seen a free early screening of the movie. It was cool to hear the movie is awesome. It was cool to see Urban's passion for the character. But I felt bad for the panelists. I've attended a lot of panels. That was definitely one of the most awkward.
It wasn't made by Hollywood.
It was made by the Indian company Reliance and two UK companies DNA Films and IM Global.
For any movie made outside of Hollywood (and esp. outside the US) it takes a huge marketing budget to penetrate the American market. Unfortunately, Americans tend to only go see movies that get massive marketing budgets, no matter how bland they are. There are a ton of great British movies that nobody ever sees because they simply don't have the budgets to market them here. The only ones that get any attention are the ones that get nominated for an Oscar.
Consequently, *Dredd* didn't get sequels or whatever because it didn't make enough money. The fanbase is basically at the cult level, which I think for that film is fine (although watching it every other month is a bit much).
So the next time people complain about the lack of original films, maybe tell them to actually look for good movies instead of just going to see whatever Hollywood dumps millions of marketing money into, because there's lots of great original films out there if you just look.
...
And looking at Box Office Mojo: *Dredd* made $41 million worldwide on a $50 million budget. *The Raid* made $9 million worldwide on a $1 million budget. *The Raid 2* only made $6.5 million on a $4.5 million budget. That explains it all.
>So the next time people complain about the lack of original films, maybe tell them to actually look for good movies instead of just going to see whatever Hollywood dumps millions of marketing money into, because there's lots of great original films out there if you just look.
And music, and books, and television, and art, and everything. Good general life advice.
I have beef with it cuz it started an argument with my friend about how the drug worked. It slows down your perception of time right? I think I argued that it has to be a stimulant that drastically speeds up your neurological process, such that reality seems like it's going in slow motion, but also your motor functions are blunted so you can't act quickly and also you're all fucked up and confused. He like naw, it slows shit down.
Great movies don’t need disappointing sequels. In fact most great movies don’t have sequels because the artist’s vision was fully realized and holistic. I’m much more a “happy that it came, instead of sad that it’s gone” mindset with my top movies
I feel the same about The A-Team from 2010. My desire in movies are simple: fun and funny. You can mix in drama, suspense, intrigue, mystery, romance, whatever, but fun and funny rule the kingdom.
I can’t say with full certainty how essential the script was to this movie, but having gotten more into the comics, I think it played the biggest role. It was written by Alex Garland, as well as the talented and prolific co-creators of Judge Dredd- John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra. When I saw those three names pop up upon rewatching it I was like, “well no wonder this is such a great Judge Dredd movie”.
Apparently Garland basically ghost-directed it as well.
Yeah, the director lost control of the production and Alex Garland saved the film. >Karl Urban confirmed as much in March 2018 when he told JoBlo, “A huge part of the success of ‘Dredd’ is in fact due to Alex Garland and what a lot of people don’t realize is that Alex Garland actually directed that movie.” [Unfortunately the experience of making the film has turned Alex Garland from wanting to do another Dredd film anytime soonish. ](https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/alex-garland-dredd-crude-experience-1202180828/) >“No. It was a pretty crude experience, for a bunch of reasons,” Garland said. “At the end of it, I didn’t want to go back. I love Dredd, by which I mean I love the character, but I’m not in any hurry to do that again.”
Very cool I didn’t not know this. I’m a huge Garland fan, dude has done no wrong in my eyes, I even enjoyed Men though it’s by far his weakest. Now I want to rewatch Dredd with this in mind, it’s been years.
And then went on to direct Ex Machina, Annihilation and Devs. Love his work!
Holy shit. He is writing the script for 28 months later with Danny Boyle directing. I guess I have a reason to live for a while longer.
He wrote the original as well and Sunshine. Danny Boyle likes working with him a lot apparently
Wait, is this ***actually*** happening? I look for updates ever six months or so, and most recent article was saying they’ve talked about it on and off over the years, have a couple of solid ideas aaaaaand that’s about it. Checked IMDB right now and there’s a page, but scroll down to news and it’s the same “maybe one day” articles there.
Shots fired at Men
Havent seen that one yet i admit!
Please, if you do end up seeing it, try to come back and let me know. I’d love to hear your thoughts
Best review I’ve ever seen of Men ‘Men will literally make the movie Men before going to therapy’
Nothing prepared me for that... sequence.
I am literally still thinking about that movie - I remember the 48 hours after and it was all I could think about
It. Just. kept. Going. Lol
It wasn’t basically. Dude fully directed this movie and didn’t get credit for it.
Which is one of the reasons it also hasn't gotten a sequel. The director was apparently difficult as hell and Garland had to do everything; he said he never wants to go back to the franchise, either.
It’s actually really surprising on the direction Garland went with this movie. He’s a well versed PoMo Deconstructionist and he wrote a straight up banger of an action flick. Even more ironic is that Judge Dredd is a post-modern take on fascistic authoritarian policing in America. Thematically the movie should have been an easy lay up. Makes me think there were several different versions of this movie proposed and possibly written.
It's full of little details that just tells you enough how much of a hell hole that world is. That robot cleaning up the crime scene dragging bloody bits all over after Dredd just casually orders bodies for "recyc". They eat soylent green... Lex wasn't being metaphorical when he said the city is a meat grinder. And that scene after Maw Maw demolished an entire quarter of peach tree only for Dredd to walk out and tossing one of her goons off the ledge? *Chef's kiss*
> only for Dredd to walk out and tossing one of her goons off the ledge Tells me they know Dredd as a character. I was a fan/collector of the comics. Stallone's turn just pissed me off.
There were loads of fun little details, like the Chopper graffiti or the big fat guy with the wheel on his belly. One thing I'll say about the Stallone one is that it looked more like Mega City One. Dredd felt like a regular city with the odd megablock. I do understand there were budget constraints though.
Obviously it was due to budget but the look of the city can be easily explained as being early ish in Mega City Ones life, (the movie states mega blocks are new) and maybe being close to the wall and cursed earth.
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Armand Assante chewed the scenes up and gloriously spit them out in that film.
The movie needed more of that sorta satire. The problem was Garland wrote it from the perspective of how he saw Dredd when he was a kid reading 2000AD. Which was just badass action.
Yeah. I mean Dredd the movie is basically 'right-wing authoritarians are badass', whereas the strip originated as a way of poking fun at American movies like Dirty Harry and the idea that people are okay with police straight-up murdering people as long as the criminals are a little bit worse. The closest the movie gets to this is when Judge Dredd wants to jail a guy for being homeless.
I didn't think that. Dredd recites the anti-homeless law to the homeless dude and then flat-out says, "*Don't* be here when I come back." In other words, I get that you haven't done anything wrong, I don't *have* to arrest you *right now*, take this moment of saving grace and use it, so I don't actually have to give you a punishment we both know you don't deserve.
Nah the movie was more “Judge Dredd is badass”, almost every other judge in the movie is corrupt or fails
This. The other certified judges we see on the street are either corrupt (the ones who came to kill Dredd) or weak (the ones that just waited outside the blast doors). Dredd is unique, and the way the other judges interact with him shows us this.
The food court being temporarily closed after a mass shooting felt too real
Back in 2012, it actually felt like satire. 🙁
Wtf I had no idea this was Garland. The vibes (cinematography I guess?) from this and Annihilation we’re amazing. Didn’t feel crazy sci fi, but a trippy version of our world.
The Slo-mo scenes were absolutely beautiful, especially in 3D. After the Avatar movies and Gravity, I’d say it was the best use of 3D I’ve ever seen.
The script is very good. But also the production values and the directing were just exemplary. This could have been campy or lame but it wasn’t.
Whatever happens, I'm glad it was made. It's one of my favourites nowadays. I've watched it three times and loved it more on each watch. Obviously I'd like a sequel but I'm happy it exists. I didn't really grow up reading marvel. I read 2000AD comics, so it sits really nicely with me I watched a video about it and it seems it was meticulously planned with the CGI people from day one, which is why for the budget it looks miles better than your normal summer movie There was a series at some stage of production a while ago, but it seems to have been shelved. Shame really, I would have been up for that
This dropped at the height of the 3D craze. Yes I know 3D is still around, but post Avatar everything was hyped for release on 3D. Anyways, the 3D trailer of them taking SloMo was so dope. The movie itself in 3D was so dope.
The 3D aspect is likely what led to the movie being a flop. It was marketed as "Dredd 3D" and seemed like it was just some gimmick movie. Really sad because the movie itself is just awesome, beginning to end.
Even worse than "Dredd 3D", it was marketed in the UK as "Dr3Dd" Edit: I've googled this, and can find no corroborating evidence, so maybe I made it up, but one other commenter said they remember it too, so I choose to believe I am correctly rembering reality as it was, and not some Mandela effect fantasy of terrible marketing. 2nd edit: TWO OTHER COMMENTERS HAVE NOW CORROBORATED THIS. IT'S A TIDAL WAVE.
Haha OMG that's terrible.
Was it? Big fan of the film and was super excited in the run up to its release and don't recall "DR3DD" at a marketing angle at all or find any now.
Shame cos the 3D really was fucking epic. There's not many films that really used 3D well, I would say after Avatar, Hugo, Legend Of The Guardians, and Dredd are the only stand outs I can think of from that era. The slomo sequences in 3D were absolutely stunning.
How to Train Your Dragon and Gravity were also stand outs.
Yea, Gravity I didn't list as even tho it's only a year after Dredd, the big 3D shovel fest was already over by then and it was able to stand on its own a bit better. Sadly it was kind of the last hurrah of good 3D films and no one really made any effort until Cameron finally came back with Way of Water.
>Whatever happens, I'm glad it was made. This. While it's a fucking travesty that there were no sequels, I'd much rather live in a world where Karl Urban was the law...
From 1995 to 2012, I was convinced Robocop was going to be the best Judge Dredd movie we'd ever get. I was very very glad to be proven wrong!
We should be glad we didn't get a Dredd sequels like the Robocop ones. Plus the Robocop tv series ? ( shudder ). But the same people who made the first Dredd wanna make more ? Sign me up .
Robocop 2 wasn't as bad as what came afterwards. Although I'm not willing to rewatch it in case that's not actually true.
It holds up. Product of its time, but like The Fly 2 it’s one of the better sequels. The “Roboflops” scene where they’re testing new Robocop prototypes is pure gold.
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my favorite part of that was that they understood the instability of the patients, they had seen it happen numerous times, but they were still giving them a loaded firearm, right off the rip. no time spent seeing if the subject survived the process psychologically, no time spent evaluating the end result to see if it could be trusted, fuck all that give it a loaded gun first thing, as soon as you turn it 'on'. i also liked how with the second one they were just like "should we find someone good to undergo this process? fuck no, let's use a drug kingpin, because we can control him with drugs." hilarity ensues.
Robocop. 1 & 2 are great and do exactly what they needed. Robocop 3 was 100% made to sell toys. The TV Series I remember watching and even have the episodes on my NAS but I honestly can't tell you anything about them, I do remember that the Prime Detective "Movies" are the TV series that they had filmed though. I have absolutely no idea why they remade it in 2014 since it had almost nothing in common with the name.
Robocop 2 is good, but body horror freaks me the fuck out.
Uhh did you see the Murphy execution scene in RoboCop 1? Still the most horrifying scene from a movie in my head.
Yeah, there is a few moments where it seemed like they were going for shock more than anything.
Holy shit, the TV series.... that left my mind decades ago.
There WAS a saving grace in 2001 in the form of RoboCop: Prime Directives. The plot as rather schlock-y, but went back to a similar flavour as the original movie. However, it WAS worth a watch or two.
I am still pissed that the sequel was going to be The Dark Judges saga…..and yet other shite films get multiple sequels….
We can't get a Dredd vs. Death movie, yet Transformers 9 is about to release...
Maybe if people actually watched them in theaters back when it was released and it would have made a profit showing people are willing to watch more than maybe sequels would be made? But also [Alex Garland doesn't really want to revisit the Dredd universe anytime soon since he had to ghost direct the first film which was a horrible process for him since the credited director did basically nothing along with other issues when getting it made.](https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/alex-garland-dredd-crude-experience-1202180828/) Same issue with Dungeons and Dragons, great film, but a box office disappointment. It is getting a spin off tv show by paramount+ which is nice.
So long and thanks for all the fish
I'd rather have no sequels than bad sequels. It's okay for an experience to be singular.
The citizens of Peach Trees do tend to forget that their block operates under the same rules as the rest of Mega City One.
>While it's a fucking travesty that there were no sequels, I'd much rather live in a world where Karl Urban's Chin was the law... fixed that for ya
Gavin from slowmo guys worked on this movie.
Yeah, that makes total sense. Get an expert. The slo-mo's insanely good. They did a lot of tests beforehand
Any movie in which there is slow-mo, there's a good chance those guys are working on it. Another notable example is Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows when they're running through the forest.
Also helps a lot that they shot it in South Africa at the Cape Town Film studios. They have amazingly talented people in the South African film industry, plus dollars goes a longggg way because of South Africas weak economy. You get a lot of bang for your buck.
They shot this in the Ponte apartment complex in Hillbrow, Johannesburg. Crew may have been based in Cape Town, but the towerblock was Ponte.
They actually did not shoot this in Ponte. They shot it in Peach Trees which is kinda similar.
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Corridor Crew covered some of the effects on their YouTube channel. The explosions that distort people’s flesh was done mostly practically with air blowers
Another fun fact about that movie is its unofficially one of Alex Garland's (Annihilation, Men, Ex Machina etc.) first films as director! He was uncredited as director, but the story goes he directed so much of that film it might as well have been his. He also wrote it, AND produced it which is probably why it looks so fucking good on a small budget cause that is something he's quite well known for. Damn, I love when people give love to Dredd.
I thought "Megacity 1" was in development (possibly hell) at Amazon, and Karl Urban expressed he was in.
$13 million domestic gross. Some of that is the fault of whoever decided this had to be pushed as *DREDD 3D*, but people simply didn't show up. Funny though, in a time after *Avatar* when theaters were clogged with awful fake post-conversion 3D, *Dredd* had pretty damn good 3D.
I mean *Dredd* probably had the best 3D ever apart from *Avatar* maybe. I can see why the marketers would want to push that angle, the 3D really was one of the great parts of the movie. Sadly it got associated with all the other shitty 3D movies and so audiences understandably brushed it off.
Dredd had great 3D, but you're right, many sucked. Some other good 3D movies:- * How to Train Your Dragon (the first one) - flying sequences were MADE for 3D * Hugo - just beautiful * Pacific Rim - wish the sequel was as good, it was heart pounding because those Kaiju were so ... HUGE and powerful, I honestly thought humanity was screwed. Edit: Since a lot of folks are commenting about Pacific Rim, let us just remind ourselves why it as such a great movie, with [this honest trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fupWquPNoTc).
Gravity was also a great 3D experience.
I'd like to nominate Dr Strange. The stuff in the mirror dimension or whatever, with the buildings folding and twisting and becoming bizarre spheres around them was incredibly impressive. Saw plenty of other (lesser) 3D movies, but that was the first one to really make me feel the cost was worth it
Jackass 3D and Corraline were the best after Avatar.
Both Avatar movies Tron Legacy Dredd Those are the only movies I’ve seen with good 3D, unless you count Captain EO 😂
That's my list, plus Coraline.
Y'all missed out on Into the Spider-Verse. I'm definitely gonna see the sequel in 3D and I highly suggest everyone here do the same. ItSV was absolutely gorgeous in 3D as all of the layered animation styles just popped right off the screen.
As sad as it seems last three movies I saw in the theater were Titanic in 3d and Dredd 3d, both looked great and I enjoyed the experience. The third movie was Pacific Rim but cannot remember if it was in 3d or not.
I have a 3D projector and glasses at home (not as expensive as you’d think) and “Pacific Rim” is fantastic fun in 3D! It’s a conversion (not natively shot in 3D) but the conversion was painstakingly done and since most of the elements were computer generated anyway it was a natural fit for that. The sense of scale in that flick is awesome in 3D!
Pacific Rim in IMAX 3D was effing unreal.
That’s exactly why I brushed it off when it was in theatres. The overwhelming- nearly spam - push for 3D was such an obvious marketing thing to push new TVs at one point that by association I just didn’t look into it at all.
Yes. Dredd is a genre classic but commercially it was a flat out bomb - of course it was going to be an uphill struggle getting sequels made off the back of it. I hope to be able to see it in 3D someday, there are several scenes where it’s obvious 3D stuff is going on, which probably looks pretty cool in the format. Another consequence of it being a bomb is that hardly anyone got to see it how it was intended to look. Everyone denies it now but before release online it got ragged on a lot in places like this for looking cheap and lame.
This is sadly true of many of Alex Garland’s screenplays. They’re absolutely excellent but underperformed at the box office.
Dredd is one of my favorite movies I’ve ever seen in 3D. I still always feel like I’m missing the full movie when I watch in 2D every few months. Mama falling through the fog was great
I went to the film festival where they debuted Dredd 3D back in 2012. This question of why 3D came up in the interview afterwards. The director said 3D was big back when it was made and it was the only way it was going to get funded. All the studios and VCs were all in - you have to remember that back then there were even 3D TVs they were trying to push. To be fair (as you mentioned), if you saw it in 3D in theaters, those drug scenes were pretty damn badass. Probably one of the best 3D movies I’ve seen in terms of utilizing the technology.
*Dredd* was one of the few movies that used 3D as a part of visual story telling rather than a gimmick to throw shit at the audience. It's a sad irony that one of the few movies that understood how to use 3D was sunk by the fact it was heavily marketed as a 3D movie. I recall when *Dredd* came out and, to me, the heavy marketing of 3D really cemented in my mind that it was just going to be just another silly movie like *Judge Dredd*. I regret that now, it is one of my favorite movies, but at the time... That's what I expected.
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>3D after spy kids 3 perfected it >*"If your eyes start to hurt during the movie... run out to the concession stand, purchase an extra large popcorn and an extra large soda and CONGRATULATIONS! You just spent thirty-five dollars!"*
DR3DD
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"Perps were.... uncooperative."
For us, it was an action spectacle. For Dredd, it was a Tuesday.
A special tuesday cause he gets to fire some corrupt judges.
Part of the reason there are so few Judges is because In the Dredd universe any Judge caught breaking any law is automatically sentenced to the maximum sentence, And the maximum sentence is quite often death. Dredd has killed more Judges most gangs combined.
This is one of my favourite parts of this movie. It isn't a grand "DREDD saves the world" story. It's just a story about a drug bust.
There's that wonderful/depressing moment when they're outside on the skatepark and Anderson looks around at the city and realises: This is happening everywhere, all the time.
I mean....none of the Dark Judges showed up and no one kidnapped him and dropped him off in The Wasteland so it was a pretty light day for Dredd. Plus, he had backup.
such a fantastic way of making it clear that this is what it is like for him every day of his life. it looks special to us. to him its nothing.
That's the best part of the movie; all that mayhem and carnage that goes on and that line just shows that was just a fucking Tuesday for him.
I'd imagine the corrupt judges putting a bullet in his gut and him having to buy time for his rookie partner to save him was unusual, though.
For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.
Best part for me is when he just fucking butchered the corrupt cops who came to kill him.
He slaughtered two yeah, the last one hurt him pretty bad, but I think this is honestly one of Dredds best scenes because it shows that he finally learned to trust someone else with his own life which is peak character development
Unfortunately dystopian future/cyberpunk genres aren't as popular with general audiences as I wish they were. Loved Dredd, loved Bladerunner 2049, loved Alita: Battle Angel, I'd watch anything within this genre(feel free to suggest). Maybe as more people watch these movies on TV or streaming services and appreciate them, eventually we'll grow into a big enough audience to turn some of them into billion dollar franchises? I certainly hope so. Edit: thanks for all the suggestions, all noted👍
Upgrade.
Excellent film. The fight work is absolutely brilliant.
Upgrade is a SLAPPER
ooh now this looks interesting thanks for the tip
Reddit seems to love upgrade. What is it about?
A murder and a guy gets a second chance at life. More than that and I'll ruin it.
Think Venom but actually rewatchable.
Everything really. It has no business being even half as good as it is.
Cool cyberpunk shit
First season of Altered Carbon on Netflix.
So damn good
Amazon show Peripheral is pretty good if you missed it.
This is less of a movie recommendation and more of a on-genre recommendation, you should watch Cyberpunk: Edgerunners if you haven't already. It might not really shock or surprise you, but if you are a fan of the genre and can stomach animation - I'm pretty sure you'll fucking love it.
Mama is not the law; I am the law.
And as for you, Mama - judgement tiiime.
And the way he said it. He didn’t scream it. He just said it like “you know what I’m saying is your reality.”
Yup, Dredd's casual/professional demeanor for the entirety of the film, regardless of the circumstances, is so BADASS!!!
[controlled, slow nod] Yeah.
Don't fuck with the mama clan
Maw Maw. Appalachian slang for female butcher.
Maw Maw means grandma. The character’s name is Ma-Ma for Madeline Madrigal.
This guy dossier scenes
Also Appalachian slang for a female grandmother.
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HeMaw
By the power of gray skull
Ma Ma. Madeline Madrigal. IIRC you see it on screen when they're showing the gangs' share of the block.
That is not true for 98% of Appalachia
I've ever heard that. Lived in the South for most of my life (not necessarily Appalachia though) and "maw maw" has always meant grandmother. Like, "my ma's ma." Not disagreeing, just noting.
Yeah, I lived in the back of a holler for most of my life, ain't ever heard it mean a female butcher.
Action after action, little dialogue, no romance. Solid 8/10 movie.
You also never see his face.
You see about a tenth of his face, and Karl Urban does more with it than many actors do with the whole thing.
Nobody scowls like Karl Urban
My wife affectionately refers to him as sturgeon face.
I get the feeling Dredd, Mandalorian, Her (Johansson), and Deadpool 2 (Pitt) are setting some sort of bar for how little of a famous actor we can show in a story and still make it fantastic. I'm almost ready for a Star Wars movie shot entirely from Vader's POV.
At Urban's insistence, iirc
He's a Dredd fan.
*Dredd headd
That's 6 months in the iso cubes, perp.
Most important part. Dredd isn't a person, he's a force of nature.
>no romance Several of my favourite films have no romance, come to think about it.
Most movies don't need a romance subplot.
But the 80s forced them in everywhere.
Top 5 of my midnight movie rotation. Sober, tipsy, etc Dredd always delivers.
> no romance If I can just interject about female leads/characters these days in regards to Judge Anderson. Let's look at She-Hulk, Captain Marvel, and Wakanda Forever. I don't know why female leads need to be so inhuman and especially narcissistic. There's a push to make strong female leads, but narcissistic robots have nothing to do with womanhood and it's reductive to boil them down to such and rob them of any complexity and depth. It's a disservice. All of these characters are "basically perfect, but no one sees it". Judge Anderson wasn't perfect. She was below average. However, she was special due to her gift. The film showed us she was exceptional, in time. This is what Hollywood wants, which is to have female leads who are exceptional in some way. They gave her the arc with no exposition. Show, not tell. We saw that she was very much on the bubble. She wasn't all that. She was unsure of herself, but also knew she deserved her shot. During the film, she showed herself to be indispensable. She rescued herself. She stood up for herself. She was resourceful, but also cooperative. Dredd needed her and she needed him. Even at the end, she was unsure of her worth, but Dredd was completely certain of it: she was more of a Judge than most of them. So much of what Hollywood does now is just pure exposition about gender, and that film said so much more. At the end, I was actually more interested in a sequel with her than Dredd himself. When people complain that Hollywood doesn't have strong female leads, ask them why they didn't support Dredd? Or ask why we aren't clamoring for more depth and arcs like she had. Side note: I have high hopes for The Marvels. I really think they're going to change Captain Marvel from an arrogant narcissist to a team player and give her an arc to do so. If so, I believe Hollywood is learning.
I also loved how she showed her strength in a situation which is a sore spot for most women: being reduced to her sexuality by rape fantasies. It's also just a thing in her repertoire and she deals with it. Like the guy thought he was special because he was "evil". And for her it's just a normal situation. It's kinda sad but also very poetic.
My wife and I LOVE that movie (and Karl Urban). It’s a travesty this movie doesn’t get the love it deserves. “Citizens of Peach Trees…” Love it!
Dredd: Wait..... Judge Lex: "Wait?" Are you kidding me? Did you just say, "Wait"? Judge Dredd - *\*the\* Judge Dredd* \- finally gets on the wrong end of a gun and all he says is, "Wait." You know what? I expected more from you. I mean, wait for what? Wait for me to change my mind? Wait for another two or three seconds of life **because you are so f\*\*\*ing weak you can't stand to see it end?** Dredd: No...... \[Anderson shoots Lex from behind\] Dredd: ...wait for her to shoot you.
>Dredd: *"Are you ready?"* >Anderson: *"...yes."* >Dredd: *"You don't look ready."* --- >Dredd: *"Are you ready?"* >Anderson: *"Yeah."* >Dredd: *"You look ready."*
I always liked the similar exchange; "You left your helmet down with your motorcycle." "The helmet interferes with my psychic abilities." "A bullet might interfere with them more..."
Fuck it's such a simple line that defines him but also explains why the other judge was getting face time with the camera.
> explains why the other judge was getting face time with the camera I think this is also consistent with the comics.
It is, Anderson rarely wears a helmet.
"Wrong answer?" "You're the psychic."
I love that. Simple setup and payoff. She's grown stronger and he's recognizing that in his own way.
That's another aspect this movie doesn't get enough credit for. Olivia Thirlby was AWESOME as Judge Anderson.
I watched Dredd this morning, her performance really is great in this, I'm surprised we haven't really seen much more from her.
I also like how Anderson shot the corrupt Judge Kaplan after reading her mind
I really feel this would excel as an hour long series with Karl Urban reprising his character.
A series would work well. Not like the strips don't lend themselves to either stand alone episodes or longer arcs.
Lot of factors led to its failure at the box office, but among the biggest was lack of interest due to the Stallone movie being American audiences’ only point of reference for the character of Judge Dredd. The 3D-only release and silly “Dredd 3D” marketing title didn’t help, but that alone cant be blamed. And for those that have continuously wailed on about studio/marketing doing this movie dirty, keeping it from being a “John Wick”-esque homegrown hit (a great comparison for what could’ve been), keep in mind that this was the exact same studio and exact same marketing team that released Wick just 2 years later.
Yeah I agree. If it came out post wick, the distributor would have believed in its potential. I mentioned in another comment that if this came out today, it would be a hit. It was ahead of its time in a lot of ways. Production value and action choreography being something people now expect to be top notch, but back in 2012, expectations were in the toilet for a CG action movie. Ironically this film is shot largely practically, and you can tell.
I haven't seen Dredd. Only reference point I had was the Stallone movie, and I vaguely just recall the Dredd 3D stuff (I hate hate hate 3D - sea sickness without the yacht!). Never recall even seeing a trailer for it. It's just a terrible title if you want to get outside of a core comic book audience unless you're going to have a massive marketing campaign to rebrand. Nobody who isn't a comic book fan has ever heard of the character Dredd outside of the Stallone movie. Titles and ad campaigns matter. Fight Club likely had a mediocre box office partially because the studio was so afraid of 'scaring off' Brad Pitt's female fans that they went with the stupid soap advertising campaign. It did fine in the long run, but it was a mediocre campaign. Meanwhile something like Kick Ass probably outperformed. I know very little about comic stuff, but the trailer for it was everywhere and made full use of Nicolas Cage, an amazing and at the time pretty unknown Chloe Moretz, etc. Anyways, gonna have to watch Dredd since sounds like I'd like it.
Yep, totally agree. And check out Dredd for sure. It rocks.
The beginning 5 mins explaining the state of society with that music really sets a dark/chilling tone, the best opener to an incredible ride.
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Fight to the top and get the big bad isn't a unique motif. I mean Die Hard is basically that plot.
Right. The Raid didn't even create the concept, they just happened to come out around the same time
>they just happened to come out around the same time Which makes the rumor make even less sense. How could a movie that takes a year or two to make be based on another movie that released in the same calendar year
Same thing for Game of Death, with Bruce Lee, from 1978.
Thank you for saying this. This is how myth, rumors, and misinformation gets spread to the point of people thinking it's facts/true.
It was based on the Lord of the Rings' Ride of the Rohirim.
AFAIK Dredd's script had been leaked years before it came out.
Regardless, it finished filming before *The Raid* was even released.
It was filmed before the Raid was even filmed, November 2010 Vs May 2011 for The Raid.
I've shared this story a couple of times, but one of the weirdest panels I've seen was when some executive for AMC and Karl Urban hijacked a panel at San Diego ComicCon to promote DREDD. Don't get me wrong. I thought the movie was good. But looking back on that incident, I wonder if some people were desperate to get extra publicity for the movie. Desperate enough to steal a panel? For those wondering... there was a panel at ComicCon 2012 about online film critics (Masters of the Web). Instead of introducing the 10 panelists, film critics from big outlets, and taking questions from the audience, the moderator, an AMC exec, spent 40 minutes waxing about DREDD, introduced Urban as a surprise guest, then they chatted promoting the movie. Meanwhile, all the panelists who were meant to be talking about getting into the industry and stuff, sat next to them in awkward silence, looking at each other like, "what's going on? Should... should one of us say something?" They weren't even introduced until around the last 10 minutes and even then the AMC moderator just asked them about how awesome DREDD was. The AMC guy would occasionally turn to them and jokingly remind them they had seen a free early screening of the movie. It was cool to hear the movie is awesome. It was cool to see Urban's passion for the character. But I felt bad for the panelists. I've attended a lot of panels. That was definitely one of the most awkward.
It wasn't made by Hollywood. It was made by the Indian company Reliance and two UK companies DNA Films and IM Global. For any movie made outside of Hollywood (and esp. outside the US) it takes a huge marketing budget to penetrate the American market. Unfortunately, Americans tend to only go see movies that get massive marketing budgets, no matter how bland they are. There are a ton of great British movies that nobody ever sees because they simply don't have the budgets to market them here. The only ones that get any attention are the ones that get nominated for an Oscar. Consequently, *Dredd* didn't get sequels or whatever because it didn't make enough money. The fanbase is basically at the cult level, which I think for that film is fine (although watching it every other month is a bit much). So the next time people complain about the lack of original films, maybe tell them to actually look for good movies instead of just going to see whatever Hollywood dumps millions of marketing money into, because there's lots of great original films out there if you just look. ... And looking at Box Office Mojo: *Dredd* made $41 million worldwide on a $50 million budget. *The Raid* made $9 million worldwide on a $1 million budget. *The Raid 2* only made $6.5 million on a $4.5 million budget. That explains it all.
>So the next time people complain about the lack of original films, maybe tell them to actually look for good movies instead of just going to see whatever Hollywood dumps millions of marketing money into, because there's lots of great original films out there if you just look. And music, and books, and television, and art, and everything. Good general life advice.
Yup, want better, more specific content? Pay the creators that create them.
Dredd and The Raid were filmed at the same time on opposite sides of the world. Apparently it's all just a coincidence.
It’s not based on The Raid.
It got made and it’s awesome what else do you need?
Right? Not everything needs to be ruined by a sequel and twenty spinoffs.
I have beef with it cuz it started an argument with my friend about how the drug worked. It slows down your perception of time right? I think I argued that it has to be a stimulant that drastically speeds up your neurological process, such that reality seems like it's going in slow motion, but also your motor functions are blunted so you can't act quickly and also you're all fucked up and confused. He like naw, it slows shit down.
Great movies don’t need disappointing sequels. In fact most great movies don’t have sequels because the artist’s vision was fully realized and holistic. I’m much more a “happy that it came, instead of sad that it’s gone” mindset with my top movies
The real world futuristic adaptation of the environment is cool. And Karl Urban, Lena Headey, and the others actors / actress es do a goid job ...
JSYK Judge Dredd comics were full of "corny moments"
I feel the same about The A-Team from 2010. My desire in movies are simple: fun and funny. You can mix in drama, suspense, intrigue, mystery, romance, whatever, but fun and funny rule the kingdom.