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ORIGINAL: Sutty

you can certainly see The Raid being raided here I think. But maybe no more so than how the likes of Undersiege, Passenger 57, and Speed et al took their cue from Die Hard.

But then, isn't The Raid modelled on Die Hard? McClane working his way through a skyscraper/tower block to beat the big boss at the end?

Dredd looks alright. It doesn;t look a whole lot removed from Stallones effort, perhaps not as chinzty and bright and with some added dirt and grit. Like others I am excited about Garlands involvement, but will it be enough?

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ORIGINAL: Sutty

you can certainly see The Raid being raided here I think. But maybe no more so than how the likes of Undersiege, Passenger 57, and Speed et al took their cue from Die Hard.

But then, isn't The Raid modelled on Die Hard? McClane working his way through a skyscraper/tower block to beat the big boss at the end?

Dredd looks alright. It doesn;t look a whole lot removed from Stallones effort, perhaps not as chinzty and bright and with some added dirt and grit. Like others I am excited about Garlands involvement, but will it be enough?

The script for Dredd was freely available online for the last couple of years. This breathless action nerd claims to have attended a screening, and is broadly positive about the film. I have no idea whether he's for real.

"This DREDD movie is all action all the time. This thing is straight out Rated R and I loved it. I loved every *beep* bullet of it. This is an awesome action film. The 3D made it better as it wasnt the cheesy kind that throws *beep* at the audience. There was a lot of depth. The drug in the film also helped the 3D and the action scenes.

The drug these people take makes everything go really slow so the "slow-mo" scenes of people getting *beep* up were great. The kills were very graphic ... The drug lord is played by Lena Headey (300, Sarah Connor) and she is pretty brutal. Very violent and hands on.

The CG, the action, and the 3D were all really good in this film. We need to see more films like this ... Overall I'd recommend you see this in September"



http://angryalbert.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/dredd-2012-film-review.html

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It's Dredd and it's Garland; so you know there's going to be more to it than a parade of genre cliches and worn out action tropes, but using those familiar elements in the trailer to tell a certain audience that this features the kind of stuff they enjoy seems like exactly the kind of thing a trailer's supposed to do.

I'm a friend of Alex...

Yeah, okay; I'll bite. Is that a euphemism along the same lines as being 'a friend of Dorothy', or are you X-box buddies with the author of The Tesseract?

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ORIGINAL: chris kilby

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ORIGINAL: sauchieboy
It's Dredd and it's Garland; so you know there's going to be more to it than a parade of genre cliches and worn out action tropes, but using those familiar elements in the trailer to tell a certain audience that this features the kind of stuff they enjoy seems like exactly the kind of thing a trailer's supposed to do.

I'm a friend of Alex...

Yeah, okay; I'll bite. Is that a euphemism along the same lines as being 'a friend of Dorothy', or are you X-box buddies with the author of The Tesseract?

As Mr Garland shares his surname with Judy , probably the former . Chris is more of a casual acquaintance of Dorothy.. ( Hey Chrissie boy... Guess Who ? )

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ORIGINAL: Sutty

you can certainly see The Raid being raided here I think. But maybe no more so than how the likes of Undersiege, Passenger 57, and Speed et al took their cue from Die Hard.

But then, isn't The Raid modelled on Die Hard? McClane working his way through a skyscraper/tower block to beat the big boss at the end?

Dredd looks alright. It doesn;t look a whole lot removed from Stallones effort, perhaps not as chinzty and bright and with some added dirt and grit. Like others I am excited about Garlands involvement, but will it be enough?

The script for Dredd was freely available online for the last couple of years. This breathless action nerd claims to have attended a screening, and is broadly positive about the film. I have no idea whether he's for real.

"This DREDD movie is all action all the time. This thing is straight out Rated R and I loved it. I loved every *beep* bullet of it. This is an awesome action film. The 3D made it better as it wasnt the cheesy kind that throws *beep* at the audience. There was a lot of depth. The drug in the film also helped the 3D and the action scenes.

The drug these people take makes everything go really slow so the "slow-mo" scenes of people getting *beep* up were great. The kills were very graphic ... The drug lord is played by Lena Headey (300, Sarah Connor) and she is pretty brutal. Very violent and hands on.

The CG, the action, and the 3D were all really good in this film. We need to see more films like this ... Overall I'd recommend you see this in September"



http://angryalbert.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/dredd-2012-film-review.html

Thats encouraging providing he's not a plant.

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Yeah, not sure I am buying that. Surprised by the District 9 visual cues.

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It's Dredd and it's Garland; so you know there's going to be more to it than a parade of genre cliches and worn out action tropes, but using those familiar elements in the trailer to tell a certain audience that this features the kind of stuff they enjoy seems like exactly the kind of thing a trailer's supposed to do.

I'm a friend of Alex...

Yeah, okay; I'll bite. Is that a euphemism along the same lines as being 'a friend of Dorothy', or are you X-box buddies with the author of The Tesseract?

As Mr Garland shares his surname with Judy , probably the former . Chris is more of a casual acquaintance of Dorothy.. ( Hey Chrissie boy... Guess Who ? )

Christ, I shudder to think! As long as you're not another bloomin' stalker...

(If it's who I think it is, you're gonna like it here. There are more grown-ups than we've been used to. More people with a sense of humour an' all - you'll need one if you wander onto the Prometheus review thread [EMITS LOW WHISTLE...] There's even a Captions thread! You're favourite film wouldn't happen to be... Omie Alone, would it...? )

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Apparently, Dredd (2012)'s been rated 12A in the UK.

After the US R-rating, I was expecting a 15 at the least, domestically. Good news financially, but I'm wondering how they managed this- the few people who have seen this film have all made special mention of the level of violence on display.

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/ATAFF289356/

The TRAILER is rated 12A, not the FILM.




There is no way DREDD is getting a 12A unless it gets butchered, there are skinnings in this film.

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I'm going to go all Negative Nancy but anyway:

-Ok, so the script has been around longer than The Raid (It's hardly an earth shatteringly original idea anyway..) but the comparisons are just too similar. Showing up in a tower block with a voice over some form of intercom telling all inhabitants to kill the invading officers?  The Raid was unfortunately released first and also unfortunately bloody good: so Dredd has a very steep hill to climb.

-Karl Urban: with his stressed-to-the-point-of-breaking American drawl, Batmanesque growl and uber-frowning mouth he reeks of a Cardboard cut-out hero that will only annoy the viewers that don't instantly forget him.

On the plus side I generally quite like Urban (I do, really ), love the idea of a proper R-Rated violent action film and ultimately realise that even if all the bad things I predict do come true...it will still be a better film than the Stallone joke.

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...he reeks of a Cardboard cut-out hero that will only annoy the viewers that don't instantly forget him.

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...he reeks of a Cardboard cut-out hero that will only annoy the viewers that don't instantly forget him.

Hero?! You must have this guy confused with another Dredd.

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The only great thing about Judge Dredd ('95) was the Alan Silvestri score which is still awesome to listen to.

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If this is a hit, I'm still hoping that someone has the balls to make a Strontium Dog movie.

or Rogue Trooper
or
Flesh ( imagine an 18 Jurassic Park )
[/quote. Stront must be made one day,always fancied Mel Gibson and Arnie in the lead rolls.Slaine need doing too,Time Killer would look boss


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Come against me, if you dare! I am the storm! Come if you dare, Shai'tan! I am the Dragon Reborn!

(in reply to Happy Shrapnel)

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If this is a hit, I'm still hoping that someone has the balls to make a Strontium Dog movie.

or Rogue Trooper
or
Flesh ( imagine an 18 Jurassic Park )

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Rogue Trooper would make a great film. Was there not talk of a movie before the first Dredd flick even? (I almost typed Rouge Trooper there which would be a different proposition entirely - "Hell-o, Gunnar!")

Flesh - The Movie? Cowboys V Dinosaurs? I'm amazed someone hasn't made this one already!