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ORIGINAL: manwihtheplan

My overall feelings of Dredd 3D...

1) Uninspired title. Sticking 3D on the end of a title make it sound a bit naff although I think it's fair to say Jaws 3D is the second greatest motion picture ever made.

2) Plot? Well, kinda wafer thin. Put it this way if Dredd 3D were a woman she wouldn't need to lose any weight. Want some more donuts, darling? No, I didn't think so.

3) Box office? Wow - sure tanked stateside. Deserved to do better.

Dredd 3D is enjoyable enough once you get past the video game type plot which does little to showcase the world and culture of Mega-City 1. The forthcoming Judge Minty fan film should be the closest 'film' adapation of 2000AD's Judge Dredd. The fan film is scheduled to be out later this year (fingers crossed).

However, if you want the proper Judge Dredd, go read it in 2000AD (the stories by John Wagner and Alan Grant). When it comes to Judge Dredd, the comic book version will always reign supreme. Compared to the best Wagner/Grant Judge Dredd stories, Dredd 3D is a poor relative.

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dreddhead! Nice to see you back again!

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ORIGINAL: manwihtheplan

My overall feelings of Dredd 3D...

1) Uninspired title. Sticking 3D on the end of a title make it sound a bit naff although I think it's fair to say Jaws 3D is the second greatest motion picture ever made.

2) Plot? Well, kinda wafer thin. Put it this way if Dredd 3D were a woman she wouldn't need to lose any weight. Want some more donuts, darling? No, I didn't think so.

3) Box office? Wow - sure tanked stateside. Deserved to do better.

Dredd 3D is enjoyable enough once you get past the video game type plot which does little to showcase the world and culture of Mega-City 1. The forthcoming Judge Minty fan film should be the closest 'film' adapation of 2000AD's Judge Dredd. The fan film is scheduled to be out later this year (fingers crossed).

However, if you want the proper Judge Dredd, go read it in 2000AD (the stories by John Wagner and Alan Grant). When it comes to Judge Dredd, the comic book version will always reign supreme. Compared to the best Wagner/Grant Judge Dredd stories, Dredd 3D is a poor relative.

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ORIGINAL: manwihtheplan

However, if you want the proper Judge Dredd, go read it in 2000AD (the stories by John Wagner and Alan Grant). When it comes to Judge Dredd, the comic book version will always reign supreme. Compared to the best Wagner/Grant Judge Dredd stories, Dredd 3D is a poor relative.

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1. No Relatable Characters


It must be one of the first things that is taught in Screenwriting 101; create characters your audience can relate to. They don’t have to be someone who the audience literally feel exactly the same as, like Luke Skywalker, Frodo Baggins or other heroes from the same batch. But there needs to be something that the audience can latch on to. In fact I can’t think of any great film that doesn’t have at least one relatable character. By the end of Psycho, we’ve been at points directly following four different characters (Marion, Norman, Arbogast and Lila). One is stealing a vast sum of money from her boss and another is hiding the dead body of the woman who up until three minutes ago was the audience’s viewpoints. And yet we still feel for the characters, understanding their motives and allowing them to bring us into their world.

Judge Dredd is by his very nature an unlikable and unrelatable character. He is a literally faceless lawgiver working for a oppressive government with has no human characteristics who just kills people on the spot. He may work as the driving force of a short comic strip, but for 95 minutes (and a long 95 minutes at that) it doesn’t work.

You can imagine that was why Anderson was written into the script. A rookie training with Dredd, she’s an orphan struggling to make the pass grade to become a Judge; typical empathy character. But Olivia Thirlby plays her so closed and the character’s psychic ability only further distances her from the audience. To make things worse, as the film develops she looses all semblance of an emphatic role; after a brief moment of worrying over killing she is happy to gun down as many thugs as it takes.

The lack of empathy with the characters is by far the worst thing in the film. We as an audience have no way in to the story and thus it all washes over us, highlighting just how poor the film actually is.

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DREDD is not only a frontrunner for the worst movie of the year, but easily stands as one of the most repellent films of all time.

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ORIGINAL: manwihtheplan

I don't think Dredd 3D is going to be a hit at next year's American Christian Convention!

http://www.movieguide.org/reviews/movie/dredd.html

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DREDD is not only a frontrunner for the worst movie of the year, but easily stands as one of the most repellent films of all time.

It's possible Alex Garland missed a trick and that was to add a bit more humour or absurdity to the story to offset the grim world of MC-1. In this respect I think Garland and DNA Films were a bit short-sighted or naive. If you make the tone of a Judge Dredd film relentlessly grim don't expect millions of people to want to pay to see it. And er.. clearly that's what's happened! Whoops.

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ORIGINAL: manwihtheplan

I don't think Dredd 3D is going to be a hit at next year's American Christian Convention!

http://www.movieguide.org/reviews/movie/dredd.html

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ORIGINAL: BatSpider

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ORIGINAL: manwihtheplan

I don't think Dredd 3D is going to be a hit at next year's American Christian Convention!

http://www.movieguide.org/reviews/movie/dredd.html

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DREDD is not only a frontrunner for the worst movie of the year, but easily stands as one of the most repellent films of all time.

It's possible Alex Garland missed a trick and that was to add a bit more humour or absurdity to the story to offset the grim world of MC-1. In this respect I think Garland and DNA Films were a bit short-sighted or naive. If you make the tone of a Judge Dredd film relentlessly grim don't expect millions of people to want to pay to see it. And er.. clearly that's what's happened! Whoops.

I'd have thought the American Christian Convention would be well up for a spot of violence, mass gun ownership and extreme punishment.

Maybe the problem is that Garland had the balls, integrity, and talent to stick to his guns, without worrying about audiences containing sheeple who like milk with their water? I saw a great movie so I personally benefitted. Didn't you? Seriously, there are THAT many fucktards who'd pay to watch something like Transformers, Die Hard 4, Nolan's Batshit, etc, but not Dredd?

BTW, there was plenty of dark humour and the slo-mo was stunningly beautiful rather than grim. Very clever tight plot, and I picked up a couple of subtle things the second time of watching it that I'd missed first time around. I came out the cinema each time feeling buzzed. Even the "critics" praised it, but Empire should put their only-3-stars next to their Attack of the Clones infamy in their Hall of Shame. And read the thread here. Seen it = loved it.

Dredd 3D is one of the best movies I've seen, and it's mistreatment at the box office is in the original BladeRunner category. I'm not even a Dredd fan. Well, I'm glad I managed to catch a movie that was too intense for most others.

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So up they go, through one nondescript corridor after another, and the film grows grimmer and less distinctive with each floor. Alex Garland’s script lays out the Judge Dredd world early, then more or less forgets about it, turning Urban and Thirlby into just another pair of cops, albeit cops in possession of some futuristic guns. Locked in a scowl and doing his best Clint Eastwood, Urban is a fine Dredd, though a flavorless one. And Thirlby invests her character with enough vulnerability and determination to avoid getting lost in the noise. Headey’s eerily soft-spoken villain gets some good moments, but the film is mostly a bunch of flatly staged bits of action shot against anonymous backgrounds. (In 3-D. Because it’s 2012.) It’s 98 minutes of no fun and much gunfire, and though it’s true in some respects to the Dredd of the comics, the spirit of the original remains stubbornly on the page.

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Judge Minty Showings for November

Judge William Minty has spent his entire adult life policing the violent streets of Mega-City One - and now he's slowing down. When a lapse of judgement almost ends his life, he knows that it's time to quit. He can choose to teach in the Academy, or he can leave the city and walk alone out into the anarchy of the Cursed Earth, taking law to the lawless.

Judge Minty is a NOT FOR PROFIT fan film, shown with the kind permission of 2000 AD and Rebellion.

We are hoping to submit to a number of international film festivals. For some of these a requirement is that the film has not been released on the internet. This will delay making Judge Minty available to view on the internet for a little while.

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manwihtheplan

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ORIGINAL: evilpickle4

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manwihtheplan

I think there is a flaw in your argument and it is "Taken 2". This piece of cinematic garbage has taken a shedload of cash at the US Box Office. Why? Because the US like what they like and are unwilling to try something that isn't homegrown or US-owned. It's why a great foreign film has to be remade for the US market.

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It's easy to prove how poor this film is.

The villain in Dredd 3D is a hooker.

Sheesh, 35 years of colourful, weird, Judge Dredd villains and the best they come up with for the film is a prossy? Talk about short-changing Judge Dredd fans. Batman fans get the Joker, Bane, Cat Woman etc in those films, Spider-man gets Doctor Octopus and the Lizard and us Dredd fans wait for this so-called 'faithful Judge Dredd film' and we get Dredd vs a..............


hooker.

It's just laughable. Pathetic. That's the best Garland could come up with? A hooker?! It's just lame.

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ORIGINAL: Happy Shrapnel

Isn't Ma Ma and actual villan from the original comics ?

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ORIGINAL: manwihtheplan

Great news for all Judge Dredd fans. The Judge Minty fan film is being shown in November.

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Judge Minty Showings for November

Judge William Minty has spent his entire adult life policing the violent streets of Mega-City One - and now he's slowing down. When a lapse of judgement almost ends his life, he knows that it's time to quit. He can choose to teach in the Academy, or he can leave the city and walk alone out into the anarchy of the Cursed Earth, taking law to the lawless.

Judge Minty is a NOT FOR PROFIT fan film, shown with the kind permission of 2000 AD and Rebellion.

We are hoping to submit to a number of international film festivals. For some of these a requirement is that the film has not been released on the internet. This will delay making Judge Minty available to view on the internet for a little while.

http://judgeminty.blogspot.co.uk/

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I think there is a flaw in your argument and it is "Taken 2". This piece of cinematic garbage has taken a shedload of cash at the US Box Office. Why? Because the US like what they like and are unwilling to try something that isn't homegrown or US-owned. It's why a great foreign film has to be remade for the US market.

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ORIGINAL: manwihtheplan

Dredd 3D's box office take looks worse than we thought (and it was pretty grim to start with!).

The UK distributor of Dredd 3D, Entertainment, paid $7 million for the UK distribution rights:

"The sales included a $7 million deal with British distributor Entertainment Film Distributors." - Wikipedia (assuming this is accurate)

$7 million is £4.3 million. According to the box office stats, Dredd 3D has taken £4.3 million at the UK box office which is the exact amount Entertainment paid to secure the distribution rights. Quite a striking coincidence. This means the film hasn't made any profit from UK screenings. The cinema chains take a percentage of the gross which means Entertainment won't get the full £4.3 million gross (and, I assume, the producers - Reliance/IM Global/DNA/Rebellion - get a tiny percentage too) so it's extremely unlikely Entertainment will ever recoup their original amount. This information was first mentioned on the 2000AD Judge Dredd film board.