Dredd Trailer

Going on this, I'm going to say that I like the *look* of the 90s film better. It had more colorful crazy/wackiness of Mega-City One. This looks more 'grimdark', like a Nolan version of MC-1 or something.



"Cursed Earth Pizza!"

Hmmm. Must not get excited. Must not get excited. Must not get excited.

No sure I can handle another huge letdown for another of my favorite franchises.

Movie looks terrible and Dredd looks like a total douche.

Yeah, it does look a little off. Normally I like the "realistic" approach to films, but somehow this Robocop look is not right for Dredd. I would have loved to see a more colorful Snyder'ish approach with Hugo Weaving as Dredd

Weaving would be better in the role of a Chief Justice. Or, if they go that way, Judge Death.

Who's that as Judge Dredd? It sounds like Jackie Earl Haley.

stormseeker75 wrote: Who's that as Judge Dredd? It sounds like Jackie Earl Haley.

I'm pretty sure it's Karl Urban, the guy who played Eomer in Lord of the Rings.

I know next to nothing about Judge Dredd, aside from broad concepts. That said, this looks retardedly awesome.

I'd take this over the 95 version, any day. Sure, the other one looked nice (they nailed it with the uniforms), but they took several plot arcs from the comics and mangled them together into something that looked like Snow King's Amalgamated Princess Wife. Fucking horrible.

When I saw the drug angle, I thought Stookie Glanding... Yes! Wait, a drug that slows down time? Meh.

Want to see.

San Il Defanso wrote: I'm pretty sure it's Karl Urban, the guy who played Eomer in Lord of the Rings.

He also played Dr. McCoy in the recent Star Trek movie.

I'll watch this, even if just for the tech porn. Can't seem to get enough sci-fi.

This movie very well could end up being pretty decent, but I will not see it in theaters. It will very likely be a rental a long time down the road.

Thoughts on the trailer:

This movie looks like it was produced to look like several other popular "action" franchises. It goes for the gritty realism that every movie nowadays feels the need to exude. The main character has a gruff voice that is reminiscent of too many recent characters to mention. The sci-fi setting looks generic as all hell...it has no sense of wonder or anything. You look at it and go, "oh this entire movie is shot in front of green screen or done with CG. It looks synthetic and boring. The drab muted grayscale colors are another cool "action movie" trend that has already worn out its welcome.

Like I said, the movie could very well end up being an enjoyable watch, but the trailer screams of producers trying to make money back by copying every successful cliche in recent years.

I'm a big fan of 2000 AD(Obviously), so I'll most definitely see it. As to how good it'll be that is hard to tell from the trailer. I guess you have to be in one of the two Dredd camps...Cheesy, or Gritty? Dredd comics have been both from issue to issue, writer to writer.

Im going to suggest that the ideal Dredd picture would walk a fine balance between both cheesy and gritty.

My main issue with the trailer, is that Dredd looks really serious, and rather dull. The main attraction of the comics for me, was the totally self obsessed and oppresive control nature of Dredd.


Yeah the city and the visuals look pretty dull. On the plus side, the plot premise seems good, its not over blown. I still expect this to be better than the Stalon crap.

DukeofChutney wrote: Im going to suggest that the ideal Dredd picture would walk a fine balance between both cheesy and gritty.

My main issue with the trailer, is that Dredd looks really serious, and rather dull. The main attraction of the comics for me, was the totally self obsessed and oppresive control nature of Dredd.


Yeah the city and the visuals look pretty dull. On the plus side, the plot premise seems good, its not over blown. I still expect this to be better than the Stalon crap.

Stallone as Dredd was like a Jag with a Yugo engine. It looked pretty, but it wasn't going anywhere. The movie only had "cheesy", if you could call it that, with Schneider's character. The removing of the helmet was heresy, in my opinion. The dude uses the SLEEP MACHINE wearing it. He never takes it off.

I think the one line that made me chuckle was when they put the block in lockdown and Dredd's only response was, "That's not good." But spoken with a blase timbre.

Yeah, I don't know. I've only read the very early Judge Dredd comics, but this doesn't look or sound at all like those.

Judge Dredd is a corny motherfucker. Every issue of the early comics ended with him spitting some dumb one-liner like "Looks like that crook broke his motorcycle, something that must never happen to the law!" That makes you imagine some guy who sounds like Gregory Peck, not Christian Bale in The Dark Knight. Mega City One looked like IGY futurism gone bananas. Even in black and white, it looked garish.

That's probably not something that would fly with Hollywood, or today's audience, but this looks like the polar opposite of that. I'm not detecting any hint of a satirical bent to it. Dredd gets some one-liners, but they just sound stupid, not humorously stupid.