Dredd Trailer

I showed the trailer to my wife without telling her what film it was for, and she said that until Dredd appeared she thought it was a trailer for The Dark Knight Rises. It definitley looks like it is trying to mimic the Nolan Batman films. I am dubious and have low expectations, but will see it because I am a Dredd fan.

The bit at the end appears to be Dredd throwing Lena Headey out of that window with the "The sentence is death" voice over.

God I hate most trailers these days.

I thought it was going to be Umpty Candy at first.
I guess I'm a little more optimistic than most of y'all, cause it has to be better than the first movie, right? Right???

Hopefully the violence and grit will be so over the top (as per current Hollywood standards) that I'll be able to interpret it as the satirical humour of the comics if I so choose.

The trailer looks like a SF remake of The Raid: Redemption - which is a really excellent action film but not really in the spirit of Dredd.

I like Urban as Dredd (and it helps that he's a Dredd fan himself) but the film doesn't seem to have caught the satirical tone of the comic or the ambivalent nature of Dredd. While I loathe most of the Stallone film (I think Demolition Man is actually a lot closer to the Judge Dredd comic/2000AD aesthetic) there's a sequence directed by Chris Cunningham (the Angel Gang sequence) that actually feels right.

And I hate, hate, hate the reveal at the end of the Stallone Dredd:



I'm very ambivalent about the new Dredd - though I might try and catch it at the cinemas during the week it will run (if it doesn't go straight to DVD here.)