Dredd 2012 (Movie)

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **NBK** » Sat Feb 09, 2013 11:37 pm

Finally got to see this after missing 'all' the 2D showings that were on at the cinema last year.

Tragic Magic wrote:No way Cosmo, there were definitely points where the blu ray looked gooseberry fool. There is a point where Mama's main henchman dude is following her down a corridor and it looks like a badly compressed YouTube video.

I noticed that too but it didn't ruin my enjoyment at all. Top class and good to have a proper Dredd film out there at last. I was glad of the low/lesser budget feel, it was like watching the Terminator or something. Great stuff.

Website · PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **Tragic Magic** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 1:33 am

Also I love how in this film they've gone for that 80's sci fi look with all the technology. For some reason, I find it much more believable that stuff in most modern sci fi films. I guess because now it feels more like an alternate future instead of trying to predict what technology will look like in the real life future.

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **Cosmo** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 3:10 am

Hmm, can't say I noticed a drop in quality at any point. I probably will next time I watch it.

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **Buffalo** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 3:14 am

Eye test.

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **Edwinalders** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 3:22 pm

This movie was a huge disappointment. What's with the bit where he tells the last baddie "wait" so he can pray that the girl saves him?

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **Cosmo** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 4:23 pm

Buffalo wrote:Eye test.

I already need to wear glasses. :fp:

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **Death's Head** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:06 am

Edwinalders wrote:This movie was a huge disappointment. What's with the bit where he tells the last baddie "wait" so he can pray that the girl saves him?

Exactly. Dredd would have pulled the bullet out and flicked it right through the last Judge's eye. Although having said that, I could actually have seen that part being played out in the comic, part of the black humour.

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **Jax** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 12:52 pm

There must be a name for that trope, where the bad guy is about to kill someone, then at the last second gets killed by someone you haven't seen in a while/thought was dead. It happens in everything, all the time, to the point where there's no tension at all anymore if it happens. I watched a film or episode of something recently, can't remember what it was, where that happened at least 5 times.

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **Death's Head** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:38 pm

Jax wrote:I watched a film or episode of something recently, can't remember what it was, where that happened at least 5 times.

It happens in Dredd. Was it perhaps the last 5 viewings?

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **FatDaz** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:58 pm

Death's Head wrote:
Jax wrote:I watched a film or episode of something recently, can't remember what it was, where that happened at least 5 times.

It happens in Dredd. Was it perhaps the last 5 viewings?

Happens in 24 pretty much every other week.

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **TheTurnipKing** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:59 pm

Jax wrote:There must be a name for that trope, where the bad guy is about to kill someone, then at the last second gets killed by someone you haven't seen in a while/thought was dead. It happens in everything, all the time, to the point where there's no tension at all anymore if it happens. I watched a film or episode of something recently, can't remember what it was, where that happened at least 5 times.

I assume that would be Chekov's Gun or an associated trope thereof?

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **Moggy** » Sun Jul 21, 2013 9:45 am

Finally watched this last night. Awesome movie and was great to actually see an action film that didn't give a gooseberry fool about the rating and didn't tone down just to get a 12a.

Dredd :wub:

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **Foxhound** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 10:27 pm

2000AD have started an official petition to make a sequel. Karl Urban also made some noises about it last week, I believe.

Digital X here:
http://2000adonline.us5.list-manage.com ... 62906ebdcc

There's also a facebook page to like:
https://www.facebook.com/MakeADreddSequel

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **Death's Head** » Fri Jul 26, 2013 11:45 am

I don't understand. Who would we be petitioning? Surely a sequel will only be made if the original (and I'm not talking about the Stalone one) made enough to warrant a sequel.

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **Lagamorph** » Fri Jul 26, 2013 11:48 am

Weren't the Blu-Ray sales pretty good and it was only box office performance that was poor thanks to it being only in 3D a lot of places?

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **YouSmellOfWee** » Fri Jul 26, 2013 9:45 pm

Buffalo wrote:Watched it last night and didn't really like it, no decent characterisation. Just words on a page spoken by people in daft costumes, nothing to really make them interesting.
The Blu-ray was mostly grainy as hell which added to the whole 'made for tv' feeling it all seemed to smell of.

The 2D version on the Blu-Ray is apparently terrible quality, almost SD at times. The 3D rip is perfectly crisp. I have no idea why they didn't just put the best 2D quality version on there. Some other regions had a perfect copy. We got shafted, yet again.

Edwinalders wrote:This movie was a huge disappointment. What's with the bit where he tells the last baddie "wait" so he can pray that the girl saves him?

I believe we're supposed to think that she told him telepathically that she had the shot. That's what I assumed, and that's what most people I talked to also assumed.

Death's Head wrote:Exactly. Dredd would have pulled the bullet out and flicked it right through the last Judge's eye. Although having said that, I could actually have seen that part being played out in the comic, part of the black humour.

Bullet went clean through, which is why we see Dredd patching up the exit wound at the front.

It seems to me that the biggest issue people have with this film is "they didn't explain everything to me, they just showed me everything and expected me to understand what my eyes were seeing".

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **captain red dog** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 8:05 am

I saw this last night and thought it was great. It's like night and day between this and the Stallone film. Urban plays Dredd like a futuristic Clint Eastwood!

I really hope they do a sequel.

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **kommissarboris** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 1:46 pm

YouSmellOfWee wrote:
Buffalo wrote:Watched it last night and didn't really like it, no decent characterisation. Just words on a page spoken by people in daft costumes, nothing to really make them interesting.
The Blu-ray was mostly grainy as hell which added to the whole 'made for tv' feeling it all seemed to smell of.

The 2D version on the Blu-Ray is apparently terrible quality, almost SD at times. The 3D rip is perfectly crisp. I have no idea why they didn't just put the best 2D quality version on there. Some other regions had a perfect copy. We got shafted, yet again.

2D version is grand.

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **Death's Head** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 5:09 pm

This probably means there won't be a sequel - cost £32 million, made only £23 million oh crap

PostRe: Dredd 2012 (Movie) by **Lagamorph** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 6:30 pm

Death's Head wrote:This probably means there won't be a sequel - cost £32 million, made only £23 million oh crap

I don't think that includes Blu-ray sales though, just box office.

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