The Law Returns. This Time With His Helmet On! Judge Dredd!

[JarodRussell]

Urgh, this looks pretty awful. Urban might be a good McCoy, but he's definately not a good Dredd. The production design is also not my type. Overall, the quality looks rather low budget. And the story is like The Raid? Trapped in a building, and they need to clear every level?


And you can say what you want, Stallone had the right looks, the right voice and the right presence.

 

[Roshi]

Urgh, this looks pretty awful. Urban might be a good McCoy, but he's definately not a good Dredd. The production design is also not my type. Overall, the quality looks rather low budget. And the story is like The Raid? Trapped in a building, and they need to clear every level?

 

[JarodRussell]

And I definately don't care.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

The trailer looks pretty dodgy to me, but any similarities to The Raid would be coincidental. The script for Dredd was written well before the release of The Raid, and Dredd started filming at about the same time The Raid started playing at film festivals.

 

[JD]

The trailer at total film has been taken down.

 

[Gojira]

The trailer at total film has been taken down.

I have it on my blog. I like the trailer. I liked the 1995 original with Stallone but this looks like it is going to be good too.

 

[JD]

ComingSoon.com has the actual Machinima release. Looks like it could be fun.

 

[DimesDan]

Looks rather good.

 

[Skywalker]

Huh, that looks better than I was expecting.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Looks pretty good. That helmet looks too big for Urban's head though. He kind of looks like a kid trying on his dad's motorcycle helmet.

 

[Starkers]

Really it's just the obvious slow motion/3D bits in this that put me off, but I'm hoping they won't proliferate the film as much as they do the trailer.

I think the gritty pared down nature of this Dredd was to be expected, shame this is coming out after the Raid (which I haven't seen) but given this will have characters and a story beyond just a big fight (which is the imnpression I get about the Raid) it should do ok.

I still have a sneaking suspicion that in the final analysis we'd need to jam this and the 95 version together in a blender to get a proper Dredd film, but I'm looking forward to this a lot more than I was.

Still not 100% convinced Urban has quite enough presense to be, effectively, the living embodiment of the Law, but I think the voice is spot on, forget Batman it's pure Dirty Harry, as it should be.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I've only read a couple of Dredd tales so I'm not quite sure what the film "should be".

I think the gritty pared down nature of this Dredd was to be expected, shame this is coming out after the Raid (which I haven't seen) but given this will have characters and a story beyond just a big fight (which is the imnpression I get about the Raid) it should do ok.

Funny, you should mention The Raid (which I haven't seen beyond its trailer) because that's what I thought watching the trailer as well. EDIT: reading this thread more I see you weren't the only one mentioning it

 

[Skywalker]

I was just watching the trailer again, and Urban's actually got a pretty awesome growl going on. I kinda want to hear him voice Batman in a DC animated movie now.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I got excited after Urban was cast because I could hear him voice the dialogue in the leaked script. I thought he nailed Dredd's voice as I imagined it in the script.

 

[Professor Zoom]

Funny, you should mention The Raid (which I haven't seen beyond its trailer) because that's what I thought watching the trailer as well. EDIT: reading this thread more I see you weren't the only one mentioning it

I have seen the Raid, and yeah, I couldn't stop thinking about it during the Dredd trailer. The Raid is totally insane fun. It is almost non stop action.

Dredd was obviously in production around the same time, so they aren't rip offs, but the people who did see The Raid (what? 12?) might think the similarities are to much.

 

[JarodRussell]

Those who always moan about Stallone taking the helmet off. Did you dislike the entire story of Dredd being framed, going to prison and stranding in the Wasteland? If not, how the hell would you have done it without Dredd taking his helmet off?

 

[captcalhoun]

yes, i did. it was a stupid storyline.

 

[JoeZhang]

Those who always moan about Stallone taking the helmet off. Did you dislike the entire story of Dredd being framed, going to prison and stranding in the Wasteland? If not, how the hell would you have done it without Dredd taking his helmet off?

By not doing such a stupid story to start with?

 

[captcalhoun]

word.

*fist-bump*

 

[Lonemagpie]

After some thought, I'm in two minds about this new one.

Pros- the helmet, the tone, Urban, Headey, probably a decent story.

Cons- The uniform just isn't MC1 Judge stuff. It's too contemporary riot-cop. Since when was the Big Meg ever so *flat*? Physically, I mean - it looks like an endless landscape of two-storey buildings in the trailer... Oh, and too many contemporary vehicles - where are the mo-pads, H-wagons, etc?

I know that the visuals are just the style and we want good substance, but since we're talking about a visual medium adapting something from another visual medium, I'd expect to see something with some visual similarity, you know?

But I still live in hope.