History Headscratchers / Dredd

** Anderson arms herself with an SMG after she loses her Lawgiver and uses it for the rest of the movie.

** Because it's a not-strictly-realistic science fiction action movie. RuleOfCool, essentially.

** Presumably in the world of ''Dredd'' they were sufficiently well-defended to prevent the bombs from getting through or the bombs failed to get through for whatever reason.

** Dredd may also have doubts about the whole idea of psychic testimony, alone, being the basis for a capital conviction. He'd prefer to find some material evidence and/or have Kay's guilt borne out by the man's own actions than rely solely on a rookie's mental talents.

*** Also, the guns may have been used by ''other'' gang members to commit as-yet-unsolved crimes to which the weapons can be matched.

** Wait, what? Anderson arms herself with an SMG after she loses her Lawgiver and uses it for the rest of the movie.

*** They might not be preferred, but when you're outnumbered dozens to two you're going to be summarily executing everyone pointing a gun at you anyway, so saving evidence for trial is a moot point. And remember, while Dredd hates to execute people on 99%, 'you were just shooting at me' is a 100%.

*** They haven't likely faced this i like forever so they spend their time loafing and not paying attention. And they are quite incompetent at their jobs.

** Because it presumably makes you feel great and certainly makes everything look and seem cooler, and if there's anywhere that you might feel tempted to take something that makes you feel great and makes your surroundings seem better, it's a CrapsackWorld.

** In the comics Mega City One grows and shrinks over time. It's clear they have someway of clearing radiation from areas they want to build on, presumably the films world is the sam. So it makes sense for Mega City One to be built on the cost for the same reason so many real world cities are, access to the sea

** Actually, John Wagner is American born, but raised in Scotland from the age of 12.

*** Some people have personal phobias and squicks that aren't constructed on what seems like rational structures to others. Hershey's personal feelings of what she finds disturbing or infuriating may not operate on someone else's subjective judgment of "Well, vaginal sex is less disturbing than oral sex, which is less disturbing than anal sex, which is less disturbing than-"

** Actually, John Wagner is American born, but raised in Scotland.

** It's also worth noting that ''Judge Dredd'' and Mega City One were decidedly ''not'' created by American authors.

** In the comics, they used a missile defence laser screen (As seen in both ''Origins'' and ''The Apocalypse War''). Presumably, Mega City One in this movie's universe has something similar, as evidenced by Peach Trees' blast doors.