Judge Dredd Reboot

You have a entire futuristic mega city to play with and you set it in a single apartment complex?

I cannot stress this enough.

The budget was not big enough to further explore Mega City One in this film.

Robots definitely, but aren't mutants banned from coming into the city?

Walter the Wobot would be pwetty sweet, as would Judge Dredd's Italian landlady Maria.

Mutants got rights recently, and the timeline of the film's universe is wonky enough to let that happen.

I could do without Maria. I could do without Walter, too, but I wouldn't mind him.

edited 17th Sep '13 6:59:43 AM by Wackd

They didn't have a futuristic mega city to play with. They had a $45 million budget to play with.

Exactly. Not what you call high price movie. I would have liked to see more robots in general other then the Drones.

In many ways I think that was the charm of the movie. So often sci-fi/fantasy movies aim to completely shatter the foundations of the universe they just barely introduced, so it's not a bad thing to have an epic story set completely within the boundaries of that universe and not try to change the status quo in the first outing. It's a similar perk with The Hobbit as the adventure is certainly atypical but they ultimately are not fighting to protect all of Middle-Earth.

Well, there won't be another movie. Pretty much ever. Which in a way kinda sucks, but for me the way the makers of this film sabotaged the shit out of their own chances of success at the box office by kneecapping the amount of prints available that folks don't have trouble watching, i.e. in 2D, and screwing up the marketing so royally as they did also makes me feel it's kinda justified.

Pity. Karl Urban could have been Dredd for at least a trilogy.

Technically that's not the makers of the film, it's all the studio's fault.

Make credit due where credit is due

Film makers chose to film the movie in 3D and focused on that version to the exclusion of the 2D option. That's the end result. What went on before hand to influence that decision doesn't really matter to me.

The only reason they filmed it in 3D was because no studios were willing to fund the film unless it was in 3D.

That's the stupid-ass Hollywood system for you.

Could some one give me the Clift notes on this 3D/2D thing.

Post 218 in this thread links to an article that puts it much less sweary than I would be capable of doing.

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Good argument. But I think a general disnterest in the character was the most likely culprit. That and the old ultra violence.

Violence? Killing an action movie? What?

I continue to blame Stallone, shit distribution, and lack of advertising.

There is still a chance for a sequel so relax folks.

Didn't the Megazine print one recently?

The argument is that the level of violence in Dredd, true to the comics as it possibly is, is far too extreme to get the kind of audience numbers you need for a successful film. Audience tastes have changed since Verhoeven did the first Robocop.

Tam, you're in the UK, aren't you? I had no problems seeing the film in 2D - saw if first that way, and only saw the 3D version because someone said it was worth it. The low-key marketing was much more of an issue, I think.

Although the poster titling didn't help much, I suppose.

If you want some more live-action Dredd, check out Judge Minty on Youtube. A bit more of a comic feel to it, too. Only twenty minutes long, though. :(

All the screenings in local cinemas, or ones I could be assed to travel to, were 3D. 2D wasn't an option.

Tam: Huh that is odd. We had both 2d and 3d viewings stateside.

None of my local cinema chains did a 2D choice, or if they did it was so badly advertised I missed it. And I couldn't be arsed to travel to Edinburgh or somewhere far away like that on the train just to watch a film.

Like I said that is kind of odd. No bloody clue why they didn't have a 2d option alongside or if they did, did not tell about it.

Simple answer to that is Odeon and Showcase make much more moolah from Three Dee tickets than they do for 2D. That and the whole "fuck you Britain, you be getting very few 2D prints of this film and you will like it or else" policy that the distributors went with.

Ug how asinine.