Hard to tell much of what is going on in ten seconds, but Karl looks more like Dredd than Stallone. Fingers crossed.
I’ve never thought of Stallone as Dredd, just a hack actor playing Dredd dress-up. That said, I’m looking forward to the movie. Fingers crossed with you!
Ya think so? I thought the one thing Stallone had going for him was a physical resemblance.
Images released make it look like modern day but with bigger buildings. Everyone’s wearing jeans and hoodies, and the cars look like current style. It’s just not futuristically stylised enough.
The one thing the last movie did have going for it was immaculate production design: it was one of the very few movies that actually * looked * like the comic it was based on, which was no small achievement for a film set in such a visually distinctive world.
I didn’t see the Stallone movie, but any good adaptation of Judge Dredd would have to capture an essential feature of the original comics: that it is as black-comedy disutopian as Brazil, or if you cranked Robocop up to about 15. Basic premise: in the future humanity’s greed, violence and short-sightedness has ruined the Earth, turning most of it into a contaminated wasteland where only mutants survive. The remnants of humanity live in sterile megacities where ultra-authoritarian regimes enforce draconian laws out of the necessity of sheer survival, and even then extinction-level disasters threaten on a regular basis. Our “hero” fights to maintain whatever is left of human existence, although one has to wonder why exactly.
IMHO, Judge Dredd is essentially the story of what happens after God condemns the human race to Hell, and humanity has to make the best of it they can.
I didn’t hate the original film but I did think having it a Stallone vehicle did the overall film a disservice. I didn’t even mind them including Hammerstein.
Karl Urbanas Judge Dredd? What’s the world coming to?
Actually I think he’ll do a good job.
And yet the vast majority of people are shown as being idiots who don’t give a shit and keep on amusing themselves doing stupid things in the midst of an imbecile ephemeral consumer culture until the next city-razing disaster. For something so consistently funny, it really is an astoundingly bleak comic.
I did a double take when I thought it was Keith Urban as Dredd.
I thought the ABC Warrior was the best bit!
Here’s a low res version of the complete trailer. As my mate said, leaked from the Sov-Blok. Full res will probably be out sometime later today or tomorrow.
Mmm. Looks a bit straight to DVD for my liking. And the art direction is pants.
That - Mean Machine and the Hershey Stance - she got it just right…
Things I hated - Dredd removed his Helmet - the whole movie with it off - hello have they ever read the comic…
Sly - ‘I am the Law’ Yes one of Dredd’s but never mumbled…
Beyond that Judge Dredd was a satire, poking fun at all sorts of people.
Doesn’t look half bad as an action flick. From what I can see in the trailer, I like Urban’s deadpan delivery.
Just seen the trailer. Looks like they’re ripping off a certain recent martial-arts movie
I wanted to like this, but after the trailer…i’m less excited. Compare this one to the admittedly cheesy (but entertaining) Judge Dredd (which is probably just a guilty pleasure of mine)
Just saw the trailer. My opinion? They basically borrowed Judge Dredd’s name and look for a sci-fi “supercop bashes megabaddies” flick; but it looks entertaining in it’s own right. Let’s call it an alternate-universe version of Judge Dredd.
I didn’t know what movie you’re talking about (I don’t watch Martial Arts movies) but it seems you are referring to The Raid: Redemption, which went into production a year after the Dredd script was completed.
Looks like they set this in “the old city” to save costs. Disappointed, but for the most part the story takes place within a Block so probably won’t be too bad overall.