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30 Mar 2013, 3:01 pm

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Judge Dredd (1995)
Dredd (2012)

Watching these two movies back to back, the most surprising discovery is that they have opposite strengths and weaknesses. Judge Dredd does a very good job of capturing the scope and character of Mega-City One, and the design and art direction are amazing, while Dredd gives us a drab and uninteresting interpretation of the city. They just shot footage of Johannesburg and added a few CGI buildings, and it shows. On the other hand, Dredd gets the character of Judge Dredd right, while Judge Dredd gets him so very wrong. Everyone complains about how he takes off the helmet, something he never does in the comics, but that's not really the problem. The problem is that the script turns Dredd into a generic action hero, the kind whose hard demeanor is "redeemed" by the end and who gets to kiss the pretty girl. The movie often feels more like Demolition Man II than a legitimate Judge Dredd adaptation, and it's easier to enjoy if you treat it as such. Still, Dredd is the overall better film. Despite my disdain for the bland art direction, getting the character right is more important, and the action scenes are done with a lot more creativity and craftsmanship.


hmm I'm not sure about the footage being shot in Johannesburg. The whole thing seemed to have been shot right outside of my office. The kombi crash seen, the "bergie" that got squashed. The guy that fell from the high level. All was right outside of my office, with a lot of copy/paste going on. I'm in Cape Town btw. I was there outside the day when they lifted the ambulance to be on that platform. You see this ambulance right at the end of the movie.



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30 Mar 2013, 4:03 pm

Kindergarten Cop

Arnold movie in which he is a cop who goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher.


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30 Mar 2013, 4:04 pm

Lincoln (2012)

As the Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield and as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.


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30 Mar 2013, 7:06 pm

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hmm I'm not sure about the footage being shot in Johannesburg. The whole thing seemed to have been shot right outside of my office. The kombi crash seen, the "bergie" that got squashed. The guy that fell from the high level. All was right outside of my office, with a lot of copy/paste going on. I'm in Cape Town btw. I was there outside the day when they lifted the ambulance to be on that platform. You see this ambulance right at the end of the movie.


It may have been Cape Town and I'm just misremembering. Whatever city it was, I felt that the depiction of Mega-City One was a bit lazy. One of the features on the DVD shows how they created it, and they basically just shot an existing city and added a few CGI skyscrapers. It just seems a bit bland compared to the version of MC1 seen in the 1995 film, which is a masterpiece of design and art direction. It reminds me of the depiction of Gotham City in the Batman films. In the Tim Burton movies, Gotham is a work of art, some of the best city design work in a movie since Blade Runner. In the Christopher Nolan movies, Gotham is... Chicago. Whatever merits films like The Dark Knight and Dredd have, I'm growing more than a little tired of art, design, and craftsmanship being sacrificed in the name of "realism."



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31 Mar 2013, 6:09 am

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hmm I'm not sure about the footage being shot in Johannesburg. The whole thing seemed to have been shot right outside of my office. The kombi crash seen, the "bergie" that got squashed. The guy that fell from the high level. All was right outside of my office, with a lot of copy/paste going on. I'm in Cape Town btw. I was there outside the day when they lifted the ambulance to be on that platform. You see this ambulance right at the end of the movie.


It may have been Cape Town and I'm just misremembering. Whatever city it was, I felt that the depiction of Mega-City One was a bit lazy. One of the features on the DVD shows how they created it, and they basically just shot an existing city and added a few CGI skyscrapers. It just seems a bit bland compared to the version of MC1 seen in the 1995 film, which is a masterpiece of design and art direction. It reminds me of the depiction of Gotham City in the Batman films. In the Tim Burton movies, Gotham is a work of art, some of the best city design work in a movie since Blade Runner. In the Christopher Nolan movies, Gotham is... Chicago. Whatever merits films like The Dark Knight and Dredd have, I'm growing more than a little tired of art, design, and craftsmanship being sacrificed in the name of "realism."

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31 Mar 2013, 3:01 pm

The Croods in 3D

An animated movie about a prehistoric family looking for a new place to live with the help of a Cro-Magnon known as "Guy", voiced by Ryan Reynolds.

Terrific movie!


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31 Mar 2013, 3:02 pm

The Croods in 3D

An animated movie about a prehistoric family looking for a new place to live with the help of a Cro-Magnon known as "Guy", voiced by Ryan Reynolds.

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The Croods in 3D

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The Croods in 3D

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31 Mar 2013, 3:33 pm

Midway

War film about the World War II battle that turned the tide of the war in favor of America against Imperial Japan.


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31 Mar 2013, 4:31 pm

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hmm I'm not sure about the footage being shot in Johannesburg. The whole thing seemed to have been shot right outside of my office. The kombi crash seen, the "bergie" that got squashed. The guy that fell from the high level. All was right outside of my office, with a lot of copy/paste going on. I'm in Cape Town btw. I was there outside the day when they lifted the ambulance to be on that platform. You see this ambulance right at the end of the movie.


It may have been Cape Town and I'm just misremembering. Whatever city it was, I felt that the depiction of Mega-City One was a bit lazy. One of the features on the DVD shows how they created it, and they basically just shot an existing city and added a few CGI skyscrapers. It just seems a bit bland compared to the version of MC1 seen in the 1995 film, which is a masterpiece of design and art direction. It reminds me of the depiction of Gotham City in the Batman films. In the Tim Burton movies, Gotham is a work of art, some of the best city design work in a movie since Blade Runner. In the Christopher Nolan movies, Gotham is... Chicago. Whatever merits films like The Dark Knight and Dredd have, I'm growing more than a little tired of art, design, and craftsmanship being sacrificed in the name of "realism."


Still, Dredd 2012 annihilates Dredd 95 by a country mile.


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31 Mar 2013, 5:16 pm

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Still, Dredd 2012 annihilates Dredd 95 by a country mile.


The 2012 film is better overall, yes, but I'm a little frustrated at how neither film seems to completely "get" the comics. The 1995 film nailed the design of Mega-City One and captured at least some of the humor and satire of the comics ("eat recycled food; it's good for the environment, and okay for you!"), but got the character of Dredd wrong. The 2012 film gets the character right, but MC1 is too bland and colorless, and the overall tone is too self-serious and humorless. RoboCop is a much better Dredd movie than either of the two official ones. Future filmmakers should study it to get the tone right. It's too bad that the 2012 film bombed at the box office and probably won't get a sequel, because I would love to see the same filmmakers expand on what they established and bring in the black humor and satire of the comics.



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31 Mar 2013, 5:31 pm

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Still, Dredd 2012 annihilates Dredd 95 by a country mile.


The 2012 film is better overall, yes, but I'm a little frustrated at how neither film seems to completely "get" the comics. The 1995 film nailed the design of Mega-City One and captured at least some of the humor and satire of the comics ("eat recycled food; it's good for the environment, and okay for you!"), but got the character of Dredd wrong. The 2012 film gets the character right, but MC1 is too bland and colorless, and the overall tone is too self-serious and humorless. RoboCop is a much better Dredd movie than either of the two official ones. Future filmmakers should study it to get the tone right. It's too bad that the 2012 film bombed at the box office and probably won't get a sequel, because I would love to see the same filmmakers expand on what they established and bring in the black humor and satire of the comics.


True, but at the end of the day, Dredd 2012 is fairly decent. It's just a big shame there won't be a sequel, Karl Urban did the character justice


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31 Mar 2013, 5:47 pm

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True, but at the end of the day, Dredd 2012 is fairly decent. It's just a big shame there won't be a sequel, Karl Urban did the character justice


I'd say it's better than fairly decent. It's a damn good action movie, one of the best I've seen in years. It's certainly better than, say, The Expendables or Taken. (Both of which I enjoyed, by the way.) It's just not quite the perfect Dredd film that so many people have been making it out to be. The filmmakers were so focused on taking the character seriously that they neglected the satire, which is equally important.

As for a sequel, I read something just the other day on a movie news website where they interviewed one of the producers. He said there probably won't be a full-length theatrical sequel, but he also said that he was planning a short Dredd fan film, along the lines of the short Punisher fan film Dirty Laundry which starred Thomas Jane. I hope they get Karl Urban back, and like I said, bring in the satire element.



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Somewhat disappointing horror movie about a seemingly supernatural killer born out of an internet myth.

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03 Apr 2013, 5:21 am

The Croods (2013) - was a family fun animation film. I liked the humour in it.