Why does Dredd not have a topic of its own...
I mean the whole "AAAAIIIIYYYEE AAAAAMMMMM DAAA LOOOOOOORRR" (translated from stallone to english as "I am the law") is in itself enough to warrant buying the movie...
I normally stop watching after the first time he says that although occasionally i will skip forward to the court scene where he goes on about the evidence being falsified...
ahhh.... good times...
The movie is a goddam turkey, but it's nice to have Rob Schneider's jokes poking fun at Dredd now and then. The moment when he contorts his face and says "I am the law" is a classic, together with the "I am alive! Thanks God I am alive! Oh, so are you." line.
I was only slightly aware of the comic for years but read a few back issues when the movie was coming out so I'd have some idea of the backstory and setting. I was sure the movie was in trouble once Stallone took the helmet off, I figured they lost all the diehard fans right there. I liked the opening few minutes, but once I realized that Schneider was going to be in the whole movie, then I began to turn on it. Stallone makes enough turkeys on his own, but adding Rob Schneider that's just piling on, unfair.
Although I hope Armand Asante didn't wreck his diet with all the scenery he was chewing, since he was probably my favorite part of the film. Max Von Sydow was good, he certainly been in movies as bad as this, but his playing it straight felt like he was acting in any entirely different movie.
Yaddo 42 wrote:
I was sure the movie was in trouble once Stallone took the helmet off, I figured they lost all the diehard fans right there.
My thoughts exactly. Imagine Dredd without his helmet!! Whoever put Stallone up to it? Or is he just so vain he couldn't bear to masked all the time?
The movie did have some spectacular scenes, though.
They do that in all hollywood movies I think. Like in the last samurai Tom Cruise puts on samurai armour but never the helmet. Or for that matter any of the main characters in King Arthur. I guess actors dont need to protect their heads in melee combat.
I for some ungodly reason, liked this film quite a bit. Of course that was because of the terrible acting [like mentioned, how can you go wrong with 'I am the law'!!!]
Correct me if I'm wrong, but someone told me that Versace designed the uniforms/costumes for the movie?
I don't mind the whole no-helmet thing; is it really that big a deal? I mean, realistically Dredd would have to take the damn thing off everynow and then otherwise it would look riduculous. Not taking it off works best in a comic, but there's not much sense in doing it in a movie: different medium, different rules I guess.
As for the other examples, well they are just silly to not where a helmet into battle.
Versace did indeed design the costumes for the movie.
In the comic, Dredd NEVER took off his helmet, IIRC. I had a friend who used to read the comics religiously and never once did I see Dredd without his helmet, even in the blazing heat of the 'Cursed Earth'. Taking it off in a movie does make sense, though.
"AAAAHHH AMMMM DA LOOOOORRRR!!!" - one of the coolest lines and delivery ever to spring from a movie.
I remember when it came out, and there was much hubbub regarding the 'Judge's Gun'. A friend of mine told me that the scene where Dredd activates the different functions through voice command was the best part of the movie, and I'd have to agree from a nerdcool perspective.
I enjoyed it the first time I saw it, but I enjoyed it much more a few years later when it came out on laserdisc/video. I still get a kick out of Dredd.
~Archivist~
I put off watching this because I felt so burned when Batman came out. The ending was travesty. I refuse to watch the others. This new one looks like "Year One" so I'm hoping.
A co-worker of mine had parents that moved here from the Phillipines. I met her dad and we spent some time watching tv. He was this really little guy who was also really into tv. The tv looked enormous next to him. Anyway, it turned out his favorite movie was Judge Dredd. For some reason that made me want to see it. Haven't yet though.
I'll be seeing Batman Begins on Tuesday, so I'm hoping, too. When I saw Daredevil, I thought that it had the nasty, gritty edge that the Keaton Batman movie should have had.
Okay, maybe Bullseye was overplayed by Colin 'Wannabe Rusell' Farrell, and the first fight between Daredevil and Elektra was kind of dippy, but the overall grittiness in other parts of the movie were what I was focusing on.
I'm really looking forward to Batman Begins. Should be cool. Christian Bale was great in Equilibrium and I'm looking forward to what he can do in BB.
~A~