MovieChat Forums > Judge Dredd (1995) Discussion > Stallone certainly looked the part

Stallone certainly looked the part

posted 8 years ago by ShakTwenty88
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if it was more faithful to the comics and had a decent script, movie could have been better.

I'm not familiar with the comics... but I wish Schneider wasn't in the movie.

Also I disliked the clone storyline and him getting framed.

Wish they had done a straight adventure/mission instead of him getting framed and going to jail, etc...

But I do like Sly more as the character instead of Urban... but they both did great jobs!

[–] MickyMac (2935) 6 years ago

Him being framed and going to jail was probably done to make Judge Dredd an easier sell than a fascist future cop. But framing him for murder I think wasted great opportunity and killed the tension, it just turned into a generic Stallone movie.

[–] MickyMac (2935) 5 years ago

Helmeted Dredd start to finish in the lead in a Hollywood production was never gonna happen anyway, perhaps a movie where Dredd is a background character in a ensemble cast would've been more in line with fans' expectations I don't know.

[–] Bencuckpiro (94) 4 years ago

agreed. but it was an era of dumb big action and sticking to the "source material" wasn't exactly a thing

[–] BlissNEsb (108) 4 years ago

I remember there being quite a few comic/tv series film adaptations in the 90s that were very source material-accurate... This is one of the rare few that isn't.

[–] enriquesingh (1769) 4 years ago

This type of movie was still in it's infancy... studios/directors did not know how to handle this material for at least another decade.

[–] enriquesingh (1769) 3 years ago

I've always believed this to be true.
Hollywood was still figuring it out.