why not as sussessful as Mad Max Fury Road? - Dredd (2012) Discussion

[–] 9 years ago

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I saw Fury Road at the cinema a month or so back. Charlize Theron sure, big name, I love her in everything. But who the hell is Hardy? I assume that was who played Max? he was completely unknown to me.

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[–] eldospeaks 9 years ago

he was completely unknown to me.

You haven't watched many movies recently, have you?

"I stooped to pick a buttercup. Why people leave buttocks lying around, I've no idea."

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[–] audio_adidas 9 years ago

You haven't watched many movies recently, have you?

lol, seriously.

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[–] Kyumonryu 9 years ago

Yeah thats believable....
Hardy is one of the most well known actors in Hollywood right now, but you have never seen him.
So you didn´t saw:
- Rocknrolla
- Inception
- Warrior
- Bronson
- The dark knight rises
- The Drop?
And these are just the most well known of his movies.

...but they hung him anyway.
Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry.

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[–] MartinP666 9 years ago

Don't forget Lawless!

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[–] major_lazer 9 years ago

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The Pitch Perfect sequel beat Fury Road to number one, so Dredd should have had more musical numbers:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4061

http://youtu.be/OI3shBXlqsw

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[–] JimmyMcCool 9 years ago

In the UK Dredd was rated 18 and Mad Max was a 15. Age ratings can have an effect on how many can see the film.

I have to say I think the new Mad Max is overrated, I nearly fell asleep. It's supposed to be a sequel to the third one and it;s not exactly a smooth transition. I'd rather it was a reboot and they had some kind of back story. The action was so bland and I couldn't care who lived or died. I can't even remember what it was about, something to do with Max and Charlize Theron driving a car full of models away from this gnarly geezer and his army of minions. That's the movie right there.

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[–] waswasere 9 years ago

Each to their own. I'm watching it right now and currently the Stallone version with all its faults is winning hands down. The slo-mo is killing it.

"I know it looked like I fell... but it was all part of my plan!"

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[–] eldospeaks 9 years ago

Agreed. Stallone's version of Mad Max was terrible.

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[–] kadajawi 9 years ago

Agreed! The Stallone movie sets up a futuristic world, and, well, it may be campy, but it is fun.

This one I'd say is about as good... very different. But the pacing was just wrong somehow. The slo-mo scenes were just too slow, too long. I felt like looking at my watch to see how long those scenes were... they just went on, and on, and on, ... I liked the acting, the story, to a certain extent the direction/editing, but in the midst of an exciting scene it went to slo-mo... (and yes, I loved the idea of the slo-mo drug). I wish this movie could have had a better director. Everything else was good to great.

While I haven't seen Fury Road yet, it seems to me like Fury Road is more ambitious in its story, more epic (I did see the trailer, and OMG).

Dredd shouldn't have flopped, it wasn't too bad. It completely passed me, only recently I saw Judge Dredd again and also went to the imdb page, where I noticed that there's a newer movie. The new one was on TV earlier today, so I watched it. On the other hand, it was impossible to get past Mad Max Fury Road, it is a more beloved franchise IMHO (at least in the movie world), and I've been looking forward to it for years now (wasn't it supposed to be released last year, or two years ago? Ever since hype has been building up)).

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[–] eldospeaks 7 years ago

The slo-mo scenes were slow?

You don't say.

"I stooped to pick a buttercup. Why people leave buttocks lying around, I've no idea."

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[–] Ma_MaMia 9 years ago

I agree with everything Jimmy. Big fan of Road Warrior but I thought Fury Road was absolute crap.

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[–] mubhceeb 9 years ago

I enjoyed Fury Road immensely, though I still prefered the first two Mad Max films and I must admit to missing Gibson in the role.

But pound for pound, I still think I enjoyed Dredd more.

It was just tighter and more economical with its storytelling and less inflated.

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[–] JimmyMcCool 9 years ago

I think I need to watch Mad Max when it comes out on dvd. Been suprised at the amount of good feedback it's getting. It sounds like the kind of movie I would like...yet I was so bored.

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[–] Ma_MaMia 9 years ago

Dredd was a raw brutal strong R rated movie that had the same amount of violence you used to get in 80's action movies like Die Hard, maybe even more so in some instances, while Fury Road was a soft R.

Fury Road felt compromised, this didn't.

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[–] TrevorAclea 9 years ago

Simple answer: Mad Max was preceded by three hit movies that became part of the popular culture, had astonishingly positive reviews and had an excellent marketing campaign from a major studio while Dredd was following a legendary turkey that became a benchmark for bad 90s schlockbusters, had good but not exceptional reviews, had a poor marketing campaign and was released through a US distributor who were being underwritten by the film's backers to release it.

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[–] mubhceeb 9 years ago

Although 85's lacklustre Thunderdome effectively killed the franchise for 30 years!

Maybe audiences have shorter memories! Let's hope we don't have to wait 30 years for another Dredd movie!

As an interesting side note, director George Miller has admitted the influence of Judge Dredd on the Max Movies and Fury Road's co-writer and storyboard artist, Brendan McCarthy, is also a past 2000AD and Dredd artist!

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[–] mubhceeb 9 years ago

I've been hunting for a link to no avail, but I'm sure I read that Miller had read 2000AD when living in Australia, when he was promoting Fury Road.

Anyone else help with a link?

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[–] fluffchop 9 years ago

I liked the Stallone Bullock movie. It was easily as good as Total Recall, same sort of spirit.

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[–] xibphile 9 years ago

Blasphemy!

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[–] smoko 8 years ago

@TrevorAclea ...and had an excellent marketing campaign from a major studio...
Can you tell me what you liked about the marketing campaign for Mad Max: Fury Road? I saw the trailer, but not any of the other promotions.