I watched it over the weekend and I think it is the first time I've watched it since I saw it in theaters. I really enjoyed it when I saw it in theaters, but I don't believe I've ever so much as caught it on TV since. I remember wanting to buy it after I saw it, but I always put it off and just forgot to do it.
But DAMN, this movie is fucking AWESOME.The sets and costumes - minus his helmet - are just fantastic, Lena Heady is just viscous as MaMa and both Urban and Thirlby are very good too. Hell, Wood Harris was great. He's such a fucking skeevy character and since we spend more time with him than MaMa, we really get to see how disturbed he is. I cannot believe this bombed, especially when fans complain about a lack of Rated-R action movies.
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ExoLevi (2)
2 years ago
The script for Dredd was leaked, it was ripped by the makers of The Raid, but they were able to film and release their film much quicker than it took to produce Dredd. So when Dredd came out it received a lot of backlash and media hit pieces for ripping off a "small Asian indie film" when the opposite is what actually happened. Gareth Evans is from the UK and for sure has heard of 2000AD and Judge Dredd.
The ratings are also sabotaged by The Raid fanboys who are rabid about this until the facts are pointed out to them, then they always change their tone to, "who cares who ripped off who the raid is better!"
The Raid 2 is the movie they were trying to shop to financiers before stealing from the leaked Dredd script.
So if that didn't happen we probably would have gotten multiple sequels like John Wick got, John Wick was actually marketed as an action film like Dredd. Very unjust world where John Wick gets multiple sequels and Dredd can't even get 1.
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