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Red Sonja looks really bad.
The costuming look wrong or cheap, not sure how I'd describe it. Maybe, "poorly thought out" but I feel that is too generous.
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The_Real_Chris wrote: I guess its a forlorn hope that Karl Urban would be back as Dredd?
Or that the film wouldn't be like the last Thor one...
I’m kind of glad we’re not getting another straightfaced missing-the-point take on a grimdark satire. It’s annoying enough what’s become of 40k. As much as I like Carl Urban, I hated that the film took the parody of American copaganda with the SS runes drawn on his visor so even the dull readers pick up in the satire and then made a serious, Snyder-ized action film out of it. As bad as Stallone’s movie was, at least it was true to the comic’s creator’s intentions.
The_Real_Chris wrote: I guess its a forlorn hope that Karl Urban would be back as Dredd?
Or that the film wouldn't be like the last Thor one...
I’m kind of glad we’re not getting another straightfaced missing-the-point take on a grimdark satire. It’s annoying enough what’s become of 40k. As much as I like Carl Urban, I hated that the film took the parody of American copaganda with the SS runes drawn on his visor so even the dull readers pick up in the satire and then made a serious, Snyder-ized action film out of it. As bad as Stallone’s movie was, at least it was true to the comic’s creator’s intentions.
I just didn't like how Stallone's version was only 16 minutes long.
The movie ended for me when he took his helmet off.
BorderCountess wrote: Just because you're doing something right doesn't necessarily mean you know what you're doing...
Eh, Dredd is many things button up tight under a single coat.
Sure, Dredd as a film was deliberately Brutalist, but Karl Urban was perfect in the role. And we do see Dredd’s undersung trait of adapting on the fly.
By all rights? Anderson had fluffed it. Big time. Not only lost her Lawgiver, but was taken captive. Yet? Had it not been for her unique gift? Kay would’ve been just another Perp, and executed on the spot. The origin of Slo-Mo wouldn’t have been uncovered, an Ma-Ma would’ve continued to menace Peach Trees and all of Mega-City One.
Which is why she gets a pass.
That happens in the comics too, though over a greater span of time. Dredd will always uphold The Law. Even when it’s unjust, and he knows it to be unjust. What he does instead is use his ridiculous clout and reputation to challenge the law, and see that it’s changed through the proper channels.
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I did not see Dredd as copaganda at all. If anything, it showed the futility of a Cop led way to solve crime.... it can't.
I mean look at the state of Megacity-One and it was only getting worse. Even if you go total "Law and Order" you can't solve societies woes with such a view. Plus, in such a world all you did was ensure those who enforced the law would become corrupted; as Dredd's fellows do. Draconian punishments only led to more crime! Punishment solves nothing in Dredd.
I guess on its surface, it can look like "Copaganda". However, when you think about what it is actually showing, it is more ACAB. No one comes out of that movie looking good as they are all tainted by the oppressive system they are part of.
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BobtheInquisitor wrote: Well then I missed it when I saw the film. My friend group missed it, too, because they celebrated him like he was Batman or something.
People celebrated Rorschach in The Watchmen too...
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BobtheInquisitor wrote: Well then I missed it when I saw the film. My friend group missed it, too, because they celebrated him like he was Batman or something.
People celebrated Rorschach in The Watchmen too...
Ugh. Watchmen. Another comic book movie that missed the point of what the creator (in this case Alan Moore) intended.
BorderCountess wrote: Just because you're doing something right doesn't necessarily mean you know what you're doing...
BobtheInquisitor wrote: Well then I missed it when I saw the film. My friend group missed it, too, because they celebrated him like he was Batman or something.
People celebrated Rorschach in The Watchmen too...
That’s another film where I feel like the director misunderstood the source material.
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Geifer wrote: I think sometimes it's just best to remind ourselves that people are conditioned to cheer for the protagonist, and not read too much into it.
Especially when that's the main character's name (see. TENET).
BorderCountess wrote: Just because you're doing something right doesn't necessarily mean you know what you're doing...
Geifer wrote: I think sometimes it's just best to remind ourselves that people are conditioned to cheer for the protagonist, and not read too much into it.
Especially when that's the main character's name (see. TENET).
So is his name Protagonist or is he the protagonist and has no name? Because I watched the movie and neither knew nor cared about his name, and if he doesn't have one I certainly didn't notice.
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2025/07/19 18:37:05
Subject: Re:Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
Geifer wrote: I think sometimes it's just best to remind ourselves that people are conditioned to cheer for the protagonist, and not read too much into it.
Especially when that's the main character's name (see. TENET).
So is his name Protagonist or is he the protagonist and has no name? Because I watched the movie and neither knew nor cared about his name, and if he doesn't have one I certainly didn't notice.
They call him a protagonist, he says he's THE protagonist at the end, and he's listed as Protagonist in the end credits.
BorderCountess wrote: Just because you're doing something right doesn't necessarily mean you know what you're doing...
BobtheInquisitor wrote: Well then I missed it when I saw the film. My friend group missed it, too, because they celebrated him like he was Batman or something.
Many many people love Dredd in the comics as well - not as a satire, not as anything else but as he is.
People often like that kind of fantasy.
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Stallones version had a great design and world, but a terrible, generic 90's action hero Dredd. Urbans version had a fantastic Dredd but a low-budget, "realistic" Mega City One.
Hopefully this time we get the best of both worlds, I would've liked a different director though.
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2025/07/23 16:52:19
Subject: Re:Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
Not only will Shin Godzilla be back in theaters, the word is that Toho will be making a sequel to it as well.
Automatically Appended Next Post: And here's one for those of us who grew up in the 80's...
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I appreciate Shin Godzilla but I don't particularly like it. The commentary on Japanese government bureaucracy is a bit to inside baseball for me to fully appreciate and the body horror Godzilla doesn't really do much for me; interesting but not engaging. I still might see it in a theater for the experience.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
2025/07/25 21:44:18
Subject: Re:Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
2025/07/27 18:38:15
Subject: Re:Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
Interview with the Vampire has now been renamed to The Vampire Lestat and will be on the air iin 2026. Meanwhile we will see Talamasca: The Secret Order:
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
2025/07/31 19:32:26
Subject: Re:Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
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