Dredd - Page 3

UK version isn't out yet, is it? Wonder if that one will have the breaking-out-of-the-black-bars effects.

hopefully receive my copy this week.

I'm as big a fan of Stallone as the next guy, but c'mon guys, Judge Dredd was a pretty crappy movie overall. It had it's moments. It's rated at 18% on Rotten Tomatoes, while Dredd is a 78%. I take critics ratings with a grain of salt and disagree with them often, but not this time. Dredd was amazing. The audio/video was exceptional, too. I'm definitely going to be buying this one.

Good to hear looking forward to my copy

Your sub's better be up to snuff for this movie- a real house shaker!

Sounded good enough with my SVS-PB1000. Hopefully I can upgrade it this year sometime before my 1 year upgrade runs out.

it does have a crazy amount of bass i had to turn my subs down to -10 iirc!

The PQ on this is pretty bad. The audio is good though. Maybe just my copy? The 3D was horrible.

Another pleasant surprise in the sci-fi/action genre (after Looper and, to a lesser extent, Total Recall 2012). The movie is efficient, unrelenting, and not watered down for the MPAA. Karl Urban as Dredd is just badass. I also liked Lena Headey as the villain, an evil sociopath but fortunately not with any superhuman abilities. Great visuals, sometimes gory. Audio quality is very good. The video is partly very noisy (no doubt due to the low light), which sometimes gives the film a weird "sheen" when watched in 3D. Otherwise the 3D is very natural and sometimes has great depth. Overall not regretting the blind buy.

My disc is extremely noisy. Borderline unwatchable. Maybe I got a bad one ?

Most reviews give the video quality good ratings for the blu ray. I agree, the video was just fine and I watched it on my 110 inch screen. I would not call it reference but I think it was the way the film was shot with grain. The audio is excellent. If your copy is unwatchable then I think you might have a bad copy or something is not right.

It's just the way they shot it, using electronic cameras often with little lighting on the set and high ISO settings, which produces a lot of video noise. Make sure to set proper brightness and turn off any image "enhancements" on your display which often exaggerate noise in the picture.

To each his own, and it depends on what you're looking for...but if you're talking about sci-fi themes, Total Recall stands head and shoulders above Looper and Dredd.

Looper had sci-fi elements like the time travel, people with special powers and the hover-bike. But it was truly a mob picture most of the time. I like it in THAT way, but Total Recall seemed to create a true sci-fi environment. Hover-cars, high tech choppers, zero gravity transports, robo cops that do karate poses before they fight somebody !

I got Dredd yesterday, and I'll withhold judgement until I watch it, some things may come back to me that I forgot or missed during the theater viewing. But in the theater it came off as a cop buddy movie with sci fi window dressing.

Preliminarily speaking though, I would put Total Recall as the first buy for sci fi purchasers. I would suggest Looper and Dredd to crime/mob fans first and sci fi second. The sci-fi is just an added bonus to these films. Recall is a TOTAL sci fi blast .

Ok thanks.

A blast of poop.

LMFAO ...I'm gonna squeeze the 3D version of Dredd in tonight. The theater viewing suggested it was below Total Recall in the sci-fi department and more of a cop buddy/bonding flick.

In fact, I remember that day well because it was two movies, the first being Resident Evil: Retribution. Which I thought would be a cheesy action flick to waste time until the "real" movie, Dredd. To my surprise RE was the more entertaining and sci-fi ! Dredd teased sci fi early only to lock you in a high rise for a basic S.W.A.T. operation .

But things CAN appear different watching it in the comfort of home with a rewind and pause button .
Edited by AndreHD - 1/9/13 at 8:03pm

I enjoyed the first four Resident Evil flicks to one degree or another. I still really like the first even though I probably shouldn't. But Retribution was absolutely and completely godawful. I don't know how anyone could enjoy that garbage and I'm a fan of big dumb action movies.

Hoping to pick up Dredd and check it out this week. It's received a lot of positive word of mouth from unexpected sources so I'm eager to check it out.

I watched at my in-laws house, he has (IIRC) an 18" sub... at one point the couch was shaking

Watched it on blu last night, and it didn't change my original perceptions of the movie. Small side order of sci fi, the main course being a standard law enforcement raid of a high rise slum.

You get an opening explanation of what the Scorched Earth is, how people are living now, and that's it for your sci fi in the next 90 minutes .

So the sci fi is merely superficial. That being said, there's some BRUTAL deaths .
Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
Action film first, sci fi second. You're getting more buckets of blood than gadjettry . Some funny lines from Dredd

"WAIT!"

"Wait for what?!"

POW!!!

"...wait for that..."

I'm not saying RE5 was the best movie in the world...but you didn't think those were some awesome fight scenes in the movie ? Like when she single-handidly takes out 20 zombies in the corridor? And the fight at the end at the surface? There was a nice car chase too, where the vehicle ended up down a subway escalator. Good popcorn and cheetos movie, that's all it was .

It's really hard to say any movie has awesome fight scenes after seeing The Raid: Redemption.

No, not even the action is interesting anymore. It all feels cheap, fake, poorly choreographed and shot in the most boring and predictable manner.

I enjoy the first three, tried to play along with the fourth and have now just given up after the fifth. If not even the action is interesting there's just no point.

If you want to discuss it more we should take it to the RE thread.

Just saw that for the first time. It was OK. I still think Flashpoint (Donnie Yen) is hard to beat.

The Raid bored the **** clean out of me.

I'm looking forward to the sequel, about as much as a shotgun blast to the face.

And I love me some Flashpoint and SPL.
Edited by raoul_duke - 1/10/13 at 5:00pm

Originally Posted by raoul_duke 

Yeah, I don't get the love for Raid either. Thought it was very mediocre.

I do not mean any disrespect, but if you thought ANY of the Resident Evil movies were enjoyable, then Dredd will totally stomp your brain into awesome-mush!

This was easily one of my favorite movies of 2012. Went into the theater with very low expectations after seeing the Stallone version and came out grinning. What I liked about this movie most was that it was the "anti-Disney": NOT a nigh continuous ADHD focus grouped action fest with snappy one liners in between every scene by schlocky over-acting. Looking at you Avengers. I was honestly rooting for Loki in the Avengers just so he could hopefully wipe the @#$@#1!@# smugness off of all the main characters faces.

When was the last time you saw a Disney comic action movie where the bad guys were actually intimidating at one point in the movie? Was anyone here actually worried at any time during Ironman, Ironman 2, Captain America, Thor or Hulk that the main character would be bested ? (Exception - cave warriors in Iron Man opening scenes seemed dangerous for about 20 minutes). All the hydra soldiers, ice giants, Mickey Rourke, US army troops are simply put, cannon fodder. No different than the droid troops in the Star Wars prequels. Boy, it sure builds suspense when 99% of the bad guys in a movie are pus_ies and totally ineffective!!! District 9 was infinitely more intense than any of the Batman movies because the bad guys actually seemed like they were trying to win.

Dredd was a throwback to the simple 80's action movies where the plot was / had:

(A) Simple. Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
(B) No ridiculous and abstract moral concepts. Wait, so if Batman kills Joker he somehow becomes just as bad as the joker? A psychopath who has been remorselessly massacring police, elected officials, women and children the entire movie?!??!?!!?!? Is this what they are taught in film school??).

(C) No romance . And certainly no Kirsten Dunst shrieking for 15 minutes of movie run time. Olivia Thirlby was a way more engaging and attractive female hero than all the one-size-too-small leather jumpsuit wearing pieces of meat in nearly all the comic book hero movies to date. Wait, what you say? A female action hero who doesn't have her tits hanging out the whole movie in pursuit of a man to solve her problems? I couldn't take my eyes off Olivia the whole movie even though she was wearing almost exactly the same outfit as Judge Dredd. And no I am not gay. Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show) Think Cristopher Nolan's gonna do that in Superman? Think you're going to see a ruthless female protagonist in Avengers Part 2 through 57??

And why does a super hero movie always have to have the hero save the entire world every time? Why can't he / she just take out some gangsters in a movie? Why does it always have to be a McGuffin device?

Obviously I am a small fringe minority that Hollywood completely disregards when writing scripts. But Dredd is the best super hero movie I've seen since Kickass! A top shelf place in my blu ray rack for sure.
Edited by Mark the Red - 1/10/13 at 9:38pm

Has anybody tried playing this blu-ray on a PC? Mine won't even recognize that there's a disc in the drive. Apparently PS3s might be having the same issue.

I'm running WIndows 7 with a Sony BDU-X10s on the most recent firmware (which isn't saying much, since the last firmware update for the drive was 2008), and Corel WinDVD Pro 11. Put the disc in the drive, it spins for a bit, and nothing. No change to the label of the drive in My Computer, no autorun prompt, or autorun of WinDVD. Opening WinDVD and pressing play results in absolutely nothing happening.

Kind of pissed off about this because Best Buy's return policy means I can only exchange it for the same disc, which will have the same problem.

Works fine here using an LG BH14NS40 drive. Both WinDVD and TMT play the disc without issue.

Best thing about this release, being able to rent it from redbox and enjoy it in dts hd, no dolby digital, maybe lionsgate finally gave that up.