The DVD has a commentary with the director and editor. The director is French. That's about all I got from the four minutes of it I listened to. Well, that and the fact they were editing up until two weeks before release, about the time the commentary was recorded.

Just do a search and replace in all the old Mapquest jokes.

The whole cell phone thing came up at the time of release, and the excuse was used that there just wasn't coverage there. I agree, there are ways to use cell phones creatively. Hell, being too dependent on technology should be a failing. (A character in a current story of mine is screwed when she'd whisked off into space because everything on her phone was on the cloud, so she's left with no music or books, no photos of family, etc).

I will just point out this is the second time a post of mine was mentioned in an episode, yet my name was forgotten. Oh, woe is me!

What I love is that at heart, it's live action roleplaying. You have the director acting as Dungeon Master, setting up encounters for the players. No other movie, I don't think, has tried it this way, where the actors seriously don't know what the fuck is coming next.

Years ago, I was sent a packet to write down what I listened to on the radio. The letter included a dollar bill as payment. I never bothered, and not long after I got another letter... asking for the dollar back.

I question their data Almost all animation were shorts, so are probably counted twice. No shorts are shown in theaters, so I'm not sure what the hell the bottom of the graph is actually counting for the past 40 years. And porn since the 80's is all direct to video. Context, we need context!

I'm tempted to write a review, but for now, I'll just say the new animated adaptation of The Dark Knight Returns is everything Year One wasn't. Great job adapting the comic, knowing what to keep and what to drop. I was very impressed by how the lack of narration, key to the comic but hard to pull off in a film, was replaced with wordless visuals and just the occasional dialog to get plot details across. Splitting it into two parts was also the right thing to do, giving the whole thing room to breath.

Buy it

On the other hand, you perhaps expect the movie to do something the opposite of what it intended. Always the problem when a 30+ year old franchise is exported. If the movie in fact doesn't give Dredd an arc, they're at least being true to what I remember of the source material. Dredd is a there for other characters to react to, not to react.

I'm sure the scripts for all five seasons are done, just like those final six Star Wars scripts were just sitting on a shelf