I wasn't overly stoked for this movie. I wanted to see it, but I wasn't super excited for it by any means.  I went to a late Thursday showing two weeks after it opened in September.  When I got to the cinema, it turned out the projector for that particular theater was on the fritz. However, I couldn't see it the next day because they were pulling the movie. I ended up driving 45 minutes to another town to catch a showing that night before Dredd was gone from theaters completely. I had to settle for 3D but if it meant 3D or not seeing the film at all, the choice was easy to make. Anyway, my buddy and I buy tickets, head into the theater... and we were the only two people in there for the entire showing - truly driving home just how hard it bombed across the country.

A broken projector, a trip across the interstate, an increased ticket cost and a theater to myself. That's how I saw Dredd. It was worth it.

Now that Dredd is released on iTunes here, I've just seen it, and enjoyed the fuck out of it.

I loved that it was pretty true to my interpretation of Dredd from reading 2000 AD, but it would have benefitted from making Anderson's psi ability a little more offensive. The link between it, and primary weapon, could have been clearer.

On a technical note, is it just me that's really bothered by digital blood spatter when it's not colour balanced correctly? It was distracting to watch the action sequences - in Megacity, people seem to be full of over saturated, slightly luminous liquid.

I find they tend to color it wrong. I actually think Dredd gets the color right, they're kind of bright redish, whereas most digital squibs nowadays are a really bad looking dark brown (possibly for rating reasons). I want my Paul Verhoeven bright red exploding squibs goddamnit! Also, for the record, I believe Dredd uses mostly practical squibs based on the behind the scenes stuff I've seen, with maybe some enhancement, or replacement for the really flashy sequences.

To the streets!