Judge Whiskers, assigned to serve and protect the inhabitants of Mega Kitty One.

"I am the paw".

...I could do this all day.

So here's what I liked about the end of this.

Dredd *passes* her for a very obvious reason... yet they do not state it. Just like before, it is all glances.

And if you missed the reason? She does NOT lose her primary weapon.... she just loses the gun.

Her primary weapon being - obviously - he Psi abilities.

/Z

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.

Great commentary!

I love MasterZap's interpretation (but I don't agree that Dredd's reasoning is obvious). My comment at the end was that it didn't feel right for Dredd to pass Anderson despite her losing her gun. But it would have been perfectly in line with Dredd for him to simply interpret "primary weapon" differently for her. My friend and I agreed that her psi ability was underused—or at least under-useful. It doesn't stop her from getting captured or help her escape much.

I think the movie would have gone from 6.5 to 7.5 for me if:

• Ma-ma and Anderson were a little more interesting

• We knew Dredd and Anderson were walking into a hornet's nest but they didn't (it took me a while after the lock-down to realize "Oh, THIS is the movie.")

• Anderson's psi ability is what allowed them to realize that Ma-ma's detonator wouldn't work if it was as far away as the ground floor

• Dredd explicitly said that Anderson passed because her "primary weapon" is her psi ability and not the gun she lost

Last edited by Zarban (2013-02-04 23:08:35)

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.

Last edited by bullet3 (2013-03-27 00:08:53)

Dredd 2 not out of the question?

http://collider.com/dredd-2-sequel-news-karl-urban/

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