DREDD (2012) Movie Reaction! | First Time Watch! | Karl Urban | Olivia Thirlby | Lena Headey
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- Achara and Kristen react to Dredd, a sci-fi action thriller based on the comic book character Judge Dredd.
The film stars Karl Urban (The Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, & The Boys) as Dredd, a law enforcer who has the power to act as judge, jury, and executioner in a dystopian future. Along with a rookie partner, Olivia Thirlby (Juno, The Darkest Hour, & The Stanford Prison Experiment), he must fight his way through a high-rise building controlled by a ruthless drug lord, Lena Headey (Game of Thrones, 300, & Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles).
This film is directed by Pete Travis (Vantage Point, Endgame, & City of Tiny Lights) and written by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation, & 28 Days Later).
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The real crime is that this never had a sequel.
No need for a sequel. It's perfect as it is.
Judgement: quasi-obscurity.
They set up the sequel, though- Having Anderson in this one was practically an announcement that Judge Death would be the villain in the next one. Damn shame, because this movie could have been a hit with a promotion budget.
For ME it's more like Megamind... A classic that's never been ruined
The woman is Judge Anderson and she is important to Dredd's story. So this is kind of a Origin story for her. While you follow Dredd's assessment of her.
For Anderson, this was the most important day of her life. For Dredd, it was just another drug bust.
Raul Julia just shed a tear.
Yeah.
Hardly, At this time her most important day were when the halls of justice took her in. And after that the most important day were when she captured Judge Death inside her mind and saved entire MegaCity One.
Damn...
It's not everyday a rookie judge earns Dredd's respect.
Dredd is a masterclass in how to use a budget well, the whole film was made for just 45mil. Mental.
And so much better than the recent marvel entries 😆
And shows you can be original and faithful to the source material
Agreed. Love this film. WIsh it done better at the box office. I hope one of the reasons Takashi Yamazaki is making the rounds in Hollywood is to show studios you don't need 150M plus to make a blockbuster. Dude made Godzilla Minus One for 10M and that film is amazing in every category. I know the news was it was made for 15M but Yamazaki said it was more around 10M. G-1 was one of the top films of 2023.
It still lost money.
That's one of the perverse reasons it never got a sequel. Hollywood is such a massive web of corrupt relationships, oftentimes it's considered good to waste money. All the right palms get greased.
"That's the ugliest motorcycle I've ever seen."
CUBES, TEN YEARS.
"I am the Law."
Wow, nothing?
TWENTY.
TWENTY YEARS!!!
Well, regarding the motorcycle she isn't wrong...OK, I'll put myself into iso-cube.
@@bunyip-ni6chit's not meant to be pretty.
It's meant to be deadly.
Like Torquemada on date night.
@@bunyip-ni6ch you try to mount 2 30 caliber Machine Guns to the sides of a Motorcycle without it looking fat.....
@@Ami-vh7sr Thank you
20:54 "I am the Law!"
Karl Urban redeemed and owned this line!
Karl Urban managed to be more badass than Sly
Facts but I still enjoy Stallones version as a guilty pleasure 😂
Hell yeah
The Stallone version did a great job with bringing the world of Judge Dredd to life. Some of the sets and characters look like they are straight out of the comic book. It's just Dredd himself that let the film down. What the hell were they thinking removing the helmet? That's the singular most defining thing about the character.
not much of an accomplishment, to tell the truth lol
That's the advantage of choosing a less well known actor over a movie star. A movie star demands to be seen and the studio wants the director to showcase the actors face. While with a lesser known actor, their demand to get more face time can be ignored and the studio will be less inclined to ask for that face time. The director can focus on the masked character who is the star, unless of course the man behind the mask is more important to the story.
DREDD Is a truly underrated sci-fi movie this movie was raw, gritty and full of action!
Not under-rated.
Way better than the campy but a guilty pleasure with the Stallone version
Its phenomenal...especially after that crapfest that was the Stallone Dredd...i remember critics like this movie but nobody went to see it..such a hidden Gem..The amount of time i have read someone talk about this not having a sequel was a travesty...Karl Urban is Dredd for me..
@@garydodd2837 I totally agree 💯💯
@@titusorelius9458 It was a underrated movie because it didn't do very well at the box office.
Girls... About the homeless guy... The reason he was being punished was because of where he was.
In the end the movie showed exactly why he shouldn't be there, and why that law was created lol
They cited him for vagrancy, not loitering. In the comics vagrancy is illegal because there's available social housing for everyone. The problem is you don't to decide where, and some apartments can be in shitholes that are more dangerous than just living homeless.
So Dredd didn't have an opinion either way about whether Anderson could do the job or not. His assessment never stops even when everything went south. He never stopped doing what he was tasked to do
Judge Anderson became a very popular character in her own right. She had her own comic book.
This is so much more loyal to the comic than Stallone’s Judge Dredd
YES and NO on that one because for all it's flaws, Sylvester's Judge dredd movie, The city, actually looks crowded , which is supposed to be like in the comics as well as that freak family in the outlands😮
The sets and characters in the Stallone version look like they come straight out of the comic. They nailed what the world looks like in the comics. But removing Dredd's helmet is an unforgivable sin.
@@xensonar9652 Judge Dredd had the silly humour, Dredd had the violence. They're the opposite sides of the same coin.
Only of Dredd himself. Not of the city. Stallone's Mega City one is much closer to the comic.
No, all experts say Stallones is closer to the comics. His look and the the colours and crazy antics are just like the comics. We just didnt get talking monkeys in suits and robots with a speach impediment. But we got his brother Rico, we got the angel gang and a ABC warrior and lawgiver and lawmasters closer to how they should be. So Stallone went in there. Just Hollywood didnt get the tone of the comic at all. Its a satire on America and all the consumerism and state above everything system that inspired the guys at 2000AD to create Dredd.
The fact Dredd stuns the kids instead of shooting them shows that he has humanity left in him, despite dealing with the absolute worst of the worst on a near daily basis.
Add to that "Can't execute a perp on 99%"
Crzy how we only saw Only Urbans jawline the whole movie 😂
As it should be. Dredd canonically never shows his face in the comics, the Stallone version breaking that rule was entirely because of the actor’s ego. Urban knew the importance of sticking to the rules of the source material this time.
I feel like if Urban wasn't credited, people would still recognize his jaw.
I mean, we did see the rest of his body but I get what you mean.
Right up there with Hugo Weaving in V.
@antoniochasten3192 yeh I appreciate that you recognize that and I appreciate him for it sticking with the source material
To Dredd, this was just another day on the streets of The Meg. Tomorrow would be pretty much the same. For any Judge that survives to retirement there's The Long Walk, bringing law to the lawless in The Cursed Earth or the Undercity. Oh... and there's no 'good' in this world, only the law. Satire 101 😁
I agree for Dredd this was a Tuesday
Dredd always has that face in the comics, Urban did a good job. I hope they get to make the sequel to this.
Should’ve gotten a sequel
SequelS !
We got eff'ing robbed of that! 😠
They works for that
It should've but the box office said no.
@@antoniochasten3192 box office said no because studio did not advertise Dredd anywhere 🙄
Lena Headey did a pretty good job (as a badass) as Sarah Connor in the series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
And this is how you do good female charecters.
Perps were ... Uncooperative
😂
It's just another day for Dredd . . .
Drug bust
A decade before Robocop.
There was Dredd, Judge Dredd.
Based on the comic series from U.K. publisher, 2000s A.D.
This cinematic masterpiece was released in theaters during it's 35th anniversary.
Karl Urban as Dredd was phenomenal, Olivia Thirlby as C. Anderson with her power was real cool (had a spin-off series too) and Lena Headey as Ma-Ma is fiendishly good, so scary with her stare.
You could see it in a regular or 3D format.
The 3D made the Slo-Mo scenes look crystal clear and colorful.
Pete Travis was credited as director.
But dued to creative differences, the movie's screenwriter Alex Garland
became the main director.
The 1995 version with Sly Stallone was a big-budget summer blockbuster
and took some liberties with the material.
This 2012 version is extremely close to the material and perfectly done.
Never removing his helmet, among other things.
Despite the Box Office, this truly deserves more sequels.
So much about Dredd's saga that needs to be seen.
"That's the ugliest motorcycle I've ever seen." Not a motorcycle... a Lawmaster
"They're just judging people on the spot..."
You mean like on the internet. Always. LoL
😂 True
The point of the Judges in this world is that there are SO many crimes (I think it said 12 serious crimes per minute?), they actually HAVE to make "snap judgments", because there just isn't time to sort it out. That's why they've moved from procedural court rooms that take months or years, to on-the-spot realtime judgments.
the funny thing is the movie used such a high level number to sound crazy when in real life more crime occurs per minute than what the movie says
@@houseofaction what city has more than 12 SERIOUS crimes happen per minute ("serious crime" meaning any felony punishable by minimum 1 year in prison)?? Maybe in a DAY but not a single city in the US has that many every minute.
would be easier to regulate procreation.
no kids, no replacement manpower, crime dies out in 50 years, tops.
@Enrique-Garcia no city in the US has a population of 800 million either.
Multiply the current US population by 2.6 and cram it all into an area that stretches from DC to Boston . And that population is dealing with the upheavals that would follow a nuclear war.
The current crime rate in the US is ~1.2 million serious crimes per year. One year=525,600 minutes so 2.28 crimes per minute. Simply account for the population increase and that would increase to roughly 5.9 per minute.
The society is one in decline as opposed to being prosperous, and desperate people would account for another doubling. 12 per minute honestly feels low to me given the state of their world.
@@bcn1gh7h4wkfound the commie. That one child ccp policy harmed china so bad. But they actually have cities approaching the size of mega city 1 at least. Lots of crime in China but they have the triads, so it's government sanctioned and not punished. It's the little guys that get facial recognition on cams that get demerits on their social credit score.
This film was shot in South Africa. The highway and cityscape scenes were shot in Johannesburg, and the floor level of Peach Trees was the area just outside the Artscape opera house in Cape Town. Good job they did making the outdoors look indoors.
There's a popular theory that Anderson losing her gun doesn't count as losing her weapon, since her main weapon is her mind.
The weapon is accounted for. It got destroyed in service. It's not lost.
Always feel that's missing the point. She lost her weapon, she was a fail. Despite knowing she had failed, she continued to dispense the law as best she could, even after she had no personal reason to continue it. THAT's why Dredd passed her. He recognised a similar dedication and grit to keep going despite no longer having "any skin in the game". He saw she'd see it through or die trying, there was no other option she considered.
This was incredible in the theater, as it was shot in real 3D, not a conversion, to date, uts been the second best use of 3D I've ever seen outside an Avatar film. The slowmo shots were true 3d, so the water and spatkles had volume and dimensionality, the blood spray looked like it was coming at you. I wish it was possible to see it again in the theater.
It was spectacular. Ive never seen such hideous beauty before.
100% agree. Seeing it in the theater in 3D was absolutely amazing! I've used the Avatar comparison myself, too!
I watch the 3d Blu Ray in VR at least once a year. It blows all other 3D live action films out of the water. Not even close.
For context: Judge Dredd is an ongoing series in UK comic publication ‘2000 AD’ where his stories are a parody of the brutal heavy handed (also see: fascistic) nature of cops in the United States. The world the comic takes place in is indeed meant to be seen as mean-spirited.
Not of Cops they where a parody of 80's American Films it's not of the Cops it's of the 'Cop Movie' genre alongside the 'One man seeks revenge' type Genre of films
@Scallycowell . Thank you for the info. Knowing there a UK publication titlted "2000 AD" makes sense. I wonder what their relationship is with GamesWorkshop/WhiteDwarf. A overly-competitive relationship or a more cordial-competitive acknowledgement?
@@cmiguel1321 In the past GW produced some games in the Judge Dredd Universe but as time passed they focused more on their own stuff (only really broken when they produced a Lord of the Rings Table Top wargame but that was a very special exception), but on the whole in completely different fields these days through GW did take inspiration from it as they do from everything
@@andyme3541 thank you. Very cool, it sounds like both properties/artists/producers are cordial with one another. I hope with the in development Warhammer projects that it draws back more interest and investment to 2000 AD Judge Dredd.
@@andyme3541 Not of 80s cop movies mate. Judge Dredd debuted in 1977 and was mainly influenced by the first Dirty Harry movie.
"I was wondering when you'd remember you forgot your helmet."
"Sir, a helmet can interfere with my psychic abilities."
"Think a bullet in the head might interfere with them more."
The writing, attitude, and acting in this entire movie is S-tier.
Katl Urban is a fan of the Dredd commics, so he made sure that he never took his helmet off and showed his whole face. In the comics Dredd ages in real time, so the character is now 84-85 years old.
BTW Olivia Thirlby was in the cast of Oppenheimer.
This is one of the best action movies ever made. To say it's underrated is the understatement of 2012. This was a very tight script, not one scene, not one beat or word wasted. Excellent, 'contained' plot, great characters, AMAZING portrayal of Dredd, kept you guessing, you never knew what was going to happen next. Exciting, a lot of 'realism' and grittyness, not to mention the over the top, yet believable violence. Just fantastic. Alex Garland wrote the script, but he was also uncredited as the director, he basically did it all. Really one of the best action movies out there. One of the reasons it didnt do well at the box office despite being amazing is that The Raid released a little earlier or at the same time, and had a similar premise. The Raid is also an excellent movie, please dont mistake me. I am so happy I got to see this in theatres, cause it was in 3D and it was just great. I hope they have a re-release or something at some point. Real shame there wasnt a bigger sequel. Still, Alex Garland, this is the movie that really solidified me as a lifelong fan of his. I get that it's not Kristen's thing, but by her reaction it just shows how amazing of a movie it is. Anyway, great reaction, looking forward to the next one
Kristen's innocence at the end had me in tears laughing.
I prefer to watch female reactions to things because they usually look at things differently than I do. More interesting.
This movie is actually F-ing awesome and I’m embarrassed to admit I didn’t know that was Karl Urban for a long time.
After 10 years and I'm still waiting for a sequel. We need it.
Judge Anderson is a perfect example of how to write a likable female character.
This movie was awesome! We need a sequel!
Sometime after the film, Karl Urban wanted to make a second film he fronted an petition on CZcams, I remember it well, I signed up for it, nothing came of it though, that how strongly he felt about it
This brilliant comic book movie deserved / deserves far more attention. Karl Urban is an awesome actor and plays Judge Dredd perfectly. And yes, Lena Headey is such a great actress.
For Ma-Ma this was a major challenge. For Judge Dredd, it was Tuesday.
I love how when Jaby's not on screen, Achara takes the 'dad joke' mantle 😂
2 quick trivia points. 1) Karl actually did his own driving on the motorcycle for every scene. 2) During filming he never took the helmet off he was Judge Dredd 100% all the time on set. He actually intimidated one of the staff members who cracked a joke and he just gave him the Dredd stare and the guy apologized
Judge Dredd is one of the coolest comics to come out of the UK. Judge Anderson has her own comics, too.
Fun fact all that movie....is just an ordinary Day for Dredd. Nothing spécial
Dredd summed it up at the end @28:13. "Drug bust...perps were uncooperative."
@@LuckySmurf for him it was just à tuesday
Crime is rampant. Dredd says early that only 6% of incidents can be responded too: the Judges fight a losing battle, so Justice has to be instant. Also explains why Ma Ma was able to get away with it for so long.
The Judge Dredd comics were originally based on the Clint Eastwood character Harry Callahan from the Dirty Harry movies. He was supposed to be the extreme of what a cop like Dirty Harry would become in the future.
Robocop was then based on Judge Dredd.
Judge Dredd is one my favorite independent comic book characters of all time.
Here's my top 20 favorite comic book characters of all time
1. Daredevil
2. Batman
3. Spider-Man
4. Wolverine
5. Invincible
6. The Punisher
7. The Flash
8. Hellboy
9. Shazam
10. Judge Dredd
11. Doctor Strange
12. Aquaman
13. Blade
14. Spawn
15. Iron Man
16. Savage Dragon
17. Cyclops
18. Swamp Thing
19. Nightwing
20. Shang-Chi
This is based on a British comic book 2000AD it was ultra violent and I loved it as for Anderson she has her own division the PSI and was a regular character along side Dredd.
Dredd doesn't believe in Andersen until she proves herself, before that he's just a weirdly good training officer, he gently pushes her to focus, make good decisions, and he never derides her idealism.
I have no idea how you guys thought it would be "better" to die in slow motion😂
Anyways great reaction!❤
Guess it depends. If everything in your head is in slow mo, you might not even get to form the realisation of what's happening. But, if it's just your perception of time that changes and your thoughts scale inversely to where you can think at what feels a normal level, it would be terrible
@@ettcha you probably don't realize that they were being skinned in slo mo to,which means the pain they're experiencing is endless. Why is it so hard for you to understand that it's like being tortured forever!?
"Ready?"
"Yes."
"... you look ready."
Yeah that's the point. It's when Anderson starts standing up to Dredd that he knows she's got what it takes to be a Judge.
Karl Urban is the perfect Dredd, so much better than the original, unfortunately we’ll never get a sequel. I’d love to see Urban as Dredd again
As someone who grew up reading Dredd in the pages of 2000AD back in the 70's and 80's this film gets his character perfectly, a gem of a film. It makes Stallone's big budget 1995 take on the character look like comedy pastiche in comparison.
The first one nailed the city though. This city in this is nothing like the one in the comics.
@@flaggerifyStallone's did certainly have the over the top cartoon feel of the Carlos Ezquerra's style Dredd. I feel the 2012 movie grabbed a more real world inspiration from the early Mike McMahon drawn Dredd strips (especially the less bulky uniform).
"For her first mission she picked an intense one" 🤣 This is a normal day in Mega City One
Enjoy Kristen's reactions so much! She's experiencing a lot of new stuff (for her). Achara has no frown, always cheery!
Ma-ma ending was supposed to be "what do you do now?" then Dredd surprises you with a novel and gutsy solution/ gets what she deserves/appropriate to her crimes.
There is "Judge Dredd" with Stallone, campy compared to this one; "Dredd" is closer to the lore. (Maybe they looked for other than Americans because of that movie).
It's so nice to see Achara and Kristen together!
24:04 Ron Weasley’s brother screaming like that cracks me up every time 😂
LOVE THIS MOVIE!
Karl Urban killed it as Dredd!
There were talks of a Sequel and a TV spin-off series, JUDGE DREDD: MEGA CITY ONE, but both of these projects would be shelved due to the poor box office of Dredd, as it made $45 million dollars against a $50 million dollar budget.
If you couldn’t tell, the kid behind the computer screen is played by Domhnall Gleeson
Karl Urban has been progressively evolving his frown and war face since 1998.
from unnamed mercenary, to banished warlord (notably pissed-off), to grumpy space doctor (reasonably pissed off, given the circumstances), to total badass policeman (and channeling the pissoff-ness into badassery)
Lena Headey's delivery of "Sure" in response to the "hit 'em with a little slow-mo first?" is just terrifyingly casual indifference, fabulous acting. Don't think I've had the same chills from a villain since Gary Oldman's character in Leon.
If you weren't aware the Judges are meant to make you feel uncomfortable, the comics are strong on satire about fascism. They aren't really supposed to be "the good guys" but rather "the lesser evil".
30:40
Yes, that's right. In film theory, Anderson is referred to as the "Protagonist," the character who evolves the most, while Dredd is referred to as the "Antagonist," which doesn't mean the enemy but the character who helps the protagonist evolve. In everyday language, the term "protagonist" seems to always refer to the main character. But in a "who wins"-story, like this movie, there will always be a need for a protagonist who evolves.
Dredd is the Punisher but with legal jurisdiction.
Urban stayed more true to the comics than Stallone ever did. this is probably the best Dredd movie ever. its a sin that it never got a sequel.
About the homeless guy, I mean Dredd gave the him a chance to leave & not be arrested & if Homeless guy listened he'd still be alive. Dredd wasn't being a asshole there, if he was he would've never gave a warning. Homeless guy was breaking the law, what did you want homeless people get special treatment?
Also MaMa wasn't a skilled fighter she couldn't go toe to toe with Dredd so Mama used her smarts with the bomb, I don't know what you expected at the end, like the whole movie was the big fight you didn't need a 10 minute fight scene with Mama it wasn't "easy".
its pretty much the same treatment homeless gets in the US anyway
Judge Dread first appeared in a British comic called 2000a.d. The World of Mega City One is a dystopian future where "good" and "evil" are unimportant. Order and chaos are what matters and Judges aren't really concerned with being good, they're concerned with maintaining order. Final note: if you want to see a movie where Lena Headey actually plays a romantic lead, watch "Imagine me and you" .
The world of this film is depressingly dystopian. No due process, death penalty administered on site by all powerful law enforcement that undoubtedly has more corruption and abuse of authority than we see, and worst of all - the creeping sense that things are so bad that such measures may actually seem necessary just to keep some semblance of order.
The thing I like about this movie is that you never get the impression that this is anything other than a standard day for Judge Dredd - because it is. That's how messed up Mega-City One is.
And the worst part is this: as bad as Mega-City One is in this movie, it was a whole lot worse before the Judges came along.
That's how Masterchief from Halo should have been.
Yeah except it would've been much more difficult as Halo is a series and Dredd is a movie.
Not at all, they could have done it. Look at The Mandalorian. Mando goes most of the show in a helmet and we get to tell exactly what he's thinking without seeing his face.@@Tman001100
A lot of people miss that Dredd does actually have a character arc. At the beginning, Dredd is so jaded and an absolute by the book Judge. By the end, he can understand that there can actually be gray areas and wiggle room within the rules when he passes Anderson, even though she lost her weapon and should have failed. He accepted that the Judges would be better for her compassion. Achara is one of few reviewers I've seen notice it, even though she is not familiar with the character or the comics.
Judge Dredd is from a long-running British comic book, and the genius of this movie was giving it to a British production company instead of making it in Hollywood, which is the biggest reason it doesn't suck like Judge Dredd (Sylvester Stallone, 1995)
What's fascinating about this universe is that they have solved death, but life-saving surgeries are illegal due to population problems, lol. I remember a comic when dredd arrests a rich guy paying for underground surgery. He said I just want to live and Dredd says something like save it criminal and takes him away 😂.
Lena Headey is the best crazy woman villain ever. She's brilliant.
lena headey should have so many awards and nominations for different things and it's infuriating she doesn't.
On the casting - it's a British production, even though it's set in America. It's made by DNA Films, a British production company, Judge Dredd comes from the British comic 2000 AD, Alex Garland is British. Most of the filming was done in South Africa, in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Dredd and Anderson were the lead characters in the 2000AD comics, Dredd was utterly uncompromising whilst Anderson through her telepathy was more understanding which is perfectly represented in this version. Despite this Anderson was as much of a badass as Dredd ever was, Olivia DEFINITELY got her spot on!
This movie is a far more true to the comic version of life in Megacity One whilst the Stallone version got the worlds look spot on, yet Stallones movie committed a cardinal sin for fans off the comic, Dredd took his helmet off, in the comics Dredd was NEVER off duty, never out of the uniform and not once was he without the helmet.
Kudos to Karl Urban for accepting this and following the comic version of Dredd and allowing for it and not letting ego get the better of the character...
It's a crime there's been no sequel as there's a whole HOST of truly amazing and insane characters to work with, many of them DID appear in the Stallone version such as Mean Machine, an ABC warrior, Rico, Judge McGruder.
The Stallone version is a decent movie for these reasons but, by aiming for a 15 rating it tamed down the utter savagery of the world it otherwise got absolutely right.
"It must suck to date her"
Yea, it's the guy that's supposed to be the mind reader
This movie did an amazing job adapting the comic with one exception, curse words. The comic got around it by using "stomm" instead of "s***" and "drok" instead of "f***". There really was no reason to change it, but that's a nitpick. Basically, after nuclear war, humanity was stuffed into Megacities. Law-enforcement and the judicial system were utterly overwhelmed, so it all got combined into Street Judges, who are also ironically still utterly overwhelmed and barely holding the line. Dredd's catchphrase "I am the law!" is his personality, and in all the decades of the comic they have never shown his face. To him the law is, well law. He makes no exceptions (well, once in a blue moon), which is what makes him passing Anderson at the end a huge exception for him and shows how much she ultimately impressed him. It's a shame we never got more of this iteration, especially since the actor loved/loves the role.
One thing no reviewer has thought of: If he intended to pass her, why did he accept the surrender of her badge? *Answer: it was a final test.* She would have known if she'd snuck a look at his mind. She didn't. She had the integrity to accept accountability for her actions and accept the (expected) consequences. This is especially significant in that they just exposed four corrupt Judges. With her powers, Dredd wanted to be absolutely sure she woudn't ever choose that way. I'll bet anything if she hadn't offered her badge, THEN he would have failed her.
Of course being a 2000AD fan from way back and knowing Anderson is not just an established character but a fixture of the Dredd-verse, I knew she'd be passed, but they really made her _work_ for it. Unlike Rey Whatever-her-last-name-is-this-week.
Kristin is top reactor on this channel
Would happily watch just her reacting
It was written by Alex Garland, who directed ex machina, annihilation, etc.
This is just how the world and the judges are. Dredd is just the most uncompromising version of them all
The Judge Dredd comics started in 1977 and are a satirical commentary on authoritarianism. While a lot of people see Dredd as a hero, he's only a hero in the way John Wick is a hero. This movie did a really good job portraying Dredd and it's a shame that it didn't get its due when it was out. The perpetual frown Dredd has is a signature look in the comic. It was a nice touch that Urban kept it through the film, along with his helmet.
Dredd is the main character of the comic, but the comic is really about the world. Mega City One is a satire and the judges are part of that. The comic continues to this day, and stays up to date with modern life.
When you live in a city of 100 millions inhabitants (sometimes 800 millions) having judges be police, jury and executioner is probably the only way to get things going.
DREDD comics have always been intended to have a bit of overt silliness and cheesiness in them. There are lots of comedic characters, lots of pop culture references, and Dredd even used to have a robot with a speed impediment called Walter the Wobot. Achara is right to point out the flaws in the judge system. The original Judge Dredd creators made it to be part old wild west style storytelling and part satire/criticism of 1970s cop-based pop culture that celebrated characters like Dirty Harry who were not held back by rules outside of their personal morality. Many DREDD comics examine the fascism of this society, show Dredd's conflict about it at times and how his inflexibility with the law can be a major character flaw, and some stories tell you flat out that the people who started this government system out of desperation later felt that it had outlived its usefulness and become a danger. Judge Anderson is a great character in the comics and has some solo stories too.
Kristen: "I like his voice. Kinda want him to talk dirty to me."
::10 minutes later::
"I have mixed feelings about the Judge. He rubs me wrong, still a little bit."😂😂
I love Kristen
The entire movie summarized…
Chief Judge: “So what happened in there?”
Dredd: “Drug bust.”
Chief Judge: “Looks like you’ve been through it.”
Dredd: “Perps were uncooperative.”
Watched this film again last night. Very cool. Carl Urban is Judge Dredd!
Clean script with great acting, it's one of the great low budget action films. Great that they picked up on the film being Anderson's character progression because Dredd always remains Dredd. It's a shame this didn't come out before the Stalone version which kind of butchered the source material in favor of a generic comic book film. Dredd is great dark dystopian series and the character is not a hero. He is the law.
The Judge Dredd comics (which debuted in 1977) were written as satire of police and governmental excesses in the UK and America, so you're not supposed to read the comics or watch the movie and think, "Yeah, that's a good way to run things." It's also why Judge Dredd is particularly rigid and one-note: The law is all that matters and he's the law. Period. He's basically Javer from "Les Misérables" if Javer lived in a Mad Max world. Or as John Wagner, one of the creators of the character described him, he's the "tough cop" of Clint Eastwood's "Dirty Harry" taken to the logical extreme.
Dredd is sort of hero and villain at the same time. He's a harsh, brutal bastard, but he's a "hero" by virtue of the fact that he's fighting worse people than him. That and he's not corrupt. You can quibble with whether the laws/system are right, but not with Dredd's dedication to upholding them.
That being said, in the universe of the comics/movie, this is by necessity. The world in the movie is a post-apocalyptic nightmare-scape where there's SO MUCH crime happening so constantly that there's simply not time for lawyers, courtrooms, etc. Society (what's left of it) would be overwhelmed, overrun, and would collapse into full-on law of the jungle almost immediately if our pre-apocalyptic "due process" was still the norm. As Dredd says in both his intro and outro narration in this movie, in this universe, the judges and their snap judgements are the only thing keeping any kind of order whatsoever. To that degree, it's a "lesser of two evils" situation. In the world of the movie, the alternative to judges making their snap decisions would be worse (e.g. people like Ma-ma running everything).
22:55 - Their names are on their chest badges.
As a side note, according to Karl Urban (Dredd), Alex Garland was the actual director of the movie, but guild politics prevented him from being formally acknowledged for it.
The funding for this film was interesting as it came from a consortium of international film distributers rather than more conventional means, which may have affected US domestic take by limiting the screens that it initially was shown on. To which being shot in 3D (for really cool Slow Mo effects), and the R rating, didn't help. The advertising, both to cinemas and the public was also limited, pretty much ensuring only fans of teh comic (also quite limited in the US) went to see the film at the cinema. It did a lot better in foreign distribution, although advertising was still limited. Not to mention it had to live down the legacy of the overly camp (although to be truthful the original comic could be pretty camp) Judge Dredd movie with Stallone. This resulted in poor takings in it's time in cinema, which has absolutely killed the possibility of future sequels. Even though Urban was quite enthusiastic about reprising the role. It really only attracted a greater audience when people discovered it by word of mouth whilst streamed. [And many people comment that they regret that they didn't see it in cinemas.]
Reportedly the plan was for the sequel to deal with the famous Dark Judges saga from the comics, which is where Judge Anderson was introduced in the comics. The rights are now with people trying to make a TV series, although I suspect that Covid put a huge dent in their plans, and I don't think they will find the funding they need.
It also didn't help that whilst trying to get funding the script leaked and was used as a basis for producing The Raid. To which critics then compared it as a rip off.
Rebellion, the owner of the 2000AD and Judge Dredd comics that were the source of this movie, has learned from all this and have formed their own movie studio to produce the bext movie based on their IP, which is the animated Roguie Trooper which I believe is due out later this year (2024).
Apologies if I revealed to much of the sausage innards, but I find this sort of studio politics interesting. Especially where it kills otherwise excellent movies and shows.
"I'm not sure how I feel about judges..."
That's the idea 😉
The source comic 2000AD, is a British satire of America's police. The judges, even 'good' ones like Anderson and Dredd, participate in and uphold a fascist police state.
Yes. DREDD is based on a comic book. Anderson was introduced in the Judge Dredd comic book and got her own comic book later on. The thing they got right on this movie is that even though it was her hero arc, they respected Dredd's character and he was the one who had the final show down and final judgment, instead of being turned into an incompetent, a moron or someone irrelevant in his own movie like they do with male characters in the Marvel movies. Anderson was her own character instead of a cheap Mary Sue knock-off with no personality or charisma like it's the case on all MSHEU movies.
"I can fix him, just let me look into his frog eyes."
Judge Anderson is one of the best characters in the 200AD universe she started of as a side character in DREDD's stories but evolved into the MC of her own. DREDD is a complex character but even in the comic's it takes a while to understand him he see's all the flaws and corruption in the system and is doing what he can to clean it up as such Anderson becomes one of his closest allies able to help him track the rot to it's sources and cleanse it with extreme violence no matter how clever and powerful the source.
I just watched an IT security awareness video for my hospital job called "Juice from a Box" and I'm pretty sure the girl on our left was the "sound judgement" character! I was watching it going, "I know her! Where do I know her from?" If it's not, there's someone out there that looks and sounds exactly like her! Haha
Best comic-based movie ever made, with the possible exception of Heavy Metal. Criminally underrated and needed a sequel. Saw this when it came out in a movie theater using HSF (high speed film) and 3D. Most jaw-dropping slow-mo ever. So surreal, felt like I was on some kind of drug. The cinematographer used a technique that was patented for this movie. But that aside, I just thought the script, the cast, the action choreography, the music and editing really set it apart. Also very true to the comic with its overall vibe and retro style (like the motorcycle you hated).
In the comics, Anderson is a major character... so this is essentially her origin story. :)
Anderson never lost her primary weapon. Her telepathy was working fine the whole time.
Good thing Maw-maw didn’t just manually rip the dead-man trigger off her arm as soon as she broke through the window, and was obviously going to die.
Somebody has probably already said this in the comments but anyway, Judge Dredd is an 80's British Comic Book. Maybe thats why so many Brits are in the cast.
Its worth noting that Dredd and the Justice system/Judges are not strictly good guys. Dredd particularly is driven by an inflexible commitment to the law and justice on its terms but he still does represent a terrible fascistic system. Its really intended as a satire along Robocops lines.
And the character will be 47 next week!
I found it cool when I found out that Dredd ages in real time as the issues come out! I don't think I've come across another comic character that does
When it comes to Karl Urban's voice, I will simply say, Same, Kristen... Same lmao.