Dredd (2012) - Fedi Film Club - "Popcorn Theatre" (August)

Dredd (2012) is our winning film this month (see voting post here).

Please treat this as discussion thread for the film ... or if you like, write up your own posts about it in the community!

Also, if you have any tips on where to get it, please feel free to share (I'll probably add them to the top post).

Personally, I've seen this one a few times, I even saw it on my birthday the year it came out as a present to myself!

And if you don't know, it was written by Alex Garland (and partly directed by him too) ... right before he did Ex Machina and Annihilation, and of course the same person behind Civil War. But sadly, it didn't perform well at the box office, though it probably should have ... very well done lower budget action IMO.

As with last month, I'll put up "live watch" threads here, scheduled for 7pm Sunday, 1st July, in

CT "Central Time" (USA), and
CEST "Central Euro Summer Time",

It's still a bit of an experiment, so do please check in if you can or provide any feedback on the whole live watch thing.

The basic idea is to start the film at 7pm as well as you can and casually chat, while avoiding the hassle of any synchronized stream. For which Lemmy's "chat" view now works (since v 19.3 or 19.5)

That being said, if anyone else would like to run a synchronized live stream, please go ahead and advertise in this community!

Honourable Mentions

only one real honourable mention this time, and it is truly a classic film too IMO:

Sneakers

It got nearly as many votes as Dredd.
And it is a classic ... if you haven't seen it, do you self a favour and check it out. It's technically a hacking film from 1992, but the parts of hacking that it focuses one have aged very well.

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Dredd is fucking fantastic, and I'm a big fan. It didn't perform well at the box office, which is a huge shame as the sequel would have introduced Judge Death. The trailer was only released a few weeks before the film, and I don't think most people were aware of it.

Actually, the first footage that appeared online was a VFX breakdown, but it was removed from YouTube after a couple of days.

The problem came down to money. There's a video from the producer which explains that all the investors made a loss, so no one is interested in financing a sequel.

Also, I've seen some people claim this film is a rip-off of The Raid which isn't true as I believe both were in production at the same time.
- Also, I’ve seen some people claim this film is a rip-off of The Raid which isn’t true as I believe both were in production at the same time.
  
  There is an internet rule that whenever someone brings up Dredd, another person must mention it's a rip off of The Raid, facts be damned.
- Additional: Dredd (Review | Dredd 3D (2012)) was one of the first reviews I wrote when my friend asked me to write film based articles for his website.
I saw a theory that Dredd missed for 2 reasons.

It reminded people of Judge Dredd from the 80’s. Some people thought it was a sequel.

it leaned in on 3d at a time where people were getting tired of it.

Otherwise I think it was an excellent effort and deserves a lot more love than it got.

I really enjoyed that the story was set as ‘just another day’ in Mega City One. There’s nothing special about what happened. Shits fucked.

Great cast, great sets, great action. The cg was a little fuzzy, but still plenty good enough.
- I really enjoyed that the story was set as ‘just another day’ in Mega City One. There’s nothing special about what happened. Shits fucked.
  
  I wish the movie had done better. There's nearly endless scope for all kinds of sequels and Urban was down for making more.
- it leaned in on 3d at a time where people were getting tired of it.
  
  I'd completely forgotten it was in 3D. I think I saw it in the cinema in 2D and I've definitely seen it since in 2D, so I guess the whole 3D thing didn't quite register for me.
  
  But yea, this makes a lot of sense. Shame really becuase the film does not need the 3D thing at all!
  
  There’s a few scenes that are very 3d orientated. Usually to do with Slowmo. And the title card explodes forward towards the viewer.

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