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Originally Posted by Dirty F
Watched it recently at home.
Awesome flick! Just non stop action! No character development, no stupid love stories, just extreme action! Isn't that what an action movie should be about? Weird how you rarely see it like this.
It kinda reminded me of the last Rambo movie. Which was great as well.
Oh and the surround sound was insane! Best i've heard in a while.
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I haven't seen it. I just want to inject that it would seem that a little bit of character development would make the action a lot better, no?
Compare "Transporter" movies to "Die Hard" movies - the difference is all in the sympathy for the character (and the level of credibility of the action of course...)
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Originally Posted by Fetish Gimp
I'm arguing Stallone's is a better adaptation, meaning they at least tried to keep some of the humour and satire from 2000 AD.
Dredd 2012 didn't have any of that. It's simply a cheap action film which just happens to have Judge Dredd as a character, keeping only the most superficial bits of the source material (omfg he didn't take the helmet off epic win)
I'll prove it to you: you can take " The Raid: Redemption" put Judge helmets on its characters and BAM you got Dredd 2012, except it would have kick-ass action.
What I have against the movie is that they completely wasted Dredd.
They could have used any generic stoic character and it wouldn't have made ANY difference. Switch Dredd with John McClane from Die Hard, no difference at all. |
Speaking of which? Die Hard had the perfect balance of character and action and narrative... doesn't sound like the swap would make "no difference"...
Unless I'm reading you wrong...
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