The Faculty, any day
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Dredd (2012) is a near perfect 80s/90's style, over the top action movie made 25 years too late.
Well shot action scenes.
Excellent soundtrack.
Pretty darn well paced.
Good helping of action hero one liners.
Plot is simple enough for idiot, explosion go boom, brain to follow, but also takes itself seriously enough to present the horrors of its world via interactions with minor characters.
Karl Urban manages to do more acting with only his mouth and chin, and line delivery, than many other actors do with their whole face.
Olivia Thirlby is also very, very good, I do not understand why some other director has not cast her in an action oriented role since... now that Nintendo seems to actually allow their IP in films: Make her blonde again and she is Samus Aran.
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In case you haven't seen it... this is a bit spoilery, but here's a decent 4 minute representative sample to give you an impression of the movie.
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7.1 on IMDb, 80% RT ("certified fresh")... this isn't a shitty movie. Like, we all believe it's actually good, and it needs no defending.
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Sorry, I didn't check imdb or rt, I just remember actually seeing it in 2012 and being baffled that it wasn't widely popular at the time, I was constantly introducing people to it who'd never even heard of it.
As I remember, it basically got a 'meh' to 'decent' from critics and was more or less a cult favorite for a while...
But I guess sure, now its finally being more broadly recognized as worth seeing?
... Is there some kind of way to see a historical progression of user scores on RT or imdb?
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I'd say archive.org would do you a solid there.
edit: I got curious and checked myself on archive.org
- September 2012 - 7.8
- February 2014 - 7.0
- May 2016 - 7.1
- August 2018 - 7.1
- June 2021 - 7.1
- Current - 7.1
I use IMDB a lot so a few things worth noting: initial scores tend to be high as you have folks who actively wanted to see it voting. There is inevitably a drop off as folks who aren't "into" a specific genre watch and vote. It then it gets harder over time to change the score as more votes have cemented the average. There are currently 305K votes so that 7.1 is likely stuck forever now.
It definitely lost money but there was a fan push for a sequel that seemed to have a bit of steam for a while.
Urban played the perfect Dredd. He absolutely nailed the comic book and Anderson and Ma-Ma were superb too. Definitely one of my favourite sci-fi flicks of all time.
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Huh, interesting.
Thanks for doing the research!
Also yes, Lena Heady also gave an incredible performance!
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The critic score was terrible but a lot of audience liked it due to its being easy to digest, no sequels, story done. I thought I would see Judge Dredd with Sylvester Stallone on here before the 2016 one honestly
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I actually happily "die on the hill" defending the Stallone version of Dredd.
It's a poor adaptation of the comic, but a pretty good science fiction film.
It doesn't hold a candle to the Karl Urban film, but if Stallone's version had come out earlier than it did, I think it would be remembered more fondly.
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I’m dying on a lot of hills when it comes to 90s action/sci-fi. Sci-fi movies from 1990 to 1997 or so have a very specific vibe that I can’t articulate well but I know it when I see it; the Stallone Judge Dredd is a shining example.
Judge Dredd, Demolition Man, Total Recall, Fifth Element, Mario Brothers, Tank Girl, Starship Toopers all have this campy retro-future theme-park vibe that is just fun.
I don’t care too much about Judge Dredd the movie(s) lining up with Judge Dredd the comic; they’re both fine to me. The Karl Urban one is a better movie, but it is missing the “eat recycled food” aspect.
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Exactly. Stallone's Dredd should still hold it's head high(ish) alongside the other films you mentioned that give us that vibe.
It's not the best of them, and it's not the worst (insert obligated loving "Super Mario Brothers" jab here). If nothing else, we don't have that many films in that genre, and it's a fun one.
Stallone's Dredd nails the campy retro future vibe, and is a pretty fun watch...as long as we're not expecting a faithful comic adaptation.
Ironically, it's a film made better by the existence of Urban's Dredd. The worst offense of Stallone's Dredd was that - at the time - there wasn't a faithful adaptation of the comic, and it wasted a chance to make one.
Now that there is one, I can enjoy Stallone's version guilt free!
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