Dredd 3D

Post by **snarl** » Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:32 am

Apparently it bombed at the flicks.

******... Thought it was awesome.

Post by **Best First** » Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:40 am

i need to see this. Missed it at the cinema due to life bollocks getting in the way.

Post by **Kaylee** » Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:18 pm

Dredd 3D is absolutely amazing: it's now one of my favourite movies

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 6:30 am

Dredd 3D was way better than I thought it would be... and much more violent

Mr_Tigg · Post by **Mr_Tigg** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 2:59 pm

Hands down the best flick I saw last year. Such a shame it under-performed at the box office - loads of potential for good sequels.

I'm hoping it'll become a cult hit on DVD and spawn a second film.

Post by **snarl** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 3:27 pm

As I've come to understand it, the promotion was basically complete and utter ****.

I have a feeling it will do well on DVD, I think word of mouth will push it. I hope it does anyway.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 6:05 pm

Top movie, straight-up honest action film with good grasp on what it needed to be. I wonder what it's going to look like on DVD, I don't have one of them that 3D tellies and this is the first 3D movie I want to own at home.

Post by **Kaylee** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 6:28 pm

KingMob wrote:Top movie, straight-up honest action film with good grasp on what it needed to be. I wonder what it's going to look like on DVD, I don't have one of them that 3D tellies and this is the first 3D movie I want to own at home.

Snaffled it and rewatched it about a week ago, it's still pretty good

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:10 pm

I definitely enjoyed it. It's the basic gist of The Raid, but with Judge Dredd in it.

Which is no bad thing at all.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Sun Jan 13, 2013 11:53 pm

That was the Judge Dredd movie I always wanted. No need for a 20 minute introduction.

He's Judge Dredd. He's basically a cop. With a hard job. In a hard neighborhood. Today, he's training a rookie.

Go.

Would I have liked to see a bit more of the trademark satire? Yeah. But on this particular case, it made sense to kind of leave it at the door. Or, you know, maybe a few inches outside the door...

Great flick, though. Terrible shame how poorly it did in theaters. But, yeah, the promotion was terrible. Even I assumed it was just going to be a cheap cash-in.

Sunyavadin · Post by **Sunyavadin** » Wed Jan 16, 2013 1:53 am

It may have helped a little if more than a single cinema in the entire country got the 2D version (the reason I only got around to seeing it yesterday). And if their advertising budget had run to more than my fortnightly JSA payment.

Post by **Best First** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:19 pm

Just watched this. Freaking amazing.

Post by **snarl** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:58 pm

That plum Goodenough "hated it"

I was so stunned I could hardly finish my lunch.

Mind you, he also thought Avengers was "awful".

Sometimes, I worry about him.

Sunyavadin · Post by **Sunyavadin** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 11:26 am

I felt the cheap post-production 3D was lazily done and unnecessary. But I think that about EVERY film that does 3D half-arsedly.

Post by **snarl** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 1:44 pm

It's interesting you think that, because it was filmed with 3D cameras - it was not a post production job.

I've not seen it in 3D, but I was lead to understand that its one of the few films where the novelty is actually well used and does look good.

Sunyavadin · Post by **Sunyavadin** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 3:04 pm

It's more the crap they added to the slomo scenes. It made them jarring and blatantly fake rather than the slightly otherworldly feel they were clearly trying for.

It's the difference between the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park and in that terrible Red Dwarf episode.

The worst thing I felt about those scenes was how jerky they were. They used cameras with a decent FPS, so there shouldn't have been so much jerkiness, it should have been much more smooth. My suspicion is the animation for the effects may have been done in a lower FPS.

Post by **snarl** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 9:56 pm

it didn't look jerky at all in "normalD"

Post by **Best First** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 3:53 pm

snarl wrote:it didn't look jerky at all in "normalD"

Agreed - it looked fab.

Goodenough - there's no helping some people. Especially when they are tiny camp jam lickers.