Dredd / Stallone
I was wondering if anybody feels that Stallones Dredd was partially a victim of the time it was made?
If Stallone had made Dredd now, would there be no crap comedy sidekick, helmet firmly superglued in place, more extreme action? Basically, would he have made a good Dredd if he did it now?
There were certain bits of the 1995 I did like such as the music, Armand Assante played a good OTT villian, Megacity One looked good etc...but to many compromises were made.
I enjoyed the new Dredd, what do you think Stallone coulda done?
If Stallone had made Dredd now, would there be no crap comedy sidekick, helmet firmly superglued in place, more extreme action? Basically, would he have made a good Dredd if he did it now?
There were certain bits of the 1995 I did like such as the music, Armand Assante played a good OTT villian, Megacity One looked good etc...but to many compromises were made.
I enjoyed the new Dredd, what do you think Stallone coulda done?
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Though Stallone's a little bit on the soft side and just wasn't anywhere near as mean as Judge Dredd should have been.
The constant helmet removal was probably down to the producers, as they paid top dollar for Stallone.
Anyone know of an imminent release?
BBFC sure did love to interfere with things that they should have left well alone.
If there had been no such thing as 2000AD and it was a standalone film, I think that it would have been held in higher regard. The effects were excellent for the time, and as mentioned above the cityscapes and score etc. were of a very high standard indeed.
BUT, because 2000AD did exist, there was the natural comparison between Stallone and Dredd, and that's where it did stumble, because Stallone brought a bit too much humanity to the character.
But remember that edgy characters were not normal in the mainstream so much back then - the line between hero and villain was much clearer, and Dredd, as one of the archetypal anti-heroes, was never going to be portrayed to everyone's satisfaction.
In some ways, Assante may have been a better Dredd with a toned down Rico character.
But it gets a thumbs up from me for the ABC warrior (which looks a billion times better than any CGI robot) and Mean Machine -even though he was only in it for about 5 mins.
Fingers crossed this one makes a decent $$ so we can get a more DREDD-FULL sequel (sorry for the pun