I wonder if the lack of law enforcement perspective/'buddy cop' films in sci-fi has to do with the typical tropes regarding such figures in the genre.

er.... yes?

 

Outland.  That's a great one.

 

 

Great call, love that film.

 

Dark Angel!

 

"I come in peace!"

 

"...and you'll leave in pieces asshole!"

 

It was known as Future Cop in NZ, mate.  Watched it eleventy billion times as a young 'un.

Ert, sorry. Typically in genre, law enforcement is an obstacle to protagonists. Minority Report, for example, has a law enforcement perspective with its central character as cop, but he does end up spending considerable time avoiding his own colleagues and evading arrest. Truly pro-cop sci-fi is like religious sci-fi, it strikes us as . . . missing the point?

*From what I gather it may be part of what was 'wrong' with TDKR. Haven't seen it yet.
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Has anyone read those "MARSHALL LAW" comics? I like the satire there and wouldn't mind watching an adaption in the future.

Not to mention the FUCKING AWESOME ABC Warrior robot; now that i think about it, "Mechanismo" could be a good source for a sequel.

This reminds me, I still have yet to watch Lockout.

 

It's funny how so many comic fans who know the CVs of Moore, Ennis, Millar, Morrison etc. by heart have never heard of Pat Mills.

Little behind the scenes clip: http://vimeo.com/28782001#
 

Ever wonder what Dredd looks like without the helmet?

Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

Man, that's as shocking as the first time I saw Bane without his mask in the behind-the-scenes footage of TDKR! 

I guess it helps be a Dreddhead.

 

A long Q&A with Garland from last summer:

 

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php?topic=36741.0
 

 

Now I feel like a meanie.

 

fuck I wish I'd seen this in 3D.

Also, always like it when you hear a NZ actor retaining his kaiwai accent in normal interviews.

I love Karl Urban. It's almost a crime that his career isn't bigger than it already is.

 

By the way, does anyone know what the song playing in that behind-the-scenes clip is?

Urban's work in this and the wildly different, overtly funny one he gives in Star Trek are a wonderful indication of his range.

Count me amongst those that love this guy's work.  Of course, he won a lifetime supply of goodwill from me after THE TWO TOWERS, and RETURN OF THE KING.

He's not really bad in any of those movies, they're just not very good movies.

LOTR both put him on the map and kind of hurt him, since all those movies had him playing the stoic hero like Eomer was. (Although Eomer does have subtleties to him that Urban captures very well)

 

I also heard he was the lone bright spot of Priest as the villain.

He does his damn best to save that movie, he really does.

"Dark Angel?" Hell, it'll always be "I Come in Peace" to me.

It'll always be Dark Angel to me.

Sci-fi cop movie that's on the box right now, another buddy movie too, and a Stallone one to boot.

Demolition Man.

 

Underrated greatness.

 

There's some real 80s and 90s classics being discussed in this thread now! If we're going by Turing's criteria it doesn't really qualify though as Stallone basically sticks it to the man for that whole movie.

 

One film I thought subtly influenced Dredd isn't from the sci fi cop genre at all. It's a personal favourite though - Hardware. The British really know how to chuck loads of shit at the walls of a film set.

Great flick. Carl Mccoy (of Fields of the Nephilim!) brings in "scrap" for art. Badness ensues.

Yup, can completely see the similarity, I think it actually ran through my mind while watching Dredd.


Not seen that film for years. Good call

A Buddy Cop Sci Fi movie?

 

Don't forget Rutger Hauer's Split Second.

 

Yeah man! 2000AD always maintained a connection to punk rock sensibilities and Hardware tapped straight into that, even finding room for awesome Lemmy and Iggy Pop cameos. Great soundtrack as well, my favourites being PIL's Order of Death and Ministry's Stigmata.

HARDWARE tapped rather too far into 2000 AD, as it was later the subject of a successful lawsuit from artist Kevin O'Neill for ripping off concepts from his & Steve McManus' 2000 AD short story, SHOK!.

 

Hell ya! This needs a remastered region 1 dvd or blu.

 

Love Hardware, I have the blu, it doesn't really hold up now as a good film but I still like it, and I can't believe I got to see it in theaters.

Hardware

'The film's script was inspired by a short 2000 AD comic strip called SHOK! Walter's Robo-Tale in the Judge Dredd Annual 1981. In the comic, a robot head part is recovered from the bloody aftermath of the Cursed Earth story. Controversially, the original theatrical release failed to mention the comic book despite heavily referencing its storyline. Following legal action a notice was added to later versions and the strip's creators, Steve MacManus and Kevin O'Neill, now get writer's credits.'

Virtuosity

Would that count as a scifi cop movie?

 

 

This is true, in fact the DVD Special Edition came with a booklet written by well-known UK nerd Kim Newman, where he explains the argument (the film's creator maintained for some time it came to him in a dream). SHOK! is also included for comparison.

Okay, I'll admit it. I made my earlier comment in this thread because I didn't think there were that many science-fiction cop movies but you've all proved me wrong.

 

I hate all of you so much.

Does Bernard Cribbens character in Dalek's Invasion Earth 2150 AD count?

 

Not great Korean cinema, but solid...Just put a paper bag over the obvious inspiration and the horrible dialogue in the trailer.
 

 

 

Brilliant.

 

"The man who loves cyborg"

 

Admittedly it is very underated as a JCVD vehicle.

and the hits just keep coming :)

Tho interesting, this thread appears to have lost it's way...

http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/dvd/dvd-genres/action-adventure/dredd-3d-blu-ray/678319

 

That's simple and sexy.  I can wait til March for that.

Nice cover, but $47, jeeesh!

 

I know!  It's got an extra feature from the regular disc, and based on the site's prices, the regular one is still $39 anyway.  Normally I would NEVER pay this for a disc . . . but . . . well . . . Dredd.

LOVED this. It's a damn shame that it flopped like it did 

 

As good as the soundtrack is, it could have been better. How do I know? The producers originally commissioned Geoff Barrow of Portishead to score the film. He worked with Ben Salisbury to create a tense, paranoid fever dream akin to John Carpenter's '80s work on Escape from New York and Ennio Morricone's The Thing. The producers passed on it because they were looking for something more aggressive, but I implore you guys to check it out. Barrow and Salisbury self-released their intended score as Drokk: Music Inspired by Mega-City One.

 

It's fantastic.
 

 

Wow that sounds awesome! Gonna probably buy that.

 

Who here has double dipped yet? I'm probably gonna buy the dvd as a gift for a friend this weekend.

About to watch LOOPER, which I missed last year.

I also have a few old school flicks on my dvr that need watching: THE LAST DETAIL, THE YAKUSA - both first time - and a rewatch of CHINATOWN - first time in 20 years.

 

We should rename this thread to "DREDD - AND ALL THINGS AWESOME - THREAD" and be done with it. I saw Looper again at the weekend and thought it was much improved on second viewing, even though I loved it in the cinema. There's loads of subtle little touches I didn't pick up on on first viewing.

 

 

 

 

 

A mate of mine turned 40 this weekend gone, and he's a lifelong 2000AD fan, so he got a copy of Dredd and a bottle of Heradura tequila in commiseration.

Ah crap, I love soundtracks like this and now when I watch the movie again I'll wish it was in there.