Big evil building. A drug Kingpin (a Lannister, in fact!). Cops fighting their way up floor by floor. Mezzanine gunfights.
You have to assume the particularly Raid-like imagery around which most of the Dredd trailer is cut really comes from perhaps one major sequence, but Gareth Evans should still be flattered by the tacit studio endorsement. Even when they made the movie too 
soon to rip off his great movie, they still want us to think they ripped off his great movie!
Beyond the surface similarities with that film (and Evans ain’t even mad at ’em), director Pete Travis looks to be interested in cramming some art into this dystopian tale of fascist street-cops and society-rotting super drugs. I will wait to see this thing in better quality than a TV rip before judging the effects.
The drug called “slow-mo” is cute, and Urban definitely has the scowl, but right now it looks much blander than I typically like to take my sci-fi. While the original comic book adaptation perhaps suffered from a deplorable excess of personality, sucking out all the color and dark humor for something “grounded” and lamely quippy ain’t the way to catch my eye.
How about yours? Be judge, jury, and commentator down below.
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LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW! Needs more Assante!
and Schneider?
Should be interesting to see some more of this movie. Not really going one way or another at this point.
A little bit of Diane Lane couldn’t hurt
Blocked by Lionsgate.
Renn Brown, I have no…Dredd, for this film, now that I have seen at least the trailer! I cannot wait to see the film. While Dredd will be similar to The Raid in some ways, to me it will be an…Improved version, as Dredd, features…Judges, of Mega City One, adding to the…Fun!
What’s going on with this? It’s been pulled off (OOER) Den of Geek as well this morning here in UK. Anyway..”I knew you were gonna say that”. “
I’m at work and can’t see the trailer on our computer, but I checked it out on YouTube on my phone, and it came up fine. bloodworxfilms is the poster, and it looks like it comes from the G4 site, because it has the Attack of the Show logo on it.
That’s the first one that came up anyway, but there appear to be others.
Machimina now has the trailer on their YouTube page. Pretty sure that was why it was blocked by Lionsgate, since they gave them the rights to premiere it online, as with the 10 second teaser last night. So if you want to replace it, here you go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PifvRiHVSCY
I don’t think the Raid-like imagery just comes from one particular sequence. I’m pretty sure that’s what the entire movie is. Sure, there will be an opening act that sets up the Mega City world, but after that I think it’s just a straight rip-off of Raid.
Also, his helmet is way too big. I thought maybe it was just a photo thing, but it still looks bad in action. They needed to shrink the helmet or add the shoulder gear.
You really couldn’t be more wrong, firstly: the logistics of ripping of the Raid so quickly for a bigger budget film are impossible. Sceondly: The Dredd screenplay was written before the Raid and it’s been in production since 2009.
So that’s what Judge Dredd would look like in the Nolanverse. Making it look like a Raid rip-off will detract from the fact that this movie is for when The Dark Knight Rises has sold out in all of its auditoriums and you still want to see a movie.
In fairness Nolanised Batman looks more like something from the Dredd-verse.
Yes, you are fair.
It’s actually shockingly similar to The Raid isn’t it. No doubt both movies benefit from being able to lock down their on-screen world to a handful of corridor sets and modular rooms.
The “dry and dusty” look is interesting and I don’t think Mega City One ever looked that way in the comic, despite existing on the edge of a vast radioactive desert and similarly toxic ocean.
“It’s Judgement Time” is a bit of a worry. Will only accept it’s presence if there’s a running theme of terrible “Judge” puns.
Not as horrible looking as I’d feared but the trailer shows nothing of the black humour and satire found in the comics. But it’s only a trailer so who knows? For all we know we’ll get an Otto Sump cameo encouraging everyone to “Get ugly!”.
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