Lena was an cool villain. In all fairness in the comics Dredd's partner is a woman and actually is the one that stops Judge Death, not Dread. Same character as this movie. She lets Judge Death possess her and then she gets put into stasis to trap him.
@@MAGAMAN What a moron. Dredd was a awesome movie. Did you pass out at the beginning of this video and wake up at the end just in time to pull the pull the rope off your neck and jizz all over the keyboard?
Judge Anderson is a great example of how you do a badass female character well without having her overshadow the main character. She's honestly my favourite part of the movie.
She is in the comics as well. She stopped Judge Death by trapping him in herself and then going into stasis. Death was too powerful for Dread to stop because he can't be killed. That would have been an amazing sequel.
she's just a great example of how you introduce a new protagonist, honestly, male or female. She's established as trained but inexperienced, immediately justifying impressive abilities later. But she's initially nervous and unsure of herself, which is not only what you'd expect but also frankly endearing on a primal level. We've all felt that way at some point, so we're immediately sympathetic. Then shit happens, a few mistakes are made, but she's trying her best. which, again, is universally sympathetic. Then she has her badass moments AFTER the character is given a low point. She's been made clearly aware of her flaws. She has to make an active choice to do better, swallow her fear and/or pride and use her training for a very clear, unselfish objective. At the end we have a character you like, believe, and want to see more of. Clear motivations, understandable abilities and limitations, but room to grow. The fact that she's a girl never actually matters, this is just a universally likeable character.
Also, on Mama punching Kay, the fact that he doesn't go flying, makes it so much more humiliating to him. It's like the difference between getting punched and getting slapped. He IS stronger than her he COULD overpower her...but every last man in that room knows he isn't gonna do it. He has to sit there, and take it, because he Fucked up.
Never is a VERY long time. I've heard that Karl Urban is on-board with the idea. All you really need is a good script and people willing to treat it right.
I'm still holding out for that sequel. Tons of crap are getting sequels and reboots, as well as obscure shit people don't even remember, and here we have a film that people actually liked and that was pretty damn great. It seems like a no brainer.
My wife and I will rewatch this movie every few months. I've never gotten sick of it and I have a lot of respect for Karl Urban for wearing the mask the whole time.
YES ! If it's one thing that pissed me off about the Stallone film, it was the damn vanity that prevented him from keeping the helmet on the entire film; I mean damn, we know it's Stallone and we know what he looks like. No lie the costumes and sets looked great and they nailed the look of the Angel Gang, I'll give them that, but the script sucked @$$.
The lack of shakycam in an era with a lot of shakycam could also be symbolic of Dredd's character. Shakycam was initially supposed to be like a representation of the hectic state the characters are in, whereas Dredd as a character is always calm, collected, and in control. Shakycam would not have just been annoying, but would have been symbolically contrary to Dredd's very character.
The Despot, ruler of the Megablock of Antrim, where no judge dares to express a contrary opinion on the matters of symbology, aesthetics or storytelling.
Dredd is such a polar opposite of what creators nowadays are doing and it succeeds in basically everything they are failing at. It's not only badass and masculine, it's also feminine-- Main villain is called a Mama, there's this twisted nurturing theme. Anderson is not only cute, but headstrong without being a Mary-sue. Her lack of experience shows, but she adapts and has agency, becoming stronger for it and helping to save the day with Dredd. Dredd is facing the twisted masculine sides too, fighting the corruption and greed and violence with violence of his own to purify something too rotten to clean. And then there's also criticism of police militarization and brutality?!?!?! There is NO WAY you could make Dredd today. No way the creators could keep it in their pants to not pander.
Don't forget the trans representation. Always gotta shove that in there. And not a passable one either, just a tourist trans that definitely lets you know his pronouns
@@James_Bee Mama would be the trans character, and would claim "her" beer belly is a pregnancy. This character would be portrayed as the true victim and Anderson would shoot Dredd to stop him from killing "her" at the end. Then she would take his helmet and become the *true* Judge Dredd.
One of my absolute FAVORITE movies. Karl Urban is SO good. His expression barely changes and half his face is covered, but he communicates so much through the slightest frown, intonation change, and pauses. THIS is how you do a stoic character. Not as a flat monotone drone, but with complexity and skill. Anderson is one of my favorite female protagonists, too. She's smart but not a Mary Sue. She learns fast, but she still needs to learn. You can see Dredd's respect for her grow over the course of the movie, and the same goes for Anderson's view of Dredd. God, SO good. Such great character growth and interaction. Finally, Mama is excellent. She's played like a male character, but she is very clearly a woman driven by her rage at the vulnerability that made her a victim years ago. Unlike a lot of modern female villains who are driven by s**ual trauma, Mama's character isn't a basic b**ch "Down with the Patriarchy" nag. She refuses to be a victim, and so she became the ultimate victimizer. She's genuinely scary, all the more because you can understand her reasons. But she's not a "misunderstood" villain. She is a very clear bad guy who needs to be put down, and while you can sympathize with her, you NEVER are asked to forgive or accept her actions.
@@melissar4612 Anderson even starts the movie having failed her exams lol, and it's fascinating to watch her slowly find her way from that unpromising starting point.
Karl Urban will always been underrated to me. He’s a big, charismatic guy who is willing to put on a cheap wig, full head helmet or anything else to adapt to the character. That’s more than most people these days.
@eba9121 ghost ship was a great movie. Especially the end where she saw the gold being transferred and mudvaynes dig started playing. Still get goosebumps from that
@@JohnContenderThe song was “Not Falling”. I only remember this because my father, a former Jazz drummer, asked me who it was and commented that he was impressed with the song.
Screw that, I always drop everything and watch it immediately. No actually that's a lie. I finished my shift at work last time so I could actually watch it instead of just listening to it. Instead I went back and re-re-watched a few of his older videos again. I don't mind listening to those because I know what the screen is sitting showing.
I was surprised how good that movie was. It also came out before every female character was mary-sued. Both characters had their strengths, but the writers didnt feel the need to invalidate the other's by it.
@@markweatherill For decades it seemed Robocop was the closest fans were going to get to an actual Judge Dredd film; especially after that Stallone disaster.
I always thought Lex's "make her dead" line was a suggestion that, as corrupted as he might have been, saying the words "killings her" in reference to another judge was just a bit unpalatable to him. Not enough that he doesn't want her dead, but if chooses very slightly less blunt language to command that outcome.
In movies like Prometheus or Passengers, it always baffles me the amount of lighting the interior of the helmets have, disguised as part of the suit, that allows us to watch the performances. But Urban took the challenge and did it all without using his eyes. Massive props to King Eomer.
“Yeah, don’t fuck with the Ma-Ma Clan” “MA-MA CLAN?!?!?” This line cracks me up every time I watch this movie. Great film, hopefully it’ll get a sequel someday
Another addition to his character and menace: Dredd only runs once in the whole movie, when he’s under fire from mini-guns. In every other altercation, he walks. Justice is inevitable.
To paraphrase Razorfist (to the best of my memory,) the '95 Judge Dredd movie got the aesthetic of the 2000 AD comic down cold, while the 2012 film pretty much nailed the rest.
Judge Dredd is actually a half decent sci fi movie. Problem is it is not a Dredd movie. Irony I feel with Dredd is that there is so much canon that does NOT match the source material, but totally matches the spirit of the comic.
95 got mega city 1 right, and the Cursed Earth, but Stallone didn't do Dredd right, because he wanted to be a movie star. He takes the helmet off after 30 seconds. 2012 Dredd gets Dredd and Anderson right, and the blocks right, but it ditched a lot of the humour of the comics.
@@AliceBowie I seem to remember reading somewhere somewhere that it wasn't Stallone's choice to take the mask off, that it was an executive decision. The bean counters wanted to get their money's worth out of Stallone. I might be wrong. As far as the humor goes, maybe they thought they couldn't market it. The 2010's were all about grit.
'I was wondering when you'd realise you weren't wearing your helmet' -A helmet would interfere with my psychic abilities, sir. 'I think a bullet would interfere with them more.'
That form of humor and line is in character for Dredd without making him overly snarky or casual. Compared to now when everyone is trying SO HARD to mimic MCU Humor by having everyone act as previously mentioned. Well done for this movie.
If I was writing the trilogy, for the second movie I'd have Block Wars/Apocalypse War and for the third, I'd have Judge Death/The Dark Judges. The Cursed Earth arc was already in the Stallone movie.
What everyone seems to forget is that Dredd was released very soon after the success of The Raid. The latter was quite a phenomena at the time and has almost exactly the same plot as Dredd - a super cop fights his way up a tower block to battle a drug gang. Having both properties out so close to each other (with Dredd in second place) seemed to confuse a lot of people and certainly took the shine off Dredd's release.
I think it also suffered from the association with the older Stallone Judge Dredd movie from the 90s. I myself assumed it was a sequel, or at least would be just as bad.
My favourite part of this movie is that you completely forget that's it's the very talented and recognisable Karl Urban in the lead. He just dissapears into the performance and character, he is Dredd.
This movie deserved a sequel. Absolutely fantastic stuff! EDIT: Now that I think about it, and as the others in the comments stated. leave it alone with one good movie 😂
@@thefanwithoutaface8105agreed. Now the sequel will be Judge Dreadess , the bad ass boss lady judge with superpowers who is kept down by the patriarchy😂
I waited 30+ years for this masterpiece. I was in America at the time, and just happened to be driving past a discount cinema, when i nearly wrecked the car, as I clocked JUDGE DREDD on the marquee! 😄👍🏻 I was blown away, especially after carrying that PTSD over that Stallone abomination for so long. Top drawer vid my friend! 👏🏻
On the other hand Stallone made the only truly great 2000AD film, Demolition Man. A masterpiece that supersedes either Dredd movie. (And yes, not _officially_ 200AD).
I thought he was talking about that film for a few minutes. I don't remember much about it but I was basically just going to rely on my faith in Our Lord Despot that he knows what he's talking about. Then I realized it is actually a whole new film and my faith wasnt going to be put to such a severe test today. I don't know, I don't watch movies the last fifteen years or so. I gave up when I saw the direction they were going.
Internet raved about this movie and I thought "Another Internet fad about so-so movie"! But, for once, raving was justified! This is one excellent and entertaining piece of cinema!
I was in Afghanistan in 2012. Never heard a single peep about Kony. I did however have an illegal ripped copy of Dredd. About 15 of us watched it on a 20 inch laptop screen.
I remember seeing this in theaters with my friends after our high school graduation. I saw it cause Gavin from Slow Mo Guys was working on it. It was worth seeing it on the big screen. 2012 was a good year of films. Sad we never got a deserved sequel. Thanks for reviewing this hidden gem. 💛 Edit: I know Despot looks down on 2012, but that year holds a special place in my heart cause The Avengers also came out that year. Saw it with my friends and boyfriend at the time. I miss having movie experiences like that.
@@DespotofAntrim Looking back... yyyeah you're right Despot. I was 18 and went to theaters to watch the following movies: Chronicle (underrated) 21 Jump Street The Raid: Redemption (great duology) The Cabin in the Woods Magic Mike (late b-day gift from older sis) The Amazing Spiderman (Andrew's underrated and deserved better) The Expendables 2 Paranorman Frankweenie Sinister Wreck-It Ralph Rise of the Guardians Django Unchained (one of my best movie experiences). I have a soft spot for The Hobbit. It's a guilty pleasure for me, at least the first 2 films. Some elements are good (Bilbo, Thorin, Thranduil, Smaug, Howard Shore's score).
No lie, I still put this movie on for comfort when a new release makes me so disappointed and angry at the state of films that I need a reminder of why I love movies. Thank you, Despot, for helping me better understand why.
That was the first thing on my mind right after I finished RoboCop one. Bring actors back to do voice acting, stick to the concept art of the movie, take some mechanics from Doom and there you have it
I'm so glad you're reviewing this. I agree 100%, it's easily one of the best movies of the 2010s, and what a horrible shame it wasn't marketed properly.
Lionsgate so thoroughly snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, it will be remembered as one of the blunders of all time just like Sony’s Helldivers 2 fiasco
I JUST re-watched this movie last week…on a cruise ship. On my cruise I purposely downloaded mobile Netflix cuz I was in the mood for this and hadn’t watched in a while.. it’s SO. GOOD. Urban is great, the visuals are stunning, the rookie was great, mama awesome villain. Great, fun, concise story. Proof there’s no cinema gods that this doesn’t get a sequel
When the Despot starts stringing together adjectives and creating metaphors to describe the awful tropes he's tearing down, it's a thing of beauty. When people talking about marshalling one's words, this is what they mean.
I was watching this and my gf randomly showed up. She sat down and I told her how awesome this movie is. Eventually while watching this video she said wow we should watch this movie. We did. She loved it, I love it. Now I’m back finishing your video
There's also a second reason Dredd didn't flunk Anderson for losing her Lawmaker: her primary weapon is her telepathy, not her gun. Dredd isn’t bending the rules, he's making an accurate assessment of her abilities and vulnerabilities.
Brilliant film. Read all the comics from age 10 and the film is pretty accurate in my book and pays decent homage to Dredd and Anderson. Congrats on the 100K, great channel.
i don't think people appreciate enough how good the acting in this movie is, not just the individual performances but in the overall restraint the actors shows The universe of Dredd is batshit insane. It's dystopia on a near Warhammer level that frankly strains one's ability to suspend disbelief. That in and of itself is not a huge problem, but i honestly think one of the huge problems of the Stallone attempt was the people in it were equally unbelievable, and at that point it's legitimately hard to care. Conversely the people in Dredd, in spite of the insanity, feel very real. They've accepted the insanity around them the way real people would, they are so easy to understand for the audience and that makes it just so easy to accept the events in the moment. The setting is bleak, the violence is extreme, but because you have actual human beings reacting appropriately it never becomes cartoonish. The tension remains because the movie isn't drawing your attention to the outlandish, it's emphasizing the familiar, which it and off itself makes the setting and the violence hit as hard as they should. The way the cast clearly understands this and keep their reactions controlled and deliberate. They're acting like they live in this world and it does so much to help the immersion of the movie.
Your review of the elevator scene...the 4 seconds of actual in-scene audio of that song and justice Anderson's look... An awesome wave of nostalgia hit me. Thanks, Despot. You took me back to my early 20s. What a time this was. So odd to look back at the '10s... I think it'll be an interesting decade to try and characterize after all is said and done.
Kony 2012 was insane. It's what made me stop using social media. Before kony 2012, i hadn't realized how programmable the average person is. It's also interesting how quickly everyone was to turn against it. I worked with a girl from west africa, who immediately said that Kony hadn't been seen in like over a decade, and was assumed dead, and that the people the video tried to support was probably worse than Kony was, in terms of kidnapping kids and forcing them to fight. Most co-workers ignored what she said, until everyone decided it was bullshit.
I've never seen this movie but after watching 10 minutes of this and you giving it so much praise I have to stop this video till after I watch the movie
Yeah the marketing on this movie was abysmal, and I only got to see it at the cinema because a friend dragged me there to keep me from minecrafting myself that year, I'd not have heard of it outside of that and he only heard about it from a co-worker who was an obsessive 2000ad fan.
This movie and Blade Runner 2049 are mirrors of one another. Both were misunderstood but timeless films that were handicapped by their marketing and their lack of appeal to audiences, and both serve as outliers of the cinematic landscapes they came out during.
Worth noting that the main reason the movie eschews shakycam is because they were only able to get the budget of the movie was in 3D and the 3D shaky-rig is fortunately a JJ fever dream. Worth saying that this was the only movie I’ve ever seen that seemed worth the extra cost for the 3 D glasses, so I have two things to thank the production company for
I'm pretty sure the "rocks" in that scene in Napoleon were supposed to be haybales, but unfortunately you can't tell because everything is 50 shades grey.
I thought Mama was telling the truth about the bomb -- she has miniguns and clearly has access to military-grade weaponry. The expressions on her face were priceless during the fall. The impression I got was that she knew she was finally free once death was inevitable. Wonderful movie and I was disappointed it didn't do better in the box office.
I hated the 3D craze. I wear strong prescription glasses and couldn't see much with the 3D glasses over them, but my parents would choose the 3D option when the family went to the movies every damn time. Fortunately, I quickly learned that many "3d" movies only had a few actual 3D scenes so I rarely missed much by leaving the 3D glasses off.
we need more positive Despot reviews, talking about woke tripe is fun but it gets very tiring after a while. Your speech skills and deep critical film analysis is good enough to make your commentary on any work, good, bad or mediocre, worth watching. I hope we see more of this in the future.
Ahhhh I don’t know I think we get the exact right amount of positive reviews from The Despot. 0% may be too few for some subjects and since I am a just citizen I am willing to accept a 7.5% total positive review rate. Up to 10% perhaps, if they are of the same quality we see here.
Loved this video in praise of Dredd. Your passion when presented with a well written and beautifully directed movie shines through. Your videos should be essential viewing for all media and film studies students; educational, entertaining and totally engaging. Thought I would catch a snippet of this but ended up watching the entire video. It’s no surprise you now have 100K subscribers and growing! Congrats on that one.
I adore this movie. Saw it years and years ago and ever since I've been forcing anyone with even the slightest interest in action movies to watch it. It deserves to be remembered as one of the greats that stood head and shoulders amongs it's peers even if it wasn't recognised at the time. Much like Judge Anderson it may have failed the initaial exam but it proved it's worth in the field with the fans
The moment that sticks out from Mama was when she gets patched into the intercom Before she Speaks into the microphone she breathes in . She inhales air again right before she says "Peach Trees" . It's hard to describe. It's very subtle.Mama is my favorite character in the movie ..This film is top 5 all time comic to film adaptations for me. It deserved so much more..
As i'm old enough to remember being a regular buyer of 2000AD in its early days, I can say this Dredd movie was very accurate to the comic strip. Stallone's '94 version was too but to a lesser degree... My fave was The ABC Warriors. Gimme an ABC Warriors film, with all the trimmings...
Hammerstein from ABC Warriors has an unnamed appearance in the Stallone film, although his personality isn't there. 1990's Hardware, by Richard Stanely and starring Dillion McDermot was an unofficial 2000 AD adaptation, so much so that 2000 AD sued and won. Nemesis the Warlock is awesome, too, and was a big influence on Warhammer 40K. The Judges from Dredd becomes the Arbites, and Torquemada from Nemesis is basically the look of the Ecclesiarchy.
@@MAGAMANReally, the best thing would be the Stallone film with Karl Urban and Anderson in it. Stallone's movie gets everything right, except Judge Dredd himself, and only because Stallone wanted to be his usual action star self. It gets the blocks right, the zany citizens right, and also the Cursed Earth. But Dredd and Rico are too silly. The 2012 film gets Dredd and Anderson right, but it misses out on making the city funny. If you could take the best parts out of both films and combine them, it would be awesome. As for 2012 Dredd, when I watched it for the first time, and one of the gang guys in the van had "Drokk It" painted on his jacket, I was happy. Also, there's anti fatty graffiti in Peach Trees.
@@AliceBowie i know we saw a quick glimpse of Hammerstein but i always though the robot was Mongrol, remember Mongrol ? And I loved Nemesis too, thanks for your interesting reply !
Before I even watch this video I want to pay my respects to Dredd and exclaim how marvelous the movie was! When I watched it a little time after it came out I was perplexed that I never heard anybody talking about it or any word of mouth at all. This is a movie that deserved attention and achievement! The world would've been a much better place if instead of Barbie being so successful last year, it was this movie instead. Thank you, Despot! This is why I love your channel - you make videos about varied entertainment rather than reviewing only whatever the new steaming pile of streaming shit is currently on. Your contributions will not soon be forgotten, my friend.
What still blows my mind is that the Tech Dude is Domhnall Gleeson... who is Hux in the Disney Star Wars! Never picked those characters were the same actor!
Every month I look forward to another brilliant Despot video - they're always worth the wait and this one is another triumph ! A great movie to juxtapose its high quality against its commercial failure. A bizarre story of how writing and design absolutely should be done....and promotion absolutely shouldn't. Thanks for this Despot, may your empire always advance ! 👍
Saw this twice in theaters taking as many folks as I could. There was such a glut of action blockbusters at the time and the superhero movie machine was really hitting it's stride at the time. Tremendous movie
I agree, I remember the first time I seen this, the runtime does not feel as long as it actually is, it starts and just keeps going, you care about every character introduced in some way. It's a brilliant film.
It's good, but I only saw it once. When the guy starts going crazy, it reminded me of Event Horizon. Danny Boyle is a great director, but I guess that film was considered a flop.
Congats on 100K subs! Yes, Dredd is a great film: the environments are incredibly filthy and bleak, Dredd is Lawful Good taken to its logical conclusion; even though you root for him, he's so brutally uncompromising that it's both awesome and scary.at the same time. The girl sidekick is fantastic; not only is she actually interesting, she *doesn't* overshadow Dredd in his own film. This movie DEMANDS A SEQUEL!
The weirdest thing about this video for me is that I lived through 2012 and I barely noticed Kony 2012 being a thing. I guess it was because as an adult I had actual things to do.
I never liked 3D in the cinema, but I loved 3D bluray. I had a 3D TV with the active 3D glasses that needed batteries to operate. The movies all looked amazing. But now I have a load of 3D bluray but no way to watch them as my TV broke.
46:20 Lol that AoE2 sequence. Man, i've laughed so much during your video. Informative, true and entertaining!!! A triple A video! Never heard of Kony 2012 (phew!), a benefit from avoiding the vast majority of news media and only focus on a few important (to my life) things.
In 1994 The Crow was made for a budget of $23 million and it made back almost $100 million. This at a time when movie tickets were much cheaper by the way. As the Despot stated in his video the crappy "remake" this year cost $50 million to make and didn't even BREAK EVEN. Alex Proyas was right when he said that it is BLOOD MONEY what Lions Gate was chasing with this crap film. They were taking a steaming dump on Brandon Lee's legacy and the audience wanted no part of it... GOOD!
@@gamesthatiplay9083 The soundtrack was on the radio because it is F**KING AWESOME! I'm sure it received some help but you have to remember in 1994 there was no social media, no internet (at least not to the extent that it is today) so I still think it's a massive achievement.
Dredds boss: a woman
Dredds partner: a woman
Dredds enemy: a woman
And no one noticed because the movie was properly written!
I noticed because this movie sucked.
@@MAGAMAN you suck.
Lena was an cool villain. In all fairness in the comics Dredd's partner is a woman and actually is the one that stops Judge Death, not Dread. Same character as this movie. She lets Judge Death possess her and then she gets put into stasis to trap him.
I didn't notice it because they were women, not wahmen.
@@MAGAMAN What a moron. Dredd was a awesome movie. Did you pass out at the beginning of this video and wake up at the end just in time to pull the pull the rope off your neck and jizz all over the keyboard?
Judge Anderson is a great example of how you do a badass female character well without having her overshadow the main character. She's honestly my favourite part of the movie.
Literally a PERFECT character developement!
Olivia Thirlby should have had the career Brie Larson had, and then some.
And she's very easy on the eyes, even with all that armor.
She is in the comics as well. She stopped Judge Death by trapping him in herself and then going into stasis. Death was too powerful for Dread to stop because he can't be killed. That would have been an amazing sequel.
she's just a great example of how you introduce a new protagonist, honestly, male or female.
She's established as trained but inexperienced, immediately justifying impressive abilities later. But she's initially nervous and unsure of herself, which is not only what you'd expect but also frankly endearing on a primal level. We've all felt that way at some point, so we're immediately sympathetic. Then shit happens, a few mistakes are made, but she's trying her best. which, again, is universally sympathetic.
Then she has her badass moments AFTER the character is given a low point. She's been made clearly aware of her flaws. She has to make an active choice to do better, swallow her fear and/or pride and use her training for a very clear, unselfish objective.
At the end we have a character you like, believe, and want to see more of. Clear motivations, understandable abilities and limitations, but room to grow. The fact that she's a girl never actually matters, this is just a universally likeable character.
Also, on Mama punching Kay, the fact that he doesn't go flying, makes it so much more humiliating to him. It's like the difference between getting punched and getting slapped.
He IS stronger than her he COULD overpower her...but every last man in that room knows he isn't gonna do it. He has to sit there, and take it, because he Fucked up.
"The elevator scene" was a prime example of a _fundamental_ element of the dying art of filmmaking;
...show, don't tell
Yes, THIS! Great point! Agree!
@@DrTeeth66 Yeap, show don't tell is the main ingredient of great writing in any context - and one that modern TV and film writers have no concept of.
The white phosphorus scene is, I think, the most cinematic shot in the most uniquely cinematic movie I've ever seen
Also, white male protagonist 🗿🍷
Ha, cheeky
Oh that is brilliant and am leaving the likes at 69 because you deserve one for that comment.
@@JeremySayers38 the likes are at 121, you can give him some love now.
they made the movie in such a way it looks like comic panels
especially phosphorus scene
@@williampoole1742 Is the white phosphorus the white male protagonist?
The fact that we'll never get a sequel to Dredd is a crime that needs to be handled by the Judge himself.
Nah we need Judge Death for this level of injustice.
They'd probably ruin it with forced "girl-boss" bullshit.
Never is a VERY long time. I've heard that Karl Urban is on-board with the idea. All you really need is a good script and people willing to treat it right.
I'm still holding out for that sequel. Tons of crap are getting sequels and reboots, as well as obscure shit people don't even remember, and here we have a film that people actually liked and that was pretty damn great. It seems like a no brainer.
@@Mereologist If someone put a similar budget to the first up, and the film being as good as we'd expect; it would make Bank!!
Karl Urban showed more facial expressions and emotion in around 90 min than the Acolyte actress throughout the whole series.
Qwyneth Paltrow did more facial expressions than her at the end of "Seven".
And with only the bottom half of his face...
The acolyte actress expressed decadence. That is her reach so to speak.
Even Karl Urban's ancillary roles are often better than the main. For example, the Chronicles of Riddick.
And I never wondered if Dredd would hook up with the Criminal Lady (forgot her name)
My wife and I will rewatch this movie every few months. I've never gotten sick of it and I have a lot of respect for Karl Urban for wearing the mask the whole time.
I wish to one day be lucky enough to also marry a woman with good taste.
Never let her go! God bless you guys...
A talented actor who doesn't have such an ego as to demand his face be shown?
cough pedro pascal cough cough
Where can I find a woman like this? 😢 I live in a big coastal party city, I’m dying to leave
YES ! If it's one thing that pissed me off about the Stallone film, it was the damn vanity that prevented him from keeping the helmet on the entire film; I mean damn, we know it's Stallone and we know what he looks like. No lie the costumes and sets looked great and they nailed the look of the Angel Gang, I'll give them that, but the script sucked @$$.
The lack of shakycam in an era with a lot of shakycam could also be symbolic of Dredd's character. Shakycam was initially supposed to be like a representation of the hectic state the characters are in, whereas Dredd as a character is always calm, collected, and in control. Shakycam would not have just been annoying, but would have been symbolically contrary to Dredd's very character.
great point
Good observation!
The Despot and Dredd, a match made in heaven.
And Mega City One.
The Despot, ruler of the Megablock of Antrim, where no judge dares to express a contrary opinion on the matters of symbology, aesthetics or storytelling.
The DreddSpot
...and a duo from Hell onto the foes from the School of Non-Entertainment.
Dredd is such a polar opposite of what creators nowadays are doing and it succeeds in basically everything they are failing at.
It's not only badass and masculine, it's also feminine-- Main villain is called a Mama, there's this twisted nurturing theme. Anderson is not only cute, but headstrong without being a Mary-sue. Her lack of experience shows, but she adapts and has agency, becoming stronger for it and helping to save the day with Dredd. Dredd is facing the twisted masculine sides too, fighting the corruption and greed and violence with violence of his own to purify something too rotten to clean. And then there's also criticism of police militarization and brutality?!?!?!
There is NO WAY you could make Dredd today. No way the creators could keep it in their pants to not pander.
Anderson would solo the entire tower, while Dredd CONSTANTLY screws up and needs her to save him. Anderson would also probably be black and a lesbian.
Don't forget the trans representation. Always gotta shove that in there. And not a passable one either, just a tourist trans that definitely lets you know his pronouns
@@James_Bee Mama would be the trans character, and would claim "her" beer belly is a pregnancy. This character would be portrayed as the true victim and Anderson would shoot Dredd to stop him from killing "her" at the end. Then she would take his helmet and become the *true* Judge Dredd.
The hacks who made the Total Recall remake could learn a thing or two from Dredd.
Yeah, "guilty! Sentence ten years in iso cube."
One of my absolute FAVORITE movies. Karl Urban is SO good. His expression barely changes and half his face is covered, but he communicates so much through the slightest frown, intonation change, and pauses. THIS is how you do a stoic character. Not as a flat monotone drone, but with complexity and skill.
Anderson is one of my favorite female protagonists, too. She's smart but not a Mary Sue. She learns fast, but she still needs to learn. You can see Dredd's respect for her grow over the course of the movie, and the same goes for Anderson's view of Dredd. God, SO good. Such great character growth and interaction.
Finally, Mama is excellent. She's played like a male character, but she is very clearly a woman driven by her rage at the vulnerability that made her a victim years ago. Unlike a lot of modern female villains who are driven by s**ual trauma, Mama's character isn't a basic b**ch "Down with the Patriarchy" nag. She refuses to be a victim, and so she became the ultimate victimizer. She's genuinely scary, all the more because you can understand her reasons. But she's not a "misunderstood" villain. She is a very clear bad guy who needs to be put down, and while you can sympathize with her, you NEVER are asked to forgive or accept her actions.
She would be the hero nowadays 😢
@@arostwocentsYasss, yasss!
@@melissar4612 Anderson even starts the movie having failed her exams lol, and it's fascinating to watch her slowly find her way from that unpromising starting point.
Karl Urban will always been underrated to me. He’s a big, charismatic guy who is willing to put on a cheap wig, full head helmet or anything else to adapt to the character.
That’s more than most people these days.
C'mon man, King Eomer's wig doesn't look cheap...
@eba9121 except he's in tons of movies, many with lead roles...
Hes definitely not underrated.
Hey I liked Ghost Ship. But my man Ian McShane is in it as well haha
@eba9121 ghost ship was a great movie.
Especially the end where she saw the gold being transferred and mudvaynes dig started playing.
Still get goosebumps from that
@@JohnContenderThe song was “Not Falling”. I only remember this because my father, a former Jazz drummer, asked me who it was and commented that he was impressed with the song.
Usually I'd save a Despot video for when I have the full length of time allocated. But this is Dredd so all plans now shelved, lets go.
Same! I'm in a pub fiddling with the phone and the flipping video turns up!! Drokk
LET'S GOOOOO!
Barely awake, gotta go get the kids..
Kids'll have to wait...
Screw that, I always drop everything and watch it immediately. No actually that's a lie. I finished my shift at work last time so I could actually watch it instead of just listening to it. Instead I went back and re-re-watched a few of his older videos again. I don't mind listening to those because I know what the screen is sitting showing.
I was surprised how good that movie was. It also came out before every female character was mary-sued.
Both characters had their strengths, but the writers didnt feel the need to invalidate the other's by it.
"The film-maker trusts the viewer..."
Really that's the fulcrum right there.
Truly, one of the best sci-fi movies ever, right up there with the original RoboCop
Robocop was a great Judge Dredd movie, I'm not sure it wasn't a better one than Dredd
@@markweatherill For decades it seemed Robocop was the closest fans were going to get to an actual Judge Dredd film; especially after that Stallone disaster.
- Do you require backup?
- *"No"* _[throttles gas]_
Great to see Dredd getting the recognition it deserves.
Man, such a shame this movie wasn't a successful one. However if it got sequels we would probably lamenting the death of another franchise by now
I always thought Lex's "make her dead" line was a suggestion that, as corrupted as he might have been, saying the words "killings her" in reference to another judge was just a bit unpalatable to him. Not enough that he doesn't want her dead, but if chooses very slightly less blunt language to command that outcome.
It sounds like military/law enforcement lingo
In movies like Prometheus or Passengers, it always baffles me the amount of lighting the interior of the helmets have, disguised as part of the suit, that allows us to watch the performances. But Urban took the challenge and did it all without using his eyes. Massive props to King Eomer.
“Yeah, don’t fuck with the Ma-Ma Clan” “MA-MA CLAN?!?!?” This line cracks me up every time I watch this movie. Great film, hopefully it’ll get a sequel someday
Another addition to his character and menace: Dredd only runs once in the whole movie, when he’s under fire from mini-guns. In every other altercation, he walks. Justice is inevitable.
To paraphrase Razorfist (to the best of my memory,) the '95 Judge Dredd movie got the aesthetic of the 2000 AD comic down cold, while the 2012 film pretty much nailed the rest.
Judge Dredd is actually a half decent sci fi movie. Problem is it is not a Dredd movie. Irony I feel with Dredd is that there is so much canon that does NOT match the source material, but totally matches the spirit of the comic.
95 got mega city 1 right, and the Cursed Earth, but Stallone didn't do Dredd right, because he wanted to be a movie star. He takes the helmet off after 30 seconds. 2012 Dredd gets Dredd and Anderson right, and the blocks right, but it ditched a lot of the humour of the comics.
@@AliceBowie I seem to remember reading somewhere somewhere that it wasn't Stallone's choice to take the mask off, that it was an executive decision. The bean counters wanted to get their money's worth out of Stallone. I might be wrong. As far as the humor goes, maybe they thought they couldn't market it. The 2010's were all about grit.
Dredd was the inspiration for the Adeptus Arbites from Warhammer 40k.
And Rambo for the Catachan Jungle Fighters.
@@darthkek1953 And the Germans were the inspiration for the Armageddon Steel Legion
True. GW still has the rights to Judge Dredd models and table top gaming.
@@darthkek1953Including hero mini Sly Marbo! 🙂
@@AliceBowie Actually Warlord Games have the rights to the Dredd model and table top game, that's why the Arbites look Dredd-ish but not clones.
'I was wondering when you'd realise you weren't wearing your helmet'
-A helmet would interfere with my psychic abilities, sir.
'I think a bullet would interfere with them more.'
That form of humor and line is in character for Dredd without making him overly snarky or casual. Compared to now when everyone is trying SO HARD to mimic MCU Humor by having everyone act as previously mentioned. Well done for this movie.
Honestly kind of feels like Dredd would work better as a series rather than a movie.
That's why the once planned sequel was envisioned as a series.
There was the planned mega city TV series but I think covid and blm ended it.
Urban was so hyped for it, he ended up doing Almost Human, which was cool in a Fringe kind of way, but it wasn't DREDD...
If I was writing the trilogy, for the second movie I'd have Block Wars/Apocalypse War and for the third, I'd have Judge Death/The Dark Judges. The Cursed Earth arc was already in the Stallone movie.
And the Despot has finally reached 100,000 subscribers. Congrats!
What everyone seems to forget is that Dredd was released very soon after the success of The Raid. The latter was quite a phenomena at the time and has almost exactly the same plot as Dredd - a super cop fights his way up a tower block to battle a drug gang. Having both properties out so close to each other (with Dredd in second place) seemed to confuse a lot of people and certainly took the shine off Dredd's release.
It's also a pity since Dredd was filmed *first* and everyone assumed it ripped off The Raid thanks to the release delays.
I think it also suffered from the association with the older Stallone Judge Dredd movie from the 90s. I myself assumed it was a sequel, or at least would be just as bad.
Which is funny because as someone who saw the movie back when it came out in theaters, I didn't know a thing about The Raid.
Everything gets a sequel But DREDD
JUDGE DREDD: Urban Chaos, The Deep End & Final Judgement are the direct comic book sequels to this movie 👍
@@heralduk5839 cool I'll look them up, thanks!
Consider that Firefly only got 13 episodes while Star Trek Discovery got five seasons...
The way sequels have been faring lately, I would consider that a blessing.
A current year sequel would be a terrible idea.
My favourite part of this movie is that you completely forget that's it's the very talented and recognisable Karl Urban in the lead. He just dissapears into the performance and character, he is Dredd.
This movie deserved a sequel. Absolutely fantastic stuff!
EDIT: Now that I think about it, and as the others in the comments stated. leave it alone with one good movie 😂
Feel like that ship has sailed my friend.
@@thefanwithoutaface8105 Very true, and maybe it's for the best. Alot of sequels ruin these types of movies.
@@thefanwithoutaface8105agreed. Now the sequel will be Judge Dreadess , the bad ass boss lady judge with superpowers who is kept down by the patriarchy😂
Totally disagree. Leave the movie as it should be. A lone masterpiece.
@@n-p-3244 you are right now that I think about it. Let it remain a diamond in the rough.
I waited 30+ years for this masterpiece. I was in America at the time, and just happened to be driving past a discount cinema, when i nearly wrecked the car, as I clocked JUDGE DREDD on the marquee! 😄👍🏻
I was blown away, especially after carrying that PTSD over that Stallone abomination for so long.
Top drawer vid my friend! 👏🏻
Yeah I think ptsd is not an overblown call. Still can't forgive Stallone... When Rob Schneider is the best thing in your action film....
On the other hand Stallone made the only truly great 2000AD film, Demolition Man. A masterpiece that supersedes either Dredd movie. (And yes, not _officially_ 200AD).
I thought he was talking about that film for a few minutes. I don't remember much about it but I was basically just going to rely on my faith in Our Lord Despot that he knows what he's talking about. Then I realized it is actually a whole new film and my faith wasnt going to be put to such a severe test today. I don't know, I don't watch movies the last fifteen years or so. I gave up when I saw the direction they were going.
I thought the highlight of the 90s movie was the ABC Warrior, personally.
They were planning a series of shorts if the movie did really well. Alas…
Urban's Dredd is to Stallone's what Bale's Batman is to Val Kilmer's.
This movie deserved so much better than it got. Glad to see people are finally coming around to this gem.
Internet raved about this movie and I thought "Another Internet fad about so-so movie"! But, for once, raving was justified! This is one excellent and entertaining piece of cinema!
I was in Afghanistan in 2012. Never heard a single peep about Kony. I did however have an illegal ripped copy of Dredd. About 15 of us watched it on a 20 inch laptop screen.
I would love to see a photo of 20 guys crowded around a tiny laptop to watch Dredd.
I remember seeing this in theaters with my friends after our high school graduation. I saw it cause Gavin from Slow Mo Guys was working on it. It was worth seeing it on the big screen. 2012 was a good year of films. Sad we never got a deserved sequel. Thanks for reviewing this hidden gem. 💛
Edit: I know Despot looks down on 2012, but that year holds a special place in my heart cause The Avengers also came out that year. Saw it with my friends and boyfriend at the time. I miss having movie experiences like that.
This was the first movie I saw in the new 3D fad, and it uses 3D beautifully.
2012 was bad but still a better year for movies than most of the past decade.
@@DespotofAntrim Looking back... yyyeah you're right Despot. I was 18 and went to theaters to watch the following movies:
Chronicle (underrated)
21 Jump Street
The Raid: Redemption (great duology)
The Cabin in the Woods
Magic Mike (late b-day gift from older sis)
The Amazing Spiderman (Andrew's underrated and deserved better)
The Expendables 2
Paranorman
Frankweenie
Sinister
Wreck-It Ralph
Rise of the Guardians
Django Unchained (one of my best movie experiences).
I have a soft spot for The Hobbit. It's a guilty pleasure for me, at least the first 2 films. Some elements are good (Bilbo, Thorin, Thranduil, Smaug, Howard Shore's score).
@@DespotofAntrim .. Both the Hobbit AND dark knight rises were FAR better than the childish non-reasons you gave as to why they were ''Bad.'' +
No lie, I still put this movie on for comfort when a new release makes me so disappointed and angry at the state of films that I need a reminder of why I love movies.
Thank you, Despot, for helping me better understand why.
I really want a Dredd game from the people who made Robocop and Terminator. I think theyd do excellent.
That was the first thing on my mind right after I finished RoboCop one. Bring actors back to do voice acting, stick to the concept art of the movie, take some mechanics from Doom and there you have it
I'm so glad you're reviewing this. I agree 100%, it's easily one of the best movies of the 2010s, and what a horrible shame it wasn't marketed properly.
This channel is an absolute solid joy, thanks man! You are the best!
You're the best jambazky.
You're the best jambazky.
Wow! So good him named it twice. New York New York in my head 🎶
Lionsgate so thoroughly snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, it will be remembered as one of the blunders of all time just like Sony’s Helldivers 2 fiasco
I JUST re-watched this movie last week…on a cruise ship. On my cruise I purposely downloaded mobile Netflix cuz I was in the mood for this and hadn’t watched in a while.. it’s SO. GOOD. Urban is great, the visuals are stunning, the rookie was great, mama awesome villain. Great, fun, concise story. Proof there’s no cinema gods that this doesn’t get a sequel
Yesterday i rewatched the Damsel and Three Body Problem videos, because i fancied some Despot, now you grace us with a new video!
Wow that Despot wearing the Judge's helmet is terrifying. That's how a Chief Justice should look like.
When the Despot starts stringing together adjectives and creating metaphors to describe the awful tropes he's tearing down, it's a thing of beauty.
When people talking about marshalling one's words, this is what they mean.
I was watching this and my gf randomly showed up. She sat down and I told her how awesome this movie is. Eventually while watching this video she said wow we should watch this movie. We did. She loved it, I love it. Now I’m back finishing your video
Dredd is such a good ip that i wish there was more interest in
I'm glad there's not. Keeps the Mops away.
There's also a second reason Dredd didn't flunk Anderson for losing her Lawmaker: her primary weapon is her telepathy, not her gun. Dredd isn’t bending the rules, he's making an accurate assessment of her abilities and vulnerabilities.
Brilliant film. Read all the comics from age 10 and the film is pretty accurate in my book and pays decent homage to Dredd and Anderson. Congrats on the 100K, great channel.
i don't think people appreciate enough how good the acting in this movie is, not just the individual performances but in the overall restraint the actors shows
The universe of Dredd is batshit insane. It's dystopia on a near Warhammer level that frankly strains one's ability to suspend disbelief. That in and of itself is not a huge problem, but i honestly think one of the huge problems of the Stallone attempt was the people in it were equally unbelievable, and at that point it's legitimately hard to care. Conversely the people in Dredd, in spite of the insanity, feel very real. They've accepted the insanity around them the way real people would, they are so easy to understand for the audience and that makes it just so easy to accept the events in the moment.
The setting is bleak, the violence is extreme, but because you have actual human beings reacting appropriately it never becomes cartoonish. The tension remains because the movie isn't drawing your attention to the outlandish, it's emphasizing the familiar, which it and off itself makes the setting and the violence hit as hard as they should.
The way the cast clearly understands this and keep their reactions controlled and deliberate. They're acting like they live in this world and it does so much to help the immersion of the movie.
Amazing! I rewatched it just the other day. I've seen it 10 times at least. Glad to see your take on it, Despot of Mega-City Antrim
🎵They call him Judge, his last name is Dredd
So break the law, and you wind up dead🎵
Based fellow 80s Anthrax fan, I see.
PS, I read your comment in Joey Beladonna's falsetto, in my head.
kony was 2012? 12 years ago? Damn I'm so old :(
Dredd and the first 2 Nolan Batmans are some of the best "edgy"/gritty comic book adaptations, with Sin City being the best of course.
Congratulations on 100k subs. Great channel and deep insight on the culture. Keep it up
Your review of the elevator scene...the 4 seconds of actual in-scene audio of that song and justice Anderson's look... An awesome wave of nostalgia hit me.
Thanks, Despot. You took me back to my early 20s. What a time this was. So odd to look back at the '10s... I think it'll be an interesting decade to try and characterize after all is said and done.
Kony 2012 was insane. It's what made me stop using social media. Before kony 2012, i hadn't realized how programmable the average person is. It's also interesting how quickly everyone was to turn against it. I worked with a girl from west africa, who immediately said that Kony hadn't been seen in like over a decade, and was assumed dead, and that the people the video tried to support was probably worse than Kony was, in terms of kidnapping kids and forcing them to fight. Most co-workers ignored what she said, until everyone decided it was bullshit.
I've never seen this movie but after watching 10 minutes of this and you giving it so much praise I have to stop this video till after I watch the movie
You should .It's great!
Won't regret it
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@@michaelproctor479 It is? Shit, I'm gonna watch it again.
Yeah the marketing on this movie was abysmal, and I only got to see it at the cinema because a friend dragged me there to keep me from minecrafting myself that year, I'd not have heard of it outside of that and he only heard about it from a co-worker who was an obsessive 2000ad fan.
I am really sorry for my ignorance, but what is "Minecrafting" yourself?
Is it the S word?
Okay, that cut from Mama hitting the ground to that pumpkin smash absolutely killed me.
This. Is a masterclass of clever editing.
Congratulations on 100K subs, Despot. Amazing to watch this channel from 1000 to rise 100-fold.
Every once in a while there is a movie you miss seeing on the big screen and truly regret it. Dread and Rambo Last Blood are definitely two.
This movie and Blade Runner 2049 are mirrors of one another. Both were misunderstood but timeless films that were handicapped by their marketing and their lack of appeal to audiences, and both serve as outliers of the cinematic landscapes they came out during.
This movie is brilliant and was incredibly under appreciated when it released. It’s a shame it wasn’t properly marketed.
Worth noting that the main reason the movie eschews shakycam is because they were only able to get the budget of the movie was in 3D and the 3D shaky-rig is fortunately a JJ fever dream.
Worth saying that this was the only movie I’ve ever seen that seemed worth the extra cost for the 3 D glasses, so I have two things to thank the production company for
I'm pretty sure the "rocks" in that scene in Napoleon were supposed to be haybales, but unfortunately you can't tell because everything is 50 shades grey.
Incredibly underrated film. I think their decision to use 3D filming took away from the movie itself, although it was beautiful.
@@John.Angell you're an idiot....
I thought Mama was telling the truth about the bomb -- she has miniguns and clearly has access to military-grade weaponry. The expressions on her face were priceless during the fall. The impression I got was that she knew she was finally free once death was inevitable. Wonderful movie and I was disappointed it didn't do better in the box office.
Dear god I love this movie, my theory is that Anderson was going to say human before she was interrupted
The Despot speaks for the once proud Western man's soul.
I'm still rocking a 3D TV at home and I make a point of watching Dredd in 3D at least once a year; it rocks. Real high speed footage in 3D is amazing.
I hated the 3D craze. I wear strong prescription glasses and couldn't see much with the 3D glasses over them, but my parents would choose the 3D option when the family went to the movies every damn time. Fortunately, I quickly learned that many "3d" movies only had a few actual 3D scenes so I rarely missed much by leaving the 3D glasses off.
we need more positive Despot reviews, talking about woke tripe is fun but it gets very tiring after a while. Your speech skills and deep critical film analysis is good enough to make your commentary on any work, good, bad or mediocre, worth watching. I hope we see more of this in the future.
100% agree
He needs to do a video on the greatest movie of all time.. Rocky
Ahhhh I don’t know I think we get the exact right amount of positive reviews from The Despot. 0% may be too few for some subjects and since I am a just citizen I am willing to accept a 7.5% total positive review rate. Up to 10% perhaps, if they are of the same quality we see here.
I couldn't agree more. My gas tank on woke reviews is at an all-time low It's time for some pick me ups.
Dredd and Despot in a single vid. RUclips doesn’t get any better.
Loved this video in praise of Dredd. Your passion when presented with a well written and beautifully directed movie shines through. Your videos should be essential viewing for all media and film studies students; educational, entertaining and totally engaging. Thought I would catch a snippet of this but ended up watching the entire video. It’s no surprise you now have 100K subscribers and growing! Congrats on that one.
Thanks Adoptme, writing positive reviews is definitely harder than negative but worth it when I see all the positive feedback.
Never has a video title been more apt - Kony 2012 was hilarious, Internet Historian has such a good take on it.
I adore this movie. Saw it years and years ago and ever since I've been forcing anyone with even the slightest interest in action movies to watch it. It deserves to be remembered as one of the greats that stood head and shoulders amongs it's peers even if it wasn't recognised at the time. Much like Judge Anderson it may have failed the initaial exam but it proved it's worth in the field with the fans
The moment that sticks out from Mama was when she gets patched into the intercom Before she Speaks into the microphone she breathes in . She inhales air again right before she says "Peach Trees" . It's hard to describe. It's very subtle.Mama is my favorite character in the movie ..This film is top 5 all time comic to film adaptations for me. It deserved so much more..
As i'm old enough to remember being a regular buyer of 2000AD in its early days, I can say this Dredd movie was very accurate to the comic strip. Stallone's '94 version was too but to a lesser degree... My fave was The ABC Warriors. Gimme an ABC Warriors film, with all the trimmings...
Stallone's movie was better written and more memorable than this generic snoozefest.
@@MAGAMAN i enjoyed both, still prefer an abc warriors film
Hammerstein from ABC Warriors has an unnamed appearance in the Stallone film, although his personality isn't there. 1990's Hardware, by Richard Stanely and starring Dillion McDermot was an unofficial 2000 AD adaptation, so much so that 2000 AD sued and won. Nemesis the Warlock is awesome, too, and was a big influence on Warhammer 40K. The Judges from Dredd becomes the Arbites, and Torquemada from Nemesis is basically the look of the Ecclesiarchy.
@@MAGAMANReally, the best thing would be the Stallone film with Karl Urban and Anderson in it. Stallone's movie gets everything right, except Judge Dredd himself, and only because Stallone wanted to be his usual action star self. It gets the blocks right, the zany citizens right, and also the Cursed Earth. But Dredd and Rico are too silly. The 2012 film gets Dredd and Anderson right, but it misses out on making the city funny.
If you could take the best parts out of both films and combine them, it would be awesome.
As for 2012 Dredd, when I watched it for the first time, and one of the gang guys in the van had "Drokk It" painted on his jacket, I was happy. Also, there's anti fatty graffiti in Peach Trees.
@@AliceBowie i know we saw a quick glimpse of Hammerstein but i always though the robot was Mongrol, remember Mongrol ? And I loved Nemesis too, thanks for your interesting reply !
Before I even watch this video I want to pay my respects to Dredd and exclaim how marvelous the movie was! When I watched it a little time after it came out I was perplexed that I never heard anybody talking about it or any word of mouth at all. This is a movie that deserved attention and achievement! The world would've been a much better place if instead of Barbie being so successful last year, it was this movie instead. Thank you, Despot! This is why I love your channel - you make videos about varied entertainment rather than reviewing only whatever the new steaming pile of streaming shit is currently on. Your contributions will not soon be forgotten, my friend.
What still blows my mind is that the Tech Dude is Domhnall Gleeson... who is Hux in the Disney Star Wars! Never picked those characters were the same actor!
Every month I look forward to another brilliant Despot video - they're always worth the wait and this one is another triumph ! A great movie to juxtapose its high quality against its commercial failure. A bizarre story of how writing and design absolutely should be done....and promotion absolutely shouldn't. Thanks for this Despot, may your empire always advance ! 👍
Within seconds of your video. I knew that the praise this movie should have had is finally coming. About time.
It's a crime that this movie didn't get a sequel
Saw this twice in theaters taking as many folks as I could. There was such a glut of action blockbusters at the time and the superhero movie machine was really hitting it's stride at the time. Tremendous movie
I agree, I remember the first time I seen this, the runtime does not feel as long as it actually is, it starts and just keeps going, you care about every character introduced in some way. It's a brilliant film.
I've never heard anyone mention the movie "sunshine" before! One of my favorite movies!
So good. Probably one if my favorite soundtracks too.
It's good, but I only saw it once. When the guy starts going crazy, it reminded me of Event Horizon. Danny Boyle is a great director, but I guess that film was considered a flop.
The only reason I didn’t see this movie in theaters was not because it was in 3D, but because I was 12 when it came out.
Same, except I was 9.
Congats on 100K subs! Yes, Dredd is a great film: the environments are incredibly filthy and bleak, Dredd is Lawful Good taken to its logical conclusion; even though you root for him, he's so brutally uncompromising that it's both awesome and scary.at the same time.
The girl sidekick is fantastic; not only is she actually interesting, she *doesn't* overshadow Dredd in his own film. This movie DEMANDS A SEQUEL!
The weirdest thing about this video for me is that I lived through 2012 and I barely noticed Kony 2012 being a thing. I guess it was because as an adult I had actual things to do.
I had never even heard of Kony 2012 before this video. Must be yet more proof that social media is a cesspit of stupid.
I'm starting to think its Mandela Effect. RUclipsrs vividly remember it, but no one else does.
I can listen to that soundrack on repeat. One of the rare ones where i can do that.
I never liked 3D in the cinema, but I loved 3D bluray. I had a 3D TV with the active 3D glasses that needed batteries to operate. The movies all looked amazing.
But now I have a load of 3D bluray but no way to watch them as my TV broke.
Never buy into trends. They all fall out of public perception sooner rather than later.
Once I saw a 3D Star Wars movie. I was very impressed. Those ships looked amazing in 3D.
46:20 Lol that AoE2 sequence. Man, i've laughed so much during your video. Informative, true and entertaining!!! A triple A video!
Never heard of Kony 2012 (phew!), a benefit from avoiding the vast majority of news media and only focus on a few important (to my life) things.
"this is not a negotiation.
the sentence is death"
In 1994 The Crow was made for a budget of $23 million and it made back almost $100 million. This at a time when movie tickets were much cheaper by the way. As the Despot stated in his video the crappy "remake" this year cost $50 million to make and didn't even BREAK EVEN. Alex Proyas was right when he said that it is BLOOD MONEY what Lions Gate was chasing with this crap film. They were taking a steaming dump on Brandon Lee's legacy and the audience wanted no part of it... GOOD!
The Crow was helped by the soundtrack being on radio.
@@gamesthatiplay9083 The soundtrack was on the radio because it is F**KING AWESOME! I'm sure it received some help but you have to remember in 1994 there was no social media, no internet (at least not to the extent that it is today) so I still think it's a massive achievement.
The end truly was cathartic, Despot. Godspeed.