I often speculate on that cigar. My lame reasoning is that plausibly the store owner had at one time 'synced' the Robot to himself. Like Rico is initiating in this sequence. Grabbing the cigar might give the robot pause or confuse it long enough for him to become its commander. I might be stretching a bit. Maybe he's a smoker.
I love how the ABC Warrior moves its jaw when speaking, while it clearly doesn't form the words with its mouth like humans. Such a needless, yet cool function.
Sometimes you just want racing stripes on your car. Haters might tell you that they don't actually make it go faster, and who knows, maybe there is a slim chance they're right, but they are cool.
I love how the robot seems like a piece of heavy machinery, making noises like a giant old, crusty trash compactor and venting air pressure and with realistic looking hydraulic systems....like it could actually exist.
@@GudrezBilly Animatronics don't move their limbs by themselves: they are essentially huge marionettes with mechanisms inside, each one requiring a different operator to function. Some might use remote-control servomotors and hydraulics, others are purely mechanic and rely on strings and gears. The ABC Warrior in particular was animated by 9 people off-screen.
Judge Dredd '95's city, atmosphere and aesthetics was more faithful to the comics. Judge Dredd 2012 dialogue and acting was simply far superior. If only there was one movie that took the best of both.
I loved everything about the 2012 Dredd except for the portrayal of Mega City 1 - it's post-apocalyptic but it's supposed to be a crazy fun place (Palais do Boing, Fatties, etc). The 95 film did at least get that right.
And really stupid.... that guy hord weapons and by tha ABC warrior he have collectet and his non fuction was only one open wirer have most liket stored also other not legal stuff. and that in a Red district area. Short. He should have one armed bodyguard that guard him. One bodyguard to massive to fit into a normal door frame...
@@benjaminschiel3339 Well mate, it's the slums. He shouldn't have opened the door, but the customer seemed rich. He isn't exactly selling for rich customers and advanced weaponry. In the movie, most of those weapons only do damage at close range. Also, the judges probably know how those ABC warriors were deactivated, or deactivated them, which this guy have no idea about. Judges are very rare in red districts. Ye, he was stupid. Probably just some poor guy, finally hoping to earn some good cash.
@@maxsharpe2194 He was more tolerable than Stallone showing his face every 5 mins and having the helmet cover everything but his mouth in one scene, another helmet exposing his nose for "Recognition" next. Ugghh!!!
Costumes were great? Are you on crack? They were awful. The Judge costumes looked like they were made out of the cheapest plastic available, like a nerd made it in his mom's basement so he could wear it to Comic-con.
@Főfasírozó which in many cases can be indistinguishable since they're both sciencefiction-based dystopian future genres. Its like... Science-fiction and science-fantasy. They share A Lot of the same elements, to the point they're almost synonymous with one another. Yes, they have distinct differences, but those differences can be so small
@@Innomen yes it's cannon when the wars ended all the abc warriors became quite depressed until hammerstein (the main abc warrior in the comics and the bace of the robot in the movie) was given a mission to go to Mars he and the others jumped at the opportunity
Ahab Tittyjuice well it is a shady establishment, he had all kinds of illegal stuff there like the Lawgiver too... so why not an ABC warrior that only needed a minor fix? still,... how did Rico.know thats all it needed? Was he an expert of 60 year old technology?
GamleErik100 Listen, the ONLY part of Terminator 2 which had CGI was the T1000, everything else in the movie was done the traditional way. Bear in mind that 90% of the time the T1000 was one screen he was portrayed by the actor himself. The actual CGI scenes were few. Back in the 1990's CGI was just used for some animations. Take Jurassic Park. Many of the close-up scenes were done using an animatronic T-Rex and stunt actors inside the Velociraptors. We didn't really see a full-time CGI character until Star Wars Episode I in 1999 - the infamous Jar Jar Binks. And we didn't see entire scenes and settings done as CGI until the early 2000's. "But some directors preferred animatronics and stop-motion animation still." Nothing about preference. That's a ridiculous statement. It was *one thing* making a quicksilver man morph into the real actor who did 90% of the appearance on screen. It was quite another to make a realistic looking cgi character and when Judge Dredd was shot cgi characters looked nowhere near as real as animatronics - especially when it came to robots. Close up you could easily tell a cgi animation in the 90's because things such as shadows and light reflecting on the body wasn't capable yet and as such the characters looked shiny and artificial. You're also wrong about Terminator 2 being one of the first with realistic CGI. The Abyss in 1989 (also directed by Cameron) had CGI underwater aliens and underwater alien ships. It even won an Oscar for special effects. Willow in 1988 had already mastered the cgi morphing with characters turning into others. Young Sherlock Holmes in 1985 had a computer animated knight, which was made by Lucasfilm's John Lasseter - who later went on to form Pixar. As for CGI - it was done realistic enough in Disney's Tron in 1982 where vehicles such as the light cycles and solar sailer look impressive even today. Nothing "prefered" this or that. The change was *gradual* and not immediate like you so wrongly believe.
I've heard that CGI took a huge leap forward in Avatar by better recreating subtle details like how people's eyes focus and track. Practical effects like this robot soldier still give a better sense of weight, presence, and stompy mass, though.
avatar made huge leaps and bounds in CGI, no one else goes nearly as far though as its super expensive and time consuming. cinema today is disney/marvel merch grabbing repeat bullshit and netflix series that ignore source materials and are using the IP to gain views they have no want to make good well researched and produced shows anymore save a few.
@@itsyaboy_dario Not really, CGI is several times cheaper and more cost effective than practical effects. Problem is that it creates a disconnect with the audience (we can tell it's not there, or it's interaction is a bit off with everything else). Practical effects give you something tangible and physically there interacting with it's environment, but it can be a bit wooden in how it moves and interacts. Jurassic Park took care of that issue by using CGI to complement the practical FX.
Except Tiger Tanks needed like 8 hours of maintenance for every hour of service. Reconnect one wire and the ABC is ready to rock after 60 years. It's more like finding an old AK-47 in a junk bin.
@@mjpraetorian4386 Tiger I > Tiger II. I do like the Tiger II, but the Tiger I is much lighter and way more reliable. Contrary to popular belief, it was pretty reliable after they worked the kinks out.
OK, just imagine this for a second - this production design and atmosphere combined with the direction, story-boarding and characterisation from 2012's 'Dredd' and you'd have a pretty sick movie...
I love how it coos like a baby after pleasing its master by summarily murdering half a dozen judges. It makes zero sense, but it's absolutely awesome and the practical effects of the ABC robot are absolutely impeccable!
Rented this from Blockbuster in the mid-90s as a kid...to this day I still think about the ABC Warrior and just how haunting and chilling it is. The movie may have not been the greatest, but this scene and the ABC Robot's design is legendary.
@@henrikmonkee Finally! Someone showing some love to the Virus monster. That thing was absolutely beast! Like a mix of an eldritch horror and a Terminator. But yeah, RoboCain was terrifying too -- that scene where he lifts the warehouse door and it slams shut and it's pitch black and then his flood lights come on is frightening AF and still is frightening to this very day.
Armand Assante was the best part of this movie. He chewed up every scene that he was in. He was also great in the HBO movie Gotti. Has to be one of the greatest underutilized actors in Hollywood.
Absolutely agree. I watched this film as a kid, and the only thing that has come close to it for sheer malice is the robot thing in Thor, that shot fire from its face. Something about the soulless nihilism scares the crap out of me.
The art department totally nailed the aesthetic of 2000AD with this flick, too bad it was wasted on this sorry take on the source material. At least we got Urban's Dredd to fall back on.
This movie would have been a lot better without Rob Schneider's character. Not the actor himself but just eliminate the buddy sidekick, then again, it was the 90's and that was common.
The production design and cinematography in this film was amazing and it's a shame that the film was so badly interfered with by the studio and Stallone. This looks infinitely better and more tactile than the lazy and generic GCI futurescapes of contemporary sci-fi.
They captured the look and feel of the Judges and Mega-City One wwaaayyyy better than the Urban version, this often looks like it came straight off a page in the comic. Unfortunately they made it in to a generic 90's Stallone vehicle.
@@justindunlap1235 that would be a epic movie. lets see, Johnny 5 died in the last movie, but i say they got him on a shelf somewhere in megacity 1, and they revive him by a accidental lightening strike ;)
This is such an under-rated movie. It captures the vibrancy and larger-than-life style of the comics perfectly. The effects are brilliant, not a single frame of CGI to be seen. And how cool is it to see an actual working ABC Warrior !? That thing scared the life out of me when I was a kid. Anyone remember Hammerstein and Ro-Jaws from the comics ?
This is some of the best practical effects robotics I've ever seen in film. Absolutely stunning. This kind of presence and impact could never have been achieved with CGI. It's rather sad to see how over-reliance on CG in film and animation has so negatively impacted both mediums since the 80s and 90s. CG of course has its place in film and animation, but when it's used to achieve nearly every effect even when practical effects could feasibly have been used, it just hurts the audiences experience. Hopefully the success of the practical-effects Bonanza Mad Max: Fury Road will show Hollywood that there's money to be made doing it the RIGHT way.
I AGREE ! Everything today gets overkilled with CGI to the point it looks like a cartoon ! ,ex The Matrix Reloaded Smiths vs NEO ,CGI has ruined many a good film that might have made them look different .
There are indeed films that over-rely on fast-dating CGI. They're probably the ones you remember. In reality, many films are still done the Fury Road way - practical, with heavy CGI augmentation.
Such a believable world, the sets are amazing, it looks like the future or somewhere alien so much, the cars make it so unfamiliar as well, and the robot was just amazing too.
Honestly, if you just went by this clip, Judge Dredd seems like it's a pretty good movie. Love the ABC warrior's design and practical effects and Rico (at least in this clip) seems like a cool bad guy.
Overall the film was pants, but it's still a guilty pleasure for an old 2000ad fan like me. The production design, visual effects and little moments like this make it worth a watch or two.
Some good Blade Runner vibes when Rico is walking through the city. The 2012 version is a better movie by a mile but the 1995 version is definitely a guilty pleasure
No it actually looks the most like a T-400 out of all the Skynet units. Search it up, they're practically the same design just that ABC Warrior is bigger and has more of a "face".
Option 1. this abc Warrior was allready selled and the buyer want it full function. its was only stored there until the new owner pick it up. 2. the shop owner want this unit active by only one reset wirer becaus he see it as a last defenceline . So if somone will raide him, he could active this war machine in 20 seconds... 3. the shop owner have not enough mechanical skill and knowing of the internal systems that he could remove the power unit or the central CPU so he only cut one wirer of the cpu in hope it shut the unit down.
If I had known an abc warrior made an appearance in this movie I would’ve watched it a long time ago. Black hole is my favourite comic book of all time. Now I have to watch this!
It can. The sad thing isn't that CG is inherently bad, it's that dumbass directors and producers want to use it for roles where it just doesn't hold up, usually due to it being cheaper.
@@Servellion its actually not cheaper though lol. All the people you need to pay, and the cost in rendering... It actually gets expensive fast. even compared to practical effects. Movies and production rely so heavily on CGI because of its obvious potential, how quickly it advances, and the fact that we live in a digital age
@@bloodydove5718 do you know how is the relation now? I think obviously in 1995 CG was way more expensive than today, but is today more expensive to do CG or build a robot like that?
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Love the rumble and pure aggression when the ABC robot says “Waaaaar”! It nearly sounds excited or happy it’s going to fight.
It is!
Yeah, its kind of heart warming, war is its only purpose.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH WITH DA BOYZ
Sounds like a coke belch to me
@@WindiChilliwack Necrorkz in this case lol
He really got a lot of mileage out of that dead guy’s cigar
These are the comments I come here to read.
Out of everything you noticed....this your comment???? I tip my hat to your Genius....
@@earnestpeeplesjr8948 my gf has better comments
@@earnestpeeplesjr8948 Open the steeples and see all the Peeples
I often speculate on that cigar.
My lame reasoning is that plausibly the store owner had at one time 'synced' the Robot to himself. Like Rico is initiating in this sequence. Grabbing the cigar might give the robot pause or confuse it long enough for him to become its commander. I might be stretching a bit.
Maybe he's a smoker.
I love how the ABC Warrior moves its jaw when speaking, while it clearly doesn't form the words with its mouth like humans. Such a needless, yet cool function.
Not mentioning the war cries when it's shooting... totally unnecessary, yet cool. :D
It genuinely enjoys what it does. From the old comics, they have quite rich personalities.
Sometimes you just want racing stripes on your car. Haters might tell you that they don't actually make it go faster, and who knows, maybe there is a slim chance they're right, but they are cool.
kind of like stallone himself
Ultrasound detecros of life forms.
I love how the robot seems like a piece of heavy machinery, making noises like a giant old, crusty trash compactor and venting air pressure and with realistic looking hydraulic systems....like it could actually exist.
"Like it could actually exist" Scale up a Boston Dynamics robot. Not difficult and capable of doing backflips and tumbling while it shoots you.
The pawnbroker was Ian Drury
Well it was presumably an animatronic, so it probably did move it's limbs itself.. Just was immobile.
@@GudrezBilly Animatronics don't move their limbs by themselves: they are essentially huge marionettes with mechanisms inside, each one requiring a different operator to function. Some might use remote-control servomotors and hydraulics, others are purely mechanic and rely on strings and gears. The ABC Warrior in particular was animated by 9 people off-screen.
@@thermonuclearcollider4418 Thats amazing, thanks for sharing!
Judge Dredd '95's city, atmosphere and aesthetics was more faithful to the comics.
Judge Dredd 2012 dialogue and acting was simply far superior.
If only there was one movie that took the best of both.
Karl Urban's Dredd in Stallone's Meg-One would be the perfect Judge Dredd movie.
I loved everything about the 2012 Dredd except for the portrayal of Mega City 1 - it's post-apocalyptic but it's supposed to be a crazy fun place (Palais do Boing, Fatties, etc). The 95 film did at least get that right.
After years .. I still can't forget this ABC Warrior. It impressed me so much when i was a Kid.
Google ABC Warriors Khronicles of Khaos 😎
Same.
Built to fight and survive the wars of the future against "Atomic, Bacterial and Chemical" warfare. A.B.C warrior was the best of the Stallone movie.
I want a movie where ABC is the protagonist and the enemy is man!
The square jaw and slanted mouth makes it look a bit like Stallone.
eh.. I used it for "Entertainment" when I was 16.. this was way before the internet was popular.. :P
James Liu 2000AD
Should it be called CBRN Warriors?
The shop owner seemed like such a nice guy. Great way to set up a villain.
And really stupid....
that guy hord weapons and by tha ABC warrior he have collectet and his non fuction was only one open wirer have most liket stored also other not legal stuff.
and that in a Red district area.
Short. He should have one armed bodyguard that guard him. One bodyguard to massive to fit into a normal door frame...
@@benjaminschiel3339 Well mate, it's the slums. He shouldn't have opened the door, but the customer seemed rich. He isn't exactly selling for rich customers and advanced weaponry. In the movie, most of those weapons only do damage at close range.
Also, the judges probably know how those ABC warriors were deactivated, or deactivated them, which this guy have no idea about. Judges are very rare in red districts.
Ye, he was stupid. Probably just some poor guy, finally hoping to earn some good cash.
You know the shop owner is Ian Dury as in Ian Dury and the block heads a 1980s punk band
@@billjane5522 No, I didn't know.
@@billjane5522 What a Waste.
You cant fault this film for its atmosphere and cinematography. The sets and costumes are great
Yeah and Rob Schneider fucking ruined it
@@maxsharpe2194 He was more tolerable than Stallone showing his face every 5 mins and having the helmet cover everything but his mouth in one scene, another helmet exposing his nose for "Recognition" next. Ugghh!!!
@@nasanodia736 Yep. Karl Urban said "fuck that" went full Dredd for the fans. We need more Karl Urban Dredd movies.
I mean this is just basically Blade Runner
Costumes were great? Are you on crack? They were awful. The Judge costumes looked like they were made out of the cheapest plastic available, like a nerd made it in his mom's basement so he could wear it to Comic-con.
I like these cyberpunk blade runner style movies, it ages like fine wine
@Főfasírozó which in many cases can be indistinguishable since they're both sciencefiction-based dystopian future genres. Its like... Science-fiction and science-fantasy. They share A Lot of the same elements, to the point they're almost synonymous with one another. Yes, they have distinct differences, but those differences can be so small
I think it was because it was all from the same set designer.
Play yourself some alien isolation
Yup (hic)..
also super mario the movie was cyberpunk, waterworld, escape from NY and LA , I love 90s movie
I like how that ABC warrior, rattling like my old C64 diskdrive when starting up, says 'War'
yup.. when I format a disk on my 1541 it makes that sound :)
When I first watched Judge Dredd a long time ago. I never saw anything like the ABC robot. I love sci-fi!
pyr0pete - Wow, you had a disk drive, I only had a tape deck or "datasette" as it was called.
Actually what he really sounded like is an old EM pinball machine starting up.
it's a rattletrap!
I like how it seeks commander's approval, and seems pleased to get it.
That's because abc warriors are sentient but shackled by thire programing he probably enjoyed haveing a purpose after being useless foe so long
@@jackstewart2258 Is that canon? I don't know much about the comics.
@@jackstewart2258 He even got exited when he heard about going to war
@@Innomen yes it's cannon when the wars ended all the abc warriors became quite depressed until hammerstein (the main abc warrior in the comics and the bace of the robot in the movie) was given a mission to go to Mars he and the others jumped at the opportunity
@@jackstewart2258awww, thanks, I didnt know that. The scene is even cooler now.
"As long as they're non functioning." *connects a single wire*
He must be a judge
Gee howd-a-ya like that?
well they never said how non functioning xD
Ahab Tittyjuice well it is a shady establishment, he had all kinds of illegal stuff there like the Lawgiver too... so why not an ABC warrior that only needed a minor fix? still,... how did Rico.know thats all it needed? Was he an expert of 60 year old technology?
Steven G. easy to assume he arranged for it to be there.
The start up procedure sound effects are absolutely intoxicating…🤤
You sound like you've never been laid in your life 😂
I loved the days before cg effects.
This film has CGI :)
I think the ABC bot was CG in some parts?
GamleErik100 Listen, the ONLY part of Terminator 2 which had CGI was the T1000, everything else in the movie was done the traditional way. Bear in mind that 90% of the time the T1000 was one screen he was portrayed by the actor himself. The actual CGI scenes were few. Back in the 1990's CGI was just used for some animations. Take Jurassic Park. Many of the close-up scenes were done using an animatronic T-Rex and stunt actors inside the Velociraptors. We didn't really see a full-time CGI character until Star Wars Episode I in 1999 - the infamous Jar Jar Binks. And we didn't see entire scenes and settings done as CGI until the early 2000's.
"But some directors preferred animatronics and stop-motion animation still." Nothing about preference. That's a ridiculous statement. It was *one thing* making a quicksilver man morph into the real actor who did 90% of the appearance on screen. It was quite another to make a realistic looking cgi character and when Judge Dredd was shot cgi characters looked nowhere near as real as animatronics - especially when it came to robots. Close up you could easily tell a cgi animation in the 90's because things such as shadows and light reflecting on the body wasn't capable yet and as such the characters looked shiny and artificial.
You're also wrong about Terminator 2 being one of the first with realistic CGI. The Abyss in 1989 (also directed by Cameron) had CGI underwater aliens and underwater alien ships. It even won an Oscar for special effects. Willow in 1988 had already mastered the cgi morphing with characters turning into others. Young Sherlock Holmes in 1985 had a computer animated knight, which was made by Lucasfilm's John Lasseter - who later went on to form Pixar.
As for CGI - it was done realistic enough in Disney's Tron in 1982 where vehicles such as the light cycles and solar sailer look impressive even today.
Nothing "prefered" this or that. The change was *gradual* and not immediate like you so wrongly believe.
This was when studios used cgi only to enhance practical
@@mwells219 No...
I've heard that CGI took a huge leap forward in Avatar by better recreating subtle details like how people's eyes focus and track. Practical effects like this robot soldier still give a better sense of weight, presence, and stompy mass, though.
Practical is always better
avatar made huge leaps and bounds in CGI, no one else goes nearly as far though as its super expensive and time consuming. cinema today is disney/marvel merch grabbing repeat bullshit and netflix series that ignore source materials and are using the IP to gain views they have no want to make good well researched and produced shows anymore save a few.
Ggi is cringe
The best marriage of the two would be all practical when possible, with minimal CGI to improve or hide flaws. But CGI is cheaper, so...ugh.
@@itsyaboy_dario Not really, CGI is several times cheaper and more cost effective than practical effects. Problem is that it creates a disconnect with the audience (we can tell it's not there, or it's interaction is a bit off with everything else). Practical effects give you something tangible and physically there interacting with it's environment, but it can be a bit wooden in how it moves and interacts. Jurassic Park took care of that issue by using CGI to complement the practical FX.
ABC warrior is so bad ass, it is like finding an Tiger Tank in a scrap yard and reusing it.
Yup. Or if you're REALLY lucky, KING TIGER tank
Except Tiger Tanks needed like 8 hours of maintenance for every hour of service. Reconnect one wire and the ABC is ready to rock after 60 years. It's more like finding an old AK-47 in a junk bin.
Good luck getting a Tiger to perform after sitting still for 80 years lmao
or if youre actually lucky, an M60 Patton or something that worked when it was current
@@mjpraetorian4386 Tiger I > Tiger II.
I do like the Tiger II, but the Tiger I is much lighter and way more reliable. Contrary to popular belief, it was pretty reliable after they worked the kinks out.
That prop design and puppetry have stuck with me since I first saw it. Unforgettable.
An ABC Warriors movie is long, long overdue I reckon.
Forget the Transformers trash. ABC Warriors!
Agreed. We want an R rated 2 hour blood n guts robot war movie set on Mars!
Good idea Patrick. MIchael Bay is the man to do it.
absolutely not
Abso-fucking-lutely NOT Micheal 'splosions' Bay...
OK, just imagine this for a second - this production design and atmosphere combined with the direction, story-boarding and characterisation from 2012's 'Dredd' and you'd have a pretty sick movie...
Why? This movie was way better story and character wise
@@MGrey-qb5xz no it was not. Dredd never takes his helmet off where others can see. Sly's Judge Dredd was disowned by 2000AD
@@MGrey-qb5xz lol
@@toomanyaccountssorry for the old comment but did Stallone really get disowned by them 😅?
both fans and creators disowned the sly version. Stallone ego got in his way@@jacobwhitley3767
The practical effects, props and set pieces are all still so amazing to look at
I love how it coos like a baby after pleasing its master by summarily murdering half a dozen judges. It makes zero sense, but it's absolutely awesome and the practical effects of the ABC robot are absolutely impeccable!
I love how they bring out the emotion on its face, just by changing the colors of the eyes.
“You can collect them as long as they are non functional”
Hot wires the thing in 2 seconds
these things are the reason physical props are king!
this on the big screen when it powered up was intense
This incredible setdesign and so little use of it. The robot would have deserved way more screentime.
I saw this film at the cinema, when it first came out. I loved the production, and Ian Dury is a legend R.I.P mate.
Assante was so good in this he single handedly saved the movie.
The world needs an ABC Warriors movie
Rented this from Blockbuster in the mid-90s as a kid...to this day I still think about the ABC Warrior and just how haunting and chilling it is. The movie may have not been the greatest, but this scene and the ABC Robot's design is legendary.
Check out the Khronicles of Khaos
I saw it in theatres as a kid... To this day I have no idea why my mom took us to see it. Or maybe I don't want to know.
I believe the ABC Warrior would appreciate some WD 40.
and some new o-rings.
Ballistol for the win. Predates WD40 by many years.
@@TheErilaz yea but the stench
One of the best robots in a movie ever. Totally terrifying 🤖
The boss robot from Virus or Cain from robocop 2 are pretty good too.
@@henrikmonkee The monster from Virus was dope.
@@henrikmonkee Finally! Someone showing some love to the Virus monster. That thing was absolutely beast! Like a mix of an eldritch horror and a Terminator. But yeah, RoboCain was terrifying too -- that scene where he lifts the warehouse door and it slams shut and it's pitch black and then his flood lights come on is frightening AF and still is frightening to this very day.
I'm so in LOVE with these rusty parts of metal and its hydraulics!!!!!!
Armand Assante was the best part of this movie. He chewed up every scene that he was in. He was also great in the HBO movie Gotti. Has to be one of the greatest underutilized actors in Hollywood.
Armand's badass in this movie! No CGI robot here... it had character and Mr. Assante played off it perfectly... well done.
"My boy." - Best line in the entire film.
That robot was 10 times scarier than any CGI in the last 10 years!!
Oblivion drones
The bear in Annihilation
Absolutely agree. I watched this film as a kid, and the only thing that has come close to it for sheer malice is the robot thing in Thor, that shot fire from its face.
Something about the soulless nihilism scares the crap out of me.
Cats CGI is scarier!
So CGI from 2010 onwards, got it.
Dredd 2012 really needed one of these.
It was replaced by those 3 M134s
The art department totally nailed the aesthetic of 2000AD with this flick, too bad it was wasted on this sorry take on the source material. At least we got Urban's Dredd to fall back on.
It was allegedly solely shit due to Stallone going full prima donna
Well new dredd just stole everything from Raid.
@@Jimoshi1 New Dredd was in development before Raid was even an idea...
This movie would have been a lot better without Rob Schneider's character. Not the actor himself but just eliminate the buddy sidekick, then again, it was the 90's and that was common.
I like both movie's. but I have to admit, the new dredd movie is lit af!
The production design and cinematography in this film was amazing and it's a shame that the film was so badly interfered with by the studio and Stallone. This looks infinitely better and more tactile than the lazy and generic GCI futurescapes of contemporary sci-fi.
Can't beat practical effects genuine props and miniatures they just don't age the same CGI does
what do you mean by interfered? What went wrong?
@@Blobb2013 Short answer: They wanted to turn it into a typical 90's action movie. And Stallone didn't want to wear the helmet the whole time.
@@tanall5959 i don't blame stallone for not wearing helmet, but the script was the main issue here. it was badly written.
They captured the look and feel of the Judges and Mega-City One wwaaayyyy better than the Urban version, this often looks like it came straight off a page in the comic.
Unfortunately they made it in to a generic 90's Stallone vehicle.
I loved this scene as a kid. Was one of my favorite robots as a kid. A close second would be the Johny 5 from short circuit.
Now I kinda want a series about Johnny 5 and the ABC robot becoming friends and shit.
@@justindunlap1235 that would be a epic movie. lets see, Johnny 5 died in the last movie, but i say they got him on a shelf somewhere in megacity 1, and they revive him by a accidental lightening strike ;)
I'm soooo glad they canceled the Short Circuit reboot.
@@Keuryllian me too
@@justindunlap1235 Johnny refuses to team up with him. Apparently his mother was a snow blower.
This is such an under-rated movie. It captures the vibrancy and larger-than-life style of the comics perfectly. The effects are brilliant, not a single frame of CGI to be seen. And how cool is it to see an actual working ABC Warrior !? That thing scared the life out of me when I was a kid. Anyone remember Hammerstein and Ro-Jaws from the comics ?
yes, in amongst the 2000 AD mags, i used to treasure as a kid.
not so much underrated as hamstrung by Stallone's face.
If only the writers of the Karl Urban Dredd movie had access to this one’s money and artists.
Google what "under-rated" means. Bonus points if you learn how to spell it.
@@twisted_nether373 It's a perfectly cromulent word. Please permit me to express my most enthusiastic contrafibularities for your insightful comment.
This is some of the best practical effects robotics I've ever seen in film. Absolutely stunning. This kind of presence and impact could never have been achieved with CGI. It's rather sad to see how over-reliance on CG in film and animation has so negatively impacted both mediums since the 80s and 90s. CG of course has its place in film and animation, but when it's used to achieve nearly every effect even when practical effects could feasibly have been used, it just hurts the audiences experience. Hopefully the success of the practical-effects Bonanza Mad Max: Fury Road will show Hollywood that there's money to be made doing it the RIGHT way.
I AGREE ! Everything today gets overkilled with CGI to the point it looks like a cartoon ! ,ex The Matrix Reloaded Smiths vs NEO ,CGI has ruined many a good film that might have made them look different .
There are indeed films that over-rely on fast-dating CGI. They're probably the ones you remember. In reality, many films are still done the Fury Road way - practical, with heavy CGI augmentation.
@@galaxybeing6771 to be fair, that was 16 years ago...
It would be cool, if they could mix the two together...I'm not sure if it would work/could work..but...would be interesting to see..
Cgi killed Star Wars
For a clunky, utilitarian machine, the robot has very expressive eyes and displays an impressive degree of personality.
Man, that robot actually gave me a nightmare--just one--as a kid. After that I thought it was awesome. Lol.
And what about Mean Machine ?
When he ripped the one guy apart it fucked me up as a kid. "Save his head for last so he can see everything."
I always thought of the ABC warrior as Terminator jacked up on steroids
@@samoangimli2640 lol yea !
The T-600 is a beauty like this, too
Screw the haters, I love this damn movie, even when I first saw it in theaters
I doubt people hated this much, it was so silly it was awesome
But nothing would be made like that nowadays. GRIM DARK OR ELSE hurr durr
No screw the comic fans, their weird obsession with the source material is so stupid like any normal person gives a shit
I love the pinball machine sounds when the ABC warrior starts up.
So delightfully 90's. Not even a guilty pleasure, I love this movie! 🤗😍
As a kid, that robot was terrifying and super awesome.
Robot says, "Waaar", I'm thinking 'Shit's gonna get real'.
I saw this in the theater with my parents when it came out. I was 11. My reaction was the same. I'm like, "O snap."
WAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
"We're going to war."
"[gets happy] *Waaaaar* o3o"
The A.B.C. Warriors ( yes..plural) deserve their own movie!
This movie literally so ahead of time!
“Waaaaar!” from that robot is one of my favorite movie lines of all time!!
I was born in 1989... When I saw this the first time, it gave me the real chills like nothing else ! How I miss the feeling...
I love it when the ABC warrior takes on the judges and just mowed them down with heavy machine gun fire
Such a believable world, the sets are amazing, it looks like the future or somewhere alien so much, the cars make it so unfamiliar as well, and the robot was just amazing too.
I remember seeing the original Judge Dread with my girlfriend back in 95. When the abc warrior said " War" , she thought it burped.
I must admit I didn't like this movie, but I loved the ABC Warrior.
So it says on wiki:
"Hammerstein is the only ABC Warrior to appear in film, making a cameo appearance in the 1995 Judge Dredd movie."
i love the mouvie
Then wtf do you like?
@@MGrey-qb5xz Replying to a 7 year old comment? Fine, I'll play. Like I said, dumbass, the ABC Warrior.
Honestly, if you just went by this clip, Judge Dredd seems like it's a pretty good movie. Love the ABC warrior's design and practical effects and Rico (at least in this clip) seems like a cool bad guy.
I want one for Xmas !
The city looks like 2019 Portland Oregon
Omg so funny lol , from Seattle here
Americans wish ANY of their cities looked as cool as that.
Back in time when we weren´t fully surrounded by CGI crap.
yeah thank god for crappy probs instead..
@@elc2034 crappy prop>>>>>>crappy cgi
@@elc2034 I'd rather look at props people made then some crappy pos computer generated image I can't even see in a museum.
Just crap writing, directing, editing, sound design and acting. Sets were cool back in the day though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@PugilistCactus People still made the CG so you're still shitting on someone's hard work.
The practical effects made this amazing
I love this design
Claudio Cucca designed by Kev Walker
+Paul Little thank you for the information !
The ABC warrior looks like a Terminator on steroids
Yep
🤣🤣🤣
Maybe ABC Warrior is Terminator T400 or something
So you are saying it looks like Schwarzenegger? O.o
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Overall the film was pants, but it's still a guilty pleasure for an old 2000ad fan like me. The production design, visual effects and little moments like this make it worth a watch or two.
Status... “Bodyguard”
Commander... “Rico”
Mission... “We’re going to law”
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw
War not law
We're going to love
Looooooove.
Ant put Iron hand on his shoulder.
@bum bam I am the LAAAAAAAAW!
Status... “Bodyguard”
Commander... “Rico”
Mission... “We’re going to fuk-em”
Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwww
chris r/whoooooosh
This incredible reference to 2000AD was one of the best things of this movie.
I Love the way this Type of movies look without CGI it looks just way more realistic and somehow entertaining
Some good Blade Runner vibes when Rico is walking through the city. The 2012 version is a better movie by a mile but the 1995 version is definitely a guilty pleasure
I have stronger feelings for this one ❤
Agree to disagree! The 2012 got nothing on the 1995 one in my book
skynet: so that is where our missing terminator went, we really need to reprogram our time machine and re checked the destination
He looks a little like a T-800 or a T-750
@@drakeevans8042 actually closer to a T-700 variant. but one someone designed to look kinda like Arnold in the head.
T600 look-a-like
No it actually looks the most like a T-400 out of all the Skynet units. Search it up, they're practically the same design just that ABC Warrior is bigger and has more of a "face".
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No matter how cringe the move was, the reference to ABC warriors is too cool for words
When I went to Ireland in 1995, this movie and Batman Forever was playing side by side. My friends and I chose to watch this one.
ABC looks so pleased with himself at the end.
That is because he complete a mission.
Love the way they introduce this awesome robot then barely use it for the rest of the movie.
This movie has great production design
This thing scared the shit out of when I was little.
it is so unbelievably ridiculous to think that the security of activation of a war machine relies on a simple jump wire
Option
1. this abc Warrior was allready selled and the buyer want it full function. its was only stored there until the new owner pick it up.
2. the shop owner want this unit active by only one reset wirer becaus he see it as a last defenceline . So if somone will raide him, he could active this war machine in 20 seconds...
3. the shop owner have not enough mechanical skill and knowing of the internal systems that he could remove the power unit or the central CPU so he only cut one wirer of the cpu in hope it shut the unit down.
If I had known an abc warrior made an appearance in this movie I would’ve watched it a long time ago. Black hole is my favourite comic book of all time. Now I have to watch this!
War.....War Never Changes...
FALLOUT :)
Mgs
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So many places where they ALMOST got it right, LOL. It's like seeing a good movie trapped inside a bad movie, trying to get out.
Does anyone else remember a scene of this movie where the ABC Warrior dismembers a person? I got traumatized as a kid when i watched it.
Should have been it's own movie
Ahhh yes...the 90s back when we were still getting a feel for the cyberpunk aesthetic
What a great decade for movies. They don't make them like this anymore
i love that abc warrior. Just the shape of him. just an awesome robot.
I could have watched an entire movie of ABC Warriors.
As far I've heard Chris Cunningham was involved with the design and animation of the abc warrior, which kind of explains why it is so memorable.
And Mean Angel.
30 years later and this still look awesome
Man, that robot scared the hell out of me as a kid.
@Untrepid One look at it move! It's so fucking creepy xD!
Ma boy i wanted that on Christmas back in 90s
whats funny is what looked like a future dystopian city street back then, just looks like a regular city street now
Detroit
"happy birthday" what an awesome line!
that movie aged well
O I love that cyberpunk style
CGI can't hold a candle to this.
Yeah agree. CGI holds a fucking supernova compared to this crap.
It can. The sad thing isn't that CG is inherently bad, it's that dumbass directors and producers want to use it for roles where it just doesn't hold up, usually due to it being cheaper.
@@Servellion its actually not cheaper though lol. All the people you need to pay, and the cost in rendering... It actually gets expensive fast. even compared to practical effects.
Movies and production rely so heavily on CGI because of its obvious potential, how quickly it advances, and the fact that we live in a digital age
@@bloodydove5718 do you know how is the relation now? I think obviously in 1995 CG was way more expensive than today, but is today more expensive to do CG or build a robot like that?
@@ThanksIfYourReadIt Yeah plastic and elastic looking cgi is a lot better than a real heavy robot animatronic... lol.
Such an underrated movie. Loved the ABC warrior. Way better than CGI.
the abc warrior was great but for me its the late great IAN DRURY that steals the scene, RIP Ian
Didnt realise it was him
Hit me with your rhythm stick.
Hit me! Hit me!
Das ist gut! C'est fantastique!
Pops up again as mean machine angel
Second I heard that voice, before his face was on screen...no forgetting Ian. ❤
2:04 there were at least 2 ABC Warriors. I always wondered why Rico hadn't switched on them both.
Tbf they did say they were at least 40 years old so I'm surprised he just had to flick a few wires to turn just one on