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?
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.
That’s how deployments go… Pandorum was my favorite ‘deployment movie.’ And, Spider-Man 3 looked better on bootleg DVD, because it was so blurry, it improved the Venom effects. I didn’t hear about Kony until just now, but South Park did do a parody of it, when Stan has a breakdown a starts ‘jack-in’ it in San Diego’. I did have a NDE (near de_th experience) that year, that ended my military career.
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.
Mamma is low-key key a deeply feminist character. You can do many feminist interpretations of her character, and they add to the story because they are well-written. It doesn't hurt that Headley is an excellent multi-layered actress.
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.
Yep, it’s the main crux of modern entertainment. Sam Hyde being the embodiment of it. If they treat the audience like children, it’s because the creators HATE them.
To be fair, nowadays it's not so much about trust as it is open contempt and hostility. I'd settle for a lack of trust. It would be a marked improvement.
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.
'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.
i've watched Dredd for probably ~15 times (most of times while showing it to friends). now i have VR and i just recalled Dredd was 3D! i'm so happy! and there are ~10 movies that i watched more than one time even. Watchmen is one of them. hot shots and hotshots 2, and ace ventura 2 when i was a child. some Russian movie masterpieces... Dread is Top 1. never seen anything better i guess.
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.
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.
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
@@vespenegas261 I mean most of the mechanics from Robocop could be similar. Just have the smart gun do different different modes and a dark cyberpunk aesthetic with Keith Urbans sexy voice. That's all I need. Could get it done in like 3 years tbh.
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.
I’ve always loved how this movie raises the stakes. The Mama gangers go down easily. The difficulty suddenly ramps up when Dredd and Anderson have to fight corrupt judges with the same level of training and equipment as them.
The importance of Karl Urban never taking the helmet off is never to be understated it’s a core element of comic book Dredd and I think too few actors might do a lead role like this
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.
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 @$$.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I appreciate the work you put into this. I've been following Dredd since the mid 80s where he appeared in the 2000AD comic. Always loved the noir styling of the world he inhabited at time when I was reading Spiderman and Xmen. When Stallone's version was released I was appalled. Needless to say when I heard a new movie was being released I was less than enthusiastic and moved on, not giving it a second thought until now. I'm watching this tonight. Thank you.
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 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
@@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.
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.
@@AliceBowie To be fair the comic has ditched a lot of the humor nowadays. It's a shame, I always felt the combination of absurd/slapstick humor with the horrible authoritarian elements made JD what it is. Then came Apocalypse War and the tone started to change. Worst comics are the US-based IDW comics which have no sense of irony at all. They're played completely straight and as such are a horrible bore. '95 movie got a lot of the absurd elements (like the famous golden codpiece) spot on.
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.
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.
Mama is such a great villain. Yes she has a brutal and tragic origen, sure, but she become the very monster that rp her. She is a psychopath, and she is proud of that.
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 want the Despot to do ‘Total Dog Shyte’ and do a comparative video for The Crow with Brandon Lee, as compared to the Pigeon with Bill Skarsgård. (And, no, no other corvid deserves to be shackled to it, not Rooks, not Magpies. They are just too glorious.)
-Dredd: I'm wondering when you'd remember you left your helmet behind. -Anderson: Sir, a helmet can interfere with my psychic abilities. -Dredd: Think a bullet might interfere with them more.
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 would actually blind the character. Urban took the challenge and did it all without using his eyes. Massive props to King Eomer.
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😂
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
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.
Another reason the slow motion in Dredd is so amazing: The movie creators actually got someone who KNOWS slow motion cameras. They wet and got Gavin Free, Creator and Co-Host of the SlowMoGuys TH-cam channel. Gavin has spent YEARS learning the intricacies of Slow Motion cinematography, pushing the cameras to their absolute limits to get some of the most mind boggling footage you’ll ever see.
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.
I worked on this backnin 2011 on the costumes of dredd and Anderson with some great people. As a fan of 2000ad...... this is still.my favourite job I worked on. Great videos mate!
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.
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 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.
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).
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.
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.
The section on the terrible marketing (the website & such) is fascinating. I always wondered what happened to all the surplus coke Hollywood stopped using after everyone suddenly switched to edibles in 2010. That website! It just has that 90s-0ughts nose-candy stink rising off it ... much is explained.
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.
There was a Mega City One series planned a few years ago. Covid killed it. Rebellion have gone quiet about reviving it but haven't officially cancelled it.
Its one of my top 10 favorites of 50 years watching movies. It just gets better too each time I watch it. It would be my dream to see someone do a movie of the same quality that introduces the 4 dark judges.
Such an underrated film . Loved the complete story that just keeps moving. The world is truly alive and tells a solo story outside of all of the characters.
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 bought it on prime just so i can bring it up when I need a reminder that "action" "sci-fi" or "comic" movies were once truly a piece of art. My wife loves this movie and hates nearly all the marvel ones after end game
Just watched it this week, it is so good. Reminded me of the time when movies were fun. At the and I thought I could see a whole series about the two judges and how they learn from each other during their work.
So glad you discussed how annoying 3D is. I saw avatar in 3D. I forgot the plot immediately but can still remember the headache I had during and after the screening.
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.
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 !
That was awesome. Word of mouth got around to me a couple of years ago and loved this movie, but had given it the critical examination seen here and had no idea of the marketing and distribution sabotage. Respect and thanks
I didn't know anything about the Dredd franchise. But my dad did and he was a fan when he grew up so he took me to see the movie. I loved it and it's been in the back of my mind ever since. Would love to see it again.
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
I know the video just started, but I'm glad you're analyzing it. It's one of my favorite movies and I think it's close to perfect. Glad it's getting some attention.
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.
Thanks for all your hard work brother, glad to see the channel is growing and I really appreciate the long form content. Been here since 2.5 K subs, gonna be here when there is 2.5 million, Cheers mate!
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.
A post modern framework doesn’t work for Dredd's character. He isn't necessary a hero, but his portrayal in both the comics and the movie essentially paints him as the one functional element of the judge system in a dystopian society. He's authoritarian, but also literally the only thing preventing a collapse into total chaos. Equating him with the criminals he judges is just factually incorrect.
“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
Great video man. I absolutely love this movie. And as a huge bonus in was Karl Urban fan before it. So I was stoked. But, did you have to put all those 3D scenes meant to be viewed with tye glasses in this? They started giving ne a headache and I had to look away for the entire part. Keep up the great work.
I wish there was any more Dredd content of this calibre. Even rogue trooper, strontium dog, ballad of halo Jones and more could be movie classics with treatment this sensitive. The "dead man" storyline could be done as stand alone without needing to link to Dredd.
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.
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!
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?
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.
That’s how deployments go… Pandorum was my favorite ‘deployment movie.’ And, Spider-Man 3 looked better on bootleg DVD, because it was so blurry, it improved the Venom effects. I didn’t hear about Kony until just now, but South Park did do a parody of it, when Stan has a breakdown a starts ‘jack-in’ it in San Diego’. I did have a NDE (near de_th experience) that year, that ended my military career.
Was I in a coma for all of 2012? I have never heard of Koney until this exact moment! Or was I in prison? 🤔 No, wait… that was 2018.
Yawnnnn another hack critical drinker wanna e who is mad at woman
@@davemccage7918 was I asleep? Had I slept?
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.
Mamma is low-key key a deeply feminist character. You can do many feminist interpretations of her character, and they add to the story because they are well-written. It doesn't hurt that Headley is an excellent multi-layered actress.
You should watch Raid and it’s sequel. Raid directly inspired Dredd.
- Do you require backup?
- *"No"* _[throttles gas]_
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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.
"The film-maker trusts the viewer..."
Really that's the fulcrum right there.
Yep, it’s the main crux of modern entertainment. Sam Hyde being the embodiment of it.
If they treat the audience like children, it’s because the creators HATE them.
Fulcrum Skonag...
To be fair, nowadays it's not so much about trust as it is open contempt and hostility.
I'd settle for a lack of trust. It would be a marked improvement.
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!
It was dredd 3d when it came out so i think this helped enhance the 3d effect as well
My favorite example of that is the bathroom battle scene vs 3 judges when he gets shot with a flechette round.
'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.
Love it! HAHHAHHAa
He’s not trying to be snarky. He just went full tismo and spoke facts.
@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 exactly
i've watched Dredd for probably ~15 times (most of times while showing it to friends). now i have VR and i just recalled Dredd was 3D! i'm so happy!
and there are ~10 movies that i watched more than one time even.
Watchmen is one of them. hot shots and hotshots 2, and ace ventura 2 when i was a child. some Russian movie masterpieces... Dread is Top 1. never seen anything better i guess.
"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.
Yup
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.
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.
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
@@vespenegas261 I mean most of the mechanics from Robocop could be similar. Just have the smart gun do different different modes and a dark cyberpunk aesthetic with Keith Urbans sexy voice. That's all I need. Could get it done in like 3 years tbh.
@@casthedemon Yep. Streets need some judging ))
Oh yes please
that cinematic novel that pretends game? i'd probably pass it, altho i watched Dredd ~15 times. this level wouldn't be achieved there
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!!
I’ve always loved how this movie raises the stakes. The Mama gangers go down easily. The difficulty suddenly ramps up when Dredd and Anderson have to fight corrupt judges with the same level of training and equipment as them.
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)
The importance of Karl Urban never taking the helmet off is never to be understated it’s a core element of comic book Dredd and I think too few actors might do a lead role like this
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?
Dredd not getting a sequel might actually be a blessing in disguise. I would rather have no sequel at all than a bad sequel.
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.
Wow way to brilliantly describe something that didn’t need to be described. Man this channel and all its fans are so vapid and cringe
Yeah, he could have decked her but it doesn't matter, she has all the power and he gets none.
"You know you love me, you know you care"
The exact words PDiddy said to Beiber before he Puffilized him
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 @$$.
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.
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.
That's Judge Despot.
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.
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.
I appreciate the work you put into this. I've been following Dredd since the mid 80s where he appeared in the 2000AD comic. Always loved the noir styling of the world he inhabited at time when I was reading Spiderman and Xmen. When Stallone's version was released I was appalled. Needless to say when I heard a new movie was being released I was less than enthusiastic and moved on, not giving it a second thought until now. I'm watching this tonight. Thank you.
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 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
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.
@@NelsonStJames”YOU BETRAY THE LAW! RAAAA!”
Dredd wasn't good it is good compared to the crap that is coming out now and that is confusing you all.
@@thomgizziz It was a great movie.
Dredd was one of those rare moments when a remake/sequel is actually better than the original.
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.
@@AliceBowie To be fair the comic has ditched a lot of the humor nowadays. It's a shame, I always felt the combination of absurd/slapstick humor with the horrible authoritarian elements made JD what it is. Then came Apocalypse War and the tone started to change. Worst comics are the US-based IDW comics which have no sense of irony at all. They're played completely straight and as such are a horrible bore.
'95 movie got a lot of the absurd elements (like the famous golden codpiece) spot on.
The Despot speaks for the once proud Western man's soul.
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.
“I AM THE LAW .”Perfect delivery of Dredd’s most iconic line
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.
Mama is such a great villain.
Yes she has a brutal and tragic origen, sure, but she become the very monster that rp her.
She is a psychopath, and she is proud of that.
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.
Democracy is a good thing though, lol
The hacks who made the Total Recall remake could learn a thing or two from Dredd.
Yeah, "guilty! Sentence ten years in iso cube."
I want the Despot to do ‘Total Dog Shyte’ and do a comparative video for The Crow with Brandon Lee, as compared to the Pigeon with Bill Skarsgård. (And, no, no other corvid deserves to be shackled to it, not Rooks, not Magpies. They are just too glorious.)
-Dredd: I'm wondering when you'd remember you left your helmet behind.
-Anderson: Sir, a helmet can interfere with my psychic abilities.
-Dredd: Think a bullet might interfere with them more.
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 would actually blind the character. Urban took the challenge and did it all without using his eyes. Massive props to King Eomer.
Need a film with Karl Urban and Tom Hardy. Urban using just his mouth (Dredd) and Hardy using just his eyes (Dunkirk).
It can be called "See no evil, Speak no evil"
@@GeordieSwordsman Dunkirk and The Dark Knight Rises. I know! an elseworlds where Urban is Captain America and Hardy The Winter Soldier...
Urban's chin deserves an academy award.
Congratulations on 100K subs, Despot. Amazing to watch this channel from 1000 to rise 100-fold.
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.
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
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.
Another reason the slow motion in Dredd is so amazing:
The movie creators actually got someone who KNOWS slow motion cameras. They wet and got Gavin Free, Creator and Co-Host of the SlowMoGuys TH-cam channel. Gavin has spent YEARS learning the intricacies of Slow Motion cinematography, pushing the cameras to their absolute limits to get some of the most mind boggling footage you’ll ever see.
And the Despot has finally reached 100,000 subscribers. Congrats!
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. TH-camrs vividly remember it, but no one else does.
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.
The mark of a great actor.
I worked on this backnin 2011 on the costumes of dredd and Anderson with some great people. As a fan of 2000ad...... this is still.my favourite job I worked on. Great videos mate!
Thanks Chris! And great work!
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
That is what it felt like to me.
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 🎶
Wow that Despot wearing the Judge's helmet is terrifying. That's how a Chief Justice should look like.
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.
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.
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.
Only Avatar is a better 3D movie than Dredd... it's a shadow of the experience in the theater to see it at home.
Omg a surprise Despot about a movie I love!!! What a great day ☺️
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.'' +
Been a good long whilst since I've watched this. Thankd for putting it back of my radar to add to an lengthening list
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.
Kony2012 you are not allowed to notice who was behind it or who made bank off it
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.
The section on the terrible marketing (the website & such) is fascinating. I always wondered what happened to all the surplus coke Hollywood stopped using after everyone suddenly switched to edibles in 2010. That website! It just has that 90s-0ughts nose-candy stink rising off it ... much is explained.
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
Dredd and Despot in a single vid. TH-cam doesn’t get any better.
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.
There was a Mega City One series planned a few years ago. Covid killed it. Rebellion have gone quiet about reviving it but haven't officially cancelled it.
Its one of my top 10 favorites of 50 years watching movies. It just gets better too each time I watch it. It would be my dream to see someone do a movie of the same quality that introduces the 4 dark judges.
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
16 minutes in my first watch of a video of yours, you earned my subscription.
Thank you. Welcome to the channel!
Congratulations on 100k subs. Great channel and deep insight on the culture. Keep it up
Such an underrated film . Loved the complete story that just keeps moving. The world is truly alive and tells a solo story outside of all of the characters.
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 bought it on prime just so i can bring it up when I need a reminder that "action" "sci-fi" or "comic" movies were once truly a piece of art. My wife loves this movie and hates nearly all the marvel ones after end game
Just watched it this week, it is so good. Reminded me of the time when movies were fun. At the and I thought I could see a whole series about the two judges and how they learn from each other during their work.
Yesterday i rewatched the Damsel and Three Body Problem videos, because i fancied some Despot, now you grace us with a new video!
Dredd never called anyone "innocent." There were only degrees of guilt in the comics.
Dredd is such a good ip that i wish there was more interest in
I'm glad there's not. Keeps the Mops away.
So glad you discussed how annoying 3D is. I saw avatar in 3D. I forgot the plot immediately but can still remember the headache I had during and after the screening.
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.
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 !
That was awesome. Word of mouth got around to me a couple of years ago and loved this movie, but had given it the critical examination seen here and had no idea of the marketing and distribution sabotage. Respect and thanks
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.
I didn't know anything about the Dredd franchise. But my dad did and he was a fan when he grew up so he took me to see the movie. I loved it and it's been in the back of my mind ever since. Would love to see it again.
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.
I can listen to that soundrack on repeat. One of the rare ones where i can do that.
Huh Positive Review, neat. Also still hoping your review Dog Soldiers some time it's Amazing.
Dog Soldiers is a cracking movie.
@@gavinwilson2071 Where else can you watch a bad fight a werewolf barehanded
"this is not a negotiation.
the sentence is death"
kony was 2012? 12 years ago? Damn I'm so old :(
I know the video just started, but I'm glad you're analyzing it. It's one of my favorite movies and I think it's close to perfect. Glad it's getting some attention.
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.
Thanks for all your hard work brother, glad to see the channel is growing and I really appreciate the long form content. Been here since 2.5 K subs, gonna be here when there is 2.5 million, Cheers mate!
Thanks Conor, I appreciate that!
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.
The Despot is GUILTY... of making great reviews!
A post modern framework doesn’t work for Dredd's character. He isn't necessary a hero, but his portrayal in both the comics and the movie essentially paints him as the one functional element of the judge system in a dystopian society. He's authoritarian, but also literally the only thing preventing a collapse into total chaos. Equating him with the criminals he judges is just factually incorrect.
This is my first time hearing about Kony 2012. It makes me happy to realize I wasn't terminally online at that time.
“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
Great video man. I absolutely love this movie. And as a huge bonus in was Karl Urban fan before it. So I was stoked. But, did you have to put all those 3D scenes meant to be viewed with tye glasses in this? They started giving ne a headache and I had to look away for the entire part. Keep up the great work.
I wanted to emphasize how hideous 3D was.
🎵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.
I wish there was any more Dredd content of this calibre. Even rogue trooper, strontium dog, ballad of halo Jones and more could be movie classics with treatment this sensitive. The "dead man" storyline could be done as stand alone without needing to link to Dredd.
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.
Thanks for making this. Dredd is an absolute masterpiece.
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!
Once I saw a 3D Star Wars movie. I was very impressed. Those ships looked amazing in 3D.