0:02 This is what eventually earns her the Pass, IMO. Her ability to stand up for herself and dispense justice at her own discretion. Dredd knows that anyone who has the guts to stand up to him has the chops to be a judge.
Good observation but I invite you to consider this: Examine her behavior throughout the mission. Look at her reaction when she performed her first execution, the fear in the shootout, the panic during the mind merges when she picked up the prisoner's thoughts. When he said "She's a pass" did he mean that she passed her evaluation or did she pass on being a judge?
I agree more with coolprof. She was unprepared having been a mutant and not standard academy progression she possibly had been insulated from the harsh mega city. Then when she finally did what she thought she would be, dispensing justice and not perpetuating violence, then she had no trouble standing up for that idea. May have been more like carthatic release.
@@TheCoolProfessor His CO even asked him that same question: Pass or Fail, don't think too much into it. Judge Dredd is about as straightforward as you can get, and when he said "pass" He meant that while she may have failed her evaluation Anderson was indeed a Judge. Also! I know this because I have read the comics, and Judge Anderson is Judge Dredd's partner had they gone through in the making of a sequel [ which I hoped they did] Then we would have likely seen them take on the likes of the Angel family.
@@carterslade8857 - Since Judge Anderson is canon in the comics, the Pass/Fail question was answered as "Pass" meaning "not fail" rather than "pass on the opportunity" or something similar.
I invite you to consider that you have never achieved a level of education remotely close to being a 'Prof.' My reasoning... the meaning of 'PASS' is obvious, yet seemingly beyond your simple level of reasoning. Stay in your lane. @@TheCoolProfessor
Dredd standing there almost in slight disappointment that the device didn't have enough range to go off is just one of the many subtle details that made this movie great
So the theory is that this dead-man transmitter sends a signal only after it loses pulse, instead of constantly giving the don't-blow signal as long as there is life? That's just stupid design. He could have just shot it.
@@csn583 that would be terrible design because one badly refracted radio signal bouncing off a wall or interfered with by a piece of metal in the wrong angle = death. Its too risky outside of a complex specifically designed to do it, and that would be a terrible reason to design a defensive complex in such a way.
Karl Urban and Olivia Thirby nailed their roles. Dredd was an amazing movie. Lena Headey showed again why she is a master at the baddy. Love this film, could watch it over and over.
@@robjohnson8522 I must disagree about her being hot, couldn't be bothered to know the rest. She is kind of funny in the few clips I've watched of her live streams. I prefer 115 pound 5'2" long-haired brunettes with 36C chest and crystal blue eyes. Huh, that's odd. I just described my wife.
@@robjohnson8522She is fine with it I'm sure. Hollywood is shallow and fickle, and her roles would be increasingly narrowing into matriarchal roles.. if she's boxed in anyway, I'm glad to see her get the roles that let her show just how nuanced of an actor she is.. and she really can pull that off.
"We're a kilometer above ground. Whada you figure the range is on that thing? Better get through a hundred levels of concrete. How bout 200?. Let's find out." 😁Ahhhhh Dredd. A connoisseur of science.
@@washellwash1802This is exactly what I was thinking. Apparently this trigger works by sending a detonation signal when she dies, which is the wrong way to do a kill switch. Instead, it should be set up so that the heart monitor constantly transmits a "don't detonate" signal. The bomb is armed the first time it receives the signal, and detonates when it stops receiving the signal. If she dies or is moved out of range, boom.
I've actually never liked this plot point. There's no hundred levels of concrete where he throws her, it's a giant open shaft, even a weak signal should be quite fine. I would have preferred alternatives, such as the device simply crushed at the bottom (showing the gang is not as good as they think they are, and Dredd recognizing bad tech when he sees it) or Anderson having had intel on the device when she also got the keypad code and done something about it.
Anderson is the heart of the movie but Dredd has an arc too. He would never betray the city, but he has no hope. Nothing can be changed about the city. His time with Anderson gives him hope and the value of flexibility in dispensing justice, and that judges like Anderson might actually make a difference.
The Slo-Mo would make her heart beat faster due to euphoria, reducing the chance it stops prematurely due to hemorrhaging. Dredd felt contempt, but he was also brutally efficient.
@@carlbruschnigjr1757 Someone calculated it. Based on the 1km fall distance and factoring in terminal velocity, she fell for 18.5 seconds. Given that Slow-Mo slows the perception of time down to 1%, she experienced the fall as lasting roughly 31 minutes (1850 seconds or 30.83 minutes).
@TheEDFLegacy Her gang made the other gang smoke slomo before skinning them and tossing them. Yeah, I think it's so 10 seconds of dying feels like an hour.
It makes me so sad to know this movie didn’t do better. With the incredibly small budget they made an absolutely AMAZING movie. If you’ve never seen this movie PLEASE go watch it.
i got my blueray of it, i saw it in the cinema and got friends who didnt know the universe to watch it, the male friend loved it. Did my part, tragic it just didnt do well enough to get sequels. Most of my favourite films are flops sadly. Edge of Tomorrow, Blade runner 2049, Dredd, tragic really.
@@Vihara2 you know the main guy that played dredd I forgot his name. I wanna say Karl something? But he said if they could raise the funds for the sequel through the fans he would be down. But it never came to fruition of course. Not all my favs are flops. Some are. But I also love Dogday Afternoon. Watch that one. It’s great. John Cazale. Not as known as others. But a great actor. Amazing. Died I believe late 70’s
Considering the kind of sequels we get these days that might be seen as a blessing... Oh lord, think what a sequel would be if Disney got their filthy hands on it...
Dread is more or less the embodiment of justice (which of course is flawed), but my point is that male or female is irrelevant as Dread is hardly even human to begin with.@@TheInfiniteSheldon
I wish people would STOP calling well-received movies underrated. It's so stupid. You all sound like robots, like puppets repeating the same phrase without thinking.
@@recht_voor_zijn_raap5506 No, I don't know what you mean. How would I? Why would I read "underrated" and go "ah I guess they don't mean the movie is rated too low". You're intentionally misusing words but I'm the troll? Fuck off. The fact that you get so angry over this only proves that you're the one who lacks a life. Go outside. Bye.
For the record, it takes about 25 seconds to fall from a height of 1 km. Since Slo Mo slows your perception of time down to 1%, for Ma Ma, it felt like she was falling for about 42 minutes.
She did the classic Dredd comic move a Flopper. In the Dredd comics MCOne citizens has clubs of people who called themselves Floppers. They would jump to their deaths from citi blocs while onlookers, club members who would rate via points each Flop made. This includes style of jump, how the arms and legs were during the full and most important head placement during impact with the surface. The media would display the jumps for all to watch. Ma Ma I’d give a solid 10 she took the fall full face first😃
It's a really nice detail that when Ma-Ma is close to hitting the ground she brings up an arm to shield herself, rethinks and moves them back to a position where they look like wings as if she's accepted that her death will finally set her free.
This end scene is just PERFECT: we all wait for the death of the villain, the sentence is quick and brutal, the long fall of Mama promises an horrible death but we're almost immediately placed looking at the eerie and graceful fall of an Angel until the last moment when this vision ends to its violent conclusion with Mama accepting her death at last. This scene, with its weird poesy, is just BRILLIANT!!!
Hollywood puts out so much utter drek, and yet this brilliant movie never got a sequel. Hell, we should have gotten a Dredd 2 AND a Judge Anderson film, since Olivia Thirby nailed the role.
Put it this way though, would you rather be happy with the knowledge that this won't get a sequel and we're left with this one hidden gem of a movie, or risk a modern sequel to it? You said it yourself - Hollywood puts out drek, more so now than ever, with ESG and DEI dominating every aspect of media. A sequel to this would be inevitably filled with all of that shit. Better to just keep this film safe from any of it tbh
@@mongobongo8216with the way movies are today, I’m cool with the one good Judge Dredd film. They’d definitely wokify the sequel and it would be a tragedy.
@@razmatazz9310 no... it's clearly not. It's clearly just a random pattern, and you're clearly just seeing what you want to see because you don't want to admit you're clearly wrong and you clearly read too much into things. I guarantee if the director was asked, he'd just say "wut? Wtf are you talking about?"
When this movie came out, I didn't question it or wonder why. I just bought it as soon as I could and have been playing it to friends and family ever since. It is is so great, from the cinematography to the acting to the writing. It is the perfect action film.
That "fail" is nothing compared to her ability to discern perps from victims, and glean information. Also, the fact that she wasn't crooked in any sense like those other judges. She was willing to take the hit for that fail. That puts her miles ahead of those crooked judges in Dredd's book. Would've bet Anderson was surprised to get a pass from this hard-as-nails legend.
Not to mention that, per the comics, Psi-Judges (like Anderson was training to be/became) were given some leeway on being a little looser on regulations than other Judges.
Man Anderson was badass and hot af too, I love how she went from a mild mannered compassionate newbie to a hard ass killing machine even standing up for herself to dredd, shows just how much mega city one really will chew you up and spit you out if you're soft
She wasn't confident in the beginning, but Dredd instilled in her the importance of always thinking tactically on the job and being decisive. But she still let the techie go and believed she could make a difference, which she effectively did. I feel her character growth was learning to balance the grim reality of a judge's job with her better nature. Its overall a win, there is now a skilled judge with a better heart out there, but a judge nonetheless. What made it all the better was that it is a believable response to a job where you are expected to go solo against small armies.
Unfortunately still a vast change from the books, where she’s a much more personality filled, vibrant character with no particular affiliation with Dredd other than being in the same police force as him - she even calls him derisive nicknames all the time.
I'll be honest .. when it came out I was already tired of reboots and didn't give it a chance and saw it like 10 years later and honestly one of the better movies of recent times for me.
Except that this wasn't a "reboot" or a re-anything. This is the true depiction of Judge Dredd. Not that turd with fuc*ing Stallone and fuc*ing Rob Schneider. I wish that film didn't exist.
Well in hindsight Dredd did a huge gamble here: he presumed transmitter is sending signal to initiate explosion. If I was Ma-Ma I would rig transmitter to send signal to _prevent_ explosion. Got out of range? Signal not received in time? KABOOM!!
Well yeah but that's just how he is. Totally uncompromising. He went up that tower to kill mawmaw and by God he's going to fucking do it come hell or high water.
Thought so as well before but then I thought if that was the case and someone turned on the Microwave between her and the receiver... Accidental KABLOOEY.
@@zachporter8864 We had one, The Raid: Redemption just a year before this one, but instead of gunfire it was all close quarters combat and it was amazing! Raid grossed less than Dredd, but still got a sequel because of apreciacion. I get it, martial arts are far more difficult to film rather than firefights with CGI blood, and I remember hoping for another Dredd movie, alas it never came to be
I think her and Hans Gruber should have seen each other on the way down, high-fived, had a chat about crime, before them both hit the pavement. One of the best antagonist death scenes ever. I LOVE the music, how it's haunting and slow.
A crazy behind the scenes thing to me is the composer’s inspiration for the slo mo music was finding a video of a Justin Bieber song slowed 800x or some other big number. Give it a look up sometime, has a very similar ethereal kinda feeling to it
I did see her as somewhat sympathetic. Hers was literally a world where you try to survive the brutality of the pecking order and the only way to move up is to prove you can do effed up things without hesitation. You're a terrifying overlord or you're subject to one. Maybe if things were different she could have even been a judge. But things were not different.
I love this rookie. She's the most awesome thing ever. In a world this brutal, she's really trying her best and I.... I appreciate that. I honestly do. Even now, a decade after I've seen this movie, her relentless humanity wins me over.
There are several cool things about this movie. Although Karl Urban never took off the helmet, we can see how proud Dredd is of Anderson in the beginning, at that moment he knows she passed. Also, for an impartial and incredibly stoic judge who dispenses justice only to those who deserve it - he found an unusually cruel way to kill Ma-Ma (granted there wasn't much option). Showing that even behind that helmet and always grumpy face, there is still a human who can feel anger and wants revenge for all the misery she caused
I love that little "yeah" he gives as he looks down at the ground floor of the Peachtree. Is it confidence he was right? A cheer of survival? Or just a simple acknowledgement that he served his sentence?
Exactly. This scene with its weird poesy was such a beautiful eerie surprise after all the intensity of the whole movie. It was the perfect ending for this movie.
I never watched this movie in the theater. I figured it would be a stupid remake of a stupid original (Stallone movie). I watched it recently and actually loved it. Really quite good.
People say Dredd doesn't change, but that's simply not true. He changes at 0:33. It's not a major, sweeping change in the grand scheme of things, but for Dredd it might as well be an entire paradigm shift. Dredd sees people as being either perps, victims, and judges, but Anderson's convictions are enough to make him reconsider his idea of who is which category.
Dredd must've already known the hacker was a victim because he was scared out of his wits. Not exactly gangster behaviour. Testing Anderson for her response and she nailed it.
This scene is basically like a poker game.... MaMa trying to intimidate Dredd to fold by saying she has 4 Aces, but instead he goes all in, and discovers she only has an Ace high...
The fact that she not only thought Dredd would even entertain the idea of a negotiation but also that he wouldn't find a way around it shows she definitely did not know who she was Fing with.
the idea that unlike other comic book movies this isn't world in the balances this is a day in the life of a judge. odds are this isn't the first time someone has use the bomb threat
This movie belongs to Alex Garland, the writer. A man of immense talent. The script was brilliant. No one could bring Judge Dedd to life again except him.
When Dredd tossed Ma ma out the window reminded me when Dredd threw Jr Angel off a bridge into a volcano. 'Jr angel for crimes too henious and numerous to mention I sentence you to death...'
I LOVED DREDD… it’s a real shame it never got a sequel. There was so much potential for a Trilogy. It’s not too late, The Boys is comin to an end and I’ve heard Karl Urban said he’d love to do it 😎
Mama looked entirely unsurprised and unfazed by where things ended up. She embarked on her path knowing damn well, one day, one way, she'd be making that dive.
This would've made such an excellent TV series. It's hard to believe it didn't at least get a sequel. The world has so much left to explore that this movie only just touched the surface on.
I love how the music and sound effects have so much weight to them, really packing a punch. Also also, finally a hero who incapacitates the bad guy before beginning 'negociations' (or in this case, judgement).
I know what karl urban looks like, seen him in loads of films but i still love the fact he never took the helmet off the entire film which made me want to see what his face looked like 😅
The best thing about this movie is he never took his helmet off. Stayed true to the comic. Dope movie.
Master chief wish he could keep his helmet on 😂
I bet you're the type that whines about "master cheeks" instead of just enjoying a good sci-fi show.
@@TestUser-cf4wj Your statement would be relevant if it was actually a Good Sci-Fi show lol. lmao even.
@@derisgaming9773
These people will eat Vaseline on toast and thank them for the privilege.
... so everyone else had to.
Why this never got a sequel is proof we are living in an alternate timeline where we can't have nice things.
It had a woman for a bad guy.........
Surf the Kali Yuga
Technically this is a sequal😂
Not everything has to have a sequel.
This was a sequel already, the original was "Judge Dredd" staring Sylvester Stallone. And this was bad enough not to make another one. ;)
Never mind a sequel, let's just be glad this one exists.
indeed.
The problem we are all getting at though is these movies just aren’t made today and they are getting even worse
@@Expo-indeed, it seems …
@@Expo-There have always been shitty movies, man.
Always and forever
0:02 This is what eventually earns her the Pass, IMO. Her ability to stand up for herself and dispense justice at her own discretion. Dredd knows that anyone who has the guts to stand up to him has the chops to be a judge.
Good observation but I invite you to consider this:
Examine her behavior throughout the mission. Look at her reaction when she performed her first execution, the fear in the shootout, the panic during the mind merges when she picked up the prisoner's thoughts. When he said "She's a pass" did he mean that she passed her evaluation or did she pass on being a judge?
I agree more with coolprof. She was unprepared having been a mutant and not standard academy progression she possibly had been insulated from the harsh mega city. Then when she finally did what she thought she would be, dispensing justice and not perpetuating violence, then she had no trouble standing up for that idea. May have been more like carthatic release.
@@TheCoolProfessor His CO even asked him that same question: Pass or Fail, don't think too much into it. Judge Dredd is about as straightforward as you can get, and when he said "pass" He meant that while she may have failed her evaluation Anderson was indeed a Judge. Also! I know this because I have read the comics, and Judge Anderson is Judge Dredd's partner had they gone through in the making of a sequel [ which I hoped they did] Then we would have likely seen them take on the likes of the Angel family.
@@carterslade8857 - Since Judge Anderson is canon in the comics, the Pass/Fail question was answered as "Pass" meaning "not fail" rather than "pass on the opportunity" or something similar.
I invite you to consider that you have never achieved a level of education remotely close to being a 'Prof.' My reasoning... the meaning of 'PASS' is obvious, yet seemingly beyond your simple level of reasoning. Stay in your lane. @@TheCoolProfessor
Dredd standing there almost in slight disappointment that the device didn't have enough range to go off is just one of the many subtle details that made this movie great
So the theory is that this dead-man transmitter sends a signal only after it loses pulse, instead of constantly giving the don't-blow signal as long as there is life? That's just stupid design. He could have just shot it.
generally speaking a "don't explode" signal is a BAD IDEA due to radio just not being a sure thing and a false negative could mean a serious issue.
@@csn583 My first thought as well. That is not how a real dead-man trigger works.
@@csn583 that would be terrible design because one badly refracted radio signal bouncing off a wall or interfered with by a piece of metal in the wrong angle = death. Its too risky outside of a complex specifically designed to do it, and that would be a terrible reason to design a defensive complex in such a way.
I don't know about disappointed. I imagine his balls were in his throat there for a moment.
He sounded relieved he was alive.
Karl Urban and Olivia Thirby nailed their roles. Dredd was an amazing movie. Lena Headey showed again why she is a master at the baddy. Love this film, could watch it over and over.
True, but I really liked Lena Headey as the "good guy" in 300. I am sad that all she gets any more are villain roles.
@@robjohnson8522 Oh shit, I forgot she was in 300.
@@StudleyDuderight Yes, so strong and wise yet soooo hot. Perfect
@@robjohnson8522 I must disagree about her being hot, couldn't be bothered to know the rest. She is kind of funny in the few clips I've watched of her live streams.
I prefer 115 pound 5'2" long-haired brunettes with 36C chest and crystal blue eyes. Huh, that's odd. I just described my wife.
@@robjohnson8522She is fine with it I'm sure. Hollywood is shallow and fickle, and her roles would be increasingly narrowing into matriarchal roles.. if she's boxed in anyway, I'm glad to see her get the roles that let her show just how nuanced of an actor she is.. and she really can pull that off.
I loved it when Dredd just accepted Anderson's reasons without any further argument.
That little shrug really sells it. It like, "huh, alrighty then".
@@Soandnb So much without saying a workd or seeing half of his face...truly he´s meant to play Dredd.
It's what really earns her the pass she stated her reason and stood up to dredd
In this movie, Dredd wanted change and anderson can be.
"We're a kilometer above ground.
Whada you figure the range is on that thing?
Better get through a hundred levels of concrete. How bout 200?.
Let's find out."
😁Ahhhhh Dredd. A connoisseur of science.
And then it had an out of range failsafe... oops
@@washellwash1802 I'd like to see the writers get them out of that one.😅
@@washellwash1802This is exactly what I was thinking. Apparently this trigger works by sending a detonation signal when she dies, which is the wrong way to do a kill switch. Instead, it should be set up so that the heart monitor constantly transmits a "don't detonate" signal. The bomb is armed the first time it receives the signal, and detonates when it stops receiving the signal. If she dies or is moved out of range, boom.
@@Tantalus010....um how many kill switches have you made to know this info? just wondering, totally not on the phone with Homeland Security.
I've actually never liked this plot point. There's no hundred levels of concrete where he throws her, it's a giant open shaft, even a weak signal should be quite fine. I would have preferred alternatives, such as the device simply crushed at the bottom (showing the gang is not as good as they think they are, and Dredd recognizing bad tech when he sees it) or Anderson having had intel on the device when she also got the keypad code and done something about it.
Anderson is the heart of the movie but Dredd has an arc too. He would never betray the city, but he has no hope. Nothing can be changed about the city. His time with Anderson gives him hope and the value of flexibility in dispensing justice, and that judges like Anderson might actually make a difference.
"Every now and then a trigger has to be pulled."
"Or not pulled."
@@UltimaKeyMaster what is that from?
@@nakfoor1846 Skyfall
He saw in Anderson someone who believed in justice as much as he did, a stark contrast after seeing the corrupt judges
This movie and Master and Commander were two movies that should have gotten sequels.
Hopefully not too far in the future as the Navy ain't doing so well right now 🤣
Better they don’t. They’d be perverse woke mockeries of the originals.
@@bluemike807exactly. Would ruin the originals basically. Star wars perfect example
@@bluemike807 In fact, i wish LESS movies got sequels... thats the only way we get more things like this!
You have good taste sir.
The Slo-Mo would make her heart beat faster due to euphoria, reducing the chance it stops prematurely due to hemorrhaging. Dredd felt contempt, but he was also brutally efficient.
And she had to live through the entire fall in slow motion . . . that's got to be like like an hour of horror compressed into a few seconds.
I was trying to figure out why he gave her the drug. I thought it was out of a brief moment of compassion, but now it makes a lot more sense. Brutal.
@@carlbruschnigjr1757 Someone calculated it. Based on the 1km fall distance and factoring in terminal velocity, she fell for 18.5 seconds. Given that Slow-Mo slows the perception of time down to 1%, she experienced the fall as lasting roughly 31 minutes (1850 seconds or 30.83 minutes).
@@carlbruschnigjr1757Other way around, few seconds of horror 'expanded' into the horror of like an hour :)
@TheEDFLegacy Her gang made the other gang smoke slomo before skinning them and tossing them. Yeah, I think it's so 10 seconds of dying feels like an hour.
It makes me so sad to know this movie didn’t do better. With the incredibly small budget they made an absolutely AMAZING movie. If you’ve never seen this movie PLEASE go watch it.
i got my blueray of it, i saw it in the cinema and got friends who didnt know the universe to watch it, the male friend loved it. Did my part, tragic it just didnt do well enough to get sequels. Most of my favourite films are flops sadly. Edge of Tomorrow, Blade runner 2049, Dredd, tragic really.
@@Vihara2 you know the main guy that played dredd I forgot his name. I wanna say Karl something? But he said if they could raise the funds for the sequel through the fans he would be down. But it never came to fruition of course. Not all my favs are flops. Some are. But I also love Dogday Afternoon. Watch that one. It’s great. John Cazale. Not as known as others. But a great actor. Amazing. Died I believe late 70’s
@@frankyjas5184 it's Karl Urban. He played the part of Eomer in "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" which made him famous worldwide.
@@ChristopheJOUAN-qd3xu there you go. Urban. Thanks. lol.
This film not getting multiple sequels is a crime against humanity
The Dredd franchise in itself just isn't mainstream enough anymore after the 90s one
Why does everything have to get a sequel though?
The punishment is 100 years in the iso-cube
I'd say the absurd exaggeration of this comment is a far worse offense.
Considering the kind of sequels we get these days that might be seen as a blessing... Oh lord, think what a sequel would be if Disney got their filthy hands on it...
I love how the female rookie has an actual character arc and isn't automatically better at everything and everyone.
Unlike the male lead, who had no arc and was automatically better at everything and everyone.
@@TheInfiniteSheldon i mean he's suppose to be the battle harden mentor here so wouldn't make sense if he's fumbling around like a rookie himself.
Dread is more or less the embodiment of justice (which of course is flawed), but my point is that male or female is irrelevant as Dread is hardly even human to begin with.@@TheInfiniteSheldon
The movie is called Dredd for a reason. @@TheInfiniteSheldon
you mean like a teacher?@@TheInfiniteSheldon
One of the most criminally underrated classics of all time.
I wish people would STOP calling well-received movies underrated. It's so stupid. You all sound like robots, like puppets repeating the same phrase without thinking.
@@Fragenzeichenplatte It was a flop at the box office.
So... underrated indeed.
@@recht_voor_zijn_raap5506 No, underrated doesn't refer to financial result. It is underRATED. You know, the rating.
@@Fragenzeichenplatte You know what I mean.
Stop with the trolling and get a life for f sake!
@@recht_voor_zijn_raap5506 No, I don't know what you mean. How would I? Why would I read "underrated" and go "ah I guess they don't mean the movie is rated too low".
You're intentionally misusing words but I'm the troll? Fuck off. The fact that you get so angry over this only proves that you're the one who lacks a life. Go outside.
Bye.
For the record, it takes about 25 seconds to fall from a height of 1 km. Since Slo Mo slows your perception of time down to 1%, for Ma Ma, it felt like she was falling for about 42 minutes.
Uff!!!! 😢
Oof..
This entire movie is a classic. But this scene when Anderson gives her reasoning to Dredd and leaves him speechless is the money shot.
And gets the combination from the guy.
Which I use as an alternative password: 49436
I just loves how he doesn't argue with her, hears her out, and then agrees with her.
@@isanedHe was testing her. He knew he was a victim. That helmet has incredible psychoanalysis abilities.
And the badass music that goes with it.
She did the classic Dredd comic move a Flopper. In the Dredd comics MCOne citizens has clubs of people who called themselves Floppers. They would jump to their deaths from citi blocs while onlookers, club members who would rate via points each Flop made. This includes style of jump, how the arms and legs were during the full and most important head placement during impact with the surface. The media would display the jumps for all to watch. Ma Ma I’d give a solid 10 she took the fall full face first😃
Bender: "Do a flip!"
@@IHeliosI My favorite quote
Disqualified do to the presence of performance enhancing narcotics..
...why though?
@@NekroleinchenDo you see the state the city is in?
It's a really nice detail that when Ma-Ma is close to hitting the ground she brings up an arm to shield herself, rethinks and moves them back to a position where they look like wings as if she's accepted that her death will finally set her free.
This end scene is just PERFECT: we all wait for the death of the villain, the sentence is quick and brutal, the long fall of Mama promises an horrible death but we're almost immediately placed looking at the eerie and graceful fall of an Angel until the last moment when this vision ends to its violent conclusion with Mama accepting her death at last. This scene, with its weird poesy, is just BRILLIANT!!!
And the fact Dredd gets her high on Slow-Mo too. Ma-Ma's death was brutal and ironic.
the jump for normal people probably only took 5-10 secs. but for her, it was probably a lifetime.
Ridiculous how this never got a similar feeling sequel... cursed earth, dark judges... so much material.
If I don't get a Chief Judge Cal story in my lifetime, I will rage
Hollywood puts out so much utter drek, and yet this brilliant movie never got a sequel. Hell, we should have gotten a Dredd 2 AND a Judge Anderson film, since Olivia Thirby nailed the role.
Put it this way though, would you rather be happy with the knowledge that this won't get a sequel and we're left with this one hidden gem of a movie, or risk a modern sequel to it? You said it yourself - Hollywood puts out drek, more so now than ever, with ESG and DEI dominating every aspect of media. A sequel to this would be inevitably filled with all of that shit. Better to just keep this film safe from any of it tbh
@@mongobongo8216with the way movies are today, I’m cool with the one good Judge Dredd film. They’d definitely wokify the sequel and it would be a tragedy.
Shh, don't let them touch it
@@mongobongo8216Yep they'd 100% ruin it today and then they'd continue to pretend like the dei and esg stuff isn't happening.
They would have turned it into woke trash. Be glad this one exists the way it does.
I never realized this before, but the blood splatter when Ma-Ma hits the floor forms the red 'X' on Dredd's helmet.
It does not
@@theandice8152 It clearly does, but I doubt it's intentional.
@@razmatazz9310it clearly doesn't 😂 it doesnt form any pattern, it's just a splash.
@@stephengrigg5988 6:18 is clearly cross-shaped, Stevie.
@@razmatazz9310 no... it's clearly not. It's clearly just a random pattern, and you're clearly just seeing what you want to see because you don't want to admit you're clearly wrong and you clearly read too much into things.
I guarantee if the director was asked, he'd just say "wut? Wtf are you talking about?"
When this movie came out, I didn't question it or wonder why. I just bought it as soon as I could and have been playing it to friends and family ever since. It is is so great, from the cinematography to the acting to the writing. It is the perfect action film.
Love the shrug by Dredd after Anderson stood up for her judgement. Hard to argue with that, eh Joe?
That "fail" is nothing compared to her ability to discern perps from victims, and glean information. Also, the fact that she wasn't crooked in any sense like those other judges. She was willing to take the hit for that fail. That puts her miles ahead of those crooked judges in Dredd's book. Would've bet Anderson was surprised to get a pass from this hard-as-nails legend.
Not to mention that, per the comics, Psi-Judges (like Anderson was training to be/became) were given some leeway on being a little looser on regulations than other Judges.
"How many times did you watch this on Netflix?"
Yes.
I saw it 5 times in theaters... only the original Avatar supersedes it as the best 3D movie ever made
Wait, this is on netflix?? Thanks!
0:22 You can tell Dredd is impressed by her astuteness to the law and he realizes she's right and is still legally dispensing justice
Man Anderson was badass and hot af too, I love how she went from a mild mannered compassionate newbie to a hard ass killing machine even standing up for herself to dredd, shows just how much mega city one really will chew you up and spit you out if you're soft
Mega city one is a meat grinder 😉
She wasn't confident in the beginning, but Dredd instilled in her the importance of always thinking tactically on the job and being decisive. But she still let the techie go and believed she could make a difference, which she effectively did.
I feel her character growth was learning to balance the grim reality of a judge's job with her better nature. Its overall a win, there is now a skilled judge with a better heart out there, but a judge nonetheless. What made it all the better was that it is a believable response to a job where you are expected to go solo against small armies.
Unfortunately still a vast change from the books, where she’s a much more personality filled, vibrant character with no particular affiliation with Dredd other than being in the same police force as him - she even calls him derisive nicknames all the time.
Why the blocks not exploded in the end?
@@vivacehome1 out of range at ground floor and only works if it can gets a kill signal.
One of the greatest movies of all time.
I'll be honest .. when it came out I was already tired of reboots and didn't give it a chance and saw it like 10 years later and honestly one of the better movies of recent times for me.
Except that this wasn't a "reboot" or a re-anything.
This is the true depiction of Judge Dredd.
Not that turd with fuc*ing Stallone and fuc*ing Rob Schneider.
I wish that film didn't exist.
Such a perfect representation of Dredd. I wish someone would rehire all involved to make a sequel.
"The crime is life, the punishment is death".
Just beautifully crafted, and a true masterpiece. A rarity these days to have such a high class Sci fi. Not having a sequel is simply tragic!
Every good thing must come to an end.. Sequels would have ruined it most probably
Whoever stopped there being sequels to this masterpiece needs to pay.
This still is one of the best action movies ever made
Well in hindsight Dredd did a huge gamble here: he presumed transmitter is sending signal to initiate explosion.
If I was Ma-Ma I would rig transmitter to send signal to _prevent_ explosion. Got out of range? Signal not received in time? KABOOM!!
Well yeah but that's just how he is. Totally uncompromising. He went up that tower to kill mawmaw and by God he's going to fucking do it come hell or high water.
He probably knows. He just didn't care and took the risk.
A gamble? Or perhaps educated on these kind of devices
Any device of that sort is highly risky as anything that could obscure the signal for even just a moment would blow everything up
Thought so as well before but then I thought if that was the case and someone turned on the Microwave between her and the receiver... Accidental KABLOOEY.
This scene is gorgeous. One of the best Slo-Mo's ever!!!!
I did read about limited theater showings of this movie in 3-D.
Remember kids: it’s not the fall that un-alives you, it’s the sudden stop at the end
You sure? Actually people get a heart attack while falling, you know
*kills
Jusqu'ici, tout va bien. Jusqu'ici, tout va bien. Jusqu'ici, tout va bien.
-Richard B. Riddick
Karl Urban did a magnificent job. The Dredd grimace is spot on.
Glad people came to like this movie after a bit. Couldn't believe it wasn't more popular when I saw it way back when.
This film is so underrated. This will forever be a missed opportunity at a great sequel. Hell of a film
This movie is horrifically BEAUTIFUL!!!....
That hit of slow no was the cherry on top of her sentence. DREED was sadistic as fuck with that lol
It was pretty light all things considered. She was flaying them then put them in Slo-Mo before throwing them off.
I just realized that she put her hand out to absorb the impact but she didn't reach close enough. That drug is a trip!
Dredd and Anderson team up. Love it.
Need a sequel
One of the best movies to come out in the last 20 years...
As from 2012 I still don't get why this movie didn't do well in the box office
because it is dumb.
@@i2aymond What else you'd whatch in 2012 if you had money?
shouldnt of been Dredd but a standalone movie
@@i2aymond No bad marketing
@@zachporter8864 We had one, The Raid: Redemption just a year before this one, but instead of gunfire it was all close quarters combat and it was amazing! Raid grossed less than Dredd, but still got a sequel because of apreciacion. I get it, martial arts are far more difficult to film rather than firefights with CGI blood, and I remember hoping for another Dredd movie, alas it never came to be
6:54 Only one thing would have made this movie better: instead of “Yeah”, Dredd should have said “Court’s adjourned.”
I think her and Hans Gruber should have seen each other on the way down, high-fived, had a chat about crime, before them both hit the pavement. One of the best antagonist death scenes ever. I LOVE the music, how it's haunting and slow.
Passing Dick Jones from Robocop on the way.
A crazy behind the scenes thing to me is the composer’s inspiration for the slo mo music was finding a video of a Justin Bieber song slowed 800x or some other big number. Give it a look up sometime, has a very similar ethereal kinda feeling to it
That's a new twist on No Exit (the play)
All the characters have the same death.
I think this is one of Lena Headey's best roles. She was ice cold as Ma Ma Madrigal.
I did see her as somewhat sympathetic. Hers was literally a world where you try to survive the brutality of the pecking order and the only way to move up is to prove you can do effed up things without hesitation. You're a terrifying overlord or you're subject to one. Maybe if things were different she could have even been a judge. But things were not different.
They wrote this scene and then built the movie around it. The concrete as metaphor and as plot. good job, movie.
I love this rookie. She's the most awesome thing ever. In a world this brutal, she's really trying her best and I.... I appreciate that. I honestly do. Even now, a decade after I've seen this movie, her relentless humanity wins me over.
Judge Dredd got the Soul Stone.
For a second there i was completely lost on what you meant by that. But when i realised, you got a little chuckle out of me
Hahaha shit took me awhile to figure that out lok
Well shit
Underrated movie of all time !!!
There are several cool things about this movie. Although Karl Urban never took off the helmet, we can see how proud Dredd is of Anderson in the beginning, at that moment he knows she passed. Also, for an impartial and incredibly stoic judge who dispenses justice only to those who deserve it - he found an unusually cruel way to kill Ma-Ma (granted there wasn't much option). Showing that even behind that helmet and always grumpy face, there is still a human who can feel anger and wants revenge for all the misery she caused
I love how Anderson is scrambling around everywhere shooting people while Dredd is just a big turret mostly
I love that little "yeah" he gives as he looks down at the ground floor of the Peachtree. Is it confidence he was right? A cheer of survival? Or just a simple acknowledgement that he served his sentence?
6:54 Most impactful "Yeah." ever uttered.
Dreed is like, ok that's a pass.
Can we please have a sequel with the same actors as Judges, please
*looks around* Who the hell are you asking? The internet gods? Man, you people are out of touch with reality.
@@Jay-JonesOk, Mr Grumpy
@@Jay-Jones lol someone woke up feeling like a cunt.
IMO This is a classic film, one of the best comic adaptions made. Needed a sequel...
4:34 - And thus begins Ma-Ma’s 1% slow “fall from grace”.
In the uncut version, this movie is 48 hours long and 99% of the movie is about this fall scene through all the +200 levels.
Source: Trust me bro
I love that Karl Urban had the Dress scowl the whole movie. He knows how to respect the little things.
See, the falling ain't the problem, it's the landing that will get ya.
The real tragedy is that Olivia Thirlby isn't more famous. She was great. I would love to see her in more things.
I will never get over the fact that the "slowMo" drug in this movie is just Turbo from fallout new vegas.
Such an underrated movie. Absolutely one of my favorites now.
That's one of the most beautiful death scenes I've ever seen. So violent yet so peaceful
Exactly. This scene with its weird poesy was such a beautiful eerie surprise after all the intensity of the whole movie. It was the perfect ending for this movie.
Perhaps the best death scene in a movie ever.
I never watched this movie in the theater. I figured it would be a stupid remake of a stupid original (Stallone movie). I watched it recently and actually loved it. Really quite good.
Same... except I saw it on video 10 years ago. I still love this movie.
You missed out... only Avatar was a better 3D movie experience
Yeah the stallone movie sucked, but this was awesome!
This is why dead mans switch needs to trigger on a negative rather than a positive signal. Negative will include out of range
People say Dredd doesn't change, but that's simply not true. He changes at 0:33. It's not a major, sweeping change in the grand scheme of things, but for Dredd it might as well be an entire paradigm shift. Dredd sees people as being either perps, victims, and judges, but Anderson's convictions are enough to make him reconsider his idea of who is which category.
Stallone Dredd: "I knew you'd say that."
This needed a sequel
What a beautiful final memory
This dredd was fire 🔥🔥 he wasn't playing at all 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿✊🏿
Dredd must've already known the hacker was a victim because he was scared out of his wits. Not exactly gangster behaviour. Testing Anderson for her response and she nailed it.
He was no victim.
He was her former pimp.
This scene is basically like a poker game.... MaMa trying to intimidate Dredd to fold by saying she has 4 Aces, but instead he goes all in, and discovers she only has an Ace high...
She can witness her own execution and demise in slow motion. BRUTAL!
The fact that she not only thought Dredd would even entertain the idea of a negotiation but also that he wouldn't find a way around it shows she definitely did not know who she was Fing with.
The possibilities are nearly endless with the whole Dredd universe......I would absolutely go nuts for a Dredd/Anderson v Dark Judges movie.
This is one of the most brutal movies I've ever had the misfortune of watching 😢 I loved every minute.
Hahaha
That would be a wild ride down, living it in slow-mo
He DEFENESTRATED her!!!
I totally forgot about this word .. glad to know I'm not the only one that understood it.
Can you imagine if they had slow-mo at The Defenestration of Prague?
Everything about this scene was phenomenal lol absolutely loved it
It was ironic the name of the drug in this film was Slo-Mo, as one of the guys involved in the filming is Gavin from the Slow-Mo Guys, here on TH-cam.
Oh hey a Judge Dredd/Terminator crossover
This movie was a masterpiece
T2 is still the top1 movie of all time, but Dredd 2012 is in my top 10.
the idea that unlike other comic book movies this isn't world in the balances this is a day in the life of a judge. odds are this isn't the first time someone has use the bomb threat
This movie belongs to Alex Garland, the writer. A man of immense talent. The script was brilliant. No one could bring Judge Dedd to life again except him.
And thus did Eómer son of Eómund proceed to give Cersei Lannister the same experience as her son Tommen, while hopped up on Super Opium.
When Dredd tossed Ma ma out the window reminded me when Dredd threw Jr Angel off a bridge into a volcano. 'Jr angel for crimes too henious and numerous to mention I sentence you to death...'
I LOVED DREDD… it’s a real shame it never got a sequel. There was so much potential for a Trilogy. It’s not too late, The Boys is comin to an end and I’ve heard Karl Urban said he’d love to do it 😎
Mama looked entirely unsurprised and unfazed by where things ended up. She embarked on her path knowing damn well, one day, one way, she'd be making that dive.
This is how you make a strong female character without applying ideological absurdities.
the slo-mo scenes were magical in 3D in theaters.
This would've made such an excellent TV series. It's hard to believe it didn't at least get a sequel. The world has so much left to explore that this movie only just touched the surface on.
… yeah.
I love how the music and sound effects have so much weight to them, really packing a punch. Also also, finally a hero who incapacitates the bad guy before beginning 'negociations' (or in this case, judgement).
I know what karl urban looks like, seen him in loads of films but i still love the fact he never took the helmet off the entire film which made me want to see what his face looked like 😅