I think my absolute favourite thing about this film is at the end, when the Chief Justice comes down to ask Dredd what happened and he just says "Drugs bust. Perps were uncooperative" like it wasn't a particularly unusual day's work.
my fav part was the end too.....cuz thats when it was finally finished burning my eyes out with dogsh*t. how people think this is better than the stallone one i have nn idea. the perfect dredd fil would be one that looks and feels like the stallone one,but is more adult and gritty like the urban one and defo isnt just a dude climbing a tower block for an hour and a half. it was basically just like The Raid but with an Uber delivery driver with a gun.
@@D0S81 Yeah the look of the Stallone one is fantastic, but they butchered the character and it features terminal levels of Schneider. The Urban one gets the character right, but had fuck-all budget so couldn't do the world justice. To be honest I'm happy they approached that limitation by focusing on just one block because trying to overreach would've ruined the film.
I love this film. It's so "Fuck Hollywood" and instead "This is an average day in the life of a Megacity Judge just going about his business" that it feels almost European or Asian in style. It does not give a crap about tropes. You just know there's a cut scene after the credits where Dredd turns to Anderson and says "OK, now we have lunch before next patrol" I grew up on 2000AD comics in the 80s and 90s and this movie gets that dark gritty satire so well. It feels grounded without ever losing its sadistic smirk.
This film was incredible. My best moment in movie history is when the mini guns finish..... MaMa sends her right hand man to make sure he’s dead..... there’s a few gun shots.... Dredd walks out with him, throws him off the ledge and walks back into the dark.
@DECIMUS MAXIMUS there are Genuinely so so many moments of this film that stick with me forever. Just seeing him shoot an incendiary round into that crooks head was monumental.
I think people miss the arc of this film. This isn't an average day for Dredd. It should be, and he's probably had worse days. But he goes through a very subtle, very significant change. We see that he has limits to his ruthlessness when he stuns those kids instead of killing them. But though he doesn't realize it, Dredd stands at a crossroads. When Anderson comes along, he instinctively rejects her empathy, and spends the first half of the film showing her how it's a weakness. But over the course of the film, he's confronted with the cost of a world without empathy. In that world, he has no allies, no friends. It's a world that demands he never weaken. And sooner or later, everyone weakens. He's confronted with judges who've purged themselves of empathy completely, and he doesn't like what he sees. Empathy is the one thing that separates him from them. Meanwhile, Anderson proves that her empathy isn't a weakness, but a strength that he doesn't have. It gives her insight that he lacks, allowing her to serve justice via mercy, where he would only bring down further cruelty on the victims of the city. When he gives her a passing grade at the end of the film, he symbolically accepts that empathy, and even compassion, are crucial elements in law enforcement, without which, Dredd is no different the corrupt judges, just the teeth of the meat grinder that is Megacity-1.
That moment at the end when he looks at her and says "you look ready"........says it all really. Such a goddamn great film with so much more depth than people realise. Just in one look....with a helmet on.....speaks a thousand words. Especially when you realise the guy is evaluating her the WHOLE way through.
@@rottensquid exactly, like the part she explains to Dredd about her decision on the hacker kid and Dredd just makes the “fair enough” face and they keep moving.
@@L1VE3V1L So understated, but that character turn was huge. Dredd never would have said that at the beginning of the story. His face is all but unreadable, and he acts like the whole thing was just a normal Tuesday, but it changed him. That's my favorite kind of storytelling. Fury Road is full of stuff like that too.
Okay can we just take a second to appreciate all the editing that goes into these videos. James and Mason just sit and tell hahaha an then James sends it to one of the editors and is like "okay have fun, make it good" and they nail it EVERYTIME
Ben/Matt/The other guy (edit: Mitch - shoutout to the people that read the bio) really make the videos. The Mulan giant grasshopper is amazing. Also check out Weekly Planet Posters if you haven’t. He edits the poster to the incorrect names they come up with. For example, Super 8 was changed to Monster Train.
This is seriously an underrated gem. Brutal, filled to the brim with amazing set pieces, great shots with great effects, some of the most memorable one liners and it's just fun as hell. Just like how Heath Ledger is the Joker and Hugh Jackman is Wolverine...Karl Urban is Dredd.
that's the line that struck to me as very judge dredd from the comics. it's just his everyday thing even if he went through hell that anybody else would be traumatized of.
Fun personal story related to the shooting of this movie: I live in Cape Town, where they filmed a lot of the exterior shots of the Peach Trees building. I was extremely hung over one Saturday morning and had to make a trip down to the civic centre to renew my car license. Unbeknownst to me this was on a day of filming, so as I'm walking up the stairs I'm greeted by a handful of judges in full regalia. I nearly shat my pants as I saw them, but did my utmost to go walk past without being noticed. I go inside, do my license business, and as I'm walking out there they are again and now I'm starting to become fearful of my life. As soon as I was out of sight I ran to my car and raced home, full hangover paranoia in effect. It was only a couple hours after I got home that I started to piece things together and realised that I was actually on set. Brain = fried
That's the best story ever! You being hung-over and genuinely paranoid puts it over the top. I wish everyone got to experience a moment of encountering and genuinely fearing running afoul of some actual Judges in real life. That rocks! 😂
@@SlyFox-rh3pp plot all over the place, incosistant charicters, sjw politics, massive plotholes in every episode, terrible dialog and writing. I could go on and on and on
One my my favorite Karl Urban roles. I've been watching him since the Doom movie and Riddick. He was an actor that always stuck out to me, and I think he killed it as Dredd.
He's totally underrated. I don't understand why he doesn't get more lead roles. He steels every scene he's in. Even in Thor: Ragnarok, it's a small role and I never like the character but he's memorable throughout it. And he's the best of the triumvirate in the Star Trek reboot too. Why they chose to push him aside while McCoy to make it a bromance between Kirk and Spock I'll never understand, other than not understanding the source material.
Karl Urban is my favorite modern actor, hands down. The wide range of roles he's able to do justice to is impressive, and who else could take an emotionally flat character like Dredd and make him seem real?
Exactly. We're gritting our teeth wondering how the hell Dredd is going to get out of this alive. He's like, "I wonder what I'm going to eat for dinner?"
For the crime of delaying media content, you'll given the maximun sentence of... *One Like* Now get out of here Tom Cruise You were great on Mission Impossible but awful on Titanic
My favorite part is when Dredd asks, "What's she doing in a uniform?" after being informed Anderson failed the academy. Don't know why but that part really captured the character for me.
I’ve never known it as “Dredd 3D,” but man, Dredd was kickass. Just incredible. I still want a sequel. It’s really nothing like the comic book, but it works.
Every director and studio misses the point of Dredd, and 2000AD's antiauthoritarian, satirical, and anarchist/punk themes in general. I'm fairly sure none of them have even read 2000AD. Dredd is supposed to be a satire of an authoritarian facist douchebag cop. Not a corrupt cop, but one that acts as merciless and inflexible as possible within the constraints of the law. He was not the hero of the stories he was often the villain
@@jayblackstone6454 It's not necessarily missing the point, but more like showing the character in a different light. A different portrayal, James and Maso even mentioned that Dredd in the end, comes off as a fair douchebag, with Anderson and even with the vagabond at the entrance. The director in this movie clearly wasn't going for the outlandishness and cartoony attitude Dredd has in other pieces of media.
@@lenarr9821 Maybe, but the writer and creator of Dredd was with the Writer for this film. They talked about the writing and screening of this movie at a cafe called Peach Trees in England.
"This seems early on in [Dredd's] career" - yes, and I also think that speaks to how Dredd is under-dressed and the city hasn't reached it's full Mega-City One "look". That's why two or three sequels, in the same "bottle episode" manner would work so well, because they follow on a year or two later as the crime gets worse, the city gets crazier, and Dredd gets even more ruthless. That would be real character development across 2-3 films, and would be worth the effort.
P.S. Ma-Ma Madrigal = AMAZING character. So glad you have her and Lena Headey's performance a proper shout-out. Incredible villain, especially for a Villain created separately from the source material. She totally fits, leaves you wanting more and it adds so much weight to Dredd's World that he doesn't afford himself space to learn more. He knows enough to make the call that he must and the decision is painfully final. It leaves us understanding "her sentence" but mourning for her at the same time.
@@theschmoo-u6o Did the research. Apparently it is a wholly original piece of music made by Paul Leonard Morgan that was inspired by the slowed-down Justin Bieber song, U Smile, which is now my new favorite ambient song. Ha! So, thank you for turning me onto that
@@tigamaki1345 they didn't. they just kept saying slow-mo so much that the put a clip of Gavin in it. when they talk about the slow motion photography they clearly don't know who filmed it.
This is the only film I've ever seen where 3D was worth it - it just heightened it to a degree where you were immersed, but it didn't draw attention to itself; highly doubt it'll get a re-release in theatres, unless there's a cult screen somewhere, but it does look good on a big screen.
It perfectly highlights why 3D largely failed. You would have movies like Avatar that visually was amazing in 3D and it didn't just use 3D as a gimmick but when you watch it in 2D you realise the story lets it down, then you have the various movies like Piranha that treated 3D itself with no respect so used it for cheap 3D gags, then you had the post-conversion cash-ins that weren't shot for 3D so didn't really work. Those 3 types made up 99.9% of 3D movies. Then you have things like Dredd and Life of Pi where they are quality films in their own right that stand up in 2D but which went in intending to shoot in 3D and treat 3D with integrity so it enhances the movie. If we had had more like this and at worst more like Avatar which atleast treated 3D with respect then 3D would have done much better, the problem was most people saw the other types of movies, didn't get blown away by it and then dismissed all 3D movies
I brought a 3D TV because of this Movie, shame it didn't take off! Most content available is PG family stuff and Pixar Movies. Another Movie that lifts it by watching it in 3D was 'Thor Ragnarok'
A rare example of a "perfect" movie. Set itself a limited framework and excelled within it in every conceivable way. Dredd is legitimately an astounding cinematic achievement.
Not knowing anything about this channel and seeing "Caravan Of Garbage" of this beloved movie I cam to hate watch people trashing it. Glad I did, you guys were very respectful and pointed out all the good that I loved about this move. Bravo.
rare occasion where almost everyone the cast and director knows how the material should be treated . it cant be understated how important it is that Karl Urban didnt take off his helmet , the impact that has when portraying a protagonist is huge , its such a best of both worlds where the they are kind of an "everyman" while also being eternally mysterious and badass , they become like a stoic symbol which perfect fits characters like dredd . mad respect for them
One of my favorite movies. One of the big reasons is for Dredd it's just another day in this horrible universe known as Mega City One. He's not saving the world. There's not a conspiracy in the Judge's bar the one's under Momma's pay. Tomorrow he'll be at it again.
This is the only 3D film I’ve seen in which the effects weren’t a waste of time, or stupidly overly extended. I remember coming out of the cinema thinking ‘that was epic!’.
I love this movie! To me, the most character defining quote is at the end when Dredd laconically describes the whole event (and movie) as “Drug bust.” Period. That’s it.
I think my favorite part is that they have Anderson say she wants leave, and then instead of having her change her mind to set up a sequel at the end they just... have the protagonist leave the story and I respect the hell out of it
Well it's implied Anderson sticks around as at the end Anderson is walking towards the motor pool with her helmet under her arm which she wouldn't have if she quit. That it is in the final scenes that ties everything together
This is ace! Also Dredd didn't do too well at the box office, it did really well on home video (as they use to call it haha). Which is a factor in the continued interest in a sequel!
Saw this on the big screen. Own it on DVD. Amazing production, this was. Would love to see a follow up, but as a series. Dredd’s world is simply too rich in detail for a single movie to do it justice. Unless, like Dredd 3-D, the story is much smaller in scale. To successfully bring in the Cursed Earth, mutants and/or the Dark Judges would require way more time to build up than than a movie has to offer. An 8-13 episode series, on the other hand, would fit this property like a glove-bumps, wrinkles and all.
"Dredd is the exaggeration of the modern day slums of the world" as an argument as why it isn't the Dredd of the comics (the ridiculously complex megacities) is more a point in its favour, as the Original Dredd was written in response to the 80's British government and 80's Britain, so updating the commentary is exactly what a modern Dredd should do, because at its heart it is satire with bullets.
This movie was incredible to watch on the big screen when it came out, although being younger at the time I didn't know it "flopped". Underrated movie & Actor (at the time obviously) & I wouldn't mind a sequal.
I think the everyday life aspect was one of it's strongest elements. Especially with other comic book adaptations where it's huge stakes, it's batshit crazy for us but Urban really grounds it as a day in the life.
@@LancasterResponding But your "joke" is built to only work cause you're leaving out words he actually said. It'd be like if I took a 2 hour interview and pulled out 6 words and formed a quote that said, "I like to eat my babies. - Karl Urban" Or "Joke make people laugh" - Lancaster Responding 2020
This movie holds up insanely well. The Slow mo shots are a bit much, but other that that it’s a really really good movie. It’s also filled to the brim with tiny easy to miss details and Easter eggs. It’s a gem for all 5 of the comic fans out there.
@@matthewsmith2979 the character itself was inspired *_partly_* by Judge Dredd, but the script itself had nothing to do with Dredd. Either way, they do fall into the same niche, just with different coats of paint
@@putridsunrise192 Sorry, but all the Ed Neumeier interviews I've read, he repeatedly says "inspired by" but nowhere does it say it was a Dredd movie, where he was trying to secure rights for Dredd, that got changed into Robocop because he couldn't. I mean, it's a nice story for Dredd fans, but it's just not true. The truth is that Dredd was merely an inspiration, and a good one at that.
The Stallone version was utter crap. I can't imagine why some nuckleheads actually deluded themselves that diva movie was gonna bne allowed a sequel?! Carl Urban at least didn't remove the helmet. THAT movie deserves not ONE but SEVERAL sequels... Perhaps even a couple of prequels.
Not only is Dredd 2012 the best Judge Dredd movie by a gigantic margin, but it's in fact one of my favorite movies. I think it could easily get on my top 50 movies I have ever seen in my life. Maybe even higher. It's incredibly faithful to the source material, capturing its spirit and its style, and it's a really well made movie, and an extraordinary introductory movie to the Dredd universe. I would have loved to see a sequel made by the same people.
This is one of the best comic adaptations of all time, and a great movie, it really goes to show that not enough people care about great films... I've wanted to see a sequel to this for years and in the meantime had numerous mediocre Marvel movies
People never take production date into account, people would probably call Mafia 1 a GTA clone despite the fact it was in development before GTA2 was out
Urban is a Dredd fan to start with and fully understood the character of Dredd. I think the great thing is it is just another day in the life of Dredd and Mega City 1 and not another "Save the World" POS movie.
“They did make a movie like this without Dredd, it’s called The Raid!” - you, another guy about to make this comment
Damn you, Mr Sunday Movies! I was about to make a totally unique comment no one else would have possibly thought of!!
At least one comment has this one beat by 46 mins. Nice try though, Mr. Tuesday CoV
Please do the resident evil films!
@@marlzz92 good idea but by the end they will be more damaged than after tranformers, Resident evil gets so bad i the later movies
I had to delete my comment 😅😂
I think my absolute favourite thing about this film is at the end, when the Chief Justice comes down to ask Dredd what happened and he just says "Drugs bust. Perps were uncooperative" like it wasn't a particularly unusual day's work.
Dude must have a lot of bullet scars
That exchange elevates a great movie to be a PERFECT movie!
my fav part was the end too.....cuz thats when it was finally finished burning my eyes out with dogsh*t. how people think this is better than the stallone one i have nn idea. the perfect dredd fil would be one that looks and feels like the stallone one,but is more adult and gritty like the urban one and defo isnt just a dude climbing a tower block for an hour and a half. it was basically just like The Raid but with an Uber delivery driver with a gun.
@@D0S81 Yeah the look of the Stallone one is fantastic, but they butchered the character and it features terminal levels of Schneider. The Urban one gets the character right, but had fuck-all budget so couldn't do the world justice. To be honest I'm happy they approached that limitation by focusing on just one block because trying to overreach would've ruined the film.
@@pkpckls Kudos for not taking the piss out of him for having utterly terrible taste in movies.
The fact that Karl Urban didnt push for some 'Facetime' makes him a real hero and benefit to the film.
This movie is so underrated and deserved a sequel
This comment is accurate and deserves more likes.
Yes
@@Zajarism agreed 👍
@@Zajarism this comment stating that the original comment is correct and needs more likes aswell. 😊
Not only does Dredd deserve a sequel but more 2000ad characters need movies. 2000AD was such a fantastic comic.
The fact Karl never removed his helmet makes it better
not only never removed the helmet, he reportedly said he won't play the role if he DOES remove it in the script
He pulled a real Mandalorian before that was even a think. Even stuck to not having a romance.
If only the actor who played master chief in the Halo show showed the same respect for the character.
@@dominicscreativefilms lol if only halo TV show showed respect to halo
Dredd is supposed to be an old man.
I love this film. It's so "Fuck Hollywood" and instead "This is an average day in the life of a Megacity Judge just going about his business" that it feels almost European or Asian in style. It does not give a crap about tropes. You just know there's a cut scene after the credits where Dredd turns to Anderson and says "OK, now we have lunch before next patrol"
I grew up on 2000AD comics in the 80s and 90s and this movie gets that dark gritty satire so well. It feels grounded without ever losing its sadistic smirk.
This film was incredible.
My best moment in movie history is when the mini guns finish..... MaMa sends her right hand man to make sure he’s dead..... there’s a few gun shots.... Dredd walks out with him, throws him off the ledge and walks back into the dark.
PoliticAL .......that is a great scene. I like Dredd’s speech to the inhabitants of Peach Trees. Totally badass
@@jimd385 “MaMas not the law, I am the law”
PoliticAL ........just reading that line gives me goosebumps
That whole film is so quotable!
@DECIMUS MAXIMUS there are Genuinely so so many moments of this film that stick with me forever. Just seeing him shoot an incendiary round into that crooks head was monumental.
I think people miss the arc of this film. This isn't an average day for Dredd. It should be, and he's probably had worse days. But he goes through a very subtle, very significant change. We see that he has limits to his ruthlessness when he stuns those kids instead of killing them. But though he doesn't realize it, Dredd stands at a crossroads.
When Anderson comes along, he instinctively rejects her empathy, and spends the first half of the film showing her how it's a weakness. But over the course of the film, he's confronted with the cost of a world without empathy. In that world, he has no allies, no friends. It's a world that demands he never weaken. And sooner or later, everyone weakens. He's confronted with judges who've purged themselves of empathy completely, and he doesn't like what he sees. Empathy is the one thing that separates him from them.
Meanwhile, Anderson proves that her empathy isn't a weakness, but a strength that he doesn't have. It gives her insight that he lacks, allowing her to serve justice via mercy, where he would only bring down further cruelty on the victims of the city. When he gives her a passing grade at the end of the film, he symbolically accepts that empathy, and even compassion, are crucial elements in law enforcement, without which, Dredd is no different the corrupt judges, just the teeth of the meat grinder that is Megacity-1.
Nailed it.
That moment at the end when he looks at her and says "you look ready"........says it all really. Such a goddamn great film with so much more depth than people realise. Just in one look....with a helmet on.....speaks a thousand words. Especially when you realise the guy is evaluating her the WHOLE way through.
@@L1VE3V1L Right. Not just evaluating her, but unintentionally learning from her.
@@rottensquid exactly, like the part she explains to Dredd about her decision on the hacker kid and Dredd just makes the “fair enough” face and they keep moving.
@@L1VE3V1L So understated, but that character turn was huge. Dredd never would have said that at the beginning of the story. His face is all but unreadable, and he acts like the whole thing was just a normal Tuesday, but it changed him. That's my favorite kind of storytelling. Fury Road is full of stuff like that too.
Okay can we just take a second to appreciate all the editing that goes into these videos. James and Mason just sit and tell hahaha an then James sends it to one of the editors and is like "okay have fun, make it good" and they nail it EVERYTIME
Ben is the master....the goat is the apprentice
Ben/Matt/The other guy (edit: Mitch - shoutout to the people that read the bio) really make the videos. The Mulan giant grasshopper is amazing. Also check out Weekly Planet Posters if you haven’t. He edits the poster to the incorrect names they come up with. For example, Super 8 was changed to Monster Train.
@@under-._.-score I love the weekly planet posters
There is a frame of Thanos in red underwear edited into this video at 8:27
@@bryancohoon9333 the thiccc titan
This is seriously an underrated gem. Brutal, filled to the brim with amazing set pieces, great shots with great effects, some of the most memorable one liners and it's just fun as hell. Just like how Heath Ledger is the Joker and Hugh Jackman is Wolverine...Karl Urban is Dredd.
Save that shit for the rookies
Heath ledger is no longer the best joker though
@@ryanoneal8480 Yes he is
@@afanas4635 lol sure buddy, he was only marginally better then jack
@@ryanoneal8480 That’s how you know a dudes on crack
"What happened in there?"
Dredd: "Drug bust. Perps were uncooperative."
Yep, just another day for Dredd!
My favorite line.
that's the line that struck to me as very judge dredd from the comics. it's just his everyday thing even if he went through hell that anybody else would be traumatized of.
Fun personal story related to the shooting of this movie: I live in Cape Town, where they filmed a lot of the exterior shots of the Peach Trees building. I was extremely hung over one Saturday morning and had to make a trip down to the civic centre to renew my car license. Unbeknownst to me this was on a day of filming, so as I'm walking up the stairs I'm greeted by a handful of judges in full regalia. I nearly shat my pants as I saw them, but did my utmost to go walk past without being noticed. I go inside, do my license business, and as I'm walking out there they are again and now I'm starting to become fearful of my life. As soon as I was out of sight I ran to my car and raced home, full hangover paranoia in effect. It was only a couple hours after I got home that I started to piece things together and realised that I was actually on set. Brain = fried
I hope some of the extras took notes.
Yeah I’m sure you were super paranoid that fictional characters were going to arrest you.
@@GoodbuyWhorses When you're n a weird headspace, anything seems possible.
Yeah totally how hangovers work!!?
That's the best story ever! You being hung-over and genuinely paranoid puts it over the top. I wish everyone got to experience a moment of encountering and genuinely fearing running afoul of some actual Judges in real life. That rocks! 😂
If Karl Urban had to do a part 2 to this movie it would do so much better especially with his current star power from the boys.
Looks like he's still jacked for his role in The Boys also.
Pity season 2 shit the bed
@@Chris-yz7cs how did season 2 shit the bed?
@@SlyFox-rh3pp yeah lol season 2 was a banger! it had few minor cringy sjw scenes, but the rest was a banger !
@@SlyFox-rh3pp plot all over the place, incosistant charicters, sjw politics, massive plotholes in every episode, terrible dialog and writing. I could go on and on and on
One my my favorite Karl Urban roles. I've been watching him since the Doom movie and Riddick. He was an actor that always stuck out to me, and I think he killed it as Dredd.
He's totally underrated. I don't understand why he doesn't get more lead roles. He steels every scene he's in. Even in Thor: Ragnarok, it's a small role and I never like the character but he's memorable throughout it. And he's the best of the triumvirate in the Star Trek reboot too. Why they chose to push him aside while McCoy to make it a bromance between Kirk and Spock I'll never understand, other than not understanding the source material.
@@f1jones544 He's good in Red as well.
@@CrazyInsanelikeafox and lord of the rings
He's bloody brilliant in the Boys!
Karl Urban is my favorite modern actor, hands down. The wide range of roles he's able to do justice to is impressive, and who else could take an emotionally flat character like Dredd and make him seem real?
LOLOLOLOL
An R-rated miniseries on HBO or Amazon prime would be cool
REbellion studios are trying to get it off the ground. But, they're currently having legal issues.
And unlike some adaptions, the police procedureal structure would actually work for it.
Karl Urban is already on good terms with Amazon, it would be perfect
Ironic, considering the movie looks like a TV show.
HBO only, amazon can suck it
"The day I came to your Block and destroyed Ma Ma's gang was the most important day of your life. For Dredd, it was Tuesday"
Exactly. We're gritting our teeth wondering how the hell Dredd is going to get out of this alive. He's like, "I wonder what I'm going to eat for dinner?"
He should have said “indreddable” at the beginning
This was one of my favorite theater experiences ever. I normally don't care about 3-d, but the way the slo-mo scenes were shot was so beautiful.
It's such a good movie, whether you knew about the Dredd character or not. Easily one of the most underrated of the last decade.
For the crime of delaying media content, you'll given the maximun sentence of...
*One Like*
Now get out of here Tom Cruise
You were great on Mission Impossible but awful on Titanic
I refuse
@@tomcruz8615 I knew you'd say that.
me: *watching a normal Mr Sunday Movies video casually*
thicc thanos: hello
I saw that too
08:27
oh thank god
Thanks Ben and Mitch for doing a bang up good job!
Oh good I’m not crazy
James is legally obligated to mention Sunshine every third video
I used to work at a used media store. And any time someone asked for an action movie suggestion I'd hand them Dredd. No one ever came back displeased!
My favorite part is when Dredd asks, "What's she doing in a uniform?" after being informed Anderson failed the academy. Don't know why but that part really captured the character for me.
I’ve never known it as “Dredd 3D,” but man, Dredd was kickass. Just incredible. I still want a sequel. It’s really nothing like the comic book, but it works.
Every director and studio misses the point of Dredd, and 2000AD's antiauthoritarian, satirical, and anarchist/punk themes in general. I'm fairly sure none of them have even read 2000AD. Dredd is supposed to be a satire of an authoritarian facist douchebag cop. Not a corrupt cop, but one that acts as merciless and inflexible as possible within the constraints of the law. He was not the hero of the stories he was often the villain
@@jayblackstone6454 It's not necessarily missing the point, but more like showing the character in a different light. A different portrayal, James and Maso even mentioned that Dredd in the end, comes off as a fair douchebag, with Anderson and even with the vagabond at the entrance. The director in this movie clearly wasn't going for the outlandishness and cartoony attitude Dredd has in other pieces of media.
@@jayblackstone6454 even with that in mind would it disrespect the comic if they portrayed dredd as he is in the movie for a tv show or sequel movie
@@lenarr9821 Maybe, but the writer and creator of Dredd was with the Writer for this film. They talked about the writing and screening of this movie at a cafe called Peach Trees in England.
even the original creator of the comic series liked karl urban dredd
"This seems early on in [Dredd's] career" - yes, and I also think that speaks to how Dredd is under-dressed and the city hasn't reached it's full Mega-City One "look". That's why two or three sequels, in the same "bottle episode" manner would work so well, because they follow on a year or two later as the crime gets worse, the city gets crazier, and Dredd gets even more ruthless. That would be real character development across 2-3 films, and would be worth the effort.
I love this idea.
With lengthy expositions from insane government criminologists who explain the trend over montages at insane MegaCity One crime conferences.
Well they do have a few graphic novels continuing the Dredd storyline (specifically Karl Urban Dredd, not Judge Dredd)
if there is a sequel they need to bring back the satirical elements of the comic
P.S. Ma-Ma Madrigal = AMAZING character. So glad you have her and Lena Headey's performance a proper shout-out.
Incredible villain, especially for a Villain created separately from the source material.
She totally fits, leaves you wanting more and it adds so much weight to Dredd's World that he doesn't afford himself space to learn more. He knows enough to make the call that he must and the decision is painfully final.
It leaves us understanding "her sentence" but mourning for her at the same time.
Just to add, both Mama and Anderson were GREAT examples of strong women in cinema. Disney should take notes on how to do that.
If you’re trying to subliminally make me attracted to THICC Thanos... Then god damn its working.
Oh thank god I’m not the only one who saw it
I thought I was the only one. WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME MR SUNDAY?
"Drug bust. Perps were uncooperative." In case you're looking for a summary of the movie.
The soundtrack in this was nothing short of incredible
More like...indreddible
The music playing as Ma Ma falls to her death is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve ever heard.
@@eyespy3001 What if I told you it's a slowed-down version of a Justin Bieber song? Not kidding; you can look it up.
@@theschmoo-u6o Whaaaaaa....? I have to check this out
@@theschmoo-u6o Did the research. Apparently it is a wholly original piece of music made by Paul Leonard Morgan that was inspired by the slowed-down Justin Bieber song, U Smile, which is now my new favorite ambient song. Ha! So, thank you for turning me onto that
Gavin Free from the Slo mo guys actually did the slowmotion work on this movie
they reference it
@@tigamaki1345 they didn't. they just kept saying slow-mo so much that the put a clip of Gavin in it. when they talk about the slow motion photography they clearly don't know who filmed it.
This is the only film I've ever seen where 3D was worth it - it just heightened it to a degree where you were immersed, but it didn't draw attention to itself; highly doubt it'll get a re-release in theatres, unless there's a cult screen somewhere, but it does look good on a big screen.
Agreed! That first slo mo shot during the van chase... I was like “ho-lee shit!”
Totally. One of only a tiny handful of films ever made where the 3d enhances the experience. It is simply breathtaking.
It perfectly highlights why 3D largely failed. You would have movies like Avatar that visually was amazing in 3D and it didn't just use 3D as a gimmick but when you watch it in 2D you realise the story lets it down, then you have the various movies like Piranha that treated 3D itself with no respect so used it for cheap 3D gags, then you had the post-conversion cash-ins that weren't shot for 3D so didn't really work. Those 3 types made up 99.9% of 3D movies. Then you have things like Dredd and Life of Pi where they are quality films in their own right that stand up in 2D but which went in intending to shoot in 3D and treat 3D with integrity so it enhances the movie. If we had had more like this and at worst more like Avatar which atleast treated 3D with respect then 3D would have done much better, the problem was most people saw the other types of movies, didn't get blown away by it and then dismissed all 3D movies
I brought a 3D TV because of this Movie, shame it didn't take off!
Most content available is PG family stuff and Pixar Movies.
Another Movie that lifts it by watching it in 3D was 'Thor Ragnarok'
Best line:
“Are we gonna be okay?”
“You’re the psychic”
😂
The slow motion close ups in 3D were groundbreaking. And Dredd never took off his helmet. Following Stallone's abomination, this is a masterpiece.
A rare example of a "perfect" movie. Set itself a limited framework and excelled within it in every conceivable way. Dredd is legitimately an astounding cinematic achievement.
Not even close to perfect. See more films.
@@Clay3613 "wahhhhhhhh! Waaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!" - this guy
@@DavySolaris This guy, can't take differing opinions online.
@@Clay3613 "WAAAAHHHHHHH! WWWWAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!" - this guy
@@DavySolaris He's right, though. If this is perfection to you you might need a lobotomy.
Remember: Karl Urban is still interested in playing Judge Dredd again if the upcoming TV show allows it. Let's make this happen people!
Please!!
Indeed.
Show was canned last year
He was solid in this movie. I love Stallone but Urban is a way better Judge Dredd.
The small story about drugs was good. Everything doesn’t have to be about saving the world or blowing up the Death Star.
There’s a distinct lack of Rob Schneider in this movie
It warms the heart, really.
......not necessarily a bad thing
If Schneider was in it and trying very hard to be taken seriously, they would have had something.
Good
There's also a distinct lack of NEARLY EVERYTHING FROM THE COMICS in this movie but you ain't ready to address any of it.
Lol
Not knowing anything about this channel and seeing "Caravan Of Garbage" of this beloved movie I cam to hate watch people trashing it. Glad I did, you guys were very respectful and pointed out all the good that I loved about this move. Bravo.
rare occasion where almost everyone the cast and director knows how the material should be treated . it cant be understated how important it is that Karl Urban didnt take off his helmet , the impact that has when portraying a protagonist is huge , its such a best of both worlds where the they are kind of an "everyman" while also being eternally mysterious and badass , they become like a stoic symbol which perfect fits characters like dredd . mad respect for them
4:02, Karl Urban did a good job portraying DREDD! And he never takes off his helmet, not once throughout the entire movie.
Not once!
One of my favorite movies. One of the big reasons is for Dredd it's just another day in this horrible universe known as Mega City One.
He's not saving the world. There's not a conspiracy in the Judge's bar the one's under Momma's pay.
Tomorrow he'll be at it again.
Yep I love the feeling of this just being a regular day for Dredd that has just gone awry
I hope The Day The Law Died and Apocalypse War(saving the world, as you'd put it)didn't piss you off lol
Just a drug bust. Perps were uncooperative.
This is the only 3D film I’ve seen in which the effects weren’t a waste of time, or stupidly overly extended. I remember coming out of the cinema thinking ‘that was epic!’.
Best comic book movie adaptation in my opinion. Saw it three times in the cinema, the 3D was excellent and really added to the experience.
I love this movie! To me, the most character defining quote is at the end when Dredd laconically describes the whole event (and movie) as “Drug bust.” Period. That’s it.
"Perps were uncooperative."
Really does nail down how this is his every day.
"Perps were uncooperative"
I think my favorite part is that they have Anderson say she wants leave, and then instead of having her change her mind to set up a sequel at the end they just... have the protagonist leave the story and I respect the hell out of it
Well it's implied Anderson sticks around as at the end Anderson is walking towards the motor pool with her helmet under her arm which she wouldn't have if she quit. That it is in the final scenes that ties everything together
*JUDGE DREDD FOR INJUSTICE 3!*
I didnt realise how much i NEED this
100%
Judge Death for Mortal Kombat 12.
I want him to be in Mortal Kombat so he can be more violent and bloody
OR FOR MK11 for us to see The battle between TWO best cops EVER!!^^
As a fan of the comics I can say with 100% certainty that this was as close to Dredd as anyone is likely to get.
I remember going to the theater to watch this and came out of it feeling like this was one of the best gritty action movies I've ever seen.
“I didn’t see it in the cinema cos I was working as a teacher up north”
Do they not have cinemas “up north” James?
Not where I was
@@mrsundaymovies what? Theres no IMAX in Africa?
Why is up north in quotation marks? Are you implying he wasn't actually North at all?
James was north of the wall
I’m going to assume he meant North Queensland somewhere, where there is really fuck all
This movie is so good that it got me to sit through the entire Judge Dredd from the 90s.
This is ace! Also Dredd didn't do too well at the box office, it did really well on home video (as they use to call it haha). Which is a factor in the continued interest in a sequel!
Blade crawled so that Dredd could walk so that Deadpool could run.
I really love this movie. Dredd has the best sound track and really sells every scene.
I have severe diarrhoea, explosive actually...so I’m watching this from the porcelain throne room and I’m happy.
I saw this in 3D in the cinema and it's one of the few times it really felt like a worthwhile use of the tech. Those SloMo sequences were amazing.
You guys are the best!!
This movie was underrated like hardcore Henry
Rewatched this yesterday and it still holds up. Really good movie and I hope we get more in some form.
Saw this on the big screen. Own it on DVD. Amazing production, this was. Would love to see a follow up, but as a series. Dredd’s world is simply too rich in detail for a single movie to do it justice. Unless, like Dredd 3-D, the story is much smaller in scale. To successfully bring in the Cursed Earth, mutants and/or the Dark Judges would require way more time to build up than than a movie has to offer. An 8-13 episode series, on the other hand, would fit this property like a glove-bumps, wrinkles and all.
“He’s more of a-“
Cop!
“Vibe”
Oh sure Vibe yeah
"Dredd is the exaggeration of the modern day slums of the world" as an argument as why it isn't the Dredd of the comics (the ridiculously complex megacities) is more a point in its favour, as the Original Dredd was written in response to the 80's British government and 80's Britain, so updating the commentary is exactly what a modern Dredd should do, because at its heart it is satire with bullets.
actually it was a satire on american culture
This movie did not deserve to be ignored the way it was. Absolutely tragic.
This movie was incredible to watch on the big screen when it came out, although being younger at the time I didn't know it "flopped". Underrated movie & Actor (at the time obviously) & I wouldn't mind a sequal.
I think the everyday life aspect was one of it's strongest elements. Especially with other comic book adaptations where it's huge stakes, it's batshit crazy for us but Urban really grounds it as a day in the life.
The lighting is really strong in this movie. It's just stunning.
Also, Lena Headey is terrifying in the best way.
I remember having to drive three hours to the closest city just to watch this film. Marketing for this film did not do it justice.
THEY ALMOST MADE A DARK JUDGE STORYLINE UGGGHHH NOOOOO WHEN WILL I GET TO SEE THEM WHEN WILL I SEE MY BOYS ON-SCREEN, JAMES??? WHEN???
They've made quite a few sequel comics including one about Ma-Ma and one about Judge Death
When I saw Richard O’Brien in Dark City, we had our Judge Death.
I love everything about this movie. Except 1 thing: there was no sequel.
"I'm committed to doing...Boys."
-Karl Urban 2020
Yeah. Just leave out actual words said. Makes it way easier to spin. You should do politics.
@@thedarkemissary it’s called a joke. They’re meant to make people laugh.
@@LancasterResponding But your "joke" is built to only work cause you're leaving out words he actually said. It'd be like if I took a 2 hour interview and pulled out 6 words and formed a quote that said, "I like to eat my babies. - Karl Urban"
Or "Joke make people laugh" - Lancaster Responding 2020
My favourite quote from the boys season 2
@@thedarkemissary 😐
Was it worth waiting another week for this?
Yes, it was.
This movie is one of my favorite watches ever. It's just awesome. Both the leads looked AMAZING.
Absolutely on my top movie list and like with every movie on my list 33% of its amazingness is the soundtrack itself.
I was halfway through this review when I was like “I’ve got Netflix and this sounds really good”.
Now I’m back.
Is no one going to talk about the single frame of the One Snap Snack himself at 8:27? Editor must be feeling some type of way..
This video is in-dredd-ible!
It was a good Dreddit
One of the coolest films in the last 10 years . One of my absolute favorites
Dredd was filmed before the Raid, but the Raid came out first due to a lengthy post-process on Dredd.
You really can't go wrong with Karl Urban. Superlative actor, I can't recall ever seeing him in something that I didn't enjoy his performance.
This films a masterpiece, shocking that its not celebrated more. Karl Urbans is brilliant
Mitch's editing in this is absolutely top notch. Shout out Maso the Tradie.
"I AM THE LAW"
This was released in 3D in cinemas and it is one film I would definitely recommend in this format if we ever get them back.
This movie holds up insanely well. The Slow mo shots are a bit much, but other that that it’s a really really good movie. It’s also filled to the brim with tiny easy to miss details and Easter eggs. It’s a gem for all 5 of the comic fans out there.
I watched the original Robocop the other day and thiss version of Dredd felt like the natural followup. Better than I remembered
The original Robocop was written to be a Judge Dredd movie, but was changed when they couldn't get the rights
@@matthewsmith2979 the character itself was inspired *_partly_* by Judge Dredd, but the script itself had nothing to do with Dredd. Either way, they do fall into the same niche, just with different coats of paint
@@mishmashmedley Ed Neumeier wanted to make a Judge Dredd movie but couldn't get the rights. So he wrote Robocop.
@@putridsunrise192 Sorry, but all the Ed Neumeier interviews I've read, he repeatedly says "inspired by" but nowhere does it say it was a Dredd movie, where he was trying to secure rights for Dredd, that got changed into Robocop because he couldn't.
I mean, it's a nice story for Dredd fans, but it's just not true. The truth is that Dredd was merely an inspiration, and a good one at that.
Robocop 2 is the natural follow up to Robocop and it’s excellent. Robocop 3 on the other hand...
The Stallone version was utter crap. I can't imagine why some nuckleheads actually deluded themselves that diva movie was gonna bne allowed a sequel?!
Carl Urban at least didn't remove the helmet. THAT movie deserves not ONE but SEVERAL sequels... Perhaps even a couple of prequels.
This film is a masterpiece of cinema! And a masterpiece of writing.
I saw this in the cinema - and in 3D. It was AMAZING in 3D because it was designed well for it. In particular the slo-mo abilities were amazing.
Not only is Dredd 2012 the best Judge Dredd movie by a gigantic margin, but it's in fact one of my favorite movies. I think it could easily get on my top 50 movies I have ever seen in my life. Maybe even higher.
It's incredibly faithful to the source material, capturing its spirit and its style, and it's a really well made movie, and an extraordinary introductory movie to the Dredd universe. I would have loved to see a sequel made by the same people.
The song references are so on point in this CoG. Sports Team AND Electric Six? What a treat
Loved this version of dredd. A sequel with the Dark Judges would be amazing :)
I have one complaint about this movie: Dredd's motorcycle looks dumb.
Agree. The Stallone one looks better
I have lots of complaints.
The interaction with the homeless guy is what makes this movie.
This was a great portrayal of the comicbook Dredd. Awesome movie.
This is one of the best comic adaptations of all time, and a great movie, it really goes to show that not enough people care about great films...
I've wanted to see a sequel to this for years and in the meantime had numerous mediocre Marvel movies
Great movie Urban played the character very well.
Dredd filmed before The Raid.
People never take production date into account, people would probably call Mafia 1 a GTA clone despite the fact it was in development before GTA2 was out
Both great films. Doesn't matter who was first
Urban is a Dredd fan to start with and fully understood the character of Dredd. I think the great thing is it is just another day in the life of Dredd and Mega City 1 and not another "Save the World" POS movie.
Karl Urban blowing up the way he has, I'd kill for another Dredd movie.
This movie is so underrated...for me is perfect. Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby did amazing job.