Why dredd 3d failed

Stallone may as well have been reprising his role as Jack Spartan from Demolition Man, his only achievement was demonstrating he understood Judge Dredd about as well as Axl Rose takes criticism. So back to Dredd 3D. If only my women went down so easily. But why is this bad for all of us?

For cinema? By any measure, it's a commercial wreck. Had the film been slated by the critics or hated by the fans, this might not matter. Lousy films tank all the time, and rightly so.

But here is a movie deemed not only worthy of merit - it also offered something a little different within its own genre trappings. When I saw Dredd 3D on that opening weekend, I left the cinema feeling I'd seen something pretty remarkable. I decided before I'd even got home that I needed to see it again. Even before the terrible box office results were calculated, though, I'd had my own concerns.

Why was there only a dozen people in the same screening, or even less the next time I went back? But then why was Dredd so horribly received in theaters? Yes, there were likely some who might embrace a hard retelling of the original comic on which the first film was loosely based, but this is a very, very small amount of people relative to those who had seen the first movie.

Any reboot or remake these days is met with intense skepticism, and this was released around the time of Total Recall and it was easy to lump them together. How many remakes have actually been good? The percentages are pretty low, and so it stands to reason that Dredd would follow the trend.

But it had a lot to do with the rest of these issues as well. When has a movie ever looked cool when 3D was a main selling point? At least not to me. Furthermore, this is at the tail end of the 3D-influsion trend. Sure, movies are still marketed and released in 3D, but not nearly as much as they were a few years ago, when 3D was a selling point in every new blockbuster.

Do you remember the Dredd trailer? Me neither, and that means it did a poor job of making an impact when the film itself was one of the most badass action flicks of the year. The cuts are terrible and the music is atrocious, both of which any good trailer needs to succeed.

Hell, if I knew anything about video editing, I bet I could do it myself and make one twice as cool. But I hope everyone involved can take pride knowing they made a great movie that many did appreciate when they finally ended up seeing it. Reboot overdosing mixed with a completely unknown cast, gimmicky sounding 3D and a piss poor marketing campaign sunk the ship before it even left the harbor.

I think I'm a part of the first generation of journalists to skip print media entirely, and I've learned a lot these last few years at Forbes. True Grit is the only remake I appreciated, but a lot of time passed between those two movies.

Remaking movies from the nineties seems premature. The world they brought to life was so rad. I think it was the way it was marketed as 3D!!!!!!!! The first one was so terrible, why think this one would be any better? Who the fuck is Judge Dredd?

It is a low-circulated comic character no one knows or cares about except geeks on the web. It looks dumb, the plot is dumb. I also enjoyed that most sequences containing the pop out 3D were also in slow motion another thing I normally hate in movies so that I had time to take in and enjoy all of the 3D pop-outs.

As for the slow-mo just being filler, the director of the movie even said himself that it was a plot element. When ever someone inhaled the slow-mo drug, the colors became more sharp and vivid, and even the plainest things looked beautiful.

The director said that the reason the citizens of Mega City One use Slow-Mo was so that they could find pleasure and enjoyment even in the ugly city by allowing them to take it in slower.

And as for the violence not adding to the plot of the movie; once again, the violence follows the original comic book more accurately And its a modern day action movie, what do you expect. I will agree that the character of Ma-Ma was not characterized enough. By the end of the movie, I did not feel a hate toward her that I would normally feel for a comic book villain. Although it does make sense why she appears inexperienced throughout the movie, she is only a retired prostitute after all.

This review did much too harsh of a job in my opinion. It is worth your 10 bucks to go see. The reviewer doesnt get the character at, judging how he keeps comparing it to the stallone version. The 95 film was a mess thst tried to turn dredd into a likable guy. Dredd was a crap movie. As for the fans, Urban may have been passable as Dredd and the uniform was wonderfully adapted but this movie is no way encapsulated Mega city one, with all the possible wackiness and over the top futuristic stuff.

Horrible review, I wonder if the author was watching the same movie as myself? Dred 3D is arguably the best action flick of thus far, and the 3D scenes especially in the parts where slow mo was used were the best, it actually made you feel at times as if you were doing the drug.

Wow, David. I think your review of this awesome film would have been much better than this uninformed reviewers article. The fact that they got that right vs we need to see the protagonist face is awesome. Not like in the Stallone movie which was helmet optional. I also agree that the slo-mo effect was just right. I say it added to the pa ing and atmosphere of the film. Please post a copy of your reply here on rotten tomatoes. Wow, a fan of the universally panned car crash, that says it all.