Dredd (2012) was a techically proficient, but ultimately mediocre piece of uncritical copraganda action schlock, and a vastly inferior film to Judge Dredd (1995). i will die on this hill.
I don’t remember watching either of these two movies so I have no skin in the game, but I love it when someone is this passionate about a controversial opinion like this.
I just watched Dredd the other day again and while I had an excellent time with the action, I had indeed forgotten how ultimately uncritical of police it is, apart from hints at some bad apples. We should all be so lucky to be protected and where necessary judged by these fine and for the most part incorruptible women and men.
(I don’t know if I’d call the old one superior though)
Eh, it wasn’t super critical of the police in context of the distopian society, but the society as a whole was obviously horrific, so I don’t think it needed to be. If you ignore the opening chase and the very end, about half the police shown were corrupt. Anderson was a judge, but she was explicitly trying to do good in the world. She was constantly going against the rigid rules of being a judge and ignoring what she “should” have done as a judge. This was presented as a good thing. The movie ends with her giving up her badge (or at least attempting to). I don’t see the movie as pro police.
I don’t know if I’d go as far as to call it copaganda, but it’s definitely true that it downplayed the anti-fascist satire of the original source material
Dredd (2012) was a techically proficient, but ultimately mediocre piece of uncritical copraganda action schlock, and a vastly inferior film to Judge Dredd (1995). i will die on this hill.
Now that is a SPICY take, and I applaud your bravery.
I don’t remember watching either of these two movies so I have no skin in the game, but I love it when someone is this passionate about a controversial opinion like this.
I mean the nostalgia runs deep for the 1995 one cause I was a child, but I highly recommend posting this on unpopular opinion.
I’ll give you this, the old one felt more comic bookish. But if they do go back to the campy, please give me some dark judges!
I just watched Dredd the other day again and while I had an excellent time with the action, I had indeed forgotten how ultimately uncritical of police it is, apart from hints at some bad apples. We should all be so lucky to be protected and where necessary judged by these fine and for the most part incorruptible women and men.
(I don’t know if I’d call the old one superior though)
Eh, it wasn’t super critical of the police in context of the distopian society, but the society as a whole was obviously horrific, so I don’t think it needed to be. If you ignore the opening chase and the very end, about half the police shown were corrupt. Anderson was a judge, but she was explicitly trying to do good in the world. She was constantly going against the rigid rules of being a judge and ignoring what she “should” have done as a judge. This was presented as a good thing. The movie ends with her giving up her badge (or at least attempting to). I don’t see the movie as pro police.
I don’t know if I’d go as far as to call it copaganda, but it’s definitely true that it downplayed the anti-fascist satire of the original source material