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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
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Long story short, Dredd was OK but not something I could recommend to anyone who wasn't already a fan of the comic. They hit a lot of the right notes for those of us who know the characters (Anderson, etc.) but the film itself was pretty bog-standard SF action flick.
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@Gary: I think that I wanted more reasons that it was an SF film and not just Die Hard to the MAX. If all we wanted was fancy guns, it could be a more hardcore James Bond film. I tend to like my SF asking questions and the comic DOES ask questions and this film just didn't leave me considering any of the elements of its plot or anything it was trying to say.
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To the points above I’ve never felt that Dredd was SciFi beyond the futuristic setting, it meant more to me growing up as dark satire, anti-establishment attitudes, political and societal statements. As much as I enjoy the 2012 film it’s more akin to the modern rather than the classic comic in that Dredd is portrayed as a psychopathic superhero, casually murdering scores of bad guys for a ‘justified cause’ no matter how much of a beating he takes or how many times he is shot or wounded. What made it so great at the height of Wagner’s pomp was that Dredd was the deus ex machina that capped off stories about the far more interesting backdrop of the crazy future world that was a hall-of-mirrors distortion of our own times. What Mills started and Wagner polished was later reinterpreted superficially, lauding rather than mocking Dredd as a fascist bully, and that’s kind of the tone that Garland also went for. Great movie for sure but it’s still not quite the Dredd I prefer come to life from the page.
I remember talking about the state of the franchise here a few months back but I’ll mention again that according to statements from Rebellion the TV show is scripted replete with concept art and sizzle reel but they have struggled to get any producers to bite. Meanwhile the film rights have reverted back to them so they are fishing for a sequel with Garland and Urban on board but again funding is a tough ask for a movie that only made money on DVD sales. Anyone have eighty million bucks going spare?
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But then again, Dredd is toxic masculinity personified so in an ACAB 4 quadrant world I can understand the trepidation.
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Anyway. RAN is on Amazon Prime too. King Lear through Kurosawa. It's pretty fucking good.
Also, you can do a back-to-back Werner Herzog in the jungle night with FITZCARRALDO and AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD which are each amazing in their own ways.
I'm going to dump Prime soon and hop over to Criterion Channel, so get these while the getting is good.
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I should watch some of Kurosawa's non-Samurai movies. Any recommendations?
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jeb wrote: What's the reaction you want from this? It's just shit-stirring. .
I'm serious. Give me an elevator pitch for a Dredd project that ANY exec will greenlight while the Chauvin trial is happening.
"Yeah so he is a super cop that takes the law into his own......err he's judge, jury, and exec.....err he's part of an elite team that keeps all the poor masses in line....error you know I have some really nice pilots for shows by best selling YA authors instead."
I dont agree with it,, but i'm just saying it doesn't surprise me that no one is buying.
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Erik Twice wrote: I didn't like Ran. It felt the excesses of previous films were all much stronger in it, like Mifune's overacting.
I should watch some of Kurosawa's non-Samurai movies. Any recommendations?
My favorite will probably always be Rashomon, but The Bad Sleep Well is also quite good and Ikiru may be his best "modern period" film.
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