From day one he was Dirty Harry in the future
I can't think of a time when he wasn't shooting holes in people
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HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 9:00,
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Well of course he was, he was a hard man with a gun who shot bad people
But they didn't smear the screen with blood and have giblets flying thru the air, the point of reading it wasn't for the gore wank and macho chest thumping, it was for the story, cool shit and pleasing boy hood morals, the good guy always won and all that.
This looks like its going to be half the story and twice the gore, nice and easy money off the 300 style crowd, I wonder if they'll throw in some confusingly homo erotic chest out male bonding scenes too, they all seem to have them?
'I feel the need, the need for speed!' ;)
Ah fuckit I'll most likely still watch it, might still enoy it, beyond all the 3D slo mo testosterone flying about there might still be some humour and depth to it...
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..wil, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 9:19,
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Like most SF
the star is the universe, not the characters. Dredd is not interesting in himself, but we got to see glimpses of the Mega-City and snippets of its history etc. That was the real hook I think.
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Good point, in himself he really wasn't that interesting, the world he policed and all the mad shit within it was he real hook,
Seeing it that way explains why it must be fucking hard to bring it to the big screen as in the orginal strip he really isn't the main focus of most of the stories, all the robots, flying cars, belly wheels, Boing and block wars were.
He was almost a robot.
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..wil, Fri 13 Jul 2012, 9:35,
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