Dredd, the new remake starring Karl Urban. It's low budget, and thus, depicts a lower tech world than the comics. But, I'll be danged if the director and his crew didn't nail the character and atmosphere right on its head. This thing's got some atmosphere!
It feels like what I and my buddies would call a "good scheeet flick". "Scheeet" is the brown stuff that dogs drop in lawns. Not a great, fantastic movie, but a low budget film done well.
John Carpenter's films were the original sheeet flicks, in the 80's, to me and my friends. Escape From New York. They Live. Starman. Those are the ones I remember. Low budget films that, for whatever reason, I really enjoyed. Later came other films, like Enemy Mine and Imposter.
And now, Dredd takes its place among those other well done low budget films.
I think that it would translate extremely well to a cable TV series.
If you take it for what it is, you'll probably enjoy it.
Thumbs up. I liked it.
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It feels like what I and my buddies would call a "good scheeet flick". "Scheeet" is the brown stuff that dogs drop in lawns. Not a great, fantastic movie, but a low budget film done well.
John Carpenter's films were the original sheeet flicks, in the 80's, to me and my friends. Escape From New York. They Live. Starman. Those are the ones I remember. Low budget films that, for whatever reason, I really enjoyed. Later came other films, like Enemy Mine and Imposter.
And now, Dredd takes its place among those other well done low budget films.
I think that it would translate extremely well to a cable TV series.
If you take it for what it is, you'll probably enjoy it.
Thumbs up. I liked it.
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