I just saw the movie, Twelve Years a Slave ....

[Uncle Sparky]

I saw The LEGO Movie... I think it fell apart early on, but they got it back together.

[MikeH]

Dredd was much better than the crappy Stallone one.

[Guynemer]

Probably because they just straight ripped off The Raid: Redemption.

[MikeH]

Ah. Never seen that.

[Sava]

The new Dredd had no personality... no humor. It took itself way too seriously.

If I'm going to watch a bad, over the top action movie... I want it to know that it is stupid.

[Guynemer]

Ah. Never seen that.

Best martial arts movie I've seen in... ever? I'll go with ever.

[Sava]

high praise

[ColdWizard]

Probably because they just straight ripped off The Raid: Redemption.

It is such a great siege premise, were you pissed when people started to compare it to The Raid?

Oh, I don't know. I remember back in the ‘80s there was a whole flood of Vietnam movies, Hamburger Hill, Platoon and Full Metal Jacket. They all seem to come quite fast on each other. To be honest, I wasn’t annoyed about that but I was annoyed about something, which is that a lot of press, including film journalists who you’d think would be able to do some very basic math and figure out that it’s literally impossible for us to have plagiarized their film, because people basically accused us of stealing their stuff. That’s what happened. I had no problem with the whole thing of The Raid because yeah, there’s a similarity in setup but their execution is so wildly different. It’s like as it were two different Vietnam movies. There’s a connection but there’s a massive difference. What I couldn’t f***ing understand is how people whose job it is to work on, interpret and criticize and analyze film production can’t figure out that we would’ve needed a time machine to be able to rip off this movie. We would have had to close down production, ditch everything we’d shot, reshoot a whole new film. I just find that f***ing mystifying.

Link.

[regexcellent]

Where's BlackCat? Isn't the Lego Movie pretty much the national epic of Denmark or something?

[MikeH]

The new Dredd had no personality... no humor. It took itself way too seriously..

It was proper Dredd.

There was totally humour in that movie, but it's situational and satirical. He's not a wisecracking hero and shouldn't be.

[DinoDoc]

It was proper Dredd.

There was totally humor in that movie, but it's situational and satirical. He's not a wisecracking hero and shouldn't be.

I was glad that he didn't take off his helmet.

[MikeH]

Stallone's Dredd was just a generic hollywood hero, only relation to the Dredd character was a similar uniform.

[MikeH]

I was glad that he didn't take off his helmet.

Exactly.

[self biased]

It was proper Dredd.

There was totally humour in that movie, but it's situational and satirical. He's not a wisecracking hero and shouldn't be.

a lot of the humor is in the whole grimdark feel to the movie.

[DinoDoc]

a lot of the humor is in the whole grimdark feel to the movie.

Perhaps Sava wanted a movie based on the 1st Robot War featuring Walter the Wobot as a sidekick.