It's Thanksgiving here in the states and that means it's time
for this year's cinematic turkey. And you'd be hard-pressed to find
a film that's as overstuffed as 1995's Judge Dredd.
If you were a fan of the character from his appearances in the
comic book 2000 A.D., this was a pretty big betrayal of
that source material. If you had no familiarity with it whatsoever,
this was just an incoherent version of much better action/sci-fi
movies. As a result, it was a critical and commercial
disappointment.
It's since transformed into a cult film and this entire run of
bizarre 90s adaptations has almost become its own sub-genre. So
what's the verdict on Judge Dredd all these years
later?
Topics include: how RoboCop derailed plans for this
movie for many years, the big differences between the film and the
comic, how so much more is being taken from those pages than you
might realize, why some of the alterations probably felt like the
right all at that time, whether or not the Karl Urban
Dredd movie is ultimately any more faithful than this one,
the other Stallone movie from this era that has more in common with
2000 A.D., and so much more!
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