Such a great movie that should’ve launched at least a trilogy, it was so much better than the Stalone movie, it kept the stakes relatively low, just a day-in-the-life sort of story, but did some great world-building. No “end of the world” stakes or anything silly, just some Judges trying to clear out a building, one apartment building in a mega-city.
Just an apropos of that, I’m at dinner with friends and one of them says that I had bad tastes in movies. His example of that was that I liked Dredd. I think the entire table turned on him at that point. I think that he said that The Raid did it better. I was like … they’re just different movies to me … I LOVE The Raid. That being said, I really enjoyed Dredd. It’s a damned tragedy Karl Urban didn’t get to reprise the role.
I’m late to the party here, but since I didn’t see it mention elsewhere, I’ll throw up unbreakable with Bruce Willis. given his health conditions, it won’t happen with him but it might be able to happen with somebody else in his place.
I feel like that movie established some solid characters and a somewhat unique case of the every man turned superhero. The whole idea of him just being able to touch someone and then get a glimpse into their hidden life was really cool. Plus there was the relationship with his son, bad guy suffering from that brittle bone disease to contrast with Bruce Willis’s character being, well, unbreakable. it was a good setup I thought for a whole series of films.
Kung Fury has a sequel and it’s been finished for several years, I’m just suprised the damn movie hasn’t released yet. They were suing some company because they were owed money by them but that’s settled now and we have no word as to why it’s not out yet.
I completely agree, and was trying to find a way to say “Star Wars Force-centric hero worship” without getting in the weeds. Rogue One was similarly fantastic (though, arguably can’t compare to Andor), and The Mandalorian is easily the best western nod to Lone Wolf & Cub there ever was — with core tenets intact and meta for days.
This thread needs more explanations than just straight responses.
Anyways, I will say that the most surprising to me was Dredd. I mean, I shouldn’t really be surprised because it didn’t do well in the Box Office, but it was just so awesome. Was such a great movie all around and I really wanted to learn more about that world.
Ah, but Urban did get a chance to reprise that character, IMHO: Chronicles of Riddick. In my head canon, his Dredd was the younger version of his Necromonger in CoR. 🤌🏼 (In much the same way that Ras Al’ghul’s origin story was the flick The Grey.)
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