Judge Dredd

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember Judge Dread?
0:06.4	Hello and welcome, Hey, do you show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up.
0:32.0	I'm Chris.
0:32.7	I'm Donna.
0:33.3	And I'm Carlos.
0:34.3	And today we're revisiting Judge Dred.
0:52.9	Thank you. I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Judge Dred. The character of Judge Dredd made his first appearance in the second issue of 2000 AD, an anthology comic book series launched in 1977.
1:01.9	It's still going strong, and although it's featured a memorable catalog of recurring characters over the years,
1:07.5	Dread is far and away the publication's longest running and best known.
1:11.8	So it should come as no surprise that plans to turn this into a live-action feature film
1:15.9	materialized fairly quickly. Why then did it take the better part of two decades to get this
1:21.5	to the big screen? Well, it was in no small part due to the fact that a pitch-perfect Judge Dread
1:26.5	movie already existed.
1:28.3	It came out in 1987, and it was called Robocop.
1:32.3	I don't know if that's overstating it, but for years, there were rumors that the initial
1:36.5	draft of Robocop was a reworked version of an old Judge Dread script, and one of Robocop's
1:42.0	writers, Ed Neumeyer, did try to secure the rights to Judge Dread
1:45.7	before his Robocop's spec script hit the market. And if you look at Rob Boutin's first pass at
1:51.2	Robocop's design, it's just Judge Dread. Seriously, Google image search it. So there's no question
1:58.1	that those comics were a substantial influence on Robocop's hyperviolence and subversive humor.
2:04.2	And that complicated plans for Dred's own film adaptation for years.
2:08.6	But by the early 90s, the Robocop franchise had run out of steam,
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