I also agree I watched this movie quite a few times at home, as a kid on VHS dubbed in Italian, now that was awesome the voice actors really added to the movie, so I'm not sure why it flopped. Maybe I may also need to rewatch the original English version, perhaps I'd see the flaws?
It's not his worst. It's a really good adaptation of the comic source material. The only flaw I had with it was him taking the helmet off. But the craziness and sarcastic nature of Mega City One and it's characters came through. I love Dredd as well because it introduced Judge Anderson and was a really great action film on a small scale. I think both movies did Dredd as a character well, moving from an emotionless law man to one that has some leeway in how he dispenses justice by the end, or at least is able to bend a little.
This movie is honestly a guilty pleasure of mine I love this movie . I just love watching bad movies from time to time and this is for sure one of them 😂
I'll always remember what my Dad said to me walking out of the cinema. At the time there was a lot of controversy that Stallone was not tall enough to play the part. My Dad said: 'I guess that's how you make him look taller. Stick him next to an even shorter guy (Schneider) for the whole of the movie.'
I heard that This movie had a lot of production issues, like Stallone refusing to wear the iconic helmet throughout the film as DREDD not once took off his helmet in the comics. Also he had a falling out with the director, Danny Cannon. Thankfully, we have the DREDD 2012 reboot
I like them both. I'm not sure how Dredd could have kept the helmet on with the way the script was written, but I miss the outlandishness of Mega City One in Dredd.
I loved this movie personally. Yeah it doesn’t display the comics well and dredd 2012 is much better but it’s still a dope 90s action movie. Kinda like a demolition man lite
@@evil_duck6405 You bet. A few people were imitating Stallone saying that afterward and it was hilarious. BTW, Diane Lane was quite beautiful back then.
i understand the comic book fans complaint of Dredd barely wearing the iconic helmet. now i don't know how true it is but, I understood it was because the studio said: "we're not paying that much money to put Stallone in this movie only to never see his face." thus the reason. supposedly. it may not have been Sly's narcissism.
I'm a massive Judge Dredd comics fan, and I can tell you that in the comics Dredd's face has never been shown to readers, except after he was horribly scarred and made inhuman looking, after falling in an acid river in the Tale of The Dead Man story that ran in 2000AD in the run up to the Necropolis epic story. In the early days of 2000AD there was a suggestion that there was some form of horrible deformation from a couple of villains who saw his face in an early story. This was never given any form of explanation in later days, and largely seems to have been forgotten. In any other story where Dredd lost his helmet there was either a contrivance to cover his face or only his mouth was shown and the rest of the face kept off panel. There was also an episode where Judge Dredd was taking a bath as some ner-do-wells were breaking into his apartment in Rowdy Yates block that also followed this trope. As for the film, While not a massive fan, I've mellowed to it over time, and will occasionally rewatch it, but Dredd with Karl Urban was a lot closer to the source material.
I prefer the 2012 reboot of the movie Dredd with Karl Urban. Urban kept the helmet on and played the character closer to the comic book representation. 🙂
If Joe Pesci played the role of the comic relief maybe it wouldn't be so lame this movie is very underrated it has amazing production design & effects it's like a 90s Blade Runner The practical effect of the ABC android is just spectacular and terrifying Stallone wasn't a bad casting he was actually the perfect actor for Dredd at the time the issue that fans have with the helmet is stupid nobody would've remembered that he played the role if he wore it in the whole movie like Urban I like the villains too Armand Assante has the time of his life playing that over the top anti-Dredd Rico Jurgen Pronchow is always reliable and great as a villain THE SCORE BY ALAN SILVESTRI IS PURE EPICNESS AND PURE TESTOSTERONE I LOVE IT Judge Dredd aged very well it's a cult classic of Stallone's Filmography
I enjoyed Arnie movies more growing up, but as I got older I started to enjoy Sly just as much, even the bad ones. Demolition Man, Oscar Tango, and Cash are still my favorites apart from Rocky and Rambo.
Stallone had 4 films about being wrongfully imprisoned in the 90s. Lockup, Judge Dread, Tango and Cash as well as Demolition man. Maybe he feels guilt about something and subconsciously is making up for it by sending his innocent characters to jail.
Had the director and writer had their way, the movie might have turned out better since there’s stories of Stallone requesting rewrites during production
Not having seen the video yet, having read the comics and having seen the far superior Dredd, I can safely say. Yes! This movie was a massive disappointment and was ruined by ego.
I kinda always felt like this one was Team Stallone wanting to try another futuristic action film, then being like "What can we use to sell it, though?"
If I'm not mistaken, the original concept for Robocop was so much like Judge Dredd that they had to scale back and alter the costume almost entirely, cuz it looked too much like Dredd. Also, as a kid I thought Dredd and Demoliton Man were the same movie. I'd see bits and pieces of both on tv and never knew what I was watching (tvs didn't have guides back then) lol. Even both endings look like the same set, and set-up.
As a Brit and a Judge Dredd fan all my life this movie is a guilty pleasure for me. It got half the character right and half wrong. It got the Mega City exactly right, it got the Judge uniforms right, it got a lot of the Dredd canon right. What it got wrong was Dredd himself. Now Karl Urbans movie is much better but it too got it 50/50 but in his case they got the character exactly right but they got the Mega City totally wrong. Mix up what both movies got right and you would have the perfect Judge Dredd film.
I enjoyed the movie when it came out but I thought the story they used should have been saved for like the third installment. Because the comic is big in the UK and Stallone is big in the USA I would have had the first movie introduce viewers to the world, explain some of the back story and then go around with Judge Dredd as he does some policing to play up the humor and campiness... then introduce a moderate sized baddie that Dredd ends up arresting in the end. Then for a second movie go with a bigger story that introduces a major crime lord and does a little foreshadowing to what will come in the third movie and have the movie culminate where Dredd takes down much of the bad guy's empire but not the boss himself. For the third movie they could pretty much keep the script they used for the original Judge Dredd movie except the intro stuff and initial policing Dredd does replace that with him going after and arresting the big boss from the second movie and then after that moving in to the whole Rico storyline. And I'm not saying the whole reason the movie flopped was because North American audiences didn't know who Judge Dredd was, but I do think that was a part of it and that just put all the camp and over the top aspects of the movie/characters out of touch with the mainstream audiences.
Wasn't it one of your other JoBlo productions that explained that it was always intended to be PG-13, with the scriptwriter doing everything to write scenes that worked that way, but the director shot everything as if it was 18 rated?
Stallone taking off his helmet and the antics of Rob Schneider killed it for me. I will say the costumes were closer to the comic than 2012's Dredd. Dredd's only issue was him passing the trainee at the end.
Maybe it's cuz i was 9 when it first hit though i was already a major comic fan i hadnt started reading Dredd yet...i just thought it was some weird ass looking movie with one of my favorite actors but i loved Stallone so much(and i still do though Arnold I've always loved more) that i just wanted to see it cuz he was in it not to mention he had just been in 2 movies i absolutely loved(and of course i still do love em) in Cliffhanger and Demolition Man...i didn't know it was based on a comic til after i saw it which I'm sure helped me like the movie more but while it's far from perfect i still close to love it and though the 2012 movie edges it out(mainly cuz Karl Urban can do no wrong in my book) theres still several things it does better but it really needed to be at least 15 min longer..it needed to be more grim and incorporate more of the comics but I'll say lastly that it still to this day doesn't really bother me that he takes the helmet off..what irks me a little is how long it's off not that he took it off to begin with
I don't care what anyone says, I love this movie and think it's actually a really good movie. If you changed the name of the movie I guarantee people would open up more to it. I give it 9 put of 10 Stallones.
Gonna have to disagree with you when it comes to the score. I think it's pretty dope. The main theme has a march-like satirical tone that makes fun of the extremist militaristic nature of the character while still being badass. That being said, I would also love to hear a Goldsmith score.
I remember seeing a trailer of this film before Crimson Tide that summer and I thought it's going to be a big hit. Disney hyped it up quite a bit too with their endless promotions for the film. Even though it flopped, I still enjoyed seeing it on opening weekend of that summer.
Dredd was only a flop in usa to my understanding. So doubt its the character thats the issue more likely american viewers dont get the brittish anti hero
Caninal scene was the best scene and only scene i really liked. I also liked the billain but was a little too over the top in certain segments. Stallone felt like he was acting in a different movie. I love dread movie in the 2000's
As a UK reader of 2000AD from the very first issue (that ages me lol) the mere thought of Dredd ever removing his helmet was blasphemy to me and I passed on this one big time. Loved the 2012 Dredd.
I loved this movie as a kid and still have a lot of time for it. On reflection, it’s a shame it was turned into a ‘buddy movie’ at all - they could definitely have done something more creative with it. Also, I think the soundtrack is fantastic and much underrated.
I wouldn't have known this movie was bad if you didn't just tell me. haha On a serious note I didn't know it flopped. I can see all the reasons why people would dislike it...but I really enjoy it. P.S New sub. I like the videos when you just talk in a normal tone. Great insight.
It is that bad that it's good. Stalone's Dredd is shit compared to Urban's. It's an OK Guilty pleasure because of Armand Assante's role. PS. I didn't know about the helmet thing until I watched Dredd 2012. Now I consider Judge Dredd 1995 an even more shitty film.
