Dredd
 

As a Judge Dredd fan since I was about 7, I'm looking forward to this film more than any film scheduled for the next couple of years. Karl Urban is an interesting choice to play a young Joe Dredd. It will hopefully be a more faithful adaptation than Stallone's over the top ( and slightly camp) version. Don't get me wrong, I can watch and even guiltily enjoy that version- but it's not my Judge Dredd, it's a sub standard Stallone action film. I've got my fingers crossed for the new one though.
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Karl Urban as JD.

I remember buying the first ever 2000AD comic book, showing my age now.

My mate has just done few covers for 2000ad. :-)

I was a few years too young to read the first 2000ad but the first one I read was a revelation. The only comic character who comes close to Judge Dredd is Batman and he's got family issues to affect his crimefighting. Judge Dredd is an unstoppable badass. No morality, no compassion, no humanity, no other comic ever came close. Dredd is the first film I've really wanted to see for years. It's a darkhorse but I bet my shoes it's better than Dark Knight Rises or The Avengers.

I used to love a lot of 2000AD's output when I was a youth and the annuals were a regular staple on my Christmas list, fantastic Dredd stories in the Cursed Earth and the wacky Caligula story were great. Such a wealth of creativity, Strontium Dog, Rogue Trooper, Bad Kompany, Zenith, Nemesis and ABC Warriors.

But I had high hopes for this Dredd film, now I've only seen a few promotional stills, but a certain film magazine has old Joe on the front cover and I pray to God Urban doesn't pull that stupid face all the way through the film.

Talk about an upside down smile? You can take things too far, why pull that silly grimace? I know that's Dredd's stock expression, but in reality It looks ridiculous.

Judge Caligula was an inspired storyline that could only work in a series like Judge Dredd. City of the Damned, The Judge Child Block Mania, Necropolis and anything with Chopper or Judge Death are brilliant Judge Dredd stories. Dead Man was brilliant too but that wasn't a proper Dredd tale, it was BBQ Clint Eastwood Dredd with witches.Look closer at the new pictures. They look like Joe's meant to look. Judge Dredd looks like a constipated Karl Urban:rolleyes:

That Empire cover is hysterical; thankfully, in the stills from the actual film, Urban doesn't appear to be gurning. The uniform still looks a bit shit though. I know it would have been difficult to reproduce the proportions of the comic uniform in real life, but the addition of a bulky kevlar vest and the much reduced dimensions of the body armour change the silhouette of the character so much he now looks like Boba Fett wearing an anorak.

I wouldn't have thought it was too tall an order to upholster Dredd with proper leathers either; how sweaty must Karl's crotch be, that he must be outfitted with a gusset of breathable lycra? Some film crews endure Jake Gyllenhal for months at a time- is it too much to ask that Dredd's makers should suffer the reek from Scotty's balls?

Surely this is the best thing that anyone has ever said in all time ever. Gussets of breathable lycra should be standard issue to everyone. I demand my breathable gusset. So, which kind of lycra gusset would you prefer, sir. A breathable one please, madam, make it snappy. And relax. Ptoing!

A breathable gusset of lycra if even invented for public clothing would go with my all time top inventions of WD40 and baby wipes.

I Am The Lube!
 

Non-brand generic lubricant and babywipes are exactly what 'Keith' Urban carries in that utility belt he's got wrapped round his gut. Stallone had Grecian 2000 and human growth hormone supplements in his.

I love all the Dredd epics namechecked above; it's a shame Alex Garland didn't adapt one of them instead of inventing his own, kind of limited sounding story. I would have thought The Graveyard Shift provided the perfect vehicle to showcase the hilarity and brutality of Megacity One. Its Moebius-loop structure reflects the endless grind of the sleep-machine-assisted street judge and the correlation between the endlessly inventive, self-destructive idiocy of the citizenry and the brutal oppression of the judiciary.