Saturday, September 22, 2012

I'm Back! Dredd movie review!

i've been wanting to write on this for a while but always thought about writing at inopportune times.

i've also wanting to have a 'format' - something that will get me to write more - instead of writing whatever i think of when i have time, i want to write on a specific topic.  i'm thinking my format theme will be over all 'entertainment' but probably more about theater - i LOVE theater - all kinds - whether it is movies, plays, musicals, etc - it doesn't matter, i enjoy it!

to start off - the hubs and i were talking about what we wanted to do for 'date' night - every saturday is usually date night where we try to do something special and spend time together.  we were talking that we hadn't gone to a movie in a while and thought that sounded fun.  however, when we looked through the list of movies out - they were all crap!  i was thinking i the timothy green and curve movies looked decent and he mentioned resident evil or dredd.  since we were super excited about either, we decided we would just go out to eat and possibly rent a movie or something...  then our friend eric texted...

he asked if we wanted to go to dinner or a movie - we decided to go to jazz (we had a groupon from my brother and sister in law - thanks brent and tamika!).  while there, i'm not sure how, but we settled on going to dredd, not only dredd, but dredd in 3D!  so i am now going to pay extra to see a movie i was pretty sure i wouldn't like.  however, i was enjoying hanging out with the guys, so i was willing to go...

(btw... i love jazz - i think it's super good - but the boys were not as big of fans as i am...)

so we head to aksarben cinema (my favorite movie theatre!).  as we ordered our tickets, the lady who sells us the tickets tells us that she heard it was great!  but she looks like she is 50 and i didn't really think it was her type of movie and somewhat called her out on that.  she admitted she would never go see it...  fabulous.

the movie was about a worn down america in the future.  there are so many people that they build towns (blocks) up instead of out.  there is much crime and those who enforce the law are called 'judges' - where they are the judge, jury, and executioners.  judge dredd is assigned to work with a new rookie recruit who did not do well on her tests to become a judge but she is an amazing psychic, so they give her a chance.  they go to answer a call to investigate three killings where the victims where on a new drug called 'slo mo', were skinned, and fell 100+ stories in the 'block' peach tree.  they learn that instead of having rival gangs, one gang has taken over the entire block - led by a crazy lady named 'mama'.  the judges capture one of the guys who skinned and killed the guys.  because they captured the guy and were going to take him in for questioning, mama has the block on lock down - no one can get in or out.  she also orders everyone to kill the judges.  the rest of the movie is about them trying to stay alive and learn how mama became so powerful.

things i liked about the movie:

  • it didn't drag on - too much.  it seems like a lot of newer movies seem like they are going to end and then keep going.  this one didn't.  it ended when it should have.
  • i didn't know any of the actors so it introduced me to some new folks
  • i loved hanging out with joe and eric :-)
  • the 3D effects were really good!
things i didn't like:
  • the rookie was supposed to be a powerful psychic - she used this to her advantage some times and at others i was questioning how she didn't know what was going to happen or who some of the people were
  • i never saw judge dredd's face - he always wore a helmet
  • i never learned exactly why/how mama because so powerful and crazy.  
  • almost the whole movie was filmed in 'the block'.  i got bored with the scenery.
  • it was too violent and depressing for me
  • there was no love story (sorry, that might be a spoiler)
alright, gonna try to write more - maybe i will live blog about the emmys tomorrow...






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