A couple of action movies

[BossTamsin (imported)]

I've watched the Resident Evil movies, several times. What do you mean there's violence and gore and zombies in them? Never noticed anything like that. Then again, maybe I just haven't been focusing on the right things.

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

I've watched the Resident Evil movies, several times. What do you mean there's violence and gore and zombies in them? Never noticed anything like that. Then again, maybe I just haven't been focusing on the right things.

Watching Mila Jojovich are we? --FLO--

[Cainanite (imported)]

I'm an asexual, and even I have a crush on Mila Jojovich.

She's the only real female action star out there. Other female actors may occasionally take on the role of an action lead, but they are not action stars on the level of Stallone, Schwarzenegger, VanDamm, or any of the rest of the people in the Expendables movies. Mila Jojovich has made her entire career kicking ass and taking names. You have to respect that, even if she can barely act her way out of a paper bag.

[BossTamsin (imported)]

I did get the impression that the judges are, at the best, keeping a lid on things or putting out fires. Our heroes chose to respond to the call about the original murders that led them to the mega complex but could just as easily responded to one of several other crimes. I had the impression - rightly or wrongly - that so many crimes are happening all the time that many of them don't get responded to by a judge. When our heroes got out a call for help, only two judges responded.

Just saw Dredd last night. Ugh. If I had any other choice but to watch it in 3d, I would have leapt at it. But, enough about this 3d crap, onto a movie review....

This doesn't belong anywhere near the same league as the Stallone version. This is a much different animal, and while I haven't read many of the original comics, it does feel much closer to the source than the Stallone version did. It also feels like the world is much bigger, not just a tiny model on a small soundstage somewhere. Soooo much gore and violence, but it wouldn't be Dredd without it. Karl Urban was a great choice for the role. My only complaint (and I'm not sure if this was just my theatre or not) was that at times the film seemed incredibly grainy, too much so for me, as it kept pulling me out of the movie.

As to the comment above, there was an almost throwaway line in the movie that there is so much crime, and the Judges are so overworked that they can only deal with about 6% of all crime in the city. Not to mention a separate line which says one in five Judges die on their first day. Places like Peach Trees aren't the exception, they're damn near the norm. Hell, if Judges have such a huge death rate, that mega-block may accurately represent what that entire city is actually like. The two could probably have gone to any other call and gotten a similar result.

It's a shame that the movie didn't do so well in the theatre. Hopefully it makes enough money overseas to more than recoup the costs. I'd really like to see a sequel, or even see the writer/producer do the whole trilogy that he had planned.