Keep Calm And Discuss Retro Generally!

Judge Dredd was a film of two, unequal halves.
One half, the good half, had all the visuals there, Megacity One looked like, well, Megacity One, the Judge uniform was changed but it looked good, as did the weapons, all well within limits.
The Angel gang looked brilliant, just weren't in it long enough.
Hammerstein was in the wrong film but it was still nice to see him, and Ian Dury, even though one of them lacked a hammer.
Even the references to Block War and graffiti from Chopper served to make it authentic.
So far so good....
The rest of it stank like yesterdays diapers.
Stallone was sh1te, I don't know if it was his ego or the desire of the studio to make the most of their star but the very fact that the helmet came off was disgraceful.
A central feature of the character, gone.
I could forgive that if Stallone had been any good, but no, not to be.
Stallones Dredd has a sense of humour, he has catch phrases, he is petty, oh dear very poor indeed.
We shall not mention the actor whose faecal matter was smeared across the screen as Fergie, a great character in the comics reduced to another note for note crap performance from your man.
Lane wasn't so bad as Hershey, not stunning either, just a bit meh...
The only major actor to earn his wet ham sandwiches was Assante as Rico, ok, for a twin brother he didn't look like Stallone and thankfully he didn't act like him either, no he was much better, a suitable raving lunatic out for revenge, brilliant fun.

So, Judge Dredd, a great movie if it wasn't for 66% of the male stars of the film....

I too was a big fan of 2000ad, read it feverishly back in the early 90's and read most of the major story arcs in the collected format by Titan books over the years.

I was always a Nemesis and ABC Warriors fan I have to say, learned to draw from copying O'Neill and Talbots amazing Nemesis art work.

And I have a signed print of Joe Pineapples on my attic wall, signed by Simon Bisley himself!!
Got it in 90 and still have it.
Must get it framed one of these days!
Some plank wrote on it back in 91, right in the middle, frakkin beetch!
I wonder if I can get it restored/removed?

Ah, something monstrous and relentless, that feeling that civilisation has fallen and you and a small band are all that is left of those with a mind to call their own, afraid to face their own certain doom.... a bit like the Sega forum!

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I wont hear a bad word said about Demolition Man :mad:

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