i want you to hit me as hard as you can ladies and gentlemen
please take your seats the fight is about to begin
he is the law
i am the law time to settle this case of dueling dreads both the 1995 movie judge dredd and 2012's
dread were big screen rated adaptations of the classic character from the british comic
magazine 2000 ad but who's the real top cop of mega city one there's only one way to find out
disclaimer no actual science was used to determine the outcome of face-off your results
may vary please do not consume face off if you are allergic to conjecture opinion or general nonsense
in this corner hollywood heavyweight sylvester stallone
he's an action movie veteran who has given us such cinematic icons as rocky balboa and john
ramo not to mention ray tango john spartan gabe walker marion cobretti machine gun joe viterbo
barney ross and of course lincoln hawk and in this corner genre middleweight carl urban his
experience may have started small with appearances on hercules and xena but he quickly became a
reliable and familiar face from the lord of the rings chronicles of riddick the born supremacy
star trek and more recently thor ragnarok and the boys [ __ ] die this round goes to
director danny cannon's notable non-judge dread credits include i still know what
you did last summer and a whole lot of tv work screenwriter stephen de souza's name
is associated with some movies that are classics die hard a few that are not
and however you choose to categorize street fighter now who wants to go home
and who wants to go with me director pete travis's other main feature was the thriller vantage point
and he also followed dread with tv work writer alex garland may not have die hard on his resume
although dread certainly feels like a variation he's no slouch garland wrote the novel the beach
adapted by danny boyle along with 28 days later and sunshine and ex machina and annihilation both
of which he also directed rumor has it he was also heavily involved throughout production of
dread to the point he may have deserved a co-director credit this round goes to
stallone's dread is supported by the competent judge hershey and chief justice fargo along with
irritating criminal sidekick herman fergie ferguson while diane lane and max von siedau
are pretty much always awesome their inherent awesomeness is overshadowed by the incessantly
obnoxious comic relief of rob schneider you may want to watch his seat after we get off the bike
sorry urban's dread is partnered with anderson played by olivia thirlby a rookie judge who has
psychic powers thanks to a genetic mutation from post-apocalyptic radiation exposure
anderson skillfully assists dread by mentally identifying criminals
and shooting the absolute [ __ ] [ __ ] out of numerous bad guys she ultimately
graduates her first day's test earning herself a judge's badge this round goes to
rico played by armand assante is judge dredd's homicidal genetic brother
thanks to a shady chief justice rico breaks out of prison and chews the hell out of scenery
while his identical dna is used to frame dread for murder
mama played by lena headey is a former prostitute turned crimeboss who's the source of slo-mo
the city's new highly addictive but visually interesting narcotic what she lacks in emotional
expression she makes up for in pure ruthlessness this round goes to stallone's dread contends with
the corrupt judge griffin rogue scientist ilsa hayden a cool hulking abc war robot in the comic
accurate angel gang a family of cannibal mutants living in the cursed earth besides a quartet
of crooked judges urban's dread has to deal with mama's twitchy tech expert and torture victim and
her heavily armed clan of amusingly ineffective henchmen unfortunately the movie immediately
discards the more colorful gang variations in the peach trees block replacing them with an army of
interchangeable goons who apparently got their wardrobe from the clearance rack at megacity
walmart this round goes to judge dredd's helmet and oversized shoulder pads bring his outfit
close to the comic version well maybe not that cod piece but stallone unforgivably ditches the
famous uniform for good after 15 minutes of screen time in favor of blue contact lenses
and a really tight v-neck t-shirt dread dials down the cartoonish costume for less ornate more
practical body armor suitable for a street cop who gets shot at on a regular basis but perhaps most
importantly like his comic counterpart urban never removes his helmet this round goes to
everyone in judge dredd seems appropriately familiar with his reputation the name dread
immediately incites quivering fear or anxious bravado his fame is even recognized out in the
cursed earth oh lord you have flashed us indeed aside from the mercenary judges who show up to
eliminate dread for some reason nobody here seems to know mega city one's top law man this is a
direct contrast to the comics where dread's name and presence are instant cause for alarm among
the city's population of perps this round goes to the judge dredd script desperately tries to give
stallone a witty catchphrase i knew you'd say that i knew you'd say that i knew you'd say that
i knew you'd say that and it clumsily attempts to humanize a character that is essentially the
embodiment of fascist satire on the page nobody wanted judge sad i wanna know what happened
urban's dread delivers his appropriately few words in his best deadpan growl and as for you
mama judgment time and keeps the characters perpetual frown while this script almost
entirely strips the satirical elements of the comics this dread remains the impassive
relentlessly violent personification of mega city one's law yes i believe i can make a difference
admirable this round goes to judge dredd depicts an overcrowded multi-tiered
high-tech metropolis filled with hovering vehicles and ubiquitous advertising in the occasional
block war this megacity one practically looks like it jumped off the comic pages
aside from glimpses of neon here it's mostly all concrete grime and sickly green lighting
basically this mega city looks like cape town south africa with a few extra large skyscrapers
that might be a more accurate possible future but not a very interesting visual this round goes to
stallone's judge efficiently blasts a bunch of block war troops and one sports car
and dispatches the vicious angel gang almost single-handedly but then his dread gets knocked
around and nearly chucked off the statue of liberty by his clone bro
urban's dread melts a guy's face with a hot shot round sets a bunch of dudes on
fire tosses mama's henchmen off a balcony throat chops a double-crossing judge calmly
patches up a gaping bullet wound guns down about a hundred armed flunkies and passes
the death sentence on drug overlord mama with a 200 story plunge this round goes to
thanks to an extensive budget and designs that more effectively realized the heightened reality
aesthetic of megacity one and the bleak surroundings of the cursed earth judge
dredd got just about everything right except the lead character sylvester stallone may have
been an action god in his prime but he's the wrong guy for this role the movie's attempts
at a mystery are tedious and his comedy swings too broad why are you taking off his clothes
we don't have time for this and dread himself is nearly unrecognizable from
his comic counterparty which leaves us with a glossy but hollow futuristic shoot em up
as for dredd it's a decent sci-fi spin on die hard and the grounded and grim approach make it
a satisfying action flick just not a particularly good judge dredd movie explain with a mega city
one that bears little resemblance to the comic it seems preoccupied with trying to ride the 3d
trend with its time-dragging drug trips and the budgetary limitations confined urban's dread to
a single non-descript skyscraper for most of the running time which seems like a wasted opportunity
when the comic character is mostly defined by his interactions with the ludicrous population
and situations of the sprawling metropolis the two movies turned out to be on equal
footing in some ways neither really deserves any awards for directing or storytelling
and both barely grossed their production budgets at the box office as far as successfully adapting
the comics they're almost two halves of one great judge dredd movie but ultimately the edge goes to
dread the evidence has been falsified it's impossible i am the law in the battle of these
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