Dredd has been an asexual character since his introduction in the second issue of 2000 AD (1977).
The fact that Dredd has any sexuality at all is completely out of character for the character.
Dredd may have its finger on the pulse of 1970s ugly, but its special effects are 2012 awesome.
For many moviegoers, Judge Dredd is known only as a character from a 1995 Sylvester Stallone movie.
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It was set to Hot Shot, its heat-seeking mode that Dredd uses when he wants to eliminate fleeing perps.
No one is allowed in or out until Dredd and Anderson are dead.
As for Karl Urban, he was everything Dredd should be: tough, monosyllabic, inflexible.
Dredd has repeatedly chosen the law over family (to his credit, he once changed the law to help his family).
However, the movie loses momentum when Peach Trees block is locked down, and Dredd and Anderson are trapped, unable to escape.
At one point, he gave a panhandler a chance to make himself scarce for the crime of vagrancy, which was almost un-Dredd-ful.
Dredd is reluctantly partnered with rookie Cassandra Anderson, a judge-school washout given a second chance because of her powerful psychic ability.
Here, Dredd must have felt that this situation needed serious armed force.
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The third biggest turkey on our list is Dredd, a remake of the 1995 film Judge Dredd, which was based on a comic strip.
Judge Dredd is the only character who appears in every issue.
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His mission is to harness the turbo energy he possesses to morph into different cyborg forms and save the world from monsters bearing names like Elementor and Dredd.
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Apart from "Chronicle" they were used for action movie "Safe House, " starring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, the 3D comic-book adventure "Dredd, " and TV drama "Mary and Martha, " starring Hilary Swank.
Dredd was written by Alex Garland, who had previously written one of my favorite video game screenplays, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, as well as the zombie apocalypse movie, 28 Days Later.
Chief among them is, yes, you guessed it, Judge Dredd, who was played by a glum Sylvester Stallone in the fairly dreadful 1995 film "Judge Dredd, " and who is played this time around by Karl Urban.
In the most recent commercial for Dredd 3D, the upcoming Lionsgate film to be released in the United States on September 21, 2012, we get some style and substance, a taste of what we hopefully have ahead of us.
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Instead of subverting our ideas about 2000 AD most well-known protagonist, this Prog seems to solidify what we already know: In a world where slabwalkers of any gender can be rented for temporary affection, Dredd ignores it all in favor of his true love, the law.
Dredd's partner, an anxious rookie named Cassandra, doesn't wear a helmet, since it would scramble her psychic powers, so she is played visibly, as well as audibly, by Olivia Thirlby, who succeeds in investing an action figure with affecting fear, impressive courage and a commitment to justice that serves as Cassandra's compass.
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