This is an outright damned shame. Unlike many other remakes and re-envisionings of older movie adaptations, Dredd didn't try to shoehorn in social commentary of current real life events or dumb down the source material, or take itself too seriously when the source was parody to begin with. It was just an awesome action movie based on the Judge Dredd comics. No attemteped subtle attacks on drones and/or internet impacting a person's privacy. No going into detail with an elaborite backstory of why the Earth is baren because wars going on in real life 2012. Just good wholesome family fun.
The R rating is a stigma every film maker whose partial target audience would be under 17. The theaters are starting to card everyone for every R film (and employees who forget could be fired on the spot for one infraction), because of the threats of moral guardians lobying for goverment rating control. And we got the MPAA review board, which is very biased about many things and full of out of touch with mainstream society rich old white people. The film makers are stuck which dumbing down their vision (None of us here want a pg13 Deadpool.) to hit that large audience that will buy up tickets in the first weekend or risking that the crowd of older High School and college students, and adults will have the time and money to come see it.
Maybe with the new ways to release movies opened up, more R films and others that poor advertising affect could be successful. Theaters already reaching luxury prices, even before the ones that actually have luxury features are counted. That's affecting many decisions to go see any movie.
Darth Sea Bass said:
Maybe if they hadn't have released it only in 3D? Just saying. Or if it was in 2D don't restrict the fuck out of it.
I think,
think, one of my local theaters had a screen showing 2D, for maybe a week, then only 3D for the last 2 weeks Dredd would grace us. They like to do that a lot with limited releases like this and older films that have 1-2 weeks left. When no new IMAX film is out yet and print on its way out has an IMAX version, they make the IMAX one the only showing and charge an extra $3 ($5.50 with 3D). It sucks if that is your only chance to see something. (And double sucks in my area, since the IMAX screen is a converted house, meaning they ripped out the front row seats, jammed the biggest screen the could in the house, and fit IMAX's ridiculous equipment in where they could. It shows how desperate they where to make it work, too.)
It's an utter travesty the push 3D like that. I don't want to pay $3 extra per ticket to have to wear cheap ABS plastic glasses and hurt my eyes trying to focus on something the human eye wasn't meant to process. (With a dead on perfect angle, the 3D on a 3DS still looks like layers of blurry cardboard cutouts. Real3D movies are no different.) I'm sure many people either feel the same way or at the very least don't want to be forced to pay extra for the only available showings of their chosen movie.
I also never heard a word about it until it had already finished its theatre run, and had to wait for a DVD release before I got to see it. Since then I have rewatched it a dozen times at least. It got the character and world so right.
