Big budget, A-list actors, lots of marketing, great movie. Is anyone here not aware of Dredd?
I keep trying to come up with recommendations for cyberpunk movies that people might not have seen. Yet most obscure movies are obscure for a reason. It's usually "this movie is good but ____" or "it's a fun movie if you can ignore ____" So for most of these recommendations, I hesitate to say "this movie is awesome and you need to see it!" because I don't want to mislead anyone. Of course, this means all the movies that I truly do think are awesome I assume everyone has already seen and I don't need to suggest them.
But maybe enough time has passed that some people here haven't seen Dredd? Well, if you haven't, you should. It's awesome. Just don't watch the 1995 Judge Dredd movie with Sylvester Stallone and Rob Schneider because that one is not good.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqqgrUna28w
Of course, I say everyone should watch Dredd but it isn't streaming anywhere... except DirecTV I guess, if that counts. But I made a post earlier where I mentioned I've been avoiding recommending movies that you can't watch online and some people said I should recommend them anyway. So here we are.
Lots of extremely bad marketing. I still can't believe they chose to call and advertise this as DREDD 3D! It was like a bad 90s commercial. I was instantly off put by the marketing and was definitely their core target demo for this film. I never saw/see movies in 3D hate it, always have and they just leaned into the 3D as like the biggest part of the movie. It was all about how awesome the effects and 3D was going to be...
Yeah I spent a long time thinking it was yet another shitty 3D blockbuster movie until a roommate basically forced me to watch it