Comcast kept playing ads for Judge Dredd, and I finally broke down and watched it.
I guess I have never seen it before, even though I feel intimately familiar with it since I have a vague memory of some streets being closed in Seattle a million years ago when it was filmed. After a fast-goog (lazy half assed google search) I found nothing, so maybe it was a dream. Maybe the movie was a dream.
It’s based on a comic book (I love comic book movies, though I cannot read comic books, too expensive for how quickly they are read). Takes place in the future, where highly trained ‘judges’ deliver on the spot justice. Its cool, with flying cars, Aspen turned into a prison, Adam Sandler’s personal sidekick (Rob Schneider), and a big robot with red eyes, which we all know signifies its being used for evil. The uncool part is that the movie is dumb.
I kept waiting for Sandra Bullock to show up a-la Demolition Man, and even when I think back to the move I keep imagining she was in it, as opposed to Dianne Lane.
Dianne Lane, who I think is super beautiful, was just cute when she was younger. A great example of how there are two types of beautiful females (a guy I dated told me this once):
- Beautiful in the youth, but it will fade
- Cute in youth, with beauty that will grow in age
Dianne Lane is #2. She was cute, but is super pretty now.
The rating is 1 monkey. Breakdown below…
+1 monkey for the robot
+1 monkey for the tie to seattle, imagined or not
+1 monkey for it being a comic book movie
-2 monkeys for lameness
Total: 1 monkey, only for the robot.
