Dredd 3D Review

Judge Dredd is a relatively unknown comic book character, in fact most people are more familiar with the awful Stallone movie from 1995. If there's anyway to rinse that 17 year old bad taste from your mouth, Dredd 3D is it!

Karl Urban (The Lord of the Rings, Star Trek) plays Judge Dredd and is perfect. He scowls the entire movie and contorts his face to constantly look like one tough, mean S.O.B.! Also, he wears the Judge helmet the entire movie! Joining him is Olivia Thirlby (The Darkest Hour) as rookie Judge Anderson and Lena Headly ("Game of Thrones") as the deadly Ma-Ma.

The story is very much like Die Hard or The Raid: Redemption in that it is mostly contained inside one location. Judges Dredd and Anderson are called to investigate a triple homicide at the Peach Trees Tower deep within the heart of Mega-City One. When they get there, the Judges quickly realize that the deadly Ma-Ma controls the tower and locks it down. The Judges must traverse the 200 floors of killers to get to Ma-Ma and stop her.

Saying that Dredd is bloody and violent would be an understatement. The violence doesn't escalate, it's consistent and constant from the very first minute, which is how Judge Dredd should be! This is definitely a "Hard R" rated film.

This film also gives a reason to show awesome action sequences in slow motion. A new drug has hit Mega-City One called Slo-Mo, which slows your brain down to 1% of normal speed. There are several great scenes that utilize this effect in the film. I'm usually not a huge fan of 3D, but I really thought it was awesome in this movie, especially during these scenes.

Slo-Mo Shot

Dredd 3D is an exciting, action packed, and faithful adaptation of the cult comic! Director Pete Travis (Vantage Point) and writer Alex Garland (28 Days Later) did an amazing job interpreting the character and the tone from the pages to the screen. 

It's disappointing that this had a less than spectacular opening weekend, when so many terrible films make a ton of money at the box office. A great action film like this deserves to do well at the box office, so I highly recommend going to see this violent, bloody, and fun film (in 3D if you can). 

I would love to see a sequel to this opening up the setting a bit and seeing other places in Mega-City One. The current goal set by Pete Travis is $50 Million in North America for him to justify making a sequel. Hey, if they made a sequel to Ghost Rider, Dredd definitely deserves a sequel!

Dredd 3D gets a well-deserved 10 out of 10 Judges!

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Goes Blu!

Paramount has announced that Star Trek: The Next Generation will join the original Star Trek series on Blu-ray next year, just in time for the 25th anniversary.


More exciting is just how this is being done.  Complete edits and transfers from the original negatives, recreated special effects and 7.1 sound are just the beginning. We don't even know what the special features will be yet.  Every episode of the show will be presented in 1080p.

The full season sets will follow after a special Fan Favorite set called The Next Level which releases in January with a feature length version of "Encounter at Far Point," the series pilot, and two additional award winning episodes.

Gross, there's drool on my keyboard...

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Transformers 2 Outselling Star Trek, Still Fails in Comparison

According to Fandango:

"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen doesn't open till next week (June 24th), but as of this morning, the film already represents 45% of ticket sales on Fandango, the nation's leading moviegoer destination."

PCB Founder and Editor Garon can't wait to see this, but personally, I have no interest in this movie.

Someone at LatinoReview put it best by saying:

"I hated the first Transformers movie. Hated it. I thought it was two hours of Michael Bay telling the audience that they were retarded. Everyone in it was a comedian... the plot made zero sense, and the acting sucked. Combined with more explosions than the bombing of Iraq with Michael Bay's patented swooping camera shots, the film was a chore to watch from beginning to end."

Have fun with the sequel, I'll be at home watching Good Times.

Edit from Garon: WHATEVER!

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Movie Trailer: Precious

This is pretty much the only thing with Tyler Perry's name attached that I have any desire to watch. Not including Star Trek.

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Box Office Stats May 8 - 10

The battle of the summer movies really kicked into high gear this weekend as the second major summer blockbuster released this season, Star Trek, stood against the first, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and decidedly beat it into submission. Star Trek brought in $72.5 million, including over $7 million from Thursday night previews. Granted, this opening did not surpass Wolverine's $80 Million plus but it does seem to indicate that Star Trek has the legs to be a bigger earner overall, especially counting the whopping 63% drop for Wolverine.

Star Trek has pretty much positive reviews from everyone where as Wolverine is the exact opposite. Star Trek also had other hurdles to overcome including the stigma of its own franchise, the possible ire of die hard fans, and lackluster performing previous sequels. It looks like every one of those worries have been eliminated.

The other some what major film opening this weekend was Next Day Air which opened in sixth place with $4 million.

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1 ... Star Trek ... $72,500,000
2 ... X-Men Origins: Wolverine ... $27,000,000
3 ... Ghosts of Girlfriends Past ... $10,450,000
4 ... Obsessed ... $6,600,000
5 ... 17 Again ... $4,405,000
6 ... Next Day Air ... $4,000,000
7 ... The Soloist ... $3,605,000
8 ... Monsters Vs. Aliens ... $3,379,000
9 ... Earth (2009) ... $2,488,000
10 ... Hannah Montana The Movie ... $2,414,000

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Box Office Stats

See that picture? That was my face when I heard what was the number one movie over the weekend. Yes, Obsessed headbutted into the top spot taking in a staggering $28.5 Million and easily making back it's $20 Million budget. It more than doubled the take of this weekends #2 movie, 17 Again which itself barely held off newcomer Fighting. They brought in $11.6 and $11.4 Million respectively. Rounding out the top five are The Soloist with 9.7 Million and Disney's Earth which pulled in $8.5 Million.

I guess the competition wasn't that great for films this week. Nothing new looked to terribly interested so I guess it makes sense that people flocked to what looks to be a shout at the screen groan fest like Obsessed.

Next week summer kicks into high gear with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. After that it's gonna be a great May with Star Trek and Terminator Salvation on deck. Let's just hope we don't have any more movies like Obession to worry about.

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1 Obsessed ... $28,500,000
2 17 Again ... $11,665,000
3 Fighting ... $11,441,000
4 The Soloist ... $9,715,000
5 Earth (2009)... $8,554,000
6 Monsters Vs. Aliens ... $8,524,000
7 State of Play ... $6,891,000
8 Hannah Montana The Movie ... $6,372,000
9 Fast and Furious ... $6,062,000
10 Crank: High Voltage ... $2,400,000

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Star Trek comes early!

Those of you eagerly awaiting the upcoming Star Trek film can start celebrating.

Paramount has announced that Star Trek screenings will officially begin on May 7, starting at 7pm.

Get your tickets now!

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New Star Trek TV Spot!

Best movie of the summer? Perhaps...

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Final Star Trek Trailer

This looks incredible.

May 8 is right around the corner!

See it in HD @ apple.com

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Superbowl Movie Spots

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen


Star Trek



GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra

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Expected Superbowl Movie Commercials

For me, the only reason to watch the Superbowl is for the commercials. In recent years, they've been terrible.

This year the crop of films advertising during the big game are a bit more interesting.

Confirmed films are "Angels and Demons," "Fast and Furious," "G.I. Joe," "Land of the Lost," "Monsters vs. Aliens," "Star Trek," "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and "Up" with "Wolverine" and "Race To Witch Mountain" expected to be added soon.

I'll Tivo it so I can fast forward to the commercials!

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New Star Trek Posters!

Uhura and Nero. Is this movie going to be great or terrible? My money is on the former...

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New Star Trek Trailer!

I'm pretty keen on this movie. This trailer got my heart beating a bit so I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Also, we had our 700th post yesterday!

I'm a little backed up on review material so watch for a slew of reviews in the next couple of days!

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New Star Trek Posters!

Is this going to be the movie to beat next summer? Hopefully, we get a new trailer soon.

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New Star Trek Posters!

This new set of four posters features Bones, Chekov, Scotty, and Sulu.




J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot hits theaters May 8!

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Star Trek Delayed

Paramount has announced that the upcoming Star Trek Reinvention has been delayed five months.

The movie was originally scheduled to be released this Christmas but has been bumped to next May.

This is said to allow ample time to better publicize and sell the idea of the reinvention to movie goers and fans. JJ Abrams and crew have also stated they had wanted to change some aspects of the script. They had been unable to do so due to the writer's strike. Now that that has ended and the release date changed, they should be able to make the changes they wanted.

Perhaps to add Shatner to the mix?

J.J. Abrams' Star Trek beams into theaters on star date 05.08.09.

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Trailer Updates!

ComingSoon.net has given us some updates on the teaser trailers for three huge releases next year.

The Dark Knight teaser is expected to show in front of I Am Legend on December 14th. They've also confirmed that the first 7 minutes of the film will show in IMAX theatres prior to I Am Legend.

J.J. Abrams Star Trek relaunch is expected to have it's teaser premiere in front of the eagerly awaited Cloverfield on January 18.

Finally, the big enchilada Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull will have its teaser shown in February with an as yet unnamed film. Possibly The Spiderwick Chronicles but that's a guess for the time being.

February cannot come soon enough.

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JJ Abram's Star Trek

Here they are. The new crew of the Star Trek Enterprise for JJ Abrams Star Trek which is expected in theaters Christmas 2008:

Montgomery "Scotty" Scott is being played by Simon Pegg

Nyota Uhura is being played by Zoe Saldana

Pavel Chekov is being played by Anton Yelchin

Hikaru Sulu is being played by John Cho

And the big guns:

Dr. McCoy AKA Bones will be played by Karl Urban

Mr. Spock will be played by Zachary Quinto

and finally James T. Kirk. Captain of the Enterprise. Legend of the franchise. Kirk will be played by Chris Pine

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Chekov! It's You!

You may remember him from Hearts in Atalantis, maybe from Alpha Dog, but you will see him soon enough starring opposite Robert Downey jr. in Charlie Bartlett.

But I am not here to discuss that movie. I am here because the latest news from The Hollywood Reporter is that Anton Yelchin will be playing Pavel Chekov in J.J. Abrams untitled Star Trek film.

And everyone is making a big deal out of it. Why? Because he is actually Russian!

O.o

Anyway, Mr. Abrams is expected to sign on bigger names to be filling in the spot of the infamous James T. Kirk, and the unknown villain.

Zachary Quinto from Heroes and Leonard Nimoy are both confirmed to be playing Mr. Spock.

Set your calendar for a Christman Day release in 2008.

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Comic Con Day One

Day One! Started with us getting shut out of the paramount panel. The wonderful people working this years con decided to let some giant autograph session out and where did they go? Directly into the Paramount line. So unfortunately, the news of Karen Allen officially returning to the Indiana Jones universe has broken elsewhere. As well as the news of Zachary Quinto signing on to play Spock in the JJ Abrams Star Trek prequel. It also looks as though Leonard Nimoy will be appearing in the film as well.

In Comic Book news, Michael Turner (Fathom, Shrugged, Soul Fire) dropped us some interesting tidbits regarding his future with Marvel Comics, including a 6 issue miniseries that he is doing both the cover AND the interiors for. That should be out next summer. He also hinted at an X-Men related project next year.

Tomorrow brings the WB presentations as well as the new mystery block vacated by 20th Century Fox. I'm not quite sure what is planned for that two hours but we'll see.

Pictures will be coming soon. We're still having technical issues with the cameras.

Also, hello to all the visitors coming from Dark Horizons!

More tomorrow!

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