Judge Dredd (comics)/YMMV: Difference between revisions

Content added Content deleted
VisualWikitext
m (update links)
(Moved movie content to movie page.)
Line 1:
{{work}}
== The Comic ==
 
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: '''[http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/2009/06/08/great-moments-in-soul-punch-history-part-2/ "GAZE INTO THE FIST OF DREDD!"]'''
Line 15 ⟶ 14:
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: PJ Maybe.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Dredd, on orders from above, crosses the moral event horizon to pretty much terrorize pro-democracy organizers in order to ruin a planned peaceful demonstration against the Judge system. The biggest moment of which is when he threatens to take the son of a man whose pro-democracy wife Dredd killed, and who was set to speak at the rally, and hand him over to the academy to turn him into a Judge (via indoctrination that borders on outright brainwashing) unless he denounces the rally and no-shows it.
----
== The Movie ==
 
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: There are a few genuinely funny moments, like Rob Schneider getting the green light to do his Sly impersonation. Also, this:
{{quote|'''Hayden:''' Bitch!
'''Hershey:''' It's JUDGE Bitch! [headbutts her] }}
** And one of the few moments which captures the satirical streak of the original:
{{quote|'''Food Dispensing Robot:''' Eat recycled food! It's good for the environment and okay for you!}}
* [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]: The audience is supposed to cheer when Dredd is reinstated as an authoritarian enforcer of laws that he and he alone presides over.
* [[Ink Stain Adaptation]]
* [[Memetic Mutation]]:
{{quote|'''Dredd''': You-betrayed-the-LAW!
'''Rico''': ''"[[Sarcasm Mode|Lawww!]]"'' }}
** [[Sylvester Stallone]]'s delivery of "'''I ''AM'' THE LAW!'''"
* [[So Bad It's Good]]: As... off-kilter as it is, it's fun to watch, taking into account Armand Assante's [[Chewing the Scenery|bombastic acting]], the poor drama and the fact that no one can seem to say "law" properly.
* [[Tear Jerker]]
{{quote|'''Rico''': I was your brother, your blood, your friend! They're (the clones) your family! I'm your family! (voice cracks) I was the only family you ever had!}}
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Fargo tells Dredd that Rico "genetically mutated into the perfect criminal", suggesting that criminals are either a separate ''species'' to normal humans, or that criminality is innate and the Judges are therefore punishing people for crimes ''they cannot help committing''.
** Though this isn't necessarily individual to the movie, as this is a philosophical argument in [[Real Life]] as well.
** This also creates a pretty gaping plot hole, as Rico and Dredd being genetically identical is the entire point on which the plot turns.
* [[What the Hell, Casting Agency?]]:
** Chief Justice Fargo played by Max von Sydow, presumably in a case of [[Money, Dear Boy]].
** '''Ilsa''' Hayden played by [[Joan Chen]]?
*** Hey, [[In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race|it's the future]].
 
{{reflist}}
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Judge_Dredd_(comics)/YMMV"