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* Early in the movie, Dredd removes his helmet and shows his face. This troper turned off the movie at that point. Dredd is not supposed to HAVE a face. Because he's not really a person. He Is The Law.
** Blame Stallone. He demanded to have a scene where he removes the helmet.
*** Yes, I'm sure that's what it was. I'm sure that the director wanted him to leave the helmet on the entire time... including during the scenes where he's arrested and sent to prison... but that Stallone threw a fit. The production was clearly perfectly happy to leave their superstar actor and main draw's face covered the entire time otherwise. It's just a coincidence that [[Karl Urban]] had to actually fight to ''not'' have Dredd remove his helmet in his version.
* In the early part, before Dredd is framed, he comes to intervene in block wars to find the other Judges huddled for cover from the automatic gunfire above. He then strides down the middle of the street and declares that they are beyond the effective range of the rifles. Can weapons have an effect range when being fired straight down?
** One of the many reasons I suppress the memory of the film.
** "They're firing caseless Fletcher rounds...", as Dredd states, suggests to me that the perps are using some sort of shotgun. The sound and look of their guns backs this up to some extent. Over a large distance, caseless shotgun rounds will disperse to the point where they're not going to be a problem for an armoured Judge, despite the speed at which the shrapnel is flying.
*** Possibly Flechette rounds? In most fiction I've read, flechette rounds are highly effective in short ranges or against unarmored targets at medium range, essentially firing several razor sharp darts, however drag on the darts causes them to lose power quickly when compared to standard rounds. Real life mileage varies, with such weapons used as
** It's certainly possible to have a maximum range. Either due to excessive spread and the like, which would make hitting the judges highly difficult, or simple air friction reducing the bullet's speed to terminal velocity, although I doubt you'd have it slow down that much any time soon.
** I take it as Dredd saying 1) that at the range they're firing, accuracy and power have diminished to the point that even if they ''accidentally'' hit a Judge, which is about the only way they'd do it, the armor would keep it from being lethal, and 2) in light of 1, Judges shouldn't cower behind their Lawmasters but instead make a show of being as strong and unyielding as the Law.
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*** There's never any mention that the Judges are tracked at all times. Since it's not brought up, apparently they don't.
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