It was a tight race for #1 in another lame awful weekend at the box office. End of Watch claimed the top spot by a hair with $13.1 million gross, a mere $1 million and some change over its two close competitors: House at The End of The Street ($12.2 million) and Trouble with the Curve ($12.1 million). This last one is one of the lowest grossing Clint Eastwood films in recent years. Finding Nemo 3D slipped to the fourth spot with $9.6 million. Last week's champ, Resident Evil: Retribution had a disastrous 68% drop landing in the fifth place with $6.7 million, the lowest second week numbers in this franchise history. In sixth spot, debuting and crashing down like an Al Qaeda piloted 747 plane, Dredd once again proved that there is no much appeal for this comicbook character beyond its comicbook pages. With $6.2 million gross the $50 million production has made LESS than half than the 1995 Stallone version in its debut ($12.2 million) and that film was also considered a flop. The rest of the top ten films...Who gives a shit?
is still a flop even if it made $6 million less than the 1995 film in its debut (take in consideration inflation too).
I know what he meant. Bottomline it basically made significantly less. Oh and I forgive you for your insult. Jesus loves you.
No, I mean, I can't understand why it made so little....especially in these days when pretty much any movie can make money. But I see your point: Judge Dredd has always been a hard character for the rest of the globe to 'get'.
Probably because it has never been done right? or maybe because its appeal is limited to hardcore fans of the comicbook.
35 years after he first appeared, I can't ever seeing the appeal going beyond 'hardcore' fans (mainly UK-based at that).
I can. Easily. It's sci-fi, it's set in the future, the dude is a cop/judge who basically has a license to kill. Also, fancy weapons, fancy vehicles, lots of CGI and you should have had a high octane trailer so appealing people who never even heard of Dredd would have went to see it. The only reason this film continues to bomb is the right people aren't writing it, directing it, and producing it. I knew this one would bomb because they made it a low budget safety project when they needed to go the exact opposite route. Oh yeah, and a little promotion would have helped too. At any rate Dredd is pushing a 7.8 on IMDB so the film itself might actually be better than the box office numbers representing it.
I started it but it was a crappy copy so I stopped it. After only about 6 minutes of viewing I had seen enough to make me think I won't bother rewatching a better copy, but who knows for sure.
I noticed it's gotten some good buzz in the aftermarket after it bombed at the theaters. We might be looking at a cult film down the road. That said, I think I'll wait till it hits cable to bother watching it.
Definately exceeded my initial expectations even though it's almost identical, general plot-wise, to 'The Raid' (which I didn't like at all)
Is that the one where a thousand Koreans attack a tenement building? I almost watched that last night for a laugh.
That's the one - a thousand Korean police attack a tenement building, housing thousands more Korean drug-gangs and it has endless shoot-outs and ridiculously overlong and stupidly choreographed martial-arts fights.
A good "Cracked" article I remember about a shitty sub-titled version of this movie. http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-most-baffling-subtitles-in-foreign-action-movie-history/ <img src="http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/article/2/4/4/144244.jpg?v=1">
Man, Dredd just didn't click with me at all. I liked The Hobbit, but it wasn't as good as the LOTR movies in my opinion.
Maybe so, but it's more the shoot em up action genre rather than the Dredd film itself that I'm having a hard time getting into.
Shut the fuck up Gatti! I don't care if they are fucking Ooompa Loompa's.................or if they are fucking, Oooompa Loompa's. :nono:
Ok actually got around to watching this several months ago. Was a very entertaining movie and very well done. I'd seriously recommend this to anyone who hasn't seen it. It's a straight action flick but somehow something about it seems so much different then films like the Total Recall remake. It's like the action from this film reminds me of action from films in the 80's and 90's. Maybe the movie just had heart but it was all around good. Check it out.