What you may need to know:
1. Two cops (Ice Cube and Kevin Hart) take down a Miami drug dealer. Shenanigans etc.
2. There was a Ride Along 1? What a world.
3. Kevin Hart is like Chickenpox; small, irritating and everywhere.
4. Tim Story is the director responsible for the classic Think Like a Man (2012) and the seminal Think Like a Man Too (2014). His two contributions to the Fantastic Four (2005 & 2007) franchise made Roger Corman look good. Almost. Of course that was before Josh Trank’s recent exercise in career suicide.
5. “Please, call me Ice, everyone else does.”
6. Broadsheet prognosis: Straight Outta Crapton
Release Date: January 22, 2016.
(Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)
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I really think a slot where you bring us good movies we may not have otherwise hear of would be more appreciated than this.
Yes. Please.
Or even ones we probably will hear about but you actually like the look of.
Ya. The BS Trailer Park isn’t regular enough to be bringing us sure-fire flops
Domestic gross of 134 million for the first ride along. God help us.
You should get writing that screen play, Mani.
You and Caroline, in fact.
I’d watch that.
I don’t think anyone would pay to watch a movie of me and Caroline.
Not a bad idea, unfortunately all my creative time is taken up shipping Mani and Jonotti.
I hated ride along but it was a huge hit not a flop. It grossed well over $100,000,000
Mon Dieu!
Is this covered in the NWA film?
Straight Outta Cop Town?
How the fupp did this get a fupping sequel and we still have no fupping Dredd sequel?
Dredd made no money, sadly. Best thing for it would be a netflix series.
It has done quite well on home release and was amazons top seller for ages it just had a bad box office. But a netflix series would be awesome.
It costs 50 million and grossed 13 million. Regardless of dvd sales that’s a dredd duck. ahem.
I think it’s gained enough acclaim that a sequel would bring the cash it deserves. But, at the same time I’m happy for them to not risk ruining their good work with a sequel.
I think the average studios response to that would be ‘Can I buy my fourth wife new tits with acclaim?’
I’d watch the Angel Gang scene in Stallone’s Dredd 20 times before sitting through the remake once more.
The remake was boring and made no effort to look at the Judgeworld outside of a block of flats which just made it terribly mundane.
my tuppence, here’s a short version of that scene…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlBwr80CJOQ
Cameo by the ABC Warrior was appreciated too…
No offence Clampers, but your taste in movies is shocking.
I loved Dredd, a straight forward, hardcore action movie that fits the character. And the Slo-Mo scenes look incredible.
I don’t think the one with Stallone was bad. I can take it on it’s on merits, but as far as 90s Stallone Sci Fi action films go I much prefer to watch Demolition Man if I’m going for that shtick.
IMO yeer praise of Dredd is a tad overblown, though not totally unwarranted.
The story (and action therein) is more a slice of ‘typical Dredd’ than ‘Definitive Dredd’, but the evocation of the comic book world is well judged in significant areas. Urban is great as the man himself and Thirlby does well as Anderson. Significantly for me, the film does an admirable job in crossing the tightrope that comes with the adaption of such a comic to film.
i.e Like the comic, the film views the fascistic elements of this world and the fascistic methods of the title character in a curious but detached manner, occasionally exploring and commenting on them,
not whacking you over the head with liberal outrage at Dredd (the character’s) ideological outlook, but not particularly condoning/celebrating his behaviour either (as perhaps an American film in the spirit of 300/Dirty Harry might.)
In relation to structure, plot propulsion and mise en scene, it may lack the ‘frisson’ of a classic actioneer (the film is ultimately rather boring in that respect. Sorry Jeremy Kyle.) But it still maintains your interest/admiration by creating a noticably cogent world with minimum fuss. And while you could not say it is a particularly good/great film, there is enough positive groundwork covered to make you interested in a sequel, or at least a sequel that builds upon said positives.
So yeah… I’ll go now.
No need to apologise for giving valid opinions.
No worries Mani, none taken :)
2012 Dredd was a big let down. Sure it was basically The Raid… in English.
Oh let’s not go down that road again.
These type of films use the Adam Sandler formula. Spend about $20-30million and gross about $80-90million. Not much till you add up total cost for a few films and it’s tiny compared to the profit.
Very funny prognosis!