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i've even checked some of the earlier comics and the Judges have flying lawmasters like in the Stalone film ....even though some people on here were saying the lawmster couldn't fly.
Of all the many, many criticisms made here about the Stallone film, I can't remember anyone saying the bike
shouldn't fly.
I remember saying that the flying bike looks clunky and unexciting. The decision to use the same design for both the flying and conventional Lawmaster means the latter looks like He-Man's rocket sled with two puny wheels attached, while the flying version looks unnecessarily bulky because you need to believe there's a pair of wheels hidden up in that chassis. They should have been separate designs.
I remember saying that many of the special effects in that sequence are embarrassingly bad, with some of the worst use of blue screen and rear projection in a big budget movie. Although the model work on the city is well done, the bike in the foreground and the buildings in the background seldom look like they belong in the same shot, with the city looking washed out and the bikes outlined with sharp blacks.
I remember saying that the chase is pedestrian and uninvolving - just compare the snail's pace of that scene with the speeder bike chase in ROTJ. There's no sense of jeopardy either - when the second Judge Hunter crashes into the store front, it looks like he's run his mobility scooter into a sliding door, not that he's come screaming out of the sky on a flying bike.
I remember saying that the whole scene feels like it was flung together without anyone thinking very hard about what was happening or why. Everyone involved just sits around, waiting boringly for stuff to happen around them, then reacting by making awed or pained expressions. Stallone tries hard to sell the idea that he's pulling Gs going up the side of that building, but that scene goes nowhere. When stuff does happen - like the killer hologram - it makes no sense whatsoever.Not that it matters, but the bikes don't fly in the comics - even the early ones. There's a sequence of stories where Dredd's on the moon, where everyone rides hover bikes - maybe that's what you're thinking of. There
are flying vehicles in Dredd's world, and once every 200-300 issues you'll see a judge on a flying bike, but the Lawmaster doesn't fly. Not even in
"some of the earlier comics".
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SinisterCreep
9 years ago
Not that it matters, but the bikes don't fly in the comics - even the early ones. There's a sequence of stories where Dredd's on the moon, where everyone rides hover bikes - maybe that's what you're thinking of. There are flying vehicles in Dredd's world, and once every 200-300 issues you'll see a judge on a flying bike, but the Lawmaster doesn't fly. Not even in "some of the earlier comics".
Hands up. yes the lawmaster doesn't fly so I was obviously wrong there but it's still very lawmaster like.
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