What’s the antithesis of Arrested Development, Firefly or The Big Lebowski? Those may never have ‘found their audience’ but over time seemed to recognised by everyone. What are the deep cuts that you liked but it feels like everyone has completely forgotten they even existed.

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      Dredd had a really poor advertising campaign. I think the first trailer only came out a few weeks before it’s release when for other films it’s months in advance.

      I think the first footage I saw was actually a VFX breakdown that somehow made it’s way into YouTube but it didn’t stay there long.

      There was a big campaign to get a sequel and Dredd on Blu-ray rose to #1 in the Amazon sales charts.

      One of the executive producers, Adi Shankar, explained in a YouTube video that he appreciated the effort but the big problem was the box office returns. Everyone who invested made a loss, so no one wanted to invest in a sequel.

      Rebellion were going to make a Mega City One series which may have had appearances from Dredd occasionally but I think that project has stalled.

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      Honor Among Thieves was so good. I couldn’t stop geeking out over how much D&D was in it. They even cameo’d the freaking Animated Series party! It’s nuts.

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        It’s the first time I’ve unexpectedly felt, “Wow, that was so fun!” since maybe Zombieland or The Lego Movie. The definition of a “fun movie,” it was so much better than I expected.

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          Dredd was fun don’t get me wrong, but i feel like it dropped a lot of the good themes and sci-fi worldbuilding of the original in favor of a pretty generic (if competently executed) action shoot-em-up.