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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) dir. Danny Cannon

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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)

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Judge Dredd (Danny Cannon, 1995.).

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Brief Look at Judge Dredd Novels, Cinematic Interlude: Judge Dredd (1995)

We should, perhaps, begin with the obvious.

The biggest problem here is Sylvester Stallone, in manners both gross and subtle. On the one hand, his performance is... well, it's pure Stallone. It's a mind-gratingly stoic and staid performance, with all the mumbling you've come to expect, and on the most obvious of levels it's simply not very good.

But the deeper problem here, and the one that really sinks the film, is one that fandom generally seems to come very close to correctly diagnosing, if only to ever so slightly miss the mark in the way that only science-fiction fandoms really can.

The problem, as John J. Fandom, MD would have you believe, is that the film chose to show Judge Dredd's face, one of the biggest no-nos of 2000 AD. And they are, at least, partially right, but only in the sense that the prominence of Stallone's face is a symptom of the overwhelming amount of distortion that the actor's mere presence inflicts upon the very cinematic grammar of the film.

Witness the first scene in which Dredd is revealed, and you can practically hear the creaks as the generally satirical and sceptical lens in which 2000 AD cast the Judges at its best moments is wrenched into a far more conventional "action movie" template.

This impression certainly isn't helped any by the eventual arrival of Rob Schneider, who was seemingly one of your go-to guys in the nineties for lame action movie buddy comedies.

(Granted, the only other film I've seen from the decade that fits the bill would be Tsui Hark's 1998 JCVD vehicle Knock Off, a rather terrible film that I only ever bothered to watch because Sparks did the theme song. At any rate, it simply wasn't worth it.)

It's not that the juxtaposition of Judge Dredd against this conventional setting couldn't create a perverse frisson, but it would definitely require a much more incisive and self-aware script than William Wisher, Jr. and Steven de Souza were apparently willing to provide. As is, you're left with... well, a conventional action movie, which is probably in the Top 2 Least Interesting Things You Could Ever Do With Judge Dredd.

The other, as it happens, would be to make it a conventional sci-fi film riffing on Star Wars and Joseph Campbell, and oops they did that one too, complete with a James Earl Jones voiceover that makes a point of having him say lines about "forces." The best encapsulation of the sheer strangeness of this experience is the scene in which Max von Sydow's Fargo reveals to Dredd his nature as a clone. After seemingly never shutting up throughout the whole film, Rob Schneider is practically forced to the periphery of the frame for an Atonement with the Father or whatever.

Rather than being as liberating as one would hope "getting less Rob Schneider" would be, it only reinforces the sense that the film is caught between two - three, if you count the tone and aesthetic of the original 2000 AD comics, but all impressions of the film's behind-the-scenes would seem to suggest that you'd be the only one - competing sensibilities, and ultimately ends up doing neither of them particularly well.

Sure, it looks good, with some wonderful set design and special effects, but the reduction of such an interesting world as Judge Dredd down to superficial and facile pleasures - and I include in this remark the utterly extraneous catfight between Diane Lane's Hershey and a rightfully bored Joan Chen, for the record - can't help but sting a little. The biggest saving grace the film has is that it isn't that long, but at that point we'd best stop scraping the bottom of the barrel before we end up with splinters.

And accordingly, we should end with the obvious: The fact that this made nearly nineteen times as much as the contemporary Tank Girl film is the kind of thing that it's hard not to view as anything but a moral abhorrence.

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On April 5, 2005, Judge Dredd was released on DVD in Canada.

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Movie Review | I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Cannon, 1998)

Gave this a look because it was set to leave Netflix, before it inevitably ended up on Tubi as these things normally do. The main characters back from the original, probably because most of the others died, are Jennifer Love Hewitt, who like in many an A24 movie is coping with the trauma of the previous two summers, and Freddie Prinze Jr., who's being kind of a dipshit about the whole thing. Here's how much of dipshit he is. When she calls him up and invites him to go to the Bahamas with her, he gets all whiny and insecure and insists he has to go fishing. Listen, if Jennifer Love Hewitt calls you up and offers you a trip to the Bahamas, you say yes. And if she asks you for your social security number, you say "yes, ma'am" and rattle off those digits. That's what I did and that's why I'm sitting in the Bahamas right now, broke and scammed out of my life savings. Just kidding, I'm at home. Anyway, scammers are getting more sophisticated these days so be careful out there.

Anyway, he realizes what a dipshit he is and spends his remaining scenes racing to be let back into the movie proper, while she goes off on her trip to Murder Island with her roommate, roommate's boyfriend and this other guy who provides a nice reminder that you're never too old to go back to school. Most of these character still know what you did last summer, but this guy knows what you did forty summers ago. Anyway, this isn't necessarily a spoiler, I'm just being a dick.

I'm not gonna pretend this is especially good, but it's at least a bit better than it needs to be. '90s studio craft generally doesn't scream "scary" to me (Wes Craven's Scream movies are notable exceptions, as he's able to use their slickness to lull you into a false sense of security and pierce through it with visceral impact), and I remember finding the first movie pretty slight in this respect. But this wisely ups the explicitness of the violence and happens to be nicely shot to boot. It also helps that the back half of the movie is bathed in torrential rain, so there's a nicely ominous tropical atmosphere. I do not know how much passion director Danny Cannon has for the horror genre, but the fact that he features a clip from Night of the Demon (the Jacques Tourneur one, although I would have been down for the Bigfoot one as well) and casts Jeffrey Combs as an asshole hotel clerk suggests that his heart is in the right place.

That being said, the movie definitely loses a few points for casting Jack Black as a dreadlocked drug dealer, who makes a stronger case for saying "No" to drugs than Nancy Reagan ever did, and spends his screentime making you root for the killer. I suppose his real utility is in showing how much more tolerable Combs and Mekhi Phifer are in delivering the movie's comic relief, but this is not his finest hour.

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Blu-ray review: “The Young Americans” (1992)

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Someone is dying for a second chance.

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Having now seen Dandandan I can confirm my sibling was right all along

These are the same guy

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Sleepy Danny after full Phantom-mode night

I had to redo this pic so many times, but I finished it!! Finally :D

Really like the colours on this art, guess I just enjoy softness???

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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) dir. Danny Cannon

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Finally Getting Help masterpost

(On Hiatus for the rest of the month while I work on other things)

Soon after Danny takes two of the failed clones into his body his parents let Vlad take him to a Gala in Gotham. When the Bats clock that he is pregnant they work to get him away from Vlad, find out how and why this happened to him, and fix it.

Danny is just relieved to finally have some adults on his side, and be able to relax and focus on himself and the babies.

Part 1 - Gala and discovery

Part 2 - confronting Vlad and calling The Guy

part 3 - Research and meeting Zatana

part 4 - Raiding Amity

part 5 - Jazz and Danny reunite

part 6 - Jazz's power point

part 7- Damian and Danny bond and Jason comes back

Part 8- Jason meets Jazz

Part 9- Jason meets Danny (finally)

Part 10- Danny calls his friends

Part 11- First date (part 1)

part 12- first date (part 2)

Part 13- Danny's doctors appointment

Part 14- Jason and Danny go camping

Part 15- Vlad crashes the party

Part 16- Frostbite comes to give various check ups

Part 17 - meeting the Justice League

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Judge Dredd (Danny Cannon, 1995).