DREDD (2012)

Set way off in the future after nuclear war has fucked up everything, Mega-City One takes up pretty much all of New England and has a population of 800 million people.  Yikes!  As you can imagine, life is pretty shitty, especially for people who live in the gigantic 200-story slum towers.  One of the worst of these high-rise ghettos is Peach Trees which is controlled by a drug lord named "Ma-Ma".  Dredd and his brand new trainee, Anderson, go to investigate a triple murder only to get locked inside and hunted by Ma-Ma's ruthless and heavily-armed gang.

I'm not quite sure why DREDD bombed so bad at the box office (North America $13m vs. a $30m - $45m budget), but it did.  Which is a shame, because DREDD is a fun, no-nonsense action movie that starts out with a bang and keeps the action going the entire film. Tons of action, nice looking sets, non-distracting CG, quick pace, bright colours, cool use of slow-motion, fun story, good acting, Cersei from "Game of Thrones", surprising amount of blood.

Definitely worth checking out if you're an action fan. If they ever make a Part 2, I'll watch the fuck out of it!

Same source material - Judge Dredd (1995)

GHOST SHIP (2002)

More like ghost shit, amirite?

GHOST SHIP wasn't as good as I was expecting...and I was expecting it to suck.  The story is about a long lost snooze ship that's just floatin' around out in the ocean for like 40 years when some salvage dudes find it.  Nothing happens for a long time until eventually the salvage crew figures out that there's more to this ship than meets the eye.  They try to escape but it's too late...they're firmly in the sleep inducing clutches of a ghost.  A really boring ghost.

Zero scares, zero gore, zero logic, shitty CG, piss poor topless scene, zero fucks given.  I'm sure there's some people out there who love GHOST SHIP, but I'm not one of them and I can't even see why it's even considered a "horror" movie cause nothing even remotely scary happens the entire movie.  The story has potential, but flushes it all away.  Skip it with a vengeance.

If you need me I'll be in my room watching the ghost ship episode of The X-Files.