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And if not every comic book movie had to be A Big Comic Book Movie, Judge Dredd might have had that opportunity.īut it was 1995, not 2020, so this Judge Dredd had Sylvester Stallone in the helmet - a helmet he kept taking off - countless reshoots, and a wacky supporting character played by Rob Schneider. Based off a sly, subversive comic book, the movie began with big dreams and high concepts, a way to tell a different story in a different way using familiar tropes sure, Judge Dredd should be a good guy, but the idea of a man walking around as judge, jury, and executioner is actually really scary, and with the right actor and the right tone, you could do something pretty powerful, pretty funny, and pretty exciting. And for proof, look no further than Judge Dredd, which came out on June 30 of that year, 25 years ago this week.

We’ve been able to have all these because we have a whole decade-plus of comic book movies to work with and draw upon the more there are, the more they force us to expand our horizons. We have comic book movies that are downtrodden and depressing, comic book movies that are about villains, comic book movies that exist to make fun of the concept of a comic book movie in the first place.

One of the more fun aspects of the boom in movies based on comic books and graphic novels is that we have, with all the success of these films, expanded our concepts of what a “comic book movie” really means. Welcome to This Week in Genre History, where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world’s greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released.

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