Judge Dredd (2012) - Megacity One

Just a compilation of the shots showing off the city.

[@123BenCrazy]

Imagine living in one of the apartments right up by the wall, just sitting on your porch watching mutants eat each other.

[@timengineman2nd714]

Fresh meats back on the menu! (big mutant to his pack...)

[@animalblundetto9055]

was that a thing in the dredd lore? dont remember seeing that in the movie

[@123BenCrazy]

@@animalblundetto9055 Oh yeah, the Cursed Earth is crawling with all sorts of nasty mutants, its a bigger danger than the radiation.

[@fuffoon]

But that is what I do. OK, I live in a house, watch KZbin, and its not mutants, but I watch people killing each other on KZbin news channels every 30 minutes. The only difference is that the judges put them out on bail instead of shooting them on sight.

[@GaldirEonai]

Of course it also means you get more radioactive dust blown in your face than most...

[@soupermoviecritic8511]

Dredd should comeback to theaters with actual advertising team. Add a few deleted scenes, make some slight visual enhancements, and you got yourself a gold mine.

[@darkspire91]

As far as post-apocalypse dystopias go, Megacity One wouldn't be the worst place to be.

[@robertnelson9599]

Especially compared to Warhammer 40K Hive Cities.

[@stepans20]

@@robertnelson9599 Good God Emperor thats an understatement of the millennium.

[@KalashVodka175]

@@robertnelson9599 I mean, middle hives usually have similar conditions of life as what we see in this video, just more enclosed Dredd was an huge inspiration for 40k

[@hinomura2001]

And they have walls to keep scum bags out!! Where do I sign up?

[@combineeliteunit8769]

@@robertnelson9599 yeah, especially when certain gangs have full on plasma guns that will hit you with the temperature of a sun

[@Donnerbalken28]

This is actually footage from Johannesburg, South Africa, somewhat enhanced with CGI and of course, the Megablocks added.

[@fancy3774]

my first thought exactly 😂😂

[@vincent_hall]

It's a lovely country😂😂

[@GuardianComplex]

No other film has ever made the phrase "Peach Trees" into something intimidating and terrifying.

[@samsonguy10k]

In some ways Dredd's MegaCity One looks better than Bladerunner 2049's Los Angeles. 2049's people are packed like sardines. Even the Megastructures like Peach Trees have more elbow room.

[@kabeltelevizio]

That's going a bit too far :D

[@TovenDo.O.Video-]

True

[@Hypastpist]

this version was little more generous than the comic books in the comic it was probably worse than blade runner, comparable to 40k hive cities

[@mysticblade35]

Dredd is canonically a million times worse. 1 floor of a mega-block in the comics is basically an entire favela/project packed into a single floor. The Blocks are fucking huge.

[@druunderwood5602]

@@mysticblade35 Brit Cit Cit Def.

[@smirking8457]

One of the best movies of the last decade. I'm serious about that

[@christiangeibel5257]

I couldnt more agree with you this movie is just insane such an interesting comic world but of course shitty marvel movies are much more important to make. Its such a shame that hollywood gives a fuck about this comic icon. I mean common we are living in a century where every month comic movies are made that have the same lame repetitive and boring structure formula. Why we cant get an something like this. Its dark deep violent and realistic in some way where marvel is just making movies for kids.

[@johnjr578]

Very underrated grittybaction movie, just back to the basics

[@JetEngine787]

Absolutely. It's a perfect movie

[@Magyar-wo2vp]

Agreed, cyberpunk at its finest!!

[@GuardianComplex]

You ain't wrong.

[@SuperUnunquadium]

There's a Kowloon every city block

[@DiegoMachida]

We need to start a petition or some shit, this movie is criminally underated, Urban needs to comeback.

[@DipankarGhosh007]

Most people wouldn't even notice a sci-fi epic even if it came and slapped them right in the face. I really loved this movie but I was so sad to learn it didn't make enough money for a possible sequel.

[@stephendoherty8291]

Just another day in paradise

[@crrntvntsnthnlnftnsscmmnty]

Bangkok has better food, but otherwise it looks pretty similar

[@Tippet76]

Pft Bangkok looks more modern than most US cities. The vendors throwing rinds and peels in the street is an issue though. I would describe the smell as overrippened fruit.

[@d68st90]

Considering that this images are from Johannesburg, except for the megablocks which were added with CGI, I would say so

[@DelasVC]

This is what I wanted Cyberpunk 2077 to be...

[@CanadianPrepper]

Dont ask where the food comes from...

[@GetToDaChoppa-k5r]

eat recycled food

[@user-kx4xs2xd3k]

corpse starch

[@xSuperiorManx]

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!

[@theangrymilitant]

@@GetToDaChoppa-k5r”It’s good for the environment, and okay for you!”

[@andromedagalaxynebula5751]

Eat recycled food. Soylet Green.

[@Thebossstage1]

Western architects and government officials be like "Write that down!"

[@danielosgood7069]

The new saudi city "the line"

[@helloneighbour2408]

lmao ironically it's China who is doing this right now

[@then00brathalos]

I think we can agree after scrolling down the comment section, that every major city is starting to look more and more like this aka dystopian

[@willywanker1906]

It's all that garbage in the streets and brutalist architecture

[@jessemartinez243]

Only in the US

[@MyAramil]

Hell, add a mega building and you have it in california

[@helloidharbl6753]

Nah. This looks a hell of a lot better than LA.

[@magnusthered4973]

@@jessemartinez243 have you seen Russia India China Germany England and Bangladesh

[@Damnnat1onArmy]

Great job, thanks for the upload.

[@moppypuppy781]

Can you imagine having an apartment overlooking the wall separating MegaCity One from the Cursed Earth? That would be rad.

[@Mtn_Dewit]

Yea it would be rad, literally because of all that radiation you would be exposed to constantly

[@maxxdroid]

@@Mtn_Dewit what will the little radiation do? Just take slomo and enjoy life.

[@ghostofwolfmoonmani3877]

nice wordplay

[@kevinng0703]

Who came here for nostalgia after watching Cyberpunk gameplay?

[@vincent_hall]

I appreciate this. Thank you very much.

[@sword5926]

Well done! Thank you.

[@rldabomb33]

Saudi is planning to make a mega city😂😂😂 i guess they havent seen judge dredd

[@mr.banana9434]

Now this here folks what cyber punk looks like

[@gregwill500]

This was shot in Johannesburg for most of outside scenes. I recognise some of those bridge underpasses. It was a good choice to get that urban decay as a base. Just stick some megablocs in jozi and hey presto. Mega city one.

[@eternalvoid8153]

California 2021

[@maurverngallard4607]

True. www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/peachtree-corners-camera-system-to-monitor-compliance-with-covid-19-protocols/45IM3XHCTJBRNBJMJ2TPLKJWCU/%3foutputType=amp

[@monad5140]

You know it doesn't seem THAT bad. I mean like, compared to other dystopian cities. You even get a little sunlight look at that.

[@lolroflroflcakes]

It ain't no Necromunda, that's for sure.

[@druunderwood5602]

@@lolroflroflcakes "Necropolis"

[@kjarllan7097]

​@@druunderwood5602 Necromunda is not Necropolis. it's the name of a Hivecity from warhammer 40K.

[@druunderwood5602]

@@kjarllan7097 Dredd did it first, "Necropolis" is a 26-part story featuring British comics science fiction character Judge Dredd. Written by John Wagner and painted by Carlos Ezquerra, ...

[@druunderwood5602]

@@kjarllan7097 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fabLmmyPh9urp6M

[@hotcauldron7918]

At least it's not Detroit

[@blackburnheart]

Arraiving to México City be like...

[@11jerans]

Where is their food coming from? Is there another mega city that actually has no people and instead is just thousands of square miles of crops and animals? Or are they eating recycled people? Because they do say “bodies for recyc” quite often in the movie

[@tim_buktu66]

Pretty sure it's soilent green they're eating.

[@antoniousai1989]

They recycle people, but it's never specified if they use it for direct food or they use it to fertilize some artificial algae or fungi cultivation.

[@louisazraels7072]

​@@antoniousai1989 The second options makes much more sense, a human corpse only contains a insignificant fraction of the calories a person use throughout their life, soylent green doesn't make much sense as it would barely supplement food production, they seem to have plenty of sunlight so cultivating plant/algae is probably the way to go.

[@antoniousai1989]

@@louisazraels7072 The cultivate underground in the comics, in enclosed farms/factories

[@willywanker1906]

Mostly algae

[@MixedMediaEnterprise]

Great edit!

[@birgaripadam7112]

good music

[@SamsarasArt]

That overhead shot of peach trees gives me vertigo

[@Klesk1985]

Nice video i like sci fi but still miss thiz movie 😁

[@Sammydx1]

Im happy I found this thread. I love movies like this. I always think how would I survive in this situation. Where would I work ... live...

[@hastekulvaati9681]

It’s not as crazy and colourful as Mega City One in the Judge Dredd Strip. Where are the flyovers, gaudy statues and curvy mega blocks?

[@fumblingpony1606]

I always wondered if those smaller apartment buildings around the megablocks actually have tenants, or everyone just lives in those giant megablocks.

[@CThyran]

I like to think that the "projects" are the usual places people live. Megablocks are the more ritzy option given its basically a self contained neighborhood.

[@ZATennisFan]

Filmed in Johannesburg...

[@joss_ananascocos]

@Tex-1980 Thats cool filme

[@SolidSnake0621]

I can’t play Cyberpunk 2077 without thinking of this movie

[@timengineman2nd714]

Is the "Recycled Protein" the same thing as Soylent Green?

[@combineeliteunit8769]

Or corpse starch from 40k

[@Montesama314]

Pretty much. Megacities literally have "meatwagons" to take corpses off to be recycled for meat. Either that, or they're used for fertilizer to make food.

[@willywanker1906]

@@Montesama314 probably this one since human bodies would eventually run out of proteins if they are recycled enough times

[@SeeFoodDie]

Looks like NYC 2020

[@socal_la4080]

Give it some time it's going to look like Los Angeles as well we'll half way there😭😔💯

[@hueblu]

but it doesn’t

[@maurverngallard4607]

Israeli facial recognition systems " monitoring comiance with covid social distancing regulations" are named... wait for it... PEACHTREE

[@youdontknowwhoiam4349]

@@maurverngallard4607 what lol

[@ericworst]

It's actually r/l Johannesburg in South Africa with the mega blocks added - you can see the Carlton center there and the freeway is quite famous in the car chase as are the Hiace minibus taxis.

[@Gullpped]

What is the wall at the edge of Megacity One meant to keep out? T-Rexes?

[@abloogywoogywoo]

Its to keep inhabitants of the Megacity away from the radioactive ruins, and to keep out various Mutants of the Cursed Earth.

[@TeddyBearAssassin]

Irradiated dust storms.

[@chesterwhut1006]

Yes, as well as Mutants and other cursed earth dangers, T-Rexes too. judge-dredd.fandom.com/wiki/Tyrannosaurs_Rex

[@MrKook]

@@abloogywoogywoo cursed earth sounds nicer and more hospitable than the megacities. Maybe get out a few thousand miles and start a farm.

[@Gullpped]

How tall are these mutants? 40 or 50 feet?

[@dobertjowneyrunior3023]

Saudi Arabia has entered the chat

[@edthedaddy]

I'm not one for sequels or reboots but this one was better than the one with Stallone. Karl Urban was a better Judge Dredd. he was more of a badass.

[@rezwanahmed157]

This movie was ahead of the time

[@Julieber1]

This will become a reality one day mark my words.

[@tgchan]

awesome clip from an awesome movie/

[@simonpender8331]

Nice

[@lokhtar]

Traffic seems reasonable in Megacity one!

[@ianortega2780]

Seen they just started on "the line" in Saudi Arabia. So I had to find this video cause I mean ya.

[@damirbabic7403]

This will always be a better version od judge dredd ad 2000 comics i.am the law! Judge dredd

[@dwightschrute491]

"Mega hot dogs... mega ice creams..."

[@antonboludo8886]

How do they grow food?

[@tristantaus4556]

I don't care we need something like this in the near future

[@goalcrypto8653]

What being caged in a big building rofl ok

[@Hirotoro4692]

Near future my ass. We still have plenty of land mass

[@merlionsin8129]

Not one single plant left

[@hfuy8005]

Hey, there's a tree inside a cage in part of the riot footage! I wondered if it was really appropriate! That's found real world news video, though.

[@druunderwood5602]

Silent Running olde bean.

[@druunderwood5602]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmecnXiDo5V8bs0

[@fumblingpony1606]

@@hfuy8005 its stock footage, probably forgot to edit out the tree or were just too lazy too

[@commandoslayer]

The sequel should be in Mega-City Two.

[@michaelkrilich3513]

Seems kinda familiar

[@MrKook]

Imagine the smell.

[@druunderwood5602]

Brit Cit's worst, The Greater Armitage Shanks Crater, 🤣

[@druunderwood5602]

Mega Shity One

[@willywanker1906]

It would smell of crime and corruption

[@willywanker1906]

@@druunderwood5602 duude 😂

[@jaggybot9631]

Anyone who is interested check out The Walled City in Hong Kong. Its like the real life version of Mega City 1

[@Hirotoro4692]

Not really. More like the one in stray

[@agent_meister477]

The Big Meg 👍

[@druunderwood5602]

The Rotten Core 👍

[@gustavomondragon2725]

A very undarated movie, this deserve a sequel

[@melon_musk7003]

Unlucky who has the office located at the other side of the city

[@luisgiron7319]

Feels so much like NY

[@mittdanfellixc.dasilva9109]

Legaalllllllll

[@thejannerofplymouth3654]

Awesome film from start to finish.......Where's no2

[@zac0918]

someone needs to mod night city into megacity one

[@chrisa8863]

In what way? The only good mod I've seen with Cyberpunk so far is the Bladerunner weather mod, which is great btw

[@zac0918]

@@chrisa8863 turn cops into judges, make it far more crowded, make things less shiny, things like that.

[@Andre-bi3gq]

São Paulo?

[@lucas25884]

Estava esperando um comentário desse haha

[@rodrigojaramillo367]

Planet saturn 2071

[@bior2345]

Лучшее

[@stinkyham9050]

Looks like my worst nightmare. I hate cities.

[@milin7120]

D inevitable future

[@bigbadred8295]

Only slightly worse than living in Detroit.

[@DrRock2009]

Welcome to your future: smart cities…

[@SludgeQueen]

Goatse at 1:34

[@danghoangluong2942]

still look better than Mexico

[@Lunk42]

A shame we'll never get a sequel.

[@visionist7]

Huge shame :(

[@Babuiski]

This movie got the character of Dredd right but got Megacity One all wrong (likely due to the small budget). The 1995 Stallone movie got the Dredd character all wrong but got the scale and the level of technology of Megacity One right.

[@chrismcqueen3920]

I liked the grittyness of meg 1 in dredd though

[@davidlewis5312]

true, but I think that kind of stylization that we saw in the 95 film tends to push what would otherwise be a gritty film into a campy film as we saw with the 95 one. Its not that it should be campy but the medium of cinema, pushes that kind of stylization into the world of camp. The uniform is another example of that. Technically (at least based on the comics of the time) the 95 judge uniform is actually close. What causes that film so many issues is the dissonance of the film (is it suppose to come off as a comedy? because it is... kind of hard to avoid once you cast Rob Schneider in a main role) which this film avoids with Dredd only getting a couple cold lines of bitter sarcasm, (which I read more as a mental reflex, then attempt at humor). 'No i was saying 'wait', so she could shoot you.' And of course the ego the lead. (which, I get you hired Stalloine are you not going to show his face?) This film had the inverse, it sounds like Urban had a clear 'if you tell me to take off the helmet, I am walking' mentality to Dredd stating he had in the helmet a note for himself 'grimace harder'.

[@druunderwood5602]

Just like my wife.

[@ejlayne6543]

@@druunderwood5602 what? 😂

[@druunderwood5602]

@@ejlayne6543 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6u9fX-hq9Cpbsk

[@antpat]

Post-Apocalyptic settings are interesting sociologically because; if you have technology handling most of your daily life, and your faith in long-term humanity is diminished because humanity had shown it was so self-destructive that it chose it's own suicide, then what's the point in making strides. Let's just get drugged out and go to the fighting pits. But I guess how's that different than today. The flames of innovation and curiosity of the future must be stoked. Not because we fear death, but because this Universe and nature is so infinitely interesting and holds many mysteries to be unlocked.

[@rohangaikwad255]

Most of Asian populated cities look close to this

[@vincent_hall]

I have a morbid fascination with this place. I wanna go there. I want it to be build: gargantuan bindings and population, pollution too. Isn't that sick of me. Anyway, I can imagine it and watch the media on it.

[@shanekeenaNYC]

Yes, perfect for getting that perfect tan too. Just go up to the roof and pull out a lawn chair.

[@Sammydx1]

Same

[@JohnnyTog354]

Esengeles

[@mrdynamic8678]

Where’s the hot dog 🌭 vendors

[@budakart]

Come to al Islam n success

[@alexbasshead]

Our future

[@agent_meister477]

More than likely 😭

[@jasemalvis2140]

Well uhh... it's kinda happening right now in China. Minus the radiated Wasteland. So far...

[@GetToDaChoppa-k5r]

Basically China, then

[@brettpitman3718]

ok but could we build megablocks in real life?

[@Hirotoro4692]

Architecturally it's a bad idea making such a large tower, especially from concrete which cracks and decays over time

[@brettpitman3718]

@Hirotoro4692 maybe on mars one day 🙏

[@TheJewishAzovMember]

​@@brettpitman3718Crime would be hard to control if they ever were made

[@surawolf9069]

If mankind doesn't stop to multiply uncontrollably, this is what Earth will look like... the whole Planet will be one giant City like this, no space for other animals. do we want this? 🤔

[@FedoReds88]

Colonize other worlds

[@aqu9973]

Yes

[@jlim9411]

There’s actually a theory that the human population will plateau around 2100 due to the slowly declining birth rate reaching a point where it matches the death rate. So basically, unless there’s another baby boom (which is very unlikely seeing as how the younger generations are straying away from having multiple children) the birth rate will just keep dropping until it matches the death rate and the human population will top out and stop growing.

[@samsonguy10k]

@@jlim9411 Was just reading how China started allowing 3 children to a family but it would seem the majority are saying they have no plans to have that many due to the conditions, so-so health care(which would seem to be better than the US's in some ways), food supply, etc. Wish more folks used more foresight before deciding they needed to have as many kids as possible.

[@Slayer-ft6tl]

population crunch coming soon

[@Chr1stmasCat]

москва при собянине похорошела

[@standupforgood7810]

This is the end result of Capitalism.

[@Makalon102]

It's the end result of infinite population growth, which is the result of capitalism so I guess you are right

[@tommyzDad]

LOL. Please, cite your sources from history of nations that have reached the "end result" of Capitalism.

[@metallicarchaea1820]

The funny part is that there is no end result of communism.

[@DerLamer]

@@metallicarchaea1820 Yeah, it instead just keeps getting worse.

[@jasemalvis2140]

You're not wrong, but this is where China is right now

[@rudybanks6357]

looks like electronic concentration camp/

[@MrGriff305]

This kinda is the future if conservatives have their way.

[@mikegarwood8680]

Wrong. This the leftist paradise...their dream, Naked Power. The great urban waste they can control through Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. They don't want to make society better, liberate the spirit and give everyone the opportunity to succeed. No, they want to enslave all under their Power by offering crumbs and shiny trinkets. You leftists dream of 1984. That is why you must be destroyed.

[@chrismcqueen3920]

Get in the helicopter griff

[@MrGriff305]

@@mikegarwood8680 1984 was an exact parallel to Trump and his Fox News drones. He demonstrably lied at a rate 20 times higher than all prior Presidents and actively sought to create his own reality. There is no room for logic in a world of alternative facts. Trump's followers have since committed treason against the United States government and are generally destabilizing society with false information on the internet. Conservatives are well known anti-intellectual, anti-science, and anti-environment, which would ultimately result in the wasteland of this movie, Dredd. Environmental and anti-poverty measures matter. Liberals have continually improved human rights and quality of life since the dawn of civilization. If it was up to conservatives, we'd still be burning witches or in medieval times and slaughtering anyone who was different. Also, liberals dominate the world and advance culture forward, since they're simply the smartest and produce the most creative products. College professors, technology experts, and movie makers didn't conspire to be liberal. Instead, that's just what they happen to be as rational and successful people. And last, conservative culture always follows liberal culture eventually, but it's just about 25 years behind the times. Small-town conservatives of today are far far more liberal than than small-town conservatives from prior decades. Every culture evolves in the rational and liberal direction, but it's just that small-town conservatives are slower due to their generally spoiled existence as they hide from the world in their bubble.

[@BrianBourgeois-]

@@MrGriff305 good lord you’re naive and restarted.

[@thekingofwaffles8403]

This looks like one of Trumps resorts....

[@MarkSmith-ud4sd]

...looks like Obidens & Omala's revamped 90's Prison for Profit Scheme.

[@dJ-rd9wt]

Looks like the beautiful democrat run city of LA

[@thekingofwaffles8403]

@@MarkSmith-ud4sd A prison most fitting for crooked Republicans. Don't think a certain Republican can find any underaged to get sent to his motel (Prison cell). Right next to insurgent tax fraudulent oranges.

[@thekingofwaffles8403]

@@dJ-rd9wt I don't think a Republican city would look any better.

[@MarkSmith-ud4sd]

@@thekingofwaffles8403 nah, you mean the crime riddled inner city slums of Democrat run states @ "Defund the Dredds."

[@romeolachapelle5349]

I will take mega city or blade runner world over anything this world can offer me right now or tomorrow for that matter, period.

[@MrGanjaBandits]

That’s really sad. Why? Where do you live

[@Hirotoro4692]

You need to touch grass

[@eternalvoid8153]

California 2021

[@rikk319]

Not quite. Most of California is mountains, desert, forest, and farmland. Grows 13.5% of all agricultural products in the country, and twice as much agricultural produce as the next state, Iowa. I was just in Los Angeles for surgery two weeks ago. A bit hazy from smog, but traffic wasn't bad, people were out and about, restaurants open. Where do you get your information from?