A middle-aged nerd from the UK. I like films and write about them, sometimes for Film Stories or my blog.

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  • I remember three of us lugging our PCs and big heavy CRT monitors to our friends house where we spent 12 hours playing through the original Rainbow Six. I think it had lan co-op, if not it was at least the whole night in multiplayer.

    On the opposite side of the scale, I once connected my 486DX 33 to my friends Pentium to play Descent over a serial connection.

    As his was the fastest machine, the game played normal for him. All I saw was a game updating the screen once every 5 seconds. That wasn’t much fun. 😄












  • The problem with Dredd is that the director, Danny Cannon, wanted to follow the tone of the comics, whereas Stallone thought it was an action comedy. So the whole production had a push/pull effect applied to it, where Stallone won because he was the bigger name with more star pulling power.

    Cannon says the final film is very different to the script due to Stallone’s changes.

    I distinctly remember, many years ago, reading that Cannon was thinking of a director’s cut, and I’ve been waiting ever since.

    Dredd (2012) for me, is the better film and I think they were using that entry to establish the character (for those who nothing of Dredd). Apparently the plan for the sequel was to bring in Judge Death, but as the film was a commercial flop, all plans were abandoned.

    Finally, Rebellion Studios were working on a television show called Mega City One which would have occasional appearances from Dredd, but I haven’t heard anything about that show in years.