{"id":3167,"date":"2011-08-18T14:57:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T19:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/08\/18\/i-know-rules-are-a-bore-you-know-im-no-stranger\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T08:29:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T13:29:47","slug":"i-know-rules-are-a-bore-you-know-im-no-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/08\/18\/i-know-rules-are-a-bore-you-know-im-no-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"I know rules are a bore, You know I&#8217;m no stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"560\" height=\"345\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/O2JhQXCjTLY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/O2JhQXCjTLY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nHis name is Judge Minty, not Dredd and he took the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Long_Walk_(Judge_Dredd)\">Long Walk<\/a> more than thirty years ago, in prog #147. And now there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/judgeminty.blogspot.com\/\">a fan film<\/a> to show what happened once Judge Minty took up retirement in the Cursed Earth, where mutants dwell. Which, no matter how it will look, can&#8217;t help but be better than what Sylvester Stallone did to Dredd back in 1995.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s also a good example of a) how powerful the fan fiction impulse is and b) how sophisticated it can become. It costs a lot of money\/effort\/expertise to make a movie and this is not a movie one can make a profit with. The Homeric impulse is universal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His name is Judge Minty, not Dredd and he took the Long Walk more than thirty years ago, in prog #147. And now there&#8217;s a fan film to show what happened once Judge Minty took up retirement in the Cursed Earth, where mutants dwell. Which, no matter how it will look, can&#8217;t help but be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,242],"tags":[1424,1425],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comix","category-video","tag-judge-dredd","tag-judge-minty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11726,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions\/11726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}