(Scene begins as a hand as it taps the 1994 American Gladiators plays as the scene cuts to a hand as it taps an app on his phone as it opens a portal, and it cuts to different images of James as the characters he’s played until it cut to his face and the credit of “James Faraci” is shown as it cuts to “The Last Of The Americans’” current iteration then slides away to different images of Paulo Fonseca, Brenda Fonseca, Rebecca Yaun and Nick Yaun as the characters they’ve played until it cut to their faces and the credits of “Paulo and Brenda Fonseca & Rebecca and Nick Yaun” is shown as it then slides away to different images of John Ross and Mike Santos, Andrew Beach, and Ed Champion as the characters they’ve played until it cut to their faces and the credits of “John Ross Santos, Mike Santos, Andrew Beach, Ed Champion” is shown as it then slides away to different images of Eric Kurtzke, Renee Miller and Olivia Horvath and the credits of “Eric Kurtzke, Renee Miller, Olivia Horvath” is shown as the 0:00-0:21 mark of the theme song plays. Everything becomes a swirl of Reds, Whites and Blues as the credits “Produced by First Choice Productions. Edited by Eric Kurtzke and Paulo Fonseca. Written and Directed by James Faraci” as the 0:21-0:26 mark of the theme song plays. We then see an outlined image of James as he morphs into “The Last Of The Americans” and lands with half of his team on his right. The other half on his left on a white background and the title “THE LAST OF THE AMERICANS” is shown Lazer etched into Titanium as the last six seconds of the American Gladiators 1994 theme song plays. Cut to James in his office)
TLOTA:
I’m James Faraci, The Last Of The Americans, and The Views that I’m about to express are that of my own and some of yours, and welcome once again to “In Defense Of…(Show pics of maligned pieces of pop culture while the fanfare from the Olympics plays and James comes up after Vanilla Ice slides back and his right-hand thumbs up and the words “In Defense Of…” before cutting to clips of “Judge Dredd” 1995 as James does a voiceover)
TLOTA (V.O.):
In 1995, the Sylvester Stallone movie “Judge Dredd” came out in the same summer as other great Superhero movies like “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie,” “Batman Forever,” and blockbusters like “Apollo 13.” While it did mildly well at the box office, it did about as well as something around that time. By today’s standards, it is so filled with ham that a Rabbi wouldn’t call it Pareve. But it is also considered a cult classic, along with other movies of Stallone’s that came out then. (Cut to James physically)
TLOTA:
But today, we will discuss the 2012 movie that tried to reboot the Judge Dredd movies simply titled “Dredd.” What’s that you say? You never heard of the 2012 “Dredd” movie? Well, let’s see what came out around that same time. (Cut to the posters of “Marvel’s The Avengers” & “The Dark Knight Rises.” Cut to James physically)
TLOTA:
Well, talk about deja vu luck!
(Cut to clips of “The Avengers,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” and “Dredd” as James does a voiceover.)
TLOTA (V.O.):
Yeah, in the same year that Marvel had one of its greatest movies released and the same year we put a bullet in the Christopher Nolan Batman “Dark Knight” trilogy, “Dredd” quietly came and left, not even making its budget back, however as the years have gone on, this movie went on to gain a cult status of its own. Much like the 1995 Sylvester Stallone version of “Judge Dredd.” (Cut to James physically)
TLOTA:
So why did it fail?
See if I can use THE LAUWH to defend the 2012 “Dredd” movie
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