Dredd WAS a generic action flick. A well done one sure, but extremely generic and very little Dredd universe.
I'm not sure what your point is, as my point was that not watching a film based off a bad trailer (which Dredd's was) means you miss out on potentially good movies (which Dredd is). When the only "loss" in watching a bad movie is that you understand what makes movies bad to you a little more, I find it silly and self-defeating that anybody would actively boycott a film based on a bad trailer when they would otherwise watch it if the trailer was better.
But to address your point on genre and Dredd:
Generic action films tend not to undermine and dehumanise their own (anti)heroes as much as Dredd does. Nor do they converse on, and attack, misogyny the way Dredd does. Action films tend not to forgo heart-of-gold character building. Action films tend not to make their heroes sociopaths. Action films tend not to eroticise violence as a visual tool for character-building (Dredd's character).
Dredd does not follow genre conventions, aka is not generic. The fact that it does it's own thing rather than lifting from the source material is neither here nor there. It is confusing when people use 'generic' as a pejorative because that's not what it means. Because a film can be generic and good. This happens the most with horror movies, where they are good and follow genre conventions to a tee.
Where's the Dredd-watching-perps-burn-in-phosphorous-and-getting-a-hard-on gif?
Edit: Ah, here we go. Like seriously, who wants to
watch people burn? Hardly a generic action movie hero.
Looks increasingly like star wars.
I'd say that while the first two definitely had a Star Wars feel, Beyond, going from the trailers, has a distinctly less swashbuckling-space-adventure Star Wars feel.
It's the movie equivalent of a Star Trek episode where the Enterprise is attacked / incapacitated, and the crew is stranded on/in [plot device].
That's like a Star Trek TV staple.
A revenge story about space-9/11, on the other hand, isn't, which makes Into Darkness the least Star Trek of the new Star Treks. (Also, the least good.)