It wasn’t, you know, brilliant or anything, but it was zany and funny and I really liked Mos Def, surprisingly. He was very funny.
If you liked The Avengers, however, you are. Very, very alone.
And I really don’t need a Doctor Who movie. The odds of it being buttockclenchingly bad are quite high.
I know. I found the bits were it just redid the TV or radio series, but with different actors, to be less interesting than the new stuff. But I did like the new stuff. Despite being a fan since the mid 80s (I still have a VERY battered copy of this edition:) I am not so uppity that I can’t handle a different version to what is seen as the “best”.
Hence me not getting particularly uptight about the idea of a Dr Who movie.
Don’t worry. I’m not an Avengers fan and still thought it was awful (ie. I didn’t have "but it isn’t The Avengers I remember reasoning).
Talking of The Avengers, did it have an interval everywhere as some kind of throwback to days gone by? I saw it in The Netherlands and they had one, the first time I’d seen an interval at the movies in about a decade.
I have a hard time picturing Doctor Who without continuity. It just loses a lot of the…fun.
Unless he has amnesia or something. And it would take a lot of work to keep that from being dire.
Me, too. Love to see something like that - and maybe with an older incarnation of the Doctor, since it seems they’ve been getting progressively younger. I would love to see Ian McKellen take a crack at it.
As an aside, I am really enjoying Matt Smith’s Doctor. Is it just me, or does he sometimes channel Jon Pertwee just a little bit? He doesn’t resemble him physically, but he sometimes has this certain baleful/wistful/wise (but self-consciously cheery) manner about him that calls Dr. III to mind for me. (Although I started watching during Tom Baker’s run and recall IV fondly, Jon Pertwee is still my Doctor.)
I don’t see any way this can turn out well. Geez Hollywood, enough with the reboots already!!!
Reading this thread shortly after the “why does Voyager suck so bad” thread gives me the perverse thought that they should hire Robert Picardo to play this ersatz Doctor.