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Post by Maggadin on Nov 14, 2011 22:16:20 GMT
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kirkg
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Post by kirkg on Nov 14, 2011 22:56:31 GMT
instead of a Tardis, they're going to reimagine it as a cell phone...
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Post by aquabluejay on Nov 15, 2011 1:39:10 GMT
No, Mags, I'm right there with you.
I was not particularly pleased with the last few potter films...
Excited, but also terrified of this movie...
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kirkg
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Post by kirkg on Nov 15, 2011 4:25:52 GMT
But Aqua, you were also growing up by the time those last few movies came out... You used to love the books...and the early movies were fun too... Any series that stretches that long looses some of it's momentum.
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Post by Maggadin on Nov 15, 2011 10:00:34 GMT
I'm not just displeased because of who's directing it. I don't want a movie reboot at all.
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Post by aquabluejay on Nov 16, 2011 2:13:35 GMT
Yeah...They kind of tried that once already....
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Post by jjpor on Nov 16, 2011 21:54:12 GMT
If it turns out to be as fun and essentially harmless as, say, the Cushing Dalek films (it'd have to occupy a similar weird not-"canon" position as them, I'd say, just for logistical reasons if the BBC series is still running etc), it might be worth a watch. If it turns out like the TVM, well, won't be a classic but it'll be passable, I guess. If it turns out anything like any of the umpteen other film adaptations during the late-80s/90s were supposed to be going to be like...I think I'll reserve the right to pretend it never happened. Look some of those projects up online...and shudder... *shudder*Spider Daleks! No-oooo!*shudder* Didn't Tom Baker and (I think?) Ian Marter co-write a Who film screenplay back in the 70s called something like Doctor Who and the Scratchman? Of course, the 70s was something of a boom time in the British film industry for low-budget big-screen spinoffs of television series (mostly of somewhat distressingly faily sitcoms, although one or two of them like the Dad's Army and Porridge films were pretty good, I think, and a couple of cop series like The Sweeney got the same treatment - of course in the context of Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes things like The Sweeney now look like unintentional parodies). Still, that one might have been worth watching, I think. Having said all of that, though: gammasquad.uproxx.com/2011/11/news-of-a-doctor-who-movie-may-have-been-exaggerated
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Post by Maggadin on Nov 16, 2011 22:19:49 GMT
Scratchman?? Does he... scratch people? Also, I'm naive. I should have known this was something that you hear about every couple of years in Who fandom.
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Post by jjpor on Nov 16, 2011 22:45:17 GMT
No, not naive - this one seems to have got much more press and reaction than these things usually do, probably because this Yates bloke (and I'll confess to never having seen/read any Harry Potter films, books, so I can't judge him on that) seems to have been so certain about it. Which may suggest that there's more of a grain of truth to it... For the most part though, the big-budget, big-screen version of Doctor Who seems to remain like cheap, easy nuclear fusion - always just a few years round the corner... ;D Here's something else on the story: www.cinemablend.com/new/Doctor-Who-May-Regenerate-Movie-Any-Time-Soon-27906.htmlAt least the 80s-90s rumours had good, cracky stuff like Spider Daleks and various unlikely-sounding lead actors being named. I believe Donald Sutherland was at one point leading the running to "play" the movie Doctor (with Spielberg producing/directing, natch) - although it probably would have come as a surprise to him if anybody had told him. ;D I believe (although I am literally pulling this out of...the air, so take it with a pinch of salt) that "Scratchman" is yet another one of those quaint old English names for the Devil. So maybe some sort of The Daemons-type thing, maybe?
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Post by Maggadin on Nov 16, 2011 23:14:19 GMT
I'm now hearing Taxman by the Beatles as ''I'm the Scrathcman, yeaaaah, I'm the Scratchman'', which is funny, considering that tax day used to be known as The Devil's Birthday in my home country. ;D
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Post by jjpor on Nov 18, 2011 20:19:10 GMT
Coincidence?! I think not! ;D
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Post by Maggadin on Nov 19, 2011 2:20:02 GMT
We've never liked paying taxes. That's why some of us left Norway, according to our saga. ;D
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Post by jjpor on Nov 20, 2011 21:19:51 GMT
A nation of tax exiles, eh? ;D
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Post by Maggadin on Nov 20, 2011 21:40:33 GMT
So they say. But recent findings show that we've been here about five hundred years longer than previously thought. And then there's the fact that half the population has celtic-gaelic roots (Will not make stereotypical joke about Scots...)
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Post by jjpor on Nov 21, 2011 22:40:30 GMT
I...I've already done myself no favours regarding my reputation on the Scottish question on DW Live and elsewhere, so I'll...yeah...
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Post by Maggadin on Nov 22, 2011 18:27:43 GMT
Not that that particular joke has anything to do with the current Scottish Question ;D
So, yeah, we were talking about a movie or something?
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Post by jjpor on Nov 23, 2011 22:17:26 GMT
Well, to listen to some people... ;D
But yes, we were - or something...! I wouldn't mind them doing a film along the lines of the Cushing ones, as I said above. You know a weird remake of one of the TV stories with bright psychedelic colours and starring...whoever is the modern-day equivalent of Peter Cushing. Er...
I'd laugh if they ended up with Eccleston. I don't know, I just would. ;D
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Post by Maggadin on Nov 24, 2011 0:15:35 GMT
But they won't because they're supposed to be ~dark and edgy, these days.
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