Doctor Who rewatch - one photoset per episode
1x14 - Children in Need special

I was re-watching The Christmas Invasion a few days ago and realized that I had never seen this. I quickly remedied that problem and now I can’t imagine The Doctor with anyone else…ever. 

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David Tennant and various members of the cast & crew singing “500 miles” by The Proclaimers.

This just reminded my why David Tennant will always be the best Doctor. 

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Dont. Even. Blink.

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I should have been more wary when I heard they were remaking this late 80’s classic… I should have known better than to get my hopes up, but the promise of gore and David Tennant lured me in. I was sorely disappointed to say the least…

I want to start by saying that this movie could have been, should have been and in a parallel universe, probably was very good. The cast was phenomenal, Anton Yelchin was in the lead role as Charley Brewster, Toni Collette was his mom, Colin Farrell was Jerry the Vampire, Christopher Mintz-Plasse was Charley’s friend and David Tennant was Peter Vincent, paranormal expert. With a cast like that what could possibly go wrong? Well for one, the dialogue between all of the teenagers felt stilted and completely unnatural. Someone really should have told the screenwriter that normal people don’t talk that way. Even the shittiest of dialogue can be salvaged with good acting, which this film also lacked. I was expecting Anton Yelchin to do a better job as the leading man, but he perpetually had a look of shocked confusion, that after the third vampire attack really started to lose its pertinence. Okay, we get it vampires are scary and out of the norm, but can you perhaps look past that fact and work on not looking like a startled animal. Colin Farrell and David Tennant were incredible exceptions to the trend of bad acting in this movie and I want to take a moment to thank both of them because without their performances I think I would have walked out. But before I continue to thoroughly drag this film through the mud I should probably mention something of the plot. Hint: It was barely there.

So for those of you who don’t know, this film is a remake of a 1985 film of the same name. The 1985 film has achieved significant cult status. I wouldn’t be surprised if this film achieves a significant amount of Razzies. The basic story is that Charley Brewster’s new neighbor, Jerry is a very charming man with a voracious appetite for human blood. As Charley attempts to alert his Mom and girlfriend (played by Imogen Poots in the 2011 incarnation) of the impending danger without sounding crazy Jerry is busy killing anyone he can get his hands on. Things get a bit more intense when Charley realizes that Jerry knows that he knows that he’s a vampire (a bit complicated, isn’t it?). In his desperation to keep his loved ones safe Charley contacts Peter Vincent, a TV personality and paranormal expert. Surprisingly (*sarcasm*), Vincent doesn’t actually know anything about paranormal entities and has a bit of an alcohol problem to boot. As Jerry closes in on Charley’s mom and girlfriend can he manage to protect them? The answer is yes of course because this is a comedy and killing main characters is so passe.

Now back to all of the things that went wrong in this movie. For one, all of the characters were so stupid that I was hoping Jerry would win and kill them. Anyone who possessed basic common sense was either killed off or indifferent to what was happening. What really did it for me was the fact that their dimness did nothing to further the plot. Perhaps it was the writer’s attempt to satirize the genre-blindness that is so commonly found in horror movies, but if that was the case someone should tell them that satire is usually funny. There were multiples points where I had to cover my eyes in a failed attempt to shield myself from their sheer stupidity. Speaking of eyes, for some inexplicable reason I paid 5 dollars extra to see this movie in 3D. I am wholly against 3D and can’t find a good reason why the inventor of this particular technology should not be put in front of a firing squad. I think this movie made me want to be a part of said firing squad. I won’t go on a tirade about why 3D is unnecessary because I think we can all agree on that statement, but I will say that if your only use for it in a film is to digitally spray fake blood and fire at your audience then I think you might have missed your peak in the 80s.

Okay, I covered the bad acting, the poor dialogue, the insufferable characterization and the unnecessary 3D. So what’s left? Oh, right! What might have been the most unoriginal plot I have ever seen (and this is coming from someone who recently saw The Change-Up *shudder*). The backbone of this plot is a simple one; there’s a wolf in a sheep herd and no one notices until its too late. Great, perfect, it’s classic and universal and most importantly modifiable. There a few key components that need to be introduced and after that you can do whatever you please. Show the wolf being wolf-y, show the sheep being accepting and oblivious to the wolf-y behavior, show the forming of doubt concerning the wolf, cement that doubt into fact and finally, the confrontation. In my opinion the most crucial step is the forming of doubt because that’s where the story really comes together. Unfortunately, this movie skips over that step entirely. First of all, Charley never completely trusted Jerry and instead of showing a gradual degradation of their relationship we’re treated to Charley going from indifferent to breaking into Jerry’s house. There are an infinite number of ways they could have showed Charley’s transformation from high-schooler to make-shift hero, but instead they to communicate it with explosions, cheap scares and what I think was supposed to be quippy dialogue. How they managed to mess up such a basic story format is beyond me, but kudos for that.

I think it’s safe to say that I did not enjoy this film. I did, however, enjoy watching David Tennant shirtless for about ten minutes, but beyond that I could have stayed home and saved my money for what it was worth. This movie was decidedly un-awesome, but I’ll use the scale of awesome to rate it for the sake of tradition. I’ll give it a unicorn (aka 4 out of 10).

;) - The Sugar

P.S You would think unicorns would warrant a higher level of awesome.

P.P.S I don’t think you could have a worse name than Imogen Poots if you tried. 

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