Doctor Who Review Project 2024-25
The Doctor has died.
William Hartnell has, for three and a bit seasons, been leading Doctor Who. It's fascinating to me because, in his initial conception, the Doctor is obviously not the main character. He's the scientist whose machine is the conceit that drives the show forward. Ian is the main character, the one to lead the group of four heroes through past and future worlds. But William Hartnell was amazing,…
The bit where they travel back in time to The Avengers, and you can see how bright and colourful Captain America's costume is, reminded me of why I think comic books are worth adapting to the medium of film. It was a very quick reminder, as the rest of the movie looked like grey, underlit, overprocessed, artificial shit.
It's funny that the one consistent problem the MCU films have is totally overblown, excessive climaxes with too much fake action to…
Feels like this should be my cup of tea because I love The Thick of It, but I struggled.
Given it another go and, despite having a great cast and several funny bits, I still don't really like it. I don't know, the bleak tone and real-life murder makes the comedy feel really tasteless to me in a way that's just very uncomfortable to actually sit through for 90 minutes, and I thought the editing was distractingly poor at points.
There's a difference between being funny and being intensely irritating.
In keeping with Judd Apatow's oeuvre, this short is funny enough but somehow still too long at 3 minutes.
