Dr. Who and the Daleks

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Title: Dr. Who and the Daleks
Year: 1965 (UK); 1966 (US)
Length: 82 minutes
Director: Gordon Flemyng
Writer: Milton Subotsky, based on a TV serial by Terry Nation
Starring: Peter Cushing, Roy Castle, Jennie Linden, Roberta Tovey
Music: Malcolm Lockyer
I saw it: on video (rented from Greencine), yesterday
Synopsis: an absent-minded professor's invention transports him and three others to a post-nuclear alien world



My reaction
Concept:
Story: The adaptation is completely terrible; I seriously wonder if they had a script at all. Something's very wrong when a movie's writing makes Terry Nation look good.
Characters: This area is really frustrating. The TV show had one of the best characters ever created, and some decent supporting characters. The movie doesn't just change them - it erases them, and leaves a vacuum.
Dialog: Two words: Dalek monologues.
Pacing: It's condensed from a three-hour serial, and it still manages to bore me silly.
Cinematography: One thing this movie has going for it - colorful, old-school technicolor.
Special effects/design: I love the design. The special effects might actually be worse than the infamously low-budget TV show.
Acting: Even Peter Cushing just does an impersonation of William Hartnell, contributing nothing worth seeing. The others are very bad.
Music:
Subjective Rating: 3/10 (Bad, ). I'd assumed that all the hatred that Doctor Who fans have for this movie stemmed from its being too different from the TV show (imagine a nerd whining indignantly, "but that's not how it happened!"). And maybe that is why they hate it, but it doesn't matter because it's a crappy movie anyway. There's simply no sense of storytelling. The filmmakers' one and only goal was to put Daleks on film, in color, with enough semblance of a movie around it that people wouldn't demand their money back.
Objective Rating (Average):