#monsterdon is it just me or does nothing make any damn sense?
lol, this fucking Dr Who unleashes the Darleks on the Universe...
The penitent Thal shall pass. #Monsterdon
PLEASE tell me that Christopher Lee is the big bad! Heβs like Count Dalek or something. Please!
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β³ 30 MINUTE POLL RESULTS!
Who was inside when extra Daleks were needed?
Sorry, it was not Production Grips, Schoolchildren, or Construction Workers.
It was DANCERS
Congrats to the 6% of respondents who were correct
imagine how productive this group could be if everyone wasn't constantly putting their entire bodies in locked rooms or quicksand or enchanted pools #monsterdon
i think it probably takes more preparation than looking at a map for a few minutes to prepare a pacifist society to go to war against a technologically advanced and violent mech species #monsterdon
Thals look like theyβre going to an Oasis reunion concert
Oh hey, Lego supplies for the Thals. #Monsterdon
...So why did the Daleks build an elevator they can't get into? #Monsterdon
Ah, the drama of the costume failure. #Monsterdon
Daleks are falling on hard economic times, they Doordash now. #Monsterdon
this is a movie where lost British people have to save the gay elves from evil salt shakers.
The thing is, they basically wrote a movie with the same pacing as a 1960s Doctor Who serial.
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The Thals have a thriving pharmaceutical business, costumes, and eye-shadow, but no camping gear, tents or food. Okay.
you have a time and space machine and don't have a button that can summon the time and space machine to your current time and location #monsterdon
Red Dalek there is autistic, look at that poor eye contact. #Monsterdon
"Ian, what happened to you?"
He's suffering from terminal Comic Relief Syndrome. #Monsterdon
if someone exploited some knowledge power differential to lie and trap me on an alien planet that would be the last time i would go to an alien planet with that person, the doctor isn't just incompetent he can't be trusted #monsterdon
"It's not possible for any human form to exist on this planet"
Yet you're dragging your grandkids around it like it's Kew Gardens?
How British is that
"Oh, an alien city, let's explore like the Universe is our back garden....."
More like a lilium plastcum. #Monsterdon
Comic relief Ian is a bit insufferable. #Monsterdon
Turns out I shouldβve ramped my expectations down a few more notches below mediocre after all. Iβd heard about for so long that I may have assumed it must have the merits of a good episode of Dr. Who, clever writing in the face of limited budgets and a commitment to making something special despite it all.
But this was mostly an incoherent mess despite some good elements. Alas.
Oh well, still fun to have seen it. Thanks for the fun commentary, everybody!
@blogdiva "Fascists are stupid looking but dangerous"
This is the lasting appeal of the Daleks I think.
@LingLass yes he was, a noted entertainer of the old style variety, I remember him from presenting on 80s TV and then rather famously dying of passive smoking from his Clubland days
So, for folks who do #monsterdon regularly, is there a way to get posts quicker? I was getting posts in batches irregularly, and they were *not* all fresh as a freshly-cooked cabbage.
And as the Tardis fades into the sunset we say farewell to this incredibly hackneyed and shitty version of Doctor Who. As always, we have one last task before we leave the theater:
Was DOCTOR WHO AND THE DALEKS (1966) the WORST #monsterdon movie of the year?
Fully expect a Susan based Thaal religion spreading like a holy crusade across the Universe, thus proving you can stop one evil and end up causing another when you fuck about like Dr Who
#monsterdon In this movie our heroes learn the evils of war by slaughtering an entire race of war-makers.
Doc, you're pretty stupid in this one. #Monsterdon
aren't we ramping up an entire society for war right now or what is going on with that, isn't scouting an entrance just the first stage of a larger plan or what. what the fuck are the doctor and this little girl doing back here. they spent 15 minutes on this fucking sewer cave plot and they are just going to abandon it for magicing their way in. we aren't even doing anything with the entire setup of the twink society like giving them some underlying value system that might result in their pacificism and affect how they navigate the sewage tunnel and given them unlikely advantages. how do you do so little with what you spend the whole time setting up #monsterdon
@Taweret uh the daleks want to nuke the planet again so that its so radioactive that even the gay elves with their anti-radiation drug will die.
the gay elves and the puny humans want to defeat the daleks by... um... uh... sneaking into the city and breaking their pipes I guess? not quite sure.
This feels like a Saturday morning cartoon that would be made after Dr. Who became popular
@SnoopJ he's going to show the darleks themselves in the mirror and let their shame and disgust do the rest #Monsterdon
Daleks: CAN WE PLEASE USE WORDS WITH FEW-ER SYL-A-BLES?
Not sure why this movie decided to go all out on the horn music when random things are happening. The orchestra is very excited now that we are climbing a wall next to our matte painting.
Dr. Who has a mirror-based plan of some sort. it's probably too much to hope for an Archimedes' Heat Ray, huh?
Notes on the Thals: they combined all of their fashion creativity into that one cloak the main dude wore, and at all other times they just wear beige Aladdin shirts (for boys) and beige tunic things (for girls).
The Thal's encampment looks suspiciously like a beach party. If someone pulls out a guitar this thing is over.
Oh good, send Captain Pratfall into the swamp. Maybe he'll trip and fall onto a secret entrance. #Monsterdon
Watching Dr. Who and the Daleks in Manhattan during a blizzard.
you design your city so a one inch elevator misalignment completely obliterates your ability to move #monsterdon
Difficult to determine who is dumber, the Darleks or the Thaals for trusting the Darleks.
Skaro is a stupid planet.
the dalek's most dangerous weapon is an extendo claw with like 3 inches of clearance and even if the little girl puts both her hands directly in it, she can just break out #monsterdon
what is it with europeans and their love of dark, creepy forests?
Ha ha ha, a Dalek maid :D #Monsterdon
"If they called us monsters, what must they be like?"
Oh, they're kind of octopus brain eyeball things. It's actually kind of cool :D #Monsterdon
Thanks, Exposition Dalek, but I've seen Genesis of the Daleks already. #Monsterdon
βHe will recover shortly.β Oh, thatβs unfortunate. #Monsterdon
The Funhouse of the Daleks (S01 E25) #Monsterdon
So how many seconds until the kid experiences Perilβ’, do you think? #Monsterdon
I gotta say, when I think of the Tardis I do NOT think "conspiracy corkboard yarn, but interior design." #Monsterdon
@blogdiva they're Fash, so 'yes'
Congratulations?
On the other hand, the Key to Time sequence begins here:
"alien shower curtain"... sounds like code name for some weird kink...
"our work here is done we hope you have learned the empowering nature of constant war and uh" #monsterdon
Dalek: DO. YOU. VAPE. BRO?
Paternoster lifts. What they lacked in speed, they made up for in danger.
At least 10% of the dialog in this movie consists of Daleks telling people to do things that are inadvisable.
Like "no don't run away stay here so i can Exterminate you!"
@moira IN-TOX-I-CATE!
"Begin the Countdown"
"100, 99, 98β¦"
"Oh come on, can't we start a little lower!?"
"Nag, nag, nag⦠I'll start where I want"
WHY is this guy having so much trouble with this RAVINE #monsterdon
wartime production kicked in over the last 4 minutes and we are now a fully equipped and trained battallion of mirror warriors #monsterdon
Everyone is disappointed that Ian made the jump
@SnoopJ the pacing is even slower in the original tv version, and yet I like it more #Monsterdon
Dalek upskirt :x #Monsterdon
killed by polyester
I'm still waiting for a nipple reveal from one of the males, but they just aren't delivering
that little one is a total sabotaging queen.
This movie is seriously following the original TV series episodes that introduced the Daleks almost to the letter with just a bunch of weird little changes here and there out of the blue and... It pains me to say this, but much crappier effects. It's kind of freaky.
As evil and stupid as the Darleks are, they are not as evil and stupid as our evil overlords on Earth
This movie's doing a great job of making the Daleks look less competent than the Wet Bandits. Is Ian gonna make them walk over fragile christmas ornaments next? #Monsterdon
The blowtorch Dalek is my favorite
#monsterdon If I remember correctly, in the original, they used The Doctor's jacket to insulte the floor. But you can't expect Peter Cushing to damage that fine jacket he's wearing.
If they get caught, they can just say they're returning the Dalek to the cart return. #Monsterdon
@CactuarJoe LEAVE US A A TIP, OR BE EX-TERM-I-NATED #monsterdon
Ach, monkey species, always with the flinging of brown stuff. #Monsterdon
EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! #Monsterdon
if a magical alien shows up and relayed a treaty between species through my granddaughter, i would probably want to check out the magical alien cloak that made it appear like a floating glowing rock a little before taking a nap under it #monsterdon
AND. THIS IS. OUR. LA-VA LAMP. ROOM.
Thanks, @cherizilla
bro don't disguise yourself as a huge glowing rock if you're trying not to scare little girls in the haunted alien woods #monsterdon
Wow, that's some heavy eyeshadow. #Monsterdon
give this little girl like closed toed shoes if you want to stake the future of your species on her being able to go out and harvest rad juice or whatever it is she's doing #monsterdon
that mod suit is still one of the best stylelines to ever come out of the 1960s British Invasion
Props to Susan for doing all these while the adults just flail around uselessly....
Hey, get your plunger away from the kid. Who are you, Woody Allen? #Monsterdon
I love how jerky the motions of the Daleks of this era are. It just looks right.
@SnoopJ tell scatterbrained grandfather to fucking go back in time and mine some gold or whatever he needs to do to hire a damn assistant to help him remember to put a clock in the time machine #monsterdon