Would you want a real Doctor Who movie?

[Flexor the Mighty!]

But there are some bits that I love, particularly Paul Mcgann's portrayal of the Eighth Doctor. He was great in the role, and it guts me that he never got another chance to play the part onscreen. Although I'm loving him again in the Eighth Doctor audio dramas.

McGann is simply wonderful as the Doctor in the audios. I prefer the 8th Doc audios to the new show by a good margin.

 

[horacethegrey]

I would be more interested in more movie length episodes in the series. In other words more double episodes that run 1hr 20min, like most of the old series Doctor who. The current episodes feel too rushed.

I'm going to have disagree here. Many of the old serials feels padded out and contain too much useless filler. Not saying that I didn't enjoy them, but even classic stories such as City of Death could stand to lose some unwanted scenes of touring the Paris scenery. Pyramids of Mars was one of the rare exceptions I felt. It was a tightly scripted story that wasted no time on the viewers part.

 

[sniffles]

I don't think I would. I've yet to see a film made of a television series that really 'worked' for me - movie writers and directors always seem to want to change too much.

Even the 'made for TV' mcGann doctor who movie was atrocious IMO. It abandoned too much 'proper Dr Who' and introduced bizarre new things just for the movie.

I liked the tv movie, although admittedly some changes were unnecessary. I'm glad the new series has decided to acknowledge the movie as canon but ignore the one glaringly out-of-character development the movie added.

But I agree that most tv series don't translate well to the big screen. The things we want out of tv are not the same things we usually want out of theatrical movies. I imagine a Doctor Who movie would become a huge special-effects extravaganza, and that's not what I watch Doctor Who for.

 

[WayneLigon]

I wouldn't mind one at all but it would depend on how egotistical the director was. Change for change's sake or to 'put my own mark on it' are not acceptable reasons for change. As for the unfamiliarity of American audiences: eh. I think you could handle that with a handfull of lines of dialog. They don't need to be spoonfed the entire history of how and why.

 

[Felon]

I would love to see any movie or TV show of Doctor Who that broke new ground.

What I don't want to see is a big-screen adaptation of the Doctor being pulled arse-backwards into some scheme involving horrible creatures, which he reacts to by running away like mad. Maybe he gets captured and maybe he escapes, but either way he eventually findis a way to turn the bad guy's own devices against him and his minions.

There HAVE to be other plots for unarmed super-intelligent protagonists other than that.