{"id":641,"date":"2011-11-11T00:52:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T00:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tardisproject.net\/wdpress\/?p=641"},"modified":"2011-11-11T00:52:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T00:52:35","slug":"daleks-invasion-earth-2150-a-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morelikethisindustries.com\/tardisproject\/2011\/11\/11\/daleks-invasion-earth-2150-a-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D."},"content":{"rendered":"

Writeup from our special between seasons showing of Peter Cushing as Dr. Who in Dalek’s Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.<\/strong><\/p>\n


\nThis is a record of general comments made during the viewing of the film in MST3K fashion by the TARDIS Project gang.<\/p>\n

Doctor Who and The Dalek Invasion Earth 2150 AD<\/p>\n

(looking at the cover) Sweet, Daleks and legs!<\/p>\n

ARRUUUUUUUUU<\/p>\n

The groovy hip thing<\/p>\n

In fusha!
\nThey need to project this onto a woman in a biki or something.<\/p>\n

Well this show’s already going done the toilet<\/p>\n

Ascots for all my men!
\nThere’s a jungle somewhere in this.
\nSomeone’s smoking!
\nI think it’s the sound track editor.
\nDavid Whitiker. It’s not going to entirely suck if he was involved somehow.
\nI suspect something surprising is going to happen.
\nWrong Peter Cushing film. Wrong key!
\nBernard Cribbins everybody!
\nALOHA!
\nBoing!<\/p>\n

Well, I do like a man in uniform.<\/p>\n

Stop, or I’ll say, stop again.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the clanging bell hasn’t been heard. I guess I’ll blow my whistle.
\nAh, pretty girl!
\nSo what happened to the previous meat puppet from the last movie?
\nThey probably couldn’t have afforded him.
\nIt’s just a bunch of boxes and a door frame with a black background.
\nIt’s black box time machine theater. Very modern.
\nIt’s Pink Floyd album cover!
\nIt’s nice to see the movie Susan is just as incompetent as the TV show Susan.
\nOh, I’m suddenly hungry for Sugar Puffs and I don’t know why.<\/p>\n

It’s a shoe! I’ve seen these, tricky buggers.
\nIt’s got a sole. And a tongue.
\nWow, the hats on the robomen look even dorkier. I didn’t think that was possible.<\/p>\n

The plot’s just speeding along, isn’t it.
\nIt’s almost like someone other than Terry Nation is writing the script.
\n\u201cOh, that’s highly advanced\u201d<\/p>\n

What did they do with the crow bar than the went into the warehouse to get?
\nIt’s in his pants.
\nBlah blah blah buns of steel yada yada
\nIt’s interesting to see what they kept, isn’t it.<\/p>\n

The sound track seems to have snuck in from a Brady Bunch episode.<\/p>\n

Nice!<\/p>\n

Ladies and Gentlemen, the budget.
\nOh wait, there’s the wires.
\nOh thanks high quality DVD!<\/p>\n

Peter Cushing in this movie is like a Christopher Walken you can understand<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t they get dizzy?<\/p>\n

Children will not be allowed to walk<\/p>\n

Nice Del Monty placement.<\/p>\n

Louise is just staring vacantly with a slight smirk on her face.
\nDown by the river I lost my baby.<\/p>\n

It’s Devo!<\/p>\n

Toy Boat! Toy Boat!<\/p>\n

Sounds like a Pink Panther sound track.
\nIt doesn’t even fade out, it just cuts!<\/p>\n

I AM STUCK ON A FLIGHT OF STAIRS!
\nSweat shops… and Ironside in color.
\nWhy are they making AK 47s instead of shotguns?
\nI think they’re cleaning them, not making them.
\nThey kept the wheelchair guy.
\nFor the irony.
\nEverybody drink!
\nWoah, that’s a pretty good toy.
\nWith our model rocket engines.<\/p>\n

Where’s David?
\nI think that’s David.
\nHe’s like twice Susan’s age! Oh dear.
\nI sense it with my mighty hair!<\/p>\n

Man, soundtrack is chewing the scenery. I didn’t think that was possible.
\nLego Daleks!
\nISSUE THEM WITH FETISH GEAR!
\nGood thing there were Styrofoam bricks there to stop his fall.<\/p>\n

People are all picking on this, but it’s WAY better than the TV series!
\nWe’re picking on it because we can.<\/p>\n

Lindon Jonson, prisoner of the Daleks.
\nThey really didn’t make any attempt to consider what the world would be line in 200 years, did they?
\nI get the impression that the invasion started some time ago.
\nLove the Kubrickian angles!
\nYeah, the shaky cam is done well too.<\/p>\n

Reverse the polarity!
\nIt doesn’t simplify the puzzle from the TV show.<\/p>\n

So, we’re 20 minutes in, and already in mid-episode 3 at this point.
\nWe will fight them on the ramps! We will fight them in the parking lots!
\nI suddenly feel like getting on a motor cycle.
\nMan, this thing gets great FM!
\nAnd when we run into something?
\nBut you haven’t given us the safe word.
\nOh, they’re going to do our hair!
\nYes!
\nHe didn’t sound like a roboman.
\nThe Daleks aren’t that bright.<\/p>\n

Nice!<\/p>\n

What’s happening? I’m suddenly robotic. And stupid!
\nLet’s wrestle with the Dalek by holding him by the gun.
\nDid they seriously just speed up the film?
\nI remember this bit being creepy in the TV show.
\nWell, it didn’t have a jazz soundtrack either.
\nThat and it’s much faster. You don’t get to know the characters.
\nWhat? I can’t hear you over the inappropriate overpowering soundtrack.<\/p>\n

Okay, I can’t take that seriously. Or that<\/p>\n

Kill robomen with brick!
\nIsn’t that why they wear helmets?<\/p>\n

These are the nicest scruffy rebels I’ve ever seen.
\nWho’s scruffy looking?<\/p>\n

<Ex-ter-min-ate!>
\nTake another drink!<\/p>\n

It’s awesome, there’s no depth what-so-ever. What’s a character?<\/p>\n

Quick, duck and they’ll shoot each other.
\nIn this movie it wouldn’t surprise me.
\nTwo more drinks… three.<\/p>\n

Fu-mi-gate! Fu-mi-gate!
\nI’m alive!
\nMain character, he has a neck scarf.
\nIn the future, ascots turn into scarves.
\nI love the Dalek on fire in the background there.
\nIt’s not actually the soundtrack, he just has a portable music player.
\nWell, we know the helmets get radio.
\nWith the blast shield down, how can I see.
\nThey are organized by height!
\nThe soundtrack is all Scooby Doo!
\nThey’re going to be short one plate, aren’t they.
\nSo, in the span of ten minutes we go from the slaughter of the human race, to a game of musical chairs, to a cafe.
\nI love the guy second from the right who’s helmet is kind of off center. \u201cMe Stan!\u201d
\nThat’s the third time it’s happened. They’re all dead again!
\nDon’t forget the Ian clone cop, Susan!
\nI’m very impressed by Susan’s handwriting.
\nAnd suddenly we’re in Hogan’s Heros. The Daleks Hogan’s Heros.
\nThis is the strangest production of Cats ever!<\/p>\n

<robomen, with Ian clone hiding among them, wake up>
\nUhoh! Ian clone didn’t wake up!
\nWhat a great disguise. I better take it off.
\n\u201cI can’t see a thing in this helmet!\u201d
\nYou know, she’s nice, but she just doesn’t have that \u201cBarbara Wright\u201d hair.
\nLucile Ball did it better.<\/p>\n

TURN AROUND!<\/p>\n

Pist! There’s a message on the door!
\nThe writing is on the wall!
\nI said her handwriting was good, not her grammar.
\nOr her grandpa, apparently.
\nThe budget everybody!
\nWow, I really hope Susan doesn’t stay behind this time to marry the dope.<\/p>\n

I have this strange urge for Castrol oil, and I don’t know why.
\nSo, the plan?
\nDidn’t he have bombs in the TV show?
\nWasn’t he told the bombs don’t work?
\nDidn’t he have an experimental one that actually did work.
\nAH!
\nMagic glass eraser!<\/p>\n

Wow, I love that purple dalek.
\nOne in ten.
\nIt’s like the Crayola box of Daleks.<\/p>\n

Chickens!
\nOh, the chickanity!
\nNo animals were harmed in the making of this film. Except for the one chicken.
\nRoadkill!
\nDude, there’s some serious driving going on there!
\nPretty little girls should never get in a van with a strange man…
\nOr let him get on top of them
\nNo little girl, you have to stay down. It could be coming back at any moment. Oh, here comes another space ship!
\nStop it!
\nAction roll!
\nDoctor Who, cold cold bastard.
\nIt’s like a Star Wars thing. They’re going out the trash compactor!
\nLucas ripped them off.
\nOh, it’s a mine!
\nNo, it’s mine!<\/p>\n

The soundtrack does not stop, does it?<\/p>\n

What a convient shed. Good thing the Daleks didn’t see inside the window.
\nOkay, not a jungle, but a swamp.
\nWow, that old lady is about as cheerful as a kick in the crotch.
\nWell, the old lady’s face just stopped the soundtrack, so I’m fine with that.
\nHey look, it’s Tom Servo.
\nIn the future!
\nApparently only Daleks get to use wheels.
\nThat’s why they were after the wheelchair rebel leader!<\/p>\n

Or a much more stupid one.<\/p>\n

Outraged Peter Cushing!
\nIn the meantime we’ll hide here and hope that weirdo monster from the TV series isn’t in the movie.
\nIt’s blue riding hood!
\nAnd everybody drink!
\nHe’s working lights at a Devo show!
\nAnd the Doctor continues to be immaculate.
\nIt’s not \u201cThe Doctor\u201d it’s \u201cDoctor Who.\u201d<\/p>\n

It’s interesting that Louise calls him \u201cDoctor\u201d and not \u201cUncle Who.\u201d<\/p>\n

At least someone lamp shades it as insane!<\/p>\n

He must be a bad guy, he’s smoking.
\nHe’s got that Herman Cain smile.
\nNo handrail? Well, I guess the Daleks have no hands.<\/p>\n

WHY??<\/p>\n

WHAT??
\nI want a little whip like that!
\nSo, if they’re just boring into the center of the earth, where are they taking the rocks?
\nAnd why Bedfordshire?
\nIf you can build an entire spaceship you’d think you can come up with more efficient mine digging than old guys with sacks.
\nIt’s cheap!<\/p>\n


\n23! Look for it, it’s everywhere.<\/a>
\nGot to resist the temptation to spit into it.<\/p>\n

Double-cross!
\nthe budget again, ladies and gentlemen!
\nAHHHHHH! Turn, turn!
\nI have horrible fears of poor actors falling down these things.
\nWait, what shaft is he climbing up?
\nHe has to climb up to get down.
\nThe shaft that was dug by humans… rock by rock.
\nThe Daleks are technology advanced species… so humans have to dig the shaft rock by rock?
\nNone of it made sense in the original TV series plot either.
\nNo, it makes more sense this time because it’s in color!
\nI love how the guy with the hat has all the lines of \u201cthis plot is dumb. Okay, we had to follow the original story, but this plot is still dumb.\u201d
\nOkay, now I’M confused as to which shaft he’s in.
\nDrink!<\/p>\n

<\u201dlook!\u201d Doctor lamely distracts the Dalek and runs>
\nNice death!
\nYes, well done!<\/p>\n

It’s in Rels! Nice continuity!<\/p>\n

<Dalek’s explain time-line>
\nThose orders would have made more sense if they’d done them in chronological order.
\nYes.<\/p>\n

Can a bomb really be stopped…
\nDiverted…
\nDiverted by moving a few planks?
\nAgain, it’s amazing how much plot they KEPT from the original story.
\nIt’s not going to stop, but it’s going to slide. Very slowly.<\/p>\n

It’s a very light bomb.
\nIt’s like a weird theme park ride!
\nOh no, not Ian clone! Oh… he’s fine.
\nSeriously?
\nYep, Daleks defeated by tarps.<\/p>\n

 
\nSee, hand guardrails didn’t even help!
\nBaked Dalek!
\nLadies and gentlemen, the budget. It’s in triumphant finale!
\nGAMERA! GAMERA!
\nThat is a really cool model, I just have to say so again.
\nAnd now they’re going to blow it up.
\nOkay, it’s on a string, but it’s a cool model.
\nThey weren’t exactly planning for HD TV here.
\nAnd a curtain call for the budget!
\nLava!
\nLava?
\nWell yes. It’s the center of the earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnlike every other planet in the galaxy… except all of them.\u201d
\nJudo chop! Judo chop!
\nI got the crooks and the money. I’m confused!
\nOh nice. Bernard Cribbins<\/p>\n

just received his OBE a few weeks ago!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Watch for Doctor Who next summer in… Dalek Finger!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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