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See The Cool Making Of OUTLANDER Featurette That Isn't On U.S. DVDs!!
Merrick here...
...with a look at a featurette about the making of OUTLANDER, which hit DVD here in The States last week. Given that the film received embarrassingly limited (and remarkably unmotivated) distribution in the U.S., OUTLANDER's debut on video marks the first time American audiences en masse can get a look at this elusive gem of a film.
What makes the material below super cool is that 1) it's about OUTLANDER, and 2) this "making of" does not appear on the American issue of the DVD. It will, however, be seen when the DVD/Blu-Ray of the film is released in the UK (in early September, if memory serves). So, through the embeds below, folks on our side of the pond are glimpsing material they may never see otherwise - and UK readers are getting a significantly early look at a feature that'll be on their upcoming DVDs and Blu-Rays.
As mentioned above, the standard DVD of OUTLANDER was released in the U.S. last week. It should also be noted that (at present) there are no plans for a Blu-Ray release of the film here in the States. HOWEVER, OUTLANDER is rentable via XBOX Live, where it is offered in 720p. Unless you import the UK Blu-Ray in September, XBOX Live may be your best bet to see the film in HD.
The standard DVD of OUTLANDER is also available for rent via all the usual suspects (including Netflix), and can be purchased HERE
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On to the "Making of..."
This featurette was assembled by OUTLANDER's editor, David Dodson, in two days...and for free...so there would be some record of the film's creation for posterity (there wasn't enough money in the film's budget to accommodate EPKs, etc.) I'm told that, as director Howard McCain's on-screen interviews were being conducted, the set representing the film's elaborate Viking compound was in immediate danger of being flooded by a rising river. Talk about a poker face...
If you haven't checked out this film yet, and if your heart pulses with any amount of Geeky blood whatsoever, see this movie. Moriarty/Drew pleaded for a broader theatrical release of the project a while back (HERE, I've done a few pieces on it myself HERE is one of them), and Harry was just Twittering about it last week. It's far from perfect and is sometimes betrayed by the limitations of its resources, but it's a smart, fun adventure by way of solid action, earnest performances - all hinged on pretty decent Science Fiction.
Here are the embeds...ENJOY! I love the Ron Perlman interview on Part 3, and John Hurt's poultry moment on the same...
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it'll be on the UK DVDs but not the US DVDs? It's hard to tell.
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Well that's fucking useless isn't it.
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Try now...
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Thanks
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I found it funny I never heard of this film till It hit the video store.
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May 28, 2009 9:24:37 AM CDT
(My post was referring to the double title- now edited)
by seppukudkurosawa
But considering I left out the word "what" in my post, I can't really quibble about little fuck ups.
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I totally appreciate the vision and all of the work that goes into films like these and that's why it's even extra sad that it turned out to be lame. The monster design took me back to all of those poor 90's cgi creature designs such as the one in "Relic" for example. Way too much crap going on in the design. The story itself is typical of anything you've seen before in this film genre. All in all this felt, looked, and acted out like a big budget "SciFi Channel" original movie. 4 out of 10 for a few "pretty" sequences.
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Has the blu-ray. hope this feature is on that version as well.
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or still screwing over america in regards to this movie? jeezus.
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the first jewish viking.....hey how's it goin'. probably my favorite character i've ever played (seriously?)...they talk about me for 62 pages, hen i finally show up, i'm in the script for 7, then i disappear and they talk about me for the rest of the movie.....i'm sorry what was the question.
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should play brothers in some epic sci-fi action movie. that would be good casting. somebody get on that.
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Beware if you want to import the Canadian Blu-Ray of Outlander. Alliance cropped it to 1.78:1 from 2.35:1. If the cropped image were actually 16 inches by 9 inches that means you would be missing about five and a quarter inches of the picture's width.
All the features of the US release are on the disk though which is good. And the picture sound quality is great other than being cropped. -
On Blu-ray?? i dont want a cropped version!
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I caught it on the Playstation network video store, where it is also available in HD. I don't remember any advertising about the film but I took the chance anyway. I am glad I did because I enjoyed the movie more than I thought I would.
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Love this movie. Have it and watch it often. It is unfortunate this movie didn't get the release and success it deserves. It will become a major cult classic.
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The idea alone guarantees a watch, but that cast... I'm beyond sold.
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I just thought it had to be said. The man is an elderly, respected actor, yet he just loves genre material. I guess what I'm trying to say is... I wish he was my grandather.
Anyone else think he'd be an ideal actor to cast in THE HOBBIT? Not sure what role he'd be suited for, but he'd fit into Middle-earth like a glove. -
May 28, 2009 10:48:34 AM CDT
Smart money says they're gonna re-boot with Will Smith!
by theycallmemrtibbs
----watch what happens..........
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I have to say it reminded me of an old school mythical movie with a good script. If it had been made thirty years ago I would have expected to see Ray Harryhausen doing the creature effects.
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but couldn't. The ideas were great, but the direction is not so good (very bad) I watched it because they praised at this site, something I should stop doing. Not to mention the Burrowers.
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I haven't even seen it yet, but I want to. It's got a great cast and a cool story, but it didn't play here theatrically and almost no one here is carrying the dvd. Target didn't get it. Best Buy got one copy and sold it first thing in the morning and hasn't bothered to restock it. Can original stories no longer be marketed to or tolerated by the mainstream movie going public?
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May 28, 2009 11:47:27 AM CDT
JohnRyder, this site tries hard to promote films like this.
by the reluctant austinite
The one thing this site does extrememly well is shine a light on little movies that someone here thinks are cool and deserve to be seen by more people. They can't really affect the number of people bound to see "Terminator: Salvation" or "Transformers 2." But they can offer worthy alternatives. Thanks to AICN, I sought out movies like "Ginger Snaps" and "Bubba Hotep." "The Burrowers" isn't a big Hollywood blockbuster, but it's kind of cool on it's own level. I don't always agree with their choices, but that's par for the course. For example, this site has promoted the hell out of "The Brothers Bloom" which I saw at Fantastic Fest and just thought was "okay" and have nearly forgotten about. But when they find something really cool, like "Time Crimes," which is one the best films I've ever seen dealing with time travel, it's all worth it.
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Hey guys - I was actually a BG actor in OUTLANDER - played a Viking as well as one of Gunnar's (Perlman) men. Awesome set! And yes, there was a river rising and plenty of rain. The crew had to drop straw EVERYWHERE to keep an appearance of dryness to the soggy set. Gorgeous area though. Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Guess you are right. But somebody should really tell the director that there is a reason his movie isn't a bigger hit. And it is not (just) money.
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Less than a handful of stories here and there. Which is a shame. AICN could have, and SHOULD have, done more to get the word out about this film.
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I've got this dvd on order, the film wasn't playing anywhere near me in January, so I can't wait.
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I'm with you on TIME CRIMES, although I didn't quite think it was one of the best time travel films of all time (a lot of stuff happens merely to move the plot along, which is a tad annoying). However, I watched THE FOOT FIST WAY the other night – solely because of AICN's pimping – and I was not disappointed in the least. Same with THE KING OF KONG, great documentary, if a little too… manipulated.
Always nice when this site tries to shine a light on little-seen gems, even if I don’t always think the films are worthy of the praise. -
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I just saw it based on the glowing reviews here. What I saw was some terrible dialoge, bad acting, grade C- CGI, and the requirement of total suspension of disbelief for the 'World underneath the well' which, incidentally, included a 1000 ft cliff dropping into the Atlantic Ocean-all just under that iddy bitty well. Skip it and rent THE RELIC instead if you want a great monster movie.
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Sadly we tried. I tried to get the film for FANTASTIC FEST and the Weinsteins wouldn't let us have it. The big problem is the PR department that the Weinsteins have didn't do anything for this film. As a result, no talent was available to do interviews. No stills were being released. I talked with the director about personally showing it to Moriarty, which he did and we ran that story, but there was no interview because there were no projected release dates. This film was killed by the Weinsteins. And it was a fucking crime!
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are massive cunts. they remind me of those jewish aliens in southpark
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I watched it last night. The direction is particularly suspect. But then, so is the acting, the story, and everything else. (There's a definite Lord of the Rings vibe going on here, but in a rip-offy sort of way.) The one thing that's good is the base concept--spaceman crashlands in Viking times to fight space alien with the Vikings--but after five minutes, that shit spoils fast, too. I was so bored I started fast forwarding, and I never fucking do that. One last thing: Why do these Norwegians have Victorian English accents? Terrible. Just terrible.
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What the fuck is wrong with those guys? Did they think no exposure was good exposure? Sheesh, it boggles the mind...
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This movie sucked ass. It's definitely a direct to video affair.
Harry, you hated T4 but you liked this piece of shit? I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
We gotta kill the shitty CGI monster! We killed him! Ah shit it was just a bear. -
Headgeek speaks the truth. Sometimes studios seem hellbent on killing a movie. Sounds like personal politics to me...
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It's obviously a low budget affair, but what cash they had was spent well. It's not everyones cup of tea, and that's fine, but what i can't get behind is complaints about bad acting. Really? Look at that cast. I think not.
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..He's a damn riot.
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that´s a damn fine movie! sad that it never hit the screen here in germany, nor do they sell the dvd, do they?
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was that stop-motion that i saw, when they first introduced the "dragon"??? that would be so cool, there is something special about that old technique. i also loved that whale-skeleton...
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as the voice of Aragorn in Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings. Great interpretation BTW.
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Sounds like theres a story behind this.
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this would not be the first time. sounds like they are punishing someone. why on earth would you punish someone you hired if it actually meant you could stand to lose money by it? i thought money was hollywood's god, not petty drama.
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May 28, 2009 4:54:50 PM CDT
This is the lowest common denominator in entertainment.
by namasteandgoodluck
This movie was absolute, pure, unadulterated bloody excrement. The first 15 minutes actually made my head hurt.When the lead actor ( a character I was so disinterested in, I don;'t even know his fucking name)crashed into that river or creek or fucking faux fjord I thought I was watching that Tim Burton Planet of the
apes movie.The money spent on this movie would have been better spent donating it to charity, or helping a few schools pay for books...hell, it would have been better spent if you'd just shit all over it and flushed it down the toilet, never to see a return on initial investments. Hey Harry, how much did they pay you to hype this piece of shit up? AICN gets worse and worse everytime I come back to the site; you fuckers may as well start posting about bootleg bollywood dvd's you copped at the weekend flea market. -
Ron Perelman obviously thought this movie was terrible. Brilliance!
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...this hunk of shit has been out forever. How is this news? How about you post something else arbitrary like production stills from "Men in Black 2" or maybe the trailer for "A Nightmare on Elm St 3: Dream Warriors' in "glorious quicktime" (it's a fucking retarded catchphrase...quicktime is hardly fucking glorious and you sound like you are on quicktimes nuts so much, you are on their dick)...it would be more pertinent and much more entertaining.
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'glorious quicktime''inviso-text' etc are all beyond dead.but then again this site has remained unchanged, format wise, ever since this background was added with 'the magic of html' back when indepenence day came out.
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the viking equivalent of "the burly brawl" - tons of effort with stunt work for an utterly pointless set up scene for completely redundant action sequence - and yes I'm talking about the FUCKING SHIELD DANCE. Also the kid sucked balls.
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it would have appealed to those who liked lotr and the original predator
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What's it like having a giant fucking stick up your ass dude?
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Besides everything, is the fact that it shows that John Hurt is actually still alive. For the longest time I thought movie makers where just pulling a Weekend at Bernies with his corpse.
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May 28, 2009 8:24:49 PM CDT
I pray to God this doesn't happen to "Solomon Kane"
by the reluctant austinite
At least the film makers let Harry and Quint see "Solomon Kane." I hope they're allowed to write about it soon. I would hate to wait another two years only to have that film released on dvd to the sound of silence.
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The Weinsteins are complete and utter boil-infested assholes. You want proof...watch OUTLANDER. I bought this movie sight unseen last week and I think it is one helluva good flick. The fact that its promotion and release was butffucked by the Weinsteins proves that they wouldn't know a good movie if it rann up and kicked their miserable asses. This is a good movie that deserves to be seen...so go out of your way to see it. Fuck renting it...BUT IT! It's THAT good!!!
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Hahahahaha, fucking no edit button. True is right though, but I don't think it has anything to do about knowing a good movie. I think its about how much does a director suck up to the Weinsteins, or how much they like a certain director. I mean look at Kevin Smith, he gets full distributing for his films and he has never had a box office smash.
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It's like a wicked hybrid of 13th Warrior and Predator, except without the brilliant direction of John Mctiernan. Still a solid flick though, very entertaining and surprisingly well made all things considered. Geoff Zanelli provides what is easily the best, most rousing musical score of any film I've seen this year. The creature design is pretty awesome, and the FX used to created it are, for the most part, believible (impressively so in one scene specifically). The script is rather good and the actors all give admirable performances without any cringe inducing to be had. It's budget limitations are probably the main culprit of some of Outlanders more pedestrian qualities, but it still manages to spin a good yarn rather proficiently. It's easily a hundred times better than Pathfinder. Anyone who dug Beowulf, would likely get a kick out of Outlander. I just wish the Weinsteins hadn't deliberately gone about actively sabotaging it's potential from the outset. Nevertheless, I'd call Outlander an outright success despite all obstacles. Do not be dissuaded by the naysayers, outlander is some pure old fashioned fun (not in a kitschy or camp way either). Treat yourselves to this movie, it deserves to be seen and enjoyed. Oh, and Jim Caviezel for Clark Kent/Superman!
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So Merrick continues to do nothing on this site other than arbitrarily breach copyright with every single non-story that he posts. In other not very surprising news, Outlander was in fact a damn fun and sadly underappreciated film. Long may it live on shiny disc.
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I'm getting bored of repeating myself over this. Too little too late. Don't make out that you really tried to promote this film, Harry- you didn't. There was the Mori letter and that was it- you didn't even review it when you saw it (which was ages before it was released in the UK). Sure, the Weinsteins killed it, but you hardly threw it a funeral. Where was the outcry? We were banging on about this from the moment we first heard about it- and for about 6 months it was only about 10 TB'ers that seemed to give a shit about it.
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always entertaining and great in its execution, covererd up with a little nice message that makes you feel with both sides ... and yeahh i had a lot of fun with the (necessary) shield dance scene. a shame it didn't get its deserved theatrical run ...
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It wouldn't be the first time you've championed a movie after the fact - so why not this? Not enough outcry, man. Not enough AT ALL.
Don't tell me the Weinstein's sinister reach extends all the way to Casa De Headgeek, Austin? Call them on this. Shitcanning OUTLANDER was a bullshit move on their part.
Oh, and whoever screwed the pooch on the UK distribution: FUCK YOU TOO!
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Oh, there had BETTER BE a theatrical run of that movie - especially in the UK. Or this is one Puritan that will be heading out into the dark night to find the evil and destroy it...
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May 29, 2009 5:10:59 AM CDT
"Oh, and whoever screwed the pooch on the UK distribution: FUCK
by lost jarv
Fucking true that one. Not bad Spud. Looking forward to the next Who? Because the last 2 specials have been so fucking good.
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Not a bold new innovation in filmaking or anything, but an incredibly solid and enjoyable piece of genre work; and it's obvious in every frame and piece of FX that somebody put a lot of love into this film.And then the Shitty Bros., who can't manufacture a hit to save their lives anymore, killed it.
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It was a decent movie. Funny how expectations can alter people's perception of things. If this had been a big budget movie, all the people that are praising it would be calling it average. That said, it probably had more story and decent acting than GIJoe and Revenge of the Fallen combined, are likely to display. Not a great film, but better than it had a right to be. I really wanted a fight between Jesus and Hellboy, though.
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Yep - after being dazzled with the originality of the last one, I'm waiting with baited breath to see how RTD can possibly fuck this show any further. Tennant deserves FAR more to end his tenure than the lukewarm rehashed bollocks we've been fed thus far.
Unlike most TBers, however, I really like Michelle Ryan as an actress (though I admit Lil Spud may be overruling my finer critical faculties there) and enjoyed BIONIC WOMAN in the first few eps, before it became a fucking soap opera with SF overtones. I think she's great - so WHY WASTE HER IN THAT SPECIAL?!?
GAAAAHHH!!! That FUCKING RUSSELL T DAVIES!!! If there were any justice (which there isn't given that this is the fucking Beeb we're talking about) he'd be kept away from anything - ANYTHING! - to do with the Whoverse from here on in. But he won't. FUUUUUCK!
Just mad, bad and very very sad. Roll on the Moff!
(For the mods, back on topic: fucking SEPTEMBER for an OUTLANDER DVD release? What is this, 1993?) -
Mention new Who and off I go, frothing at the chops like a rabid dog. All we need now is Tegujai Batir (my net stalker) and we've got us a proper Who talkback, circa this time last year!
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You seen the totalfilm report? Apparently they're making a WHO movie, with Tennant!
& I thought this movie was pretty great! With a bit more cash thrown at it, it could have been perfect. Better than most of the big bockbuster crap we get fed. -
I don't know about you guys, but I went into this film with pretty high expectations, considering how much praise it was getting on AICN. And those expectations were met. Though I do realize that it certainly wasn't a perfect film, it's exactly what it advertised itself to be--an entertaining Predator-like monster-hunt romp with a spaceman and Vikings.
And truth be told, It was really good. It's no Shakespeare, but it was definitely worth the watch, and I'd certainly recommend it to those who're even slightly curious about the movie. -
not if that turd RTD gets anywhere near it.
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Though it was Rated R, it was only showing at 12:50 and 2:55. The same theater had 10PM showings of Paul Blart:MC, Hotel For Dawgs, The Unaborted and Twilight though. Seriously what the fuck. But a couple weeks later the owner of the theater rented out a copy of Conan, so I guess he's got a thing for viking style flicks. It was weird that they could rent out random movies because it was a Regal, and they are usually the crappiest of the crap.
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Saw this one on the silver screen right here in Stockholm, Sweden. It was a really good bad movie, if you know what I mean.
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Apparently according to Yahoo news today, RTD wanted personality vacuum Russell Tovey (the blank-eyed pilot of Starship Titanic in that fucking Kylie Xmas Special fiasco, and the werewolf in PC smugfest BEING HUMAN) to be the new Doctor.
Thankfully, the Beeb saw sense and went with the Moff's choice of Matt Smith. Ye Gods, RTD just can't stop fucking the corpse of that once-great show, can he? -
I'm up for that. You could set it after season 4 (just after Donna Noble's exit) and have him travelling alone for a bit. I'd truly LOVE to see a Time War movie, and it wouldn't be hard to put Tennant alongside Paul McGann's Doc for a two-hander that opens the way for a movie trilogy - that would then end with McGann regenerating into Eccleston, and possibly give us some cool new villains, like ST: TNG did with the Borg.
But no, RTD will write it, it'll become some preachy soapbox PC-obssessed fucking public service announcement dressed up as a Doctor Who movie, and it wil create a Maelstrom of Suck the likes of which no-one has EVER FUCKING SEEN. Did Tennant not learn from the last few years?!?!?
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