One of the worst movies I've ever seen

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

So here we go. The much hyped, much anticipated 50th anniversary episode of 'Dr Who'.This episode has to be a lot of things. Big in scale, a celebration of what has gone before, and also a nod to where we (and the Doctor) are going next. And to be fair, the writer does a good job at doing most of these things.It's lovely to see Matt Smith and David Tennant's Doctors meet, and their interaction is one of the strengths of this episode. If anything they make Jenna Coleman's character a bit redundant. I'd have preferred to see Christopher Eccleston back, but it is clever what they do with John Hurt's incarnation of the Doctor.As with many a modern Doctor Who episode though you need to be very awake or have a great depth of knowledge of the show to understand everything, and that isn't always easy. I miss the simpler times of the show.

Frankly, I'm not surprised people love this one so much. They weren't there at the beginning; they don't know how important it was. This is it for them, this jumped-up firework display of a toy advert! Look, let's forget for a moment that this special completely screwed up the Doctor's timeline by splicing another incarnation in the middle. Let's put aside how history was written in a way that sabotages emotional depth in early revival episodes. That I could forgive. But... this special plainly doesn't even attempt to celebrate the past 50 years. The original series ran for 26 years; the current series ran for 8, at least at the time of this special. In celebrating 50 years, this programme should be celebrating BOTH eras.The producers invited back both of the past Doctors from the current series (only one of whom said yes), but no Doctors from the original, even though they were all willing to participate. They invited back the first companion in the current series, but no companions from the original. It doesn't matter how much of a master actor he is, John Hurt is never going to be any of the classic Doctors, however much he tries. A story about the two most recent Doctors, plus a brand new one, revisiting moments from just the last 8 years, is no celebration of the last 50 years, by anyone's measure.Consider: the 10th anniversary four-part serial in 1973 gave us The Three Doctors. The 20th anniversary special in '83 gave us The Five Doctors, featuring an ensemble of returning companions. Even the 30th anniversary minisode in '93 gave us five returning Doctors in Dimensions In Time! Their plots may be derided to a degree, but at least they reunified us with so many old friends. Doctor Who's decennial rounding up of past Doctors and companions is the sole thing that fans follow the series for. Instead of a glorious celebration of the original series, any hope I might have had of seeing those characters again was rendered null and void.This should have been a multi-part story, not a one-off. They should have built up to this special within the storyline of the regular series, made a new full-length two-part story starring each of the available returning Doctors (to give each of them the chance to be the Doctor for a full week again), plus minisodes, culminating in the big reunion show on the big night. What's that?! The general public would tune out after 30 minutes of episode one?! Well screw them! They should have been there at the beginning! Not enough time or money? The BBC didn't even make a Doctor Who series for this year! What's the point of inserting duplicates of Clara throughout the Doctor's entire existence if they're not going to shoot any new 'past Doctor' scenes for her to appear in? The far superior docudrama, "An Adventure In Space And Time", could have instead been 4 new 25-minute episodes starring at least one classic Doctor. Instead this single new episode was all about this new character, who nobody had ever seen before. What did viewers really want to see here? Somebody who no-one associated with the series? Because that's what they got! Why did the BBC go to so much effort to avoid the successful creatives who this programme was supposed to be paying tribute to? Did their lawyers fear litigation from Big Finish, who hold the 'past Doctors' audio story license? The only past Doctor who does get suitably represented (only to an extent, mind) – David Tennant's 10th (now 11th or 12th) Doctor - is similarly only permitted in the audios when he is not playing the Doctor, much like Tom Baker in this episode. Tennant's solitary presence here has the opposite of the intended effect, by making the episode look thoroughly ashamed of its heritage - which, I grant you, is quite possible: in Doctor Who's 15-year absence, the BBC had recurrently complained about how abysmal it was.Was it perchance because BBC America felt they couldn't market a 50th anniversary, but could market the return of Tennant? Perhaps they thought they were representative of all the American advertisers who fund the show's production these days more than the UK license-payer does. Good God, do they even know how long and successful the original series was in the US? You think Moffat did that all himself? Because he didn't! Just look at the Bally pinball machine, for a start! The US Tour truck!Supporting the last 50 years of Doctor Who has been the character's belief of the significance of times gone by, something which the makers of this episode do not appear to share. It seems unjust to commemorate such an accomplishment by ignoring the contributors and all-time audiences who have allowed it to run for that long.The reason why I watched New Who is because on some level I wanted to see a touch of the original series again, which is less likely during the course of a regular series, but if they can't even do that in the 50th anniversary special, then what's the point in me watching? It's sad, really - All Steven Moffat has going for him is his luck (what with "The Empty Child" and "Blink"), and money (stupid people like us who buy his deuces whenever he spawns them). But now, he's intent on further wasting the time we gave to the BBC for five decades. I'll say it here and now: No more Doctor Who, no more Steven Moffat. It's obvious that we won't get what we want or deserve, so it's high time to move on. Doctor Who has died.

For its 50th anniversary special, Doctor Who and its show runner Steven Moffat (Sherlock ; Doctor Who) took a brand new turn in the wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff ! Starring Matt Smith (the 11th doctor), David Tennant (the 10th doctor ; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), John Hurt (Alien ; Harry Potter), Jenna Coleman (11th doctor's companion) and Billie Piper (9th and 10th doctors' companion). This new 75 minutes installment of the series is one we'll hear about for a long time. The story starts, as it does by an emergency call. Matt Smith's doctor, newly reunited with Clara, his companion is contacted by the United Nations Intelligence Task-force (UNIT)'s director Kate Stewart. She demand him to join her as soon as possible in London's National Gallery to deal with instructions left by her majesty the Queen Elizabeth the 1st of England who apparently was married to the 10th doctor... During many flashbacks between the time when the doctor wasn't the doctor and unseen 10th doctor's adventure we travel across the time to go back to one incredibly important event : the destruction of Gallifrey. So, one question remains "No more" or "Gallifrey falls" ? This special will bring you to tears, you will laugh, you will praise Moffat and more than ever you will doubt everything in the Doctor Who canon !

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor is truly considered to be a major 50th Anniversary failure. Why is this movie so STUPID and terrible and how it's bad? Here's why. First off, I'm kind of like the other half of George Lucas a little bit. I had the same problems George Lucas had with Star Wars. I tried to get Steven Moffat, the executive producer to get copyrighted characters from other franchises (such as Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Power Rangers and other franchises). He replied to me in the summer of 2012 and he said he would do his best. I found a page for Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary Special on Wikipedia and clicked on the page thinking that Steven Moffat got characters from other franchises to guest star. But Steven Moffat had new ideas for the special and a new title for it: "The Day of the Doctor". And not only that, Steven Moffat couldn't get characters from other franchises to guest star in Doctor Who because of licensing issues. The BBC used their original ideas for the special instead. They threw my ideas in the trash and shut them out into the cold city dump forever. It's like there telling me the word "NO, I'm sorry but it's just not practical". We'll SCREW THAT! I give Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor zero stars for it because if Steven Moffat would've got my ideas into the special, my disappointment of the special wouldn't never have happened because if those copyrighted characters guest appeared in the special, then I would've been happy that characters from Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Power Rangers and other franchises are in it and things would've been a lot different for me and I wouldn't have to be so disappointed in Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor. But it didn't happen. But I wasn't always disappointed in the special. I was excited for it at the time but when I found out that none of the copyrighted characters made it in, that's when it all changed my excitement into huge disappointment.