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62 | THE WOLVERINE TF We hang out with Hugh Jackman on the set of the angriest superhero movie ever made.
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70 | X-MEN SPECIAL TF Unseen photos, the lowdown on Days Of Future Past, funny stuff. 84 | RYAN REYNOLDS The star tells us all about R.I.P.D. But not about M&S. 88 | RED 2 TF Old people running around with guns. It’s good to see them so active, isn’t it? 97 | TIME TRAVEL UNRAVELLED TF Actually starts on p101. You’ll see... Look, we spent ages on this so you’re jolly well going to read the flipping thing. 102 | VIN DIESEL TF Why Riddick won’t be ridic. 106 | LOVELACE TF The story behind the story of the Linda Lovelace biopic.
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45 | It’s loads of documentaries and old films this month for some reason, but they’re mostly good. Also: Now You See Me: magicians! The Conjuring: not magicians! Monsters University: big blue men!
36 | SCREENING CLUB See The Lone Ranger without having to argue with a ticket machine. 137 | IS IT JUST ME? In defence of the Star Wars Special Editions. No, George didn’t write it. 138 | CLASSIC SCENE The Marshmallow Man takes Manhattan. 140 | INSTANT EXPERT Jane Austen’s greatest hits. Next month: Flaubert on Blu-ray. 146 | TF LOVES The ‘nine old men’ that built Disney.
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Alex Zane’s musings on solo cinemagoing (TF208) reminded me of my own unforgettable experience. Back in the late ’70s I attended a matinee re-run of The Exorcist and found myself the lone occupant of one of those cavernous 500 seater pre-multiplex cinemas which every provincial town seemed to have back in the day. I have to say that it was the single most chilling, eerie and spellbinding two hours of my life, watching that film in an otherwise empty auditorium. Probably the purest cinematic experience I’ve ever had, and the only one that made me bin my underpants afterwards! TONY KERRIDGE, WALTHAMSTOW
One of cinema’s greatest joys is the communal experience, but sometimes it’s nice to have the communal experience without all the commoners, and extra seats to stash your coat/bag/blankie/man-sized talking Ted. Hope you’ve picked up some new undies since, BTW. Tony and everyone else with a letter printed here will receive a copy of Parker, out on Blu-ray and DVD from Entertainment One. Didn’t send an address? Email it! The Stath. He’ll find you. It’s what he does.
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Having only educated myself in film for about two years now, I can’t pretend to be an expert. So, correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me a number of new films are only being made because similar ones have become big hits in the past few years. Take the upcoming film Diana. Oscar nods are already being talked about because of the success of similar films (The King’s Speech, The Queen). Or The Fifth Estate: would there really be a film about WikiLeaks were it not for the success of Never miss an issue August – Subscribe 2013 | Total pageFilm 66 | 9
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‘Well disappointed at Michael Shannon’s lack of facial hair in Man Of Steel’ Man talk
After seeing Man Of Steel, I immediately scoured the internet to read what others thought of the film. I was really surprised that so many people didn’t like it. The biggest complaint people seem to have is that Man Of Steel is not a happy, bright, colourful film. But Man Of Steel is not meant to be that type of film; it’s not meant to be a throwback to the Donner news reviews Time warped films. Would a throwback have videos trailers even worked? It was attempted I watched Star Trek Into forum Darkness at the cinema the in 2006 with Superman Returns and other week and I’m confused. It’s a people still complained. I watched Man Of sequel to a prequel which predates the Steel ready for a new type of Superman series the prequel prequels while being and that’s what I got. To the people who a remake of a sequel to the original which are complaining I would say, look at it from follows the timeline of the original series. a different perspective. Don’t bash the film So, being a remake of a sequel to a film because it’s not the film you wanted it to which sequels the prequel to which the be. Look at it as a new take on an old sequel was made, what in the complete character that is meant to be different conundrum of causality and space-time is from previous incarnations. BEN SMITH, VIA EMAIL going on? Besides that, it’s pretty dull.
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On the whole I enjoyed Man Of Steel. Although I did have a fundamental issue with it – its gratuitous use of shaky camera. While I can forgive that during the action set-pieces (which were astonishing), its use during normal dialogue sequences meant that I had no respite from the nausea-
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inducing effects. I am one of the few per cent of people who get motion sickness when playing first-person shooters and watching any telly which uses shaky-cam (Shameless, I mean you). Suffice to say Man Of Steel will not be getting a second viewing from me. Would it be too much to ask that reviewers perhaps comment on this or even just add a category alongside the running time and cast (shaky-cam = yes)? I’m glad I didn’t go for the 3D option. The extra D would have probably meant extra chunks.
We often flag them up, though we try to avoid getting too descriptive-spoilery. To shake things up, we’d like to see postcredits stings in more unlikely films; say, Jessica Chastain stopping off at Nando’s for some chicken on the way home in Zero Dark Thirty; Joaquin Phoenix supergluing the prison loo back together in The Master; the old chap in Amour returning to the apartment to grab his Kindle…
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We’d be lying if we didn’t admit there was one slightly unnecessary shot of Kevin Costner hanging out in his yard where it felt like the cameraman had necked a pint of Red Bull. On a rollercoaster. In the middle of a hurricane. But like Ben says, it’s a modern movie, made in a modern style, which thankfully means that Jimmy Olsen no longer looks like third place in a John McEnroe lookalike competition.
STEPHEN MC ALLISTER, ST HELENS
Never mind the lack of facial hair – what about Shannon’s bowl cut? Proper horror. Does Joan Of Arc run the barber’s on Krypton or what? No wonder he was so arsey about everything.
End games
This letter is on the subject of the postcredit snippet, which Hollywood seems to be in love with. Yesterday, I sat through the end credits of Man Of Steel (which didn’t quite hit the mark) only to be met with a 10-minute sequence of Jonny Depp’s latest “I’m the strange secondary character but I’m on all the posters” film, The Lone Ranger. Is this what it’s come too? In future reviews, could you please let us readers know if there is a post-credit snippet, and if it’s worth sticking around for?
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Fast defence
I thought you guys were a little harsh on Fast & Furious 6. Of course a franchise that big is going to have plotholes and so on, but I thought it stood strongly within the series and deserved at least four stars. The action was supreme, the comedic elements blended nicely without distracting attention from the plotline, the villain (Owen Shaw) was played superbly by Luke Evans. You really didn’t cut it much slack! Plus James Wan is taking the reins for the next installment, and with that surprise ending it beat the hell out its scene on Iron Man 3, which I wasted 10 minutes of my life waiting for! Superb film, nonetheless.
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We liked F&F6 well enough, but it couldn’t help be comedown after the majesty of F&F5, the Sistine Chapel of F&F movies. The Sistine Chapel with God and Adam trash-talking and wrestling homoerotically.
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Well disappointed at Michael Shannon’s lack of facial hair in Man Of Steel. He looks hard as nails but would have been better with a proper General Zod beard. Terence Stamp was very camp but at least he got the beard right.
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THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG | Meet Middle-earth’s kick-ass new archer… “She’s a warrior,” says star Evangeline Lilly of elf Tauriel – one of the new stars of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit sequel… “She knows how to wield any weapon. She’s lethal and deadly.”
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A new character to the Tolkien-verse created by writers Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens to add some much-needed girl power to the testosterone-heavy story, Tauriel is head of the Elven Guard of Mirkwood. Younger (“She’s only 600 years old,” laughs the actress) and feistier than the higher-born likes of Orlando Bloom’s Legolas, Lilly’s sharp-shooting redhead allies herself to Bilbo (Martin Freeman) and co as they travel through the shadowy forest on their way to reclaim the dwarf kingdom of Erebor from the treasure-hoarding dragon, Smaug. Tauriel’s not the only fresh face in The Desolation Of Smaug: there’s Luke Evans’ Welshaccented warrior Bard the Bowman, Mikael Persbrandt’s shape-shifting Beorn the Bear and Lee Pace’s Elven king Thranduil… not to mention the titular beast himself (Benedict Cumberbatch). totalfilm.com
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All of which suggests Jackson will be doing everything in his power to ensure TDOS is a lot more than just a second act… “It is complicated to do a middle film,” Jackson admits, “but the advantage is we have multiple story lines. [An Unexpected Journey] was a fairly linear film: Gandalf leads the dwarves across Middle-earth at the beginning of their adventure. The great thing about the second movie, as it was with The Two Towers, is that the story starts splitting into multiple stories. We follow different characters, and the story intensifies as the stakes go up.” The Desolation Of Smaug won’t be short of set-pieces either, including the much-anticipated ‘barrel sequence’ – which sees our heroes escaping from Thranduil’s imprisonment by river while hiding in wine barrels. “It’s going to be incredible,” promises Richard Armitage, aka dwarf leader Thorin Oakenshield. “[We filmed it] on this very fast-moving river set where we were all submerged under water… I think it’ll be one of the most thrilling parts of the second film.” CL/RJ ETA | 13 DECEMBER The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug opens later this year. Turn over the page for our TDOS trailer breakdown. September August 2013 2011 | Total Film | 13
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