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SolarSystem · September 14, 2014 8:24 pm

Wonderful.
Makes me even more impatient to see the film.

SusiGo · September 15, 2014 7:18 am

Not sure if we had this one but I thought an example for a good interview would be nice for a change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZICCUyTnM

BreathingIsBoring · September 15, 2014 3:25 pm

For you Americans, the film now has an MPAA rating of PG-13. I don't know if this affects anyone but myself, since I wanted to go see this with a group of friends rather than with my parents and this is a good thing, but I also thought some of their reasoning behind it was funny.

Rated PG-13: For some sexual references, mature thematic material and historical smoking.

That made me chuckle a little. Historical smoking? Vs regular smoking?

miriel68 · September 15, 2014 3:45 pm

Oh, historical smoking! Neologism of the year!

SusiGo · September 15, 2014 3:46 pm

What an invention.

This Is The Phantom Lady · September 15, 2014 3:51 pm

LMAO. what is Historical Smoking even??

BreathingIsBoring · September 15, 2014 5:25 pm

'This is your MPAA at work. It won’t protect children from the violent images and horribly violent situations that you find in big-money summer blockbusters. No, they all get a PG-13.But it will protect itself from getting criticized by anti-smoking groups, so it comes up with this bit of silliness.'

http://blog.sfgate.com/mlasalle/2014/02/05/the-mpaa-and-historical-smoking/

I don't know. I think it's rather silly.

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BreathingIsBoring · September 15, 2014 5:27 pm

It seems this rating for smoking has been going on for a while. The earliest appearance of “historical smoking” for a PG-13 rating that I could track down shows up in the 2009 film “Alien Trespass”.

In that film, an alien crash-lands in America during the 1950’s and a character in the film smokes a pipe.

A man smoking a pipe in 1950’s America may just be too much for today’s kids. For those of you who were children in the 1950’s and may have witnessed actual pipe smoking, I don’t know how you survived.

But it’s not only ‘historical smoking’ that must be avoided by the eyes of youth. Some feel what may be considered the future of smoking, e-cigarettes, must avoid being seen.

Some stars were seen smoking e-cigarettes during the Sunday broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, so a group of senators on Tuesday decided to write a critical letter.

In a open letter to the shows producers, senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) said, “Unfortunately, this year, many young viewers saw notable displays of e-cigarette use throughout the awards show, including the opening monologue and repeated shots of celebrities smoking e-cigarettes.”

“We are troubled that these images glamorize smoking and serve as celebrity endorsements that could encourage young fans to begin smoking traditional cigarettes or e-cigarettes.”

I just hope the youth of America didn't turn the channel and see the news coming from Colorado, where people are legally lighting up joints of marijuana.

http://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/eric-scheiner/warning-historical-smoking-and-e-cigarettes-are-visible

Hehe.... Heh. *Lives in Colorado*

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SusiGo · September 16, 2014 7:07 am

Here is a good interview, starts after the banter at about 2 minutes in. Just give Benedict and Keira room for talking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nm5sCiK_K4

miriel68 · September 16, 2014 7:19 am

Such a lovely interview, I like him being more relaxed and "himself" and also they seem to have such an easy friendly relationship with Keira.

SusiGo · September 16, 2014 7:21 am

Yes. And with him the interviewer's task is actually quite easy - ask some reasonably intelligent questions and let him talk.

MartaSt · September 16, 2014 8:06 am

It's good that there are still people who know how to do clever and intelligent interview

SolarSystem · September 16, 2014 9:08 am

That interview is just great. And yes, I'm so shallow, I especially love the first two minutes with him chuckling and stuff.
And 'historical smoking' is the most brilliant thing I've heard in a while. You really have to be a genius to come up with something like that, I suppose.

SusiGo · September 16, 2014 9:44 am

I am still not over that historical smoking thing which on the one hand is funny. But would it not be better to x-rate films showing historical gun use? And to act on it in the present instead of presenting smokers as the biggest possible threat?

SolarSystem · September 16, 2014 9:55 am

Oh, please don't get me started on the way in which movies get rated nowadays... in lots of cases it's more than just a little bit ridiculous.

miriel68 · September 16, 2014 11:40 am

SusiGo wrote:
Yes. And with him the interviewer's task is actually quite easy - ask some reasonably intelligent questions and let him talk.

Lol, I would say that "let him talk" is quite enough, even without intelligent questions: he saved the Q&A because he was giving long and intelligent answers to abysmally stupid questions or - in best cases - to dull and ripetitive questions.

SolarSystem · September 17, 2014 10:27 am

Oh. Don't know if this has to do with Toronto, but TIG will open in German cinemas a bit earlier now: on the 22nd of January. Still far too late, but well...
http://squareone-entertainment.eu/the-imitation-game/

SusiGo · September 17, 2014 10:34 am

Still good news, thanks for posting.

SolarSystem · September 18, 2014 11:18 am

tonnaree · September 18, 2014 12:01 pm

What?!?!?! New longer trailer?!?! Official Poster? I'm excited but I need to know why!