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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jun 19, 2012 23:59:27 GMT
Please post your own reviews of the film here, and any you see online (nice ones only, of course!  ) Also any articles (I'm going to lock the main thread soon)Starting with the one PGG posted earlier: (Thanks, PGG)
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jun 20, 2012 12:07:53 GMT
And we have the GQ article!  www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2012-06/20/rufus-sewell-abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter-interviewRufus Sewell on the “teen spangly vampires” of Twilight and dressing as a beefeater
By Kiran Moodley | 20 June 12
Rufus Sewell is often typecast as a villain: A Knight's Tale, The Legend of Zorro, Helen of Troy. But he couldn't resist the bizarre role of vampire leader taking the Confederate forces into battle against the 16th President of the United States in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. "It's good to have a job - I've been unemployed for eight months!" laughs the 44 year-old Sewell, speaking from the Ritz-Carlton in New York. Last seen on the small screen playing elegant Lebole-clad detective Aurelio in Zen last year, this month sees him return in a Tim Burton produced adaptation of Seth Grahame Smith's inspired novel. "Ben Walker who plays Abraham Lincoln is very funny, very professional and showed a lot of humility - he's good with an axe too." As the stylish Sewell makes a welcome return to film, GQ.com quizzed him about his bloodsucking return:
GQ.com: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is definitely unusual. Does the historical fiction and fantasy appeal to you?
Rufus Sewell: I haven't read that great a deal of the genre at all - I haven't got a great library of historical mashups! Yet when I heard the title, it made me smile and once I read the book I thought it was great. It was just a crazy, visual spectacular of a book and it was good to get the script and see just how crazy it was going to be.
Vampires remain a favourite pop culture topic at the moment - is this film offering a different take?
I don't know if it will benefit from the recent spate of vampire films. I'm hoping it's a refreshing antidote in that it's a good old-fashioned, blood-curdling vampire film. To take it to a further extreme, it's getting away from the teen spangly vampires of the last few years. So I don't think it's tapping into that genre rather than it's going against that.
You've previously said you wouldn't want to play a villain again - what was it about this role?
That's basically because I've been asked that question since 1999! Personally, I haven't got a problem with playing any kind of role, but the pattern is, if the film is American and it's big, I get the baddy. I like having to find a refreshing angle to something that is similar to what I've played before. The greatest string in bow is versatility. I was delighted to play a baddy after being unemployed.
What's the worst thing a critic has ever said about you?
I read a review once said: "Rufus Sewell" and then in brackets "(bad)". It was the brackets that really pissed me off.
What do people get wrong about you?
It depends whether you mean people or journalists. People don't get much wrong about me, but journalists do. People write about me like I'm a "type".
What's the best piece of advice you've ever received?
Whatever your excuses, just turn up on time.
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Post by kissmekate on Jun 20, 2012 14:21:48 GMT
Nice interview, thanks! He doesn't seem to be too fond of teen spangly vampires ;D |
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Post by rueful on Jun 20, 2012 14:27:23 GMT
Thanks, PGG and GE2! (And thanks for setting up the sub-board, GE2!)
The short GQ interview is kind of a lost opportunity, as far as I'm concerned, since it's a style magazine and they had one of the most stylish actors in the world in their grasp and they asked him the same questions as always! Still, it's great exposure for him, since GQ is so widely read.
I liked the one from wisn.com better!
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Post by rueful on Jun 20, 2012 14:41:37 GMT
This article contains Production Notes for the film, INCLUDING A LOT OF SPOILERS. It's really long, with detailed summaries of a lot of the action, cast bios, and brief quotes from everyone, so I don't think it's appropriate to post it all here (and there's a copyright notice on it anyway). It's worth reading, if you don't mind the spoilers. If you don't want to see the spoilers, Rufus's quotes have only a mild spoiler (if you're super anti-spoiler). They appear just below the photo of Vadoma pinning Abe Lincoln beneath her chair. (  , that is a sentence I'd never have expected to write in a million years, based on my US history classes! ;D) www.scifijapan.com/articles/2012/06/19/abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter-production-notes/ |
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Post by germanlady on Jun 21, 2012 6:13:23 GMT
Love all these articles, especially the GQ interview...
Thank you, GET and rueful.
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Post by adina on Jun 21, 2012 8:25:28 GMT
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Post by kissmekate on Jun 21, 2012 8:49:37 GMT
I don't have the slightest doubt that this reviewer is sooo right - even if I haven't seen the movie yet.
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jun 21, 2012 23:54:47 GMT
Thanks for the production notes, Rueful (as there are a lot of spoilers I'll read those once I've seen the film - thanks for the warning) and the lovely review, Adina. Nice article here, mostly about ALVH but also Dark City, too: www.fangoria.com/index.php/moviestv/fearful-features/7286-rufus-sewell-president-evil When a movie’s vampire-slaying hero is none other than the President of the United States, it requires an especially strong bloodsucking villain to oppose him. Enter Adam—a character not present in Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, but created for the film (opening this week from 20th Century Fox) and vividly enacted by British actor Rufus Sewell. |
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Post by rueful on Jun 22, 2012 3:28:53 GMT
I think that was one of the best interviews so far! There were some different questions from the interviewer, and, as usual, Rufus gave very thoughtful, interesting answers. Thanks for posting it, GE2! Editing to add a link to Roger Ebert's mostly positive review (3 stars out of 4) rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120620/REVIEWS/120629989/1001Here's the only mention of Rufus though: The film, directed by Timur Bekmambetov and written by Seth Grahame-Smith, based on his novel, handles all these matters with an admirable seriousness, which may be the only way they could possibly work. The performances are earnest and sincere, and even villains like Adam (Rufus Sewell), the American leader of the Vampire Nation, doesn't spit or snarl overmuch.Time Magazine's review of the film was not positive, but gave credit to the actors (although it's a foolishly backhanded compliment to Rufus): entertainment.time.com/2012/06/21/abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter-four-score-and-seven-corpses/The attractive, little-known cast devotes full vigor to their roles. Csokas, liberated from his pruny-swain roles in Alice in Wonderland and The Debt, gives Barts a seedy grandeur and an aristocratic smirk. Sewell, once the young dreamboat of Tom Stoppard’s superb Arcadia in its London premiere, makes a suitably menacing and weary chief villain. Wasson is a seductive predator, and Cooper excellent as a courtly version of the grizzled gunslinger from old WesternsObviously I take great issue with "little-known" as well as "once the young dreamboat...." I think they forgot to write AND EVEN MORE OF A DREAMBOAT NOW. Also, what is with every reviewer I read comparing Ben Walker to Liam Neeson. So, they look a little similar. Does everyone have to bring it up? It's like they all passed the same review notes around. That's all the reviews I'm going post for now, since most of the US ones I've seen are not very positive.  Any good opening night reviews in London? |
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Post by Petruchio - Good God on Jun 22, 2012 7:10:09 GMT
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Post by robela on Jun 22, 2012 7:36:55 GMT
Thanks for all the reviews and interviews ladies: Adina, GE2, Rueful, and the last one PGG, fabulous have not seen that one before.  |
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Post by kissmekate on Jun 22, 2012 7:42:27 GMT
Thanks for all those interesting links! Rufus really made me laugh in the Fangoria interview: I just liked the fact that they didn’t twinkle, they weren’t involved in little romances and they were evil as f**k ;D ... so I was as regal or presidential as they could have me look.Oh, yes  Obviously I take great issue with "little-known" as well as "once the young dreamboat...." I think they forgot to write AND EVEN MORE OF A DREAMBOAT NOW. The Metro writer seems to have got your message! At 44, he’s arguably more attractive than he was in his twenties, when he first attracted attention on TV as Will Ladislaw in Middlemarch and Seth Starkadder in Cold Comfort Farm. |
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Post by kissmekate on Jun 22, 2012 9:41:57 GMT
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Post by joyceinva on Jun 22, 2012 13:16:14 GMT
My husband is a big fan of the MSNBC morning talk show "Morning Joe." He called me yesterday, all excited, to say that they were talking about "my movie." Anthony Mackie was a guest. The link here is to a blog post about the interview AND the interview clip itself. Both of the hosts of the show were enthusiastic about the movie, with Joe Scarborough saying that it was going to be a "summer block-buster." mojoe.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/21/12342354-vampires-mackie-and-lincoln-oh-my |
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) Also any articles (I'm going to lock the main thread soon)
A summer blockbuster has mega-threads. 
Any good opening night reviews in London?
