TOTAL FILM -TOTALLY EXCELLENT (Total Film)

Member Name: lotboy15011980

Product:	Total Film
Date:	24/09/02 (104 review reads)
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Advantages: Excellent reviews, Imaginative features

Disadvantages: none

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I am a die hard movie fan, and by that I don't just mean that I enjoy watching Bruce Willis running up and down skyscrapers/airports/New York, but that I love films, especially good ones. Being a generally very busy person, however I don't have the time, or indeed the money to go and see every film that comes out and so I turn to my favourite guide, Total Film

It has quite simply got the reviews that most accurately describe all the good and bad points of a film and also relate the film to other films in it's genre. Aside from the usual text of the review there are two other features that I find especially useful

1) See this if you liked....

Where the reviewer lists three films that bear a relation to the film under review..

2) Predicted interest curve...

Which categorises how interested you are likely to be at all stages of the movie from 'Thrilled' to 'Zzzzzzz'. These are a really good laugh and are sometimes employed to very humorous effect ( e.g. the Spiderman predicted interest curve looked like a web!)

The overall rating comes in the familiar out of 5 stars system....

But this is not all.....
Total Film doesn't just contain reviews oh no there are articles such as

-Celebrity Interviews
-The Story behind the making of...
-DVD and Film Book reviews
-Soundtrack reviews
-A Quiz
-Rough Cut - this deals with movies in the making and rumours, celebrity news, box office charts, a reader Q&A section
-Blockbuster Previews

-The Abridged Script - their backpage feature where a famous film is put through the grinder of abridgement in a humorous way. This section is usually quite cynical but
good for a few giggles.

The sheer volume as well as the content is also impressive. In the October 2002 issue there are 170pages of which only 40 were ads ( almost all film related ads too) leaving 130 pages of content.

Some people will chant 'Empire' at this review and maybe a few years ago I would have done too, but in my opinion Empire has gone down the tubes a bit while Total Film keeps getting better and better. Empire seems to sell out when reviewing big movies rather than being honest (did anyone really think Attack of the Clones deserved 5 stars as i got in Empire, btw Total Film gave it 3 I think), and for a guy on a budget with little time to spare honest reviewing wins out every day!

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