Empire Magazine €4.47 @ HMV

Red Sleeping Beauty

Does anyone here read/buy Empire ? I used to buy got fed up with the price difference between £ and €. It's about €5.70 in most places here but I got one in HMV yesterday for €4.47 which was grand.

This month's issue has a 1001 Greatest Movie Moments list if you're into them and a spread on Inglorious Bastards.

lostexpectation

list features boo!
brad pitt says director love your mag, they just had to mention he said this.

anyone notice the mole removal?

foxyboxer

I always love it when they do a 100 GREATEST movies feature (...and they include the likes of Phantom Menace etc without a hint of irony). It's almost like they're telling you what to like. Shouldn't it be 100 FAVOURITE movies.

Nolanger

It's Empire FFS - movies began in the early '70s in America, Scorcese is the greatest director (or is it Kubrick?), the best films of all time don't have subtitles and are always in colour, the best decade for movies was the '80s, and Tarantino is a world-class filmmaker because he rips off old movies that magazines like Empire wouldn't know about.

Red Sleeping Beauty

Yeah, the lists are usually crap and it's a populist magazine. They had a big "greatest lists of films" a while ago which had non-english language and non-colour films. It was the usuals in the top 10 though with Batman 6 at number 15.

Anyway, just makes a change that it's under a fiver if ye do fancy it.

Magic Eight Ball

Empire gave both Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen & Terminator Salvation favorable reviews.. Nuff said! :rolleyes:

speedboatchase

Trevor Coulahan wrote: »

Empire gave both Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen & Terminator Salvation favorable reviews.. Nuff said! :rolleyes:

If your movie cost over $150m you get at least 4 stars, see Pearl Harbour etc

ziedth

In the words of Malcom in the middle, "I keep it in my bathroom......but not for reading.

Or

In the simpsons "Birds wont even use them in their nest"

Empire is the magazine version of Harry knowles. If there''s a chance of a free trip to a set then low and behold the crappest film will get 4 stars. If there's a chance that a famous film maker will guest edit the magazine, well that's 4 stars for his latest piece fo trash.

I bought Empire once in the past two years and wish I hadn't. Every issue they find some reason to dedicate a dozen pages to their latest list and generally they always feature the same films over and over again.

I picked up a new magazine called Filmstar over in England and it was a breath of fresh air compared to the liek fo Empire and Total Film. 180 pages, with only about 6 pages of ads. Proper film news and revies, interviews with directors such as Alex cox, a fantastic piece on Moon and unlike Empire they didn't metion that he was David Bowie's son at every opportunity.

Nolanger

Empire is for young males interested in action/horror/gangster/scifi movies. Always been that way. Never learned anything from reading that mag. Only seen Filmstar for sale here in Rathmines.

Red Sleeping Beauty

Trevor Coulahan wrote: »

Empire gave both Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen & Terminator Salvation favorable reviews.. Nuff said! :rolleyes:

Yep I agree that some of the high profile reviews are very very suspicious, especially when everyone else panned Terminator.

It's to do with personal opinion of the reviewer versus overall editor/magazine opinion. But it's not personal opinion that's attached to the DVD covers , it's "EMPIRE ****" (empire four stars).

I've posted on their forum a few times to have a whinge about it but no one cares I don't think. Still though, for a Euro cheaper it's alright I think cause sometimes they've some good articles on films rather than just advertising new popular American mainstream multiplex films.

I'll have a look out for Filmstar. Is it English or British or Welsh or Northern Irish or Scottish ? Did you pick it up in England or in Britian ?

Filmstar is English, it's fromt he same people who do Deathray. I picked it up in Gatwick airport last week.

mudokon

I tried to find Filmstar but with no joy, Easons said that they stock it though.

Sanjuro

Used to read Empire religiously. I got sick of the endless Steven Spielberg articles (yeah, he's good, but his output since Schindler's List is average to poor at best), bullsh!t lists and high scores given to some appalling films. And with the internet, their 'news' is stale by the time the magazine goes to print. Find some decent websites and Empire is obsolete.

Nolanger

mudokon wrote: »

I tried to find Filmstar but with no joy, Easons said that they stock it though.

They have/had it in Centra, Rathmines, just over the bridge.

mudokon

Nolanger wrote: »

They have/had it in Centra, Rathmines, just over the bridge.

Thanks, bit of a trek from Cork though. :pac:

Nolanger

PM me your postal address and I'll send it to ya!

p to the e

thanks. i rarely buy this because it's over six euro when i see it. might actually pick it up now

Nolanger

Nolanger wrote: »

They have/had it in Centra, Rathmines, just over the bridge.

Spar actually - current issue sold out - should have more in next month.

Magic Eight Ball

Wouldn't mind picking this up myself.
Eassons on O'Connell Street might stock it.

razorblunt

Bought it for ages but got sick of it, I remember years ago they were ridiculing Will Ferrell and Jack Black now theyre the funniest guys in the world. QT can do no wrong in their eyes, some guy this month tore them a new one for printing self gratifying letters in the letters page.

lostexpectation

people buy it cos there isn't a better one

nyarlothothep

When they have a few features on films I like in an issue then its great. But usually there isn't much in there of interest. I particularly dislike super hero issues as I have no interest in this genre.

The reviews are definately suspicious. I stopped reading Q years ago for similar reasons cited here. Promotion of the same bands, reviews given to albums I didn't like and so forth. Its also the same reason I'll skip through the ticket in 5 minutes, theres nothing of much interest, I disagree with the critics on their editorial line etc. The internet is the way to go if you want genuine and insightful opinions on movies, yes there can be noise. There is one reviewer, sci fi debris whose reviews star trek episodes are so above whats written in published magazines, it just really highlights how the established formats aren't all they're cracked up to be.