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YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO MOVIES, TV SHOWS, MUSIC AND PREMIUM SEAT COMFORT ABOARD UNITED<br />

NOVEMBER<br />

<strong>2011</strong><br />

Rise of the Planet of<br />

the Apes’ digital magic<br />

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04 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES<br />

contents<br />

04 ANIMAL ATTRACTION Beasts may<br />

rule the screen in Rise of the Planet of<br />

the Apes, but they couldn’t have done it<br />

without some ingenious humans<br />

08 INTERNATIONAL FILMS Find out<br />

what’s playing and which languages<br />

are available on your fl ight<br />

10 INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION<br />

Catch up on your TV watching<br />

with our lineup<br />

12 DOMESTIC ENTERTAINMENT<br />

Figure out what to watch on<br />

U.S. fl ights<br />

13 TELEVISION DESCRIPTIONS<br />

Learn about the top-notch<br />

programming on international fl ights<br />

14<br />

HARRY POTTER AND THE<br />

DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2<br />

14 FILM DESCRIPTIONS Get the skinny<br />

on this month’s movies<br />

20 PREMIUM SERVICES Learn about<br />

new on-demand entertainment and<br />

premium-service seat features<br />

24 SEATING CONTROLS Get comfortable<br />

in United First Suite and Business on 777s<br />

25 PERSONAL VIDEO TAPE SYSTEM<br />

Peruse fi lms by language, and get the<br />

lowdown on each one<br />

32 AUDIO PROGRAMMING Tune in<br />

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34 QUIZ Join the “Culture Club” and<br />

test your pop culture IQ<br />

UNITED.COM • NOVEMBER <strong>2011</strong> 3


COURTESY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX<br />

Beasts may rule<br />

the screen in Rise<br />

of the Planet of<br />

the Apes, but it<br />

took visual-eff ects<br />

wizards like Dan<br />

Lemmon Lem to bring<br />

them to life.<br />

(Score (Sco one for<br />

the e hhumans.)<br />

A N I M A L A T T R A C T I O N<br />

BY JOHN SELLERS<br />

ACK IN THE EARLY DAYS of moviemaking, the great<br />

W.C. Fields famously advised his fellow actors,<br />

“Never work with children or animals.” Yet while<br />

many actors have no choice but to share the screen<br />

with such unpredictable co-stars, some are fi nding<br />

that today’s visual-eff ects technology has made<br />

at least part of Fields’ mantra obsolete. Just ask<br />

Rise of the Planet of the Apes star James Franco,<br />

who spends much of his screen time opposite a<br />

chimpanzee so realistic you forget the creature isn’t real.<br />

Franco’s computer-generated co-star, Caesar, is the creation of<br />

Weta Digital, the Oscar-winning visual-eff ects company behind the<br />

Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong and Avatar, and he represents a<br />

UNITED.COM • NOVEMBER <strong>2011</strong> 5


Kong-sized leap forward in movie magic. More than 500 visualeff<br />

ects artists, guided by Weta Digital supervisor Dan Lemmon, joined<br />

forces to invest Caesar and his rebellious kin with layers of neverbefore-seen<br />

realism; the result has le audiences and critics goggling.<br />

How did Weta manage to pull it off ? What does it mean for future<br />

visual-eff ects breakthroughs? And what, exactly, is a “hair pipeline”?<br />

Play tracked Lemmon down to fi nd out.<br />

Play: Everyone seems to agree your<br />

apes look like the real deal. Good job!<br />

Lemmon: That was certainly one of<br />

the big things for this fi lm—we knew<br />

we had to make the apes look totally<br />

believable. Since this story is set in<br />

the present day, you can’t get away<br />

with saying, “There’s been 10,000 years<br />

of evolution and now they’re more<br />

anthropomorphized.” Everybody<br />

knows what chimpanzees look like.<br />

Does that mean ape-making is more<br />

diffi cult than, say, creating the aliens<br />

in Avatar? You’re defi nitely more<br />

constrained because people are so<br />

familiar with the subject. You can’t<br />

really deviate from reality. Whereas<br />

if you have a fantastic creature and<br />

its legs end up a few centimeters<br />

shorter than in the concept illustration,<br />

nobody’s going to be the wiser,<br />

because they don’t know what that<br />

creature should look like.<br />

Weta also provided the visual eff ects<br />

for 2005’s King Kong. Did your experience<br />

on that fi lm make it easier to do<br />

Rise of the Planet of the Apes? It was<br />

very helpful to have worked on that,<br />

because it gave us a library of ape<br />

references, mostly gorilla. We already<br />

had an idea of the musculature, and<br />

we’d spent some time experimenting<br />

with ways of articulating the face,<br />

which is quite diff erent on apes when<br />

compared with humans. But we also<br />

had a lot of new things we wanted to<br />

try. Plus, much of our technology had<br />

moved on. We had a whole new fur<br />

system, for example, and new systems<br />

for muscle and tissue simulation.<br />

So, we had a head start in terms of<br />

research, but when it came to actually<br />

building our apes, we pre y much<br />

started from scratch.<br />

It also must’ve helped to be working<br />

with actor Andy Serkis again, who<br />

6 NOVEMBER <strong>2011</strong> • UNITED.COM<br />

provided the motion-capture performance<br />

for Kong and now Caesar. He’s<br />

a pleasure to work with, and a really<br />

talented actor, too. He’s got the ability<br />

to communicate so much without<br />

even speaking, just by his facial<br />

performance. And every character<br />

he makes is diff erent. You look at<br />

the way he played King Kong and<br />

the way he played Caesar, and even<br />

though they’re both apes, they read<br />

completely diff erently emotionally.<br />

In preparing for Rise of the Planet of<br />

the Apes, did you put in time with<br />

actual chimpanzees? There’s a great<br />

zoo here in Wellington, New Zealand<br />

[where Weta is based], which has a<br />

fantastic troupe of chimps, and we<br />

spent a lot of time ge ing video of<br />

the way they moved. Also, the zoo<br />

occasionally has to put the chimps<br />

under anesthesia to do medical<br />

procedures, so when the staff went to<br />

draw blood or do a scan, we got to go<br />

in and take castings of the hands and<br />

feet, which we used when we built<br />

the digital apes.<br />

“ If you don’t<br />

do a CGI character’s<br />

facial<br />

animation well,<br />

the audience<br />

won’t buy the<br />

fi lm at all. It’s not<br />

just that they<br />

won’t like the<br />

character; they<br />

won’t like the<br />

What was the biggest challenge you<br />

faced on this fi lm? Creating Caesar.<br />

He has to emote and connect with the<br />

audience in a visceral way without<br />

using dialogue. So, ge ing the facial<br />

animation to the level where it<br />

matched what the actor—in this<br />

case, Andy Serkis—was doing was an<br />

enormous challenge. If you don’t<br />

do it well, the audience won’t buy<br />

the fi lm at all. It’s not just that<br />

they won’t like the character;<br />

they won’t like the movie. It was<br />

hugely important that Caesar’s<br />

facial performance be as<br />

convincing as possible.<br />

Did anything prove particularly<br />

tricky in creating the<br />

rest of the apes? Ge ing their<br />

hair to look and move naturally is<br />

defi nitely a challenge, but we’ve spent<br />

a lot of time since King Kong developing<br />

our hair pipeline.<br />

Er, hair pipeline? That’s what I call the<br />

suite of so ware tools we use to render<br />

the hair. One of them is a specifi c<br />

tool that we wrote, called Barbershop.<br />

It’s got brushing and combing features<br />

that allow our modelers to sculpt the<br />

hair to a precise level. And then that<br />

goes through a simulation process<br />

where we’ll run “wind” through it—if<br />

the ape’s bouncing around, the hair<br />

will react accordingly.<br />

Sounds like a lot of science went into it.<br />

Were you into physics in high school?<br />

Yes, I had a good time with it. I had<br />

diffi culty with math when it was<br />

abstract, but when I started seeing<br />

how it applied to the real world, that<br />

was pre y exciting. I try to bring<br />

that to the work I do in visual eff ects.<br />

People—OK, me—often confuse visual<br />

eff ects with special eff ects. Can you<br />

break it down for us? Sure. Typically<br />

when we talk about special eff ects,<br />

we mean something physical that<br />

happens in real time on the set. Visual<br />

eff ects tend to be the things that have<br />

to be added a er the fi lm’s already<br />

been exposed.<br />

COURTESY<br />

OTHERS ALL<br />

Got it. Maybe the visual-eff ects<br />

(LEMMON),<br />

industry needs a better publicist?<br />

Well, it’s all just terminology. If you’re LEDERER<br />

movie.” in the movie business, you make the<br />

JOE<br />

OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX


BEASTLY<br />

BUSINESS<br />

From top, Apes’<br />

visual-eff ects<br />

supervisor Dan<br />

Lemmon; the<br />

fi lm’s computergenerated<br />

star,<br />

Caesar; actors<br />

Freida Pinto and<br />

James Franco<br />

distinction, and if you’re not, it doesn’t<br />

really ma er. If I’m talking to my<br />

grandmother about what I do, she<br />

still thinks I do special eff ects, and<br />

that’s fi ne.<br />

Some PETA activists showed up at the<br />

Rise of the Planet of the Apes premiere<br />

with signs like “Thanks for not using<br />

real apes!” Clearly, some are hoping<br />

that visual eff ects can put animal<br />

actors out of work. How about you?<br />

Yeah, it was a treat to see those guys<br />

at the premiere in their gorilla suits!<br />

Certainly, when it comes to apes, I<br />

don’t think it’s right to use them for<br />

fi lms. And just from the perspective<br />

of acting, you can get a much be er<br />

performance if you use a human<br />

actor and make a digital aid than if<br />

you try to use a trained chimpanzee.<br />

But I think some animals that are<br />

accustomed to living with humans<br />

still make sense—like, I don’t have a<br />

problem with dogs being in fi lms if<br />

they’re being properly cared for.<br />

Do you get to goof off with visual<br />

eff ects at all while you’re working?<br />

Please tell me you made footage of<br />

apes doing the Saturday Night Fever<br />

strut. There wasn’t a lot of opportunity<br />

to blow off steam on this fi lm<br />

because it was on a really compressed<br />

schedule. But, particularly when<br />

you’re sleep-deprived, you start<br />

fi nding things unexpectedly funny.<br />

And occasionally you’ll have happy<br />

accidents where something will<br />

fail on one of the simulations—for<br />

instance, the ape’s skin will walk off<br />

and leave the hair behind.<br />

Hilarious. Say, have you ever attempted<br />

to re-create yourself using your visualeff<br />

ects skills? I’ve never done that, but<br />

everywhere I go—especially when I’m<br />

working on a particular problem—I<br />

see things that are related to that<br />

problem. When we were doing King<br />

Kong, I’d be pu ing my daughter to<br />

bed and looking at her hair and seeing<br />

the way the light bounced off it. I’d be<br />

looking at the dog and noticing the<br />

skin underneath the hair and trying to<br />

fi gure out how they’re related to each<br />

other. My work is fun—but it can also<br />

be a curse sometimes.<br />

You obviously worked intimately with<br />

Andy Serkis on this fi lm, but did you<br />

get to hang with James Franco? We<br />

were very present on set. We had a<br />

whole performance-capture [setup]<br />

there, and that was a new thing for<br />

us. We were basically taking the same<br />

technology that we put together for<br />

Avatar and bringing it to a live-action<br />

fi lm set. There were about 15 of us<br />

running around and trying to stay out<br />

of people’s way. James Franco and [costar]<br />

Freida Pinto were great to work<br />

with, although we didn’t interact with<br />

them too much. We focused mostly on<br />

the actors playing the apes.<br />

Did the rest of the crew refer to you<br />

guys as “the nerds”? I’m sure they did.<br />

Everywhere we go, we get referred to<br />

as “the nerds.”<br />

UNITED.COM • NOVEMBER <strong>2011</strong> 7


International<br />

Entertainment<br />

FILM SCHEDULE<br />

CH. EASTBOUND WESTBOUND<br />

1 Rise of the Planet of the Apes Larry Crowne<br />

2 Life in a Day Monte Carlo<br />

3<br />

4<br />

5<br />

6<br />

Horrible Bosses<br />

Discretion advised<br />

Harry Potter and the Deathly<br />

Hallows: Part 2<br />

Discretion advised<br />

Friends With Benefi ts<br />

Discretion advised<br />

Planet of the Apes (1968)<br />

CLASSICS<br />

FAMILY MOVIES<br />

Bad Teacher<br />

Discretion advised<br />

The Help<br />

Discretion advised<br />

The Hangover 2<br />

Discretion advised<br />

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s<br />

Stone<br />

Discretion advised<br />

7 The Lion King Toy Story<br />

8<br />

9<br />

Nurse Jackie<br />

Discretion advised (See page 13)<br />

Television<br />

(See page 10 for route-specifi c listings)<br />

TELEVISION<br />

Editor’s picks. Turn to page 14 for descriptions.<br />

Intra-Asia fl ights off er fi lms on channels 1-6, listed above, and television channels 7-9, listed on page 10.<br />

8 NOVEMBER <strong>2011</strong> • UNITED.COM<br />

Dexter<br />

Discretion advised (See page 13)<br />

Television<br />

(See page 10 for route-specifi c listings)<br />

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Domestic<br />

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DOMESTIC FILM<br />

AND TELEVISION LISTINGS<br />

CH. EASTBOUND WESTBOUND<br />

1 Larry Crowne Rise of the Planet of the Apes<br />

2 Monte Carlo Life in a Day<br />

3<br />

4<br />

5<br />

6<br />

Bad Teacher<br />

Discretion advised<br />

The Help<br />

Discretion advised<br />

Horrible Bosses<br />

Discretion advised<br />

Harry Potter and the Deathly<br />

Hallows: Part 2<br />

Discretion advised<br />

UNITED PRESENTS UNITED PRESENTS<br />

The Big Bang Theory<br />

Suburgatory<br />

Suits<br />

30 Rock<br />

The Middle<br />

Inside the Actors Studio: Jennifer Aniston<br />

DISCOVERY UNITED TRAVEL<br />

Mythbusters<br />

Gold Rush Alaska<br />

Cash Cab<br />

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations<br />

Pricing the Priceless: The Eiff el Tower<br />

Treks in a Wild World<br />

PBS UNITED DOCUMENTARY<br />

7 Circus LENNONYC<br />

8<br />

9<br />

12 NOVEMBER <strong>2011</strong> • UNITED.COM<br />

TELEVISION TELEVISION<br />

Nurse Jackie<br />

Discretion advised<br />

Dexter<br />

Discretion advised<br />

DISNEY CHANNEL DISNEY CHANNEL<br />

Good Luck Charlie<br />

Phineas and Ferb<br />

Wizards of Waverly Place<br />

Fish Hooks<br />

Shake It Up<br />

MOVIES AVAILABLE<br />

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Shake It Up<br />

Phineas and Ferb<br />

Good Luck Charlie<br />

A.N.T. Farm<br />

Wizards of Waverly Place


Dexter<br />

[T][L]<br />

Nurse Jackie<br />

[T][L]<br />

08<br />

08<br />

SM<br />

[L] Coarse language<br />

[T] Adult themes<br />

[V] Violence<br />

[S] Sexual situations<br />

In carrying out his dark errands, Dexter has always relied on his father’s “code” to protect him from<br />

exposure. But after making a serious error in the fi rst episode, Dexter begins to wonder if the code might<br />

have been designed to protect him from something even more dangerous: human emotion. In the second<br />

episode, fellow serial killer Arthur (a.k.a. Trinity) kidnaps a youngster from a video arcade, and Dexter<br />

realizes Arthur has started his deadly cycle again. Available on westbound fl ights.<br />

EDITOR’S<br />

PICK<br />

Nurse Jackie’s life gets a little more complicated in the fi rst episode, thanks to an inconveniently<br />

positioned security guard at the hospital; meanwhile, Dr. O’Hara’s longtime aff air comes to light. In<br />

the next two episodes, Jackie must contend with her former fl ame, Eddie, and eventually fi nds herself<br />

reconsidering their aff air. But family issues are also on Jackie’s mind in episode 4, as her daughter,<br />

Grace, attends her fi rst therapy session. Available on eastbound fl ights.<br />

UNITED.COM • NOVEMBER <strong>2011</strong> 13


Film<br />

Descriptions<br />

Eastbound International Flights<br />

03<br />

Horrible Bosses<br />

FEATURING Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman,<br />

Jamie Foxx<br />

DIRECTED BY Seth Gordon<br />

R<br />

[L] [V]<br />

[S] [T]<br />

For three friends who long to quit their jobs but can’t aff ord to be jobless,<br />

the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be<br />

getting rid of their obnoxious bosses. Armed with some dubious advice<br />

from a hustling ex-con (Jamie Foxx), they set out to do exactly that.<br />

01<br />

Rise of the Planet<br />

of the Apes<br />

FEATURING James Franco,<br />

Freida Pinto, Andy Serkis<br />

DIRECTED BY Rupert Wyatt<br />

14 NOVEMBER <strong>2011</strong> • UNITED.COM<br />

1 hr.<br />

38 min.<br />

Harry Potter and the<br />

Deathly Hallows: Part 2<br />

FEATURING Daniel Radcliff e, Rupert Grint,<br />

Emma Watson<br />

DIRECTED BY David Yates<br />

[L] Coarse language<br />

[T] Adult themes<br />

[V] Violence<br />

[S] Sexual situations<br />

PG-13<br />

[L] [V]<br />

[T]<br />

In the fi nal installment of the Harry Potter series, the struggle between<br />

good and evil in the wizarding world escalates into all-out war. The<br />

stakes have never been higher, and in his climactic showdown with<br />

Lord Voldemort, Harry may have to make the ultimate sacrifi ce.<br />

“The action scenes are inventively spectacular, and the story at the movie’s core is<br />

evocative and engaging.” —New Yorker<br />

Medical researchers unwittingly set off an epic battle between man and beast<br />

when one of their genetically enhanced test subjects, a chimp named Caesar<br />

(performed by Andy Serkis, The Lord of the Rings’ Gollum), uses his heightened<br />

intelligence to lead other apes in a fi ght for freedom.<br />

04<br />

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Drama<br />

Comedy<br />

Action/Adventure<br />

Other<br />

Channel number<br />

2 hr.<br />

4 min.<br />

EDITOR’S<br />

PICK<br />

1 hr.<br />

45 min.<br />

PG-13<br />

[L] [V]<br />

[T]


TURN TO PAGE 8 to<br />

see what’s playing on<br />

international fl ights; the<br />

domestic lineup is on 12.<br />

02<br />

EDITOR’S<br />

PICK<br />

Life in a Day<br />

DIRECTED BY Kevin Macdonald<br />

CUSTOMERS ARE WELCOME to view their own<br />

video entertainment aboard a United aircraft as<br />

long as they are able to show that the programming<br />

has an MPAA rating of “R” or less. Most<br />

fi lms have been edited for airline use; however,<br />

customer discretion is still advised.<br />

“[The fi lmmakers] toggle between, say, an extended, poignant scene of an Asian<br />

man tending to his young son in their chaotic apartment, and rapid-fi re shots of<br />

people making their morning visit to the bathroom. The imagery is fascinating and<br />

dizzying by turns.” —Boston Globe<br />

Created from some 4,500 hours of footage submitted by YouTube users, this<br />

remarkable documentary helmed by Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald<br />

(Touching the Void, One Day in September) chronicles July 24, 2010, as it was experienced<br />

by individuals living in nearly 200 countries around the globe. Exhilarating,<br />

moving and funny, Life in a Day is the story of our world—told by us.<br />

1 hr.<br />

30 min.<br />

PG-13<br />

[T]<br />

UNITED.COM • NOVEMBER <strong>2011</strong> 15


Film<br />

Descriptions<br />

05<br />

Friends With Benefi ts<br />

FEATURING Justin Timberlake, Mila Kunis,<br />

Patricia Clarkson<br />

DIRECTED BY Will Gluck<br />

The Lion King<br />

VOICES BY Matthew Broderick,<br />

Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones<br />

DIRECTED BY Rob Minkoff and<br />

Roger Allers<br />

R<br />

[L][S]<br />

[T]<br />

Dylan (Justin Timberlake) and Jamie (Mila Kunis) think it’s going<br />

to be easy to hop into bed without ruining their friendship. Try as<br />

they might to avoid the clichés of Hollywood romantic comedies,<br />

however, they soon discover that getting physical really does always<br />

complicate things.<br />

07<br />

16 NOVEMBER <strong>2011</strong> • UNITED.COM<br />

1 hr.<br />

49 min.<br />

Planet of the Apes (1968)<br />

FEATURING Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall,<br />

Kim Hunter<br />

DIRECTED BY Franklin J. Schaff ner<br />

NR<br />

[L][V]<br />

[T]<br />

In this iconic science-fi ction movie—which spawned four sequels,<br />

a Tim Burton remake and this summer’s blockbuster prequel, Rise<br />

of the Planet of the Apes—an astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet<br />

where talking apes are the dominant species, while humans are<br />

oppressed and enslaved.<br />

Deft storytelling, gorgeous animation and award-winning music combine to<br />

create this 1994 Disney classic. Driven from his late father’s kingdom by a jealous<br />

uncle, lion cub Simba joins up with a hilarious meerkat and a warmhearted<br />

warthog for some freewheeling adventures. But as he grows up, Simba realizes his<br />

destiny and ultimately returns home to claim his place in the “Circle of Life.”<br />

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Westbound International Flights<br />

01<br />

Larry Crowne<br />

FEATURING Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts,<br />

Sarah Mahoney<br />

DIRECTED BY Tom Hanks<br />

PG-13<br />

Having lost his job to corporate downsizing, amiable Larry Crowne<br />

(Tom Hanks) heads to a local college to start over. There, he discovers<br />

camaraderie among a colorful group of outcasts—and a romantic<br />

interest in the form of his teacher (Julia Roberts).<br />

06<br />

Harry Potter and<br />

the Sorcerer’s Stone<br />

FEATURING Daniel Radcliff e,<br />

Rupert Grint, Emma Watson<br />

DIRECTED BY Chris Columbus<br />

CUSTOMERS ARE WELCOME to view their own<br />

video entertainment aboard a United aircraft as<br />

long as they are able to show that the programming<br />

has an MPAA rating of “R” or less. Most<br />

fi lms have been edited for airline use; however,<br />

customer discretion is still advised.<br />

1 hr.<br />

38 min.<br />

[T]<br />

Monte Carlo<br />

FEATURING Selena Gomez, Katie Cassidy,<br />

Leighton Meester<br />

DIRECTED BY Thomas Bezucha<br />

After embarking on their dream vacation to Paris, three young<br />

Americans become entangled in a case of mistaken identity and<br />

soon fi nd themselves leading the high life—and falling in love—in<br />

glamorous Monte Carlo.<br />

“[This] is a red-blooded adventure movie, dripping with atmosphere, fi lled<br />

with the gruesome and the sublime, and surprisingly faithful to the novel.”<br />

—Chicago Sun-Times<br />

In this 2001 kickoff to the Harry Potter fi lm series, the eponymous hero (Daniel<br />

Radcliff e) learns on his 11th birthday that he’s the orphaned son of two powerful<br />

wizards, and that he possesses unique magical powers of his own. Invited to<br />

attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry begins the adventure<br />

of a lifetime with new friends Ron and Hermione.<br />

02<br />

1 hr.<br />

49 min.<br />

EDITOR’S<br />

PICK<br />

1 hr.<br />

43 min.<br />

PG<br />

[T]<br />

PG<br />

[L][V]<br />

[T]<br />

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Film<br />

Descriptions<br />

03<br />

Bad Teacher<br />

FEATURING Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake,<br />

Jason Segel<br />

DIRECTED BY Jake Kasdan<br />

The Hangover 2<br />

FEATURING Bradley Cooper,<br />

Ed Helms, Zach Galifi anakis<br />

DIRECTED BY Todd Phillips<br />

R<br />

[L][S]<br />

[T]<br />

Foul-mouthed and ruthless, Elizabeth (Cameron Diaz) can’t wait<br />

to marry her meal ticket and escape her job as a teacher. When her<br />

fi ancé dumps her, she sets her sights on a rich, handsome substitute,<br />

and her wild and outrageous schemes give her students, her<br />

coworkers and even herself an education like no other.<br />

05<br />

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1 hr.<br />

32 min.<br />

The Help<br />

FEATURING Emma Stone, Viola Davis,<br />

Bryce Dallas Howard<br />

DIRECTED BY Tate Taylor<br />

PG-13<br />

[L][V]<br />

[S][T]<br />

Set in 1960s Mississippi, The Help centers on three extraordinary but<br />

very diff erent women who build an unlikely friendship around a secret<br />

writing project that breaks society’s rules and puts them all at risk.<br />

Starring Easy A’s Emma Stone and Oscar nominee Viola Davis (Doubt),<br />

the fi lm is based on the bestselling 2009 novel by Kathryn Stockett.<br />

The gang from The Hangover is back, as Phil, Stu, Alan and Doug travel to exotic<br />

Thailand for Stu’s wedding. After what happened in Vegas, Stu is taking no<br />

chances and opts for a safe, subdued pre-wedding brunch. However, things don’t<br />

exactly go as planned.<br />

04<br />

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[S] Sexual situations<br />

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1 hr.<br />

41 min.<br />

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07<br />

Toy Story<br />

EDITOR’S<br />

PICK<br />

VOICES BY Tom Hanks,<br />

Tim Allen, John Ratzenberger<br />

DIRECTED BY John Lasseter<br />

CUSTOMERS ARE WELCOME to view their own<br />

video entertainment aboard a United aircraft as<br />

long as they are able to show that the programming<br />

has an MPAA rating of “R” or less. Most<br />

fi lms have been edited for airline use; however,<br />

customer discretion is still advised.<br />

“A winning animated feature that has something for everyone on the age<br />

spectrum.” —Newsweek<br />

As this 1995 animated tale opens, little Andy’s favorite toy, Woody (Tom Hanks),<br />

is confi dent in his role as room leader. But after Andy’s birthday party, newcomer<br />

Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), a fl ashy space ranger sporting lasers and pop-out<br />

wings, crash-lands into Woody’s world and shakes up the status quo.<br />

1 hr.<br />

20 min.<br />

G<br />

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20 NOVEMBER <strong>2011</strong> • UNITED.COM<br />

• Aliens<br />

(E)<br />

• Attack the Block<br />

(E)<br />

• Avatar: Special Edition<br />

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• Black Swan<br />

(E)<br />

• The French Connection<br />

(E)<br />

• The Guard<br />

(E)<br />

• Hall Pass<br />

(E, F, G, I, S, P, R, J, C)<br />

• Inception<br />

(E, F, G, I, S, P, R, J, K, C)<br />

• Page One: Inside<br />

the New York Times (E)<br />

• Senna<br />

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• Transformers: Dark of the<br />

Moon (E, F, G, I, S, P, J, C, A)<br />

• X-Men: First Class<br />

(E, F, G, I, S, P, J, C)<br />

• And more!<br />

• It’s Always Sunny<br />

in Philadephia<br />

• Mad Men<br />

• The Middle<br />

• Mythbusters<br />

• NCIS<br />

• The Offi ce<br />

• Pricing the Priceless<br />

• Psych<br />

• The Real Housewives<br />

of Beverly Hills<br />

• Suburgatory<br />

• The Simpsons<br />

• Suits<br />

• Treks in a Wild World<br />

• Two and a Half Men<br />

• Ultimate Factories<br />

• Who Sank the Bismarck?<br />

• Wild Caribbean<br />

• Wishful Drinking<br />

And more…<br />

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or play video games.<br />

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills<br />

Frasier<br />

EDITOR’S<br />

PICK<br />

Senna (E, G, I, S, P)<br />

In chronicling the exceptional life and tragic death of legendary Brazilian<br />

racing champion Ayrton Senna, this gripping documentary depicts a<br />

dynamic and complex public fi gure who could be both spiritual and<br />

ruthless, all while becoming a global superstar. Exclusively on VOD.<br />

Psych


Audio<br />

Sample from 21 Audio Mixes. Build your own<br />

playlist from individual CDs, or just press play<br />

on a preprogrammed jukebox playlist:<br />

• Ambient<br />

• Artist spotlight<br />

• Broadway<br />

• Classical<br />

• Country<br />

• C-pop<br />

• Dance<br />

• Easy listening<br />

• Jazz<br />

• J-pop<br />

• Latin<br />

• Modern rock<br />

Games<br />

Stimulate your mind. Pick from more<br />

than 20 games, including:<br />

• Animal Factory<br />

• Backgammon<br />

• Banana Pachinko<br />

• Bejeweled® 2<br />

• Berlitz® Word Traveler<br />

• Blackjack<br />

• Elephant Memory<br />

• In-Flight Bowling Tournament<br />

• In-Flight Bridge<br />

• In-Flight Golf Tournament<br />

• In-Flight Hold ’Em Poker<br />

• In-Flight Sudoku<br />

• In-Flight Tetris®<br />

• R&B<br />

• Rock ’n’ roll<br />

• Teen pop<br />

• Today’s hits<br />

• World<br />

• ’60s<br />

• ’70s<br />

• ’80s<br />

• ’90s and 2000s<br />

• In-Flight Trivia<br />

Tournament<br />

• Invasion<br />

• Kasparov Chessmate<br />

• Memory<br />

• Mutant Storm<br />

• Shanghai<br />

• Solitaire<br />

• Space Tripper<br />

• Super Scramble<br />

• Tik Rack Toe<br />

(E) English<br />

(Es) English subtitles<br />

(F) French<br />

(G) German<br />

(I) Italian<br />

(S) Spanish<br />

(P) Portuguese<br />

(J) Japanese<br />

(C) Chinese<br />

(K) Korean<br />

(A) Arabic<br />

(R) Russian<br />

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Premium Services<br />

PREMIUM SEAT FEATURES<br />

WHEN YOU GO HALFWAY AROUND THE GLOBE, you deserve<br />

the comfort of a United First Suite. With fi ne food and wine,<br />

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UNITED FIRST SUITE®<br />

1 Foot Step for Overhead Bin<br />

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2 Coat Hook<br />

3 Literature Pocket<br />

4 110V Power Port<br />

5 Tray Table<br />

6 Handset<br />

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1<br />

2<br />

7 Audio Jack and USB Port<br />

8 Stowage Access<br />

9 Seat Reset Button<br />

10 Reading Light<br />

11 Adjustable Headrest<br />

12 iPod Port<br />

3<br />

4<br />

5<br />

6<br />

Takeoff /<br />

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UNITED BUSINESS®<br />

1 Foot Step for Overhead<br />

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2 Reading Light<br />

3 Adjustable Headrest<br />

4 Literature Pocket<br />

5 Handset<br />

1<br />

2<br />

6 Audio Jack<br />

7 Tray Table<br />

8 110V Power Port<br />

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9 Coat Hooks<br />

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3<br />

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Takeoff /<br />

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Recline<br />

Leg-Rest<br />

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5<br />

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SEAT CONTROL UNIT<br />

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Lumbar<br />

(25-minute cycle) Press once to activate; press again to freeze lumbar cycle in desired position.<br />

7<br />

8<br />

10<br />

9<br />

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Premium Services<br />

SEATING CONTROLS<br />

UNITED FIRST SUITE®<br />

777<br />

Using the United First Suite®<br />

1 Six-Way Adjustable Headrest<br />

2 Twist-Top Reading Light<br />

3 Phone<br />

4 Personal Storage Unit<br />

and Work Station<br />

5 Power Port<br />

6 Tray Table<br />

7 Dropping Side Armrest<br />

8 Lumbar Firmness<br />

Adjustment Button<br />

9 Lumbar Height Adjustment<br />

Button<br />

10 BackCycler® Motion System<br />

11 Leg-Rest Controls<br />

12 Seat Recline<br />

13 Bed Button<br />

(to lie fl at)<br />

14 Seat Reset Button<br />

UNITED BUSINESS®<br />

777<br />

1 Six-Way Adjustable<br />

Headrest<br />

2 Twist-Top Reading Light<br />

3 Phone<br />

4 Audio/Video Jack<br />

5 Power Port<br />

6 Tray Table<br />

7 Bottom Cushion Adjustment<br />

24 NOVEMBER <strong>2011</strong> • UNITED.COM<br />

1<br />

8 Lumbar Firmness<br />

Adjustment Button<br />

9 Lumbar Height<br />

10 BackCycler® Motion System<br />

11 Footrest Extension<br />

12 Leg-Rest Control<br />

13 Seat Recline<br />

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Personal<br />

Video Tape System<br />

Midnight in Paris<br />

FEATURING Owen Wilson,<br />

Marion Cotillard, Rachel<br />

McAdams<br />

DIRECTED BY Woody Allen<br />

“Midnight in Paris is charming and clever, and at times wickedly astute and<br />

hopeful.” —Denver Post<br />

An engaged American couple (Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams) visit Paris<br />

with the bride-to-be’s parents. But when the young man’s great love for the city<br />

leads him off alone, he has fantastical encounters that change his life forever—<br />

and he and his fi ancée are forced to confront the notion that a life diff erent from<br />

their own would be a better one.<br />

ABC Fall Preview Andalucia Arthur<br />

NR<br />

(E)<br />

Catch up on the latest from ABC, starting<br />

with “Once Upon a Time,” in which the<br />

unusual residents of a small Maine town<br />

are living proof that fairy tales are real.<br />

Then it’s off to the Hamptons for “Revenge”<br />

(pictured), the story of a newcomer, Emily<br />

Van Camp, who’s apparently blending into<br />

the town nicely. But the truth is that she isn’t<br />

exactly new to her posh surroundings: She’s<br />

returned to right an old wrong in the best<br />

way she knows how...with a vengeance.<br />

26 NOVEMBER <strong>2011</strong> • UNITED.COM<br />

1 hr.<br />

26 min.<br />

PG-13<br />

(J)(Es)<br />

When Japanese diplomat Kosaku Kuroda<br />

crosses paths with two people deeply<br />

involved in an important Japanese investor’s<br />

death—the beautiful banker who discovered<br />

the body and the Interpol investigator who’s<br />

been assigned to the case—he begins to<br />

uncover clues to a shadowy international<br />

crime conspiracy.<br />

FEATURING Yuji Oda, Hideaki Ito<br />

DIRECTED BY Hiroshi Nishitani<br />

UNITED’S PERSONAL VIDEO TAPE SYSTEM places the power of<br />

the box offi ce in your hands. Start, stop or pause whenever<br />

you wish. Try a movie, change your mind—it’s up to you. Film<br />

selections are subject to change. Most fi lms are unedited;<br />

customer discretion is advised. The tape-based system is<br />

available in United First on select 777 aircraft.<br />

2 hr.<br />

5 min.<br />

EDITOR’S<br />

PICK<br />

1 hr.<br />

40 min.<br />

1 hr.<br />

54 min.<br />

PG-13<br />

(E)(F)<br />

PG-13<br />

(E)(F)(I)<br />

(P)(K)(C)<br />

(A)<br />

Irresponsible charmer Arthur Bach has always<br />

relied on two things to get by: his fortune and<br />

the good sense of his lifelong nanny, Hobson.<br />

Now he faces his biggest challenge: choosing<br />

between an arranged marriage that will ensure<br />

his lavish lifestyle or an uncertain future with<br />

the one thing money can’t buy.<br />

FEATURING Russell Brand, Helen Mirren,<br />

Jennifer Garner<br />

DIRECTED BY Jason Winer


Band of Brothers<br />

Family Guy<br />

1 hr.<br />

50 min.<br />

TV-MA<br />

Planes carrying U.S. paratroopers into French<br />

airspace during WW II encounter heavy fi re,<br />

and must drop the troops indiscriminately<br />

in the Normandy countryside. Upon landing,<br />

Maj. Dick Winters fi nds he has lost his rifl e<br />

and supply bag. He teams up with another<br />

lost soldier and they set out to fi nd their units.<br />

FEATURING Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston,<br />

Donnie Wahlberg<br />

CREATED BY Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg<br />

1 hr.<br />

30 min.<br />

(E)<br />

TV-MA<br />

With the Griffi n family stuck at home during<br />

a blackout, Peter begins to tell a story, which<br />

leads to a Star Wars fl ashback—and provides<br />

the irreverent “Family Guy” writers a chance<br />

to give their twisted take on scenes from the<br />

sci-fi classic.<br />

VOICES BY Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein,<br />

Seth Green<br />

CREATED BY Seth MacFarlane<br />

(E)<br />

Battle:<br />

Los Angeles<br />

The French<br />

Connection<br />

1 hr.<br />

57 min.<br />

PG-13<br />

(E)(G)(F)<br />

(P)(K)<br />

When Earth is attacked by alien forces and<br />

people everywhere watch the world’s great<br />

cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the site of<br />

mankind’s last stand. It’s up to a Marine staff<br />

sergeant and his new platoon to draw a line<br />

in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike<br />

any they’ve ever encountered.<br />

FEATURING Aaron Eckhart, Michelle<br />

Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan<br />

DIRECTED BY Jonathan Liebesman<br />

1 hr.<br />

44 min.<br />

The story of a pair of New York City narcotics<br />

cops who stumble onto a major drugsmuggling<br />

operation, The French Connection<br />

won a slew of Oscars (including Best Picture<br />

and, for Gene Hackman’s performance, Best<br />

Actor). The fi lm’s thrilling car chases are<br />

equally celebrated.<br />

FEATURING Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider,<br />

Fernando Rey<br />

DIRECTED BY William Friedkin<br />

R<br />

(E)<br />

(E) English<br />

(Es) English<br />

subtitles<br />

(F) French<br />

(G) German<br />

(I) Italian<br />

A Beautiful Life<br />

The Last Blossom<br />

(S) Spanish<br />

(P) Portuguese<br />

(J) Japanese<br />

(C) Chinese<br />

(K) Korean<br />

(A) Arabic<br />

2 hr.<br />

2 min.<br />

PG-13<br />

(C)(Es)<br />

She is a young, aggressive real estate agent<br />

who’s having an aff air with her married boss.<br />

He is an honest but overly rigid policeman<br />

in the midst of a midlife crisis, who remains<br />

single to take care of his autistic brother.<br />

When these two meet at a ritzy karaoke bar<br />

one night, it sets the stage for an unlikely<br />

love story.<br />

FEATURING Qi Shu, Ye Liu, Anthony Wong<br />

DIRECTED BY Wai-keung Lau<br />

2 hr.<br />

5 min.<br />

PG-13<br />

(K)(Es)<br />

The people in In-hee’s life have always taken<br />

her for granted. But when her family learns<br />

that In-hee, who they thought would always<br />

be there for them, has been diagnosed with a<br />

terminal illness and doesn’t have much time left<br />

to live, they come together for the fi rst time to<br />

give her the support she deserves.<br />

FEATURING Bae Jong-ok, Kim Kap-soo,<br />

Kim Ji-young<br />

DIRECTED BY Min Kyu-dong<br />

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Personal<br />

Video Tape<br />

System<br />

Mr. Popper’s<br />

Penguins<br />

PG<br />

(E)(I)(J)<br />

(P)(C)<br />

(A)<br />

Jim Carrey plays Mr. Popper, a workaholic<br />

divorcé who’s clueless about what really<br />

matters, including family. But that all<br />

changes when he unexpectedly inherits<br />

six little penguins, who teach him some<br />

important lessons even as they turn his life<br />

upside down.<br />

FEATURING Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino,<br />

Angela Lansbury<br />

DIRECTED BY Mark Waters<br />

Quick<br />

PG-13<br />

(K)(Es)<br />

Three former members of the same notorious<br />

motorcycle gang have grown apart and work<br />

now as a motorcycle delivery man, a motorcycle<br />

cop and a pop singer, respectively.<br />

When one of them witnesses an explosion<br />

in a building, though, it sets in motion events<br />

that will bring them all together once more.<br />

FEATURING Lee Min-ki, Kim In-kwon,<br />

Kang Ye-won<br />

DIRECTED BY Jo Bum-gu<br />

28 NOVEMBER <strong>2011</strong> • UNITED.COM<br />

1 hr.<br />

37 min.<br />

1 hr.<br />

55 min.<br />

UNITED’S PERSONAL VIDEO TAPE SYSTEM places the power of<br />

the box offi ce in your hands. Start, stop or pause whenever<br />

you wish. Try a movie, change your mind—it’s up to you. Film<br />

selections are subject to change. Most fi lms are unedited;<br />

customer discretion is advised. The tape-based system is<br />

available in United First on select 777 aircraft.<br />

The Music Never<br />

Stopped<br />

Senna<br />

1 hr.<br />

45 min.<br />

PG-13<br />

A brain tumor leaves Gabriel (Lou Taylor<br />

Pucci) unable to form new memories and<br />

makes his relationship with his estranged<br />

father (J.K. Simmons) even more diffi cult.<br />

But the two fi nd a surprising way to connect:<br />

through classic rock ’n’ roll, the music Gabriel<br />

remembers from growing up.<br />

FEATURING J.K. Simmons, Lou Taylor Pucci,<br />

Cara Seymour<br />

DIRECTED BY Jim Kohlberg<br />

1 hr.<br />

46 min.<br />

(E)<br />

PG-13<br />

(E)(G)<br />

(I)(A)<br />

Spanning Ayrton Senna’s years as a Formula<br />

One driver from 1984 to his untimely death<br />

a decade later, this documentary explores<br />

the life and work of the triple world champion,<br />

his physical and spiritual achievements<br />

on the track and the mythical status he has<br />

since attained.<br />

FEATURING Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost,<br />

Frank Williams<br />

DIRECTED BY Asif Kapadia<br />

Page One:<br />

Inside the New<br />

York Times<br />

Something<br />

Borrowed<br />

(E) English<br />

(Es) English<br />

subtitles<br />

(F) French<br />

(G) German<br />

(I) Italian<br />

NR<br />

In the tradition of great fl y-on-the-wall<br />

documentaries, this fi lm deftly gains<br />

unprecedented access to the New York Times<br />

newsroom. With the Internet surpassing print<br />

as a primary news source and newspapers all<br />

over the country going bankrupt, the media<br />

industry reaches its time of greatest turmoil.<br />

FEATURING Sara Ellison, David Carr,<br />

Bruce Headlam<br />

DIRECTED BY Andrew Rossi<br />

(S) Spanish<br />

(P) Portuguese<br />

(J) Japanese<br />

(C) Chinese<br />

(K) Korean<br />

(A) Arabic<br />

1 hr.<br />

28 min.<br />

1 hr.<br />

52 min.<br />

(E)<br />

PG-13<br />

(E)(G)<br />

After one drink too many at her 30th<br />

birthday party, perpetual good girl Rachel<br />

unexpectedly ends up in bed with the guy<br />

she’s had a crush on since law school—who<br />

just happens to be her best friend’s fi ancé.<br />

FEATURING Kate Hudson, Ginnifer Goodwin,<br />

John Krasinski<br />

DIRECTED BY Luke Greenfi eld


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Star Watching<br />

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Best known as the original boss from hell in the British version of “The Offi ce,”<br />

Ricky Gervais created and stars in this biting sitcom. He plays Andy Millman,<br />

a frustrated Englishman in his 40s who gives up his day job to pursue acting,<br />

only to fi nd that—because of his age, average appearance and complete lack of<br />

experience—he just can’t land any juicy parts.<br />

PG-13<br />

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In Hokkaido’s countryside, the discovery of<br />

an unidentifi ed man’s body initially appears<br />

to be an open-and-shut case, but Kyosuke<br />

is intrigued when he also uncovers several<br />

receipts with a Tokyo address. He is led from<br />

one clue to the next, gains an assistant and<br />

fi nally learns the real story.<br />

FEATURING Toshiyuki Nishida,<br />

Tetsuji Tamayama, Umika Kawashima<br />

DIRECTED BY Tomoyuki Takimoto<br />

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2 hr.<br />

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selections are subject to change. Most fi lms are unedited;<br />

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available in United First on select 777 aircraft.<br />

Treasure Hunt X-Men: First Class<br />

1 hr.<br />

30 min.<br />

PG-13<br />

(C)(Es)<br />

Peggy (Cecilia Cheung) is an ad exec<br />

with more trouble than she can handle.<br />

Persuaded by her boss to shoot an ad on a<br />

deserted island with the “strongest man in<br />

the galaxy,” kung-fu master Mr. Big (Ronald<br />

Cheng), she’s left to handle the notorious<br />

womanizer on her own.<br />

FEATURING Cecilia Cheung, Liu Hu,<br />

Ronald Cheng<br />

DIRECTED BY Jing Wong<br />

(E) English<br />

(Es) English<br />

subtitles<br />

(F) French<br />

(G) German<br />

(I) Italian<br />

1 hr.<br />

40 min.<br />

TV-MA<br />

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(I)(J)(P)<br />

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Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr took<br />

the names Professor X and Magneto, they<br />

were young men discovering their mutant<br />

powers for the fi rst time. In contrast to the<br />

archenemies they would become, the two<br />

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FEATURING Michael Fassbender,<br />

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DIRECTED BY Matthew Vaughn<br />

(S) Spanish<br />

(P) Portuguese<br />

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6 ’60s ’60s<br />

7 ’70s ’70s<br />

8 ’80s Teen pop<br />

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Quiz<br />

Culture Club<br />

THINK YOU KNOW POP CULTURE? TAKE THE TEST.<br />

ANSWERS ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE. (NO PEEKING!)<br />

1. In addition to inspiring this year’s prequel, Rise of<br />

the Planet of the Apes, the 1968 sci-fi fi lm Planet of<br />

the Apes spawned four sequels, including:<br />

A. Secret of the Planet of the Apes<br />

B. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes<br />

C. Return to the Planet of the Apes<br />

D. Planet of the Apes Forever<br />

2. Though best known for providing performances<br />

for CGI characters, Andy Serkis (Rise of the Planet<br />

of the Apes’) has also portrayed which real-life<br />

British rock star:<br />

A. Sid Vicious<br />

B. David Bowie<br />

C. Ian Gillian<br />

D. Ian Drury<br />

3. In Larry Crowne, Julia Roberts plays a teacher at a<br />

community college—a far cry from her character in<br />

Mona Lisa Smiles, who taught at which elite school:<br />

A. Wellesley<br />

B. Vassar<br />

C. Barnard<br />

D. Radcliff e<br />

4. The new comedy Monte Carlo showcases the<br />

famed French Riviera, which also was the backdrop<br />

for which of these Alfred Hitchcock classics:<br />

A. Notorious<br />

B. Strangers on a Train<br />

C. To Catch a Thief<br />

D. The 39 Steps<br />

5. Which British actor appears in both Rise of the<br />

Planet of the Apes and Harry Potter and the Deathly<br />

Hallows: Part 2:<br />

A. Tom Felton<br />

B. Emma Watson<br />

C. John Hurt<br />

D. Maggie Smith<br />

6. Horrible Bosses co-star Kevin Spacey also played yed<br />

the offi ce tyrant in the 1994 cult comedy Swimming ming<br />

With Sharks. Which of these is not one of that<br />

character’s memorable lines:<br />

A. “My bath mat means more to me than you.”<br />

B. “You’re happy. I hate that.”<br />

C. “Shut up, listen and learn.”<br />

D. “Details of your incompetence do not interest t me.”<br />

1.B; 2.D; 3.A; 4.C; 5.A; 6.D; 7.B; 8.C; 9.D; 10.C; 11.D<br />

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7. In the Showtime series “Dexter,” the title<br />

character gives a nod to his secret life as a serial<br />

killer by naming his fi shing boat which of these:<br />

A. A Cut Above<br />

B. Slice of Life<br />

C. Dead Reckoning<br />

D. RIP Tide<br />

8. The actor who portrays Bad Teacher’s high school<br />

gym instructor, Jason Segel, got his fi rst big break in<br />

which TV show about high school:<br />

A. “Saved by the Bell”<br />

B. “My So-Called Life”<br />

C. “Freaks and Geeks”<br />

D. “Veronica Mars”<br />

9. What heroine does Emma Stone play in the next<br />

Spider-Man fi lm that one of her co-stars in The Help,<br />

Dallas Bryce Howard, has already portrayed:<br />

A. Mary Jane Watson<br />

B. Felicia Hardy<br />

C. Kitty Pryde<br />

D. Gwen Stacy<br />

10. By the end of the Harry Potter fi lm series, star<br />

Daniel Radcliff e had worn out 60-plus wands and<br />

gone through about how many pairs of glasses:<br />

A. 25<br />

B. 80<br />

C. 160<br />

D. 350<br />

11. “Nurse Jackie” star Edie Falco won $250,000 for<br />

charity when she appeared on which game show:<br />

A. “Deal or No Deal”<br />

B. “ Jeopardy”<br />

C. “Wheel of Fortune”<br />

D. “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”


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