Chatting with The Hunger Games Villain
22 MarLast night I covered the Vancouver premiere of The Hunger Games for bcliving and chatted with the film’s villain, Cato, played by Vancouver actor Alexander Ludwig.
In a movie where every character has the potential to play the role of villain, Vancouver’s own Alexander Ludwig has the task of being the most lethal guy on screen. Ludwig plays the steely and intimidating Cato in The Hunger Games, the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s first novel from her hugely popular young adult series.
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Confessions
18 MarI didn’t know “tarp” was short for “tarpaulin” until I read Life of Pi. As an editor, this is especially embarrassing.
Remaking Snow White
17 MarThe upcoming Snow White remake Mirror Mirror starring Julia Roberts induces a terrifying recollection of another unintentionally campy remake. Remember Batman & Robin, with Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze?
Batman & Robin was on TV a few weeks back and its sheer awfulness confused me. They meant for the movie to be good, right? As for Mirror Mirror, terrible acting aside, the movie seems like a giant hyperbole. Between the garish props and costumes, the off-putting cadence of the dialogue and the whirly cinematography, it’s a bit of an eyesore.
I predict Mirror Mirror goes down in history as an embarrassment and a stain on Julia Roberts’s record, much like Batman & Robin tarnished George Clooney’s profile. Harsh words, yes, but everything about this movie looks terrible. And being released at the same time as Snow White & The Huntsmen, the bad-ass looking remake starring a steely Charlize Theron, only makes matters worse. This, I am looking forward to:
