VOL. 4 - ISSUE 47
AUGUST 1 - 7, 2012
hollywood profile colin farrell
By Aeryn Ripley– @BlitzWeekly
The Jacksons – Have been busy the past couple weeks tarnishing the family’s good name. Rebbie, Randy, Jermaine, and Janet have been busy in the public eye erasing any last shred of respect people had for them by giving the appearance they are attempting to brainwash Katherine Jackson to get their hands on Michael’s kids and money. So far the attempts have embarrassingly failed. Justin Bieber- Is apparently the son of a sailor. The teen idol was aboard a 12hour flight last weekend when he decided it would be a good idea to unleash the ol’ potty mouth in first class by loudly firing off excerpts from his four-letter vocabulary…not so good of an idea. A female passenger scolded Bieber’s behavior and embarrassed him. Bummer. Kristen Stewart – Sent all the Twihards running for the razors this past week when she confirmed reports that she had indeed cheated on her Twilight co-star and real life boyfriend of three years, Robert Pattinson, with 41-year-old married Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders. Somewhere vampires are weeping.
One of Hollywood’s best imports, hunky Colin Farrell, stars in the reboot of the action adventure film Total Recall. Farrell reprises the role of Douglas Quaid, made famous by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1990. Colin sat down to talk about the movie and how it provided the most uncomfortable moment of his film career thus far.
Tell us about Quaid. He is basically living in a life that he seems he should be certainly, he’s quite content in, at least passively content in, but something’s up. Something’s missing. The frame of his life is kind of warbled, there are gaps of light that are
creeping in, and he doesn’t understand why or what, but he’s just noticing that he feels ill at ease because of his environment, and that’s a common story. How does your Quaid compare or differ from Schwarzenegger’s?
and again to add some funny moments as a lazy cop. Stiller is an uptight, controlfreak who has a hard time letting loose. Vince Vaughn plays his normal fasttalking, witty, hardly serious character. He joined the neighborhood watch to get away from his family for a little bit and hang out with the guys. Hill plays a high school drop out who has failed in his attempts to become a cop. He is the “wildcard” and follows Vaughn around like a puppy. This could be Richard Ayoade’s breakout performance in America as he steals the scene on many occasions. He offers something new as the other three characters play the
Unlike in the original where Arnold’s Quaid seemed to be complicit and have a deeper awareness of the break [from reality], and Quaid actually has no idea. There is some kind of deeply set cellular memory that exists on a cellular level and an emotional level. He doesn’t know who he is, and he is trying to find out where to place his next step. And the whole film is a journey back to himself. Kate Beckinsale plays your wife in the film, and when Quaid begins to search
for the truth she becomes quite the nemesis. You two had some intense fight scenes in the movie. What was that like? That was fun. The trickiest part was kissing her with her handsome director husband (Len Wiseman) by the monitor. That was one of the more uncomfortable things I’ve experienced in my fifteen years of making films, but the fight was fun. We got in good shape, and we choreographed it down to the finest details; so, she knew all my moves. I knew all her moves. It was fun. What do you hope audiences take away? Entertainment. I think for entertaining for two hours, we’ve hit the mark. And I don’t mean that [lightly], that’s a hard thing to do. Just to make a film that’s entertaining, that doesn’t bore people or confuse people or pander to them and insult them by telling them too much and trying to find the balance between sharing information and withholding enough information to keep them guessing. I hope it’s all those things. You can decide for yourself this weekend when Total Recall opens in theatres nationwide. The film is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, some sexual content, brief nudity, and language.
By C.J. Gardner - cjgardner80@ou.edu same type of characters they have their whole career. If you enjoy dirty comedies and just want to laugh for an hour and half I highly recommend this movie. The movie has few serious moments, but gives the audience what it wants with jokes. The special effects and actions scenes are not great; so don’t go into this movie expecting to be blown away by the special effects and action scenes. It does not offer a lot in terms of a great story, but it is a hilarious movie that fans of Stiller, Vaughn and Hill will enjoy as they play their usual funny selves.
MovieReview of THE WATCH Three of the top comedic actors going right now team up to make audiences laugh in The Watch. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and newcomer here in the U.S., Richard Ayoade come together to grace the screen in a sci-fi comedy. The Watch is a movie that sees Stiller form a neighborhood watch after a murder happens at the Costco he manages. After teaming up with Vaughn, Hill and Ayoade, the group finds out that the person they are looking for may not be from this world. When they find an unusual weapon they discover aliens are living among them. They must stop the aliens from invading Earth and ending life as they know it. The four main characters make for most of the comedy, with Will Forte popping up every now
By Vivian Fullerlove - vfullerlove@blitzweekly.com
What attracted you to this film? When I saw the artwork and the concept, when I read the script, I went, “This is something that I really want to see.” This is a world I wanted to be taken to. So give us the set up for the movie. Quaid goes to Rekall and he finds out through a set of circumstances that everything he thought was his life up to that point was a fabrication. Everything he thought was real including his marriage, his job, his identity, his name was a complete fabrication, and the rest of the film is him trying to figure out who he is and not get caught and killed and all that kind of stuff.
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