College rules
As Ryan drank his last beer and
passed out, his conscience let
go along with his bladder.
Rule#236 — Before passing out,
make sure to use the bathroom
Tyler Wintermute Eme
Movie review
Disaster movie proves
hollow to its 'Core’
AMHERST, Mass. (U-WIRE)—What
is it about disaster movies that appeal
to people? In almost every disaster
movie, some sort of photogenic catas
trophe threatens a major populace.
Then it’s up to the heroes—as gee-whiz
bland as the Power Rangers—to find a
way to outsmart Earth. The characters
earnestly mouth pseudo-scientific jar
gon and lines about how “if (name your
disaster) isn’t stopped, (name your lo
cation here) will be destroyed! ” Finally,
we get treated to special effects smor
gasbords of beloved monuments turned
into burning cinders.
“The Gore” is no different than your
usual “the apocalypse is upon us” sci
ence-fiction melodrama. However, it
lacks the kind of goofy fun that these
movies usually have. It can be de
scribed as a subtler “Armageddon”
Community
Center for the
Performing Arts
8th &
Lincoln
■ Tonight ■
F-minus,
Blasphemous
Abnormality,
Before Braille
Punk Rock
$8 door, 8:oo pm
■ Sunday ■
Dub Narcotic Sound
with
System
ration M
lello Lobster
Funk/Punk
$7 door, 8:oo pm
Operation Makeout,
fli
■ Wednesday, April 9 ■
Robert Randolph and
the Family Band, Hazy
Malaze,KakiKm?
Steel guitarist
$13 advance, $15 door, 8:00 pm
■ Wednesday, April 16 ■
0. A. R. (Of A Revolution)
with Franky Perez
Jam Rock Reggae
$12.50 advance, $15 door, 8:00 pm
■ Tuesday, April 22■
The Polyphonic Spree,
Summer Hymns, Patrick Paik
Psychedelic Chamber Music
1 $12.50 advance, $15 door, 8:00 pm
All Ages Welcome • 687-2746
with only half the fun. In the film, the
Earth is threatened with an apoca
lypse, and the heroes must drill into
the center of the Earth to stop it. Com
pared to “The Core,” “Armageddon”
looks like a model of scientific genius.
The main thing “The Core” has go
ing for it is its cast. The director, Jon
Amiel, doesn’t know how to get the ac
tion scenes to spark, yet he has a gift
for casting the movie with actors who
don’t turn everything into facile action
film heroics. Ultimately, “The Gore”
boils down to a cast of good actors (Os
car winner Hilary Swank and Bruce
Greenwood among them) spouting
one-dimensional dialogue about how
we must save the world. “The Gore” is
a sci-fi fantasy that’s about as fantastic
as the end of the world.
—Johnny Donaldson,
Massachusetts Daily Collegian
MCDONALD THEATRE
www.mcdonaldtheatre.com
K9VX$ff9.?!MB BUJU BANTON
FRIDAY APRIL 4 TUESDAY APRIL 8
LEO KOTTKl THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
FRIDAY APRIL 25 FRIDAY MAY 2
DAR WILLIAMS THE ROOTS
SATURDAY MAY 10 WEDNESDAY MAY 21
Tickets at all Fasilxx outlets (800) 992:Ti>6< Service charge's may apply
WILD DUCK MUSIC HALL
MCCLOSKEY BROTHERS
JIGSAW JONES
FR/DAY ARR/i.jfl
milENTE
mii&MZMm 12
VINYL
I WEDNESDAY APRIL 16
TYMPANIC
FR/DAY ARR/t //
DUNCAN SHEIK
SUNMy APKii 73
KOOKEN ‘N HOOMEN
FR/DAY ARR/t ta1
Advance tickets for all shows available at www.wlldduckbrewery.com
°Regoiy
A*PEA
*ANCE
E,skfYsims^^m
S£t*DAYAto!i!5N *ICE
I
^Turing
#3&gAH
■L£SieAYj»s.
ft**;;
AND FAMILY
SATURDAY JULY 26
FULL SETS
BY BOTH
ARTISTS
WELLS
FARGO
■Si—
P A L M E I
H O M K S
the SOURCE
Festival Stating • All Aqas • Sand
Chairs and blankats only (axcapt 5/25
and 8/19 no chairs) • Free parking at
Old Mill Shops and Mt. Bachelor lots
tkketmaster
tictets mlliMi it aN tklwtimitf outlets iuctutfuf
m, M Jett, ami dttrv* by pboot at 503.224.4400
Subject to Service end/or User F*«
]