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Show B1 MONDAY. JULY 2 . 2 0 0 7 Top 10SwearWords Illustration by. Brandon Schelin Big screen breakout What's worth seeing by Luke Hick man and Jason Pyles LICENSETOWED Every girl who has a crush on Jim from the office will see this movie. And every guy who has a crush on a girl who has a crush on Jim from the office will be drug to see it with them. And the good thing about it is that it will be enjoyed by all. Though the previews make it appear typical and frustrating, License To Wed is charming, funny and entertaining. By the way, ladies, his name is John Krasinski. Not Jim. (Hickman) Livr. l=ni=n on Din After 12 years, Bruce Willis' hard-tokill cop, John McClane, is back. Unlike most other sequels this summer. Live Free Or Die Hard is excellent. A terrorist group plans a crippling assault on the United States by overtaking all of its computer systems. McClane has to escort (and protect) a computer-hacker-whiz-kid (Justin Long) and try to save the U.S., etc. Naturally, this Die Hard is a far-fetched testosterone extravaganza, but some people have deemed it the best action movie of 2007, and I whole-heartedly agree. Live Free Or Die Hard is a must-see and is rated PG-13. (Pyles) TRANSFORMERS ALMIGHTY With a PG rating, Bruce Almighty's sequel will attract the original PG-13 audience as well as the children and family audiences. Unlike Bruce, Steve CareH*s character is taking on the role of Noah in the lightweight, better-than-the-first sequel that will have you laughing into the credits. (Hickman) This is the first summer blockbuster of 2007 to meet and pass its potential. I'm not saying it's perfect or flawless, but the good heavily outweighs the bad. Transformers is an all-out, super-fun, action-packed movie that is constantly firing on all cylinders. It is the dream of any kid who grew up playing with the toys or watching the cartoon. You'll get exactly what you've ever wanted. You're seeing on the big screen the same things you envisioned when you held the action figures in you hands nearly 20 years ago. (Hickman) A Mighty Heart 1408 In 2002, Danny Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was kidnapped by terrorists in Karachi, Pakistan. A Mighty Heart recalls the event from Pearl's wife's perspective. Mariane Pearl is played by Angelina Jolie, a role that will likely earn her a Best Actress nomination. This movie is not an action thriller, nor is it overly entertaining. Almost completely dialogue, A Mighty Heart is a rather dull, hard-to-follow, heavy drama, filmed much like a documentary, with one objective: to tell Mariane's story (not Danny's). (Pyles) Worth entering! This is the first of the PG-13 horror movies I'd recommend seeing. Not only is it downright creepy, but the acting, effects and plot are betterthan you'd expect from a twisted Stephen King story. (Hickman) Indie Outbreak See B3 for reviews of the latest independent films Honda Civic Tour 2007 rocks E Center Headliner Fall Out Boy performs magnificent rock spectacle Chad Hunt Life writer The Honda Civic Tour stopped in Utah on the last leg of its 2007 national tour. The Honda Civic Tour has been touring the nation annually since 2001 with such headlining acts as Blink-182, Incubus, Black Eyed Peas and Dashboard Confessional. This year pop-punk outfit Fall Out Boy took the reigns as the headliners for the tour, which showcased custom Civics and promoted environmental awareness and alternative fuel choice with Civic's hybrid models. Through the luck of the draw from an online contest, hosted by thousandcleverlines. blogspot.com, The College Times was able to get in on the event, enjoy some excellent seats, thanks to the giveaway and catch great performances from Fall Out Boy, +44, The Academy Is..., Paul Wall and Cobra Starship. The show kicked off around 6 p.m. at the E Center in West Valley City. Cobra Starship, the new band of Midtown's Gabe Saporta, got things going, playing the better half of their debut album, While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets. Paul Wall switched things up a bit, being the NEW IN THEATERS only rap act on the tour. The Houston performer showed off his skills and grills, for which he is most famous, while supporting his new album Get Money - Stay True. Though a talented artist, given the circumstances of the night, most of the crowd was roaming the hallways of the E Center instead of enjoying Wall's beats and rhymes. The seats filled again after Wall as Chicago poprockers The Academy Is... brought the evening into its prime. Starting of with the single "The Phrase That Pays," William Beckett and crew kept the crowd excited sampling pretty evenly from their 2005 release Almost Here and around the stage and making their new record Santi. crass remarks throughout The better part of 200l's the set, but with songs like Honda Civic Tour headlin- "Lycanthrope" and "Baby ers, Blink-182, joined this 'Come On," a duet with Vicyear's tour under the new toria Asher (keytarist for name +44. Mark Hoppus Cobra Starship) on "Make and Travis Barker's new You Smile"and the band, which gets its name perforfrom the United Kingdom's phone code, played an incredible set, though most Blink-182 diehards were left with a lacking feeling from the s h o w . Hoppus * antics felt very familiar to a Blink-182 performance with his skipping NEW ON DVD Transformers July 4 mances by guitarists Shane Gallagher (The Nervous See CIVIC TOUR • B2 NEW ON CD Astronaut Farmer Transformers Soundtrack July 10 July 10 The Last Mimzy Velvet Revolver Libertad License to Wed July 3 July 10 July 10 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix EXTRAS July 10 July 11 Photo credit. Rottentomatoes.com Photo credit. Amazon.com Photo credit. Amazon.com Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist July 10 |