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Show Wednesday, June 16, Daily Utah Chronicle 2004 iddick schtick needs fix high-octan- e "The Chronicles ofRiddick" Directed by David Twohy Starring Vin Diesel, fhandie Newton Universal 115 Min. out of 5 stars Foster Kamer Editor A&E A1 In conjunction with Father's Day, "The Chronicles of Riddick" compelled me to draw upon something my own father once told me: that men who drive Corvettes are, within a manner of speaking, The Corvette is a sports car, and while I presumed beforehand that all sports cars are the same, I was instructed otherwise. Sure, the Corvette is kind of fast, glamorous, draws looks and is rather popular. Anybody who drives one will look good in it. Other than that, though, it's cheap, routine and outdated moments after it's taken off the showroom floor. And as the punchline goes, it's used to compensate for, well, size real men don't need the car to speak great, um, lengths about who they are. "Riddick" star Vin Diesel could be of value, but so long as he's fueling Corvettes like this film with unleaded standards across the board, his career won't have any longevity, let alone enough gas to power a Go-Kar- ' ih f i "See that pile of smoldering alien pieces over there? Yeah, that was all me." t. "The Chronicles ofRiddick" picks up right where Diesel's debut "Pitch Black" left off more than a decade later. There's this mysterious guy, Riddick, who's a mercenary of some mysterious kind that everybody wants dead. He's big and strong and has an ambigu- matic superhuman strength and reflexes. Times change, and a few years later, some people want a piece ofRiddick because he's the only one who can save the universe from being converted to the wannabe M.C. Escheresque dark religion of the Necromongers, whose brand of evil is about as ous ethnicity, as well as enig- - "Pitch statements and unanswered questions about Riddick's past, alongside bleak, dark, suspense-heav- y direction, worked for both Diesel and the film. Here, there's no sus t Music reviews under- Black's" i T'Jk SALT LAKE - Vin Diesel surveying the wreckage that is his careernewest film. pense or surprises everyone knows that Riddick is going to hurt someone, and the film is going to try to look cool. Riddick jumps via rope, girl in arm, from one side of a can- - bad as their name. SEE RIDDICK o5 stars Eryn Green Asst. News Editor Get: was8tchtouring.com 702 East 100 South, SLC, UT. 84102 to Secret Machines' critically acclaimed 2002 EP debut. It is an amalgam of garage rock and ambient drum propulsion on a Texas-size- d scale a heavy and ongoing album on which don't songs seem out of place at all. The only downfall of Now Here is Nowhere really, the only thing keeping this record from a solid fourth star is the fact that the members of Secret Machines sometimes sound too aware of their unerring Floydian likeness. These Machines sound their best when the parts are falling off when the knob on the amp only goes to 9, but it's still turned up to 10. A little less psychedelia, a little more attention to their individual virtues and the secret about these machines might officially get out. egreerr&chronicle.utah.edu sonic follow-u- p - Sub-Po- p p, rockers. Your sister won't call them anything, but she won't stop calling you for a copy of the band's first album, Me First, pop appeals. It sounds like The Postal Service meets Bright Eyes a genre-defyindeveloped vision that and borders transcends breaks boundaries. Solid. egreen&chronicle. utah. edu g, i 7 Main Sail Lake Cit j t , , either. Point is. The Elected's sound is complex, and it gives each new listener a different dimension to love. J L (ID Eryn Green Asst. News Editor country. Your friend up the street that you play video games with will call them syth-a- lt 59 S Siscoumt to all iversity of Ufali Stuients, 20 Discount to all University of Utah Faculty and Staff. stars ct niiisiircd 19 p side-proje- I WrlcoiiH' te Band: The Elected Album: Me First Records Label: Sub-Po- It's damn near impossible Records' to define sign-unewest The Elected. The iTunes program on your computer will call them s your bitce tuned 364-366- And the winner is., 4 out of 5 Valk-in- isil i nine-minu- It's been years since Pink Floyd told the stoned, disenfranchised, suburban youth of the world the truth about bricks. Since then, people-mu- sic critics especially have been looking everywhere for a band to become the next wall. piece of the psych-roc- k what everyone, inDespite cluding your mom, might tell you, however, Secret Machines is not that band. Secret Machines' newest album, Now Here is Nowhere, is not the next Wish You Were Here. Nor is it another Dark Side of the Moon. Now Here is Nowhere is the Family Mcdicino for the PAGE 6 those machines alone! 3.5 our SIOolT "irsl CITY, UTAH Hey, teachers! Leave Band: Secret Machines Album: Now Here is Nowhere Label: Reprise Records Cli Serapl 1743 West 6200 South, Suite 200 required) Atkins T-Bo-mb EAS Dymatize Optimum Muscle Milk Twin Lab Muscle Tech Met-R- X ( Hydroxycut Xenadrin EFX Protein Bars RTD ( 1 And more... And it's definitely easy to love Me First. the album and The band is lead singer Blake Sennett's babybrainchild. When not tending to his duties as Elected frontman, he is also the Creek Records' much-love- d Rilo Kiley. 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