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Show MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2008 Life Over-marketing to make up fqr substance New thriller has d/sAdvantafe • LukeHickn\an Life e d i t o r ' • ' ; i The start of a^Jiew year ! • : • N E W • THE COLLEGE TIMES O ND V D fieowu/Mostitsdrawon • - : • & DVD without the 3-0. Darjeeling Limited - Lost . • President gets shot. Bunches of people see it. Now you must see all of their points of view to piece together what happened. If you know that, you know everything. Vantage Point replays for you the same 23 minutes six times in a row hails the beginiufig of an . annual bad movie season. Movies that open in the early months are rarely the flicks they appear to be. Vantage Point S. the perfect example of these missing-the-mark movies. The sure sign of a bad movie is one that only appears to be "all right*' from its trailers, yetT,is adver'• tised as if kwa^ihe biggest movie of the y$tr\ Vantage Point, feels like-.it's been • crammed dowj^four throats ^before every movie, during--, every commercial '.break and on.^yery Web : ; site we-'ye clicked onto for , six months - and that's because it ljas.. If yofi've seen the trail- Even the Secret Service gets tired e r -- and; the only way you and over again. haven't ^is if The College Times is your only form of media - you know what through six different points Vantage Pointis about: the of view. After the second B3 or third time, people in the ing that only became too audience will groan.^ith evident as you got to that the dissatisfaction antf frus- point. You're now thinking, tration of someone who's just bought a new- CD "It can't be that bad; it for one song, but thVdisc has a great cast." Truth be keeps replaying the l i m e 4pld, not Dennis Quaid (not 23 seconds over and'over the screw-up of the two again. Finally, 70 njljautes Quaid brothers), Matthew into the movie, you]£*t to Fox (Lost), William Hurt (The Village), Sigourney Weaver (Alien) nor Forest .Whitaker (The Last King Of Scotland) can save this . movie. It's doomed. Vantage Point is going to drive you nuts. Instead of being told as a narrative, you feel like you're watching the climax to a movie over and over and over and over and over and over again. Had the same twists and turns been applied to a regular suspense thriller instead of a concept driven Columbia Pictures plot-less script, it wouid've of seeing the same thing over been great, but unnecessary . <q ... creativity killed it. The best vantage point for your next see things tying together in theater-going event is in a supposed surprise end- another theater. Its fan base because numbskulls don't get symbolism. 30 Days Of Night- Lost its audience in mediocrity. Amdzon.com SNOWSHOEWING from Bl Ray Chejtham / College Timcj Decima take^ the stage Teen metal band gains fan base Adam Magneson Life writer Who is the face of teen angst? Many bands have filled the position of being the embodiment of teenage anger and frustration, but what happens when you mix teen angst, metal guitar riffs, double bass drums, and screaming vocals? Decima. Surprising for a band of sixteen-yearolds in high school, Decima1 brings a new sound to hardcore metal. In recent times, Utah Val ley has become the birthplace for many teen- age metal bands. Although young and somewhat inexperienced, this army of angry youth throws down some wicked guitar riffs and sick vocals. Decima is a forerunner amongst this mass of competition, having proved themselves worthy enough to recently record five fully mastered songs, a few of which are posted on their Web site. Having played for a longer time than others, Decima is building a reputation. Sure, they didn't start out sounding as good as they do now. As with all good things, the talent they display took time to develop. Now the invitations to play different venues in Utah Valley and the Salt Lake area never seem to cease. Their fairly long concert list stretches to several months from now. Decima has played shows with other wellknown metal bands such as Emmure and White Chapel, adding to their experience and skill. They have built a good rapport with other metal bands of the area and play shows with many of them. One band thai Decima >s often found playing show .vith is Hermione, another well-known local band. On Feb. 19, Decima played a great rock show at the Avalon with White Chapel, Hermione and I'll Be Your Eyes. Several of Decima's songs were recorded at the show and will be posted soon on their Web site. If you love metal, check Decima out. 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