M i Weezer (Below) Interviewed, See Page 4A. The Arts and Entertainment Supplement to the Daily Nexus, for October 27th through November 2nd, 1994 4 t.r 2A Thursday, October 27,1994 Daily Nexus « m i r a t m í m e Meryl Streep never dis­ Kevin Bacon takes the amusing. It resembled was no more credible than gie’s presence added sensi­ appoints her audience lead on that side as the be­ Monday night M elrose- Beavis and Butthead play­ tivity to the family. You when it comes to her dy­ guiling lowlife threatening watching; we could pre­ ing Romeo and Juliet The constantly pray that the namic acting ability, even Streep and her family’s dict evety scene but some­ pessimist magically came dog, if no one else, sur­ $2 Ja m Night with if die movie does. security. He plays the role how the continuous ac­ to life: he survived count­ vives the drama. I guess NUTHEG • SW IIT ONION DYNAMIC PRESSURE In The River Wild, as an convincingly enough, tion still kept us hanging less beatings, jumped a that I am a sucker for dogs THOUGHT FESTIVAL athletic rapids guide and overcoming his good guy on for whatever preposter- fifty-foot cliff with a dog, and their presence always protective mother, her image, but the role didn't performance was sincere, look too challenging, and I and ignited the otherwise bet any one of his peers dim dialogue. The content could have assumed the was not original enough to part (perhaps Brad Pitt or bring her another Kiefer Sutherland). Academy Award, but you Adorned with beautiful could feel her sense of sights and a sometimes fer­ power over the waters, and ocious river, The R iver her distinctive facial ex- W ild just wasn’t what I im­ ressions always revealed agined. There were only Eer concern for her fam­ two scenes in which I ily's safety. could feel the rush of the Unfortunately, that is all water, and it took an hour F ad d y Om m W9M ml M Hoi«Gf L ai» I can say that was extraor­ and a half of blissful cur­ "JUSTICE" dinary about the film. Hie rents and theatrical dia­ ous event would happen and ran foster than the increases the intimacy of plot basically consists of a logue to finally reach the next We even joked about boat which glided swiftly an otherwise ordinary family with marital prob­ main one, the unnavigable the absurdity of some of down the river. It made me film. fS K A N K IN lems who travels down a L PICKLE gauntlet that the crew was the lines and characters. wonder what kind of iden­ So all in all, the film was 1 / TMra HoMtan • m Um s river and is overtaken by destined to overcome. The butt of our jokes tity switch Strathairn entertaining to watch if outlaws who need a vehi­ Although my friends came from the comic relief underwent. you are in the mood for cle for their getaway: a and I could predict each of David Strathaim’s char­ The intimacy and heart The Chase or Speed on conventional narrative scene, we were still enter­ acter. He portrayed of the film came from invit­ water, but don’t expect too complete with two bad tained and the fumbling Streep’s prudent, worka­ ing the family dog, Maggie, much whitewater . guys. procession was quite holic husband, but his role to join the escapade. Mag- —Melissa Altman $2 Jam Night with CHERRIES • Skinny R oom Pénìn DraaGMs • N T HONEYPOT Well, it’s Halloween Langenkamp breaks out of ered into watching yet ster who rarely speaks, film falls apart, and we are season again, kiddies, and her recurring Nightm are another Nightmare on kills at will, and is omnipo­ left with the same re­ R A S D A V I O you know what that role as Nancy, only to play Elm Street sequel. The cli­ tent within the dream hashed, formulaic plot of &0NE LOVE VIBRATION means. That means it’s herself, the recurring max takes us into Freddy’s world. In the second Freddy mysteriously kill­ w / Dynamic Pressure time again for yet another Nightmare actress. spectacular nightmare pa­ through the fifth Night­ ing everyone close to $2 Pop-P unk J a m Night with part to the Nightmare on After turning down a lace, a spooky and promis­ m are films, too much Heather Langenkamp, un­ ing set which go es virtually background, too many til Heather fights and kills SHELLFISH Elm Street series. role in the last of the RCRNG SIZE The finality in the last N ig h tm a re f il m s , unused. This, combined bad one-liners, and gener­ him forever, or at least un­ couple of films, with titles Heather’s life is turned with some downright ally poor direction has ta­ til tiie next film. like Freddy’s Dead, sug­ upside-down yet again by cheap special effects, leads ken away the brooding evil IS & S & i2Ü <«* gested that New Line that menacing Freddy me to tne assumption that in Freddy, killing the sus­ Hie film has an ex­ Cinema might finally hang Krueger, who has been Craven probably bit off pense, and leaving us with tremely interesting pre­ I W ASTED TAPE up the felt hat and the trapped in the world of more than he could chew, a sort of twisted clown mise, something new and I iiia r .k E y e d S c a v a knife-glove and hit the film until being killed off budgetwise. who kills people we didn’t quite promising, but Cra­ drawing board to invent a once and for all in Most horror writers really care about anyway. ven repeatedly misses the DAYGLO ABORTIONS Wes Craven is at his mark, stubbornly refusing ^C<AC*UpC*t ^Cttená, new bad guy for us to hate. Freddy’s Dead. Now he is should frequently repeat to themselves the follow­ spooky best when he to follow up on many of CD RELEASE PARTY But alas, that exhausted able to enter our dimen­ Freddy mask still has a few sion. The only problem is, ing: the instant that a bad do esn ’t show you the the possible courses such a POLYCHROME more contracts left in it. he has to get by Heather guy becomes funny, he monster — Freddy hardly premise has to offer. In­ liquid Sunshine • The Fuzz Although never quite a Langenkamp, who, as Wes ceases to be frightening. In appears in the first half of stead, he takes us down FATES WARNING habitual reader of Fun­ Craven actually explains the first N ig h tm a r e , tne movie. But when that contrived old road. & J o e y V e r a Freddy starts making fre­ '755m? , ' 'j garla magazine, I do have in the film, serves as the Freddy is introduced as a vicious, mysterious mon- quent appearances, the —Kelly Hartman ¿ fo rto ri ¿ /¿ to t a healthy appreciation for gatekeeper, keeping a good horror film. But Freddy in the film USELESS PLAYBOYS something I’ve come to dimension. realize about Wes Craven Character identities are is that his films either hit or skewed, as Craven con­ miss. A consistent horror stantly plays on the “film f*fa fitte. f*afìfìion director since 1972 with within a film” aspect. 430 State St. Santa Barbara (The Official Underground Box Office) his spooky but poorly as­ Langenkamp exists in a re­ Ticket Info: 965-5050 sembled debut L a s t ality she has almost no House on the Left, he has control over, as the omni­ given us eveiything from potent Freddy constantly the diabolical and menac­ toys with her sanity by ing Freddy Krueger in the slowly killing and tor­ first Nightmare on Elm menting eveiyone close to Street, one of the best hor­ her. Once again, the her­ ror films ever made, to the oine cannot accept help unwatchable, laughable from anyone, and must do Nexus Invitation to Hell. This battle with the villain solo. time, with A New Night­ The rest of the film Classifieds m are, Craven actually builds and builds for a dis­ hits, then misses. appointing climax, as we Work! In this one, Heather realize we have been suck- G reat G lassies And Today's New Rock 'n Roll Daily Nexus Thursday, October 27,1994 3 A Associated Students CUDMUESFIM PROGRAM BOARD' Filmmaker and UCSB AW. Say I’m a UCSB doing things for the wrong p r e s e n t s alumnus Jon Fitzgerald student I want to do a reasons. People are getting knows what it’s like to fol­ low-budget film. Is there into colleges and declaring low a dream. Of the many really a market for it? a major based on the an­ wannabes and yet-to-bes JR There are hundreds nual income of what can who suffocate Hollywood of the independent distri­ come out of that major. year after year, few make it butors that look for little Everybody’s doing things as far as writing, directing, projects.... There’s a way for the wrong reasons. ... and producing their own to make the money back, You can’t graduate now film. but more importantly, and go to IBM and become Fitzgerald has done so, everybody will look at a vice president in three in Self Portrait, a semiau- your project, because no­ years. tobiographical look at a body wants to pass up the AW You see Harvard THURSDAY, NOV.