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Volume MOVIE KS.RPVIEW: ' mJ m tA* ^ ItfMcWw By DAVID BOWDEN Assistant Features Editor Pump Up the Volume is a new film in the teenaeer vs. authority sub-genre. It should not be confused with anything that could happen in real life. The movie stars the young actor Christian Slater, who always seems to imitate Jack Nicholson. Besides sounding like him, Slater has some of Nicholson's intensity and charisma. That said, even Jack could not have made up for the lousy screenplay. Slater plays a pirate disk-jockey (Mark, alias "Hard Harry") who broadcasts a radio show for local Keep the new you looking 9reat! of*. m jpp^jp 9 Every time you leave a Command Performance salon, you show the world a new you. Take home some of our magic. Our salon's range of major professional hair care products will keep your hair looking its best. And you'll discover a new you every day. I Command ^ Performance DISCOVER THE LOOK FOR YOU IN FIVE POINTS 728 SALUDA AV. 254-9715 WISH YOUR ROOMMATE A HAPPY BIRTHDAY! TELL YOUR BEST FRIEND YOU MISSED HER OVER THE SUMMER! HOW? THE GAMECOCK'S PERSONALS r*rkivrc uv VV7i.?JLJJ JJi RUSSELL HOUSE ROOM 323 OR CALL 7-4249 AND CHARGE IT TO YOUR VISA or MCARD. * needs m high schoolers. His show criticizes the many ills of the United States, and in this way Volume is reminiscent of Oliver Stone's Talk Radio A big difference is that the listeners of the d.j. in Talk Radio were never seen. There can only be so many scenes of teens going utr Lin 1/ 1 :i leaaani 10 one 01 marK s oruliant statements. Allan Moyle (writer/director of this movie) tries to make this movie into a grand statement about the lack of free expression in modern America. Teen angst is explored well at first, with a depressingly realistic teenage suicide. However, the movie disintegrates after that as the high school moves further and further from reality. Ridiculous situations are the realm of comedy and action films, not social commentaries. n X I Ill We'll s fTfTYTTTT regular price of cassette No students have been n infiltrated the store in he the inside are some new whole problem stems fr< Student activist Luyke Sk the crisis will come to ar expires. University offici were on vacation in Mail their return. No I.D. required for p $6.99/$7.99 Cassette.! Sale prices and I.D. of T0890-229 V Lore plot "Hard Harry" becomes a pop star, getting national coverage and i attracting the wrath of the FCC | (who drive around in big orange vans with "FCC" on the side). The high school administrators are shown as evil martinets who beat i i ~A i c i- MB up anu expei siuueius lor nuic i cause. The ending is anti-climactic to I say the least. The message to the W youth of America seems to be get ' a shortwave radio, start a radio sta- J tion, and "talk hard". If only all f problems were that simple to solve. I Pump Up the Volume is playing A at Columbia Mall and Litchfield Cinemas. By the way, Litchfield p Cinemas is doing a special promotion in which tickets will be given away to USC students. Details will be out later this week. th m m HI Mil ilash $2 off the i when you si H Authorities are trying to idem ? j W M are invading a local record stc > j f M f and dressed in combat gear, t this uprising ever since Cocoi > and CDs (priced S6.99 and up), for an; amed subversives as of yet. CIA agents c >pes of diffusing the operation, but so fa tapes. Chief of Special Tactics, Dick "In am these I.D.s, I think they should be ba ywriter responded, "No way, Dick!" Re i abrupt end on September 3rd when th als could not be reached for comment, le and did not think the situation warra ictured titles. ?ll.99/$12.99 Compact Disc. Fer good thru 9/3/90. Ml I 5 Ilk Hk Mark (Christian Slater) runs a pirate radio statio ? new movie Pump Up the Volume. tfiVJllllllMirV'K nvF m egular price of any tow us your College tify chaotic armies of students who M j >re. Armed with loaded I.D. cards mm he students have been engaged in nuts began taking $2.00 off the pone presenting a valid student I.D. lisguised as foreign students have r the only thing they've gotten from >nguts" Kelly had this to say, "The nned." gardless, (TTT pump up the volume ||||| joh .*** fm" tw mwml motion rctudf soumtmci cfll ie oner fkmwws concrete bi.onoc cowboy junkies liouio jesus peter murphy ^ sowc youth fho sounogarocn nted feai TiSKBm Jl wm <^^h9w v <: n with the help of Nora (Samantha Mathis) in i I.D. D IRE ML Cassette or CD iLD. Ml AH CAREY nnyclegg & savuka IIIII Depeche Mode ^.t^jteautiiu'vvefid violator On (Hul'Man On VcM Jartcho Pasturing: Psraonal Jaaua Enlov bhhi if^ki ?? .