Concert preview: Thirty Seconds to Mars’ latest as bombastic as
frontman Jared Leto’s movies  By Columbus Alive From the October
3, 2013 edition  It’s fitting Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman
Jared Leto (“Requiem for a Dream,” “Chapter 27”) is best known
for his work as an actor, because the band’s latest Love Lust
Faith + Dreams is as bombastic, over-the-top and hollow as a
Hollywood summer blockbuster.  Leto tends to over emote
throughout, delivering cornball lines about, uh, love, lust,
faith and dreams as though they were biblical prophecies. It
might have worked, too, if the band played with similar
conviction. But an overreliance on limp balladry (just try to
make it through a single spin of the softly lit “City of
Angels”) and dashed-off synth-rock prevents too many songs from
taking hold.  Worst of all, however, might be the endless
collection of sing-song “whoa-ohs” and “oh, oh, ohs” scattered
like so much hair-metal buckshot throughout the record. Someone
needs to gather all of ’em and create a websi