School for Scoundrels [2006]

An unlucky meter reader enrolls in a confidence-building class so he can win the love of the girl of his dreams. The class turns out to be something quite different when it becomes clear to the young man that his professor has his sights set on the same girl. - IMDB

The main character is Jon Heder from Napoleon Dynamite so you know its going to be silly. With Billy Bob Thorton as the trainer in the confidence-building classes. The acting fit well for a comedy with a little bit of a twisted ending, like all movies they had a twist at the end, which I can't tell you, even with a comedy. There were a few slapstick funny moments, and a good cameo from Ben Stiller.

Overall the movie had me laughing from beginning to end, so I have to give it a good score.

8.5/10

Rated PG-13 for language, crude and sexual content, and some violence.

Sublime [2007]

Admitted to Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure, George Grieves discovers that his condition is much more serious and complicated than originally expected; and as his own fears begin to manifest around him, he learns that Mt. Abaddon is not a place where people come to get better... it is a place where people come to die. - IMDB

Most people thought of this as a horror but I would classify this movie as a psychological thriller, with a different ending. Which got revealed a little to early for my taste which enabled me to predict the ending a little sooner than I think the movie should have allowed. The movie over all was very anti climatic and I would only recommend this movie if you are a die hard make you think thriller move.

6.5/10

Rated R for disturbing violent content, language and sexuality.

Back to XP....

That is right I am back to XP. I thought that I had gotten rid of the BSOD by unistalling my ATI drivers but it was not the case. After a long period of testing I was unable to find the source of the BSOD, so without much hesitation at all I will be switching back to XP SP2. It has to be the best operating system that I have ever used, it is fast easy to use and generally has no errors once you have things installed correctly and do not mess around with too many things.

It is a good thing that I have a second hard-drive or else I would be royally screwed with all of this installing and reinstalling of Windows. Expect to see me gaming again tomorrow afternoon if I finish up the yard-work quickly. I have been craving driving a virtual car for the last four days.

Harsh Times [2005]

Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying to get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend. - IMDB

I have to say that the story was really well done, it is close to what I expected from the description. Not as much action as I expected but a good storyline that draws you in, and makes you want to find out what happens in the end.

Acting was a well done and very believable, and the the Mexico location was very beautiful in my opinion.

I recommend this movie to anyone that enjoys an action drama.

8.5/10

Rated R for strong violence, language and drug use.

I have gone through some of my movies and I am going to watch the ones that I have not seen yet. Most of them are movies that my dad has got and I didn't notice till now. On the list for movies to review are:

Sublime
Harsh Times
Night in the Museum
School for Scoundrels

This will be the first time that I have done written movie reviews and I hope that you are not disappointed with them.

I will be making sure that they are not just off the top of my head by keeping track of them with Google Documents which is plugged into my BlogSpot account. That way the information is direct and I do not forget anything important.

Back to Vista

I have had the opportunity to get my hands on a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate. I have to say it looks nice especially with the animated backgrounds. It is like the Enterprise edition however it runs with around 20 less processes at startup.

I did however start getting BSOD shortly after installing my drivers. I was determined to think that it was my sound drivers because it crashed wile I was installing them. So I tried uninstalling them, installing different ones, reinstalling. However nothing worked. So I uninstalled my ATI drivers and I have only had one crash since and that was me trying to play Test Drive Unlimited without video drivers installed, and this was expected just to prove that it was my ATI drivers.

Which brings me to the matter of the new Vista BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) it does not tell you what is wrong like the original ones with Windows 95+. It is just literately a blue screen and your computer ceases up on you and you are forced to cold boot. Windows should have left it, because when I used to get the BSOD with older operating systems at least you had an idea of what caused it by the information given in the error message.

ATI really needs to get some stable drivers going for Vista, at least for the X800 XTPE that is. I have the idea that they are more worried about getting their new cards to be compatible with the operating system but when I looked at the Valve survey results the most used card by people was the X800 card. This would cause one to believe that it would be the card that the companies try and have everything working for first.

I have not had a chance to install and do some testing of the games much, but when I was able to play Test Drive Unlimited with the drivers that crapped out on me after a wile I did not notice any hold back of the frame rate even with it maxed out which is more than I can say for Vista when I was running Enterprise.

I would still not recommend that people switch till SP1 for Vista, but I will be doing more testing and keeping logs of what I do so that I can post results for programs that I have problems with and guides to getting others working.

IcIrIs Out!