Monday, April 06, 2009
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Strange Days
I have been watching movies on http://www.watch-movies-links.net/ and today decided to watch X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE. It's release date is scheduled for May 2009, but on this website we can usually view the movie first, because sometimes the movie is released in Switzerland earlier, or China, and we are then uploaded with a pirated copy with subtitles, or videos from theaters that include coughs, farting, baby cries, etc.
X-Men are popular movies, although I have only watched the original, with many scenes shot here in Vancouver, B.C., but I really didn't become a fan and didn't bother to watch the several X-Men movies that followed. Until now.
As I began watching the new WOLVERINE release, I noticed something quite odd. I could see wires stretching off a character who just did a quadruple flip, or I could see a "green screen" effect that DID NOT include the plane's movement although we were flying somewhere ... it was like a phony CGI (computer-generated imagery) that had not received it's final touch. And where one character was supposed to be tumbling down a log filled 18-Wheeler truck, we saw a blob of grey/silver goop, which probably would be filled in later at the editing stage with real images of said character.
How strange is that! Obviously someone close to production, or editing, stole a copy of this unfinished project and released it to this website. I have to say, I probably will enjoy watching this version more than the polished one.
My computer was a pain... I knew something was wrong when I kept getting "update your security" messages a billion times a day, making me think it's these frickin' security companies who are creating the viruses. Anyways, I had to do a system restore, which made me lose all my stuff, files, programs, emails, bookmarks, etc. etc., which is a pain in the butt. I decided to download my internet provider's security, Shaw Secure, which is a comprehensive, world-class online security that offers anti-virus, firewall, parental controls, and spam filtering features to Shaw Internet subscribers for free.
Except there's just one problem. You cannot have their security system if one already exists on your computer, which is a given, automatic version of McAfee software that comes with Windows XP. So when you try to get your own security system, exists a conflict with the one you didn't even know you had.
Fine. Get rid of McAfee.... go to ALL PROGRAMS - ACCESS AND DEFAULTS, and just delete the files. And most of them are removed, except for one.... McAfee Virus Scan.
I searched high and low for this god damned file, even the hidden ones, opened up DOS and tried to remove from the command line, at it's most basic level...mucking around in system32 where I should not be, with file names as long as a frenchman's birth certificate.
Use this instead:
Using McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool
· Double click the MCPR.exe
· A Command Line window will be displayed, and then close automatically.
· Wait for a second Command Line window to be displayed. Note: Do not double-click MCPR.exe again, you may have to wait up to 1 minute for the next window to appear.
· After the second window appears, the program will begin the cleanup.
· Observe the installation, which could take several minutes. The following message will be displayed in the Command Line window: The machine must reboot to complete the un-installation. Reboot now? [y.n]
· Press Y on the keyboard.
· Wait for the computer to restart.
· All McAfee products are now removed from your computer.
I watched Earthquake today....the 1974 movie starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy and Lorne Greene, amongst a cast of many popular stars during this era. Talk about lack of CGI...anyways, it struck me odd how Ava Gardner's character is portrayed as Lorne Greene's daughter....what the hay! Even her acting was an obvious attempt to be young(er), denying her glory days of glamor-wood. So I checked.
Lorne Greene birthdate: February 1915
Ava Gardner birthdate: December 1922
Charlton Heston birthday: October 1923.
What seemed more strange is how Charlton Heston's character is having an affair with Genevieve Bujold, born 1942.
X-Men are popular movies, although I have only watched the original, with many scenes shot here in Vancouver, B.C., but I really didn't become a fan and didn't bother to watch the several X-Men movies that followed. Until now.
As I began watching the new WOLVERINE release, I noticed something quite odd. I could see wires stretching off a character who just did a quadruple flip, or I could see a "green screen" effect that DID NOT include the plane's movement although we were flying somewhere ... it was like a phony CGI (computer-generated imagery) that had not received it's final touch. And where one character was supposed to be tumbling down a log filled 18-Wheeler truck, we saw a blob of grey/silver goop, which probably would be filled in later at the editing stage with real images of said character.
How strange is that! Obviously someone close to production, or editing, stole a copy of this unfinished project and released it to this website. I have to say, I probably will enjoy watching this version more than the polished one.
My computer was a pain... I knew something was wrong when I kept getting "update your security" messages a billion times a day, making me think it's these frickin' security companies who are creating the viruses. Anyways, I had to do a system restore, which made me lose all my stuff, files, programs, emails, bookmarks, etc. etc., which is a pain in the butt. I decided to download my internet provider's security, Shaw Secure, which is a comprehensive, world-class online security that offers anti-virus, firewall, parental controls, and spam filtering features to Shaw Internet subscribers for free.
Except there's just one problem. You cannot have their security system if one already exists on your computer, which is a given, automatic version of McAfee software that comes with Windows XP. So when you try to get your own security system, exists a conflict with the one you didn't even know you had.
Fine. Get rid of McAfee.... go to ALL PROGRAMS - ACCESS AND DEFAULTS, and just delete the files. And most of them are removed, except for one.... McAfee Virus Scan.
I searched high and low for this god damned file, even the hidden ones, opened up DOS and tried to remove from the command line, at it's most basic level...mucking around in system32 where I should not be, with file names as long as a frenchman's birth certificate.
Use this instead:
Using McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool
· Double click the MCPR.exe
· A Command Line window will be displayed, and then close automatically.
· Wait for a second Command Line window to be displayed. Note: Do not double-click MCPR.exe again, you may have to wait up to 1 minute for the next window to appear.
· After the second window appears, the program will begin the cleanup.
· Observe the installation, which could take several minutes. The following message will be displayed in the Command Line window: The machine must reboot to complete the un-installation. Reboot now? [y.n]
· Press Y on the keyboard.
· Wait for the computer to restart.
· All McAfee products are now removed from your computer.
I watched Earthquake today....the 1974 movie starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy and Lorne Greene, amongst a cast of many popular stars during this era. Talk about lack of CGI...anyways, it struck me odd how Ava Gardner's character is portrayed as Lorne Greene's daughter....what the hay! Even her acting was an obvious attempt to be young(er), denying her glory days of glamor-wood. So I checked.
Lorne Greene birthdate: February 1915
Ava Gardner birthdate: December 1922
Charlton Heston birthday: October 1923.
What seemed more strange is how Charlton Heston's character is having an affair with Genevieve Bujold, born 1942.
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