You Again
A great film if there is nothing (and I mean not a lot left to do in the world) to do, and you have some spare time.
The tag line could be changed to “What doesn’t kill you … will return later in life and create difficult situations.”
Initially, its Kristen Bell who know-one likes at high school, finds out that her brother is going to wed the very person who made Bell’s high school life hell. The next happy meeting is when Bell’s mother (Curtis) meets Yustman’s aunt (Weaver), where you discover they were also not on good terms since high school. Then finally, Bell’s grandmother meets her nemesis. This pretty much shows if something happens to you, it will probably happen to your kids and so on.
Being a guy, you’d think I’d never watch ‘chick flicks’, but there are some pretty good ones out there to watch … this isn’t one of them though. There’s a few good (somewhat funny) moments in this film, but they don’t really make up for the large amount of randomness that happens. The storyline isn’t far off a small suggestions box contents. There are plenty of little trail-off’s to the story, there’s almost no story at all (ok, there is, but nothing worth shouting about).
For me, one of the off-putting things was that Weaver and Curtis are, well, old (nothing against being old). I can still remember watching the Alien films, and True Lies … those are the films I think these actors stood out in, so it’s almost wrong to see them as (almost) grandmothers.
But that’s just me.
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Due Date
Here’s a film where the spoiler does indeed spoil the film (insert sad face).
In my opinion, the trailer for Due Date shows just about 90% of the funny bits of the film. Don’t get me wrong, there are some very good clips in the film that aren’t shown in the trailer, but the trailer does pretty much show the gist of the film … not much else really happens.
Basically, Mr.Downey Jr is trying to make it back to see his newborn, but in the typical movie way ends up getting delayed/things don’t go to plan … sort of thing … all due to Mr. Galifianakis’ ‘friendliness’. From the minute they meet, most things that could go wrong generally do go wrong (most of which, any average person would see coming and just not put up with).
Keeping with the typical movie theme, the pair end up not being able to survive without each other and generally become best friends (with the odd hiccup here and there).
Before seeing the film, I heard that Mr.Downey Jr had a lot of fun making this film. This (along with watching the trailer) made me want to watch the film even more. Unfortunately I didn’t find it as good as I thought it would be. I thought it might be non-stop wall to wall laughs, with the occasional serious moment (there is a baby about to be born remember), but only really seemed to find the trailer featured bits funny, and even then it wasn’t THAT funny as I’d seen the trailer on just about every form of media out there.
I wouldn’t say the film is terrible, but I think if the trailer had more of the story and less funny bits, then I would of found the comedy moments more comedy-like. Not really a film I’d rush out to buy.
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Adding AC3 Audio to a MKV
A quick guide on how to add an AC3 audio file to a MKV file …
Download MKVtoolnix from here.
Go to Start > All Programs >MKVtoolnix > mkv merge GUI
Click on “add” and add the required files (both AC3 and MKV).
De-select the tracks/chaperts etc that you don’t want … I removed subtitles and the audio track I didn’t want.
I moved the two files I had selected up, not sure if this is needed.
Change the language to “eng” (again, not sure if needed).
I left the “output” filename etc as default.
Click on “Start muxing” .
All done 
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Flash … aaahh!!
What started out as an idea suggested to me (as I’ve been playing with some code), has grown into a full on learning cliff … no, that’s not a typo.
You see, I’d call a learning curve, a gentle upwards motion in the gaining of knowledge of a particular task. But, what I’ve been doing is continuously jumping, and diving, in the deep end of (drum roll) ACTIONSCRIPT.
The task, originally, sounded simple; to make an interactive ‘game-like’ activity to be used for gym students. This, however, very quickly turned into the learning cliff. I, as usuall, tried to think of every question or possibilty the activity could be asked to do (by the person who wanted to use the end product) and promptly tried to do all said possibilties.
The task was simple (emphasis on the was), to make a diagram of the body (muscle structure) and have the ability to drag and drop labels into the correct places.
Step1: Drag ‘n Drop
This was pretty easy, in fact, most of the code for Actionscript is pretty easy when you get going. Remembering the drag and drop application I made years ago in Visual Basic, I thought the code would be lengthy … luckily it wasn’t.
To the stage (that’s, the main area of the scene), I added the following line of code:
1) stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,dragstart);
stage … refers to the area/button/movie clip that the next lot of code will apply to. If I wanted to limit the code to a particular movie clip or button, then I’d change this to the instance name.
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… defined: Jewelleryjelly
A term given to the wearing of jelly where jewellery should (for most peoeple) be worn
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Change of time
Don’t forget the UK clocks change to GMT at 2am Sunday 25th Oct.
Extra hour lay in, or another hour to the day
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