Daily Archives: October 29, 2009

My Bloody Valentine the Review

My Bloody Valentine (2009)

Since Halloween is right here, I figured I should get in a horror movie. MBV looked good, so I decided to give her a whirl.

A remake that was sold heaveley on it’s 3D effects, MBV doesn’t do anything new.

It’s a pretty straight forward horror/slasher flick. A mining accident happened and the only survivor went nuts afterwards. He kills 20 something people, the cops cap him in the mine and the town moves on from the terrible Valentines Day event. 10 years later, Tom, a survivor from the miners final rampage comes back to town and the miner shows up too! Cue scary music!

It’s not a bad movie, it’s just nothing special. Competent filmmaking in all regards. Hot girls, decent acting, clear direction and editing. There are some inventive kills, but some of them are ruined by the 3D effect that isn’t 3D on the DVD. It just looks like terrible CG. There’s much better horror flicks out there now so if you skip this, you aren’t missing much.

Windows 7

I upgraded to Windows 7 on Monday and it’s pretty sweet! I never had a problem with Vista, but Win7 seems much more thought out. It’s really fast, the new little features are welcome (the Snip tool is a fantastic idea).

The upgrade took almost 2 hours, but went perfectly. Didn’t have to do anything, and everything is how I left it. But…. . When I reboot, I can’t access the internet. It knows my network is there (it knows my 360 is on the network and can stream content to it. I think, gotta test to be sure), but the net won’t work. I have to go to the device manager, go to my nic card (onboard Intel) and disable it. Turn it back on and the net works instantly.

Really weird. I got the latest drivers from Intel and it didn’t fix it.