Andy Wood

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When we last tuned in, Jigsaw has come up missing, but he has a new apprentice Amanda to help run the intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon is unaware that she is about to become the latest pawn on his vicious chessboard. via ComingSoon

One of my local movie houses has this on 4 screens at 10pm and since I still have some life in my after my trip, I thought I would take in this flick and attempt to beat the summer crowds on opening day.

Keep in mind, I didn’t read into the hype, didn’t read any inside reports, but I did see some stuff that caught my eye, so I had a very basic understanding on what was taking place.

Instead of just re-doing the series as another superhero comeback movie like Batman Begins did last year, the latest Superman adventure picks up more or less where Superman 1 and Superman 2 left off. Superman spent five years in space, following up on astronomers’ reports that his home world of Krypton might still exist. He revisits Metropolis and discovers that life has moved ahead without him. (bummer)

There was many tributes to the original movie, which I think liked because it gave the impression that this was ’superman’ and not just another actore playing superman. I think that Brandon Routh did a great job as well. There was times when he was speaking as Clark that it sounded like Christopher Reeves, which was either just me being fooled and just a good acting job.

Where I had an issue with this film, is in the pacing. It does not move faster than a locomotive, but takes its time to bring us deeper into the familiar characters. It’s a daring choice, but one that gives the film a powerful romantic dimension. The film makes it clear that Lois Lane has never really gotten over Superman, and audiences will probably feel the same way. It’s good to have him back.

I got back yesterday from my trip to visit my friend JR and his family. (more on that later)

One of the items that I sprung on the family was a brand new Xbox 360 system. After watching Jr get it all hooked up, (which btw was enjoyable, see.. he needs glasses to see the small stuff now) I gave a slight demo of some of its basic features for the rest of that day.

The next day we all loaded up in Darth and headed to the local Best Buy. While there, I snagged the wireless network adapter so that I could show them Xbox Live and get them all started in that arena too. (a slight adjustment to the MTU on the linksys router was needed)

Needless to say, the new console system was a big hit. The whole darn family was just getting a kick out of the downloadable demos from the Arcade section, not to mention being able to stream pictures and mp3’s too along with a ton of other stuff.

Myself I picked up Oblivion since there has been a lot of jibber jabber about this game and since I don’t have an RPG on the 360, I bought it. I recovered my XBOX Live game tag on their console and started playing. (no issues)

When I got home, I thought I would pick up where I left off and while in the middle of re-recovering my GameTag I was greeted with some some crazy graphics and the above image. I quickly got on the phone to Microsoft and it will take a couple of weeks to get the refurbished one here.

The only thing that I can figure is that my machine was pissed off since I played on another machine, Microsoft had no comment when I called their ’support’ line.