ComplainerMan

Dark Water is a 2005 “horror” movie starring the beautiful and always moody Jennifer Connolly. It’s a remake of a 2002 Japanese horror flick, called the same thing, but obviously in a different language. It is also a waste of 107 minutes of your life.

Problems:

1. It’s not scary. Unless you are OCD or hydrophopic. A lot of dirty water messing up the apartment. That’s about it.

2. No suspense. There are scenes where you could have had some startles to get your adreniline pumping at little, if they had been directed and edited properly. But apparently the director didn’t know how to do those. The DVD cover made mention of Alfred Hitchcock. Survey says: Buuzzzz.

3. Very familiar plot. Dead girl in water comes back to haunt someone. Think ”The Ring” but dull and not scary at all.

4. Stiff and phoney characters. You can’t tell if the building super is trying to be menacing, friendly or just confused. The teenage “tough guys” are as threatening as Opie and Goober.

The cast does include some good actors like John C. Reilly and Tim Roth, but they are wasted and can’t quite rise above the material. Touchstone made a profit of 19 million on the flick, so I guess the got the job done. Good work on a movie that sucked.

I upgraded from Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 to Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 a couple of days ago. The first thing I noticed is that it is a lot like Firefox 2, that I normally use.

The thing I don’t like about Firefox is that it is incapable of dealing with a limited user account on Windows XP. I try to access the Internet from a limited user account as much as possible, because if I can’t install programs, neither can malicious websites. Internet Explorer 6 works fine, and it appears that Internet Explorer 8 does too. Firefox, however tries to update, but can’t because it doesn’t have the permissions. Going to a admin account on the same machine and updating Firefox doesn’t help for some reason, and neither does selecting “Run As” an admin account from the limited user account. I still get the dialog that Firefox was unable to update. But I digress. Back to Microsoft Internet Exploder 8.

I’ve been using it for a couple of days now, and have noticed that it crashes every once in a while. No surprise there. However when downloading files to the hard drive, I noticed that it fails to download the complete file on a regular basis, without warning. On two seperate occassions today I need to download some zipped application files, and about 75% of the time, the file was truncated. I guess it’s not confirming the checksum or something, but the bottom line is, I need to switch to Firefox to properly download files. Good work Microsoft! You screwed up Vista, the X-Box beyond anything that could be expected from a high school junior achievement class, and the hits just keep on coming!