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Sucker Punch
09 months ago
by Walt Snider
in Movies
Walt’s Review
Sucker Punch promised us amazing visuals and it certainly delivered… and brought friends.
The Skinny
Our heroine does what she can to save her sister from the wrath, and sexual education lesson, of her step father. This ends up killing the sister, so… I guess she’s successful… sorta. Our new lady friend finds herself in a mental asylum… that’s really a brothel? Wait, really?
Sister-killer recruits 4 other sluts… I mean hookers… errr… beautiful women to help her in her… dances? I guess. So when the one chick is dancing, no one can look away from her and her friends can steal stuff from the place they’re in… so they can escape. Seriously, that’s our plot.
The Plot
To be completely honest, there wasn’t one. The plot that they attempted to feed you was completely ridiculous. I could attempt to give you a synopsis, but I like you too much and won’t harm your brain with what I’d have to write.
The Visuals
Absolutely pure amazingness. The art department must have had an unlimited budget and made great use of it. I could not find a single flaw in the look and feel of the place. I was drawn in from the overall atmosphere. Great work there guys!
The Music
The music was strikingly good. Get the soundtrack. Immediately. Tyler Bates & Marius De Vries produced amazing work to accompany the beautiful visuals.
The End
Honestly, I could only watch about 30 minutes or so… had to stop somewhere in the beginning of the scene where the 5 girls are fighting an army of clockwork Nazi zombies. Seriously.
I’ll probably watch it all the way through one day, but the amazing visuals are not enough to make me endure Zack Snyder’s utterly ridiculous story.
Get Yours
Blu-ray: Two-Disc Extended Edition | Movie-Only
DVD: Movie Only
VOD: Movie Only
CD: Soundtrack
MP3: Soundtrack [+Digital Booklet]
Dropbox: Simple File Sync
011 months ago
Have a file here that you want there? You can email it to yourself the file like normal, maybe put it on a flash drive. Personally, I just save it to my Dropbox.
So what is this magical box that you drop stuff into? Dropbox is simple file syncing between multiple physical machines you use.
The Skinny
- You save whatever you want into a directory on your computer in a folder called Dropbox.
- It automatically uploads that file without killing your bandwidth (internet connection) to the cloud.
- The file downloads to your other computer(s) that you have Dropbox installed on without killing your bandwidth.
- You can also access these files from your web browser.
- There is a free version. The difference between free and paid is mostly disk space. Free version is 2gigs. Paid versions are 50, 100 gigs and up.
- Super fast signup.
- Service since September 2008.
- Multiple operating systems supported: Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Blackberry.
- Share directories with other users.
- I’ll teach you how to get more free space, up to 10 gigs.
The Tech
It’s really simple to use this. You install a very small program and state what folder you want to designate as your Dropbox. Anything inside your Dropbox gets synced with the web and your other computer(s).
To get more granular, file revisions literally just change the revised part. Say you have a large PowerPoint presentation that’s about 50 megs and you change 2 slides. The literal data from those 2 slides gets synced, not the other 49.5 megs.
If you’re still not 100% on how this works, Soluto explains things pretty well and has an advanced guide.
The Free
- Sign up for the free 2 gig account.
- Confirm your email. (I don’t get spam from these guys.)
- Work through the Get Started tab.+250 megs
- Connect Dropbox to twitter and facebook. After jumping through the hoops, I removed the associations and deleted the tweets/posts. Still kept the free space. +768 megs
- Refer others to Dropbox. You get +500 megs per referral. Note that the limit is 16 gigs for bonus referrals.
Following the basics here will get you a little more than 3 gigs of space which is a great way to evaluate this service. If you get the maximum number of referrals, you’ll end up with a little more than 19 gigs of space for your free account.
You can also share your files with specific people with a link sent via email for whatever you specify.
The End
I’ve been using this for more than a year and I totally love it. The space I have is pretty darn adequate for my needs. It’s great to know that I don’t have to do anything more than just put a file in the right directory to get it to end up on my home computer or laptop.
I highly recommend Dropbox and I highly recommend you sign up with my referral link so we both get another +500 megs! 