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microsoft sql server 2000 personal edition

2011-10-19T00:18:00.000-07:00

Cara menginstall Microsoft SQL Server 2000 di Windows XP

Microsoft SQL Server adalah sebuah sistem manajemen basis data relasional (RDBMS) produk Microsoft. Bahasa kueri (query language) utamanya adalah Transact-SQL yang merupakan implementasi dari SQL standar ANSI/ISO yang digunakan oleh Microsoft dan Sybase. Umumnya SQL Server digunakan di dunia bisnis yang memiliki basis data berskala kecil sampai dengan menengah, tetapi kemudian berkembang dengan digunakannya SQL Server pada basis data besar.
Beberapa Versi Microsoft SQL Server 2000 yaitu:

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 server edition

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Workgroup Edition

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for Special user:

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Personal Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Evaluation Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition

Karena untuk personal pada system operasi Windows XP silahkan install Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Personal Edition. Karena versi ini berjalan di atas system operasi Windows XP. Untuk server Edition versi ini dikhususkan untuk berjalan di Sistem Operasi Windows NT dan Windows Server 2000 dan Windows Server 2003.

Begin the Tutorial!!!!

download Microsoft SQL Server 2000

Buka CD atau folder installer Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Personal Edition. Lalu jalankan setup.bat

Setelah setup.bat dijalankan akan muncul tampilan seperti dibawah, tunggu hingga proses selesai 100%

Setelah itu akan muncul layar Welcome untuk memulai installasi tekan next >

Setelah itu pilih Local Computer, lanjut next >

Pada jendela Installation Selection pilih opsi Create a new instance of SQL Server, or install Client tool

Pada jendela berikutnya isikan user informasi sesuai identisan dan company anda.

Setelah itu akan muncul layar end-user agreement sebagai tanda bahwa
kita menyetujui semua aturan pada SQL Server 2000. Tekan tombol yes

Masukkan CD key / serial number yang anda miliki

Pada installation definition pilih tipe installation Server and Client Tools

Pada layar ini centang pada default lalu next >

Di Setup Type pilih Typical, atau boleh juga pilih costum atau Minimum dika anda ingin mengaturnya sesuai kebutuhan anda

Setelah itu akan muncul jendela Service Accounts Opsi atas pilih Use the same account for each service. Auto start Server Service, dan pada opsi service settings, pilih User the Local System account
Pada Authentication mode pilih saja Windows Authentication mode:

Pada Authentication mode pilih saja Windows Authentication mode:

Lalu klik next saja untuk memulai mengcopy kan file installasi ke harddisk
Tunggu proses Copy file hingga selesai

Tunggu proses Copy file hingga selesai

Proses sedang mengkonfigurasi SQL server, tunggu beberapa saat hingga selesai

Jika muncul layar seperti dibawah dan tidak ada pesan error. Maka Installasi berhasil

Untuk membuka program SQL Server anda bias mencarinya di Start menu

2011-10-15T22:28:00.000-07:00

I. Pilihan Ganda

1. E. Program
2. B. Sistem Informasi
3. E. Semua Jawaban Benar
4. D. Produk
5. A. Kompetensi Manajemen
6. A. Tujuan Penjadwalan
7. D. Jawaban A dan C benar
8. D. Proyek
9. E. Semua Benar
10. B. Sistem Informasi
11. B. Manager Poyek
12. D. Planning Manajemen
13. B. Time
14. E. PMBOK
15. D. Planning Manajemen

II. Essay

1.
A.Proyek adalah suatu kegiatan yang melihat berbagai sumber daya yang terhimpun dalam suatu wadah tertentu untuk jangka waktu yang telah ditetapkan sebelumnya dalam pencapaian target tertentu.

B.Sistem Informasi adalah suatu kumpulan elemen yang menghubungkan satu sama lain untuk membentuk satu kesatuan mengintegrasikan data, memproses, menyimpan serta mendistribusikan informasi.

2.
A.Forward Scheduling adalah pendekatan penjadwalan proyek yang menentukan awal proyek terlebih dahulu, dan menjadwalkan maju setelah tanggal tersebut.

B.Reverse Scheduling adalah strategi penjadwalan proyek yang menentukan deadline proyek terlebih dahulu kemudian menjadwalkan mundur dari tanggal tersebut.

3.
A. Inisialisasi Proses
Memulai proyek termasuk mengenali dan memulai sebuah proyek baru atau fase proyek.Beberapa organisasi menggunakan fase pra-inisisasi, sementar yang lain termasuk item seperti mengembangkan kasus bisnis sebagai bagian dari inisiasi.
Tujuan utamanya adalah secara formal memilih dan memulai proyek.
Output utama meliputi :
a. Menetapkan manajemen proyek.
b. Mengindentifikasi stakeholder kunci.
c. Menyelesaikan kasus bisnis.
d. Menyelesaikan project charter dan mendapatkan tanda tangan diatasnya.

B. Perencanaan Proses
Tujuan utama dari perencanaan proyek adalah membimbing eksekusi.
Setiap bidang mengetahui temasuk informasi perencanaan.
Kunci output termasuj dalam proyek JWD meliputi :
a. Kontrak tim
b. Scope statemen
c. Work breakdown structure.
d. Jadwal proyek,dalam bentuk bagan Gant dengan semua dependensi dan sumber daya masuk
e. Sebuah daftar resiko prioritas (bagian dari sebuah register resiko).

C. Pelaksanaan Proses
Pelaksanaan dan perencanaan proyek saling terkait dan tidak terpisahkan kegiatan
Mereka yang akan melakukan pekerjaan harus membantu untuk merencanakan pekerjaan
Para manager proyek harus meminta masukan dari tim untuk mengembangkan rencana yang realistis

D. Pengandalian Proses
Perubahan tidak dapat di hindari pada proyek-proyek besar jadi penting untuk mengembangkan dan mengikuti proses untuk memantau dan mengendalikan perubahan.
Pemantauan pekerjaan priyek termasuk pengumpulan, pengukuran, dan penyebaran informasi kerja
Dua output penting dari pengawasan dan pengendalian pekerjaan proyek termasuk di rekomendasikan tindakan perbaikan dan pencegahan.

E. Penutupan Proses
Untuk menutup suatu proyek, Anda harus menyelesaikan semua aktivitas dan mengalihkan pekerjaan yang telah diselesaikan atau dibatalkan kepada orang-orang yang tepat
Output utama meliputi :
a. Prosedur penutupan administrasi
b. Prosedur penutupan kontrak
c. Final produk, jasa, atau hasil.
d. Update asset proses organisasi.

Pembuatan Aplikasi Berbasis VB dan SQL

2011-03-21T23:42:00.000-07:00

Terima pembuatan program aplikasi perusahaan Otomotif
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Pembuatan SPT Pajak Tahunan - Bulanan

2011-03-21T23:21:00.000-07:00

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terminator salvation

2009-02-07T09:29:00.000-08:00

The fourth installment of the Terminator series follows an adult John Connor (played by Christian Bale) as he attempts to organize a human resistance force which could prove to be humankind's last true hope for survival in the war against their intelligent robot overlords. Aussie Sam Worthington portrays Marcus, an early version of the Terminator robot, with Anton Yelchin filling Michael Biehn's shoes as a young Kyle Reese in what is planned to be a new trilogy from director McG (Charlie's Angels).

angel and demons

2009-02-07T09:20:00.000-08:00

The team behind the global phenomenon 'The Da Vinci Code' returns for the highly anticipated 'Angels & Demons,' based upon the bestselling novel by Dan Brown. Tom Hanks reprises his role as Harvard religious expert Robert Langdon, who once again finds that forces with ancient roots are willing to stop at nothing, even murder, to advance their goals. Ron Howard again directs the film, which is produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, and John Calley. The screenplay is by David Koepp and Akiva Goldsman.

When Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati - the most powerful underground organization in history - he also faces a deadly threat to the existence of the secret organization's most despised enemy: the Catholic Church. When Langdon learns that the clock is ticking on an unstoppable Illuminati time bomb, he jets to Rome, where he joins forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and enigmatic Italian scientist. Embarking on a nonstop, action-packed hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even to the heart of the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra will follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that mark the Vatican's only hope for survival.

x-man origin : wolverine

2009-02-07T09:16:00.000-08:00

Ah, The Wolverine… he was always the coolest X-Man. Well, Rogue was pretty cool too once, when she was a feisty flying southern belle, but since those movies butchered her character, the ever so slightly unhinged wolf-man with his rebellious tendencies and volatile temper has no competition. A wise move then to avoid taking up where X-Men: The Last Stand left off (killing practically everyone), and instead show us what we really want to see (that'd be Hugh Jackman with no shirt on). In Logan's pre-claw days, he spent his time seeking revenge against Victor Creed, who later becomes Sabertooth, for the death of his girlfriend. Ultimately, we'll witness his transformation into every comic lover's favourite bad boy as he goes through the mutant Weapon X program. If you think that sounds good, you'll be glad to hear it will be followed later in 2009 by X-Men Origins: Magneto, the back story behind the villainous master of metal supposedly based on Malcolm X.

public enemies

2009-02-07T09:04:00.000-08:00

In the action-thriller Public Enemies, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard in the incredible and true story of legendary Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger (Depp)the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoovers fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Bale), and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public. No one could stop Dillinger. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyonefrom his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Cotillard) to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger's ganglater including the sociopathic Baby Face Nelson (Stephen Graham)thrilled many, Hoover (Billy Crudup) hit on the idea of exploiting the outlaw's capture as a way to elevate his Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became the FBI. He made Dillinger America's first Public Enemy Number One. Hoover sent in Purvis, the dashing "Clark Gable of the FBI". However, Dillinger and his gang outwitted and outgunned Purvis' men in wild chases and shootouts. Only after importing a crew of Western ex-lawmen (newly baptized as agents) who were real gunfighters and orchestrating epic betrayals from the infamous "Lady in Red" to the Chicago crime boss Frank Nittiwere Purvis and the FBI able to close in on Dillinger.

the smiths

2009-02-01T07:50:00.000-08:00

the smiths - the boys with the thorn in his side : Download

the smiths - charming man : Download

the smiths - heaven know i'm miserable now : Download

taken

2009-01-29T10:22:00.000-08:00

Taken really has no right to be as much fun as it is. A movie with less interest in character development and dialogue than in roundhouse kicks and gunplay, Taken is brutish and loud and slow in parts, but also undeniably entertaining.

The presence of Liam Neeson in the lead role is a bonus, but surprisingly, not really the source of success. Credit goes to Pierre Morel, the director who previously made the gonzo French action movie District B13 and brings the same frenetic, sadistic energy to the manifold action sequences here. The plot takes forever to get going, and suffers throughout from terrible dialogue and ridiculous twists, but when it comes to the action-- which is why you bought the ticket in the first place, of course-- Morel is completely in charge..

But first, there's an interminable half hour or so spent meeting Bryan Mills (Neeson), a former spy now living in Los Angeles in order to be closer to his teenage daughter Kim (Maggie Grace), who lives with her mom (Famke Janssen) and a rich stepdad who buys her a pony for her 16th birthday. Mills, poor guy, can only afford a karaoke machine. We needlessly watch Mills return briefly to the job to protect a pop star-- and take down an assailant in the process-- and hang out with his old spy buddies, since apparently screenwriters Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen took the "show, don't tell" method of exposition way, way too seriously.

The plot finally emerges when Kim asks permission to spend the summer in Paris, and Mills, an insanely overprotective father, denies her at first. She then confirms the worst suspicions of every overprotective parent on earth by getting kidnapped, along with her friend Amanda, within minutes of arriving in Paris. After a frantic phone call with Kim that gives a few key clues about the kidnappers, Mills has packed his toolkit of weapons and jetted overseas, preparing to "tear down the EIffel Tower if I have to" in order to find his daughter.

He stops just short of that, but destroys any number of cars, construction sites, and lives as he races through the seedy underbelly of Paris. He determines Kim and Amanda have been taken by Albanian traffickers, who kidnap unassuming young women and, usually within 70 hours, ship them away forever. A number of plot threads that might give more insight into this under-discussed, tragic world are abandoned, including an odd moment when Mills cares for a kidnapped woman whom he first thinks is Kim. There's also an encounter in which Mills' French government contact appears to be in cahoots with the traffickers, but that's mostly an excuse for Mills to throw a few more punches and track another clue.

The action, though sometimes over-edited and confusing, is mostly thrilling, including an early chase scene at a construction site and a final confrontation on a boat in the Seine. Neeson is such an automatically empathetic figure that he gets away with a lot, including torturing a suspect, threatening innocent bystanders, and shooting a man's wife in the arm to teach him a lesson. There's a whole lot of violence within the PG-13 rating, and not all of it of the satisfying, "justice to the bad guys!' kind. But action fans will be continually impressed by Morel's skill behind the camera, and instinctive understanding of how to pace even the most extended action sequence.

Maggie Grace, even given how little she has to do in her role, is astonishingly bad at playing a teenager, and Famke Janssen adds another to her line of blank, stuck-up wife roles. But all the movie really needs is Neeson and a row of henchmen for him to mow down, and as long as the action is moving, it all works fine. A 5-minute coda to wrap up the characters reminds you of how awful the beginning was, and keeps the movie from really qualifying as "good." But as fast, dumb entertainment goes, Taken is tough to beat.

uninvited

2009-01-29T10:15:00.000-08:00

There will be another movie like The Ring out in January 30, 2009. The movie is called Uninvited by Steven Spielberg. This is from the same producer as The Ring and Disturbia. It looks like it would be entertaining but not really that scary though. I really like authentic scary movie instead of just some kind of monster that is not potentially in real life like in this movie. The movie is a scary, thriller, sci-fi , and ghost like kind of movie. It's about ghost and a family and an evil stepmother and stepdaughter battle.

The cast is Elizabeth Banks, Emily Browning, and David Strathairn. The movie is when Anna mother died and she has a new stepmother but the stepmother is a monster and a murderer who will be going after her and her father. It's kind of scary to go through the series

underworld

2009-01-29T10:10:00.000-08:00

Frost/Nixon star and regular Underworld franchise player Michael Sheen is an enslaved wolf-man who rebels against vampire master Bill Nighy in this medieval-set prequel. Yes, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans is basically Were-Spartacus, though that makes the humorless, scare-free result sound much more fun than it is. Sheen and Nighy do their best with the material, but this is easily the worst Underworld so far. Indeed, the whole blue-hued shebang comes across like some sadistic test for those people, such as your writer, who previously believed they would happily sit through anything that featured either one of these fine actors

grand torino

2009-01-29T09:55:00.000-08:00

Gran Torino takes its title from a 1972 Ford beaut parked in a driveway — a fetish object and memento mori in this curious, striking drama directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. He plays Walt Kowalski, a widowed, retired autoworker alienated from his grown sons and just about everybody else. Walt spends most of his time growling, tinkering, mowing his postage-stamp lawn, and raging against a world that's changed and won't change back no matter how hard he glares. Change has certainly come to his run-down Detroit neighborhood: Hmong immigrants with strange, foreign ways have moved in. Next door, there's a fatherless, multigenerational family that includes a quick-witted daughter (Ahney Her) and an uneasy younger teenage son (Bee Vang) who struggles to steer clear of the local Hmong gangbangers pressuring him to join them.

Walt thinks people stink. He's obnoxiously rude to a baby-faced Catholic priest (Christopher Carley, with the puss of a young Spencer Tracy) who, fulfilling the dying request of Walt's late wife, urges the SOB to go to confession. And the character regularly lets loose with such a vile spew of racist epithets that it's clear Eastwood is looking to inflame the PC ears of a contemporary audience.

Then, when someone attempts to steal Walt's prized car, the coiled Korean War vet reaches for his weapon. (A different Eastwood in a different movie might have rasped ''Do you feel lucky?'') But in the aftermath of his rage — as if breaking and entering were the only way to open the old man's emotional door — this twisted, post-9/11 version of Dirty Harry warily develops a relationship with the strangers next door. The connection leads to — well, to a shocking spiritual salvation, in fact. And to gang warfare. And to a movie at once understated and radical, deceptively unremarkable in presentation and ballsy in its earnestness. Don't let the star's overly familiar squint fool you: This is subtle, perceptive stuff.

Eastwood has devoted his recent work to refracting the image of American men in decline. His movies, pared and sinewy in both production and performance style (with the exception of the 2008 showpiece Changeling), meditate on compromises and losses, and even (most memorably in Million Dollar Baby) on serious questions of religious faith. Gran Torino, though, grafts those signature late-career preoccupations onto a story that's got the energy of a gangly youth, right down to the naturalistic performances by the mostly nonprofessional Hmong cast. The inquisitive script is by newcomer Nick Schenk, from a story by Schenk and fellow first-timer Dave Johannson — two talents lucky to dodge the indie virus that would surely have hit them had they aimed their script toward Sundance cred, tidy and full of lessons. Hey, punks: Do ya think many Sundance smoothies would dare set Dirty Harry among the Hmong? Well, do ya?

quantum of solace

2009-01-29T09:50:00.000-08:00

Agent 007 (Daniel Craig) is a very mad man in Quantum of Solace, a cold and vengeful chapter in the James Bond saga with little interest in coherence, and even less in the kind of sensual pleasures and vicarious high-life thrills once anticipated from movies about Her Majesty's best-dressed secret service agent. A virtuoso action sequence is de rigueur at the start of any Bond film, of course. But the bullet-spraying car chase in Siena, Italy, that opens the 22nd edition — the second foray starring Craig as a Bond as bleak as his eyes are blue — is a Sunday drive compared with the intensity of the fury coming off that complicated British secret agent.

Quantum picks up more or less where Casino Royale left off two years ago. Stinging from his presumed betrayal by the late (alas) Vesper Lynd, the one babe Bond truly loved (adieu, sultry Eva Green!), 007 is hell-bent on uncovering the truth about QUANTUM, the maxi-secret international organization that blackmailed her. Applying enhanced interrogation techniques to the Euro-creepy Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), who was reeled in at the end of the last picture, seems like a good place for Bond and his impeccable boss, M (divine Judi Dench, crisp and tart as a Granny Smith apple), to begin. But it's not long — it's instantly, actually, after the revelation of a mole in MI6 erupts into a gigantic glass-shattering, oof-and-wham, parkour-influenced action scramble — before we're relying on screen titles to update us on Bond's busy itinerary. First he's in London, reporting for a less-than-satisfactory performance review (M, egged on by the CIA, wonders whether her man is even-keeled enough for his job). Then he's in Haiti, crossing paths with a sleuthing beauty named Camille (Olga Kurylenko) while searching for a nefarious Monsieur Greene (Mathieu Amalric, both eyes wide open after The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), who's a QUANTUM baddie with plans to mess with global natural resources. Next he's in Austria, he's in South America, he's...well, with the biggest budget in Bond movie history, he's wherever the producers and director Marc Forster (Finding Neverland) want him to be.

The point is, wherever he is, this James Bond is pissed. And that ceaseless anger begins to curdle every sequence that might otherwise bring a little happiness. I mean happiness for us, the viewers — whether we're watching a scene at an avant-garde opera, a seduction, or a showy action sequence shot in a smeary color palette of browns.

With his assumption of the role in 2006, Craig triumphantly announced that there's a new 007 in town. Through his very physicality, and through his fresh interpretation of James Bond as a potent man with little interest in the silly stuff of shaken-not-stirred rituals, the actor scoured the iconic character of plaque and mannerisms. But having created such a tiger, this dark fellow needs a suitable jungle in which to prowl.

I mean it as a cockeyed compliment to the reborn Bond franchise, then, when I say that Quantum of Solace is an unnecessarily cramped arena for such an interesting cat. Bond chases Greene with grim determination (Amalric himself is a villain of mild physical proportions, with flourishes of evil limited to a glittering hardness in the eyes). But 007 turns that same ray-gun attitude of mirthlessness on practical conversations with Camille (the beauty doesn't have time for bedroom thoughts since she's plotting a vendetta against a South American baddie of her own); on office updates with M; and on intelligence gathered from the wily CIA agent Felix Leiter (as played by Jeffrey Wright, the coolest cat in the story). Working with a screenplay by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Paul Haggis, Forster (the German-Swiss director who titrated the chemistry between Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry in Monster's Ball) offers little cinematic distinction between scenes of rage, jet lag, and the drinking of those iconic cocktails.

I have a feeling, or at least a wish, that in the next Bond picture — Craig's committed to two more — this 21st-century spy will gain greater access to his own character strengths; I hope the director will allow his star to play. For now, we can take solace that 007 is working on anger management.

quadrophenia the movie

2009-01-28T02:13:00.001-08:00

Against the backdrop of riots in 60s Brighton, Quadrophenia perfectly captures the teenage need to belong, and identify, with your peers. In 1964 London, Jimmy Cooper (Phil Daniels) divides his time between hanging out with Mod friends and slaving in the post-room of an advertising firm. He doesn't work because he wants to or through a desire to further a career. No, all Jimmy wants is to have enough cash in his pocket to keep his scooter running and bespoke suits trim, leaving a little for "blues". There's nothing that Jimmy likes more than motoring with his pals Dave (Mark Wingett), Chalky (Philip Davis) and Spider (Gary Shail). What better way could there be to exasperate his parents (Michael Elphick and Kate Williams) and chat up birds like Steph (Leslie Ash) and Monkey (Toyah Wilcox)?

Come Saturday, Jimmy's down the sauna getting scrubbed-down for a weekend of mayhem. Unfortunately someone in the next cubicle is singing, off-key, the sort of tunes that really bug Jimmy. When he doesn't stop, in fact becoming louder, Jimmy sticks his head over the partition, looking for trouble, only to find Kevin (Ray Winstone), an old school-friend. Warmed with memories of some good times, Jimmy meets Kevin in a nearby cafe (for a sit-down breakfast). Unfortunately it's only then that Jimmy realises that Kevin is a Rocker, the sworn mortal enemies of Mods, forcing him to make an excuse and leave. The episode is soon forgotten though, for Jimmy is looking to have some success with women that evening. He's had his eye on the lithe Steph for a while, even though she's currently hitched up to Pete (Garry Cooper).

So, after procuring a few pills from their supplier Ferdy (Trevor Laird), the gang rolls around looking for a party to gate-crash. Out in the suburbs, the opportunity arises and soon everyone is swaying to the top sounds of the day. The problem for Jimmy is that Steph is all caught up, leaving him to the tender mercies of Monkey. She's a real man-eater, out for a good time, and Jimmy is unwillingly in the firing line. Unsurprisingly it all goes pear-shaped, especially when Jimmy finds that everyone apart from him has found a partner for a bout of sweaty, consensual sex. Luckily, the following weekend is a Bank Holiday and they're all of to Brighton for some fun. However, from the press clippings pinned to Jimmy's bedroom wall, it's clear that he's expecting something a little more exciting.

The central figure of Quadrophenia is Jimmy. Through his eyes we see his uncomprehending (though loving) parents, the London Mod scene and just how far he's prepared to go in the long-standing Mod vs Rocker conflict. To Jimmy, being a Mod is everything; a way of life, a community and a chance to be special (to everyone else it's just something they do at the weekend). As he explains to Kevin, he wants to be different, to stand apart from others. It's kind of ironic then that the way he achieves this is by joining the herd of Parka-wearing, Lambretta-riding Mods. The appeal for someone as vulnerable, impressionable and confused as Jimmy is obvious though, since it's all about getting to grips with life. As such, Quadrophenia lovingly recreates both the period detail and the sense of alienation that many teenagers suffer.

Somewhere around the mid-point of Quadrophenia, the beach-front of Brighton explodes into a pitched-battle between Mods and Rockers. From a small punch-up in a cafe, thousands of excited teenagers looking for an excuse clash in what quickly becomes a riot. However, while the action on the screen has dissolved into chaos, director Franc Roddam keeps a firm hand on the proceedings, orchestrating the violence beautifully. Hence, while the riot is both nasty and quite scary, the film never loses sight of the principal figures (Jimmy and Steph at this point). In tandem with this massed brawl, Roddam is also quite successful at extracting some good performances on an individual level. Daniels is absolutely excellent as a kid chasing dreams in a haze of tiny blue pills, rapidly succumbing to drug-fuelled paranoia. That it's all smoke and mirrors is something that rapidly becomes obvious.

Perhaps the greatest triumph of Quadrophenia is that it captures the zeitgeist perfectly. Everything from the smart uniforms to the way in which the Who-influenced soundtrack complements Jimmy's actions and feelings adds to the authentic feel. The drawbacks of this are that elements such as plot and deep characterisation get lost in the noise, abandoned as unnecessary by a movie which celebrates the vibrancy of youth. However, while this point of view is valid, the lack of background hinders the appreciation of what these teenagers are doing and where they've come from. This problem is high-lighted in the figure of "The Ace Face" (Sting), a sharp-looking fellow who captures Jimmy's imagination and loyalty, only to unwittingly shatter his world. While he works as a symbol, it would be rewarding to just know more about him (especially as he only gets a few, muffled lines). So, although Quadrophenia accurately invokes the Mod movement (and provides some modern-day fun in the picking out of now familiar faces), it fails to tell the whole story.

morrissey - all you need is me

2009-01-28T02:03:00.000-08:00

this is the newest morrissey video clip taken in 2008,with the new member he try to exist with his beautiful voice..
now he is growing old but the spirits is never gone..
in this video,he is walking arround and play tambourine,cool!
he is the one of the most my favourite musician in this world..
so check this out

my bloody valentine 3D

2009-01-27T03:23:00.000-08:00

Easily one of the best 3D horror movies ever made, "My Bloody Valentine 3D" benefits from advances in the technology that actually make the theatrical 3D format watchable. The red and blue glasses of the past literally made the experience of watching one of these movies so irritating that you were better off viewing the films in 2D later on video.

Not so with "My Bloody Valentine". Aside from some annoying aspects of the technology -- it's tough to get used to rapid cuts in the third dimension -- the film looks fantastic. "My Bloody Valentine 3D" should enjoy a long life as a theatrical release or midnight movie at any venue capable of delivering it: Only about 1000 screens nationwide were equipped to screen 3D films like this in 2009 and it's doubtful we'll be able to replicate 3D like this in our homes for decades.

But enough about the 3D, which as I said is fantastic. What about the film itself? Well, it's a great horror movie too, 3D or no 3D. Director Lussier's previous efforts included "Dracula 2000" for Dimension almost a decade earlier, where he demonstrated a passion for the genre. Although "Dracula" was a pretty flawed film, it still showed that Lussier (who learned his craft under Wes Craven during production of the "Scream" films) knows suspense and can deliver a slick, commercial horror movie. And that's exactly what "My Bloody Valentine" is -- slick, no nonsense, efficient and commercial.

it's doomsday!

2009-01-27T01:54:00.000-08:00

Well, just to clarify, Doomsday is NOT a horror film. Yes, it's dark. Yes, it's brutal and violent. And yes, it 's even a little scary at times. But a horror film it is not. The mistake, and this seems to be based on contemporary cinema lore, which states that virus = zombies. With the likes of everything from 28 days later,dawn of the dead, Resident Evil, and most recently in I Am Legend, it seems that any film dealing with a virus automatically has to have some variation of the living dead running around devouring people. Well, our virus is back to basics. The real deal. It kills people. Pure and simple. As lethal and effective as a virus really is. Okay, so it rots you from the outside in, covering the victim with weeping soars and dripping pustules and liquefies the internal organs, but the end result is…you die. And you don't come back. That said, Doomsday is not primarily a virus movie either. The 'Reaper' virus acts as a catalyst for the action, it's responsible for creating the world of the story, but doesn't drive the narrative.

YES MAN movie review

2009-01-25T05:17:00.000-08:00

YES MAN is a decent comedy about a man who re-discovers his life after taking a self-help seminar where he has to say "yes" to everything; it's only let down by some occasional segues in to stupid and very tired Jim Carrey silliness. "Yes Man" turned out to be a lot better than expected, mainly due to its clever premise which simultaneously allows for some great comedic moments, but also to explore deeper themes of how you should live your life (or not).