Scene It? Bright Lights! Big Screen! Best Actor Achievement

I left a guide for getting this achievement over on TA.  You can go here to see it if you want.  However I'm posting my guide on my own site since I wrote it all up.  8)



First off, this game does not save your progress for this achievement. Make plans to play until it pops or you will never get it. You will need 2-4 hours depending on your luck. It took me 3.

The best method for getting this achievement is by doing this:

1. Start a Fast-Fire Game and keep restarting until you get the proper Pop Quiz in your first Puzzle (I think chances are about 2% but it's still the fastest way; I had 5 proper ones in 2 hours).
2. Answer Pop Quiz questions and finish the game (you can run the clock down answering all questions wrong in next Puzzle).
3. Repeat until you get all 35 ... and the achievement.

I got this method from Flapjack waldi off x360a in the forums. I turned off the announcer as well. It does show up like he says and sometimes it feels like it will never show up. Then pop, it finally does. So you have to keep restarting until you get one. What stinks is when one does pop up and it’s not 1 of the 5 Oscar winning actors, you have to restart until you get one of the 5 Oscar winning actors. This is where the luck comes in on what you get for the time to complete the achievement.

The actors you need to pop up are: Anthony Hopkins, Dustin Hoffman, Julie Andrews, Kate Winslet, and Marlon Brando.

To help even more, here are the answers to the questions that will pop up for these actors. This way you won’t miss any.

Anthony Hopkins

A River Runs Through It.....FALSE
Dead Again,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Dracula............................TRUE
Hannibal,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Howard's End...................TRUE
Legends of the Fall,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Misery.............................FALSE
Nixon,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Scent of a Woman............FALSE
Speed,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
The French Connection......FALSE
The Remains of the Day,,,,,TRUE
The Silence of the Lambs...TRUE
Time Bandits,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Valkyrie............................FALSE

Dustin Hoffman

All the President's Men....TRUE
Glengarry Glen Ross,,,,,,,FALSE
In the Line of Fire............FALSE
lion for lambs,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Mamma Mia!..................FALSE
Meet the Fockers,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Midnight Cowboy............TRUE
Nights in Rodanthe,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Outbreak.......................TRUE
Tootsie,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Year of the Dog..............FALSE

Julie Andrews

A Cinderella Story............FALSE
A Shot in the Dark,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Annie..............................FALSE
Bedtime Stories,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Best in Show...................FALSE
Gigi,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Ice Princess.....................FALSE
Mary Poppins,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
My Fair Lady....................FALSE
S.O.B.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
The Nanny Diaries.............FALSE
The Princess Diaries,,,,,,,,,TRUE
The Sound of Music..........TRUE
Thoroughly Modern Millie,,,TRUE
Victor/Victoria...................TRUE

Kate Winslet

A Room with a View.........FALSE
American Beauty,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Being John Malkovich.......FALSE
Emma,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind......TRUE
Finding Neverland,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Ghost World....................FALSE
Heavenly Creatures,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Hideous Kinky.................TRUE
Little Children,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Notes on a Scandal.........FALSE
Raising Helen,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Sense and Sensibility......TRUE
The Reader,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE

Marlon Brando

Apocalypse Now.............TRUE
From Here to Eternity,,,,,,FALSE
Mutiny on the Bounty......TRUE
On the Waterfront,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Rebel Without a Cause...FALSE
Spartacus,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
Superman......................TRUE
The Godfather,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
The Godfather Part III.......FALSE
The Lost Weekend,,,,,,,,,,FALSE
The Maltese Falcon.........FALSE
The Wild One,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,TRUE
Touch of Evil...................FALSE
West Side Story,,,,,,,,,,,,,FALSE

I hope this will help everyone out on getting this achievement. Good Luck!

Inheritance

I bought and I'm reading the last book of the Eragon series.  It's called Inheritance as you can tell from the title.  Definitely good so far and I'm only around 240 pages into the book.  Which is just over 1000 pages long.

A lot of people critize the game and movie on Eragon but I enjoyed them all.  The book was the last thing I did and it made it even better.

The whole series is a good read and I doubt you'll be disappointed unless fantasy just isn't your thing.

So if I miss a few nights gaming like last night, you know why now.  My nose is stuck in a book.  8)

Lara Croft

I have to agree.

http://www.gamersmint.com/the-hottest-lara-croft-cosplay-ever-pic

This is How You Drop Your Percentage

It seems every time I make it to 90% I end up loading up games and dropping back down a long way to the point of will I ever finish all these games.  So let me list up all the games I have and will have before 2011 ends.

Luckily I'm about to finish Sims 3, so that one is soon to be off my list.  Only 30 wishes to go.  Whoot Whoot !!

While working on Sims 3, 2 games put out DLC to bring me down out of the 90% range.  First up was Pinball FX 2.  New tables, more achievements, and it just doesn't seem to end with this arcade game.  Next was Kinectimals.  I was really surprised to see them add new content to this game.  Now it has bears and with my daughters school being a panda bear, it's a game I have to go buy again to finish off the DLC.  Plus for her to play with a Panda Bear.

Not too long out, we traded in games and bought Wipeout for the kids.  My youngest finally popped two achievements in the game, so my % took a massive hit with that.

Me and the wife were playing Dungeon Siege 3 but no achievements have popped yet in that game but when one does, another drop.  One that will take some time to recover from with how long it will take to finish this game.

We recently just got Twister and we finally played it today.  Nothing has popped yet but it will.  In which another drop in %.

We also just got Just Dance 3 and Just Dance 2 for Kids.  Dance games don't give you achievements quickly at all so this is going to be another long haul for these two games.

Just ordered Dance Central 2 and it should be arriving in the mail with in the week.  As I said before, another huge achievement hit on my %.  Which Dance Central is still hurting me and I'm going to have to work on that as well since the wife isn't.

Today I just bought Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7.  I've also go to go back and finish up Lego Star Wars 3 as they gave me a hit on my percentage already that I haven't recovered from.  Lego games are short but they are quicker than dance games, that's for sure.

Next month I will be buying GOW3 and Dead Island without a doubt.

Luckily Eye Pet 2 is on the PS3 or that would have been another hit.

I'm still unsure if we are going to purchase Sims 3 Pets yet.  If that one comes to light, then that's going to hurt as well.

Fafhrdd and Lady Death 13 are wanting to get the Operation Flash Point: Red River game to hit up the second game in that series.  So I will be looking to get that game soon as well if I can.

As you can see, which I'm not going back to count all those games I just mentioned, but I might seriously drop below 80% by the time all these games are loaded up with achievements.  I'll be working all next year trying to finish them off and that's if I don't by anymore new games.  Which you know I will.  So I like keeping a high percentage on all my games, at least to a point but I'm slightly discouraged at the amount of work I'm about to dive into in order to regain it all back. 

Oh yea, lets not forget any arcade games I buy or play that I already own.  As I have quite a few arcade games I haven't even started or loaded up that I've bought already.

It's a never ending cycle I tell ya.

So if you want to kill your percentage and set yourself for a long haul of work to be done to regain it all.  Just do what I'm doing and you'll accomplish that goal with ease!

New Home Worries

Well, yesterday made 2 weeks living in my new house and we've ran into two big issues.

First one is I had a wet spot show up in the middle of the floor with nothing else wet on the floor, walls or anywhere.  Was about to fork out money to rip up floor to see if I had a cracked pipe in the slab.  Thankfully I found out someone we knew was a plumber.  He came over and after a little bit of being baffled, we finally figured it out.  We had the faucet fixed in the 2nd bathroom and it seems they broke the seal in it when fixing it.  So when the tub or shower was running, it was running back out into the hole in the tube.  Which then means there is a crack in the foundation and the water ran to the point of where it had to come up, which would be the spot on the floor.  Luckily replacing just the faucet fixed the problem.

The second issue that arose was the frig got warm and everything started thawing out.  I came home during lunch and vacuumed all the old nasty dust that has been building up on the very old frig for a long time.  That includes the back and taking of the cover to get inside it.  I also couldn't move the handle for the freezer dial.  When I did finally get it to move, something broke off two different times.  It was ice.  Looks like it has frozen over.  So it was thawing out and by the time my wife got home, she said it was actually running as before hand it wasn't running at all.

So God pulled threw and helped us out big time.

I do know what new frig I'm going to buy next year.  Scoped one out at Lowe's during all this.  I'm ready for the new frig but it'll be next year before that happens.

The Dren has left a comment on 11/9/2011 3:05:53 PM

This is exactly how I feel.


The Dren has left a comment on 11/9/2011 3:05:53 PM: FshGuy wrote a little in a watcher comment about the debut of Modern Warfare 3 trailing both Modern Warfare 2 and COD: Black Ops.

What he forgot to mention is that:

Activision fired most of the development team of Modern Warfare 2 in a dispute over bonuses they were owed.

Activision tied Modern Warfare 3 to Call of Duty Elite, a $50 add on to purchase if you want the full experience, effectively pricing this game at $110

Activision just last week threatened to punish players who got their games early in the mail if they played them before the official launch date.

Perhaps some better questions overall would be, "Have gamers gotten tired of being abused by game publishers? Have gamers gotten tired of seeing developers treated poorly by the publishers? Have gamers gotten tired of shelling out upwards of $100 for a complete video game?"

In the overall greed of $10 online passes, $15 map packs (of which there were 4 for Black Ops), maybe a lot of gamers are doing what I'm doing. Going through old games never completed and having some fun with the money they already spent. New games are pricing themselves right out of the market.

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Captain America

Well, I must say, when I saw the previews for this movie, I didn't have high hopes and didn't care to try to watch this movie.  I got a free rental with Redbox yesterday, so this was the best choice I had to pick from.

I was pleasantly surprised that this was a pretty good movie.  It was not like the last one I saw where it was beyond cheesy to me.  This movie was done right.  I enjoyed it all the way through.  It flowed smoothly, had some funny parts, and it wasn't cheesy at all.  It's definitely worth the watch.  Especially if you plan to watch The Avengers movie when it comes out in theaters.