coasterfrk

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Phew, I finally got it to work, and I must say, thanks a ton. This is pretty much a perfect workbench. As it turned out, I just needed to download a few spotlight parks and one happened to have the right file.

Yeah, I did just that many times. Like I said, I also completely reinstalled the objdata folder so it only had the original .dat files. Then, I added every file from the given download into it, and no such luck. I'll keep trying different things and hope for the best. Thanks for your help, though.

Ok, so I used DatChecker and found no redundant MD5 checksums, and then I reinstalled the original objdata folder with just the normal dat files and the files you included. The same error comes up. I hope there's some way to get past this.

I'm really excited about getting to use this bench. It looks awesome. I'm just confused why I'm getting an error saying I'm missing "TTRFGL01/0157F509CC6EB0A4." I've copied the dat files into the objdata folder numerous times, and I've verified that ttrfgl01.dat is in fact there, but I'm still getting the error. Does anyone know why this might be happening? Thanks again, geewhzz.

The Black Dahlia
1.5/5

Looked decent and interesting from the trailer. I read the book, and found it convoluted, yet somewhat interesting. Just saw the movie, and it followed the exposition of the book fairly well (not perfectly, but decently enough). First problem, though, it took that tangent for too long.

The rest of it pretty much went shitty. Plot lines were changed, the vague references to the original plot were rushed and incoherent, and it emphasized the campy details over the details that would show actual investigation going on. Speaking of an investigation, it didn't seem to be about one. It was just the characters and their lives, and to make it seem like things were progressing, sudden and fairly unexplained revelations came along.

As a whole, it attempted to capture a 40's film noir feel with the "shot through gauze" look, but failed to maintain that theme by going overboard with "let's jump into sex" scenes that would have fit more had they been left to the imagination. Not to mention, most of said sex scenes were unfittingly uncomfortable and forced.

The actors, well, just about all of them could have done with better direction, more characterization, and less puffing on cigarettes. Josh Hartnett mumbled most of the time, so it was just about as difficult to understand him as it was with Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain. Scarlet looked pretty and had moments of appropriate acting, but mostly, she didn't come across as being the character. It didn't help that some of her lines were very disjointed in how someone's thoughts would work. Mia did fine as the desperate, struggling actress in the two minutes she had of notable screen time. Fiona Shaw did alright, but went a bit over the top with her character; she carries off one of the only good scenes in the film. Hilary Swank finally got to play a very feminine role, and she did fine. Not one of the main characters brought anything memorable, acting-wise. If anything, most of the background characters showed the best acting.

It's sad that the movie had so little of the intrigue and emotion that made the book worth reading at all.