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February 17

South American film about a stolen train

I was reading the article on La Trochita, and it reminded me of a film I saw a few years ago. I think it was set in Argentina, but I'm not sure. The film is about an old train driver on a long distance steam railway line which is about to be shut down by the new rightwing government, leaving all the staff unemployed and lots of little towns cut off. With his best friend and his son, he steals the last working engine and goes on a protest joyride, attracting supporters all across the country and making fools of the police. Anyone know what it's called? 89.195.38.79 (talk) 20:35, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

El último tren? meltBanana 22:25, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

In case anyone is interested, an American movie with a similar plot -- but principally involving only the railway company and its workers -- is End of the Line, starring Wilford Brimley. --Anonymous, 00:20 UTC, February 18, 2010.

And in England, The Titfield Thunderbolt is not entirely dissimilar. —Tamfang (talk) 20:56, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

XBOX 360 Memory Question

This is a bit complicated. I live in a dorm and in the cener room we have a 360, and I have one in my own room. My hard drive, we'll call Memory A, has my profile on it, but one of my friends wanted to play FIFA so I let him use my hard drive and my profile. One day I was playing in my room and he wanted to play FIFA, so I put my profile on the memory normally in the center XBOX, Memory B, by using the Recover Gamertag method.

So, now I just played in my room and he played in the center, both using my profile, but mine was my main memory.

However, a few weeks ago my XBOX Live Gold ran out, and I did not want to renew it, so I just had it lowered to Silver on Memory B. Memory A was not connected to the Internet, so I did not bother with it. But one day I connected the Internet to my room XBOX and tried to play a game, and it said something along the lines of "This profile has been recovered on another hard drive. Please recover your profile." It then said that all achuievements earned while being offline will be lost. I earned about twenty achievements on A that I want to keep. I do not want the achievements on B to transfer, they can be deleted for all I care.

What should I do to make Memory A my main profile again, since XBOX now thinks B is the main account. Should I just delete B and A will work fine? Or should I get Gold again for my Gamertag so when B has Gold my A and B will have the same LIVE status, and then I can just delete B and go back to Silver on B. Any advice anyone has would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time. 134.126.192.188 (talk) 21:47, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

I don't think that deleting your profile on B will make your profile on A work, because when you recovered your gamertag on B, the console told Microsoft that your profile was now stored on console B. If you delete your profile on B, I don't think the console tells Microsoft about this. I only offer that random speculation because I can't think of a great reason Microsoft would want to know this. In any case, it seems to me you should delete your profile off of B and then do as it says and do the 'recover gamertag' routine on A, and lose your achievements. Sorry. To lecture you about something you already know, you're supposed to set up a different profile for each person playing your xbox (yeah, fun, I know), and use a memory unit to move the profile to a different console. 63.164.47.229 (talk) 23:24, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

name of a movie

I cannot recall the name of a movie I once saw. Plot: A group of teenagers constitute the main characters. There is a guy whom everybody hates, and his "best friend" hates him the most. There is a scene where the hated guy almost sleeps with a girl of the group but then suddenly starts watching gay porn. Eventually, the group decides to murder the hated guy so they ask a young gangster for help. They bring him to a place (near a lake) and brutally murder him there. Everybody watches as the "best friend" and the young gangster do most of the dirty work. The last scene is the trial where everybody gets convicted to a prison sentence and the "best fiend" is convicted to "death by the electric chair". The girlfriend of the "best friend" seems to have incited the "best friend" to the murder. She also gets a prison sentence and in the final scene she told the best friend that she will write him. This is what I remember. Can anybody spot what film I am talking about? I would like to watch it again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.88.25.3 (talk) 22:53, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi. This is Bully (2001), based on the real-life murder of Bobby Kent in 1993. All the best, Steve ^T • C 08:50, 18 February 2010 (UTC)