It all went wrong on an innocent Thursday night.  A couple friends came over and brought along a movie they had just picked up from Hollywood using their subscription plan.  The thing about Hollywood's subscription plan is you can't get the latest movies.  Just ones that are a couple months old and since you can rent as many as you want it's not hard to exhaust the selection of good movies.  So in general my friends are always showing up with crappy movies.

 

Well this time they showed up with "She's the man!" and even though everyone in the room groaned simultaneously we decided to run the film. We all hoped it would work out since it was written by the same folks who did 10 things I hate about you and Legally Blonde which I have to admit I enjoyed.  So we throw the movie in the XBox and it took the only way out it had available.

 

 

Nothing we could do would make it come back.  It just outright refused to have anything to do with the movie and I was forced to admit that it was broken beyond our ability to repair.  Which considering I had two members of the XBox team on hand to try and help troubleshoot and they couldn't get anywhere I knew it was game over.  So the next day I picked up the phone and called my buddy over in XBox support and asked him what I was supposed to do.  He told me to call 1-800-4MY-XBOX.  Well after I called them it was trivial.  They sent me a box to return it and a little over a week later I got my shiny new XBox. 

 

I haven't tried playing She's the man in it yet.  I think it made it's point and after watching the movie I have to say I have newfound respect for the XBox 360.  It really made the right choice....