My macbook screen turns blue

when on my macbook pro, the screen turns blue all of a sudden forcing me to do a hard restart. Does this happen to anyone and how can this be resolved?
Thanks.
Macbook Pro
version 10.6.8
2.2 GHz Intel Core i7
4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Ist do you have the latest security update for Snow Leopard installed?
How were you watching the movie? Was it using Firefox? If so, update to the latest Firefox 10.0.1.
I had the occassional blue screen problem when quiting applications. It was due to automatic graphic card switching. The latest Firefox now uses the HD 3000 graphic card so there is no switching to the AMD card. I haven't had the problem since upgrading to Firefox 10. I think Firefox may have left something in the background running even after you think you quit it that may have contributed to the problem. Also, there have been reports that the Feb Snow Leopard security update version 1.1 may have corrected the problem. I have the same computer as you have and I am running 10.6.8. You would be smart to buy Applecare to extend your warranty for 2 more years. If a graphic card is failing, it costs $900- $1000 to fix if no warranty (new logic board). After I updated everything, I started up in safe mode by holding down the shift key at startup and then restarting to re-build the startup cache. So far so good, cross my fingers.
Next time the problem happens just close the screen and allow sleep, re-open and your screen should be back, hopefully. Turning off graphic card switching under apple, system preferences, energy, uncheck box also prevents the problem but gives you shorter battery time.
If the few thing I mentioned don't work, time to bring your computer to the Apple Store

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When I get to the login page on my macbook, I type in my password and it starts to load, but then the screen turns blue and it goes back to the login.
Iv tryed this numerious times still keeps going back to pasword. Can not get any further. Tried restart holding shift key.. still nothing. What do i do?

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I couldnt get to the hard drive/ desktop. Soft login not even working. So i could not do any of that.
In the end i took it to Apple and its actually the hard drive on its way out. A common issue with that series of Mac. Funny seeing i dont use this mac much. However being 2.5 years old and out of warrently, Apple have recognise this issue with this series/ Model and installing a new hard drive at no cost.
Very luck and greatful. And not feeling so dumb that it was something i did or could troubleshoot myself.
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Process:         Disk Utility [371]
Path:            /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app/Contents/MacOS/Disk Utility
Identifier:      com.apple.DiskUtility
Version:         11.5.2 (298.4)
Build Info:      DiskUtility-2980400~60
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [86]
Date/Time:       2013-11-05 03:29:41.247 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report:          9522 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           29
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 981 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   25
Anonymous UUID:                      F6B8E263-76C8-4C7D-AA58-48134BF4BA78
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000020
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x0000000100c62fbc _read_images + 312
1   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x0000000100c79721 map_images_nolock + 1266
2   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x0000000100c62761 map_images + 115
3   dyld                                    0x00007fff5fc039c5 dyld::notifyBatchPartial(dyld_image_states, bool, char const* (*)(dyld_image_states, unsigned int, dyld_image_info const*)) + 853
4   dyld                                    0x00007fff5fc0c849 ImageLoader::link(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, bool, bool, ImageLoader::RPathChain const&) + 201
5   dyld                                    0x00007fff5fc04d54 dyld::link(ImageLoader*, bool, ImageLoader::RPathChain const&) + 118
6   dyld                                    0x00007fff5fc08f7c dlopen + 490
7   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x0000000100a14e40 dlopen + 61
8   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x0000000100d78ef7 _CFBundleDlfcnLoadBundle + 231
9   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x0000000100d77e97 _CFBundleLoadExecutableAndReturnError + 1191
10 com.apple.Foundation                    0x0000000101008355 _NSBundleLoadCode + 638
11 com.apple.Foundation                    0x0000000101007c78 -[NSBundle loadAndReturnError:] + 742
12 com.apple.Foundation                    0x000000010101960c -[NSBundle principalClass] + 38
13 com.apple.framework.DUSupport           0x0000000100082080 -[DUModuleManager(_private) findDUModules:] + 405
14 com.apple.framework.DUSupport           0x0000000100081ed9 -[DUModuleManager orderedModuleListOfModules] + 40
15 com.apple.DiskUtility                   0x0000000100006082 0x100000000 + 24706
16 com.apple.DiskUtility                   0x0000000100005f59 0x100000000 + 24409
17 com.apple.AppKit                        0x0000000101444625 -[NSWindowController _windowDidLoad] + 538
18 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00000001013e1f77 -[NSWindowController window] + 112
19 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00000001015f61d9 -[NSWindowController showWindow:] + 47
20 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00000001015c7c5c -[NSDocument showWindows] + 98
21 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00000001015c64bb -[NSDocumentController openUntitledDocumentAndDisplay:error:] + 340
22 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00000001014f7b44 -[NSDocumentController(NSInternal) _openUntitled] + 111
23 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00000001014f79ab -[NSApplication _doOpenUntitled] + 257
24 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00000001014f733b -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpen:] + 185
25 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00000001014f6fd9 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleCoreEvent:withReplyEvent:] + 77
26 com.apple.Foundation                    0x0000000100ffd0d6 -[NSAppleEventManager dispatchRawAppleEvent:withRawReply:handlerRefCon:] + 360
27 com.apple.Foundation                    0x0000000100ffcf06 _NSAppleEventManagerGenericHandler + 114
28 com.apple.AE                            0x0000000104d7332b aeDispatchAppleEvent(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*, unsigned int, unsigned char*) + 162
29 com.apple.AE                            0x0000000104d73224 dispatchEventAndSendReply(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*) + 32
30 com.apple.AE                            0x0000000104d7312b aeProcessAppleEvent + 210
31 com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x00000001028a0619 AEProcessAppleEvent + 48
32 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00000001013fc095 _DPSNextEvent + 1191
33 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00000001013fb801 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 155
34 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00000001013c168f -[NSApplication run] + 395
35 com.apple.AppKit                        0x00000001013ba3b0 NSApplicationMain + 364
36 com.apple.DiskUtility                   0x0000000100002009 0x100000000 + 8201
37 com.apple.DiskUtility                   0x0000000100001db8 0x100000000 + 7608
Thread 1: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x0000000100a27c0a kevent + 10
1   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x0000000100a29add _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 154
2   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x0000000100a297b4 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 185
3   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x0000000100a292de _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 252
4   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x0000000100a28c08 _pthread_wqthread + 353
5   libSystem.B.dylib                       0x0000000100a28aa5 start_wqthread + 13
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