I went to see Wall.e at the weekend, it was well put together and visually very nice but I felt it just a touch too kidsy for my taste. Still it's still a pretty good animation.

My 360 is apparently on its way back from repair which is nice, hopefully this one will last a bit.

Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog concluded this weekend, it was a really fun film and I really enjoyed Nathan Fillion's performance as the egotistical Sleazy Captain Hammer, all the rest of the cast were great too it was all in all a wonderful show. It was a bit of shame it wasn't up free for longer but they plan a DVD and to sell it on ITunes at somepoint I would expect it could do quite well.

You may have noticed that the site has been down for a while. Our hosting company, 34sp had a few technical problems with the server we were on. They fixed this by migrating to a new server but while they were doing that they changed all the version of Mysql. This caused a few issues, also somewhere during the migration they garbled our admin password so we couldn't get into the siteadmin tool to figure out what was wrong. Eventually we sorted it out so here we are again up and running.

In the intervening time I went to see Wanted, which is quite ridiculous in a fun sort of way. It has morgan freeman in it as a super assassin who is also a weaver what more could you want.

I went to see The Incredible Hulk yesterday, it was pretty good. They have basically papered over the previous attempt as if it didn't happen yet managed to do it without really doing another origin story which is good.

The cast is pretty good, Ed Norton is good as Banner, Liz Tyler as Betty Ross does all the requisite running screaming and occasionally comforting, William Hurt is very dastardly as General Thunderbolt Ross who is hunting the hulk to use him as a weapon, and Tim Roth is suitably evil as special forces guy turned monster Emil Blonsky/Abomination.

There are some nice comedy moments and nods to the original series as well as the requisite cameos from both Stan Lee and Lou Ferrigno.

It's worth a look see if you like that sort of thing.

I had my doubts about the new indy film having seen how old and out of it Harison Ford looked in Firewall I had my doubts about whether he could pull off another Indy film. Personally I'm with The Spoony One on this they should have just left well alone. I guess Lucas Spielberg and the few other surviving Indy cast roped into this needed more money or something.

It is riddled with continuity errors or just plain misunderstandings of how science works or stuff in general, gunpowder is made from sulphur, saltpetre and charcoal it contains no metal, magnetism can not be defeated by a burlap sack and the strength of the field is inverse square law not some random magic thing. I won't say too much more since I'm pretty sure everyone I know will likely go and see it anyway but still it needed someone who understood how magnets worked to make it a little more consistent.

LaBeouf was not quite as bad as I was expecting though still pretty bad and the name of his character Mutt Williams which seems to be a inside joke from the Last Crusade ending is very silly. Cate Blanchett is quite good but a lot of the cast just seem to be in it for a laugh and aren't really trying.

Anyway no doubt most people will go and see the thing anyway but take it from me once you've watched it there is no way to unsee it and the trilogy will be forever tainted by the ill-advised fourth part

The trip finished a while back and was I think a resounding success. On the badger scale it was definitely a 7. There were of course high points and low points, I felt we could have allocated our time a bit better in New Zeeland and been a bit better prepared for the Tongariro but I'm very glad we did it, the views were incredible. Maybe we could have done more in Japan but the culture shock was quite visceral and by that point in the trip I know I was getting just a little tired.

So anyway as most of you know I got back from the trip only to shipped straight off to the US on business for two weeks. More living out of hotel rooms only this time working most of the time. I got back from that trip for a week then got sent out again. So I'm getting pretty fed up with living in hotel rooms.

It's not been all bad I got to go to Las Vegas and have seen a couple of films, I've also exhausted all the entertainment value the BA inflight on demand video system can provide since it hasn't got new stuff since the trip back from Tokyo.

Anyway this weekend the hotel I was in had a furries convention on so I decided to be elsewhere. I went to the local cinema and saw Forbidden Kingdom a martial arts flik that manages the feat of featuring two of my favourite master of the genre Jet Li and Jackie Chan. Two giants of the art, though I will say that most of their recent stuff has not been much cop. The more recent Jackie Chan films have been a little tiring, and a lot of the recent Jet Li films have focused a little too much on using special effects or were just pants. anyone who has seen WAR will know what I mean. I mean with enough wires and CGI you could me look like I know kungfu it seems a little odd that they do this with people that can do a lot of that sort of thing in reality so they just look like they are phoning it in.

I approached Forbidden Kingdom with both trepidation and hope. As a martial arts film it has a suitably ludicrous plot something about a staff of the monkey king that has to be returned to its rightful owner in some weird fantasy version of china run by the immortal Jade Warlord. It's quite fun with some good humour and the fights are pretty good lots of wire work and special effects but not so much that it ruins things.

It's worth a look if you fancy a bit of fun martial arts movie.

Hopefully I will be flying home on Tuesday though they've grabbed me for longer once already so we shall see.