The two of have embarked on a grand adventure, the Badger World Tour '08. To track our progress we have replaced the unused Articles link with World Tour. It is all a bit rushed so may have some bugs in it.

Anyway we have filtering for posts each location as well as a picasa feed from both of us. We have also added it to the rss feed.

Currently not much there but hopefully that will change when we have more energy.

Well I'm currently jet lagged out of my mind so it's time for a meal a drink or two and then an early night.

This Saturday Byrn myself and a few others had a good weekend drinking session. We experimented with martini's (after a large amount of negotiation with the bar maid ending up constructing them out of the components) and generally had a good time.

The Sunday we managed a few films seeing The Bank Job and The Diary of the Dead.

The Bank Job was quite good, not at all what I was expecting from a film with Jason Statham in it. It was a good deal more serious and had a lot of depth to it. It's worth a look if you are after an intelligent gritty bank heist film.

Diary of the Dead was a little disappointing it is sort of Blair witch meets dawn of the dead, all shot first person style with shoulder held camera and a small crew talking directly to each other. Obviously that angle is nothing new and has been in quite a few films before, it also occasionally feels contrived since they can't within that framework have them obtain video that they don't shoot themselves so they have to go to some lengths to explain that.

It isn't a bad film it's just nothing special it has a few moments that are fun but they are fairly few and far between. I didn't really feel connected to the character at all I mean a few hours later I couldn't really any of the names of the characters (well bar one who stood out but had no lines and died in under ten minutes). There really is nothing to recommend it, it's generic not bad but just not in anyway exceptional.

'lo. I have a couple of reviews for you Interwebbianites.

In an attempt to reduce the review backlog I have added my words to Black Christmas and Casino Royale.

Yes, I'm working alphabetically. And I'm up to Ca. Hmm.

Byrn and myself spent most of the weekend putting the finishing touches on a plan some 9 years in the making, some of you will already know what we are planning. We will likely have more details on out plans in the coming weeks leading up to R.P.W.T. launch day

Because we finished scheming early we went to see Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. It was an interesting film with a pretty good cast. Put the facets Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Gothic Macabre Fantasy, and musical film all together and you have a winning formula.

Byrn and Myself managed to get a a few films in before the end of the year. Due to just various issues with having loads on and budgetary constraints we haven't been to the cinema since July, so it was good to at least get a couple in before the end of 07.

We saw Ridley Scott's "based on a true story" set in the 1970 Gangster flik, American Gangster. It tells the story of a 1970's drug kingpin Frank Lucas (played by Denzel Washington) and the narcotics officer trying to bring him down, Detective Richie Roberts (Russell Crow). It's a interesting film showing the rise and fall of Lucas and the efforts of the man trying to catch him. It paints a picture of a time when Manhattan was being torn apart by drugs and crime, where a lot of the cops were corrupt and the film is brutal from the outset. There are some good performances from both and it's worth a look.

The other film we saw was Beowulf. Based on the epic poem written sometime between the 8th and 11th century (the only surviving manuscript dating to circa 1010) it tells the story of a Beowulf a hero of the Geats who comes to vanquish a the monster Grendel who is terrorising a kings mead hall.

I can't say I've ever read the original so I don't know how true it is, I do know that originally Grendel's Mother was an old hag and now she is Angelina Jolie ... So not much change there.

Anyway one of the most notable things about this film is that it is all CGI making use of extensive motion capture on the principle actors. At times it is very very hard to tell it from the real thing, other times not so and it sort of slides in and out of this.

It's a fun film, not really that deep in plot really but fun none the less. It has a strong cast with Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Crispin Glover, John Malkovich, Brendan Gleeson, Angelina Jolie, and Robin Wright Penn (As you wish). It's a fun film and worth seeing for the attention to detail and work that's gone into the CGI if nothing else.