In a complete aside from gaming, though I’m sure that takes none of you by surprise, we could finally see the end of the BLURAY vs HD-DVD battle.

With walmarts recent defection to the blu-ray camp, including the promise to phase out HD-DVD from all its stores by the end of the year.  Coupled with this report over at The Sydney Morning Herald, and I hear rumours that porn have also chosen to go Blu-ray we could finally have a winner!

There are sadly downsides to accompany this, without competition Blu-ray aren’t very likely to get competitive with their pricing. (something the report may touch on, I can’t remember) Current Blu-ray players are stupidly expensive, added to the silly cost of an actual Blu-ray dvd player and the whole thing looks massively unappealing. I for one am still recovering from the cost of trying to replace an expansive video collection with their dvd equivalent, something I am still struggling to do.

All that said…PS3 does represent the best value Blu-ray player plus a couple of quality games next year could see them break the Xbox 360 stranglehold in my room…and I do love the machine. But I’d really need to move up to HD TV…

It was a largely DVD orientated weekend / run up to the weekend, with a few films taken in over the last few days.

Apocalypto - Or what I feel is largely; Mel Gibson’s attempt to win an Oscar number 2. I’m really not on board with the Mel Gibson as a director love-in. His films have largely been contrived, often inaccurate, displays of self-love in which he trys to tell a historically epic story, the point of which seems to get lost in Mel Gibson’s attempt score to points with the Academy voting panel.

Apocalypto, for me, falls into this category and with his previous body of work I came to this film a little tainted but desperate to see in what those that put it forward for Oscar and other awards saw.  It didn’t take, it’s an amazing looking film and the story is solid if not a little underdeveloped, but damn it there was just something missing.  The cinematography is astonishing in places, making the flick really easy on the eye, but that’s just not enough to save it. The actors do their best and come through it well but you just can’t shake the feeling that the films a pretentious piece from a really good actor, but one that’s come to take himself far to seriously in latter years. I shouldn’t watch Gibson films and try to pass comment, the sheer frustration I feel renders me inept when trying to pass comment.

Aside from that I re-watched Donnie Darko, I love this movie and really need to watch it one more time before I feel safe to comment on what it’s all about.

Anyway, it’s some how crept round to 2.30 I’m crashing out to Chasing Amy. Later days people.