(it’s still wrapped, hence the reflecting streaks)
Author: DJ Doena
Purchase Diary 2013 – October
Iron Man 3 (2013)
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Oct 5th – €12.90 @ Media Markt
Collection no. 1063
Leap Year (2010)
Oct 5th – €7.99 @ Media Markt
Collection no. 1064
Two of my favourite childhood movies, so I just had to see how they were dubbed in English (these movies don’t actually have an “original” voice track):
They Call Me Trinity / Trinity is Still My Name (1970 – 1971)
Lo chiamavano Trinità / …continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità
Oct 18th – €0.00 ($25.96) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)
Collection no. 1065 – 1066
Since this was decades before reunification sometimes these movies ended up with different titles in East and West Germany.
Whilst the English titles are almost literal translations of the original Italian, the German title for the first movie was “Die rechte und die linke Hand des Teufels” (“The Right and the Left Hand of the Devil”) whilst the second part was called “Vier Fäuste für ein Halleluja” (“Four Fists for a Hallelujah”) in West and “Der kleine und der müde Joe” (“The Little and the Sleepy Joe”) in East Germany.
Scandal: Season 1 (2012)
Oct 26th – €0.00 ($18.99) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)
Collection no. 12516 – 12517
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
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Oct 26th – €9.35 @ Amazon.de
Collection no. 1067
Purchase Diary 2013 – August / September
Superman II (1980)
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Aug 17th – €8.00 @ Media Markt
Collection no. 1053
Andromeda: Season 1: Part 1 (2000)
Aug 19th – €0.00 (my mom bought the whole series and gave me this :))
Collection no. 12415 – 12417
Gilmore Girls: The Complete Series (2000 – 2007)
Sep 2nd – €44.97 @ Amazon.de
Collection no. 12418 – 12459
The West Wing: The Complete Series (1999 – 2006)
Sep 3rd – €61.49 (£49.59) @ Amazon.co.uk
Collection no. 12460 – 12501
Django Unchained (2012)
Sep 4th – €13.12 (£9.91) @ Amazon.co.uk
Collection no. 1054
TV Junkie: A History
I watched a lot of TV shows over the years. And when I say a lot, I mean A LOT. And I watched accross the board.
Keep in mind that I’m only 35 years old.
I watched The Guiding Light for two years straight (it’s a soap opera whose German title was the Springfield Story). I watched medical shows like Trapper John M.D. and lawyer shows like L.A. Law. I watched the 80s action shows from MacGuyver to Riptide. I even watched Love Boat every weekday on one of the first private channels in Germany: Sat.1. I got up at 6am on every Saturday morning to watch Rawhide (Tausend Meilen Staub, lit. “A Thousand Miles of Dust”) with a very young and pre-Fistful Clint Eastwood. I knew who Daniel Boone was around the same time I met the Cartwrights as well as the men from the Shiloh Ranch.
And last weekend I binge-watched the first Netflix show House of Cards (Big recommendation! Kevin Spacey is a brilliant Magnificent Bastard!) and I got curious as to how many shows I watched intently over the past two and a half decades.
With the help of the list on the German site Wunschliste.de I created a list of “my” shows.
I only counted live-action fiction shows, no animated shows may they be Saturday morning cartoons like Yogi Bear or Scooby-Doo or evening shows like The Simpsons or South Park. No scripted reality (which I’m avoiding to 99% anyway with the exception of Comic Book Men). In this list are only shows which I followed for more than a year unless the show itself didn’t last that long.
And the answer was: 244 246 247. Two hundred and fourty four six seven different shows I watched with active interest since I’ve started watching television. And the worst thing is: Of most of these shows I watched 90% or more episodes at least once.
Purchase Diary 2013 – July
Hardcastle and McCormick: Season 1 (1983 – 1984)
Jul 5th – €13.46 (CA$28.00) @ Amazon.ca (paid partially via gift certificate)
Collection no. 12390 – 12394
Vamps (2012)
Jul 7th – €9.99 @ Drogerie Müller
Collection no. 1047
El Gringo (2012)
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Jul 11th – €7.49 @ Drogerie Müller
Collection no. 1048
Magic Mike (2012)
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Jul 11th – €7.49 @ Drogerie Müller
Collection no. 1049
WarGames (1983)
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Jul 11th – €7.50 @ Drogerie Müller
Collection no. 1050
Purchase Diary 2013 – June
Castle: Season 4 (2011 – 2012)
Jun 5th – €20.35 ($19.57) @ Amazon.com
Collection no. 12382 – 12386
Iron Sky (2012)
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Jun 8th – €9.99 @ Drogerie Müller
Collection no. 1043
The Last Stand (2013)
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Jun 8th – €12.99 @ Drogerie Müller
Collection no. 1044
Dredd (2012)
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Jun 11th – €9.83 (£6.94) @ Amazon.co.uk
Collection no. 1045
New Girl: Season 1 (2011 – 2012)
Jun 11th – €17.06 (£12.89) @ Amazon.co.uk
Collection no. 12387 – 12389
3D, Ticket Prices, …
I hate 3D. In the real worlds it’s somewhat OK so you don’t crash into the car in front of you. But in the theatres it’s just a pointless rip-off of which I hope it’s going to die again – and soon.
Movies in Technicolor and with sound – that were revolutions in the theatres. The evolution of special effects from Ray Harryhausen to CGI – that’s what brought movies forward.
3D? Not so much. The horribly boring Avatar started a trend which just won’t stop so far. And what’s even worse is that ever more theatres fail to show the 2D version at all because it’s much easier to milk your customers with the 3D ticket prices.
Don’t get me wrong; despite my actual glasses I don’t have a problem to perceive the 3D effect. It’s just that in my eyes (no pun intended) no movie became any better with it than it would have been without it. Either the movie is good on its own or its not. It’s just that simple.
8000 Hours of DVD Material
I’m getting sloppy. It’s been two months since I broke through the 8000 hours barrier.
For a statistics freak like me this is a major failure.
By the way: I haven’t even watched Date Night yet. 😉
The general picture has not really changed, I still buy thrice the running time in TV shows than I do in movies (6000 hours: ~4500 hours vs. ~1500 hours / now: 6092 hours vs. 1933 hours).
But I notice that when I buy TV shows I’m still buying way more on DVD than I do on Blu-ray. For me, Blu-ray is reserved for the big action pictures, not for the random RomCom from the bargain bin.
It took only 23 months to accumulate another 2000 hours of material. That’s 2.74 hours a day just to watch DVDs. Luckily I don’t watch regular TV. 😉
Purchase Diary 2013 – May
Adventures of Superman: Season 1 (1952 – 1953)
May 13th – €11.20 ($9.99) @ Amazon.com
Collection no. 12365 – 12369
Superman: The Complete Theatrical Serials (1948 – 1950)
May 13th – €11.20 ($9.99) @ Amazon.com
Collection no. 12370 – 12373
Jeff Dunham: Controlled Chaos (2011)
May 15th – €0.00 ($12.99) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)
Collection no. 20031
One for the Money (2012)
May 25th – €7.99 @ Media Markt
Collection no. 1041
House M.D.: Season 8 (2011 – 2012)
May 29th – €17.37 (£13.64) @ Amazon.co.uk
Collection no. 12374 – 12378
Purchase Diary 2013 – April
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
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Apr 18th – €9.99 @ Amazon.de
Collection no. 1034
That’s My Boy (2012)
Apr 25th – €7.90 @ Media Markt
Collection no. 1035
When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
Apr 25th – €4.90 @ Media Markt
Collection no. 1036
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
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Apr 25th – €12.99 @ Media Markt
Collection no. 1037
Total Recall (2012)
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Apr 25th – €9.90 @ Media Markt
Collection no. 1038