Love Happens
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03 Nov – €7.19 (£4.95) @ Amazon.co.uk
Rawhide: Season 1
03 Nov – €17.74 (£13.88) @ Amazon.co.uk
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
04 Nov – €0.00 ($6.99) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
04 Nov – €0.00 ($7.65) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)
Starman
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04 Nov – €0.00 ($9.99) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)
Batman: The Animated Series: Season 1: Part 3 & Season 2 19 Jul – €0.00 ($19.99) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate) The New Batman…
Batman: The Animated Series: Season 1: Part 1
06 Jun – €0.00 ($18.49) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)
Batman: The Animated Series: Season 1: Part 2
07 Jun – €2.69 ($23.99) @ Amazon.com (paid partially via gift certificate)
CBS presents this program in color:
Hogan’s Heroes: The Complete Series
11 Jun – €26.07 (CA$61.99) @ Amazon.ca (paid partially via gift certificate)
The Butterfly Effect 2
15 Jun – €4.20 (£2.96) @ Amazon.co.uk
(only because of Mrs. Durance ;))
Hot Tub Time Machine
15 Jun – €6.50 (£4.96) @ Amazon.co.uk
Batman 21 Feb – €6.12 (£4.06) @ Amazon.co.uk Law Abiding Citizen 21 Feb – €12.72 (£9.39) @ Amazon.co.uk When in Rome 22 Feb – €7.86…
The time I spend reading books is getting ever shorter (which is mostly due to my extensive TV consumption). But now I’ve finally managed to read three books again:
This one I read because (surprise!) of the TV series of the same name with Richard Chamberlain in the main role.
The novel takes place at the dawn of the 17th Century in Japan. Captain-Pilot John Blackthorne has landed/stranded with his ship, the Erasmus, there and now has to find a place within the Japanese Samurai society. And the few Europeans don’t make it any easier for he is a Protestant Englishman and they are Catholic Spaniards and Portuguese…
What surprised me the most was the fact that the series stayed very close to the book – most of the time these two drift apart. Still the book was way more detailed and can provide a view that a movie/series can only to a certain extend: To give a view directly into the heads of the characters and thus a better understanding what their motivation and drive is.
The book is relatively large with its 1226 pages (in German) but since I managed to read 350 pages on Saturday before last I can assure you that it’s very readable – even though you might need a list of the different characters, otherwise you might find yourself in the position of asking yourself “Who was Kiributso-san again?”.
Deutsche Version | December 2009 | January (Part 2)
You might have noticed that the old year is over, so I’m starting a new diary.
But I will only review movies I haven’t reviewed before – unless my opinion has changed drastically.
January, 1st
Director: Nora Ephron
Tom Hanks … Joe Fox
Meg Ryan … Kathleen Kelly
Greg Kinnear … Frank Navasky
Parker Posey … Patricia Eden
Jean Stapleton … Birdie Conrad
Steve Zahn … George Pappas
Synopsis: Joe Fox is one of the owners of the “Fox Books Superstore” chain and he sells cheap books. And now he wants to open a new store in New York. Kathleen Kelly owns the children book store “Shop Around the Corner” in close proximity to the new superstore. When they are Kathleen Kelly and Joe Fox they can’t stand each other. When they are Shopgirl and NY152 they are close online friends. The question is what happens when these world collide.
My Opinion: I like this movie, it’s a sweet little romance where Meg Ryan plays the role she always plays and Tom Hanks shows his romantic side once more. I have to say I like it even better than its “predecessor” Sleepless in Seattle. That is a nice movie, too, but when I have the choice between these two, I choose this one. And even though I don’t really like The Godfather I like the running gag references to it.
Season 3 From Hell Synopsis: Jen has a builder in her home and Roy is quite sure (99% … 60/40) that he’s seen him on…
I’ve been reading the Buffy and Angel comics that represent the eighth / sixth season for a while now. And I have read good critics about the works of Frank Miller – he wrote the graphic novels Sin City and 300 which were made into movies and Christian Bale’s Batman is also based on his interpretation of the hero.
So I decided to order a batch of new stuff.
These are the Buffy / Angel comics that I already have:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Future For You
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wolves at the Gate
Angel: After the Fall
Angel: After the Fall: First Night
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Deutsche Version | March | May
April, 10th
Terence Hill … Trinità
Bud Spencer … Bambino
Farley Granger … Maj. Harriman
Elena Pedemonte … Judith
Steffen Zacharias … Jonathan
Dan Sturkie … Tobias
Gisela Hahn … Sarah
Synopsis: Trinity comes into a small town where he meets his brother Bambino again. Bambino is the Sheriff there after he accidentally shot the real Sheriff (i.e. he thought the Sheriff was pursuing him, but he wasn’t). Trinity takes the role of the Deputy Sheriff and together they help a group of Mormon settlers who have trouble with a man who wants their land for his horses.
My Opinion: Except for the early movies, Bud Spencer & Terrence Hill movies are always harmless fun. They are childhood favourites of mine and have a certain cult status here in Germany. This is mostly due to a very unique dubbing of these movies but I still enjoy them very much and I own pretty much all of them.
January, 1st
Christian Bale … Bruce Wayne / Batman
Heath Ledger … The Joker
Aaron Eckhart … Harvey Dent / Two-Face
Michael Caine … Alfred Pennyworth
Maggie Gyllenhaal … Rachel Dawes
Gary Oldman … James Gordon
Morgan Freeman … Lucius Fox
Synopsis: Batman, Lt. Gordon and DA Harvey Dent have become a very efficient team and they dealt some major blows to Gotham’s underworld. But now Batman gets a new class of enemy: The Joker. The Joker has no plan, he has no goal beside causing havoc and creating chaos. And he’s very good at what he does. But can he force Batman to cross the line?
My Opinion: A great continuation to the great first movie. I always liked the first two Batman movies and I never really liked the cheesy third and especially fourth movie. Although I’ve never read any Batman comic I’ve always felt that it had to be dark and dirty and sometimes morally grey. Batman is no bright character for me. And although it had many comic elements in it Batman Begins felt very realistic. And The Dark Knight is the perfect sequel. It continues where the first movie left off – and I love the Joker. When he first told the story about how he got the scars I thought they were going to blew it and then was relieved when he then told yet another – totally different – story and thus remained his mysteriousness. But to be perfectly honest, I had expected that the “good people” on the ferry would pull the trigger. And then have themselves blown up. That would be totally in the line of Joker’s thinking IMHO. If I were to give stars, what I rarely do, I’d give 9.5 out of 10.
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