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Purchase Diary 2012 – May
The Blues Brothers (1980)
02 May – €8.92 (£7.43) @ Amazon.co.uk
Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
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02 May – €9.48 (£7.93) @ Amazon.co.uk
Castle: Season 3 (2010 – 2011)
02 May – €22.99 @ Amazon.de
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
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02 May – €11.68 (£9.89) @ Amazon.co.uk
Friends With Benefits (2011)
02 May – €8.37 (£6.94) @ Amazon.co.uk
Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2012
Tags: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · Castle · Chuck · Dragonheart · Eurotrip · Friends With Benefits · From Dusk Till Dawn · Glee · Gossip Girl · Gremlins · Lethal Weapon · LOST · Men in Black · My Mom's New Boyfriend · Poison Ivy · Road Trip · Sherlock · Sherlock Holmes · Smallville · Suits · Supernatural · Tango & Cash · The Blues Brothers · The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air · The Specialist · Thor · Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy · Transformers · Valentine's Day
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After I was done I was in the mood for a battle. Thus I started a mini-marathon under the theme
The Way of the Warrior: Strength & Honour.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismay’d?
Not tho’ the soldier knew
Some one had blunder’d.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.
Flash’d all their sabres bare,
Flash’d as they turn’d in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder’d.
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro’ the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel’d from the sabre-stroke
Shatter’d and sunder’d.
Then they rode back, but not,
Not the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro’ the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wonder’d.
Honor the charge they made!
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!
Russell Crowe … Maximus
Joaquin Phoenix … Commudus
Connie Nielsen … Lucilla
Oliver Reed … Proximo
Richard Harris … Marcus Aurelius
Derek Jacobi … Gracchus
Djimon Hounsou … Juba
Synopsis: General Maximus who has just conquered Germania is supposed to take the leadership of the Roman Empire after the emperor has died. But the emperor’s son kills his father, assumes the throne for himself and tries to kill Maximus. He can escape but becomes a slave and is being sold as “fresh meat” for the arena. There he makes a name of himself as “the Spaniard” until the day he faces the new emperor again.
My Opinion: Great movie. Loved it from the first time I ever saw it. Had to buy the extended version at once. Has a lot of quotable scenes in it that I can recite both in english and in german. While I am oppsosed to dubbing in general they did a great job with this, the german voice of Maximus is well chosen. I loved the battles in the arena, especially the “battle of Carthage”.
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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, DVD Marathon, Mini Marathon
Tags: A Knight's Tale · Braveheart · Dragonheart · Gladiator · Star Trek · Stargate SG-1 · The Last Samurai · The Three Musketeers
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Vantage Point
I went to the theatre yesterday.
What’s going on?
The president of the US visits a summit in Salamanca, Spain. First he is shot and then a bomb explodes. We see the same events from 8 different POVs. 8 different people that are either directly or indirectly involved in the events.
I am often applying double standards. Personally I believe most people do that whether they admit it to themselves nor not.
If I like a movie I can turn a blind eye to (smaller) weaknesses. If I don’t like it, then this weaknesses are included in the judgement.
Spoilers follow!
The same happened to Vantage Point. During a great deal of the movie I felt well entertained. But the car chase and the end blew it for me.
1)
The characters of Dennis Quaid (Dragonheart) and Matthew Fox (Lost) are racing through the city of Salamanca. Dennis drives a compact car and gets a full hit by another car. Result: Some dents in the car, the chase goes on. Then he has to drive on a sidewalk and when it ends he has to break through two parking cars with little to no space between them. Result: Scratches on the bumper. The he gets a full hit by a track which smashes him into the corner of a house. Result: The car is totally destroyed, Dennis has a scratch. Of course he continues on foot and when Fox has a (in comparison) minor crash he is badly wounded and bleeds to death.
2)
The terrorists have shot several people and blown up a countless number of spectators. But thei evil plan fails because the bad terrorist avoids to hit a little girl on the middle of the street instead of running her over. And of course all main characters meet on exactly the spot where the crash happened.
Nothing against a happy end, but aren’t there smarter solutions? Has it to be that dumb?
And then the minors that I usually wouldn’t mind:
3)
The old, corpulent Forrest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) follows the Secret Service agents on foot with a video camera. And he has practically no problems to keep their pace. To be believable, they should have taken Jackie Chan for this – he even would have fulfilled the cliché of the japanese camera tourist (I know that JC is no japanese).
4)
Are they really trying to tell me that some of the Secret Service men don’t know that they are currently guarding a fake president?
I had the same problem with The Kingdom. The movie was ok in general, until one of Foxx’s men was kidnapped and they started this stupid rescue mission.
Categories: Cinema
Tags: Dragonheart · LOST · Vantage Point
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