Purchase Diary 2013 – October

Iron Man 3 (2013)


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)


Oct 26th – €9.35 @ Amazon.de

Collection no. 1067

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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.

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