Dieter Nuhr DVD Box

08 Sep – €23.99 @ Amazon.de

contains Nuhr vom Feinsten, Ich bin’s nuhr & Nuhr die Wahrheit

Volker Pispers … bis neulich 2010

08 Sep – €15.99 @ Amazon.de

24: Season 8

19 Sep – €28.61 (£23.18) @ Amazon.co.uk

Community: Season 2

19 Sep – €0.00 ($19.99) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

The Goonies

19 Sep – €8.32 (£5.94) @ Amazon.co.uk

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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2011
Tags: 24 · Burn Notice · Community · Dieter Nuhr · Dirty Dancing · Smokin' Aces · Spaceballs · Superman · The Big Bang Theory · The Goonies · Volker Pispers
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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 Adventures: The Complete Series

19 Jul – €0.00 ($19.49) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

Superman: Doomsday

19 Jul – €0.00 ($6.99) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

The Ugly Truth

22 Jul – €5.55 @ Drogerie Müller

Transformers

22 Jul – €9.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2011
Tags: Batman · Superman · The Ugly Truth · Transformers
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Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear

04 May – €8.49 (£6.41) @ Amazon.co.uk

Louis de Funès Collection: Box No. 4

05 May – €19.99 @ Media Markt

containing:

The Gendarme of St. Tropez

The Gendarme in New York

Never Play Clever Again

Louis de Funès Collection: Box No. 5

05 May – €19.99 @ Media Markt

containing:

The Gendarme Gets Married

The Gendarme Takes Off

The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2011
Tags: Cougar Town · Doctor Who · Easy A · Hulk · Superman · The Accidental Husband · The Gendarme of St. Tropez
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Let me start this by saying that it was better than LOST’s ending. But that isn’t saying much…

Smallville has always been an uneven show. It had good years, bad years and worse years. It never had great years. It rarely had great episodes. They were there but there weren’t as many as one would hope in a ten year run with a total of 217 episodes.

And yet: Ten years and 217 episodes. There aren’t that many shows overall and even fewer shows in the Sci-Fi and Fantasy genre that can bring that much to the table.

For all its faults I love Smallville but I am also at peace with it ending now. I nearly gave up on it after what is commonly referred to as Failsday.
Seasons nine and ten became better again and quite a few episodes of season eight have grown on me.
But season ten and its finale also showed that even though they knew exactly how it was supposed to be ending they didn’t really have a clear idea of how to get there.

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Categories: Short Review, TV Season 2010/2011 Diary
Tags: LOST · Smallville · Superman
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The Expendables

05 Mar – €13 @ DVD-Börse Ludwigsburg

Double Impact

05 Mar – €5 @ DVD-Börse Ludwigsburg

Knight and Day

05 Mar – €10 @ DVD-Börse Ludwigsburg

The Running Man

05 Mar – €9 @ DVD-Börse Ludwigsburg

The Town

05 Mar – €12 @ DVD-Börse Ludwigsburg

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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2011
Tags: Armageddon · Beyond Sherwood Forest · Date Night · Dexter · Dollhouse · Double Impact · Knight and Day · Leverage · Mad Men · Superman · The Expendables · The Librarian · The Running Man · The Town · Universal Soldier · V
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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 (£5.43) @ Amazon.co.uk

All-Star Superman

28 Feb – €12.99 @ Amazon.de

Justified: Season 1

28 Feb – €0.00 ($19.99) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift card)

Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, Purchase Diary 2011
Tags: Batman · Justified · Law Abiding Citizen · Superman · When in Rome
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2010 End Statistics:

New Purchase Items: 131 (141 in 2009)
New Movies: 93 (thereof Blu-ray: 36)
New TV Seasons: 54 (thereof Blu-ray: 7)
New TV Specials: 17
New Special Interest: 1 (thereof Blu-ray: 1)

Money Spent: 1,586.10€ (1,869.30€ in 2009)
Money Spent on Movies: 684.18€
Money Spent on TV Seasons: 813.53€
Money Spent on TV Specials: 78.41€
Money Spent on Special Interest: 9.98€

Avg Spent: 12.11€ (13.26€ in 2009)
Avg Spent on Movies: 7.36€
Avg Spent on TV Seasons: 15.07€
Avg Spent on TV Specials: 4.61€
Avg Spent on Special Interest: 9.98€

Runtime: 45,592m (31d 15h 52m)
Runtime Movies: 10,647m (7d 9h 27m)
Runtime TV Seasons: 33,491m (23d 5h 11m)
Runtime TV Specials: 1,349m (22h 29m)
Runtime Special Interest: 105m (1h 45m)

Cheapest Item: Superman: Vol. 1 (1.00€)

Most Expensive Item: Torchwood: The Complete Series (42.99€)

First Item: How I Met Your Mother: Season 3 (0.00€)

Last Item: V for Vendetta (9.99€)

Purchase by Locality:
United States: 17
Canada: 6
United Kingdom: 80
Germany: 28

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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray
Tags: How I Met Your Mother · Superman · Torchwood · V for Vendetta
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Deutsche Version | January (Part 2) | March

February, 13th

Superman Returns

Director: Bryan Singer

Brandon Routh   …    Clark Kent / Superman
Kate Bosworth   …    Lois Lane
Kevin Spacey   …    Lex Luthor
James Marsden   …    Richard White
Parker Posey   …    Kitty Kowalski
Frank Langella   …    Perry White
Sam Huntington   …    Jimmy Olsen
Kal Penn    …    Stanford

Synopsis: Nobody has seen or heard from Superman in five years. In the meantime Lois Lane has become a mommy and she’s written the Pulitzer-winning article “Why the World Doesn’t Need Superman”. But now Clark is back from what is left of Krypton and he’s needed right now again: Lex Luthor has stolen Kryptionian crystals from the Fortress and wants to build a new continent – at the expense of that small island called North America.

My Opinion: It took me some time to really get used to that movie. Mainly because I was mad at Bryan Singer for abandoning the X-Men project which resulted in The Last Stand. But now with a few years distance, I like this movie.
Some elements are still very comic-like, like Lex’s behaviour at some points of the story but that is fully outweighed by the moments he’s truly evil.
I also like Brandon Routh’s portrayal of Clark/Superman. While Christopher Reeve’s Clark was a bit of a douchebag that I didn’t like very much, they chose to do it differently here. He’s just a nobody who lingers in the background and isn’t noticed by anybody but Jimmy. Lois couldn’t care less about him in any way – which makes it believable that she doesn’t see Superman in him. For me that works.
Speaking of realism (;) ): The one scene I didn’t buy was when Superman lifted that island out into space while he still had a piece of Kryptonite stuck in his side and was exposed to the other K in the island. If Lex can beat him up just because he’s around it, he should have never been able to lift that weight. So much for in-universe consistency…

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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, DVD Marathon, Movie Watchings 2010
Tags: Men in Black · Superman
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Deutsche Version | CW 02-04 | CW 04-05

Chuck 3×05 Chuck vs First Class
Both stories were really great. It was really cool that put the Buy More (without Chuck) in the focus and Morgan and Casey are awesome together. But Chuck’s mission was also really cool. And I have to admit it: I really like Kristin Kreuk. I liked her on Smallville and I like her here. She’s probably one of very few persons that I wouldn’t mind as “love interest” replacement for Sarah. And Shaw seems to be a good character, too.

Castle 2×14 The Third Man
Another nice scavenger hunt I enjoyed very much. The “double date” dinner was really cool and the case itself was fascinating. It was so funny how Castle tried to hide the newspaper(s) from Beckett and how the “Gossip Girl” had to explain to him why she wrote it that way.

House M.D. 6×11 Remorse
The schizophrenic was a nice proxy to get a glimpse into House himself. This episode was very well written and I really liked the side-story about his former fellow student and (however short) Cuddy. I wish they’d make a full-blown House/Cuddy episode anytime soon.

Life Unexpected 1×02 Home Inspected
Things were a bit rushed in this second episode because of the custody inspection (which they had to pass in order to get the show running) and this caused this back-and-forth in just one episode. But I liked the part about her orphan friends and I still think this is going to be an interesting show.

White Collar 1×09 Bad Judgment
“What does the fridge magnet represent?” – “A fridge magnet.” I really liked this episode, the way they played the OPR agent and made him lose his judge-in-the-pocket. But Mozzie was once again the funniest part of the episode.

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Categories: TV Season 2009/10 Diary
Tags: Bones · Burn Notice · Castle · Chuck · Heroes · House M.D. · Leverage · Life Unexpected · Smallville · Superman · Supernatural · The Vampire Diaries · White Collar · X-Men
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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

You’ve Got Mail

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.

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Categories: DVD / Blu-ray, DVD Marathon, Movie Watchings 2010
Tags: Batman · Blind Fury · Curly Sue · Dave · Die Hard · How I Met Your Mother · How to Lose a Guy - in 10 Days · Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman · Look Who's Talking · Masters of the Universe · Pretty Woman · Sleepless in Seattle · Smallville · Spider-Man · Superman · The Godfather · X-Men · You've Got Mail
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