barely fatal

I recycled the 2007 movie list and started a new one. So many crappy movies, but the majority wasn’t too bad. The new year started with two great comedies. too. Will Ferell is good in Stranger Than Fiction, but Emma Thompson really blows him out of the water.

I can hardly wait for the next seasons of Galactica and Heroes. The rumors say that at least Heroes lost a lot of its charm in the second installment. I’d like to see that for myself, though. I stopped watching Prison Break after the first season for no apparent reason, other than maybe that the further the story went, the more crazy and unrealistic it became. Since we’re always way behind the US and even the UK here in Germany, I have troubles keeping me up-to-date on upcoming hit series. I have not been able to watch a single episode of Dr. Who for example which has been around for quite some time, and which supposedly is very good.

And no, I won’t download any DRM-encrusted show on iTunes that I can only watch on my PC, I have a TV and I want to use it. I haven’t been to a cinema for a few months, and somehow I don’t see the point going anymore. It’s way too expensive to go on days on which you actually have the time to go, the picture and sound quality often enough is below average (especially when you have some stupid schoolkids throwing popcorn and talking about their fracking cool ringtones all the time), and you have to suffer through endless ads, and on top of that, you have to get there and get back. I really enjoyed going to the movies with a couple of friends, the whole experience was much more enjoyable and fun back then … but I’ll never again pay a fortune for a crappy mainstream blockbuster and a dirty seat when I can buy the DVD for half the price three months later and watch the movie undisturbed in my own dirty seat at home, preferably with the same friends of old