and other assorted thoughts on Rogue One!

(Yes, I made it to a cinema for the second time this year! Exciting times!)

Spoiler-free version: I really liked it; it ties in perfectly with A New Hope, not only story-wise but also as far as the aesthetics and the tech level are concerned; it answers some open questions in the way the best fanfics do ( Read more... )

and the Advent season is upon us and soon the year will be over. Felix keeps asking why the year went so fast. I don't think I ever felt that years were going by too fast when I was that young. Birthdays were over too fast, yes. Vacations were over too fast. But years were endless things, and I would not for the life of me have dreamt of feeling in ( Read more... )

GUESS WHO WENT TO THE CINEMA!

[This is a big deal for me, OK. Last time I went to a movie cinema was for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. I've missed out on everything that was hot ever since then.]

A bit absurdly, the best thing about the movie (which I enjoyed!) was just watching the crawly text crawl up, going EPISODE VII. EPISODE VII, GALS ( Read more... )

... mal etwas halbwegs Nettes, nämlich eine dringende Kinoempfehlung. Wenn ihr diese Woche ins Kino geht, dann schaut euch doch mal einen netten Fantasyfilm für Jugendliche an (Urban Mythology wäre ein treffendere Genre-Begriff, aber ich glaube, den gibt's noch gar nicht). Mara und der Feuerbringer. Tut es einfach und tut es bald, denn sonst ( Read more... )

Falls hier sonst noch "A Wrinkle in Time" (im Deutschen je nach Ausgabe "Spiralnebel 101" oder "Die Zeitfalte") oder generell Madeleine L'Engle-Fans mitlesen: Heute abend kommen auf Tele 5 ab 20:15 die zwei Teile einer Verfilmung aus dem Jahr 2003 unter dem Titel "Gefangene der Zeit". Keine Ahnung, was die taugt, aber ich werd's rausfinden (oder ( Read more... )

OK WHY DID NONE OF YOU LOOSERS TELL ME TO WATCH RONAL THE BARBARIAN LONG AGO
I AM OFFENDED THAT THIS GLORIOUS PIECE OF HILARITY HAS SO FAR PASSED ME BY

<-- this is mostly geared towards the Europeans in the audience. It's a Danish fantasy parody animation movie (and by "Danish Fantasy", I don't mean those Telerin cookies). Probably rated Quintuple ( Read more... )

New Felix accomplishments!
He learned two new words this weekend - "deich" (gleich, "forthwith"-- it's a lot more common in German than "forthwith" is in English, but that's the immediate equivalent), and "pipi" ("wee-wee ( Read more... )

Right.
Due to LJ being under attack once more (yawn), I missed my annual Happy New Year post.
So,
have a very happy, healthy, creative and delightful new yearbelatedly ( Read more... )

which I finally got to see yesterday. (Jörg got a crapload of BluRays for Christmas, including this one ( Read more... )

OK as I may have mentioned, I haven't touched The Hobbit in eleven years.
So the last time I read that book, I hadn't read the Silmarillion. (SHAMEFUL I KNOW)

I have to admit that I did the book a gross injustice; I had filed it in my head as "cute, but not really to be taken serious, totally whimsical 1930s kiddie book, not at all like the LotR ( Read more... )