You know, I realized I've almost completely forgotten the German language. Seriously, I had studied it for 15 years and I now have to fish for words! *cringes* I need to do something about it ASAP. So, I was thinking I should get some German TV show on DVD...

I settled on 3 options:

Alarm für Cobra 11, starting with the season where Semir gets yet another new partner - seriously, it's courting death to be his partner! - and it's Ben, who's hilarious and they have so much chemistry together. I've always loved this show but I lost my interest in it when Tom was killed ;_; Tom and Semir were perfection pure! But Ben... Ben's so awesome it almost makes up for what they did to my poor Tommy.

Der Letzte Bulle is a hilarious show about a cop who ended up in coma for 20 years. But now he's back and solving crimes - with the attitude of a 25-year-old and outdated opinions that totally clash with his partner's eco-friendly, vegetarian attitude. Henning Baum is simply awesome as Mick!

Mit Herz und Handschellen and Henning Baum once more! This is an old show for which he got the German TV award. It's about a male-female cop duo where the woman is all tomboyish and mouthy and the guy is every mother-in-law's dream come true - but! He's gay. And he's as non-cliché gay as they get - he's this Thor like blond and muscled giant who's open about and perfectly comfortable with his sexuality and in a long-term relationship. Gosh! \o/

So yeah. All these shows are rather cheap, €14.99 for a season, which is not bad. And I really need to jumpstart my German language skills! Luckily, Xmas is right behind the corner...

So, I ordered more DVDs. I didn't plan it. I wanted to wait till I got my paycheck this month but while surfing the net, I found out that How To Train Your Dragon was dangerously close to being sold out in Czech. And that would piss me off. I was unable to find movies like Speed or While You Were Sleeping in Czech and I didn't want that to happen with this film too! So, Tangled, How To Train Your Dragon and Arthur Christmas it was this time around.

I just received The Avengers and The Hunger Games on DVD! Two down, a bunch to go :))

A bunch? Well, let's see...

Animated:
Arthur Christmas
How to Train Your Dragon
Tangled

Already out:
10 Things I Hate About You - JGL! Julia Stiles!
Aliens - the best movie in the franchise.
Avatar - would you believe I still haven't seen it? O.o
Blind Dating - Chris Pine as the incredibly gorgeous and sweet blind guy looking for The One!
Clueless - it's... it's Clueless!
Colombiana - Zoe Saldana kicking major ass!
Constantine - Keanu Reeves and Rachel Weisz can't do any wrong!
Minority Report - loved the movie, Tom Cruise was excellent there!
Mrs Winterbourne - Brendan Fraser at his sweetest!
Point Break - well, it's Point Break!
The Cabin in the Woods - Chris Hemsworth! Joss Whedon!
The Eagles - slash on a stick, anyone?
The Losers - Chris Evans in a pink "Go Petunias!" T-shirt?
The Raven - Luke Evans! 'nough said.
The Vow - Channing Tatum knows how to make a viewer cry ;_;
Undercover Blues - the best spy comedy ever!
While You Were Sleeping - Sandra Bullock and Xmas!
etc. etc. etc.

Upcoming:
Looper
Premium Rush
The Bourne Legacy
The Dark Knight Returns

Anything else, folks? Did I miss something I need to own OMG RIGHT NOW? What am I missing? And what do you plan to buy on DVD in the upcoming days/weeks/months?

Premium Rush will be out on DVD on Dec. 21! The Dark Knight Rises on Dec. 4! Definitely buying both, need to satisfy my JGL obsession :P

And talking about JGL, Looper has made $126 mil. worldwide so far! With a $30 mil. budget, that's all kinds of awesome! Congrats :)

... I used the Amazon gift certificate that I got from yami_tai - love ya, girl! - and bought...

JGL's movies: The Lookout and Uncertainty
Tom Hardy's: Rocknrolla and This Means War
James McAvoy's: State of Play

I also decided to delegate Grimm to DVD and not watch it "live". I still haven't finished S1 and S2 is well on its way and I just can't raise any interest for it in me. I like the show, I really do, it was the only new series that I picked up last season, but... I don't know. I would rather watch movies or listen to podfics.

Don't. Bother. Seriously. Even if you are a fan of the previous movies, just don't. Talk about a lot of flash and no bang. It's all about the looks with this one, there's no substance, no story. Characters get killed off, characters disappear only to pop up later on, you don't feel any connection to them... And the only character I even remotely cared about got killed off. Eh. Just... eh. I would've preferred to go and see Lawless if they hadn't aired it at such a stupid time :(

I would rate this one 2/10 - adding a point for the beauty that's Boris Kodjoe.

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Trailers:

Breaking Dawn Part 2 - the trailer looked really good. Not "I need to see it right NOW" good but good.
The Hobbit Part 1 - the very first trailer is still my favorite. The dwarves' singing gives me the chills.

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DVDs bought:
A few more eps of the Russian Sherlock Holmes.
Breakfast on Pluto with Cillian Murphy and Liam Neeson.

Listened the audio commentary on Brick. Very informative. One of the best audio commentaries I've listened to. The director, Rian Johnson, invited various guests from the cast and crew and talked to them about how he used to be obsessed with Dashiell Hammett when he wrote the script, how it took him 7 years to get funding for it and in the end he had to borrow money from family and friends, how it cost them only $450k to make it, how they filmed it in his old high school and the students there became the extras and/or joined the crew, how they were like gypsies, always on the move because they usually got thrown out of where they were filming and they didn't even have money for a sound stage, how Joseph Gordon-Levitt became a part of the creative process and how JGL wore his own shoes during the whole movie because he didn't like to wear new things...

One of the best things about the movie, the thing that sets the perfect atmosphere, is the music, written by Nathan Johnson, Rian Johnson's cousin. You can listen to the composition here: link. I'm smitten with it, especially with the beginning. What a haunting melody.

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Today at the cinema, we saw several trailers...

Resident Evil: Retribution - we may go and see it if nothing else will be on in 14 days. I liked the special effects.
Looper - \o/\o/\o/
Savages - might be interesting to see it for the main threesome, an actual working threesome. Though not in the cinema. Maybe on DVD.
Hit & Run - AVOID! AVOID! AVOID! The tasteless jokes about a male-on-male rape in the trailer turned my stomach! AVOID LIKE A PLAGUE!

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I also bought several DVDs for 3-4 bucks each:

The Brothers Bloom with Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody and Rachel Weisz, directed by Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper)
Alien Agent with Mark Dacascos (who's a god, BTW!)
Bad Boys with Martin Lawrence and Will Smith
Legally Blonde with Reese Witherspoon, one of my favorite romantic comedies!

I paid only 13 bucks for all of them together! How awesome is that?

So, this is the cover of SPN's S7 DVD box set:



Pretty cool, isn't it? I love the colors. But would you believe that fans are already complaining about Dean being in the front? Like, for real? *hands* Sometimes I wonder why I actually left the fandom but moments like this make it clear to me once more... *head shake*

Saw Wrath of the Titans. What a great movie! I didn't see it in 3D but it would be worth it. The last giant battle alone would be stunning in 3D! Non-stop action, simple story, likable characters, breathtaking special effects.

Don't listen to the bad reviews, it's worth seeing in the cinema - the reviewer who called Kronos - KRONOS, for f's sake! - a "random fiery monster" should be fired on the spot and sent back to school. To not know who KRONOS is! Wow!

( Spoilers! )

Much better than the first movie! There were scenes that left me breathless. And I love this movie's Andromeda. She was absolutely fearless! And I finally remembered where I saw the actress! She was in Doom with Karl Urban, playing his sister! D'uh!

I give it 8 stars out of 10!

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Trailers we saw...

-- Prometheus - looks great on the big screen.
-- Dark Shadows - awful! Won't bother.
-- Battleship - the best trailer of the bunch! Fantastic!
-- Snow White and the Huntsman - this trailer didn't look as good as the ones online.

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I also bought some movies on DVD for a cheap price: Pathfinder with Karl Urban (yay!), the first two episodes of the Russian TV series Sherlock Holmes (I heard amazing things about the show!) and the gay comedy The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green (saw a trailer for it on the Shelter DVD). I paid for them, for all three, 10 bucks. Not bad at all.

With ACTA hanging over our heads, I'm honestly thinking of dropping all the shows I follow "live", Supernatural included.

Don't get me wrong, I still adore SPN like whoa, I want to cuddle it and pet it and call it George but downloading shows might come VERY costly soon and also, SPN has become very serialized in its later seasons and all the hiatuses the CW is forcing upon it kill the momentum - I mean, in 2012, we had 2 eps and a hiatus, now there will be 2 or 3 eps and another hiatus. WTF?! I think this show would benefit from marathoning, the way Fringe does.

I watch the following shows "live": Castle, NCIS, NCIS:LA, White Collar, The Mentalist, Grimm & Supernatural. Out of those, I don't own only The Mentalist and Grimm on DVD - and I do want to get Grimm once it's out because it's awesome. So...

Another reason is that I own tons of DVDs that I haven't seen yet: all of SG-1, The Highlander, Enterprise, ST: TOS, The Dresden Files, Starsky&Hutch, Babylon 5, Farscape, Sherlock Holmes, The X-files..., not to mention the movies and other TV series that I buy season for season, not as a full series box set.

So, I think I'll finish watching WhiCo - only 4 eps remain, if I'm not mistaken - catch up on the downloaded stuff and get the next ep of NCIS:LA because that one I've been waiting for since... forever and then I'll start actually watching my DVDs.

Of course, I still might change my mind - wouldn't be the first time ;P