Random Ranting III

On that survey they should rather have asked for cinema visits than for internet use. That would have given much more extraordinary results. Speaking of extraordinary: This time they had a trailer for "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Starring Sean Connery. Let me get this straight. An actor who claims that he didn't take a role in LOTR beause he didn't understand the book plays the main role in a movie that has a "recommended reading before watching"-list almost as long as the required reading list of the Faculty for German Linguistics? Not entirely logical. But well. I'm sure that Allan Quatermain, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula, Tom Sawyer, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Invisible Man, 20,000 Miles under the Sea etc are all much easier to understand than LOTR... *shrug*

Two weeks to go till the Matrix reloads. Yay. And from the first day on, our Cinemaxx will show the original version. Why didn't they get that bright idea while the Two Towers were running?

And than it's just one more month till "Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix". If J.K.R. sticks to her schedule, that is. I do hope so. It's been more than a long wait.

Talking about phoenixes: If Jean Grey from X-Men can inflame herself like one, can she be reborn from her (admittedly sodden and spread) ashes, too? That would explain the final scene of X2. *cough*
She ain't dead! That is, she is, but she's gonna return!
(And can she please bring Haldir back, too, while she's at it?)
"I'll be back..."

Which reminds me of the Terminator 3 trailer. Eru, I can't watch that without laughing hysterically. I never noticed how bad an actor Schwarzenegger is. Or is it just the movie that sucks?

Cinematic obsession. Yesss.

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( Seid ihr sicher, dass ihr den Blödsinn auch noch auf deutsch lesen wollt? )

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A Walk on the A1

While I was driving to university this morning - when I had just reached the highway - there was a huge traffic jam. There had been some accident apperently, though I don't know what exactly happened (I'll sure get to know tomorrow - if I get to read the newspaper). It was not the normal sort of traffic jam anyway, where you can inch forward at least a bit, but complete standstill. After a while, everyone shut down their engines (the really smart ones did so sooner than the others, but eventually everyone remembered how expensive gas is). After another while, most people got out of their cars - nothing was moving on the two lanes to Cologne - because it was getting too hot inside the cars. Soon most people had left their cars and tried to find out what had happened by glacing ahead. It's a weird feeling to walk on the highway, I can tell ya. Anyway, we didn't dare to go far, of course -it might go on after all. It didn't for quite some time. Someone distributed cigarettes among the waiting people; someone had some bottles of mineral waters; someone fave chewing gums and cookies to everyone. Almost a picnic, and that on the highway. People were talking about what might have happened, that hopefully it wasn't too bad, what a nice day it was, and so on. Everyone was really nice. Then we heard sirenes and went out of the way so the two ambulances could pass (they were driving back to where we others had been coming from). And soon after that, the queue began to move again and everyone sprinted back to their cars. Suddenly no one was nice anymore. Everyone began to push forward as fast as possible, and when the right lane was blocked because of whatever had happened - we only saw a lot of earth on the lane, some holes in the gras next to the highway, a police car, a crane - and all who had been driving had to get over on the left lane, those who were already there were quite reluctant to let them pull over. They did eventually, but not without honking and braking hard and bickering. Weird how the people who were so nice when we all waited turned so rude once they were driving again. ... and in the darkness bind them...

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Bin zu faul zum übersetzen. Vielleicht später.
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