The Fog

Woohooo....what a mess this film is! In german called "Der Nebel" (engl. "The Fog"), I expected it to be a remake of the famous horror movie of the 1980s by John Carpenter. But this was something completely different.

The story: A village suddenly surrounded by a thick, eery fog and people in a supermarket trying to get along with that situation. Whenever they try to get out, there is some oversized insect coming out of the fog and killing them. Not really much of a story you may think...and you are right. But..okay okay...only very few horror movies have a good plot/story, but to me the arts of a good horror film is to keep the tension high and constantly up.
But this film is only bad. It has good animations but that`s all. Flat dialogues and a predictable, implausible story, - not enough for me. The only thing that you may call remarkable with this film is the end...it is really insane and unbelievable. I would not call it a Happy End...

good and bad

For some reason, I had some days off of work last week and now was thinking about what has happened and what was overweighing: the positive or the negative?? I still did not come to a conclusion...make up your own mind:
1. a new notebook...finally, since my old notebook not only broke down but also broke into pieces
2. time to finally put some old videos on YouTube that some friends were constantly asking for
3. time for good and intense discussions with far away friends
4. time for extended visits to the sauna
5. a flat tire on the back wheel of my bike
6. thoughts on missing perspectives in life
7. pain pain pain

The Turkish Gambit

The last book took me about 2 months to read through. Not because it was so hard to read but because I simply had not enough time for it. So I had to re-read a several chapters to get back into the story.
The Turkish Gambit is another novel by Boris Akunin starring his already famous observer/detective Erast Petrovitch Fandorin. It is another historical detective story, this time playing during the war between Russia and Turkey in the 1870s. The whole story is playing at the frontline of this war and the subject is a treason that leads the Russians army to defeat...nearly. It may sound like a war book but it is not like that. Fighting or any other cruelty has no real place in this book. It is all about finding out who of the protagonists is the traitor. And again, like all "Fandorin" novels it is nice to read. Akunin writes in a stylish and vivid way that enables you to imagine about that historical scenery.

The book has "only" 245 pages and a surprising end, what more can you ask for? If anyone can get along with a puzzling, historical detective story and is not afraid of facing a several diffcult russian names, I can really recommend this book.

Winter

A view out of my window now....

Who would have guessed that winter will be back on March 25th?? Over here it is now 0°C and we had a lot of snow during the last 24 hours. It is not really cold, but it is enough to cover everything around with a thin white blanket. Nice!

HAPPY EASTER everyone

Good friday

I was thinking today about the meaning of "karfreitag" (german) or "good friday" (english). I know the meaning of the day but I was stuck in finding out why in english it is called "good friday".
Wiki says: "Good Friday, also called Holy Friday or Great Friday, is the Friday preceding Easter Sunday. It commemorates the crucifixion and death of Jesus at Calvary."

Ok, ok, got it...but why GOOD friday? This friday was not really a good friday for Jesus some 1975 years ago.

Twitter II

Earlier on I was mentioning that I wanted to try this "Twitter" thing that everyone is talking about. I did it and found out that for me it makes no real sense so far. It is fun somehow to just drop a (senseless) line, but if you do not have an active network of friends, if you have no real conversations going on, Twitter can get a bit boring. However...active networks and friends of monologues will have their fun with Twitter.