Posts picking up

Posts are picking up, you might be thinking. It’s true, I’ve posted more new posts in my various blogs during the last few days than the months before. Maybe that’s a good sign.

It might mean I’m finally over my burnout and really getting back on track. Or it might just be a fluke, so enjoy it as long as it holds.

Still, I feel a bit inspired at the moment, so I write things down and publish them. That includes posts for this blog, for “Feminism Wow” and “Writer’s Blog”.

As you know from my now again quite regular weekend update, I tend to read a lot – and reviews will from now on appear at “Writer’s Blog”. (That’s what a blog about writing also is good for.)

I’m also still thinking a lot about feminist issues and they go to the “Feminism Wow” blog. (I still wish I could get such a great mascot for it as Buddy Christ in the movie “Dogma”…)

Not everything in society I can go on complaining about is strictly a feminist problem, though, so I’ll also write more posts for this blog.

So, to all my regular readers (hoping you’re still reading…), stay tuned, things are about to pick up.

Strange things on TV

When I studied the new TV program at my parents’ home this Sunday, I realized something strange. The last part of “Pirates of the Caribbean” (well, currently the last one) is going on screen next Sunday (March 14th). That’s not the strange thing, though (part one was shown the last Sunday, part two was shown this Sunday). The strange thing is the follow up afterwards on the same station: “Sweeney Todd”.

I actually love this musical movie. I like Burton movies, I love Johnny Depp (yes, I know that’s very average woman…) and I like bloody stories. So “Sweeney Todd” very much is a ‘three out of three’ to me. My English is good enough to watch the movie in English, too. There’s no real point, though, to watch it in German, it’s about 70% songs and music and only 30% spoken, and thus dubbed, dialogue. You’ll be looking at subtitles for most of the movie, anyway.

And that’s what makes the choice so strange. Even though it’s in the late program (after 11 p.m.), it’s still not what you would normally expect to see in TV (well, not outside a culture station like ARTE). Not because of the blood, but because of the subtitles and the music.

Strangely enough, though, the movie ran far better than expected even in my hometown (which isn’t all that big). In fact, when I reserved a ticket for the first weekend when it was running, it was supposed to be in the smallest movie theatre. When I went to see it, they had moved it to a much bigger theatre because of the many people who wanted to see it and reserved a ticket beforehand, like me. And it run for four weeks, although it had a lot of subtitles.

It’s just strange to think it’ll be competing with your usual late Sunday evening program.

3D

3D in movies has become popular again (and this time it might be here to stay) and that leaves me with a problem. I wear glasses and it’s quite difficult and uncomfortable for someone wearing glasses to put on those cardboard glasses on top of their own glasses to watch a movie.

To be honest, I don’t need 3D to enjoy a movie. If it’s well made, I’ll be drawn in it, anyway. I’ve got a very fertile imagination and can completely enter a movie, even if it’s only in two dimensions on the big screen.

Yet I can understand why people like 3D movies. Especially with the movies produced in 3D these days (“Avatar”, “Alice in Wonderland”, the first part of “Harry Potter VII”), the additional dimension serves to flesh out a dream landscape. (That doesn’t necessarily make “Avatar” a good movie, though.)

What I want, though, is a better 3D technology. I want one where I can go to the movies with my glasses and without the need to wear an additional pair. Holograms would probably be a good idea…

What goes on my nerves, though, is that I can’t watch some movies without the 3D effects. I plan on watching “Alice in Wonderland” soon. But both the German and the English version shown in my local movie theatre are in 3D. That means, no matter which version I chose, I will be forced to put on those stupid 3D glasses and endure wearing two (not well matching) pairs of glasses at once.

On the other hand, a German magazine moaned this week that quite a lot of movie theatres can’t show the 3D version of “Alice in Wonderland”, because their 3D theatre is still taken by “Avatar”. I wish this were the case in my small town movie theatre, but it isn’t. They, strangely enough, seem to be able to show a 3D movie in every theatre.

So, please, whoever is out there and developing 3D technologies: Invent one I can watch with only my average, normal, non-polarized pair of glasses!

Weekend Update

It’s not only Saturday, it’s also winter again. I’m looking at snow-covered fir trees right now. And there I was, thinking it would be spring soon…

Anyway, what am I going to do this weekend?

• DVD to watch: probably the rest of my dinosaur documentary
• Book to read: “The Science of Discworld III – Darwin’s Watch” again
• Game to play: no real plans, maybe “Aveyond”

I’m also working on a visual novel and will enjoy the weekend for myself.