No Movie this Week
Here in Germany they are a fan of defacing all film or television made in any language other than German by dubbing the audio over with German translations of the original text. Let me assure you, this does not improve the end user experience. Trying to find a movie playing in a movie theatre in the *original* language in which it was recorded is like trying to find an empty seat in a nice jazz coffee house late Sunday afternoon: it poses a serious challenge.
Lucky for Tim and I, the primary movie theatre in Aschaffenburg does show original-language movies once a week, Monday night at 8pm. So one film, one showing per week, in maybe English or French. For the last 3 weeks, I had looked forward to the movie we get this week: Cars. I even wasn’t bothered that the work week started this week because I knew Monday night we would go see Cars.
That is, until Tim emailed Monday afternoon saying that the original version (OV) movie this week was playing at 5:15pm instead of 8pm! boooooo-HOOOOOooooO. No Cars for us. Next week is Devil Wore Prada - should be fun as long as they don’t trick me at the last minute;\
on October 19th, 2006 at 23:11
I loved the book (Devil Wears Prada) and the movie was also pretty funny! There was an article on USA Today about how The Devil Wears Prada has been a major hit among young twenty-something/young thirties men in the United States– apparently it is because men enjoy and can relate to a tale about getting treated like crap from an evil boss, not because men care about/know about Prada.