About legends and zombies

Our favourite cinema in London is the Greenwich Picturehouse, which is a bit alternative. There are screenings for older people, for mothers with babies, for autistic people, you get organic chocolate and ice cream there, and the seats are a bit like home and very comfortable (actually, much more comfortable than at home. We have a crap sofa. We always thought we would not stay long enough to replace it. We might replace it this year anyway...).

The film: I am Legend. The new one with Will Smith.

Will Smith is a brilliant scientist (who of course takes his daily workout very seriously, as all scientists), but even he couldn't contain a terrible, unstoppable, incurable (of course!), man-made virus. Somehow immune (of course), he is now the last human survivor in NY City and maybe in the world (accompanied by his dead daughter's cute dog Samantha). For 3 years, he has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors. But he is not alone.... hoohoo... in the dark there are mutant victims of the plague - the zombies. Smith's mission is to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus - and rescue the zombies.

Here we have two different reviews:

Little D.'s:

I still wonder how it could happen to find myself watching a ZOMBIE movie. I noticed it only after already watching the film for an hour. The time the zombies appeared. (New resolution: never trust anyone again for choosing a movie, not even the husband, always read some critiques first!) The film was definitely not one for me. Too exciting (not in a good way), too sad on the other hand. I didn't take my book with me - understandably, because we went to the cinema. So I couldn't leave and wait for T. while reading something exciting (in a good way). (Second resolution: always take a book - just in case.) The worst part was the end. For all of you who still want to see the movie stop reading!

Of course, Will was not the only survivor. The other survivor told him she knew that there are many more in the mountains. Because God told her. Because God has a plan and because He means well with humankind. Will was not convinced at first. Due to the fact that God let 5.6 billion people die, and that most of the rest of humankind were either mutated to zombies or eaten by zombies. Quite an argument. In the end, of course, there are survivors in the mountains. How silly is this!!??!!

There are a few questions I always wanted to ask: why are zombies always most stupid, but can very quickly get together when they found a fresh meal - the last survivor. How do they communicate? And what do they think how to share the meal? Hundreds of zombies and one human. This will not leave much for everyone. Maybe they are to stupid to think about this. Maybe that is why the 507th also joins in to hunt ONE (actually 2 and a half, but it doesn't really matter) human. What do they eat instead of humans - who are very rare in NY city? For the last 3 years now. Even our hero is too stupid to hunt game. (So he feeds his dog vegetables.) What do the zombies feed their zombie dogs? And why can zombies climb walls? Why don't they speak? Probably because of the effect. It might be more effective when they scream... I don't know.

T.'s review:

It is an enjoyable zombie movie. (Little D.: Maybe it is for someone who playes DOOM 3 to relax - who was lent DOOM 3 by his boss.)

Little review of January

First of all: we wish everyone a happy 2008 ... from February on - and simply hope that your January was fine!

Don't really know why we haven't blogged earlier, no time, not in the mood, ... doesn't matter. But because we want to share our adventures with you and want to remind ourself of our little adventures, let's see what happened.

We went home for Xmas. 2 entire weeks. It was nice to see our families again, we had a really good time (and too much delicious food...). But it was also nice to come back and move on. For little D. the year started with a mean cold :(. Hope this was it for 2008! T. is still busy at work - and enjoys it a lot.

Except the usual day by day life not so much happened in January.

We went to a nice Bach concert at the Royal Festival Hall with friends on the 22nd. Angela Hewitt played the first book of "Das wohltemperierte Klavier". It was a very enjoyable concert. Later we read that on the morning of the concert her mother died. How sad. She played her heart out in the recital. And it was her best concert of the Bach world tour so far.

For the last days we had a good friend visiting us. This is always special. Unfortunately little D. couldn't spend as much time with her as she wanted to. So we hope we will see her again soon!! You know, you have to put a little bit of effort in it to make the days in London worthwhile for your visitors. Luckily we found a very nice restaurant. It is a Chinese restaurant called Hakkasan and it is located in a quiet alleyway close to Tottenham Court Road. This was the first delight. Tottenham Court Road on a Saturday at lunchtime is VERY busy. Turning into Hanway Road was like leaving London. Suddenly we were the only people on the street. The second delight was the beautiful interior of Hakkasan. A mix of 1930s Shanghai-style (e.g. dark wooden carvings as dividing walls) and a bit of the Matrix, as Time Out magazine rightly put it. Sometimes the restaurant is used as a film set. And finally, the meals were delicously delicious! We had some dim sum and some small main courses. This restaurant is definitely a place to remember and a place to celebrate something special.

The other discovery we made during our friend's stay is a pub with a very nice view over the Thames and St. Paul's. We will definitely take our next visitors there as well.

Finally, we managed to go to the movies as well. See next post for this. January wasn't bad at all!