Friday in Vienna

This friday I went home after work to have lunch. After that we went on to our weekly shopping experience to Mariahilf. Our stops were mymuesli, Planet Harry, Tasty Donuts, Cornwall Pasty Pirates and Natsu. After that I went home while my dear went to her roleplaying session.

Back home I was welcomed by two hungry cats, who wanted to be fed immediately with fish. After that was done I too was allowed to eat my portion.

In the evening I first played a bit of Guild Wars 2 and then watched some episodes of series my dearie doesn't want to see.

Am Freitag ging es nach der Arbeit zum Mittagessen nach Hause. Danach sind wir dann Richtung Mariahilf aufgebrochen und waren ein wenig shoppen. Die Stationen waren mymuesli, Planet Harry, Tasty Donuts, Cornwall Pasty Pirates und Natsu. Ich bin dann wieder nach Hause gefahren während mein Schatz zu ihrer Rollenspielrunde gefahren ist.

Zuhause wurde ich schon von hungrigen Katzen empfangen und die wurden sogleich mit gutem Fisch gefüttert, bevor ich auch selber etwas essen durfte.

Die Abendgestaltung war zunächst ein wenig in Guild Wars 2 unterwegs sein und dann ein paar Serien Episoden schauen, die mein Schatz nicht sehen will.

More Bake Off

Yesterday we continued our adventures in The Secret World. Interrupted only by some playful cats and the chores that needed to be done, but in the end everything went smooth.

The evening entertainment consisted of baking - The Great Comic Relief Bake Off - and comic serieses - Arrow - before we were allowed to go to bed, after another play session with the cats.

Gestern haben wir zuhause ein wenig in The Secret World weitergemacht. Unterbrochen wurden wir vom Spieltrieb unserer Katzen und von der Hausarbeit, aber es ging sich schlussendlich alles aus.

Die abendliche Unterhaltung wurden dann wieder vom Backen - The Great Comic Relief Bake Off - und von Comic-Serien - Arrow - bestritten bevor es nach einer weiteren Spielsession mit den Katzen ins Bett ging.

Mittagessen

Burgertag!

Mayorangeschntzeltes vom Rind mit Spiralnudeln

The Great Bake Off

Yesterday it was baking time again and I decided to do a simple brownie recipe. For that reason I first went shopping and afterwards entertained the cats so that I could bake without interruptions.

After that my dear and myself went again to The Secret World before we went onto the couch to watch yet again something new, a celebrity version the Bake Off - The Great Comic Relief Bake Off - followed by the last episode of season 1 of Marvel's Agent Carter.

Gestern war wieder Backen angesagt und ich habe mich für ein einfaches Brownie Rezept entschieden. Dazu bin ich vorher noch einkaufen gegangen und habe mich dann mit den Katzen beschäftigt, damit ein Backen überhaupt möglich war.

Danach ging es dann mit meinem Schatz in The Secret World bevor es wieder auf die Couch zu den Serien ging. Diesmal wieder etwas Neues, nachdem es ein Promi-Bake Off gab - The Great Comic Relief Bake Off - und danach die letzte Folge der ersten Staffel von Marvel's Agent Carter.

Mittagessen

Schnitzeltag!

Cordon bleu mit Beilage nach Wahl

The Big Painting Challenge

Yesterday I was at my parents' for dinner and it was a delicious Apfelstrudel.

Back home again I first did some work on the Raspberry Pi 2 before entertaining the cats. After that my dear and myself went to The Secret World and we visited a haunted fair there.

Then it was couch-time again and my dear found a new BBC tv series we started watching: The Big Painting Challenge. After watching this series we then went on to the most recent episode of Sleepy Hollow before going to bed finally.

Gestern war ich wieder bei meinen Eltern zum Abendessen und es gab guten Apfelstrudel.

Wieder zuhause angekommen habe ich mich zunächst mit dem Raspberry Pi 2 beschäftigt und dann mit den Katzen gespielt. Später dann sind mein Schatz und ich in The Secret World unterwegs gewesen und haben unter anderem einen verfluchten Rummeplatz untersucht.

Dann war Couch-Time und mein Schatz hat sich auf BBC wieder eine neue Serie zum Anschauen gefunden: The Big Painting Challenge. Anschließend haben wir uns dann noch die aktuelle Folge von Sleepy Hollow angeschaut bevor es ins Bett ging.

Mittagessen

Der erste Tag der Woche für mich in der Kantine bringt folgendes:

Hausgemachte Pasta Tortellini mit Hühnerfleisch in Oberssauce mit getrockneten Tomaten

Und so geht es diese Woche kulinarisch weiter:

After Oscars party

Since we stayed up early yesterday, we then slept until noon before we had breakfast. After that we decided to watch - the for me biggest winner at the Oscars - The Grand Budapest Hotel once again on our big screen, before our dear friend went home.

In the evening we went back to The Secret World before we concluded the day on the couch with twoe old episodes of Top Gear.

Nachdem wir gestern sehr früh aufgeblieben sind, haben wir uns dann bis Mittag ausgeschlafen. Nach einem Frühstück haben wir uns dann den - für mich großen Gewinner der Oscars - The Grand Budapest Hotel noch einmal auf der Leinwand angeschaut, bevor unsere liebe Freundin sich dann auf den Heimweg gemacht hat.

Am Abend waren wir ein wenig in The Secret World unterwegs, bevor wir den Tag auf der Couch mit zwei alten Episoden von Top Gear abgeschlossen haben.

87th Academy Award - results

The Oscars are over and it's time to see how my predictions have turned out and it's not too bad: 18 out of 24 category correctly named. Which means I have to try harder for next or perhaps go more to the cinemas.

Best Picture

• American Sniper – Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper, and Peter Morgan
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher, and James W. Skotchdopole
• Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, and Jeremy Dawson
• The Imitation Game – Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, and Teddy Schwarzman
• Selma – Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner
• The Theory of Everything – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, and Anthony McCarten
• Whiplash – Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, and David Lancaster

Best Directing

• Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Richard Linklater – Boyhood
• Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher
• Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game

Best Actor

• Steve Carell – Foxcatcher as John Eleuthère du Pont
• Bradley Cooper – American Sniper as Chris Kyle
• Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing
• Michael Keaton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Riggan Thomson / Birdman
• Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking

Best Actress

• Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya
• Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Wilde Hawking
• Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland
• Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne
• Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed

Best Supporting Actor

• Robert Duvall – The Judge as Judge Joseph Palmer
• Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr.
• Edward Norton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Mike Shiner
• Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz
• J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher

Best Supporting Actress

• Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans
• Laura Dern – Wild as Barbara "Bobbi" Grey
• Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke
• Emma Stone – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Sam Thomson
• Meryl Streep – Into the Woods as The Witch

Best Original Screenplay

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo
• Boyhood – Richard Linklater
• Foxcatcher – E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
• Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy

Best Adapted Screenplay

• American Sniper – Jason Hall from American Sniper by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
• The Imitation Game – Graham Moore from Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
• Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson from Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
• The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten from Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking
• Whiplash – Damien Chazelle from his short film of the same name

Best Animated Feature Film

• Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
• The Boxtrolls – Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight
• How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold
• Song of the Sea – Tomm Moore and Paul Young
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura

Best Foreign Language Film

• Ida (Poland) in Polish  – Pawel Pawlikowski
• Leviathan (Russia) in Russian – Andrey Zvyagintsev
• Tangerines (Estonia) in Estonian and Russian – Zaza Urushadze
• Timbuktu (Mauritania) in French  – Abderrahmane Sissako
• Wild Tales (Argentina) in Spanish  – Damián Szifrón

Best Documentary – Feature

• Citizenfour – Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutsky
• Finding Vivian Maier – John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
• Last Days in Vietnam – Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester
• The Salt of the Earth – Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado and David Rosier
• Virunga – Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara

Best Documentary – Short Subject

• Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry
• Joanna – Aneta Kopacz
• Our Curse – Tomasz Sliwinski and Maciej Slesicki
• The Reaper (La Parka) – Gabriel Serra Arguello
• White Earth – J. Christian Jensen

Best Live Action Short Film

• Aya – Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis
• Boogaloo and Graham – Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney
• Butter Lamp (La Lampe au beurre de yak) – Hu Wei and Julien Féret
• Parvaneh – Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger
• The Phone Call – Mat Kirkby and James Lucas

Best Animated Short Film

• The Bigger Picture – Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees
• The Dam Keeper – Robert Kondo and Daisuke Tsutsumi
• Feast – Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed
• Me and My Moulton – Torill Kove
• A Single Life – Joris Oprins

Best Original Score

• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat
• The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat
• Interstellar – Hans Zimmer
• Mr. Turner – Gary Yershon
• The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson

Best Original Song

• "Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie – Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson
• "Glory" from Selma – Music and Lyric by John Legend and Common
• "Grateful" from Beyond the Lights – Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
• "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" from Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me – Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond
• "Lost Stars" from Begin Again – Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois

Best Sound Editing

• American Sniper – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Brent Burge and Jason Canovas
• Interstellar – Richard King
• Unbroken – Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro

Best Sound Mixing

• American Sniper – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga
• Interstellar – Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten
• Unbroken – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee
• Whiplash – Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley

Best Production Design

• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
• The Imitation Game – Maria Djurkovic (Production Design); Tatiana Macdonald (Set Decoration)
• Interstellar – Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration)
• Into the Woods – Dennis Gassner (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
• Mr. Turner – Suzie Davies (Production Design); Charlotte Watts (Set Decoration)

Best Cinematography

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Emmanuel Lubezki
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman
• Ida – Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski
• Mr. Turner – Dick Pope
• Unbroken – Roger Deakins

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Foxcatcher – Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier
• Guardians of the Galaxy – Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White

Best Costume Design

• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero
• Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges
• Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood
• Maleficent – Anna B. Sheppard
• Mr. Turner – Jacqueline Durran

Best Film Editing

• American Sniper – Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
• Boyhood – Sandra Adair
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling
• The Imitation Game – William Goldenberg
• Whiplash – Tom Cross

Best Visual Effects

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist
• Guardians of the Galaxy – Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould
• Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher
• X-Men: Days of Future Past – Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer

Die Oscars sind vorbei und es wir Zeit nachzusehen wie ich geraten habe und es schaut gar nicht schlecht aus: 18 von 24 Kategorien richtig geraten. D.h. ich muss mich für nächstes Jahr wieder mehr anstrengen bzw. vielleicht zum Schärfen der Ratesinne noch öfter ins Kino gehen.

Best Picture

• American Sniper – Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper, and Peter Morgan
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher, and James W. Skotchdopole
• Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, and Jeremy Dawson
• The Imitation Game – Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, and Teddy Schwarzman
• Selma – Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner
• The Theory of Everything – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, and Anthony McCarten
• Whiplash – Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, and David Lancaster

Best Directing

• Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Richard Linklater – Boyhood
• Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher
• Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game

Best Actor

• Steve Carell – Foxcatcher as John Eleuthère du Pont
• Bradley Cooper – American Sniper as Chris Kyle
• Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing
• Michael Keaton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Riggan Thomson / Birdman
• Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking

Best Actress

• Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya
• Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Wilde Hawking
• Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland
• Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne
• Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed

Best Supporting Actor

• Robert Duvall – The Judge as Judge Joseph Palmer
• Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr.
• Edward Norton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Mike Shiner
• Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz
• J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher

Best Supporting Actress

• Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans
• Laura Dern – Wild as Barbara "Bobbi" Grey
• Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke
• Emma Stone – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Sam Thomson
• Meryl Streep – Into the Woods as The Witch

Best Original Screenplay

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo
• Boyhood – Richard Linklater
• Foxcatcher – E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
• Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy

Best Adapted Screenplay

• American Sniper – Jason Hall from American Sniper by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
• The Imitation Game – Graham Moore from Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
• Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson from Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
• The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten from Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking
• Whiplash – Damien Chazelle from his short film of the same name

Best Animated Feature Film

• Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
• The Boxtrolls – Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight
• How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold
• Song of the Sea – Tomm Moore and Paul Young
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura

Best Foreign Language Film

• Ida (Poland) in Polish  – Pawel Pawlikowski
• Leviathan (Russia) in Russian – Andrey Zvyagintsev
• Tangerines (Estonia) in Estonian and Russian – Zaza Urushadze
• Timbuktu (Mauritania) in French  – Abderrahmane Sissako
• Wild Tales (Argentina) in Spanish  – Damián Szifrón

Best Documentary – Feature

• Citizenfour – Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutsky
• Finding Vivian Maier – John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
• Last Days in Vietnam – Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester
• The Salt of the Earth – Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado and David Rosier
• Virunga – Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara

Best Documentary – Short Subject

• Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry
• Joanna – Aneta Kopacz
• Our Curse – Tomasz Sliwinski and Maciej Slesicki
• The Reaper (La Parka) – Gabriel Serra Arguello
• White Earth – J. Christian Jensen

Best Live Action Short Film

• Aya – Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis
• Boogaloo and Graham – Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney
• Butter Lamp (La Lampe au beurre de yak) – Hu Wei and Julien Féret
• Parvaneh – Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger
• The Phone Call – Mat Kirkby and James Lucas

Best Animated Short Film

• The Bigger Picture – Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees
• The Dam Keeper – Robert Kondo and Daisuke Tsutsumi
• Feast – Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed
• Me and My Moulton – Torill Kove
• A Single Life – Joris Oprins

Best Original Score

• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat
• The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat
• Interstellar – Hans Zimmer
• Mr. Turner – Gary Yershon
• The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson

Best Original Song

• "Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie – Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson
• "Glory" from Selma – Music and Lyric by John Legend and Common
• "Grateful" from Beyond the Lights – Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
• "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" from Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me – Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond
• "Lost Stars" from Begin Again – Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois

Best Sound Editing

• American Sniper – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Brent Burge and Jason Canovas
• Interstellar – Richard King
• Unbroken – Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro

Best Sound Mixing

• American Sniper – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga
• Interstellar – Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten
• Unbroken – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee
• Whiplash – Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley

Best Production Design

• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
• The Imitation Game – Maria Djurkovic (Production Design); Tatiana Macdonald (Set Decoration)
• Interstellar – Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration)
• Into the Woods – Dennis Gassner (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
• Mr. Turner – Suzie Davies (Production Design); Charlotte Watts (Set Decoration)

Best Cinematography

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Emmanuel Lubezki
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman
• Ida – Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski
• Mr. Turner – Dick Pope
• Unbroken – Roger Deakins

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Foxcatcher – Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier
• Guardians of the Galaxy – Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White

Best Costume Design

• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero
• Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges
• Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood
• Maleficent – Anna B. Sheppard
• Mr. Turner – Jacqueline Durran

Best Film Editing

• American Sniper – Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
• Boyhood – Sandra Adair
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling
• The Imitation Game – William Goldenberg
• Whiplash – Tom Cross

Best Visual Effects

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist
• Guardians of the Galaxy – Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould
• Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher
• X-Men: Days of Future Past – Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer

87th Academy Awards - predictions

Like the year before I was sick before the Academy Awards and hadn't done my predictions for 2015 until now.

My votes are the lines below in bold.

And here are the nominies for the 87th Academy Awards (source: Wikipedia)

Best Picture

• American Sniper – Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper, and Peter Morgan
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher, and James W. Skotchdopole
• Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, and Jeremy Dawson
• The Imitation Game – Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, and Teddy Schwarzman
• Selma – Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner
• The Theory of Everything – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, and Anthony McCarten
• Whiplash – Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, and David Lancaster

Best Directing

• Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Richard Linklater – Boyhood
• Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher
• Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game

Best Actor

• Steve Carell – Foxcatcher as John Eleuthère du Pont
• Bradley Cooper – American Sniper as Chris Kyle
• Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing
• Michael Keaton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Riggan Thomson / Birdman
• Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking

Best Actress

• Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya
• Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Wilde Hawking
• Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland
• Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne
• Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed

Best Supporting Actor

• Robert Duvall – The Judge as Judge Joseph Palmer
• Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr.
• Edward Norton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Mike Shiner
• Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz
• J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher

Best Supporting Actress

• Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans
• Laura Dern – Wild as Barbara "Bobbi" Grey
• Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke
• Emma Stone – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Sam Thomson
• Meryl Streep – Into the Woods as The Witch

Best Original Screenplay

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo
• Boyhood – Richard Linklater
• Foxcatcher – E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
• Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy

Best Adapted Screenplay

• American Sniper – Jason Hall from American Sniper by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
• The Imitation Game – Graham Moore from Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
• Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson from Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
• The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten from Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking
• Whiplash – Damien Chazelle from his short film of the same name

Best Animated Feature Film

• Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
• The Boxtrolls – Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight
• How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold
• Song of the Sea – Tomm Moore and Paul Young
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura

Best Foreign Language Film

• Ida (Poland) in Polish  – Pawel Pawlikowski
• Leviathan (Russia) in Russian – Andrey Zvyagintsev
• Tangerines (Estonia) in Estonian and Russian – Zaza Urushadze
• Timbuktu (Mauritania) in French  – Abderrahmane Sissako
• Wild Tales (Argentina) in Spanish  – Damián Szifrón

Best Documentary – Feature

• Citizenfour – Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutsky
• Finding Vivian Maier – John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
• Last Days in Vietnam – Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester
• The Salt of the Earth – Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado and David Rosier
• Virunga – Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara

Best Documentary – Short Subject

• Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry
• Joanna – Aneta Kopacz
• Our Curse – Tomasz Sliwinski and Maciej Slesicki
• The Reaper (La Parka) – Gabriel Serra Arguello
• White Earth – J. Christian Jensen

Best Live Action Short Film

• Aya – Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis
• Boogaloo and Graham – Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney
• Butter Lamp (La Lampe au beurre de yak) – Hu Wei and Julien Féret
• Parvaneh – Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger
• The Phone Call – Mat Kirkby and James Lucas

Best Animated Short Film

• The Bigger Picture – Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees
• The Dam Keeper – Robert Kondo and Daisuke Tsutsumi
• Feast – Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed
• Me and My Moulton – Torill Kove
• A Single Life – Joris Oprins

Best Original Score

• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat
• The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat
• Interstellar – Hans Zimmer
• Mr. Turner – Gary Yershon
• The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson

Best Original Song

• "Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie – Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson
• "Glory" from Selma – Music and Lyric by John Legend and Common
• "Grateful" from Beyond the Lights – Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
• "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" from Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me – Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond
• "Lost Stars" from Begin Again – Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois

Best Sound Editing

• American Sniper – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Brent Burge and Jason Canovas
• Interstellar – Richard King
• Unbroken – Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro

Best Sound Mixing

• American Sniper – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga
• Interstellar – Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten
• Unbroken – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee
• Whiplash – Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley

Best Production Design

• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
• The Imitation Game – Maria Djurkovic (Production Design); Tatiana Macdonald (Set Decoration)
• Interstellar – Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration)
• Into the Woods – Dennis Gassner (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
• Mr. Turner – Suzie Davies (Production Design); Charlotte Watts (Set Decoration)

Best Cinematography

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Emmanuel Lubezki
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman
• Ida – Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski
• Mr. Turner – Dick Pope
• Unbroken – Roger Deakins

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Foxcatcher – Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier
• Guardians of the Galaxy – Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White

Best Costume Design

• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero
• Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges
• Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood
• Maleficent – Anna B. Sheppard
• Mr. Turner – Jacqueline Durran

Best Film Editing

• American Sniper – Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
• Boyhood – Sandra Adair
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling
• The Imitation Game – William Goldenberg
• Whiplash – Tom Cross

Best Visual Effects

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist
• Guardians of the Galaxy – Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould
• Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher
• X-Men: Days of Future Past – Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer

Wie schon letztes Jahr war ich vor den Oscars wieder krank und komme daher erst jetzt dazu meine Tipps für 2015 abzugeben.

Meine Tipps sind wie immer die Zeilen die fett hervorgehoben sind.

Hier sind die Nominierungen für die 87th Academy Awards (Quelle: Wikipedia)

Best Picture

• American Sniper – Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper, and Peter Morgan
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher, and James W. Skotchdopole
• Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, and Jeremy Dawson
• The Imitation Game – Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, and Teddy Schwarzman
• Selma – Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner
• The Theory of Everything – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, and Anthony McCarten
• Whiplash – Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, and David Lancaster

Best Directing

• Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Richard Linklater – Boyhood
• Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher
• Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game

Best Actor

• Steve Carell – Foxcatcher as John Eleuthère du Pont
• Bradley Cooper – American Sniper as Chris Kyle
• Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing
• Michael Keaton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Riggan Thomson / Birdman
• Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking

Best Actress

• Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya
• Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Wilde Hawking
• Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland
• Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne
• Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed

Best Supporting Actor

• Robert Duvall – The Judge as Judge Joseph Palmer
• Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr.
• Edward Norton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Mike Shiner
• Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz
• J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher

Best Supporting Actress

• Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans
• Laura Dern – Wild as Barbara "Bobbi" Grey
• Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke
• Emma Stone – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Sam Thomson
• Meryl Streep – Into the Woods as The Witch

Best Original Screenplay

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo
• Boyhood – Richard Linklater
• Foxcatcher – E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
• Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy

Best Adapted Screenplay

• American Sniper – Jason Hall from American Sniper by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
• The Imitation Game – Graham Moore from Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
• Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson from Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
• The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten from Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking
• Whiplash – Damien Chazelle from his short film of the same name

Best Animated Feature Film

• Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
• The Boxtrolls – Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight
• How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold
• Song of the Sea – Tomm Moore and Paul Young
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura

Best Foreign Language Film

• Ida (Poland) in Polish  – Pawel Pawlikowski
• Leviathan (Russia) in Russian – Andrey Zvyagintsev
• Tangerines (Estonia) in Estonian and Russian – Zaza Urushadze
• Timbuktu (Mauritania) in French  – Abderrahmane Sissako
• Wild Tales (Argentina) in Spanish  – Damián Szifrón

Best Documentary – Feature

• Citizenfour – Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutsky
• Finding Vivian Maier – John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
• Last Days in Vietnam – Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester
• The Salt of the Earth – Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado and David Rosier
• Virunga – Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara

Best Documentary – Short Subject

• Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry
• Joanna – Aneta Kopacz
• Our Curse – Tomasz Sliwinski and Maciej Slesicki
• The Reaper (La Parka) – Gabriel Serra Arguello
• White Earth – J. Christian Jensen

Best Live Action Short Film

• Aya – Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis
• Boogaloo and Graham – Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney
• Butter Lamp (La Lampe au beurre de yak) – Hu Wei and Julien Féret
• Parvaneh – Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger
• The Phone Call – Mat Kirkby and James Lucas

Best Animated Short Film

• The Bigger Picture – Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees
• The Dam Keeper – Robert Kondo and Daisuke Tsutsumi
• Feast – Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed
• Me and My Moulton – Torill Kove
• A Single Life – Joris Oprins

Best Original Score

• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat
• The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat
• Interstellar – Hans Zimmer
• Mr. Turner – Gary Yershon
• The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson

Best Original Song

• "Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie – Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson
• "Glory" from Selma – Music and Lyric by John Legend and Common
• "Grateful" from Beyond the Lights – Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
• "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" from Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me – Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond
• "Lost Stars" from Begin Again – Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois

Best Sound Editing

• American Sniper – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Brent Burge and Jason Canovas
• Interstellar – Richard King
• Unbroken – Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro

Best Sound Mixing

• American Sniper – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga
• Interstellar – Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten
• Unbroken – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee
• Whiplash – Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley

Best Production Design

• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
• The Imitation Game – Maria Djurkovic (Production Design); Tatiana Macdonald (Set Decoration)
• Interstellar – Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration)
• Into the Woods – Dennis Gassner (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
• Mr. Turner – Suzie Davies (Production Design); Charlotte Watts (Set Decoration)

Best Cinematography

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Emmanuel Lubezki
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman
• Ida – Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski
• Mr. Turner – Dick Pope
• Unbroken – Roger Deakins

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Foxcatcher – Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier
• Guardians of the Galaxy – Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White

Best Costume Design

• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero
• Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges
• Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood
• Maleficent – Anna B. Sheppard
• Mr. Turner – Jacqueline Durran

Best Film Editing

• American Sniper – Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
• Boyhood – Sandra Adair
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling
• The Imitation Game – William Goldenberg
• Whiplash – Tom Cross

Best Visual Effects

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist
• Guardians of the Galaxy – Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould
• Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher
• X-Men: Days of Future Past – Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer

Sick, but getting better

I'm still sick, but the fever is gone fortunately and I received my shipment of the new Raspberry Pi 2, which I now will start playing around with.

Ich bin zwar immer noch krank, aber das Fieber ist zum Glück komplett weg und ich habe gestern auch meinen neuen Raspberry Pi 2 geliefert bekommen, sodass ich schon ein bisschen damit herumspielen konnte.

Still, well you know

The back pains is gone - thanks to a hot-water bottle - and the fever has been lowered, but now I sound more like a bass bear and I cough very much.

Die Rückenschmerzen sind - dank Thermophor - weg und das Fieber schon gesenkt, dafür klinge ich jetzt wie ein Bass-stimmen Bär und huste was das Zeug hält.

As if being sick wasn't bad enough

Still sick, but with the added bonus of a hurting back because of spending such time in bed.

Immer noch krank, aber dafür mit Rückenschmerzen vom vielen Liegen.

Still sick

Still ill...

Immer noch krank...

Sick leave

Due to me being ill there's no blog entry today.

Krankheitsbedingt gibt es heute keinen Blog.

Workout day

Yesterday I was with my dear for some physical workout after work. It wasn't bad and I have no sore muscels today, so we'll be doing this every second week from now on.

On out way home we stopped to take away some spanish/portuguese(?) snacks, which we ate at home.

After the usual dailies in Guild Wars 2 we went onto the couch and watched two episodes of Forever followed by one episode of The Big Bang Theory.

Gestern bin ich mit meinem Schatz nach der Arbeit turnen gegangen. Es war zwar etwas ungewohnt, aber ich habe mir auch keinen Muskelkater geholt - es wird also jetzt alle zwei Wochen Bewegung gemacht für den Körper.

Auf dem Heimweg haben wir uns noch unser Abendessen in Form von kleine spanischen/portugiesischen(?) Snacks geholt, die wir dann zuhause verzehrt haben.

Nach den üblichen Dailies in Guild Wars 2 ging es dann aber auf die Couch und es gab zwei Folgen Forever gefolgt von einer Episode The Big Bang Theory.

Mittagessen

Und hier ist auch schon der Burgertag.

Farmerburger (mit Schweinefleisch) dazu Chillidip and Steakkartoffel

Quite evening at home

Yesterday I was at my parents' for the weekly dinner and some nice pancakes.

After that I went home and at first entertained the cats and afterwards did the dailies and festival activities in Guild Wars 2.

Then I watched some episodes of Gotham, since my dear doesn't want to watch that and she was with a friend this evening.

The conclusion of the evening was an episode of Marvel's Agent Carter we watched together.

Gestern war ich wieder bei meinen Eltern zur dieswöchigen Palatschinkenstunde.

Anschließend wieder zuhause habe ich mich zunächst um die Mieze-Katzen gekümmert und habe mich dann mit den Dailies und Festival Aktivitäten in Guild Wars 2 beschäftigt.

Danach habe ich mir ein paar Folgen von Gotham angeschaut, nachdem mein Schatz sich nicht dafür interessiert und sie auch bei einer Freundin war.

Den Abschluss des Abends hat dann eine gemeinsame Episode von Marvel's Agent Carter auf der Couch dargestellt.

Mittagessen

Ein Schnitzel am Mittwoch - der Klassiker.

Gebackenes Putenschnitzel mit Beilage nach Wahl

Business as usual

Yesterday was the first day back at work after our guests have left us. When I came home after work I was quite exhausted, so after a quick dinner I took a nap. Only after a short period of time the cats circled me and then joined me in my nap until I got up again and then wanted to be entertained.

After that I wanted to do my dailies in Guild Wars 2, but was surprised by the Lunar New Year update and so spent some more time checking this festival out.

The conclusion of the evening was the traditionally sitting on the couch and watched television series, before going to bed. This time it was the latest episodes of The Mysteries of Laura and Top Gear.

Gestern war der erste Arbeitstag nachdem uns unsere Gäste wieder verlassen hatten. Als ich nach der Arbeit nach Hause gekommen bin, war ich dementsprechend müde und habe mich nach eine schnellen Nachtmahl niedergelegt. Nur kurze Zeit später wurde ich von zwei Katzen belagert, die sich dann aber zu mir gesellt haben und gewartet hatten, bis ich wieder aufgestanden bin.

Danach wollte ich kurz in Guild Wars 2 die Dailies machen, wurde dann aber von dem Lunar New Year Update überrascht und habe so dann doch mehr Zeit dort verbracht.

Den Abschluss des Abends hat dann traditionellerweise wieder die Couch mit Serien anschauen gemacht, bevor wir ins Bett gefallen sind. Es gab die aktuellen Folgen von The Mysteries of Laura und Top Gear.

Mittagessen

Mit einem verspäteten Wochenstart beginnt die Kantinenwoche mit

Hausgemachte Pasta Canneloni mit Huhn und Rind in Tomaten-Currysauce

Ja, die Canneloni waren aus, deshalb die Knacker...

Und hier noch schnell der Wochenplan.

Film review: Jupiter Ascending

Since it was our last day together with our guests, we spent the morning playing one last game - Lords of Waterdeep - before we drove them safely to the airport in a very ugly snowstorm. In the meantime they have arrived at home in one piece.

Since it was also our monday we usual spend at the movies and there was one in particular we wanted to see we went straight the Milleniumtower after going to the airport to watch Jupiter Ascending.

Jupiter is a poor young woman with russian parents, who cleans other people's houses together with her family. But onw day everything changes as aliens try to threaten and kill her, but she is being rescued by yet another alien. After that nothing is the same anymore and she's going on adventures which might cost her her life.

Well the story isn't very original - it's basically Cinderella in space. The images are quite nice to look at, but they don't improve the movie that much that you can say it's worth watching and the actors aren't very talented either.

Conclusion: the movie is a kind of science fiction fairy tale - thankfully withour songs - but that's about it really. Too often the classical elements of a drama are used - like the last second rescue for example - so that this movie isn't very plausible at all. Well it's a popcorn movie with very little brain activity needed - so if you like that you might try your luck with that movie.

Nachdem wir unseren letzten gemeinsamen Tag mit unseren Gästen zunächst spielend - Lords of Waterdeep - verbracht hatten, habe wir sie dann im herrschenden Schneechaos sicher zum Flughafen gebracht und sie sind mittlerweile wieder gut zuhause angekommen.

Da es auch gleichzeitig Kinomontag war und wir uns einen Film gefunden hatten, den wir sehen wollten, ging es anschließend gleich zum Milleniumtower zu Jupiter Ascending.

Jupiter ist ein armes junges Mädchen russischer Eltern, die zusammen mit ihrer Familie die Häuser anderer Leute putzen muss. Doch eines Tages ändert sich das schlagartig, denn sie wird von Ausserirdischen bedroht und von einem Helden gerettet. Danach ist nichts mehr wie es früher war und sie erlebt Abenteuer die sie ihr Leben kosten könnten.

Nun ja, die Story ist natürlich recht dünn und zusätzlich relativ abgedroschen, es ist im Prinzip Cinderella in Space. Die Bilder sind dafür recht eindrucksvoll, helfen aber trotzdem über das fehlende schauspielerische Talent aller Hauptdarsteller nicht hinweg.

Fazit: der Film ist ein interessantes Science Fiction Märchen - zum Glück ohne Gesang - aber mehr auch schon nicht. Zu oft werden klassische Klischees bemüht - die Rettung in letzter Sekunde ist ein gutes Beispiel dafür - sodass man dem Film die recht dürftige Story nicht ganz abnimmt. Popcorn-Kino ohne viel Hirnanstrengungen - damit ist man gut bedient.

More tourist stuff

The sunday was the day before our guests were leaving again so we decided to be tourists just one more time - this time it was the Heeresgeschichtlichen Museum.

Since we took longer than we planned we then had no more time for the other stops and returned home to play more board games: Fünf Gurken and The Legend of Drizzt Boardgame.

Der Sonntag war der vorletzte Tag unserer Gäste in Wien und so sind wir noch einmal touristisch unterwegs gewesen - diesmal im Heeresgeschichtlichen Museum.

Da wir dort länger gebraucht hatten als geplant, sind die weiteren Stationen die noch möglich gewesen wären ins Wasser oder besser in den aufkommenden Schnee gefallen und so sind wir wieder nach Hause gefahren, wo wir ein weiteres Mal Brettspiele gespielt haben: Fünf Gurken und The Legend of Drizzt Boardgame.