New Words

Thanks to Batman Returns and War of the Worlds, I now have a slightly bigger German vocabulary:

tot: dead
fledermaus: bat
toeten: kill
ausrotten: exterminate
Waffe: weapon
Krieg: war
Halluzination: hallucination
Panzer: tank

and I know that "kampf" has several shades of meaning, from "struggle" to "life's mission". So there is some good in going to the movies after all.

Actually, I enjoyed Batman a lot. Did you notice that whenever he wore the bat suit, the complexity of his sentences was reduced? That was pretty funny.

War of the Worlds failed to live up to my imagination. See, in my imagination, aliens are capable of basic project planning, and have good structural engineering skills. So, instead of burying spindly-three-legged machines below the ground and waiting for humans to evolve before engaging them in combat, they would just squish a settlement into the primordial goo and be done with it. Or at least have space rays of doom.