The best movie I've seen was Der Untergang, finally a warmovie that is not american! As well as the best WW2 movie I have ever seen.
'Downfall' in English, right? Got to agree that it was absolutely awesome. Absolutely reversed the trend for ott hollywoodised action in war movies, which made everything so much more visceral and shocking. Wonderful film-making, and Bruno Ganz as Hitler was bloody fantastic.
Apart from that, hmn. I just finished the new Terry Pratchett (Thud!) and have a feeling that Going Postal was also released this year. Both are good, but I think neither is one of the 'classic' Discworld novels. Pratchett's slipping into a trap of becoming a bit too formulaic, and I find there's less LOL moments. He needs to get his ass out of Ankh Morpork to be frank, although he's in a spot of bother there, having written both Rincewind and the Witches into side-plots (in the Science of Discworld series and the Wee Free Men/Hat Full of Sky etc. childrens books). I also kinda wish that he would stop re-stating references/jokes in starred points. Though, fair enough, it is actually rather necessary for readers who haven't read every single novel*. Just that I have. Anyway, I want another book starring Death/Susan** or the wizards. To hell with cameos!
Apart from that, er.
Er.
PASS.
*A lot of in Thud! wouldn't make sense if you didn't know that Nobby Nobbs has to carry a certificate saying he's human, that dwarf bread is a weapon or that Carrot was raised by Dwarfs, for example.
**Susan's one of my favourite characters, so I hope, even though she was probably only a one-off.