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[caffeinated]

I'm up for the challenge and thanks for the inspiration guys.
50 books actually mean 1 book/week which is quite challenging but still I'll go for it.

 

[Leopold]

Update

Leopold - 1/50 Books | 7/50 Movies


Books

- Governing the World - The Rise and Fall of an Idea 1815 to the Present by Mark Mazower.

Movies

- Amanhã Nunca Mais
- Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides
- Brave
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- As Good as It Gets
- Taken
- El Secreto de Tus Ojos (The Secret in Their Eyes)

 

[Somnia]

Update

Somnia - 3/50 Books | 7/50 Movies

Books

The Perfect Game
The Secret of Ella and Micha
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End

Movies

Haywire
Total Recall (2012)
Tomorrow, When the War Began
Super 8
Mallrats
Zero Dark Thirty
John Carter


I actually really enjoyed John Carter... it's too bad it'll never get a sequel.

 

[SlowRevolution]

SlowRevolution - 3/50 books | 6/50 movies

Books

• The Price of Politics
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
• The New Jim Crow

Movies

• Looper
• John Dies At The End
• Arbitrage
• Zero Dark Thirty
• What To Expect When You're Expecting
• The Way

 

[Jesse-]

Would an episode of Sherlock, the BBC series, count as a movie? They last an hour and a half.

 

[Danielsan]

I'll join as I intend to read more, though I still highly doubt I'll hit the books goal.

Danielsan - 0/50- books | 3/50 movies

Books:
-

Movies
Life of Pi
The Silver Linings Playbook
Frankenweenie

 

[Nezumi]

Would an episode of Sherlock, the BBC series, count as a movie? They last an hour and a half.

I wondered that aswell. Though considering the lenght l'd say yes.

 

[kinoki]

I wondered that aswell. Though considering the lenght l'd say yes.

A movie made for TV is still a movie. That there is a series of TV movies that plays during a season is irrelevant, I think. But the way me and some other people are plowing movies getting to 50 won't be a problem regardless of technicalities like this.

 

[Macka]

Update:

Movies: 1/50
1. Savages

Yeah, not even Blake Lively's loveliness could save this from being a pretty average film.

Do movies out at the Cinemas count?

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

Baconsaurus - 2/50 Books | 7/50 Movies​

Books

1. World of the Incredible but True by Charles Berlitz
2. Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
3. Franken Fran Vol. 1 by Katsuhisa Kigitsu

Movies

1. Contact
2. Minority Report
3. Eden of the East I: The King of Eden
4. The Cabin in the Woods
5. Le Scaphandre et la Papillon
6. The Sky Crawlers
7. The Dark Knight Rises

I'm currently unsure how I'll count manga and comics. The first volume has about 175 pages, so that has to count as something. I'll find a way but for now I think I'll go with one volume/10 comicbooks = .5 book

 

[Ovid]

UPDATE

Tarius1210 - 0/50 Books | 6/50 Movies

Books

• Still reading Game of Thrones

Movies

• After Porn Ends
• The Flaw (2011)
• Think Like A Man
• Gun Fight (2011)
• Horrible Bosses
• Marathon Man

 

[Plywood]

Plywood - 1/50 Books | 3/50 Movies

Books

• Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

Movies

• Gattaca
• The Grey
• Django Unchained

 

[Setre]

Setre - 2/50 Books | 6/50 Movies

Books:

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Ground Zero (Repairman Jack #13)

Movies:

Total Recall (2012)
Looper
Troll Hunter
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Django Unchained
Zero Dark Thirty

 

[BuddyJoeHooker]

I really liked the Silver Linings Playbook film.

BuddyJoeHooker - 0/50 Books | 3/50 Movies​

Books

• Coming Soon

Movies

• Django Unchained
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Silver Linings Playbook

 

[Somnia]

Update

Somnia - 3/50 Books | 8/50 Movies

Books

The Perfect Game
The Secret of Ella and Micha
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End

Movies

Haywire
Total Recall (2012)
Tomorrow, When the War Began
Super 8
Mallrats
Zero Dark Thirty
John Carter
Underworld: Awakening

 

[Maximilian E.]

UPDATE: new movie

Maximilian E. - 0/50 Books | 5/50 Movies

Books


Movies
Vertigo
Samsara
North by northwest
To catch a thief
The Hobbit

 

[Chuck]

Chuck - 0/50 Books | 4/50 Movies​

Books

• Coming Soon

Movies

• Lincoln
• Drive
• Reservoir Dogs
• Premium Rush

Premium Rush was a really fun movie. Love JGL so had to see it and was a little surprised I liked it as much as I did. I probably enjoyed it more than Django tbh...

 

[DieUnbekannte]

It's time for an update. Still haven't watched a lot new movies but I have seen both seasons of the BBC series Sherlock. Since every episode is about 90 minutes long, it would be great if they'd count too - if not I'm going to delete them again.

DieUnbekannte - 4/50 books | 8/50 movies

books
1. Isaac Marion – Warm Bodies
2. Kai Meyer – Dschinnland (Sturmkönige 1)
3. Jasper Fforde – Something Rotten
4. Arthur Conan Doyle – A Study in Scarlet

movies
1. Repo Men (2010)
2. Sherlock – A Study in Pink (2010)
3. Sherlock – The Blind Banker (2010)
4. Sherlock – The Great Game (2010)
5. Sherlock – A Scandal in Belgravia (2012)
6. Sherlock – The Hounds of Baskerville (2012)
7. Sherlock – The Reichenbach Fall (2012)
8. The Ghost Writer (2010)

 

[Nezumi]

Update:

Nezumi Books1/50 | Movies5/50​

Books:

• The novel my husband wrote for NaNoWriMo

Movies:

• Brick
• Inspector General
• Indie Game the Movie
• Ijon Tichy - Raumpilot Season 2
• Moonrise Kingdom

Man, reading is really slow at the moment, but I'm more or less on vacation next week so hopefully I get one or two books done in that time.

As for the movies, Indie Game was really intersting, though at some point I feared that poor meatboy guy would jump of a bridge or something.
Ijon Tichy is a show very losely based on the star diaries by Stanislaw Lem. And though the production is low budget it has a lot of charm and some really creative sets and costumes. The CGI sucks though.
Moonrise Kingdom is a Wes Anderson movie. I love every Wes Anderson movie. I loved Moonrise Kingdom. Nothing more to say.

 

[HamPster PamPster]

Hampster Pampster - 00/50 Books | 04/50 Movies

Movie 4 - Golden Winter

It was your standard talking pet film... which means I enjoyed it Ever since Homeward Bound as a kid I've had a soft spot for these movies. Golden Winter has terrible CG mouths on the dogs to make them talk. I don't know why they bothered, trying to make the mouths move always makes the movies look worse

I'm doing pretty bad on books so far. Time to get reading

Movies:

1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days.
2. All Star Superman
3. Superman vs. The Elite
4. Golden Winter

Books:

 

[guest1321]

Update

guest1321 - 0/50 Books | 3/50 Movies

Books

• Coming Soon * Currently reading The Lean Startup

Movies

• The Usual Suspects (5/5)
• Unknown (4/5)
• Blade Runner (3/5)

 

[latinlikeaviolin]

Is it too late to join in? If not,

latinlikeaviolin - 02/50 Books | 02/50 Movies

Books

1. Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal
2. A Lost Lady by Willa Carther

Movies

1. Rashomon (1950) dir. Akira Kurosawa
2. Raising Arizona (1987) dir. Coen brothers

 

[Zippedpinhead]

I want to join in this game

Zippedpinhead 2/50 Books | 3/50 Movies

Books:

A Memory of Light
The Happiest baby on the block (Having a kid soon)

Movies:

Gone
The Babymakers (Broken Lizard's movie from last October)
Haywire

 

[SaltyDoughnut]

SaltyDoughnut - 2/50 Books | 4/50 Movies | 1/24 TV Seasons | 2/24 Games​

Books:
Now reading: Game of Thrones, Dead Man Walking
-Crime and Punishment [551 pages] - Jan 6th

Movies:
-Boogie Nights - Jan 13th
-Zero Dark Thirty - Jan 12th
-Shame - Jan 7th
-Les Misérables - Jan 2nd

TV Seasons:
Now watching: Samurai Champloo, Band of Brothers, Girls s2, Downton Abbey s3
-Girls season 1 - Jan 11th

Games:
Now playing: Walking Dead, OoT 3D, Mutant Mudds, RDR, SMB, Uncharted: GA, GW2, Forza Horizon
-Sound Shapes - Jan 14th
-Hotline Miami - Jan 11th

 

[dvolovets]

Is it too late to join? I've been following the thread since it started but just realized that I never posted. Here's where I'm at so far.

dvolovets - 5/50 books | 6/50 movies

Books

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
• The Stranger - Albert Camus
• The Fall - Albert Camus
• The Plague - Albert Camus
• Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote

Movies

• Wild Strawberries
• Knife in the Water
• Le Samourai
• 8 1/2
• Leon The Professional
• Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2

I'm sure my reading/watching pace will grind to a near-halt once the semester starts, but I'm curious to see if I can reach the goal this year. I know I've read more than 50 books / year before, so hopefully I can get to the goal this time as well!

 

[cacophony]

update:

5/50 ; 1/50

1. Goodfellas *****
2. Black Dynamite ***
3. Black Swan ****
4. Taxi Driver **
5. Raging Bull *

1. The 50th Law *****

I can't believe how hit or miss Scorsese films are for me

 

[dvolovets]

update:

5/50 ; 1/50

1. Goodfellas *****
2. Black Dynamite ***
3. Black Swan ****
4. Taxi Driver **
5. Raging Bull *

1. The 50th Law *****

I can't believe how hit or miss Scorsese films are for me

You didn't like Taxi Driver? I'm curious to hear your reasoning -- I think it's pretty much the epitome of the noir aesthetic (or neo-noir, however you want to categorize it).

 

[WrenchNinja]

Update:

Crewnh - 2/50 Movies | 0/50 Books

Movies: 2/50

• Les Miserables
• Summer Wars

Books: 0/50

I'll get back to you on this


Both Les Miserables and Summer Wars were amazing. I've been writing a few thoughts on each movie, nothing really long, but just general feelings. I really loved Summer Wars.

 

[Jimothy]

Jimothy: 2/50 Books - 6/50 Movies

Books:

Columbine by Dave Cullen
Rise and Fall of Third Reich by William Shirer

Movies:

Dredd 3D
Moonrise Kingdom
Side by Side
Killer Joe
Silver Linings Playbook
End of Watch

 

[Cindres]

Going slow so far. A lot of exams to do this month so little time to read especially. Half way through Game of Thrones.

Cindres - Books: 0/50 | Movies: 1/50
Books:
Movies:

1. Les Miserables

Went to see Les Mis on Friday, absolutely loved it, had zero expectations going in and knew the basic plot but other than that I was knew to it.

 

[Nymerio]

Update

Nymerio - 4/50 Books | 0/50 Movies​

Books

• Pattern Recognition (William Gibson)
• The Emperor's Soul (Brandon Sanderson)
• Ship of Fools (Richard Russo)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)

Movies

 

[Duo014]

Movies
Januari
Rolan the barbarian = bwah
American beauty = Nice
Crazy stupid love = ok
Expendables = meh
Expendables,2 = meh
Real steel = meh
l'auberge espagnol = Nice
Secondhand lions = smile
Shrink = Nice
Last king of california = fun
Piano forest - ( anime ) = enjoyable
Adams Apple's = heavy and enjoyable (scandinavian movie)
Mr. Nobody = wow!
The elephant man = classic!
50/50 = Nice

Februari
Les poupées russes = Nice
Hitchcock = good
The Gay divorce = (oldie with fred astaire) fun.
Cloud Atlas = intreged
Hotel Transilvania = bwah, some nice litlle jokes though:
Wreck-It Ralph = bwah
Lincoln = educational talkie good
Dredd = ok
Taken = meh

March
Grey = meh
I love you philip morris = so good
Beginners = ok
Rise of the Guardians = ok
Up: loveable
Skyfall = quite enjoyed it
21 Jump Street = enjoyable actually
The Master = best actor 2012 for me, Phoenix deserves something for this. Hard movie, so not hollywood <3
Old school = just ok
Goodbye lenin = great
Disney's Aladdin = classic
Big = Ok
Ferris Bueler day off = Ok
Raising Arizona = Fun
Big fish = such a wonderfull film, burtons best movie. One of my favorites
Back to the future = fun
Back to the future 2 = meh
Krull = it's like watching a video game, a bad one
Toy Story = still a magnificant film, finally the movie start to look a lil datee, but everything makes up for it.
Toy Story 2 = great
Toy Story 3 = better then 2
The ghost writer = bwah
Die Falsher = Great
Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind = great

April
Warhorse = ok
Taken 2 = meh
Disney the rescuers = not the best
Disney the rescuers 2 = bwah


Books
None.

 

[SlowRevolution]

SlowRevolution - 3/50 books | 7/50 movies

Books

• The Price of Politics
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
• The New Jim Crow

Movies

• Looper
• John Dies At The End
• Arbitrage
• Zero Dark Thirty
• What To Expect When You're Expecting
• The Way
• Craigslist Joe

 

[Kiraly]

Kiraly - 2/50 books | 2/50 movies​

Books:

• The Fellowship of the Ring (1-15 jan)

Movies:

• Cloud Atlas (1 jan)
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2 jan)

 

[-Stranger-]

Update:

-Stranger- - 0/50 Books | 11/50 Movies

Movies:

Punch Drunk Love
The Bourne Legacy
Senna
The Expendables
Avatar
Skyfall
Blue Valentine
Hugo
Memories of Murder
The Hangover Part II
Following

 

[smiggyRT]

Update - smiggyRT - 0/50 books 10/50 movies

Books

• Coming Soon

Movies

• Cloud Atlas (1st Jan)
• Dredd (1st Jan)
• Killing Them Softly (2nd Jan)
• Indie Game The Movie (3rd Jan)
• Lincoln (4th Jan)
• Killer Joe (4th Jan)
• Django Unchained (6th Jan)
• Zero Dark Thirty (7th Jan)
• Silver Linings Playbook (12th Jan)
• Les Miserables (14th Jan)

Didn't enjoy Les Mis.

 

[Korosenai]

Update

Nub - 1/50 Books | 7/50 Movies

Books

• John Dies at the End

Movies

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• The Shining
• The Departed
• Dredd
• Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone
• Indie Game: The Movie
• John Dies at the End

 

[Empty]

update:

Empty - 2/50 books | 11/50 films

Books -

1. never let me go by kazuo ishiguro
2. the left hand of darkness by ursula k. le guin

Films -

1. the bicycle thief
2. brokeback mountain
3. the thin blue line
4. mission: impossible
5. life of pi 3d
6. the girl who leapt through time
7. les miserables
8. mean streets
9. ocean waves
10. kill bill vol. 1 & 2
11. jiro dreams of sushi

ocean waves is a made for tv film by studio ghibli about a sort of love triangle between three school friends. i was a bit sceptical going in as i hadn't heard much praise for it and made for tv film doesn't inspire much hope but i really enjoyed it, it's a slow grounded drama like 'only yesterday' and it captures adolescent relationships very honestly as well as how people have changed when they leave home and then come back. it's only seventy minutes though, i wish they'd expanded it into a two hour or so full feature.

i'm going to count kill bill as one film as it is meant to be one and my other two films in this update are very short. that said i really enjoyed how both films had a distinct approach to their half of the revenge plot. the first was a very fast moving action flick filled with tons of different ideas and styles chucked at you. it's a bit of a mess with some stuff working better than others but it's an enjoyable ride. the second is a slow moving western with lots of drawn out typical tarantino conversations, briefly punctuated by violence and more human characters, it's not quite as good as his best films in this style but it's still super captivating and i did prefer it to the first volume.

jiro dreams of sushi is a brilliant documentary about a man who has dedicated his entire life to making perfect sushi. he does this by only having ten customers on one table and serving incredibly minimalist dishes made only of the finest ingredients which i thought was pretty cool. i found it inspiring but also a little sad. i wish i had something in my life i was that passionate about and even 1/10th of his incredible work ethic, but i also don't like that he focuses so much on one thing and pushes his children intensely towards that too instead of trying new things and changing as a person.

i've also started reading middlesex by jeffrey eugidines, my first 500+ page book of the year!

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

Baconsaurus - 3/50 Books | 7/50 Movies​

Books

1. World of the Incredible but True by Charles Berlitz
2. Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
3. Franken Fran Vol. 1 & 2 by Katsuhisa Kigitsu

Movies

1. Contact
2. Minority Report
3. Eden of the East I: The King of Eden
4. The Cabin in the Woods
5. Le Scaphandre et la Papillon
6. The Sky Crawlers
7. The Dark Knight Rises

 

[stravinsky]

Update

stravinsky - 2/50 Movies | 2/50 Books

Books:

Of Mice and Men
Kokoro

Movies:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
George Harrison: Living in the Material World

 

[Plywood]

Plywood - 1/50 Books | 4/50 Movies

Books

• Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

Movies

• Gattaca
• The Grey
• Django Unchained
• Warrior

 

[Petit Melon]

Update:

Petit Melon 2/50 books | 7/50 movies

Books:
Bridge to Terabithia (wanted to read the book before watching the movie)
Lucky Man (Michael J. Fox autobiography)


Movies:

• John Carter
• Snow White and the Huntsman
• Paranorman
• Tales of Vesperia - The First Strike
• Some movie about indie comic books I forgot the title of will replace when I find it
• My Little Nightmare (series)
• Cocktail (bollywood)
• Pitch Perfect

 

[Bonethug]

Bonethug - 1/50 Books | 1/50 Movies

Books
01. Mistborn: The Final Empire - Brandon Sanderson

Movies
01. Underworld: Awakening

 

[choodi]

jiro dreams of sushi is a brilliant documentary about a man who has dedicated his entire life to making perfect sushi. he does this by only having ten customers on one table and serving incredibly minimalist dishes made only of the finest ingredients which i thought was pretty cool. i found it inspiring but also a little sad. i wish i had something in my life i was that passionate about and even 1/10th of his incredible work ethic, but i also don't like that he focuses so much on one thing and pushes his children intensely towards that too instead of trying new things and changing as a person.

In this way it is almost like a critique of Japanese culture and the inherent conservatism that the country seems to display when confronted with new or foreign ideas.

 

[AlexM]

AlexM- 1/50 Books | 0/50 Movies

Books
01. Slaughterhouse V - Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Movies

 

[Chuck]

Chuck - 0/50 Books | 5/50 Movies


Books

• Coming Soon

Movies

• Lincoln
• Drive
• Reservoir Dogs
• Premium Rush
• Les Misérables

Les Miséables was a truly amazing musical with performances, specifically that of Anne Hathaway's, that I don't think I'll ever forget. I'm not too familiar with the original play or book, but I don't know how much more I could have enjoyed it. Loved it.

 

[grumpy]

UPDATED 16/01/2013

grumpy - 3/50 Books | 5/50 Movies

Books

• Stephen King - Everything's Eventual
• Stephen King - Cell
• Dan Simmons - Hyperion

Movies

• Cabin in the woods
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
• Paranormal Activity 4
• Silent Hill Revelation

Short review for SHR and PA4: They both fucking suck. Also, Jon Snow's acting range apparently consists only of "Emo" and "Constipated Emo"

 

[-Stranger-]

Update:

-Stranger- - 0/50 Books | 12/50 Movies

Movies:

Punch Drunk Love
The Bourne Legacy
Senna
The Expendables
Avatar
Skyfall
Blue Valentine
Hugo
Memories of Murder
The Hangover Part II
Following
L.A. Confidential

 

[Leopold]

Update


Leopold - 2/50 Books | 12/50 Movies


Books

- Governing the World:The Rise and Fall of an Idea 1815 to the Present by Mark Mazower.

- A Just Zionism: On the Morality of The Jewish State by Chaim Gans

Movies

- Amanhã Nunca Mais
- Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides
- Brave
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- As Good as It Gets
- Taken
- El Secreto de Tus Ojos (The Secret in Their Eyes)
- Seven Psychopats
- Zodiac
- The Silence of the Lambs
- No
- Beyond the Hills

 

[cacophony]

update:
Movies

1. Goodfellas *****
2. Black Dynamite ***
3. Black Swan ****
4. Taxi Driver **
5. Raging Bull *
6. Heat **
7. Drive **

Books

1. The 50th Law *****

holy fuck.. i need to break this streak of terrible movies