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[Manik]

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Manik - 3/50 Books | 9/50 Movies

Books:
Soon I Will Be Invincible - Austin Grossman (C)
Them: Adventures With Extremists - Jon Ronson (A)
The Man In The High Castle - Philip K Dick (B)

Movies:
Grizzly Man (2nd Jan) (B)
Tintin (3rd Jan) (A)
Hugo (5th Jan) (B)
The Lorax (8th Jan) (C)
Four Lions (9th Jan) (C-)
Cave Of Forgotten Dreams (10th Jan) (C)
TiMER (13th Jan) (D)
Exit Through The Gift Shop (15th Jan) (A)
Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows (15th Jan) (C)

 

[foomfoom415]

**Update 1/20

foomfoom415 - 5/50 Books | 5/50 Movies

Books
01. John Dies at the End by David Wong ★★★★★
02. House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds ★★★★★
03. Bossypants by Tina Fey ★★★☆☆
04. 11/22/63 by Stephen King ★★★☆☆
05. Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi ★★☆☆☆

Movies
01. Skyfall ★★☆☆☆
02. Ted ★☆☆☆☆
03. Beasts of the Southern Wild ★★★★☆
04. Dredd ★★☆☆☆
05. Pitch Perfect ★★★☆☆

 

[kinoki]

kinoki - 0/50 Books | 20/50 Movies

Books

• Coming soon!

Currently reading:

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) by Jane Jacobs
• The God Delusion (2006) by Richard Dawkins
• The Signal and the Noise (2012) by Nate Silver

Movies

• Moonrise Kingdom (2012, dir. Wes Anderson) - ★★★★
• Carnage (2011, dir. Roman Polanski) - ★★★★
• Secretary (2002, dir. Stephen Shainberg) - ★★★
• 9 (2009, dir. Shane Acker) - ★★½
• Four Rooms (1995, dir. Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, +2) - ★★½
• Paul (2011, dir. Greg Mottola) - ★★★
• Bottle Rocket (1996, dir. Wes Anderson) - ★★
• The Butterfly Effect (2004, dir. Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber) - ★★★
• Revolver (2005, dir. Guy Richie) - ★★
• Impostor (2001, dir. Gary Fleder) - ★★
• Pinapple Express (2008, dir. David Gordon Green) - ★★★
• The Terminal (2004, dir. Steven Spielberg) - ★★½ - One of Sir Steven's weaker films. Felt like his heart wasn't in it. To be honest it's just a waste of time. Hanks is wasted. The only one who seems to have any fun is Stanley Tucci.
• Rushmore (1998, dir. Wes Anderson) - ★★★ - Now I've seen all of Wes Anderson's movies. Just as I thought "his" movies really begin The Royal Tenenbaums. This isn't bad by any means but I find the whole plot and premise fruitless to talk about as he's just hitting his stride as a director and storyteller. A promise of things to come and a fun movie.
• Moneyball (2001, dir. Bennett Miller) - ★★★½ - As a child my first love was sport's stastics. I think I have most of my mathematical smarts to thank for it. So, I have a soft spot for movies like this. It's engaging and smart and it's been since Lagaan that I've seen a sport's movie worth watching.
• J. Edgar (2011, dir. Clint Eastwood) - ★★ - Clint Eastwood directs yet another imitation of a real movie. Stiff as wood and well acted. No enjoyment to be had outside of some good acting.
• Doubt (2008, dir. John Patrick Shanley) - ★★★★ - This is how you direct suspense. Great performances from everyone. I'm in the "not guilty"-camp.
• Valkyrie (2008, dir. Bryan Singer) - ★★★ - It's good I guess. It's not really that suspenseful since you know how it's going to end. Overall good actors following a good director with a good script doing nothing really worth noting.
• Iron Sky (2012, dir. Timo Vuorensola) - ★★★ - I have a hard time not loving this movie. It's so stupid and fun. I'm amazed at the production values.
• Cloverfield (2008, dir. Matt Reeves) - ★★★½ - I liked it. The whole time I kept thinking "the video game industry could learn a thing or two about creating jaw dropping set pieces from this movie". It really delivered on its premise.
• Crash (2004, dir. Paul Haggis) - ★★★½ - Coming into this film my expectations were low. What I knew was that it was an large cast and that it won a bunch of oscars. It was better than I expected, but it certainly robbed Münich of its oscar.

Bonus: 2/24 TV | 3/24 Video Games

TV

• True Blood (2012, Season 5) - ★★½
• Game of Thrones (2012, Season 2) - ★★★★ - The second season isn't as good or has the same addicting pacing as the first. But, what it amounts to is among the best TV ever.

Currently watching:

• Star Trek: The Original Series (1966, Season 1) - While I've watched episodes in the past I've never seen them like this as a series. Having an awesome time and I've missed alot of episodes.
• Banshee (2013, Season 1) - Two episodes in and I don't know what to think. I hate the flashback filter and the premise seems thin at best. But I'm sticking with it.
  

Video Games

• Deadlight (2012, PC) - ★★★★
• Middle Manager of Justice (2012, iOS) - ★★★★½
• Sleeping Dogs (2012, PC) - ★★★ - The uncanny valley is upon us in video game story telling. It's a step in the right direction but the uncanny is deepest just before the dawn. It's good but the problems are jarring. As a game the vehicles handle a bit stiff, gunplay is stiff, fighting is stiff (compared to Batman which it rips off), parkour is stiff and the city is a bit stiff. I like it but there room for improvement. Looking forward to the sequel.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

RatskyWatsky - 0/20 TV | 0/25 Books | 25/50 Movies

TV

• Coming Soon

Books

• Coming Soon

Movies

• How to Steal a Million
• Crash
• Terminator 2: Judgement Day
• Jiro Dreams of Sushi
• Shakespeare in Love
• Tiny Furniture
• Arabian Nights
• Bottle Rocket
• Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
• Take Her, She's Mine
• Jackie Chan's Project A
• Dead Space: Downfall
• Dead Space: Aftermath
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• The Fighter
• A Cat in Paris
• The Grey
• Let's Make Love
• Paris is Burning
• The Thing (1982)
• Alakazam The Great
• Chris and Don: A Love Story
• Harold and Maude
• Small Town Gay Bar
• Enter The Void

Paris is Burning is a documentary that provides a fascinating look into the gay "Ball" subculture during the 1980s in New York City. A hallmark of queer cinema and a must watch for gay movie buffs.

Enter The Void FUCK YES ALL OVER MY TITS OMG

 

[Mumei]

Update

Books​

1. Tarzan of the Apes, by Edward Rice Burroughs
2. Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy, by James Stark
3. The Mark of Athena, by Rick Riordan
4. Challenging Casanova, by Andrew Smiler
5. Great Singers on Great Singing, by Jerome Hines

• Batman & Robin: Batman Reborn (Vol 1), by Grant Morrison
• The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, or, There And Back Again, by J.R.R. Tolkien
• To What Miserable Wretches Have I Been Born: Revenge Poetry for Babies and Toddlers, by Suzanne Weber

Movies​

1. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
   [*]Aliens

• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Extended Edition

Things without a number are things I am not counting.

 

[SlowRevolution]

SlowRevolution - 3/50 books | 9/50 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
• Jackie Brown
• Following

Jackie Brown was great, not one of my favorite Tarantino movies but somewhere in the middle. Fantastic soundtrack.

I was surprised at how good Following was, I loved the atmosphere. Cobb (Alex Haw) kind of reminded me of the Joker a few times; I have no clue whether or not they looked back at him at all for the characterization, but I definitely saw some similarities. I was really impressed with his acting considering it's the only movie he's been in.

 

[Ovid]

UPDATE

Tarius1210 - 0/50 Books | 7/50 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
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

 

[Kelpie]

I'm starting late but I'd like to join too!

Kelpie - 0/50 books | 3/50 movies​

Books

Currently Reading: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson​

Movies

1. Iron Sky, 01/12
2. Old Boy, 01/15
3. Ivanhoe (1952), 01/16

 

[W1SSY]

UPDATE

W1SSY - 6/50 Books | 13/50 Movies

Books

• Wool: Book 1 by Hugh Howey
• Wool: Book 2 by Hugh Howey
• Wool: Book 3 by Hugh Howey
• Wool: Book 4 by Hugh Howey
• Wool: Book 5 by Hugh Howey
• Y: The Last Man

Movies

• Battle Royale
• Gasland
• Tetris: from Russia with Love
• Full Metal Jacket
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Expendables 2
• Django Unchained
• Freakonomics
• Snatch
• Catfish
• Buried
• Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters
• Dredd

I finished up the Wool series and really enjoyed it. They are a compilation of short stories that you can get from amazon for rather cheap. Apparently the author wrote two more books in the series so I will probably work on reading those next.

 

[Chuck]

Chuck - 0/50 Books | 6/50 Movies


Books

• Coming Soon

Movies

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

LOVED LOVED LOVED Paranorman. It completely blew my socks off. Fantastic writing, incredible score, and amazing amazing animation. Everything about it was top top notch.

When it started I could not believe how amazing it looked. The fidelity and the quality of animation of everything could not have looked better. It's as good as Aardman works in every way. Loved the exaggerated style of everything too.

From there, the movie played with some common tropes in ways that never felt forced, but felt fresh and since the writing and voice over was so good, it made it feel like the world feel truly realized. And man was the vo great.

It was tense, scary, funny, sad, heart warming, and just a great journey with this one special middle schooler.

I highly recommend this to absolutely anyone as it is already one of my favorite movies to come out in 2012.

And If this doesn't win the Oscar it will be a total travesty.

 

[Don]

UPDATE

Don - 1/50 Books | 12/50 Movies​

Books

• 1984 - George Orwell

Movies

• The Loved Ones
• Taxi Driver
• 30 Minutes or Less
• Big Trouble in Little China
• Martha Marcy May Marlene
• The Roommate
• Army of Darkness
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
• Texas Chainsaw 3D
• Collateral
• Shinjuku Incident

Just finished my first book of the year so here is my first update.

 

[VegaNine]

Update

VegaNine - 5/50 Books | 32/50 Movies​

Books

• A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
• The Shape of Content - Ben Shahn
• The ABC of Reading - Ezra Pound
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Divided Self - R.D. Laing

Movies

• And Then There Were None (1945)
• Black Sunday (1960)
• The Agony and the Ecstasy
• Black Sabbath
• School For Scoundrels (1960)
• The Southerner
• They All Laughed
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
  [*]A Canterbuy Tale
  [*]Bus Stop
  [*]Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
  [*]Svengali (1931)
  [*]The Red Balloon (1956)
  [*]City Lights
  [*]The Evil Dead (1981)
  [*]Army of Darkness
  [*]The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
  [*]Island of Lost Souls
  [*]Night Train to Munich
  [*]Bedazzled (1967)
  [*]Ballerina (2006 doc)
  [*]A Woman Is a Woman
  [*]The Lavender Hill Mob
  [*]Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
  [*]The Leopard Man
  [*]The Ghost Ship (1943)
  [*]The Wind (1928) - best thus far
  [*]Alice In Movieland
  [*]The Sea Hawk (1940)

Getting myself ahead on the 500 movie challenge cost me a few books this week, so I may have to put a stop to it. Oh well.

 

[smiggyRT]

Update - smiggyRT - 0/50 books 11/50 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)
• Seven Psychopaths (16th Jan)

Loved Seven Psychopaths, Sam Rockwell is quickly becoming a favourite of mine.

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

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

What the fuck

 

[cashman]

Yay finally on the scoreboard! So far I've got:

- 2/50 books 1/50 movies

Books

• Cloud Atlas (x2)

Movies

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  

Would Watchmen count as one of my books?

 

[Red]

Finished Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikolai Tesla, started Einstein: His Life and Universe.

 

[-Stranger-]

Update:

-Stranger- - 0/50 Books | 13/50 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
Altered States

 

[Illithid Dude]

Illithid Dude -2/50 books | 15/50 movies

Movies:

Killer Joe
The Frighteners
Primer
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Django Unchained
Leon: The Professional
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Extended Edition
Dazed and Confused
Charade
Dark City
Orpheus
Sunset Boulevard
The Innkeepers
Chungking Express

Books:

Catcher in the Rye
Hot Pink

 

[Tragicomedy]

update:
Movies

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

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

Does NOT compute. How did you not like Taxi Driver or the best boxing movie ever made? Terrible movies? Lord have mercy!

 

[cacophony]

both were boring as hell & felt pointless to me. the only thing I appreciate about Taxi Driver is that it's still relevant today in terms of cases of mental illness. Raging Bull... a boxer who beats women.. that's about all I got from it. Drive was incredibly the first 10 minutes and then the girl came & ruined everything. Ryan Gosling risking his life for some girl he said about 3 words to.. all the dialogue & awkward pauses were so corny.

 

[MajorGravy]

Ok I'm in:

0/50 Books | 8/50 Movies

Books: 0/50
The Hobbit (in progress)

Movies: 8/50
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol - 7/10
Django Unchained - 9/10
Killing Them Softly - 7/10
No Strings Attached - 6/10
Ong Bak 1 - 7/10
A Good Day to Die Hard - 6/10 (nice action sequences)
Resident Evil: Retribution - 7/10
Source Code - 8/10

Video games: 5/50
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
Dead Space 2
Metro 2033
Red Faction: Armageddon
Splinter Cell: Conviction

In progress games:
Darksiders
Fallout 3

Recently got a library card so books shouldn't be a problem

Also have Amazon Prime so movies thing should be easy.

I'm gonna do one more though! 50 video game stories. XD Gotta bring my Steam backlog down!

update Feb 21 dang I've really dropped the ball on the books part. Just started a Spring semester with a full schedule. Will still try to read in between though!

 

[Cookie18]

1/50 Books | 4/50 Movies

Movies

The Young Victoria
Brave
Sinister
The Lion King

Books

Bakuman Vol 17

Sinister is a pretty good movie, I didn't find it at all scary but it is an incredibly well made film and I really appreciated the attention to small details.

I can't believe I've only watched 3 new films. This is the fault of showing all my friends films that I have already seen and know are good.

Edit: Forgot I watched The Lion King too. Very overrated.

 

[Tragicomedy]

both were boring as hell & felt pointless to me. the only thing I appreciate about Taxi Driver is that it's still relevant today in terms of cases of mental illness. Raging Bull... a boxer who beats women.. that's about all I got from it. Drive was incredibly the first 10 minutes and then the girl came & ruined everything. Ryan Gosling risking his life for some girl he said about 3 words to.. all the dialogue & awkward pauses were so corny.

Well, ummmmm, okay. Drive was ridiculously good. The driver was supposed to be a shy, awkward guy with dark undertones. He snapped and destroyed anyone who wanted to hurt the woman and boy he loved.

Raging Bull was a character study about the seedy and violent world of boxing. It's incredibly relevant even today, where fighters are praised and rewarded for beating the hell out of each other, then expected to turn it off outside the ring. De Niro was top shelf.

 

[Tragicomedy]

UPDATE.

Tragicomedy - 5/50 Books | 4/50 Movies​

Books

• Mort by Terry Pratchett. ★★★ -- Very interesting personification of Death. The story started off strong, but lost steam when it meandered into a conflicting realities angle. Everything was predictably wrapped up nicely with a bow tie, which ran counter to my hopes.
• Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett. ★★★★
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Stevenson. ★★★★½
• The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett. ★★★★
• The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett. ★★★½

Movies

• Drive. ★★★★★
• Looper. ★★★½
• Indie Game: The Movie. ★★★★
• The Queen of Versailles. ★★★

 

[Suairyu]

Suairyu - 1/50 Books | 1/50 Movies

Books

• Dead Run, by Joe Jackson and William Burke Jnr.

Movies

• Michael Jackson's This Is It

Dead Run by Joe Jackson and William Burke Jnr

The story of Dennis Stockton, his execution by the State of Virginia in 1995, the inherent moral bankruptcy of any justice system that permits the death penalty, the inherent corruption of the private prison system, and the US' only mass escape from death row, lead by the Briley Brothers.

Fuck me, this book broke me to tears in the end. While the author heavily leans towards Stockton being innocent, it never steps into stating as such. Instead, it points out that innocent or guilty, the US justice system failed him and countless others, a system that concludes "It is not unconstitutional to wrongly execute someone so long as it was done within the rules."

Were I a religious man, I would be convinced advocates of the death penalty do not have a cushy afterlife awaiting them.

 

[Gregorn]

Edit: Forgot I watched The Lion King too. Very overrated.

Oh most defiantly, the entire second half after the time skip is so boring.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Ew, I've literally never seen my name misspelled like that in all my 30+ years, OP. So gross.

BenjaminBirdie - 3/50 books | 5/50 movies+​

Books
1. All The Wrong Questions 1: "Who Could That Be At This Hour?" by Lemony Snicket ****
2. The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg ****
3. Tune 1: Vanishing Point by Derek Kirk Kim ****

Movies
1. This Is 40 ****
2. Casa De Mi Padre ****1/2
3. Super 8 ***
4. Les Miserables ****
5. Margaret ****1/2

So glad I'm not running this thread! I stressed over dropping the ball on it all year!

Don't forget to join up: http://www.fiftyfifty.me/

 

[Atrophis]

Atrophis - 1/50 Books | 8/50 Movies

Movies

1. Up (3/5, watched 01/01)
2. We Need To Talk About Kevin (4/5, watched 02/01)
3. Deadgirl (2/5, watched 03/01)
4. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (4/5, watched 03/01)
5. Stake Land (4/5, watched 04/01)
6. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (3/5, watched 04/01)
7. The Grey (3/5, watched 04/01)
8. Accident (3/5, watched 18/01)

Books

1. Haunted - James Herbert (2/5, started 04/01 - finished 06/01)
2. Perdido Street Station - China Mieville (started 06/01...)

Bonus Round

1/?? TV

1. Star Trek: Deep Space 9 - series 3

Not updated for ages. Making steady progress on Perdido Street Station. Going to try and get a few more films watched this weekend.

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

Baconsaurus - 3/50 Books | 8/50 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
4. Oyasumi Punpun Vol. 1-7 by Asano Inio
5. Deadpool #1

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
8. The Hurt Locker

I'll figure out how to count the books and comics later. Italics are ongoing series or things I haven't finished yet

 

[Jimothy]

2/50 Books | 9/50 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
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Face/Off
Witness

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Finally on the board.

KuwabaraTheMan 3/50 Books | 0/50 Movies

Books:
Caliban's War (x2)
Star Wars: Edge of Victory I: Conquest

Movies:
nothing yet

I finally finished a book, but it counts twice since it was over 500 pages. Caliban's War definitely kept me engrossed the whole time, and now I'm really looking forward to the third book in the series. The style of these books really make you keep turning the page and wanting to see what happens next.

 

[McCloud?]

Update

McCloud? - 5/50 Books | 4/50 Movies

Books
1. Magic Hours, Tom Bissell
2. You're Not Doing It Right, Michael Ian Black
3. The Beautiful Struggle, Ta-nehisi Coates
4. Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality (33 1/3), John Darnielle
5. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon

Movies
1. Tiny Furniture
2. Detropia
3. From Russia With Love
4. No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson

I'm counting 30 for 30 episodes as movies, since they're 90 minute, standalone documentaries on their own. I tore through Lot 49 for the Idle Book Club and...I'm not sure what the hell I just read.

 

[TheSchwab_7]

Update

TheSchwab_7 - 0/50 books | 6/50 movies

Books:

1. Savvy - In Progress

Movies:

1. Warrior (A-)
2. Django Unchained (A)
3. Zero Dark Thirty (A)
4. Abduction (D)
5. Religulous (C)
6. Chasing Ice (B)

 

[lunch]

I finally watched a movie, so I'm totally going to do this.

lunch - 0/50 Books | 1/50 Movies​

Books

Movies

1. Amour ★★★★★

 

[Illithid Dude]

Illithid Dude -2/50 books | 16/50 movies

Movies:

Killer Joe
The Frighteners
Primer
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Django Unchained
Leon: The Professional
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Extended Edition
Dazed and Confused
Charade
Dark City
Orpheus
Sunset Boulevard
The Innkeepers
Chungking Express
Mean Streets

Books:

Catcher in the Rye
Hot Pink

I really gotta get cracking on those books...

 

[GasProblem]

GasProblem - 2/50 books | 3/50 movies

Books

• Idea History of Criminal law
• Penitentiary law

Movies

• Les Miserables
• Gangster Squad
• Django Unchained

Book was just a textbook for an exam.

Saw both Gangster Squad and Django last night. Awesoooome

 

[mu cephei]

Update

mu cephei - 2/50 books | 4/50 films​

Books

Frankenstein
Wool Omnibus

Films

Brief Encounter
Total Recall (the remake)
Shadow of a Doubt
Wendy and Lucy

I enjoyed all of it, even the Total Recall remake (basically fight-chase-fight-chase with good-looking people in a lovely scifi cityscape). Wool got a bit dull halfway through. Wendy and Lucy took about 10 minutes to get into, but I thought it was really good.

 

[SaltyDoughnut]

Are we counting books of poetry in our tally?

 

[Ovid]

UPDATE

Tarius1210 - 0/50 Books | 8/50 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
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
• 2001: A Space Odyssey

 

[Frustrated_Grunt]

Update

Frustrated_Grunt - 1/50 books | 5/50 movies

Books -
The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained DK Publishing (Rated 9/10; Read January 12)

Movies -
Seven Samurai-Akira Kurosawa(Rated:10/10; Watched:January 19)
The Mist-Frank Darabont (Rated:8/10; Watched:January 11)
Looper-Rian Johnson(Rated:7/10; Watched:January 8)
Django Unchained-Quentin Tarantino (Rated:10/10; Watched:January 5)
The Pianist-Roman Polanski (Rated:9/10; Watched:January 2)

God, why did it take me so long to watch Seven Samurai? So good.

 

[Forsaken82]

Updated - Forsaken82 – 0/50 Books | 4/50 Movies

Books: 0/50
In Progress – A Dance with Dragons

Movies: 3/50
Looper
V/H/S
American Reunion
Dredd


Slow burn for me. So fucking busy.

 

[Mumei]

Are we counting books of poetry in our tally?

I think it depends on the book, really. If you think it is worth counting, count it.

Copying Mumei's formatting, because Mumei is all right, I guess.

I love you, too.

 

[Nymerio]

Update

Nymerio - 5/50 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)
• I Suck at Girls (Justin Halpern)

Movies

 

[AlexM]

UPDATE

AlexM- 2/50 Books | 0/50 Movies

Books
01. Slaughterhouse V - Kurt Vonnegut Jr
02. after the quake - Haruki Murakami

Movies

 

[taoofjord]

UPDATE

taoofjord - Books 4/50 | Movies 6/50

BOOKS
Fellowship of the Ring - 4/4
Killshot - 3/4
Legion - 3/4
A Diary of a Young Girl - 4/4

MOVIES
Drive - 4/4
Star Wars: A New Hope - 3/4
Looper - 2/4
Inglourious Basterds - 4/4
The Cabin in the Woods 3/4
Brave 2/4

 

[IamMattFox]

IamMattFox - 3/50 books | 8/50 movies

Books

• Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End
• American Gods

Movies

• Looper
• Skyfall
• The Amazing Spider-Man
• Dredd
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• Bowfinger
• Justice League: Doom
• The Game

 

[Kud Dukan]

Kud Dukan - 4/50 Books | 5/50 Movies​

Books:

• The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches From the Front Lines by Michael E. Mann
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Movies:

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Django Unchained
• Contact
• Les Misérables
• Zero Dark Thirty

 

[-Stranger-]

Update:

-Stranger- - 0/50 Books | 14/50 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
Altered States
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

 

[Maximilian E.]

UPDATE: Books and movies

2/50 Books - 6/50 Movies

Books
Steve Jobs biography
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare

Movies
Vertigo
Samsara
To Catch a Thief
North by Northwest
The Hobbit
Bronson (Movie not so good but Tom Hardy is spectacular)

 

[Empty]

update:

Empty - 2/50 books | 13/50 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
12. mission: impossible 2
13. a separation

mission impossible 2 is a spy action film with a flimsy plot about a virus being stolen that isn't worth summarizing. it continues the trend of having an big name action film director bring their distinct voice to the series with john woo replacing brian da palma. out goes the complex thriller plot and in comes loads of cheese, over the top performances, even worse dialogue and slow-mo action scenes. it's nearly entirely a exercise in style and i really disliked the style of the film from the tackiness of tom cruise in an obnoxious haircut throwing his oakley sunglasses at the camera which then explode or motorbiking in a leather jacket through fire, the inexplicable birds everywhere and the goofy slowmo martial arts and shooting. there's some cheese value in there but generally pretty poor.

a separation is an iranian film about a legal dispute between two struggling families amidst a divorce. it's really hard to make sound interesting in a sentence, i wrote that four different ways and i'm still not happy with it but it's an absolutely brilliant film. the script is amazing, each character has a believable and well developed perspective ( aided by excellent performances) and it captures the web of moral ambiguity in these kind of disputes where everyone is both right in some way but also wrong, and where tragically the consequences are nearly impossible to untangle. yet despite that complexity it also moves at a good pace and unravels in a very dramatic and clear way, has fascinating looks at the role of religion in iranian society and the different legal system, and the use of child characters trapped in the web of these flawed people and the stark depictions of dealing with family members with alzheimers makes it very sad. i highly recommend it.

still reading middlesex. about half way through, hopefully i'll finish it this week.