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50 Movies. 50 Books. 1 year. - 2013 Edition

Empty

Member
Naw, my first book is something else. Something waaaaaaaay shorter but for some reason I can't read more than a few pages at a time. It really isn't grabbing me at all but I still feel compelled to finish it.

Maybe. ;)

that sounds pretty sucky, i'd just ditch it if i wasn't into it after enough time. when there was a book i had to read for class and wasn't interested i would force myself to read a couple of pages every day and it was awful. never again.
 

Cookie18

Member
1/50 Books | 8/50 Movies

Movies

The Young Victoria
Brave
Sinister
The Lion King
Croupier
Django Unchained
The Weather Man
Enter the Dragon

Books

Bakuman Vol 17

Watched The Weather Man and Enter the Dragon (watching ETD right now) tonight. The Weather Man is an awful film, I kind of wish I had changed channel. This thread made me carry on watching it though, I don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.
 

RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
that sounds pretty sucky, i'd just ditch it if i wasn't into it after enough time. when there was a book i had to read for class and wasn't interested i would force myself to read a couple of pages every day and it was awful. never again.

I'm only like 15 pages in and I've had it on my shelf for 2+ months. It doesn't help that I'm borrowing it from someone and I don't want to just give it back without having read it. :/
 

kinoki

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
kinoki - 0/50 Books | 30/50 Movies

Books
  • Coming soon! I PROMISE!

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) - ★★
  • 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) - ★★
  • Rushmore (1998, dir. Wes Anderson) - ★★★
  • Moneyball (2001, dir. Bennett Miller) - ★★★½
  • J. Edgar (2011, dir. Clint Eastwood) - ★★
  • Doubt (2008, dir. John Patrick Shanley) - ★★★★
  • Valkyrie (2008, dir. Bryan Singer) - ★★★
  • Iron Sky (2012, dir. Timo Vuorensola) - ★★★
  • Cloverfield (2008, dir. Matt Reeves) - ★★★
  • Crash (2004, dir. Paul Haggis) - ★★★½
  • The Magnificent Seven (1960, dir. John Sturges) - ★★★½
  • Stardust (2007, dir. Matthew Vaughn) - ★★★½
  • Cassandra's Dream (2007, dir. Woody Allen) - ★★★
  • Rango (2011, dir. Gore Verbinski) - ★★★½ - This is a gorgeous movie. Earlier this year I saw 9 and felt I was watching a digital cartoon--but this ain't no cartoon. Easy and fun with a big heart. Well acted and well constructed. Better than most Pixar-movies.
  • Haywire (2011, dir. Steven Soderbergh) - ★★★ - The spiritual sequel to The Girlfriend Experience. A fun but empty movie. Gina Carano can handle herself both physicaly and theatrically against her well-casted male ensamble.
  • Horrible Bosses (2011, dir. Seth Gordon) - ★★½ - Spacey, Aniston, Farrell and Fox are having the time of their lives. They're the only reason to see this movie.
  • Wrath of the Titans (2012, dir. Jonathan Liebesman) - ★★★ - I like this movie for exactly the same reason I like the God of War-franchise. It takes mythology and takes it as a backdrop for some action and some basic human emotion. Never saw the first one but can't say I'm interested. A fun diversion.
  • Winter's Bone (2010, dir. Debra Granik) - ★★★ - I don't like the white-trash culture and I'm always uncomfortable around it. But, I did like how this Jennifer Lawrence portrays Ree and I was impressed with how bad ass John Hawkes came off.
  • The Station Agent (2003, dir. Thomas McCarthy) - ★★★½ - A bit on the melancholic side. Charming with some good performances.
  • The Island (2005, dir. Michael Bay) - ★★½ - An entertaining sci-fi flick with some decent visuals. Plot is a bit on the thin side but it kept me watching.

Bonus: 3/24 TV | 5/24 Video Games

TV
  • True Blood (2012, Season 5) - ★★½
  • Game of Thrones (2012, Season 2) - ★★★★
  • House of Cards (2013, Season 1) - ★★★★½ - Apart from dragging for a few episodes this is as gripping and exciting as they come. Really impressed. Netflix, you did good.

Currently watching:
  • Star Trek: The Original Series (1966, Season 1)
  • Banshee (2013, Season 1)


Video Games
  • Deadlight (Tequila Works, 2012, PC) - ★★★★
  • Middle Manager of Justice (Double Fine, 2012, iOS) - ★★★★
  • Sleeping Dogs (United Front Games, 2012, PC) - ★★★
  • Spec Ops: The Line (Yager Development, 2012, PC) - ★★★
  • The Cave (Double Fine, 2013, PC) - ★★★
 

desu

Member
Update

desu - 9/50 Books | 8/50 Movies

Books

The Wheel of Time 1: The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan [831]
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem [212]
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón [540]
The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón [280]
The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafón [204]
1984 by Georg Orwell [270]
The Wheel of Time 2: The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan [754]
The Wheel of Time 3: The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan [698]
The Wheel of Time 4: The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan [1096] [4885]
Reading: The Wheel of Time 5: The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan

Movies

The Ghost Writer
R.E.D
Captain America
Thor
The Avengers
Legion
Salt
Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
 

Jimothy

Member
Jimothy update: 2/50 Books | 13/50 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
John Carter
The Hunger Games
The Apartment
Double Indemnity
 

Yager

Banned
Update:

Yager - 2/50 books | 8/50 movies

Code:
Books: The Caves of Steel (Isaac Asimov), The Naked Sun (Isaac Asimov).

Movies: A Knight in Camelot, Cloud Atlas, Django Unchained, Premium Rush, Into The Wild,
Hitchcock, Where The Wild Things Are, Argo.
 
BrokenEchelon - 4/50 Books | 30/50 Movies​


Books
  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • Dead Souls
  • Les Misérables
  • A Hero of Our Time

Movies
  • Ip Man
  • Nosferatu
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
  • Mary and Max
  • Trainspotting
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • V/H/S
  • Chinatown
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • Leviathan
  • The Andromeda Strain
  • Justice League: Doom
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • Seven Psychopaths
  • Lockout
  • Dracula 3000
  • Django Unchained
  • Zero Dark Thirty
  • Silver Linings Playbook
  • Les Misérables (2012)
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
  • The Girl Who Played with Fire
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
  • Cloud Atlas
  • Life of Pi
  • The Master
  • Wreck-It Ralph
  • Vertigo
 

Mumei

Member
I took most of January to read Sonnets: From Dante to the Present, but I read all of A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich just today. It is my first Solhenitsyn; he's not my favorite Russian author yet, but he was up against some rather stiff competition in Dostoevsky and Nabokov, anyway.

I also read Thomas Holtz's T. rex: Hunter or Scavenger?, but it is a children's ... well I hate to call it a book, maybe a pamphlet. I am not counting it, though it is still going on my Goodreads! :D

And I need to watch more movies. :|

Books​
  1. Tarzan of the Apes, by Edward Rice Burroughs (271)
  2. Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy, by James Stark (258) [529]
  3. The Mark of Athena, by Rick Riordan (586) [1115]
  4. Challenging Casanova, by Andrew Smiler (204) [1319]
  5. Great Singers on Great Singing, by Jerome Hines (358) [1677]
  6. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, by Timothy Snyder (417) [2094]
  7. Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino (165) [2259]
    [*]Sonnets: From Dante to the Present, edited by John Hollander (256) [2515]
    [*]A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solhenitsyn (178) [2693]
  • 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
  • T. rex: Hunter or Scavenger?, by Thomas Holtz

Movies​
  1. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  3. 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
 

Azrael

Member
Books

1. The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett ★★★★
2. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett ★★★★
3. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain ★★★
4. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer ★★★★
5.-6. Fear and Loathing in America (Gonzo Letters) by Hunter S. Thompson ★★★

Movies

1. Rango ★★★
2. Hell is for Heroes ★★★
3. Barton Fink ★★
4. Rope ★★★★
5. How to Train Your Dragon ★★★
6. The Trouble With Harry ★★★★
7. Beasts of the Southern Wild ★★★
8. Thirteen Assassins (2011) ★★
9. The Dhamma Brothers ★★
10. Jack Taylor: The Pikemen ★★
11. Jack Taylor: The Magdalen Martyrs ★★
12. Jack Taylor: The Dramatist ★★
13. Jack Taylor: Priest ★★
14. Sharpe's Eagle ★★
15. The Seventh Seal ★★
16. Zero Dark Thirty ★★★
17. Kill List ★★
18. Harakiri (1963) ★★★★★
19. Death at a Funeral (2007) ★★★
20. Shadow of a Doubt ★★★
21. Beware of Mr. Baker ★★★
22. Synecdoche, New York ★★
23. The Snowtown Murders ★★
 

LuffyZoro

Member
Other than the bad special effects, these were good movies, and fairly accurate adaptations of Pratchett's work. I also watched Groundhog Day today, but that doesn't count because it's a repeat.

LuffyZoro - 3/50 Books | 9/50 Movies​

Books
  • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (A-)
  • Shadow Show (B+)
  • The Rapture of the Nerds (A)

Movies
  • Brave (A-)
  • Bruce Almighty (A)
  • Chronicle (B)
  • Dr. Strangelove (B)
  • Minority Report (B+)
  • Paranorman (A-)
  • American Pop (C+)
    [*]The Color of Magic: Night 1 (B+)
    [*]The Color of Magic: Night 2 (B)
 

Yobalt

Member
Yobalt - 2/50 Books | 14/50 Movies

Books
The Sunset Limited
The Drowned World


Movies
1. Bronson
2. Raging Bull
3. Hard Eight
4. Road to Perdition
5. Matchstick Men
6. Adaptation.
7. Django Unchained
8. The Raid
9. Law Abiding Citizen
10. Batman Under The Red Hood
11. Friday
12. The Killing
13. Brute Force
14. Rope

Less movies and more books for the future.
 
New book:

[*] The Trunk Key by Carolyn Nash. ★★½ -- Picked this up as a cheap Kindle single. I guess you get what you pay for, because the writing was quite plain and repetitive. I felt like the author told everything from their own perspective, instead of giving the characters and voice.
 
Update

TheSchwab_7 - 1/50 books | 7/50 movies | 1/10 Video Games

Books:

1. Savvy by Ingrid Law
2. Zombie Survival Guide - In Progress
3. A Dance With Dragons - In Progress
4. Halo Primordium - In Progress

Movies:

1. Warrior (4/5)
2. Django Unchained (4.5/5)
3. Zero Dark Thirty (4.5/5)
4. Abduction (1.5/5)
5. Religulous (3/5)
6. Chasing Ice (4/5)
7. Lincoln (4.5/5)

Video Games:

1. The Witcher 2
 

Nymerio

Member
Update

Nymerio - 9/50 Books | 4/50 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)
  • Heart-Shaped Box (Joe Hill)
  • Game of Cages: A Twenty Palaces Novel (Harry Connolly)
  • Circle of Enemies: A Twenty Palaces Novel (Harry Connolly)
  • Stormfront (Jim Butcher)
Movies
  • Stardust
  • A Scanner Darkly
  • Savages
  • Sinister
 

AlexM

Member
UPDATE

AlexM- 3/50 Books | 3/50 Movies

Books
01. Slaughterhouse V - Kurt Vonnegut Jr
02. after the quake - Haruki Murakami
03. The Meaning of Life - Bradley Trevor Greive

Movies

01. Goodfellas
02. King of Kong
03. Jiro Dreams of Sushi
04. Looper
 
Update

Frustrated_Grunt - 1/50 books | 7/50 movies

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

Movies -
The King's Speech-Tom Hooper(Rated:9/10; Watched:February 3)
Juro Dreams of Sushi-David Gelb(Rated:9/10; Watched:January 21)
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)
 

Cookie18

Member
1/50 Books | 10/50 Movies

Movies

The Young Victoria
Brave
Sinister
The Lion King
Croupier
Django Unchained
The Weather Man
Enter the Dragon
The A-Team
The Good Shepherd

Books

Bakuman Vol 17

The A-Team wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It's a fairly good mindless movie to watch.

The Good Shepherd is an interesting movie with a bad ending. The ending just didn't wrap anything up. I enjoyed the movie though and the progression from 1939 to 1961 proved interesting enough to keep me watching when I was thinking about turning it off.
 

SolKane

Member
I took most of January to read Sonnets: From Dante to the Present, but I read all of A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich just today. It is my first Solhenitsyn; he's not my favorite Russian author yet, but he was up against some rather stiff competition in Dostoevsky and Nabokov, anyway.


Cancer Ward is one of the finest novels in all Russian literature, imo.
 

Ovid

Member
UPDATE

Tarius1210 - 1/50 Books | 8/50 Movies

Books

  • 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

My first completed book of the year. I really enjoyed it.
 
Forsaken82 – 2/50 Books | 6/50 Movies

Books:
A Dance with Dragons
The Road

Movies:
Looper
V/H/S
American Reunion
Dredd
This Means War
Wrath of the Titans
 

-Stranger-

Junior Member
Update:

-Stranger- - 0/50 Books | 17/50 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
Badlands
The Usual Suspects
Eraserhead


Books:

Coming Soon
 

Bonethug

Member
Update

Bonethug - 9/50 Books | 7/50 Movies

Books
01. Mistborn: The Final Empire - Brandon Sanderson
02. The Long Ships - Frans G. Bengtsson
03. Gun Machine - Warren Ellis
04. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
05. The Well of Ascension - Brandon Sanderson
06. The Tomb (Repairman Jack 1) - F. Paul Wilson
07. Legacies (Repairman Jack 2) - F. Paul Wilson
08. Wool Omnibus - Hugh Howey
09. Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan

Movies
01. Underworld: Awakening
02. Men in Black 3
03. Looper
04. Seven Psychopaths
05. The Bourne Legacy
06. Dredd
07. Skyfall
 

Empty

Member
Empty - 8/50 books | 22/50 films

Books -

1. never let me go by kazuo ishiguro
2. the left hand of darkness by ursula k. le guin
3+4. middlesex by jeffrey eugidenes (533 pages)
5. nothing to envy: real lives in north korea by barbara demick
6. a life too short: the tragedy of robert enke by ronald reng
7. sputnik sweetheart by haruki murakami
8. good omens by terry pratchett & neil gaiman

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
14. tangled
15. queen of versailles
16. django unchained
17. searching for sugarman
18. cache (hidden)
19. prometheus
20. the lives of others
21. wreck it ralph
22. amour

django was fun. bit slack and about as nuanced a portrayl of slavery as you'd expect, but very entertaining. waltz basically plays the same character as in basterds but it's so good.

searching for sugarman was AMAZING. it's a documentary about an obscure american folk rock artist who inexplicably took off in south africa. such a lovely film. i bought the soundtrack on itunes the moment i finished it too.

cache was a very unsettling and puzzling psychological drama about a family who start getting sent unknown tapes of them being recorded. i don't really know what to make of it, gonna need to give its ideas some thought, but the style and mystery made for hypnotic viewing.

sputnik sweetheart is a brief story about a friends romantic relationship and sudden dissappearance that mostly serves about meditation on loneliness and how much we truly know about other people written in the typical murakami style. it was a nice easy read and genuinely sad but i think he's done most of the elements in it better in his other work.

prometheus. fuck off lindelof.

the lives of others is a german film about a cold, lonely agent who conducts a surveillance of an optimistic, extroverted playwright for the soviet police and how this exposure to another life changes him. i thought it was very well made and was moved by its humanity. it's quite theatrical in structure though which makes some of the character development feel a bit rushed.

good omens was good fun. humor style reminded me a lot of douglas adams.

wreck it ralph was quite entertaining. the main character is great and all the videogame stuff makes it feel unique, shame the story feels so boiler plate outside of that and not all the jokes land that well. highlight was the paperman short before though <3

amour is emotionally grueling and brilliant and just destroyed me. my favourite of the best picture nominees that i've seen thus far.
 

Maximilian E.

AKA MS-Evangelist
Update: 2 new movies


Maximilian E. - 2/50 Books | 7/50 Movies

Books
Steve Jobs biography
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare

Movies
Vertigo
Samsara
North by northwest
To catch a thief
The Hobbit
Looper
Django Unchained
 
Baconsaurus Rex - 5/50 Books | 15/50 Movies

Books
  • World of the Incredible but True by Charles Berlitz
  • Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Franken Fran Vol. 1-8 by Katsuhisa Kigitsu
  • Oyasumi Punpun Vol. 1-11 by Asano Inio
  • Deadpool #1
  • The Walking Dead #104-106

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
  9. Seven Psychopaths
  10. Dredd 3D
  11. Where the Wild Things Are
  12. Looper
  13. Eden of the East the East II: Paradise Lost
  14. Ivan's Childhood
  15. The Fall
 
Illithid Dude -2/50 books | 24/50 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
Act of Valor
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Sweet Smell of Success
Kingdom of Heaven: Directors Cut
Night of the Hunter
Kiss Me Deadly
TheRoyal Tenebaums

Books:

Catcher in the Rye
Hot Pink
 

smiggyRT

Member
Update - smiggyRT - 0/50 books 13/50 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)
  • The Midnight Meat Train (2nd Feb)
  • Wreck It Ralph (4th Feb)

Workload slowing me down recently.
 

Salsa

Member
im keeping a .txt with every book im reading/movie im watching so far, do I need to update it here in real time? seems like a hassle :p
 

Nymerio

Member
Update

Nymerio - 10/50 Books | 4/50 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)
  • Heart-Shaped Box (Joe Hill)
  • Game of Cages: A Twenty Palaces Novel (Harry Connolly)
  • Circle of Enemies: A Twenty Palaces Novel (Harry Connolly)
  • Stormfront (Jim Butcher)
  • Fool Moon (Jim Butcher)
Movies
  • Stardust
  • A Scanner Darkly
  • Savages
  • Sinister

@Salsa: No need to update in real time, once in a while is ok, I think.
 

-Stranger-

Junior Member
Update:

-Stranger- - 0/50 Books | 18/50 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
Badlands
The Usual Suspects
Eraserhead
Oceans


Books:

Coming Soon
 

Cookie18

Member
1/50 Books | 12/50 Movies

Movies

The Young Victoria
Brave
Sinister
The Lion King
Croupier
Django Unchained
The Weather Man
Enter the Dragon
The A-Team
The Good Shepherd
Predators
Breathless

Books

Bakuman Vol 17

I watched Predators and Breathless yesterday. I only watched Predators while waiting for Breathless to come on TV but I was pleasently surprised at how good it is. Adrien Brody is way better than I thought he would be.

Breathless is an amazing film. It has lived up to my high expectations for South Korean cinema and completely rejustified my belief that South Korea has the best film industry in the world right now.
 
IamMattFox - 5/50 books | 11/50 movies

Books
  • Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End
  • American Gods [500+]
  • Wool Omnibus [500+]

Movies
  • Looper
  • Skyfall
  • The Amazing Spider-Man
  • Dredd
  • Glengarry Glen Ross
  • Bowfinger
  • Justice League: Doom
  • The Game
  • Barton Fink
  • Moonrise Kingdom
  • Seven Psychopaths
 

EVOL 100%

Member
Watched Cabin in the Woods, I liked it a lot.


EVOL 100% - 4/50 books | 2/50 movies


Books

  1. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself - Kim Young-ha &#9733;&#9733;½&#9734;&#9734;
  2. &#50500;&#46993;&#51008; &#50780; - Kim Young-ha &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½
  3. &#45224;&#54620;&#49328;&#49457; - Kim Hoon &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9734;
  4. Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoyekvsky &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9734;


Movies

  1. Adaptation - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½
  2. The Cabin In the Woods &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9734;
 
New movie:

Casa de mi Padre. &#9733; -- Such an odd, unsatisfying movie. It wasn't funny and it wasn't interesting. The worst Will Ferrell project yet, and that's saying something.
 

EVOL 100%

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Finished another book by Kim Young-ha. It's a pity that the works of his that have been translated to English seem to be his worst. I really like his work, he reads like a less surreal Murakami with prose that doesn't suck when he's good.


EVOL 100% - 5/50 books | 2/50 movies


Books

  1. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself - Kim Young-ha &#9733;&#9733;½&#9734;&#9734;
  2. &#50500;&#46993;&#51008; &#50780; - Kim Young-ha &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½
  3. &#45224;&#54620;&#49328;&#49457; - Kim Hoon &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9734;
  4. Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoyekvsky &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9734;
  5. &#50648;&#47532;&#48288;&#51060;&#53552;&#50640; &#45184; &#44536; &#45224;&#51088;&#45716; &#50612;&#46523;&#44172; &#46104;&#50632;&#45208; - Kim Young-ha &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½&#9734;


Movies

  1. Adaptation - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½
  2. The Cabin In the Woods &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9734;


..I noticed by the pace I'm going, I'll never be able to reach the goal. It's not like I have better things to do. Better read and watch more and laze around less.
 
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TheSchwab_7 - 1/50 books | 7/50 movies
Books:

1. Savvy
2. Zombie Survival Guide - In Progress
3. A Dance With Dragons - In Progress
4. Halo Primordium - In Progress
5. Moon Over Manifest - In Progress
6. Love & Logic - In Progress

Movies:

1. Warrior (4/5)
2. Django Unchained (4.5/5)
3. Zero Dark Thirty (4.5/5)
4. Abduction (1.5/5)
5. Religulous (3/5)
6. Chasing Ice (4/5)
7. Lincoln (4.5/5)
 
New book:

[*]Sourcery by Terry Pratchett. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½ -- One of the most interesting Discworld setups so far, but it feels like it went absolutely nowhere. It ends with little consequence or resolution. Felt a bit like a filler book in the series.
 

Cartman86

Banned
UPDATE

Cartman86 - 1/50 Books | 13/50 Movies

Books
All-Star Superman (B-)

Movies
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (A-)
Les Misérables (B)
Bernie (B+)
ParaNorman (B+)
Rec (B+)
Killer Joe (A)
Magic Mike (B)
The Sound of My Voice (B)
Zero Dark Thirty (A)
Seven Psychopaths (A-)
Sleepwalk With Me (B)
Warm Bodies (B-)
Triangle (A-)

Was not expectingTriangle to be what it was. Based on everything I had seen beforehand I was expecting something completely different. It was just a lot of fun to watch, and has a particularly brutal moment that really sealed the deal for me. It certainly has the type of plot that you will never be able to piece together fully which always annoys someone like me, but I think it works enough.
 
SlowRevolution - 5/50 books | 13/50 movies

Books
  • The Price of Politics
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • The New Jim Crow
  • American Gods
  • America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't

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
  • Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
  • In Bruges
  • Alien
  • The Five-Year Engagement
 

Ovid

Member
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Tarius1210 - 2/50 Books | 7/50 Movies

Books

  • Game of Thrones
  • Outliers: The Story of Success
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

Overall a good book. Fell apart a bit in the second half though.
 
BrokenEchelon - 6/50 Books | 32/50 Movies​


Books
  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • Dead Souls
  • Les Misérables
  • A Hero of Our Time
  • Sense and Sensibility
  • Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Movies
  • Ip Man
  • Nosferatu
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
  • Mary and Max
  • Trainspotting
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • V/H/S
  • Chinatown
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • Leviathan
  • The Andromeda Strain
  • Justice League: Doom
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • Seven Psychopaths
  • Lockout
  • Dracula 3000
  • Django Unchained
  • Zero Dark Thirty
  • Silver Linings Playbook
  • Les Misérables (2012)
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
  • The Girl Who Played with Fire
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
  • Cloud Atlas
  • Life of Pi
  • The Master
  • Wreck-It Ralph
  • Vertigo
  • Warrior
  • Witness for the Prosecution
 

kinoki

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
kinoki - 1/50 Books | 32/50 Movies

Books
  • The God Delusion (2006) by Richard Dawkins - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733; - American christianity (and most other religions too) is a scary thing. And Dawkins has a few points, but this book is a mess most of the time. It's a long rant that every now and then makes some good points.

Currently reading:
  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) by Jane Jacobs
  • The Signal and the Noise (2012) by Nate Silver

Movies
  • Moonrise Kingdom (2012, dir. Wes Anderson) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • Carnage (2011, dir. Roman Polanski) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • Secretary (2002, dir. Stephen Shainberg) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • 9 (2009, dir. Shane Acker) - &#9733;&#9733;½
  • Four Rooms (1995, dir. Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, +2) - &#9733;&#9733;
  • Paul (2011, dir. Greg Mottola) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • Bottle Rocket (1996, dir. Wes Anderson) - &#9733;&#9733;
  • The Butterfly Effect (2004, dir. Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • Revolver (2005, dir. Guy Richie) - &#9733;&#9733;
  • Impostor (2001, dir. Gary Fleder) - &#9733;&#9733;
  • Pinapple Express (2008, dir. David Gordon Green) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • The Terminal (2004, dir. Steven Spielberg) - &#9733;&#9733;
  • Rushmore (1998, dir. Wes Anderson) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • Moneyball (2001, dir. Bennett Miller) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½
  • J. Edgar (2011, dir. Clint Eastwood) - &#9733;&#9733;
  • Doubt (2008, dir. John Patrick Shanley) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • Valkyrie (2008, dir. Bryan Singer) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • Iron Sky (2012, dir. Timo Vuorensola) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • Cloverfield (2008, dir. Matt Reeves) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • Crash (2004, dir. Paul Haggis) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½
  • The Magnificent Seven (1960, dir. John Sturges) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½
  • Stardust (2007, dir. Matthew Vaughn) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½
  • Cassandra's Dream (2007, dir. Woody Allen) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • Rango (2011, dir. Gore Verbinski) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½
  • Haywire (2011, dir. Steven Soderbergh) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • Horrible Bosses (2011, dir. Seth Gordon) - &#9733;&#9733;½
  • Wrath of the Titans (2012, dir. Jonathan Liebesman) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • Winter's Bone (2010, dir. Debra Granik) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • The Station Agent (2003, dir. Thomas McCarthy) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½
  • The Island (2005, dir. Michael Bay) - &#9733;&#9733;½
  • This is England (2006, dir. Shane Meadows) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733; - I hate bullies and stories like this affect me. The direction is flawless and actors all give heartfelt performances.
  • Control (2007, dir. Anton Corbijn) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733; - Perfect compliment to This is England. Realised stunningly in black and white with some great performances from everyone involved.

Bonus: 3/24 TV | 7/24 Video Games

TV
  • True Blood (2012, Season 5) - &#9733;&#9733;½
  • Game of Thrones (2012, Season 2) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • House of Cards (2013, Season 1) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½

Currently watching:
  • Star Trek: The Original Series (1966, Season 1)
  • Banshee (2013, Season 1)
  • Boardwalk Empire (2011, Season 2)


Video Games
  • Deadlight (2012, Tequila Works, PC) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • Middle Manager of Justice (2012, Double Fine, iOS) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • Sleeping Dogs (2012, United Front Games, PC) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • Spec Ops: The Line (2012, Yager Development, PC) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • The Cave (2013, Double Fine, PC) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
  • Quantum Conundrum (2012, Airtight Games, PC) - &#9733; - Ouch. I held out as far as I could. This is just bad in so many ways. The puzzles are boring, the jokes are meaningless and the art design is empty. There's a massive disconnect between the player and the character you're playing. John de Lancie is wasted as the professor. Compare it to Portal and you have a monologue about Portal.
  • God of War III (2010, Santa Monica Studio, PS3) - &#9733;&#9733;&#9733; - Not as good as the two previous God of Wars but a damn fine action game in its own right. A bit boring toward the end and the tension has trouble building. From a narrative point of view it's all over the place. Finally finished it. One less game on the backlog.

&#9733; = Bad, &#9733;&#9733; = Okay, &#9733;&#9733;&#9733; = Good, &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733; = Very good, &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733; = Brilliant
 

Jimothy

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Jimothy update: 2/50 Books | 15/50 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
  • John Carter
  • The Hunger Games
  • The Apartment
  • Double Indemnity
  • Anna Karenina
  • The Master
 

Ovid

Member
UPDATE

Tarius1210 - 2/50 Books | 8/50 Movies

Books

  • Game of Thrones
  • Outliers: The Story of Success
Movies
  • After Porn Ends
  • The Flaw (2011)
  • Think Like A Man
  • Gun Fight (2011)
  • Horrible Bosses
  • Marathon Man
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • The Social Network
 

Nymerio

Member
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Nymerio - 11/50 Books | 4/50 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)
  • Heart-Shaped Box (Joe Hill)
  • Game of Cages: A Twenty Palaces Novel (Harry Connolly)
  • Circle of Enemies: A Twenty Palaces Novel (Harry Connolly)
  • Stormfront (Jim Butcher)
  • Fool Moon (Jim Butcher)
  • Grave Peril (Jim Butcher)
Movies
  • Stardust
  • A Scanner Darkly
  • Savages
  • Sinister
 
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