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[Ovid]

Update: 2/13

Current Books: 1

• Sula by Toni Morrison

Current Movies: 10

• Django Unchained
• Skyfall
• Back to the Future
• Craiglist Joe
• Freakonomics
• Back to the Future 2
• Back to the Future 3
• The Goonies
• The Untouchables
• Memento

I'm reading like 3 or 4 books at once. I'll finish one eventually. lol

You just watched three of my all-time favorite movies. Back to the Future 1, 2 and The Goonies (this is my #1).

What did yo think of them?

 

[Kud Dukan]

Kud Dukan - 6/50 Books | 9/50 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
• The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
• The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

Movies:

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Django Unchained
• Contact
• Les Misérables
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Batman: Year One
• Mystery Men
• The Dark Knight Returns Part 1
• The Dark Knight Returns Part 2

 

[BrokenEchelon]

BrokenEchelon - 7/50 Books | 34/50 Movies​

Books

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

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
• Secondhand Lions
• The Fighter

 

[-Stranger-]

Update:

-Stranger- - 0/50 Books | 24/50 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
Contraband
The Tunnel
Lost in Translation
Never Let Me Go
Being John Malkovich
Beasts of the Southern Wild




Books:

Coming Soon

 

[Atrophis]

Atrophis - 2/50 Books | 10/50 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)
9. Dreams of a Life (3/5, watched 08/02)
10. Rebecca (4/5, watched 14/02)

Books

1. Haunted - James Herbert (2/5, started 04/01 - finished 06/01)
2. Perdido Street Station - China Mieville (4/5, started 06/01 - finished 12/02)
3. Starman: David Bowie - The Definitive Biography - Paul Trynka (started 13/02)

Bonus Round

2/?? TV

1. Star Trek: Deep Space 9 - series 3
2. Silent Witness - series 16

 

[SlowRevolution]

SlowRevolution - 6/50 books | 15/50 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
• Firestarter

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
• Adaptation.
• Rachel Getting Married

 

[Nappuccino]

Movies

I Saw the Devil (4.5/5)
Dredd (4/5)
MIB 3 (3.5/5) Much better than the second. If the villain was better, I might even say it was better than the first. But he's not so it isn't.
Troll Hunter (3/5) Great premise and good acting. Doesn't really go anywhere and the ending (spoilers) of "The teens mysteriously vanished" was something I knew was going to happen from the beginning. Don't really get why they were afraid of the guys at the end, but I guess they were right to be?

Books

Nemisis by Jo Nesbo. 3.5
Caught by Halen Coben. 2/5
Angels of the House 3.5/5[/QUOTE]

 

[RatskyWatsky]

RatskyWatsky - 12/20 TV | 0/25 Books | 44/50 Movies

TV

• Bob's Burgers (1 season so far)
• The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (2 seasons)
• Xam'd: Lost Memories (1 season)
• Crash (2 seasons)
• Sleeper Cell (2 seasons)
• Afro Samurai (1 season)
• TO (2 episode OVA)
• House of Cards (1 season)
• Lilyhammer (1 season)
• Elfen Lied (1 season)
• Lights Out (1 season)
• Terriers (1 season)

Books

• Coming Soon

Movies

• 
  ~ January ~
• 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
• Winter's Bone
• Wasabi
• Irreversible
• The Usual Suspects
• We're Not Married
• The Ambassador's Daughter
• Chinatown
• Robocop
• Apocalypse Now Redux
• Groundhog Day
• ~ February ~
• Sexual Chronicles of a French Family
• The Workshop
• Ned Kelly
• Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
• Marriage Italian Style
• Jim Jefferies: Fully Functional
• The Graduate
• ~ March ~
• Wreck It Ralph
• The Amazing Spider-Man

 

[Leopold]

Update

5/50 Books | 19/50 Movies

Books

- The Professor of Desire - Philip Roth

Movies

- Un Cuento Chino/Chinese Take-Out
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Les Miserables

 

[Setre]

Setre - 3/50 Books | 21/50 Movies

Books:

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Ground Zero (Repairman Jack #13)
Last Argument of Kings

Movies:

Total Recall (2012)
Looper
Troll Hunter
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Dredd
Django Unchained
Zero Dark Thirty
The Crazies (2010)
Fright Night (2011)
Limitless
Primer
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
Dream Home
Taken
Star Trek (2009)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
The Woman In Black
My Scary Girl
Following
Fido
The Bigfoot Hunter: Still Searching

 

[Tragicomedy]

New movie:

[*] Bernie. ★★½ -- I had high hopes for this film and it fell short. Jack Black was solid, and casting locals from Carthage was a great choice by Linklater. All in all, too slow to be very enjoyable.

 

[choodi]

choodi - 2/50 Books | 13/50 Movies​

Films

1. The Man with the Iron Fists (B)
2. The Men Who Stare at Goats (C)
3. The Inbetweeners Movie (A)
4. The Social Network (A)
5. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (D)
6. This is 40 (C)
7. Skyfall (B)
8. Hotel Transylvania (B)
9. Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (C)
10. Bachelorette (D)
11. Pitch Perfect (D)
12. Django Unchained (B)
13. Lincoln (A)

Books

1. Inverting the Pyramid: The history of football tactics - Jonathan Wilson (A)
2. A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (B)

Django was pretty good, especially considering that I don't really like any of Tarantino's post-Jackie Brown work.

Lincoln was a masterpiece. Even though I have no interest in American history, I found it thoroughly enthralling and compelling. Fantastic storytelling and performances from Daniel Day Lewis and Tommy Lee Jones.

A Memory of Light was a fitting conclusion to a series that I have been reading for more than 12 years. Like the rest of the volumes, it had its good and bad points, but overall it has to rank as one of the most ambitious and expansive fantasy epics ever. I would have like to see a bit more of an epilogue, as the characters had become so familiar over the years, but I guess with Jordan dead, it was never going to happen. Sad to see it end, but happy at the same time that we even got an ending.

 

[Nezumi]

Update:

Nezumi - 7/50 books | 9/50 movies​

Books:

• The novel my husband wrote for NaNoWriMo
• Before they are hanged - Joe Abercrombie
• A betrayel in winter - Daniel Abrahams
• Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
• Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe
• The great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

Movies:

• Brick
• Inspector General
• Indie Game the Movie
• Ijon Tichy - Raumpilot Season 2
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Chronicle
• Prometheus
• Speed Racer
• Brave

Brave was a cute movie. Not the best pixar but by far not the worst. Loved the hair animation

Shadow of the Torturer was a strange book. Really strange. But at the same time it was also really intriguing, so I will definitly read the rest of the series.

 

[kinoki]

kinoki - 3/50 Books | 37/50 Movies

Books

• Dawnkins, Richard (2006), "The God Delusion" [465p] - ★★★
• Fexeus, Henrik (2009), "Konsten att läsa tankar" (eng. The Art of Reading Minds) [267p] - ★★★ - Fexeus is a self-described mentalist and magician. I read this book in order to prepare for a show he was hosting. Interesting read on how to read people's minds withouth telepathy.
• Lotass, Lotta (2006), "Min röst skall nu komma från en annan plats i rummet (eng. My Voice Shall Now Come From Another Part of the Room) [198p] - ★★★ - I would describe it as a collection of poems and short-stories detailing the inner workings of serial killers and their place in the modern world. I'm not fascinated by the deranged; I'm mostly sickened. It would, however, make a great movie.

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
• Haywire (2011, dir. Steven Soderbergh) - ★★★
• Horrible Bosses (2011, dir. Seth Gordon) - ★★½
• Wrath of the Titans (2012, dir. Jonathan Liebesman) - ★★★
• Winter's Bone (2010, dir. Debra Granik) - ★★★
• The Station Agent (2003, dir. Thomas McCarthy) - ★★★½
• The Island (2005, dir. Michael Bay) - ★★½
• This is England (2006, dir. Shane Meadows) - ★★★★
• Control (2007, dir. Anton Corbijn) - ★★★★
• The Town (2010, dir. Ben Affleck) - ★★★★ - Mr. Affleck is turning into a good director. This works like a Heat-light. It doesn't carry the same tag of stunning craftmanship but it's by no means an inferiour product. Looking forward to watching Argo later this year.
• Legend of the Guardians: The Owles of Ga'hoole (2010, dir. Zack Snyder) - ★★½ - I wonder how this even came to be, it doesn't seem like a passion-project like Rango. It's entertaining but never really amounts to anything special.
• Django Unchained (2012, dir. Quentin Tarantino) - ★★★★ - Not what I expected. This is probably the least Tarantinoesque movie he's ever directed. It has never been so fun watching white people get killed.
• Cloud Atlas (2012, dir. Wachowskis + Tom Tykwer) - ★★★★ - I don't think I picked up on the "why?" but I'm not sure it needed it. It made me interested. Guess I'll have to read that book, speaking of which...
• Metropia (2009, dir. Tarik Saleh) - ★★★ - The aestetic really brings the eerie to this world of post-apocalyptic scandinavia. The story is a bit shallow but it keeps things interesting.
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011, dir. Stephen Daldry) - ★★ - There are some really powerful scenes in this movie. But, despite the horrific and tragic scenes it doesn't quite know what to do with the narrative. It shakes you but it never really means anything.

Bonus: 3/24 TV | 11/24 Video Games

TV

• True Blood (2012, Season 5) - ★★½
• Game of Thrones (2012, Season 2) - ★★★★
• House of Cards (2013, Season 1) - ★★★★½

Video Games

• Deadlight [PC] (2012, Tequila Works) - ★★★★
• Middle Manager of Justice [iOS] (2012, Double Fine) - ★★★★
• Sleeping Dogs [PC] (2012, United Front Games) - ★★★
• Spec Ops: The Line [PC] (2012, Yager Development) - ★★★
• The Cave [PC] (2013, Double Fine) - ★★★
• Quantum Conundrum [PC] (2012, Airtight Games) - ★
• God of War III [PS3] (2010, Santa Monica Studio) - ★★★
• Iron Brigade [PC] (2011, Double Fine) - ★★★ - The tower-defence genre has never been my genre. Don't have the patience. But, this is the most tolerable I've played so far. I'm assuming building mechs has something to do with it (something-something child-hood-fantasy).
• The Walking Dead [PC] (2012, Telltale Games) - ★★★★ - It's a good thing that they chose to make a zombie game because their other games are as populated as ghost towns. I'm looking at you Back to the Future. The only good Telltale adventure episodic game (Puzzle Agent is alot of good) and not only is it good, it's really good. And it isn't afraid to throw some punches on touchy subjects.
• Machinarium [PS3] (2012, Amanita Design) - ★★★ - I don't really have the patience for point and click adventure games of this calibur. Finished half the game last year and the rest this year. But I do acknowledge great art-design, some (not all) intuitive puzzles and an amazing soundtrack.
• Brütal Legend [PC] (2013, Double Fine) - ★★★★½ - This game was designed with me in mind. Some wonky controls aside this is probably the game that makes me the happiest playing.

★ = Bad, ★★ = Okay, ★★★ = Good, ★★★★ = Very good, ★★★★★ = Brilliant

 

[Tragicomedy]

New book:

[*] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. ★★★ -- Lots of noticeable differences from the film version. The biggest change is the overall tone of the book is significantly darker than the film, what with the tin woodsman beheading creatures. It's a short read but still managed to get quite repetitive by the end.

 

[AndyD]

AndyD - 5/50 books | 11/50 movies

Movies:
Iron Skies, Extreme Measures, Midnight in Paris, Predator, True Lies, Duck Soup, The Producers, Django Unchained, Pursuit of Happiness, Galaxy Quest, Next

Books:
The Historian, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Gone Girl, The Physician

 

[SaltyDoughnut]

SaltyDoughnut - 3/50 Books | 9/50 Movies | 3/24 TV Seasons | 3/24 Games​

Books:
Now reading: Invisible Man, Hamlet, Game of Thrones, Dead Man Walking
-★★★- Meditations in an Emergency - Feb 9th
-★★★★½- Crime and Punishment [551 pages] - Jan 6th

Movies:
-★★★½- Jean de Florette - Feb 22nd
-★★★★- The Kids Are All Right - Feb 16th
-★★★- Blue Valentine - Jan 27th
-★★★★½- Django Unchained - Jan 26th
-★★★- In Bruges - Jan 24th
-★★★- Boogie Nights - Jan 13th
-★★★½- Zero Dark Thirty - Jan 12th
-★★★★- Shame - Jan 7th
-★★★½- Les Misérables - Jan 2nd

TV Seasons:
Now watching: Samurai Champloo, Band of Brothers, House of Cards s1, Girls s2
-★★★½- Downton Abbey season 3 - Feb 17th
-★★½- Anohana - Jan 26th
-★★★½- Girls season 1 - Jan 11th

Games:
Now playing: Ni no Kuni, Uncharted: GA, Walking Dead, Forza Horizon, GW2
-★★½- Gunman Clive - Jan 25th
-★★★★- Sound Shapes - Jan 14th
-★★★★- Hotline Miami - Jan 11th

 

[Mumei]

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]
8. Sonnets: From Dante to the Present, edited by John Hollander (256) [2515]
9. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solhenitsyn (178) [2693]
10. The Complete Dinosaur, Second Edition, edited by Michael K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., and James O. Farlow (1181) [3874]
11. The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances, by Peter S. Beagle (180) [4054]
12. Unearthing the Dragon: The Great Feathered Dinosaur Discovery, by Mark Norell (244) [4298]
13. A Canticle for Liebowitz, by Walter M. Miller (334) [4632]
    [*]Maria Callas: A Musical Biography (224) [4856]

• 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
• Akira (Vol 1 - 6)
  [*]The Lord of the Rings

Movies​

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

• 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

 

[smiggyRT]

Update - smiggyRT - 0/50 books 16/50 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)
• The One (6th Feb)
• Metal Tornado (6th Feb)
• Tyson (10th Feb)

 

[Tragicomedy]

New movie:

[*] The Two Escobars. ★★★½ -- I grew up watching and playing futbol (soccer) in South America, and am quite familiar with the murder of Andres Escobar after his own goal in the 1994 World Cup. What this film does is juxtapose his humble, simple love for life with a far more infamous Colombian, Pablo Escobar. This is a tense and moving documentary. Fair warning: it's 95% in Spanish with subtitles.

 

[kingslunk]

Kingslunk - 2/50 Books | 8/50 Movies

Books:

• A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire #2)
• A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire #3)

Movies:

• Zero Dark Thirty
• The Impossible
• The Last Stand
• Mama
• Primer
• Side Effects
• Warm Bodies
• Identity Thief

 

[Ovid]

UPDATE

Tarius1210 - 3/50 Books | 18/50 Movies

Books

• Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Accused by Harold R. Daniels

Movies

• After Porn Ends (2010)
• The Flaw (2011)
• Think Like A Man
• Gun Fight (2011)
• Horrible Bosses
• Marathon Man
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Social Network
• Red Riding Hood
• Flight
• Universal Solider: Regeneration
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
• Easy A
• Casablanca (1942)
• Cabin in the Sky (1943)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Bullitt (1968)
• Spellbound (1945)

Continuing my trend of classic films.

 

[Maklershed]

Time for a bi-monthly update

New stuff in bold ....

Books
1. The Heroes
2. The Dispossessed
3. In the Garden of Beasts
4. Foundation
5. Foundation and Empire
6. Second Foundation
7. Wilderness: A Novel
8. Foundation's Edge

Movies
1. Dredd
2. The Dark Knight Rises
3. Headhunters
4. Chronicle
5. The Hunger Games
6. Wrath of the Titans
7. Quantum of Solace
8. The Immortals
9. Skyfall

Games
1. Borderlands 2
2. Heavy Rain
3. Far Cry 3

 

[Illithid Dude]

I've gotten so lazy on this it's ridiculous.

Illithid Dude -2/50 books | 26/50 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
The Royal Tenebaums
Battle of Algiers
Purple Noon

Books:

Catcher in the Rye
Hot Pink

 

[Nymerio]

Update

Nymerio - 13/50 Books | 5/50 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)
• Summer Knight (Jim Butcher)
• Death Masks (Jim Butcher)

Movies

• Stardust
• A Scanner Darkly
• Savages
• Sinister
• Skyfall

Yeah, I could imagine reading a book during the commute and one at home, but I don't think I could do it.

 

[KuwabaraTheMan]

How does reading multiple books at once work? I'm genuinely interested. I was thinking about doing this but I don't think I can do this. If you read like 3 hours a day and you read 3 books, do you change books every hour? Or do you have a book for your commute, one at home and one at work? I can't imagine doing this, if I'm reading a book I just read through it and move on the next when I'm done.

For me, I usually read one chapter of a book, and then grab the next book in my stack and read a chapter or two of that, and so on. I like it, because it helps me keep everything fresh and change up what I'm reading pretty regularly.

I'm usually reading at least 6 books at any one time.

 

[Empty]

i'm like three pages away from my last post so fuck da police etc

Empty - 8/50 Books | 23/50 Movies

update

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
23. argo

saw both wreck in ralph and amour today in a really bi-polar double bill that probably worked as well as ghibli's japanese my neighbour totoro - grave of the fireflies one.

wreck it ralph was quite enjoyable. ralph's characterization as a lovable depressive and the videogame world make it feel fresh and are generally well done and endearing, but unfortunately are stuck onto quite a dull plot that's typical childrens fare. lots of fun seeing all the game references - i think i saw an "aerith lives" graffiti'd on one of the walls which made me giggle. best bit was the wonderful paperman short before though <3

amour is about a elderly husband looking after his wife who has a stroke and starts to deteriorate physically. i found it really emotionally grueling and totally destroyed me. it's complex, frustrating and masterfully constructed leaving you with loads to mull over on the walk home. i watched hanaeke's cache the other day and found his use of silence eerie in that, here's it's employed to similarly strong effect and is just brutal. despite those comments it's also very human and the "amour" element is sometimes beautiful. i hope it wins best picture or at least best screenplay and actress.

finally saw argo. entertaining thriller, it's a great story and it's told in a funny, exciting and fairly stylish way (70s period piece <3). can see it being the crowd-pleasing choice for best picture, especially with it being a film partially about film-making and the america fuck yeah side to it. i found it quite similar to gattaca but would compare the core character drama in agro unfavorably to that film, the main characters relationship with his family and personal struggles are too much in the background to give it real impact. there's also loads of really contrived clock ticking tense moments near the end too that feel so cheap. still, i had a fun time with it.

 

[Tragicomedy]

New book:

[*] Body by You by Mark Lauren. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733; -- While written primarily for a female audience, this is the spiritual successor to You Are Your Own Gym, which is a superb bodyweight training guide. Some decent tips about nutrition and metabolic rate, but nothing earth shattering.

Also, my last update post is four pages ago, so I'll probably post it again next page even if the OP still isn't updated.

 

[smiggyRT]

Update - smiggyRT - 0/50 books 23/50 movies

Books

• Coming Soon

Movies

• 
  [1]Cloud Atlas (1st Jan)
  [2]Dredd (1st Jan)
  [3]Killing Them Softly (2nd Jan)
  [4]Indie Game The Movie (3rd Jan)
  [5]Lincoln (4th Jan)
  [6]Killer Joe (4th Jan)
  [7]Django Unchained (6th Jan)
  [8]Zero Dark Thirty (7th Jan)
  [9]Silver Linings Playbook (12th Jan)
  [10]Les Miserables (14th Jan)
  [11]Seven Psychopaths (16th Jan)
  [12]The Midnight Meat Train (2nd Feb)
  [13]Wreck It Ralph (4th Feb)
  [14]The One (6th Feb)
  [15]Metal Tornado (6th Feb)
  [16]Tyson (10th Feb)
  [17]Assassination of a High School President (17th Feb)
  [18]TPB AFK (17th Feb)
  [19]Rise of the Guardians (Feb 18th)
  [20]Deep Impact (19th Feb)
  [21]Star Wars Episode IV (20th Feb)
  [22]Bobby Fischer Against The World (23rd Feb)
  [23]Warm Bodies (24th Feb)

 

[thomaser]

Thomaser: 1 book - 2 movies

Books:
1: Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
(2): Tunnel Vision - Sara Paretsky (halfway through)
(3): Sociolinguistics. A Reader and Coursebook - Nicolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski (halfway through)

Movies:
1: Frankenweenie
2: Inception

 

[Azrael]

Books

1. The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
2. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
3. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
4. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
5.-6. Fear and Loathing in America (Gonzo Letters) by Hunter S. Thompson &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
7. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;

Movies

1. Rango &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
2. Hell is for Heroes &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
3. Barton Fink &#9733;&#9733;
4. Rope &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
5. How to Train Your Dragon &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
6. The Trouble With Harry &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
7. Beasts of the Southern Wild &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
8. Thirteen Assassins (2011) &#9733;&#9733;
9. The Dhamma Brothers &#9733;&#9733;
10. Jack Taylor: The Pikemen &#9733;&#9733;
11. Jack Taylor: The Magdalen Martyrs &#9733;&#9733;
12. Jack Taylor: The Dramatist &#9733;&#9733;
13. Jack Taylor: Priest &#9733;&#9733;
14. Sharpe's Eagle &#9733;&#9733;
15. The Seventh Seal &#9733;&#9733;
16. Zero Dark Thirty &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
17. Kill List &#9733;&#9733;
18. Harakiri (1963) &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
19. Death at a Funeral (2007) &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
20. Shadow of a Doubt &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
21. Beware of Mr. Baker &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
22. Synecdoche, New York &#9733;&#9733;
23. The Snowtown Murders &#9733;&#9733;
24. Astral City: A Spiritual Journey &#9733;
25. Sanjuro &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
26. Side Effects &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
27. The Princess and the Frog &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
28. Beautiful Creatures &#9733;&#9733;
29. Brewster's Millions (1945) &#9733;&#9733;
30. Oslo, August 31st &#9733;&#9733;

 

[grumpy]

UPDATED 18/02/2013

grumpy - 7/50 Books | 8/50 Movies

Books

• Stephen King - Everything's Eventual
• Stephen King - Cell
• Dan Simmons - Hyperion
• Dan Simmons - The Fall of Hyperion
• Stephen King - Misery
• Stephen King - The Dark Half
• Stephen King - Lisey's Story

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
• Bitch Slap
• Black Swan
• The Avengers

 

[deleted]

Updated the OP - Thanks to everyone who adopted to the new updating style, it's much appreciated! Everyone who is new to the thread, please read the OP and post #813 and following for rules and insight on the updating process.

UPDATE

Kwixotik - 3/50 Books | 21/50 Movies

Yes, I've never seen Star Wars V or VI before now...
Or Indiana Jones II and III. Those are probably coming up.

How much did you enjoy them? Have you watched IV and I-III before? It's not very often, that I meet somebody that dives into Star Wars relatively fresh... I suspect you knew most of the plot beforehand? And if you enjoyed Raiders, you're in for a treat! Indiana Jones II is something completely different and III is back to the roots awesome.

I updated my OP but I will post updates from now on, that I assume is easier for the Original Poster to keep track of?

Please look here and in the following few posts for a bit more insight on how to update: #813

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

Nope, do it on your terms. Once a month, every few weeks/days.. doesn't matter. Most of the daily updates come from people that keep track of their list in here entirely is my guess.

Time for another update:

xyla - 4/50 books | 11/50 movies

Books:

1. A Clash of Kings 7/10
   [*]Homicide 8/10

currently reading: Terry Pratchet - Nightwatch and A Storm for Swords

Movies:

1. Pandorum 5/10
2. I Saw the Devil 7/10
3. The Joneses 6/10
4. Conan the Destroyer 6/10
5. Bottle Rocket 7/10
6. Moonrise Kingdom 8/10
7. Synecdoche, New York 9/10
8. Cosmopolis 6/10
9. Dredd 8/10
10. Django Unchained 8/10
11. The Bourne Legacy 6/10
    [*]Hotel Transylvania 6/10
    [*]Brazil 8/10
    [*]30 minutes or less 7/10
    [*]Stolen 6/10
    [*]21 Jump Street 7/10
    [*]Parker 6/10
    [*]Punch Drunk Love 7/10
    [*]Justice League: Doom 5/10
    [*]Immortals 6/10
    [*]Hesher 7/10

Brazil was amazingly strange and weird. A beautiful relict of an imaginative decade for movies. 30 Minutes or Less was a comedy homage to buddy-cop movies of that era, that fell a bit short compared to Hot Fuzz, but was enjoyable nonetheless. Watch it for the chase scene alone!
Stolen on the other hand reminded me of Thrillers of the 90s. It was solid. Had I seen it in the 90s, I would have liked it way more than I did. Parker was better than I thought, but nothing compared to the better Statham movies. Solid movie, bad action sequences. Punch Drunk Love was interesting, but it wasn't struck by lightning. Expected more, considering it was Paul Thomas Anderson, but I liked it in the end.
Hesher was a nice little story about coming to terms with the loss of a loved one and a bit unpredictable. And funny.

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

Baconsaurus Rex - 5/50 Books | 17/50 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
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Oyasumi Punpun Vol. 1-11 by Asano Inio
• Deadpool #1-4
• The Walking Dead #104-106

Movies

1. Contact (1997)
2. Minority Report (2002)
3. Eden of the East I: The King of Eden (2009)
4. The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
5. Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (2007)
6. The Sky Crawlers (2008)
7. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
8. The Hurt Locker (2008)
9. Seven Psychopaths (2012)
10. Dredd 3D (2012)
11. Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
12. Looper (2012)
13. Eden of the East the East II: Paradise Lost (2010)
14. Ivan's Childhood (1962)
15. The Fall (2006)
16. Control (2007)
17. Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)

 

[TheSchwab_7]

Update

TheSchwab_7 - 2/50 books | 7/50 movies
Books:

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

 

[TestMonkey]

UPDATE

TestMonkey - 11/50 Books | 21/50 Movies​

Books

• The Bride Wore Black Leather by Simon R. Green
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
• If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell
• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
• Monster by A. Lee Martinez
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• Divine Misfortune by A. Lee Martinez
• The Accidental Sorcerer by K.E. Mills

Movies

• Wing Chun
• The Warrior's Way
• Demetri Martin. Person.
• Ip Man 2
• Lisa Lampanelli: Long Live the Queen
• Lisa Lampanelli: Take It Like a Man
• Superman vs. the Elite
• Afro Samurai: Resurrection
• Pablo Francisco: Ouch!
• Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
• A Good Day to Die Hard
• The Raven
• Get Bruce!
• Live at the Beacon Theater
• Felipe Esparza: The're Not Gonna Laugh At You
• Batman: Year One
• All-Star Superman
• Doctor Strange
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• The Avengers
• Bodyguards and Assassins

 

[Tim_South]

Update:

tim_south - 5/50 books | 11/50 films

Books:

The Deep Blue Good-By by John D Macdonald
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
A Firing Offense by George Pelecanos
A Few Seconds of Panic by Stefan Fatsis
Indignation by Philip Roth


Films:

Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
The Master (2012)
City of God (2002)
Flight (2012)
The Game (1997)
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012)
The Impossible (2012)
Madeinusa (2006)
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Even the Rain (2010)

 

[Jimothy]

Jimothy update: 2/50 Books | 18/50 Movies

Books:

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

Movies:

• Dredd 3D (2012)
• Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
• Side by Side (2012)
• Killer Joe (2012)
• Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
• End of Watch (2012)
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
• Face/Off (1997)
• Witness (1985)
• John Carter (2012)
• The Hunger Games (2012)
• The Apartment (1960)
• Double Indemnity (1944)
• Anna Karenina (2012)
• The Master (2012)
• The Tree of Life (2011)
• Detachment (2011)
• Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

 

[-Stranger-]

Update:

-Stranger- - 0/50 Books | 27/50 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
Contraband
The Tunnel
Lost in Translation
Never Let Me Go
Being John Malkovich
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Holy Motors
Crazy Stupid Love
V/H/S




Books:

Coming Soon

 

[AlexM]

UPDATE

AlexM- 4/50 Books | 4/50 Movies

Books
01. Slaughterhouse V - Kurt Vonnegut Jr
02. after the quake - Haruki Murakami
03. The Meaning of Life - Bradley Trevor Greive
04. 2 B R 0 2 B - Kurt Vonnegut

Movies

01. Goodfellas
02. King of Kong
03. Jiro Dreams of Sushi
04. Looper
05. Horrible Bosses

 

[guest1321]

guest1321 - 2/50 Books | 17/50 Movies

Books

• The Lean Startup
• Mass Effect: Revelation

Movies

• The Usual Suspects
• The Bourne Legacy
• Blade Runner
• Unknown
• Snow White and the Huntsman
• Batman: Year One
• Hit & Run
• Road to Perdition
• Taken 2
• Thor
• Die Hard
• Die Hard 2: Die Harder
• Die Hard with a Vengeance
• Risky Business
• Dredd
• The Dark Knight Rises: Part 2
• Lawless

EXTRAS

6/24 TV Shows | 4/24 Games

TV Shows

• Bones - Season 1
• Californication - Season 5
• Avengers - Season 1
• The Walking Dead - Season 1
• Bones - Season 2
• Bones - Season 3

Games

• Forza Horizon (360)
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted (360)
• Far Cry 3 (360)
• Sleeping Dogs (360)
• The Room (iOS)

 

[Glaurungr]

Glaurungr - 26/50 books | 09/50 movies

New entries in italic.

Books:

1. Agatha Christie - Poirot Investigates (1924)
2. Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper - Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949 (1994)
3. Bart D. Ehrman - Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don't Know About Them) (2009)
4. Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Fury (2006)
5. Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol (1843)
6. David Gemmell - Quest for Lost Heroes: Book Four of The Drenai Tales (1990)
7. Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle (1986)
8. Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
9. Edwin A. Abbott - Flatland (1884)
10. Jón Viðar Sigurðsson - The Norse Society: The Viking, King, Archbishop, and Farmer (2008)
11. Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)
12. Melitta Weiss Adamson - Food in Medieval Times (2004)
13. Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book (2008)
14. Peter Connolly - The Roman Fort (1991)
15. Robert Bly - My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (2005)
16. Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson - A Memory of Light: Book Fourteen of The Wheel of Time (2013)
17. Siri Walen Simensen - Women During the War (2009)
18. Terry Pratchett - Only You Can Save Mankind: Book One of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1992)
19. Terry Pratchett - Johnny and the Dead: Book Two of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1993)
20. Terry Pratchett - Johnny and the Bomb: Book Three of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1996)
21. Terry Pratchett - Nation (2008)
22. Terry Pratchett - Dodger (2012)
23. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990)
24. Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld (1999)
25. Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (2002)
26. Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (2005)

Films:

1. Argo - Ben Affleck (2012)
2. Happy Feet Two - George Miller (2011)
3. Johnny Mnemonic - Robert Longo (1995)
4. Minority Report - Steven Spielberg (2002)
5. ParaNorman - Sam Fell and Chris Butler (2012)
6. Skyfall - Sam Mendes (2012)
7. Taken 2 - Olivier Megaton (2012)
8. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Jackson (2012)
9. Wreck-It Ralph - Rich Moore (2012)

Now reading:

• Gro Steinsland (ed.) - The Dream Poem and Texts from the Nordic Middle Ages

 

[Nezumi]

Update:

Nezumi - 7/50 books | 12/50 movies​

Books:

• The novel my husband wrote for NaNoWriMo
• Before they are hanged - Joe Abercrombie
• A betrayel in winter - Daniel Abrahams
• Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
• Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe
• The great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

Movies:

• Brick
• Inspector General
• Indie Game the Movie
• Ijon Tichy - Raumpilot Season 2
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Chronicle
• Prometheus
• Speed Racer
• Brave
• The Cabin in the Woods
• Fitzcarraldo
• Eraserhead

Well normally I'm not such a big fan of horror-movies. I don't know, they kind of lost the appeal for me when I was old enough to watch them legally. This one surprised my though because I have to admit that I found the premise really fresh and enjoyed the littlle winks to all the cliches of older movies.

Fitzcarraldo did nothing for me. I'm pretty sure that the scenes with the ship being dragged were quite impressive for the time but other than that I found it to be pretty boring. That and I really don't like Klaus Kinski.

Eraserhead was just too weird for my taste. Maybe I did not understand it. But then again I wonder if it is even possible to understand it just by watching it. Or maybe the whole intention was that it shall not be understood?

 

[BrokenEchelon]

BrokenEchelon - 9/50 Books | 34/50 Movies​

Books

• Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented
• Dead Souls
• Les Misérables
• A Hero of Our Time
• Sense and Sensibility
• Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
• Ivanhoe
• Fathers and Children
• In Search of Lost Time

Movies

• Ip Man
• Nosferatu (1922)
• 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 (1989)
• 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 (2012)
• Wreck-It Ralph
• Vertigo
• Warrior
• Witness for the Prosecution
• Secondhand Lions
• The Fighter

Finally finished In Search of Lost Time. I'll be remaining in France, but switching to Voltaire. Still nothing on the movie end of things, been watching stuff I've already seen with friends.

 

[Tragicomedy]

UPDATE

Tragicomedy - 18/50 Books | 16/50 Movies​

Books

• Divergent by Veronica Roth. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
• Storm Front by Jim Butcher. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
• Persuasion by Jane Austen. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
• Phoenix by Chuck Palahniuk. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½
• Body by You by Mark Lauren. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½
• Sourcery by Terry Pratchett. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½
• The Trunk Key by Carolyn Nash. &#9733;&#9733;½
• 5/3/1: The Simplest and Most Effective Training System to Increase Raw Strength (2d edition) by Jim Wendler. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
• Guns by Stephen King. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London. &#9733;
• Mort by Terry Pratchett. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
• Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Stevenson. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½
• The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
• The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½

Movies

• Les Miserables. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
• Deadfall. &#9733;½
• Breaking Dawn, part 2. &#9733;
• Moonrise Kingdom. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
• The Two Escobars. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½
• Bernie. &#9733;&#9733;½
• Skyfall. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½
• Pulling John. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
• Sleepwalk with Me. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
• Casa de mi Padre. &#9733;
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
• Drive. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
• Looper. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½
• Indie Game: The Movie. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;
• The Queen of Versailles. &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;

 

[Nymerio]

Update

Nymerio - 14/50 Books | 5/50 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)
• Summer Knight (Jim Butcher)
• Death Masks (Jim Butcher)
• Blood Rites (Jim Butcher)

Movies

• Stardust
• A Scanner Darkly
• Savages
• Sinister
• Skyfall

 

[SlowRevolution]

Update 2/29

SlowRevolution - 6/50 books | 19/50 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
• Firestarter

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
• Adaptation.
• Rachel Getting Married
• Tales from the Script
• Argo
• Side by Side
• The Expendables 2

 

[MajorGravy]

MajorGravy 0/50 Books | 12/50 Movies

Books: 0/50
The Hobbit (in progress)

Movies: 12/50
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
Casa De mi Padre - 5/10
A Good Day to Die Hard - 6/10 (nice action sequences)
Resident Evil: Retribution - 7/10
Source Code - 8/10
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - 8/10
Due Date - 7/10
Jack the Giant Slayer - 7/10 (cheesy movie)


Video games: 6/50
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
Dead Space 2
Metro 2033
Red Faction: Armageddon
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Mafia II

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!

 

[Bonethug]

Update

Bonethug - 15/50 Books | 8/50 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
10. The Hero of Ages - Brandon Sanderson
11. Dead Things - Stephen Blackmoore
12. Star Wars: Heir to the Empire - Timothy Zahn
13. Star Wars: Dark Force Rising - Timothy Zahn
14. Star Wars: The Last Command - Timothy Zahn
15. Zero Day - Mark Russinovich

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

 

[SaltyDoughnut]

SaltyDoughnut - 4/50 Books | 11/50 Movies | 4/24 TV Seasons | 3/24 Games​

Books:
Now reading: Invisible Man, Game of Thrones, Dead Man Walking, Hemingway's Complete Short Stories
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½- Hamlet - March 14th
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;- Meditations in an Emergency - Feb 9th
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½- Crime and Punishment [551 pages] - Jan 6th

Movies:
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½- Howl's Moving Castle - Feb 28th
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½- Beasts of the Southern Wild - Feb 22nd
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½- Jean de Florette - Feb 22nd
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;- The Kids Are All Right - Feb 16th
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;- Blue Valentine - Jan 27th
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½- Django Unchained - Jan 26th
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;- In Bruges - Jan 24th
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;- Boogie Nights - Jan 13th
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½- Zero Dark Thirty - Jan 12th
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;- Shame - Jan 7th
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½- Les Misérables - Jan 2nd

TV Seasons:
Now watching: Samurai Champloo, Band of Brothers, House of Cards s1, Girls s2
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;- Tsuritama - March 9th
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½- Downton Abbey season 3 - Feb 17th
-&#9733;&#9733;½- Anohana - Jan 26th
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;½- Girls season 1 - Jan 11th

Games:
Now playing: Ni no Kuni, Uncharted: GA, Walking Dead, Forza Horizon, GW2
-&#9733;&#9733;½- Gunman Clive - Jan 25th
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;- Sound Shapes - Jan 14th
-&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;- Hotline Miami - Jan 11th