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

New book:

[*] Phoenix by Chuck Palahniuk. ★★★½ -- He's back to his dark world in this new short story. Every book he writes is more disturbing and creepy than what came before, and this continues that trend.
 
Movies

I Saw the Devil (4.5/5)
Dredd (4/5)
MIB 3 (3.5/5)
Troll Hunter (3/5)
Senna (4/5) I never followed F1 and was born in 88 so I was too young to really know or appreciate Senna anyway. Movie made me completely admire the man and get heartbroken by the end anyway. Great stuff.

Books

Nemesis by Jo Nesbo. (3.5)
Caught by Halen Coben. (2/5)
Angels of the House (3.5/5)
The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo (3.5)
 
New movie:

[*] Moonrise Kingdom. ★★★★ -- This is West Anderson's second most accessible film behind The Fantastic Mr. Fox. A moving love story of two misunderstood and troubled kids. The island cinematography was simply beautiful.
 

Teptom

Member
Update

Teptom - 4/50 Books | 11/50 Movies

Books

  1. Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
  2. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  3. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  4. The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders

Movies

  1. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  2. Django Unchained
  3. The Muppet Movie
  4. High and Low
  5. City Lights
  6. The Circus
  7. Malibu Express
  8. Seven Samurai
  9. Modern Times
  10. The Kid
  11. The Seventh Seal
 
Movies

I Saw the Devil (4.5/5)
Dredd (4/5)
MIB 3 (3.5/5)
Troll Hunter (3/5)
Senna (4/5) I never followed F1 and was born in 88 so I was too young to really know or appreciate Senna anyway. Movie made me completely admire the man and get heartbroken by the end anyway. Great stuff.
Zach Galifianakis, live at the Purple Onion (3/5) loved the onsight bits (which I usually hate) the stand up was fine but too heavily edited and Zach often made references to things we didn't get to see which was silly.
Books

Nemesis by Jo Nesbo. (3.5)
Caught by Halen Coben. (2/5)
Angels of the House (3.5/5)
The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo (3.5)
 

Setre

Member
Setre - 3/50 Books | 24/50 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
The Jeffrey Dahmer Files
Sunshine
Moon
 

Mumei

Member
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]
  14. Maria Callas: A Musical Biography (224) [4856]
    [*]"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity, by Beverly Tatum Daniels
    [*]The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien
    [*]Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality, by John Schwartz
  • 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
    [*]Sharaz-de, by Sergio Toppi

Movies​
  1. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  3. Aliens
  4. Django Unchained
  5. The Abyss
    [*]The Animatrix
    [*]The Amazing Spider-Man
  • 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
 

choodi

Banned
choodi - 2/50 Books | 16/50 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)
  14. Here comes the boom (C)
  15. 10 Years (B)
  16. Wreck-it Ralph (C)

Books

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

LuffyZoro

Member
LuffyZoro - 6/50 Books | 9/50 Movies​

Books
  • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (A-)
  • Shadow Show (B+)
  • The Rapture of the Nerds (A)
    [*]Wool - Part One (B)
    [*]Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 (A-)
    [*]Ready Player One (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)

Wool was alright. Too short to really be released on its own, and I don't think I'll be paying for the sequels. The Nebula book was good, but suffers the inconsistent quality and style of any anthology. Still, I like fantasy and sci-fi, so it was worth reading.

Then, I read Ready Player One. Wow. That was probably one of my favorite reading experiences ever, and decidedly so far this year. I got through the entire thing in an afternoon, and actually just finished it about 10 minutes ago. It was fantastic, and I want more books like it to be released and be in my hands right now. Heartily recommend.
 

Bonethug

Member
Wool was alright. Too short to really be released on its own, and I don't think I'll be paying for the sequels.

Keep an eye out for the Wool Omnibus going on sale again. I was able to pick it up for $1.99, and it contains parts 1-5
Each subsequent part is much longer than the 1st, and well worth the read.
 
Wool was alright. Too short to really be released on its own, and I don't think I'll be paying for the sequels. The Nebula book was good, but suffers the inconsistent quality and style of any anthology. Still, I like fantasy and sci-fi, so it was worth reading.

I think Wool is best realized in the Omnibus edition of the first 5 parts. The individual pieces don't really work well as individual books, but together they are much more than the sum of their parts and it was one of my favorite things I read last year.

That said, I absolutely despised nearly everything about Ready Player One (definitely would be at the top of my list of worst things I read in 2012), so our tastes might just be on different sides of the fence.
 
Then, I read Ready Player One. Wow. That was probably one of my favorite reading experiences ever, and decidedly so far this year. I got through the entire thing in an afternoon, and actually just finished it about 10 minutes ago. It was fantastic, and I want more books like it to be released and be in my hands right now. Heartily recommend.

Absolutely loved it when I read it last year. It had everything I like in a book, capped off with a metric ton of nostalgia. Five stars for me.
 
Movies

I Saw the Devil (4.5/5)
Dredd (4/5)
MIB 3 (3.5/5)
Troll Hunter (3/5)
Senna (4/5)
Zach Galifianakis, live at the Purple Onion (3/5)
End of Watch(3.5/5)
Side By Side (3/5) I feel like the movie was a little too biased (there are some major supporters of film that they didn't get to talk about it) and Keanu wasn't the best interviewer. More often than not, I feel like he was leading them into certain answers by the way he phrased his questions. I wish he would have just said "How do you feel about x" instead of "All these people say x, y, z and you agree?" But definitely a good start for anyone not really aware of the Film/Digital debate.

Nemesis by Jo Nesbo. (3.5)
Caught by Halen Coben. (2/5)
Angels of the House (3.5/5)
The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo (3.5)
 

AlexM

Member
UPDATE

AlexM- 4/50 Books | 5/50 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
06. Shower
 
UPDATE

latinlikeaviolin - 11/50 Books | 11/50 Movies

Books
Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal
A Lost Lady by Willa Carther
Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
Embassytown by China Miéville
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
Goodbye, Columbus by Phillip Roth
The Game by Neil Strauss
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

Movies
Rashomon (1950) dir. Akira Kurosawa
Raising Arizona (1987) dir. Coen brothers
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) dir. Terry Gilliam
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) dir. David O. Russell
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) dir. Drew Goddard
Argo (2012) dir. Ben Affleck
Zero Dark Thirty (2012) dir. Katheryn Bigelow
The Legend of the Drunken Master (1994) dir. Lau Kar-leung
José Rizal (1998) dir. Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Lincoln (2012) dir. Steven Speilberg
Ran (1985) dir. Akira Kurosawa
 

ReiGun

Member
Update: 2/27

Current Books: 3
  • Sula by Toni Morrison
  • The Stranger by Albert Camus
  • On Writing by Stephen King

Current Movies: 12
  • 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
  • Roger Dodger
  • The Apartment

Making headway on the books, finally. Now to decide what to read next. *searches closet for fiction."
 

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 ★★★
7. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban ★★★★★
8. Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr. ★★★

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 ★★
24. Astral City: A Spiritual Journey ★
25. Sanjuro ★★★★
26. Side Effects ★★★★
27. The Princess and the Frog ★★★
28. Beautiful Creatures ★★
29. Brewster's Millions (1945) ★★
30. Oslo, August 31st ★★
31. The Anna Nicole Story ★
32. V for Vendetta ★★
33. The Birds ★★★
34. Flight ★★★
35. Robot and Frank ★★★
 

Nymerio

Member
Update

Nymerio - 15/50 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)
  • Dead Beat (Jim Butcher)
Movies
  • Stardust
  • A Scanner Darkly
  • Savages
  • Sinister
  • Skyfall
 

Glaurungr

Member
Glaurungr - 35/50 books | 15/50 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. David Howarth - We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance (1957)
  8. Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle (1986)
  9. Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
  10. Edwin A. Abbott - Flatland (1884)
  11. Gro Steinsland (ed.) - The Dream Poem and Texts from the Nordic Middle Ages (2004)
  12. Jón Viðar Sigurðsson - The Norse Society: The Viking, King, Archbishop, and Farmer (2008)
  13. Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)
  14. Knut Lindh - Vikings: The Discovery of America (2004)
  15. Melitta Weiss Adamson - Food in Medieval Times (2004)
  16. Neil Gaiman - Odd and the Frost Giants (2008)
  17. Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book (2008)
  18. Peter Connolly - The Roman Fort (1991)
  19. Robert Bly - My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (2005)
  20. Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson - A Memory of Light: Book Fourteen of The Wheel of Time (2013)
  21. Simon Anglim, et al. - Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World 3000 BC to 500 AD: Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics (2002)
  22. Siri Walen Simensen - Women During the War (2009)
  23. Terry Pratchett - The Dark Side of the Sun (1976)
  24. Terry Pratchett - Only You Can Save Mankind: Book One of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1992)
  25. Terry Pratchett - Johnny and the Dead: Book Two of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1993)
  26. Terry Pratchett - Johnny and the Bomb: Book Three of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1996)
  27. Terry Pratchett - Nation (2008)
  28. Terry Pratchett - The World of Poo (2012)
  29. Terry Pratchett - Dodger (2012)
  30. Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson - The Folklore of Discworld (2008)
  31. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990)
  32. Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld (1999)
  33. Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (2002)
  34. Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (2005)
  35. Tim Taylor (ed.) - The Time Team Guide to the History of Britain: Everything You Need to Know About Our History Since 650,000 BC (2010)

Films:

  1. Argo - Ben Affleck (2012)
  2. Happy Feet Two - George Miller (2011)
  3. Johnny Mnemonic - Robert Longo (1995)
  4. Louis C.K.: Chewed Up - Louis C.K. (2008)
  5. Minority Report - Steven Spielberg (2002)
  6. Pale Rider - Clint Eastwood (1985)
  7. ParaNorman - Sam Fell and Chris Butler (2012)
  8. Red Dawn - Dan Bradley (2012)
  9. Rise of the Guardians - Peter Ramsey (2012)
  10. RoboCop - Paul Verhoeven (1987)
  11. Skyfall - Sam Mendes (2012)
  12. Taken 2 - Olivier Megaton (2012)
  13. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Jackson (2012)
  14. The Philadelphia Experiment - Stewart Raffill (1984)
  15. Wreck-It Ralph - Rich Moore (2012)

Now reading:

  • Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
 

Ephidel

Member
Update (1st March)
Ephidel - 19/50 Books | 32/50 Movies | 16/50 Graphic Novels​

Books
1. First Channel (Sime~Gen 3) by Jean Lorrah and Jacqueline Lichtenberg ★★★½
2. Doctor Who: Devil in the Smoke by Justin Richards ★★★ (05 Jan)
3. Mahogany Trinrose (Sime~Gen 4) by Jacqueline Lichtenberg ★★★★ (10 Jan)
4. Channel's Destiny (Sime~Gen 5) by Jean Lorrah and Jacqueline Lichtenberg ★★★★ (16 Jan)
5. RenSime (Sime~Gen 6) by Jacqueline Lichtenberg ★★★★★ (19 Jan)
6. Ambrov Keon (Sime~Gen 7) by Jean Lorrah ★★★★½ (22 Jan)
7. Zelerod's Doom (Sime~Gen 8) by Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah ★★★½ (26 Jan)
8. Personal Recognizance (Sime~Gen 9) by Jacqueline Lichtenberg ★★★★½ (26 Jan)
9. The Story Untold and Other Sime~Gen Stories (Sime~Gen 10) by Jean Lorrah ★★★★★ (26 Jan)
10. To Kiss or To Kill (Sime~Gen 11) by Jean Lorrah ★★★★★ (29 Jan)
11. The Farris Channel (Sime~Gen 12) by Jacqueline Lichtenberg ★★★★½ (01 Feb)
12. Pulling Up Stakes by Peter David ★★★ (02 Feb)
13. Pulling Up Stakes 2 by Peter David ★★★ (03 Feb)
14. The Drowning City by Amanda Downum ★★★★ (07 Feb)
15. Lady of Devices by Shelley Adina ★★★★ (09 Feb)
16. Her Own Devices by Shelley Adina ★★★½ (09 Feb)
17. Magnificent Devices by Shelley Adina ★★★★ (13 Feb)
18. Ensign Flandry by Poul Anderson ★★★ (22 Feb)
19. Boneshaker (Clockwork Century 1) by Cherie Priest ★★★½ (25 Feb)

Currently reading: Clementine (Cherie Priest), The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)

Movies
1. Blue Streak (1999) ★
2. Knowing (2009) ★★★½
3. Point of Entry (2007) ★★ (11 Jan)
4. Ghostquake (2012) ★★½ (11 Jan)
5. Stripes (1981) ★★★½ (13 Jan)
6. 12 Disasters (2012) ★★ (13 Jan)
7. Wild Hearts (2006) ★★★½ (13 Jan)
8. Accused at 17 (2010) ★★★ (17 Jan)
9. The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007) ★★★★ (19 Jan)
10. Because I Said So (2007) ★★★ (19 Jan)
11. Dream House (1998) ★★ (20 Jan)
12. Recreator (2012) ★★ (20 Jan)
13. It's Complicated (2009) ★★★½ (21 Jan)
14. Wreck it Ralph (2012) ★★★★★ (27 Jan)
15. Absolute Zero (2005) ★★½ (30 Jan)
16. The TV Set (2006) ★★★★ (30 Jan)
17. The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice (2008) ★★★½ (02 Feb)
18. The A-Team ★★★½ (2010) (02 Feb)
19. Mary Higgins Clarke's Try To Remember (2004) ★★★ (07 Feb)
20. Predators (2010) ★★★★ (09 Feb)
21. Dark Storm (2006) ★★★ (10 Feb)
22. Die Hard 4.0 (2007) ★★★★ (10 Feb)
23. Changing Lanes (2002) ★★½ (11 Feb)
24. Premonition (2007) ★ (11 Feb)
25. Maternal Instinct (2008) ★★½ (14 Feb)
26. Knight and Day (2010) ★★★½ (16 Feb)
27. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) ★★★½ (21 Feb)
28. Playing House (2006) ★★½ (23 Feb)
29. Leprechaun (1993) ★ (25 Feb)
30. Tenth Circle (2008) ★★½ (27 Feb)
31. (Unknown Title) ★★½ (27 Feb)
32. Walled In (2009) ★ (27 Feb)

In the "Unknown Title" a woman (a teacher or counselor for troubled teens) has her career systematically destroyed by the jealous woman who became obsessed with her husband when they were flirting online. The stalkers online name was Hotstuff, and I think her initials were AJ? So far, I haven't found the title of this thing - I don't suppose anyone else recognises it so I can fill in the blank? :|

Graphic Novels
1. Girl Friends Vol.1 ★★★★ (13 Jan)
2. Girl Friends Vol.2 ★★★★ (13 Jan)
3. A Bride's Story Vol.4 ★★★★★ (07 Feb)
4. Soulless Vol.2 ★★★★ (08 Feb)
5. Ampney Crucis Investigates: Vile Bodies ★★★★★ (11 Feb)
6. Ikigami Vol.8 ★★★ (12 Feb)
7. Dawn of the Arcana Vol.7 ★★★ (15 Feb)
8. Durarara!! Vol.1 ★★★★ (15 Feb)
9. Durarara!! Vol.2 ★★★★ (15 Feb)
10. Durarara!! Vol.3 ★★★★ (15 Feb)
11. Durarara!! Vol.4 ★★★★ (15 Feb)
12. Dawn of the Arcana Vol.8 ★★★½ (16 Feb)
13. One Piece: Baroque Works 13-14-15 Omnibus ★★★½ (16 Feb)
14. Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro Vol.3 ★★★★★ (17 Feb)
15. The Books of Magic ★★★★ (19 Feb)
16. Super Spy by Matt Kindt ★★★★★ (24 Feb)

I'm separating Graphic Novels out so I don't have to count them as books :)

Comments
I've been skimping on the updates so far, so a new month seems like a good excuse for one.
I've really struggled to 'score' the books I'm reading, yet I've found ranking and scoring films rather easy. I'm surprised I've watched quite as many films as I have, but listing them all has made me realise that when I watch films with other people I can end up watching some real dross :|
 
Maklershed - 10/50 books | 13/50 movies

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
9. Foundation and Earth
10. Make Room! Make Room!



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
10. Margin Call
11. Shooter
12. The Naked City
13. The Maltese Falcon



Games
1. Borderlands 2
2. Heavy Rain
3. Far Cry 3
4. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
 
Baconsaurus Rex - 6/50 Books | 19/50 Movies

Books
  • World of the Incredible but True by Charles Berlitz
  • Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Franken Fran Vol. 1-8 by Katsuhisa Kigitsu
  • 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)
  18. Vals im Bashir (2008)
  19. Forbidden Planet (1956)
 
Running a little late to this, but I'm in. Here's what I got thus far:

BOOKS

IN PROCESS: Francona: The Red Sox Years (Terry Francona, Dan Shaughnessy)

  1. Building Stories (Chris Ware)
  2. Batman: Year One (Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli)
  3. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley)

MOVIES
  1. Looper
  2. Argo
  3. Brave
 

thomaser

Member
Thomaser: 2 books - 3 movies

Books:
1: Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
2: Tunnel Vision - Sara Paretsky
In process of reading:
(3): Sociolinguistics. A Reader and Coursebook - Nicolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski
(4): M is for Malice - Sue Grafton

Movies:
1: Frankenweenie
2: Inception
3: Shutter Island
 

smiggyRT

Member
Recently managed to watch Argo and Dante's Inferno, also made more progress on the only book I've started this year, 1984.

Argo was great, really enjoyed it and loving 1984 so far but finding time for it is hard.
 

RichardAM

Kwanzaagator
RichardAM - 02/50 Books 14/50 Movies

Books

The Hobbit (23/01/13) - JRR Tolkien -3/5-
The Coma (23/01/13) - Alex Garland -5/5-

Movies

Bronson (01/01/13) -4/5-
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring EE (05/01/13) -5/5-
The Adventures of Tintin (10/01/13) -4/5-
Star Trek (10/01/13) -4/5-
The Amazing Spider-Man (12/01/13) -2/5-
Drag me to Hell (15/01/13) -3/5-
Moonrise Kingdom (02/02/13) -5/5-
Super 8 (03/02/13) -3/5-
Wreck-it Ralph (12/02/13) -3/5-
Cry Baby (14/02/13) -1/5-
A Good Day to Die Hard (16/02/13) -1/5-
Frankenweenie (28/02/13) -4/5-
Sin City (01/03/13) -2/5-
My Name Is Bruce (01/03/13) -2.5/5-
 

persongr

Member
February Update! (or what a failure this month was)

persongr: Books, 03/50 | Movies, 12/50

BOOKS: 3/50

  • The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (greek translation by Thomas Skassis)
  • A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes (greek translation by Thomas Skassis)
  • Edgar Allan Poe: 21 Stories and "The Raven" (compiled and translated in greek by Katerina Sxina)


MOVIES: 12/50

  • Life of Pi
  • Django Unchained
  • The Master
  • Sleepwalk with Me
  • Tower Heist
  • The Perks of being a Wallflower
  • Seven Psychopaths
    [*]Lincoln
    [*]Argo
    [*]Amour
    [*]Rango
    [*]Wreck-it Ralph
 
New book:

[*] Persuasion by Jane Austen. ★★★ -- A difficult read, but that's to be expected when reading something from the 1800s. I wasn't crazy about the focus on people's dispositions or status in life, but that's merely a product of the era. Jane Austen couldn't write an action sequence to save her life, and the one attempt to add that element to the mix was disastrously comical. Having said that, the very few scenes featuring the two protagonists are stellar. The letter Captain Wentworth writes to Anne confessing his love to her is among the most beautiful passages in the English language.
 

Kud Dukan

Member
Kud Dukan - 7/50 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
  • The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

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

Well compared to January, February was a disaster as far as books go. Work pretty much killed most of my reading time. The Looming Tower was fantastic, however.
 

Ovid

Member
UPDATE

Tarius1210 - 3/50 Books | 22/50 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)
  • American Experience: The Rockefellers (2000)
  • The Time Machine (1960)
  • The Ladykillers (1955)
  • Some Like It Hot (1959)
 
New movie:

[*] Breaking Dawn, part 2. ★ -- I took one for the team to save you all the pain. My wife is a big fan of the series, and I've dutifully seen each and every one. This one was the worst, by far. Millions of dollars tossed into this film for it to feature a slightly Mongolian-looking CGI baby. Unreal. My wife is a big fan of the books, and she said this deviated quite heavily from the source material. I haven't read the books, but if the dialogue is lifted from them then allow me to go on record and say they are hot garbage.

"Why do we need this bed? Vampires don't need to sleep."
"It's not for sleeping."

Aaaaaaand we're done here.

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EDIT: *break, break* How should I go about reading/counting the Wool stuff on Amazon? I just read a very interesting take on it on Slate and now I want to give it a shot.
Slate's Wool review.

Should I just pick up the omnibus covering parts 1-5 and count that as two books (since it's 550 pages)? Or are folks counting them individually?
 
EDIT: *break, break* How should I go about reading/counting the Wool stuff on Amazon? I just read a very interesting take on it on Slate and now I want to give it a shot.
Slate's Wool review.

Should I just pick up the omnibus covering parts 1-5 and count that as two books (since it's 550 pages)? Or are folks counting them individually?

Wool is great. I just counted the omnibus as a single book since the first 5 parts are the size of a regular book.

Edit: Or I guess 2 books if you are doing that +500 pages = 2 books rule.
 
BOOKS

IN PROCESS: Francona: The Red Sox Years (Terry Francona, Dan Shaughnessy)

  1. Building Stories (Chris Ware)
  2. Batman: Year One (Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli)
  3. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley)

MOVIES
  1. Looper
  2. VHS
  3. Argo
  4. Brave
  5. Beasts of the Southern Wild
 

Red

Member
Movies:
1. Batman Begins (w/ commentary)
2. The Perfect Human Diet
3. Looper
4. John Dies At the End
5. The Price of Pleasure
6. Let's Talk About Sex
7. The Dark Knight Returns pt 1
8. The Dark Knight Returns pt 2
9. Batman: Year One
10. Rec 3: Genesis
11. Life is Beautiful
12. Street Angel
13. Cosmos ep. 1
14. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
15. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
16. Indiana Jone and the Last Crusade
17. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull


Books:
1. Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla
2. Einstein: His Life and Universe
3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
 

tris

Neo Member
tris - 4/50 Books | 11/50 Movies​

Books

  • A Storm of Swords
  • Argo
  • The Pearl
    [*]1984

Movies

  • Wreck it Ralph
  • The Hobbit
    [*]Argo
    [*]Django Unchained
    [*]Skyfall
    [*]Safe
    [*]The Campaign
    [*]The Man with the Iron Fists
    [*]Dredd
    [*]The Fifth Element
    [*]Good Will Hunting

Late update...
 

Nezumi

Member
Update:

Nezumi - 9/50 books | 13/50 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
  • Nero Corleone kehrt zurück - Elke Heidenreich
  • An Autumn War - Daniel Abraham

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
  • Seven Samurai

I liked the first book back when i was 13 years old... I don't know if this is due to my age, but this book sucked. It was close to unbearable. ONly good thing about it is that it is short and can be read in about an hour, so you don't waste a lot of time reading it.

Long Price Quartet remains to be one of the freshest and most innovative fatansy series I've read in a long time. Every book is better than the one before which didn't seem possible after the outstanding first two books.

Seven Samurai was a great movie. Sure a little overacting here and there but it didn't feel like 3 1/2 hours at all.
 
BrokenEchelon - 10/50 Books | 35/50 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
  • Candide: or, Optimism

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
  • The Wrestler
 

smiggyRT

Member
Update - smiggyRT - 2/50 books 30/50 movies

Books

Movies

Finally managed to get a book on my list, either Ender's Game or Dune next not decided which. Also reached halfway point with movies.
 

Rokal

Member
Update long overdue, need to pick up speed on reading. I attended a Best Picture Showcase screening for all the Best Picture Nominees, which was really fun and gave decent progress for movies

Rokal - 3/50 books | 16/50 movies

Books
  • Devil in the White City
    [*]Dresden Files: Grave Peril
    [*]Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Movies
  • Wreck-it-Ralph
  • Looper
  • Django Unchained
  • Jeff, Who Lives at Home
  • Fat, Sick, & Nearly Dead
  • Young Adult
    [*]Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
    [*]Amour
    [*]Les Miserables
    [*]Argo
    [*]Cabin in the Woods
    [*]Beasts of the Southern Wilds
    [*]Life of Pi
    [*]Lincoln
    [*]Silver Linings Playbook
    [*]The Avengers
 

Glassboy

Member
Update long overdue, need to pick up speed on reading. I attended a Best Picture Showcase screening for all the Best Picture Nominees, which was really fun and gave decent progress for movies

Rokal - 3/50 books | 16/50 movies

Books
  • Devil in the White City



How was devil in the white city? I have it but have not started it yet.
 

Rokal

Member
How was devil in the white city? I have it but have not started it yet.

I loved it. Ironically the sections of the book that detail the challenges & triumphs in planning the faire turn out to be much more interesting than the sections about Holmes (the serial killer). Not to dismiss those sections as uninteresting or poorly written, the logistics of the faire just seemed incredible looking back. It's the first piece of historical media that I've consumed in a long time that actually made me want to continue learning about the subject matter after I was done.
 

Empty

Member
Empty - 11/50 Books | 29/50 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
9. pale blue dot by carl sagan
10 + 11. a feast for crows by george r. r martin (684 pages)

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
24. paris, texas
25. to the wonder
26. wings
27. the passion of joan of arc
28. cloud atlas
29. sunrise a song of two humans

paris, texas is a strange film about a mentally lost man reappearing after four years and trying to reunite with his estranged son and daughter. i loved the languid pace and how beautiful and painterly texas looked in it.

pale blue dot uses the famous picture of earth as a tiny speck of dust from the edge of the solar system as a jumping off point for a jumbled collection of pieces about mans relationship with the galaxy. sagan is an excellent writer and i found his call for exploring space as a positive, unifying act that gives us purpose as a species stirring. i was also fascinated by the bits where he took me through the ways scientists discovered what we know about the solar system. didn't care for some of the speculative chapters about the chances of terra-forming planets and averting asteroid attacks though.

to the wonder is a film about a relationship from the perspective of a very passionate, romantic woman with some religious themes too. its basically pure malick style with the voiecover, shots of natural beauty, lack of traditional dialogue and that's hypnotic and so beautiful here - between this and paris, texas i want to move to southern usa nowww - but the themes didn't resonate much with me emotionally or intellectually. maybe something i'd enjoy more if i were 40.

wings is an epic silent war film about two ww1 pilots in love with the same girl. despite this they develop a friendship with keeps threatening to but unfortunately never actually turns into full on romance, still it all leads to some fun over the top melodrama. my favourite thing about it was all the shots of planes flying, even if loads of the effects were very lo-fi when they put a camera on a plane and watched other bi-planes swoop over the clouds in unison it was quite beautiful.

finally read a feast for crows. i really liked it, the approach of only having half the characters in it was a bit weird at first but most of the leads in it were my favourite characters and i enjoyed following their arcs more than the central song of ice and fire conflict which was only on the periphary in it. i loved seeing more of the world of the series with lots of new perspectives and having a slower book after storm of swords in which so much stuff happened it was almost overwhelming.
i thought cersei's story was amazing in particular and this is totally gimmicky but it really got to me when arya and sansa's names changed in the chapter titles

the passion of joan of arc was intense and powerful. it's a very simple story about the events of joan's trial, the way she is tricked into incriminating herself up to the eventual burning, but the combination of the incredible performance by falconetti (where does she produce all those tears from?) and the claustrophobic use of closeups really draws you into the emotions of the situation. the whole film feels remarkable ahead of its time for 1928.
 
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