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

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Tragicomedy

Member
smiggyRT said:
Update - smiggyRTFinally managed to get a book on my list, either Ender's Game or Dune next not decided which. Also reached halfway point with movies.
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You can't go wrong with either, to be honest. I'd recommend Ender's Game solely based on the fact that it will be an easier/faster read, and it's pretty darn awesome. You still need to read both of them eventually.
 
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kaztar

Neo Member
Looks like fun :) Going to challenge myself to only put things I haven't read/watched here to make it more fun. Derp'd.

kaztar - 9/50 books | 12/50 movies

Books:

  • Cleo
  • A Street Cat Named Bob
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • Luke and Jon
  • The First Time
  • 2:46
  • Greyhound
  • Fold
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Movies:

  • Easy A
  • Life of Pi
  • Wreck-It Ralph
  • Alien
  • Ted
  • Book of Eli
  • 21 Jump Street
  • Les Misérables
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Beverly Hills Chihuahua
  • The Men Who Stare at Goats
  • Prometheus
  • Celeste and Jesse Forever
 
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DieUnbekannte

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DieUnbekannte - 9/50 books | 18/50 movies

It's time for an update. I was sick for some time so I only read one new book but I did manage to watch five movies. I wasn't really excited about The Lovely Bones and Australia but they were on TV, so I watched them. Looper was an ok movie but nothing special. Skyfall was great - the best Bond movie with Daniel Craig. And I watched Es geschah an einem hellichten Tag - it's a black and white german/spanish/swiss crime movie from 1958. Even though you don't see the the actual crimes, it is really thrilling.

books
1. Marion Isaac – Warm Bodies
2. Meyer Kai – Dschinnland
3. Fforde Jasper – Something rotten
4. Doyle Arthur Conan – A Study in Scarlet
5. Murakami Haruki – Norwegian Wood
6. Butcher Jim – Storm Front
7. Butcher Jim – Fool Moon
8. Meyer Kai – Wunschkrieg
9. Pratchett Terry - Small Gods

movies
1. Repo Men (2010)
2. Sherlock – A Study in Pink (2010)
3. Sherlock – The Blind Banker (2010)
4. Sherlock – The Great Game (2010)
5. Sherlock – A Scandal in Belgravia (2012)
6. Sherlock – The Hounds of Baskerville (2012)
7. Sherlock – The Reichenbach Fall (2012)
8. The Ghost Writer (2010)
9. The Dark Knight (2008)
10. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
11. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
12. Frankenweenie (2012)
13. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
14. The Lovely Bones (2009)
15. Australia (2008)
16. Es geschah am hellichten Tag (1958)
17. Looper (2012)
18. Skyfall (2012)
 
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DieUnbekannte

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kaztar said:
I checked the website and I didn't see that said anwhere :/ I may well have just missed it though.
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I just checked myself too and found this -->

7) Can I re-watch a movie I’ve seen before or reread an old book?
Of course you can rewatch and reread… it just won’t count towards your 50/50! We hope you will use fiftyfifty.me to inspire you to explore new stuff! Maybe next year we will include a “Reminiscing” theme, but this year around we’re asking you to go fresh.
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here's the link
 
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Illithid Dude

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Illithid Dude -4/50 books | 31/50 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
Dances with Wolves
Stoker
Thirst
Election
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

Books:

Catcher in the Rye
Hot Pink
Towards a New Architecture
The City of Tomorrow and it's Planning
 
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Nymerio

Member
Update

Nymerio - 16/50 Books | 6/50 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)
  • Proven Guilty (Jim Butcher)
Movies
  • Stardust
  • A Scanner Darkly
  • Savages
  • Sinister
  • Skyfall
  • The Hobbit
 
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Don

Member
UPDATE

Don - 3/50 Books | 31/50 Movies​

Books
  • 1984 - George Orwell
  • A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
  • Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Movies
  • The Loved Ones
  • Taxi Driver
  • 30 Minutes or Less
  • Big Trouble in Little China
  • Martha Marcy May Marlene
  • The Roommate
  • Army of Darkness
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
  • Texas Chainsaw 3D
  • Collateral
  • Shinjuku Incident
  • Apocalypse Now
  • Les Misérables
  • Mission: Impossible II
  • Mission: Impossible III
  • The Abyss
  • Contagion
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Source Code
  • The Descendants
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • Black Hawk Down
  • The Untouchables
  • The Incredible Hulk
  • Iron Man 2
  • Avengers Assemble
  • Blue Valentine
  • Jeff, Who Lives at Home
  • J. Edgar
  • John Carter
 
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KuwabaraTheMan

Banned
Update

KuwabaraTheMan - 8/50 Books | 1/50 Movies

Books:
Caliban's War (x2)
Star Wars: Edge of Victory I: Conquest
Doctor Who: The Eight Doctors
Gardens of the Moon (x2)
Star Wars: Specter of the Past
Star Wars: Edge of Victory II: Rebirth

Movies:
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
 
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kinoki

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
kinoki - 3/50 Books | 41/50 Movies

Books
  • Dawnkins, Richard (2006), "The God Delusion" [465p] - ★★★
  • Fexeus, Henrik (2009), "Konsten att läsa tankar" [267p] - ★★★
  • Lotass, Lotta (2006), "Min röst skall nu komma från en annan plats i rummet" [198p] - ★★★

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) - ★★★★
  • Legend of the Guardians: The Owles of Ga'hoole (2010, dir. Zack Snyder) - ★★½
  • Django Unchained (2012, dir. Quentin Tarantino) - ★★★★
  • Cloud Atlas (2012, dir. Wachowskis + Tom Tykwer) - ★★★★
  • Metropia (2009, dir. Tarik Saleh) - ★★★
  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011, dir. Stephen Daldry) - ★★
  • Due Date (2010, dir. Todd Phillips) - ★★★½ - Punching children and spiting on dogs. Robert Downey Jr. can get away with these things and make them funny. I had a great time.
  • Stranger Than Fiction (2006, dir. Marc Forster) - ★★½ - I hate it how writers in movies always write terrible stories that wouldn't be any interesting as books. The premise of the movie says everything and spoils most of the movie.
  • Before Night Falls (2000, dir. Julian Schnabel) - ★★★½ - I'm having a really hard time getting into auto-biographical movies for some reasons. They kind of bore me. But on the other hand, Before Night Falls is good and Javier Bardem is magnificent as always.
  • Dark Shadows (2012, dir. Tim Burton) - ★★★ - Tim Burton is getting uninteresting. Everything he does plays it safe and lacks any sense of weight. He's a competent director and he creates some good performances but it never really goes anywhere. By the numbers.

Bonus: 4/24 TV | 14/24 Video Games

TV
  • True Blood (2012, Season 5) - ★★½
  • Game of Thrones (2012, Season 2) - ★★★★
  • House of Cards (2013, Season 1) - ★★★★½
  • Boardwalk Empire (2011, Season 2) - ★★★½ - Keeps on supplying some quality entertainment. It was a bit slower than the first season but I'm having my hopes for the third.

Video Games
  • Deadlight [PC] (2012, Tequila Works) - ★★★★
  • Middle Manager of Justice [iOS] (2012, Double Fine) - ★★★½
  • 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 Walking Dead [PC] (2012, Telltale Games) - ★★★★
  • Machinarium [PS3] (2012, Amanita Design) - ★★★
  • Brütal Legend [PC] (2013, Double Fine) - ★★★★½
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn [PC] (2013, Bethesda Softworks) - ★★★ - As a continuation of Skyrim this isn't really that inspiring. A few nice quests, some new things to do and I'm getting closer to 200 hours played (184 hours so far). Will start a new character soon, I think.
  • Tropico 4 [PC] (2011, Haemimont Games) - ★★★½ - I like to play city building games according to my politics. I can't really do that here but on the other hand, this is what I choose to play when it was clear Sim City wasn't going to offer that either. Tropico is clever, fun and well balanced.
  • StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm [PC] (2013, Blizzard Entertainment) - ★★★★ - The story wasn't as bad as Wings of Liberty and it kept me entertained. The RPG-elements wasn't inspired but atleast it proves that the level editor has some capacity.

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

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sammyCYBORG - 3/50 Books | 21/50 Movies

Books
  • The Fellowship of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien
    [*]The Dark Philosophers - Gwyn Thomas
    [*]The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett

Movies
  • Heat - Michael Mann (1995)
  • Army of Darkness: Evil Dead III - Sam Raimi (1992)
  • Drag Me to Hell - Sam Raimi (2009)
  • The Host - Bong Joon-ho (2006)
  • Déjà Vu - Tony Scott (2006)
  • Mother - Bong Joon-ho (2009)
  • The Fast and the Furious - Rob Cohen (2001)
    [*]Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark - Steven Spielberg (1981)
    [*]Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Steven Spielberg (1984)
    [*]Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - Steven Spielberg (1989)
    [*]Kill Bill Vol. 2 - Quentin Tarantino (2004)
    [*]Argo - Ben Affleck (2012)
    [*]Jackass 2 - Jeff Tremaine (2006)
    [*]Jackass 2.5 - Jeff Tremaine (2007)
    [*]Jackass 3.5 - Jeff Tremaine (2011)
    [*]Django Unchained - Quentin Tarantino (2012)
    [*]The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! - David Zucker (1988)
    [*]Bad Boys II - Michael Bay (2003)
    [*]ParaNorman - Sam Fell and Chris Butler (2012)
    [*]Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Woody Allen (2008)
    [*]Independence Day - Roland Emmerich (1996)

Big update, I had kept forgetting to do it, which probably means that I have left out some things.
 
Wok

Wok

Member
UPDATE

Wok - 2/50 books | 3/50 movies+​

Books​
  • Alessandro Baricco, Emmaüs, 2012. (144 pages, ISBN-13: 9782070131709)
  • Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Les Trois Soeurs Minkelsönn (T1), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631308)

Movies​
  • Alice Bissonnet, Aloyse Desoubries-Binet, Sandrine Han Jin Kuang, Juliette Laurent, Sophie Markatatos, In-Between, 2012. (3 min 05 s, Youtube)
  • Simon Klose, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, 2013. (1 h 22 min)
  • Claude Zidi, L'Aile ou la cuisse, 1976. (1 h 44 min)
 
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McCloud?

Member
Update

McCloud? - 11/50 Books | 13/50 Movies

Books
1. Magic Hours, Tom Bissell
2. You're Not Doing It Right, Michael Ian Black
3. The Beautiful Struggle, Ta-nehisi Coates
4. Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality (33 1/3), John Darnielle
5. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
6. Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die, Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, David Malki!
7. Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
8. Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
9. Black Spring, Henry Miller
10. Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries, Jon Ronson
11. By Blood, Ellen Ullman

Movies
1. Tiny Furniture
2. Detropia
3. From Russia With Love
4. No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
5. The American
6. UHF
7. Bottle Rocket
8. After Porn Ends
9. Game Change
10. V/H/S
11. Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. New York
12. Moonrise Kingdom
13. The Loneliest Planet

I'm jumping into The Brothers Karamazov, but after the first 40 pages my mind keeps wandering on to other things. I have a long train ride over the weekend—maybe that will help.
 
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Atrophis

Member
Atrophis - 2/50 Books | 12/50 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)
11. The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey (4/5, watched 06/03)
12. Velvet Goldmine (3/5, watched 09/03)

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

4/?? TV

1. Star Trek: Deep Space 9 - series 3
2. Silent Witness - series 16
3. Utopia
4. Black Mirror - series 2

3/?? Games

1. Spec Ops: The Line
2. Uncharted 2
3. Assassins Creed 2
 
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Ovid

Member
UPDATE

Tarius1210 - 4/50 Books | 23/50 Movies

Books

  • Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
  • Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Accused by Harold R. Daniels
  • A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
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)
  • The Graduate (1967)
 
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MajorGravy

Neo Member
MajorGravy 0/50 Books | 12/50 Movies

Books: 0/50
Count Zero (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
Miasmata
 
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Nymerio

Member
Update

Nymerio - 17/50 Books | 6/50 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)
  • Proven Guilty (Jim Butcher)
  • White Night (Jim Butcher)
Movies
  • Stardust
  • A Scanner Darkly
  • Savages
  • Sinister
  • Skyfall
  • The Hobbit
 
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Xena

Member
1/20 books | 0/10 games| 6/10 movies

Books:
Dragonlance - Time of the Twins

Movies:
Prometheus
The Amazing Spiderman
Iron Man 2
Act of Valor
Argo
Looper
 
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-Stranger-

Junior Member
Update:

-Stranger- - 0/50 Books | 31/50 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
Cosmopolis
The Mothman Prophecies
Afro Samurai: Resurrection
Fish Tank




Books:

Coming Soon
 
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W1SSY

Member
UPDATE

W1SSY - 6/50 Books | 18/50 Movies

Books
  • Wool: Book 1 by Hugh Howey
  • Wool: Book 2 by Hugh Howey
  • Wool: Book 3 by Hugh Howey
  • Wool: Book 4 by Hugh Howey
  • Wool: Book 5 by Hugh Howey
  • Y: The Last Man by Brian Vaughan (Graphic Novel 60 Issues)
Movies
  • Battle Royale
  • Gasland
  • Tetris: from Russia with Love
  • Full Metal Jacket
  • Zero Dark Thirty
  • Expendables 2
  • Django Unchained
  • Freakonomics
  • Snatch
  • Catfish
  • Buried
  • Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters
  • Dredd
  • X-Men: First Class
  • 54
  • Craigslist Joe
  • Some food documentary
  • Wreck It Ralph

Reading Name of the Wind but with all the school work it is going to take awhile.
 
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Baconsaurus Rex

Member
Things are slowing down a bit

Baconsaurus Rex - 6/50 Books | 21/50 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 #104-107

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)
  20. The Raid: Redemption (2011)
  21. Chunking Express (1994)
 
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guest1321

Member
I'm reading Tenth of December because of the recommendations on this thread and although I'm feeling resistance towards reading it, every time I read a chapter I end up thinking about it for next couple of hours-days. The style is took some getting used to but it allows for a really interesting narrative.
 
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LuffyZoro

Member
LuffyZoro - 8/50 Books | 11/50 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+++)
    [*]The Windup Girl (A)
    [*]Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (B)

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)
    [*]Limitless (A)
    [*]Stardust (A+)

Windup Girl was good, but a bit of a tedious read. Chelsea was a comedy book filled with anecdotes about her life, but I felt it was lacking something. I quite liked Limitless, and could always do with more books/movies with an unnaturally smart protagonist. Stardust was excellent. I really see why people in here earlier were comparing it to The Princess Bride.

RE: Ready Player One. I want more scifi books centering around MMOs. Does anyone know any?
 
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Tragicomedy

Member
New book:

[*] Storm Front by Jim Butcher. ★★★ -- A slow start and it took me a few chapters to grow accustomed to the first person narrative, but overall a solid start to a new series for me. I'll definitely be reading more Dresden Files this year.
 
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Azrael

Member
I've given up on finishing 50 books this year, but anyway...

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 ★★★
36. I Sell The Dead ★★★
37. Down Terrace ★★★
38. Uncommon Valor ★★
39. The Hounds ★
40. End of Watch ★★★★
41. Oz: The Great and Powerful ★★
42. The Master ★★
 
G

gettempapa

Member
BrokenEchelon said:
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
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You already managed to read Les Miserables, Moby Dick, and In Search of Lost Time this year? I envy your reading skills.
 
G

grumpy

Member
UPDATED 11/03/2013

grumpy - 10/50 Books | 12/50 Movies

Books

Movies

^^^
Don't judge me. I just wanted to see what the big deal was with these movies. Twilight was actually passable. Boring but not as offensive as I expected it to be. New Moon on the other hand was... well, something... I'm not sure if I want to continue with The Twilight "Saga". :x
 
S

SlowRevolution

Member
Update

SlowRevolution - 7/50 books | 21/50 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
  • Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

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
  • All-Star Superman
  • We're Not Broke
 
T

Teptom

Member
Update

Teptom - 8/50 Books | 14/50 Movies​
​

Books

  • Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders
  • Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
    [*]Hamlet by William Shakespeare
    [*]As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
    [*]The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Movies

  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Django Unchained
  • The Muppet Movie
  • High and Low
  • City Lights
  • The Circus
  • Malibu Express
  • Seven Samurai
  • Modern Times
  • The Kid
  • The Seventh Seal
    [*]The Great Dictator
    [*]The Hidden Fortress
    [*]Wild Strawberries
 
C

cashman

Banned
UPDATE TIME

Giving myself the 500 page handicap since it takes me forever with these books.

- 3/50 books 13/50 movies

Books
  • Cloud Atlas (x2)
  • Watchmen

Movies
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Argo
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • Zero Dark Thirty
  • Silver Linings Playbook
  • Django Unchained
  • Les Miserables
  • Lincoln
  • Amour
  • Seven Psychopaths
  • Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou
  • Trouble with the Curve
  • Skyfall

Currently Reading: Atlas Shrugged
 
F

foomfoom415

Member
------Updated 3/28------
foomfoom415 - 13/50 Books | 19/50 Movies

Books
01. John Dies at the End by David Wong (378 pages) ★★★★★
02. House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds (512 pages) ★★★★★
03. Bossypants by Tina Fey (277 pages) ★★★
04. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (849 pages) ★★★
05. Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi (335 pages) ★★
06. Gun Machine by Warren Ellis (308 pages) ★★★
07. Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo (370 pages) ★★★★
08. The Twelve by Justin Cronin (568 pages) ★★★★
09. Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross (351 pages) ★★★
10. Reamde by Neal Stephenson (1044 pages) ★★★★
11. Thousandth Night and Minla's Flowers by Alastair Reynolds (186 pages) ★★★★
12. Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds (512 pages) ★★★★
13. Zima Blue and Other Stories by Alastair Reynolds (455 pages) ★★★

Movies
01. Skyfall ★★
02. Ted ★
03. Beasts of the Southern Wild ★★★★
04. Dredd ★★
05. Pitch Perfect ★★★★
06. Seven Psychopaths ★★★★
07. Flight ★★
08. The Raid / Serbuan Maut ★★
09. Vulgaria / 低俗喜劇 ★★★★
10. Argo ★★★★
11. Frailty ★★★★
12. Moonrise Kingdom ★★★★★
13. The Grey ★★
14. Cold War / 寒戰 ★★★
15. Deranged / 연가시 ★
16. Wreck-It Ralph ★★★
17. Killing Them Softly ★★★★
18. Life of Pi ★★
19. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time / 時をかける少女 ★★★★★
 
N

Nymerio

Member
Update

Nymerio - 18/50 Books | 6/50 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)
  • Proven Guilty (Jim Butcher)
  • White Night (Jim Butcher)
  • Small Favor (Jim Butcher)
Movies
  • Stardust
  • A Scanner Darkly
  • Savages
  • Sinister
  • Skyfall
  • The Hobbit
 
B

BrokenEchelon

Banned
BrokenEchelon - 14/50 Books | 38/50 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
  • L'Assommoir
  • Steppenwolf
  • Naked Lunch
  • The Stranger

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
  • Love Actually
  • Big Fish
  • Papillon
 
T

Tragicomedy

Member
Nymerio said:
  • 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)
  • Proven Guilty (Jim Butcher)
  • White Night (Jim Butcher)
  • Small Favor (Jim Butcher)
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What's your overall impression of the Dresden stuff? I read the first one and liked it, but I'm hesitant to jump all in.
 
M

markhimself46

Member
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
  6. Indie Game: The Movie
  7. Wreck it Ralph
  8. The Place Beyond the Pines
 
K

Kud Dukan

Member
Kud Dukan - 8/50 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
  • The Alloy of Law 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

Decided to pick up Brandon's Sanderson fourth Mistborn book, since I had read the trilogy recently and was in the mood for another one. Really enjoyed this one. I wasn't sure how I would like the drastic change in setting, but it worked very well. It sounds like he is going to be writing a sequel to this one at some point, so I'm definitely looking forward to that.
 
N

Nymerio

Member
Tragicomedy said:
What's your overall impression of the Dresden stuff? I read the first one and liked it, but I'm hesitant to jump all in.
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I like them a lot :). If you're hesitant after the first book a can tell you that the following books are better. The characters also improve with each book and some cool villains are introduced. The later books are also less standalone than the first and are all connected by an overarching plot. Oh and they're really funny, I'm not someone who really laughs while reading a book but Dresden has managed that a couple of times now.
 
J

Jimothy

Member
Jimothy update: 3/50 Books | 19/50 Movies

Books:
  • Columbine by Dave Cullen
  • Rise and Fall of Third Reich by William Shirer
  • A Writer at War by Vasily Grossman

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)
  • Big Fish (2003)
 
choodi

choodi

Banned
choodi - 3/50 Books | 18/50 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)
  17. The Secret World of Arrietty (C)
  18. Zero Dark Thirty (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)
  3. Pyramids - Terry Pratchett (B)
 
C

cacophony

Member
update

1. Goodfellas *****
2. Black Dynamite ***
3. Black Swan *****
4. Taxi Driver **
5. Raging Bull *
6. Heat **
7. Drive **
8. Rocky ****
9. Goldfinger ***
10. Reservoir Dogs ****

havent watched a movie in a while

1. The 50th Law *****
2. Secrets of a Millionaire Mind *****
3. The Tao of Pooh ***
4. As A Man Thinketh ****
5. How to Win at the Sport of Business ***
6. Psycho-Cybernetics *****
7. The Accidental Creative ***

im already 4 books behind :(
 
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