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kinoki - 10/50 Books | 58/50 Movies

Books

• Dawnkins, Richard (2006), The God Delusion - ★★★
• Fexeus, Henrik (2009), Konsten att läsa tankar - ★★★
• Lotass, Lotta (2006), Min röst skall nu komma från en annan plats i rummet - ★★★
• Silver, Nate (2012), The Signal and the Noise - ★★★★
• Mitchell, David (2001), number9dream - ★★★½
• Murakami, Haruki (2006), Kafka on the Shore - ★★★½
• Mitchell, David (2004), Cloud Atlas - ★★★★ - Personally I feel that the movie is a great companion-piece to the book. They're very different beings and the fact that they're two ways of looking at the same things expressed in ways impossible to express in the other's medium makes it that much more worth while. A great read, a great movie and it doesn't matter in what order you experience them.
• Woolf, Virginia (1929), A Room of One's Own - ★★★★★ - Why do men hate women? Here we have an essay written almost 100 years ago and it's just as current. I don't get the hate but I'm guessing that the principle "You know you're wrong when you have to lie to prove your point" applies to the mentality of demonsing women.
• King, Stephen (2006), On Writing - ★★★★½ - A really good expose on what makes a writer; or rather, what makes a good "of-any-kind". Stephen King manages to make himself ordinary and very human with an honesty that's heartwarming and at the same time a very harsh guiding hand.
• Hymowitz, Kay S. (2011) Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys - ★★★½ - I find it odd that I'm more and more on the way to becoming the alpha male that feminism both adore and hate--and it's working out pretty well for me. I do get what the book is saying and it hit a bit too close to comfort a couple of times. It's did however call 'Bottle Rocket' a frat-movie because it stared Owen Wilson and grouped it with Adam Sandler-movies.

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) - ★★½
• 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
• Stranger Than Fiction (2006, dir. Marc Forster) - ★★½
• Before Night Falls (2000, dir. Julian Schnabel) - ★★★½
• Dark Shadows (2012, dir. Tim Burton) - ★★★
• Bee Movie (2007, dir. Steve Hickner, Simon J. Smith) - ★★
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010, dir. David Yates) - ★★½
• Gothicka (2003, dir. Mathiue Kassovitz) - ★★
• Tron: Legacy (2010, dir. Joseph Kosinski) - ★★★½
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007, dir. Julian Schnabel) - ★★★½
• Outlander (2008, dir. Howard McCain) - ★★★
• The Box (2009, dir. Richard Kelly) - ★★½
• Fish Tank (2009, dir. Andrea Arnold) - ★★★½ - There's been alot of good indie movies coming out of the UK these recent year, my favorite being Attack the Block. This one hits all the right notes and is honest about its subject. Fassbender is awesome.
• The Conspirator (2010, dir. Robert Redford) - ★★★ - To be honest I'd rather just see Lincoln. This was entertaining but a bit stale. It played out like a well-made made-for-teevee movie but with some good Hollywood talent.
• Youth in Revolt (2009, dir. Miguel Arteta) - ★★½ - Nothing special. Just a rather unlikeable Cera playing Cera. Really nothing special about this movie.
• The Flowers of War (2011, dir. Yimou Zhang) - ★★★½ - Christian Bale returns to China. A very chinese movie by any standard. It's visually appealing and has some very creative cinematography while downplaying the story. Always engaging but never that deep.
• Eden Lake (2008, dir. James Watkins) - ★★ - There's nothing wrong with showing that people are savages and there's nothing wrong with presenting that with the bleakness of apathy. What is wrong is expecting to enjoy 1½ hours of torture. I can't really dig this movie but I'm sure some will. It's put together well enough but that doesn't mean I'll enjoy it.
• Iron Man Three (2013, dir. Shane Black) - ★★★★ - Please keep Black directing these movies. It's awesome. It's the most fun Iron Man-movie of the bunch and it's fantasticly put together. This marks the first time that a child actor has been one of the high-lights of the movie. I love the kid. Every scene is golden. Almost everything is good.
• The Expendables 2 (2012, dir. Simon West) - ★★ - It isn't bad. It's just a mess. An uninspired mess with too many quips. Still managed to fall asleep watching it, like I did the first one. This one is better but only in the sense I actually bothered finishing it the morning after.
• Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013, dir. J.J. Abrahms) - ★★★½ - It's a great way to tie back into the continuety of the old movies. I'd love to see more of these movies. The foreshadowing is a bit of a thing with this movie "the few and many" but it's nice how they manage to tie Carol Marcus into the legacy-timeline.
• Indie Game: The Movie (2012, dir. Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky) - ★★ - A bunch of unattractive guys talking to a camera for almost 2 hours. Fell asleep twice and nodded off a couple of times. It's not about anything really. It makes a few points but it's really drawn out and not really worth it.

Bonus: 10/24 TV | 17/24 Video Games | 10/24 Records

TV

• True Blood (Season 5, 2012) - ★★½
• Game of Thrones (Season 2, 2012) - ★★★★
• House of Cards (Season 1, 2013) - ★★★★½
• Boardwalk Empire (Season 2011) - ★★★½
• Banshee (Season 1, 2013) - ★★½
• Star Trek (Season 1, 1966-67) - ★★★★★
• Hemlock Grove (Season 1, 2013) - ★★★½
• Spartacus: Blood and Sand (Season 1, 2010) - ★★★½ - "It gets better" is about right for the first season. Then Andy Whitfield died. A really strong first season. One part Gladiator, one part God of War and one part 300. It can't really be faulted for anything other than being a bit sparse in the settings.
• Girls (Season 1, 2012) - ★★★½ - It's nice to see a tv-show about women (or girls, in this case). More often than not comedy shows portray women as flawless beings that magically turn off their quirks when they meet the right guy. Here's it just four losers living loser lives and having fun doing it. Refreshing but without a real momentum.
• The Walking Dead (Season 2, 2011-12) - ★★★★ - Better than the first season. Better momentum. Playing the videogame between the two seasons really helped the world building. I'm invested into this. A detour then back to the third season.

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) - ★★★
• Tropico 4 [PC] (2011, Haemimont Games) - ★★★½
• StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm [PC] (2013, Blizzard Entertainment) - ★★★★
• BioShock Infinite [PC] (2013, Irrational Games) - ★★★★
• Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception [PS3] (2011, Naughty Dog) - ★★★
• Guacamelee! [PS3] (2013, Drinkbox Studios) - ★★★★ - This is the way all platformers should be made. With a lot of love for the genre. Pop-culture references, tight controls and some smart art direction make for a really great game. Also the best Metroidvania in a long while.

Music

• Blood Donation - Mariam the Believer (2013, Spotify) - ★★★★½
• Push the Sky Away - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (2013, Spotify) - ★★★½
• Pale Green Ghosts - John Grand (2013, Spotify) - ★★★★½
• The Next Day - David Bowie (2013, Spotify) - ★★★½
• The Golden Age - Woodkid (2013, Spotify) - ★★★★
• Woman - Rhye (2013, Spotify) - ★★★★
• Tandem Sky - Tandem Sky (2013, Spotify) - ★★★★½ - Great debut album with some really good songs. Hurricane and D.O.M.A. stand out as the truely great songs. I'm keeping an eye on them.
• Rob Zombie - Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor (2013, Spotify) - ★★★½ - As far as Zombie this is a solid album. Never really that creative but being the showman he is I'm looking forward to seeing it live.
• The Knife - Shaking the Habitual (2013, Spotify) - ★★★½ - Their greats are great but there's just so much fillers. They'll never reach again their peak (Silent Shout) if they keep this up.
• Wire - Change Becomes Us (2013, Spotify) - ★★★★ - Solid album all around and makes for some great listening.
• Bonobo - The North Borders (2013, Spotify) - ★★★ - Not at the Black Sands heights and I'm not really in awe as I was back then. But some nice beats regardless.

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

 

[cashman]

UPDATE TIME

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

- 12/50 books 16/50 movies

Books

• Cloud Atlas (x2)
• Watchmen
• Atlas Shrugged (x2)
• The Great Gatsby
• A Game of Thrones (x2)
• A Clash of Kings (x2)
• A Storm of Swords (x2)

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
• The Hobbit
• Black Swan
• Interstella 5555

Currently Reading: A Feast for Crows

 

[choodi]

choodi - 5/50 Books | 23/50 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)
19. TRON: Legacy (B)
20. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (C)
21. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (C)
22. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (C)
23. The Life of Pi (B)

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)
4. Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett (A)
5. The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons (A)

Such a great conclusion and such a good delivery. Really a step above most fantasy/scifi out there.

Can anyone tell me if Endymion is up to the same standard?

Anyone got a recommendation for my next book?

I have Eric! by Terry Pratchett, Before they are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie, Old Man's War by John Scalzi, The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson, Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson, or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll on my Kindle.

I am also open to other suggestions if anyone cares to recommend something.

 

[Nezumi]

Update:

Nezumi - 19/50 books | 28/50 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
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• The wonderful wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
• Sabriel - Garth Nix
• The Price of Spring - Daniel Abraham
• Ensel und Krete - Walter Moers
• Solange der Haifisch schläft - Milena Agus
• Lirael - Garth Nix
• The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Book One - Bill Watterson
• Unrast - Olga Tokarczuk
• Schilf - Juli Zeh

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
• Fire walk with me
• Sherlock: The Great Game
• Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
• Sherlock:The Hounds of Baskerville
• Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall
• The Intouchables
• Looper
• A town called Panic
• Road to El Dorado
• The Dark Knight Rises
• The Raid
• Stalker
• The Princess Bride
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• The 36th chamber of Shaolin

 

[SlowRevolution]

Update

SlowRevolution - 13/50 books | 34/50 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
• Columbine
• Neverwhere
• John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood
• Trimalchio
• Gone
• The Devil in the White City
  

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
• In Time
• Alex Cross
• We Bought a Zoo
• Playing For Keeps
• Magic Mike
• Wet Hot American Summer
• My Week With Marilyn
• Wreck-It Ralph
• Big Fish
• Spirited Away
• Network
• Breakfast on Pluto
• The World According to Dick Cheney

 

[persongr]

April Update!

persongr: Books, 06/50 | Movies, 19/50

BOOKS: 6/50

• The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes (translated in Greek by Thomas Skassis)
• A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, by Julian Barnes (translated in Greek by Thomas Skassis)
• Edgar Allan Poe: 21 Stories and "The Raven" (compiled and translated in Greek by Katerina Sxina)
• The Murderess, by Alexandros Papadiamantis
• Our Man in Havana, by Graham Greene
  [*]Confessions of a Mask, by Yukio Mishima (translated in English by Meredith Weatherby)

MOVIES: 19/50

• 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
• In the Mood for Love
• De rouille et d'os
• La Mujer sin Cabeza
  [*]Anatomy of a Crime
  [*]Iron Man 3
  [*]Chungking Express
  [*]The Grandmaster

Now now, I'm never getting near the goal of reading 50 books, aren't I Nevertheless, having read six books is more than I could achieve altogether in '12, so I think I'm good.

 

[LuffyZoro]

I have Eric! by Terry Pratchett, Before they are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie, Old Man's War by John Scalzi, The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson, Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson, or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll on my Kindle.

I am also open to other suggestions if anyone cares to recommend something.

Eric! is, in my opinion, the weakest of Pratchett's books. On the other hand, I really liked Old Man's War.

 

[Tragicomedy]

Can anyone tell me if Endymion is up to the same standard?

I've read none of them so take this with a grain of salt, but the GAF book club folks say it's trash compared to the first two and actually ruins the series.

Case in point:
http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=56529260

 

[choodi]

Eric! is, in my opinion, the weakest of Pratchett's books. On the other hand, I really liked Old Man's War.

I went with Old Man's War and after three chapters I am really getting into the writing style. I usually find books written in the first person to be a bit odd. However, I really like the way it's done here.

 

[Wok]

UPDATE

Wok - 5/50 books | 8/50 movies​

Books​

1. Alessandro Baricco, Emmaüs, 2012. (144 pages, ISBN-13: 9782070131709) ★★★★½
2. Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Les Trois Soeurs Minkelsönn (T1), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631308) ★★★½
3. Denis Le Bihan, Le cerveau de cristal ; ce que nous révèle la neuro-imagerie, 2012. (220 pages, ISBN-13: 9782738125279) ★★★★
4. Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Le Royaume du chaos (T3), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631964) ★★★
5. Philippe Valette, George Clooney : Une histoire vrai[e]. La grosse épopée orthographique de qualit[é] (T1-T2-T3-T4), 2013. (300 pages, ISBN-13: 9782756041513) ½
   

Movies​

1. Alice Bissonnet, Aloyse Desoubries-Binet, Sandrine Han Jin Kuang, Juliette Laurent, Sophie Markatatos, In-Between, 2012. (3 min 05 s, Youtube) ★★★½
2. Simon Klose, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, 2013. (1 h 22 min) ★★★½
3. Claude Zidi, L'Aile ou la cuisse, 1976. (1 h 44 min) ★★★½
4. Bruno Bozzetto, Yes & No, 2001. (4 min, Youtube) ★★★
5. Malik Bendjelloul, Searching for Sugar Man, 2012. (1h 26 min) ★★★
6. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo, 1964. (2h 17 min) ★★★★★
7. Bernard Stora, La Dernière campagne, 2013. (1h 45 min) ★★★
8. Lars Lundström, Äkta människor, 2012. (TV, 10 x 55min) ★★★

 

[Empty]

update

Empty - 26/50 Books | 42/50 Movies

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)
12. lolita by vladimir nabokov
13. eating animals by jonathon safron foer
14. neverwhere by neil gaiman
15. the complete maus by art spiegelman
16. night falls fast by kay redfield jamison
17. what i talk about when i talk about running by haruki murakami
18. scorsese by ebert
19. a tree grows in brooklyn by betty smith
20. breakfast of champions by kurt vonnegut
21. the orphan masters son by adam johnson
22. cold spring harbour by richard yates
23. outliers by malcom gladwell
24. slaugherhose v by kurt vonnegut
25 + 26. the art of fielding by chad harbuch (515 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
30. the general
31. safety last
32. nosferatu
33. the triplets of bellville
34. grizzly man
35. pitch perfect
36. the terminator
37. election
38. mishima a life in four chapters
39. three colours red
40. iron man 3
41. flesh and the devil
42. fish tank

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

Baconsaurus Rex - 10/50 Books | 33/50 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
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• World of the Odd and the Awesome by Charles Berlitz
• Franken Fran Vol. 1-8 by Katsuhisa Kigitsu
• Solanin by Asano Inio
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Cable & Deadpool #1-6
• Deadpool #1-7
• Oyasumi Punpun Vol. 1-11 by Asano Inio
• The Walking Dead #104-109
• Hawkeye #1-10

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)
22. Go-ji-jeon (2011)
23. Argo (2012)
24. Doomsday Book (2012)
25. Incendies (2010)
26. Exit Through the Gift shop (2010)
27. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
28. Shaolin Soccer (2001)
29. Modern Times (1936)
30. Das Leben der Anderen (2006)
31. Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theatre (2011)
32. Three Extremes... (2004)
33. Louis C.K.: Oh My God (2013)

 

[Nezumi]

Update:

Nezumi - 20/50 books | 28/50 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
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• The wonderful wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
• Sabriel - Garth Nix
• The Price of Spring - Daniel Abraham
• Ensel und Krete - Walter Moers
• Solange der Haifisch schläft - Milena Agus
• Lirael - Garth Nix
• The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Book One - Bill Watterson
• Unrast - Olga Tokarczuk
• Schilf - Juli Zeh
• Sweet Silver Blues - Glen Cook

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
• Fire walk with me
• Sherlock: The Great Game
• Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
• Sherlock:The Hounds of Baskerville
• Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall
• The Intouchables
• Looper
• A town called Panic
• Road to El Dorado
• The Dark Knight Rises
• The Raid
• Stalker
• The Princess Bride
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• The 36th chamber of Shaolin

Liked it a lot already have the next books on my Kindle. Quick and easy reading after a day full of studying

 

[TestMonkey]

UPDATE

TestMonkey - 24/50 Books | 29/50 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
• Witches Incorporated by K.E. Mills
• The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
• Wolverine and the X-Men Vol. 2 by Jason Aaron
• Kick-Ass 2 Prelude: Hit-Girl by Mark Millar
• Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures by Walter Moers
• Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey
• Shadow Games by Glen Cook
• How To Analyze People On Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
• Dreams of Steel by Glen Cook

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
• Craig Ferguson: I'm Here to Help
• Jim Jefferies: I Swear to God
• Jim Jefferies: Fully Functional
• Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007
• Evil Dead (2013)
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
• Debra DiGiovanni: Single Awkward Female
• The Hangover Part III

 

[Nymerio]

Update

Nymerio - 35/50 Books | 9/50 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)
• Turn Coat (Jim Butcher)
• Changes (Jim Butcher)
• Ghost Story (Jim Butcher)
• Cold Days (Jim Butcher)
• Legion (Brandon Sanderson)
• The House on the Borderlands (William Hope Hodgson)
• Sweet Silver Blues (Glenn Cook)
• Redshirts (John Scalzi)
• Bitter Gold Hearts (Glenn Cook)
• Cold Copper Tears (Glenn Cook)
• Old Tin Sorrows (Glenn Cook)
• Dread Brass Shadows (Glenn Cook)
• Red Iron Nights (Glenn Cook)
• Deadly Quicksilver Lies (Glenn Cook)
• Petty Pewter Gods (Glenn Cook)
• Faded Steel Heat (Glenn Cook)
• Angry Lead Skies (Glenn Cook)

Movies

• Stardust
• A Scanner Darkly
• Savages
• Sinister
• Skyfall
• The Hobbit
• Oz the Great and Powerful
• Wreckit Ralph
• Man with the Iron Fists

 

[Illithid Dude]

Illithid Dude -5/50 books | 52/50 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
Collateral
Brothers Bloom
Catch Me If You Can
Swingers
Bringing Out the Dead
The Long Goodbye
Evil Dead 2
Jack and Jill
Rain Man
Evil Dead (2013)
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Idiocracy
Mother
The Place Beyond the Pines
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Eyes Wide Shut
Almost Famous
Badlands
Upstream Color
Hamlet (1996)
Pain and Gain

Books:

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

Yay! Crossed the movie threshold. Everything else is just bonus.

 

[i_am_ben]

choodi - 5/50 Books | 23/50 Movies​

Such a great conclusion and such a good delivery. Really a step above most fantasy/scifi out there.

Can anyone tell me if Endymion is up to the same standard?

It's nowhere near as good. However, the characters are pleasant enough.

 

[Tragicomedy]

New movie:

[*] Silver Linings Playbook. ★★★★ -- Excellent, quirky love story of two people learning how to cope with their mental illness. While it's quite funny, it never stoops to poke fun of the conditions, and there are plenty of moments that help convey the paranoia and stress involved. I might be in the minority, but I felt like Cooper was better in the film than Jennifer Lawrence...if anyone deserved the Oscar it was him.

 

[Azrael]

Time for another weekly update.

Azrael - 15/50 books | 69/50 movies

Books

15. The Pluto Files by Neil deGrasse Tyson ★★★

Movies

65. Our Very Own (1950) ★★
66. 3 Ninjas Kick Back ★
67. Seven Psychopaths ★★★★
68. Iron Man 3 ★★★
69. Silver Linings Playbook ★★★

So, since I'm doing so much reading and wanted to expand my social circle, I joined a book club that has meetups at local restaurants, and The Pluto Files is one of two books I signed up for this month (the other, Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut, I'm currently reading).

The Pluto Files is a history of Pluto from its discovery in 1930 to its demotion to "dwarf planet" status by the International Astronomers Union. At its heart, the controversy is one of semantics rather than science, and the book makes a good case that the entire classification of "planet" is outdated and gives us a distorted view of our solar system and the universe. Why do terrestrial planets like Earth and Mars share the same classification as jovian planets like Jupiter and Saturn? Does the very concept of planet bias us to place less importance on other objects which should, in some cases, like the moons Io and Titan, hold more interest to us than planets?

The debate seems driven by a desire to as much as possible preserve the status quo, as astronomers were resistant to demote Pluto and change the number of designated planets from nine to eight until recent discoveries would have left them no choice but to classify the asteroid Ceres and trans-Neptunian object Eris as planets, with many more TNO planets to follow, so rather than go from potentially 9 to 20 planets they opted to go from 9 to 8. The new requirement that a planet's mass dominate its orbit, which demoted Pluto, seems arbitrary, and I don't feel the issue has been settled. How will astronomers handle co-orbital planets (planets sharing an orbit) if they are discovered throughout the universe? It has been theorized that our moon is the remnant of a co-orbital planet that crashed into Earth. As to be expected from Neil deGrasse Tyson, the subject is presented with great humor, and it's an entertaning book to read.

Our Very Own is an old movie about a girl coming to terms with the discovery that she is adopted. It has a bit of an after-school special feel to it, and social attitudes have changed so much in 60 years that it's pretty hokey. The cattiness of the two sisters fighting over a boy is amusing anyway.

In case you're wondering, no, I did not choose to see 3 Ninjas Kick Back. I sometimes create transcripts of movies as part of my job. I probably shouldn't even include crap like this on my list, but I do put down every movie I see. I imagine some kids might like this movie, but they don't know any better. As C.S. Lewis said, "A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."

Seven Psychopaths is a fantastic black comedy with a great cast and writing.

Spoiler

"Friends don't make their friends die." "Psychopathic friends do."

is one of my favorite lines in a movie I've seen this year. I also really liked In Bruges, so I'll have to make a note to see everything from Martin McDonagh from now on.

Iron Man 3 gets the franchise back on track after the disappointing Iron Man 2, but still fails to live up to the original. I think my biggest problem with Iron Man 3 is Tony Stark was more fun when he was an alcoholic narcissist. Now he's suffering PTSD after his fight with aliens in The Avengers (seriously), doesn't drink, fights with his girlfriend, and is saddled with a kid sidekick. I don't want to be bummed out by a superhero movie like that. Just keep it entertaining without getting campy, like Iron Man 1 and The Avengers managed to do.

Silver Linings Playbook is a decent romantic comedy about two broken people finding happiness with each other. It starts off very promising, but veers into cliche territory with the dance competition and football betting.

 

[Tragicomedy]

New book:

[*] Uncanny X-Force (issues 1-35). ★★★★½ -- Just completed the entire Rick Remender series, and I have to say this is the greatest X-Men run I've ever read. Superbly plotted and executed, the payoff at the end is unbelievably good. The basic plot follows Wolverine and his "rogue" team as they attempt to stop the rise of Apocalypse. There's murder, mysticism, time travel, and Deadpool delivering the humor.

Having been on a long hiatus from comics until about six months ago, I had never read anything with Fantomex in it. He's now my favorite character in the X universe, surpassing Nightcrawler. I can't wait until Marvel packages this up nicely in a giant omnibus for me to purchase.

 

[Maklershed]

Maklershed - 22/50 books | 36/50 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!
11. Dune Messiah
12. Raised Eyebrows
13. Red Country
14. L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories
15. The Big Sleep
16. Farewell, My Lovely
END Q1
17. The Black Dahlia
18. The Big Nowhere
19. Masters of Doom
20. L.A. Confidential
21. White Jazz
22. Escape from Camp 14


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
14. Reservoir Dogs
15. The Warriors
16. Double Indemnity
17. Lawless
18. Once Upon a Time in the West
19. A Night in Casablanca
20. Go West
21. In the Name of the King
22. Duck Soup
23. Murder, My Sweet
24. They Drive By Night
25. Gun Crazy
26. Gigli
27. Season of the Witch
28. Trespass
29. Drive Angry
END Q1
30. Born to Kill
31. End of Watch
32. The Asphalt Jungle
33. Street Fighter
34. Godzilla 1998
35. Oblivion
36. Green Lantern


Games
1. Borderlands 2
2. Heavy Rain
3. Far Cry 3
4. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
END Q1

 

[Atrophis]

Atrophis - 4/50 Books | 26/50 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)
13. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (3/5, watched 16/03)
14. Indie Game: The Movie (3/5, watched 17/03)
15. Django Unchained (5/5, watched 29/03)
16. Cloud Atlas (5/5, watched 31/03)
17. The Master (5/5, watched 01/04)
18. Holy Motors (2/5, watched 05/04)
19. Dredd (3/5, watched 11/04)
20. The Raid (4/5, watched 12/04)
21. Armadillo (4/5, watched 12/04)
22. The Devil Came on Horseback (3/5, watched 13/04)
23. Immortals (2/5, watched 13/04)
24. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (3/5, watched 14/04)
25. Kill List (4/5, watched 18/04)
26. Oblivion (3/5, watched 05/05)

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 (4/5, started 13/02 - finished 06/04)
4. Generation Kill - Evan Wright (4/5, started 07/04 - finished 13/04)
5. Blind Descent - James M. Tabor (started 14/04)

Bonus Round

10/?? TV

1. Star Trek: Deep Space 9 - series 3
2. Silent Witness - series 16
3. Utopia
4. Black Mirror - series 2
5. The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret - series 1
6. Enterprise - series 2
7. The Walking Dead - series 3
8. Spartacus: War of the Damned
9. Star Trek: Deep Space 9 - series 4
10. Broadchurch - series 1

5/?? Games

1. Spec Ops: The Line (PC)
2. Uncharted 2 (PS3)
3. Assassins Creed 2 (PC)
4. Binary Domain (PC)
5. Thirty Flights of Loving (PC)

 

[markhimself46]

IN PROCESS: 11/22/63 (Stephen King) Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (Sean Howe)

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)
4. When David Lost His Voice (Judith Vanistendael)
5. Francona: The Red Sox Years (Terry Francona, Dan Shaughnessy)
6. Point Your Face at This (Demetri Martin)
7. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
8. Under the Dome (Stephen King)
9. Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise (Gene Luen Yang, Michael Dante DiMartino)

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
9. Django Unchained

 

[Teptom]

Update

Teptom - 20/50 Books | 18/50 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
• The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
• Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction by Harlan Ellison
• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
• The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
  [*]For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  [*]The Stranger by Albert Camus
  [*]The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
  [*]Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  [*]The Complete Stories, Volume 1 by Isaac Asimov
  

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
• Wreak-It-Ralph
• Argo
• Skyfall
  [*]Pain & Gain
  

 

[smiggyRT]

Update - smiggyRT - 2/50 books 41/50 movies

Books

• 
  [1]Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell (4th March)
  [2]Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (8th March)

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)
  [25]Argo (26th Feb)
  [26]Dante's Inferno (28th Feb)
  [27]Star wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back (4th March)
  [28]Ali (6th March)
  [29]Headhunters (7th March)
  [30]Jack Reacher (12th March)
  [31]Super Troopers (12th March)
  [32]Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi (13th March)
  [33]Team America: World Police (14th March)
  [34]Monty Python and the Holy Grail (15th March)
  [35]Idle Hands (22nd March)
  [36]Hot Rod (28th March)
  [37]Brave (31st March)
  [38]Nitro Circus: The Movie (3rd April)
  [39]Jack Reacher (17th April)
  [40]Hansel and Gretel (5th May)
  [41]The Place Beyond the Pines (6th May)

Haven't kept good track of movies the last few weeks so there's bound to be a couple missing. Can't get myself to pick another book up at the minute though, have a few handy on my tablet and paperback but it's just not happening right now

 

[choodi]

Update - smiggyRT - 2/50 books 41/50 movies

Books

• 
  [1]Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell (4th March)
  [2]Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card (8th March)

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)
  [25]Argo (26th Feb)
  [26]Dante's Inferno (28th Feb)
  [27]Star wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back (4th March)
  [28]Ali (6th March)
  [29]Headhunters (7th March)
  [30]Jack Reacher (12th March)
  [31]Super Troopers (12th March)
  [32]Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi (13th March)
  [33]Team America: World Police (14th March)
  [34]Monty Python and the Holy Grail (15th March)
  [35]Idle Hands (22nd March)
  [36]Hot Rod (28th March)
  [37]Brave (31st March)
  [38]Nitro Circus: The Movie (3rd April)
  [39]Jack Reacher (17th April)
  [40]Hansel and Gretel (5th May)
  [41]The Place Beyond the Pines (6th May)

Haven't kept good track of movies the last few weeks so there's bound to be a couple missing. Can't get myself to pick another book up at the minute though, have a few handy on my tablet and paperback but it's just not happening right now

You really had never seen the original Star Wars trilogy?

Serious questions.

How old are you?

How had you never seen any of these movies?

Have you seen the prequel trilogy?

What did you think of them?

Have you seen the Indiana Jones films?

I ask because the Star Wars films were such a large part of my formative years that I can't imagine what it would be like to have grown up without ever seeing them.

I'm assuming it is a generational/age thing.

 

[smiggyRT]

You really had never seen the original Star Wars trilogy?

Serious questions.

How old are you?

How had you never seen any of these movies?

Have you seen the prequel trilogy?

What did you think of them?

Have you seen the Indiana Jones films?

I ask because the Star Wars films were such a large part of my formative years that I can't imagine what it would be like to have grown up without ever seeing them.

I'm assuming it is a generational/age thing.

I'm 20. I saw the prequel trilogy first in Cinema when they came out and a couple times since then. I always somewhat enjoyed them though it was kinda obvious they were poor films on the whole. As the for the originals I'd never seen them all the way through, just bits and pieces. For the most part i knew the story although seeing the Death Star exploding was crazy since I assumed that was the finale of the trilogy

Seen all the Indy films, really enjoy them (though the 4th for comedic reasons) although ToD is hard to rewatch with that annoying kid.

Before I started Uni I don't think I knew anyone who talked about seeing the original Star Wars which I imagine is why my interest was never peaked.

 

[choodi]

I'm 20. I saw the prequel trilogy first in Cinema when they came out and a couple times since then. I always somewhat enjoyed them though it was kinda obvious they were poor films on the whole. As the for the originals I'd never seen them all the way through, just bits and pieces. For the most part i knew the story although seeing the Death Star exploding was crazy since I assumed that was the finale of the trilogy

Seen all the Indy films, really enjoy them (though the 4th for comedic reasons) although ToD is hard to rewatch with that annoying kid.

Before I started Uni I don't think I knew anyone who talked about seeing the original Star Wars which I imagine is why my interest was never peaked.

Thanks man. As I said, I assumed it was a generational thing.

I'm 35 and those movies are such a massive part of my generation that it is hard to fathom that there are people who haven't seen them.

I guess it's the same with video games. It's hard for me to get my head around how some people have never played the original Super Mario Bros.

I feel old now... :-(

 

[Zeliard]

The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

How was this? It's on my to-read list.

 

[Nezumi]

Update:

Nezumi - 20/50 books | 30/50 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
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• The wonderful wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
• Sabriel - Garth Nix
• The Price of Spring - Daniel Abraham
• Ensel und Krete - Walter Moers
• Solange der Haifisch schläft - Milena Agus
• Lirael - Garth Nix
• The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Book One - Bill Watterson
• Unrast - Olga Tokarczuk
• Schilf - Juli Zeh
• Sweet Silver Blues - Glen Cook

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
• Fire walk with me
• Sherlock: The Great Game
• Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
• Sherlock:The Hounds of Baskerville
• Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall
• The Intouchables
• Looper
• A town called Panic
• Road to El Dorado
• The Dark Knight Rises
• The Raid
• Stalker
• The Princess Bride
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• The 36th chamber of Shaolin
• I ♥ Huckabees
• The Frighteners

Ok, so technically I ♥ Huckabees was a re-watch, but I did not remember anything about the movie other than the fact that I did watch it years ago. Hell I didn't even remember who was starring in it and first time around I watched the dubbed version so as far as I'm concernd this was a fresh experience. If someone minds that I put it on my list just speak up and I delete it.
That being said, this movie is awesome. I wished the DVD had an audio-commentary so I could have watched it again to catch some more of the allusions and hidden (or not so hidden) meanings.

The Frighteners was OK. Nothing too special though.

 

[Nymerio]

Update

Nymerio - 37/50 Books | 9/50 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)
• Turn Coat (Jim Butcher)
• Changes (Jim Butcher)
• Ghost Story (Jim Butcher)
• Cold Days (Jim Butcher)
• Legion (Brandon Sanderson)
• The House on the Borderlands (William Hope Hodgson)
• Sweet Silver Blues (Glenn Cook)
• Redshirts (John Scalzi)
• Bitter Gold Hearts (Glenn Cook)
• Cold Copper Tears (Glenn Cook)
• Old Tin Sorrows (Glenn Cook)
• Dread Brass Shadows (Glenn Cook)
• Red Iron Nights (Glenn Cook)
• Deadly Quicksilver Lies (Glenn Cook)
• Petty Pewter Gods (Glenn Cook)
• Faded Steel Heat (Glenn Cook)
• Angry Lead Skies (Glenn Cook)
• Whispering Nickel Idols (Glenn Cook)
• Cruel Zinc Melodies (Glenn Cook)

Movies

• Stardust
• A Scanner Darkly
• Savages
• Sinister
• Skyfall
• The Hobbit
• Oz the Great and Powerful
• Wreckit Ralph
• Man with the Iron Fists

 

[Zeliard]

Awesome. Not strictly necessary as a coda to the Book of the New Sun, which I thought wrapped up nicely on its own, but it's damn good. Definitely make sure to read it.

Thank you, I definitely will. I love Gene Wolfe. The Book of the New Sun series is something special.

 

[Wok]

UPDATE

Wok - 5/50 books | 9/50 movies​

Books​

1. Alessandro Baricco, Emmaüs, 2012. (144 pages, ISBN-13: 9782070131709) ★★★★½
2. Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Les Trois Soeurs Minkelsönn (T1), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631308) ★★★½
3. Denis Le Bihan, Le cerveau de cristal ; ce que nous révèle la neuro-imagerie, 2012. (220 pages, ISBN-13: 9782738125279) ★★★★
4. Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Le Royaume du chaos (T3), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631964) ★★★
5. Philippe Valette, George Clooney : Une histoire vrai[e]. La grosse épopée orthographique de qualit[é] (T1-T2-T3-T4), 2013. (300 pages, ISBN-13: 9782756041513) ½
   

Movies​

1. Alice Bissonnet, Aloyse Desoubries-Binet, Sandrine Han Jin Kuang, Juliette Laurent, Sophie Markatatos, In-Between, 2012. (3 min 05 s, Youtube) ★★★½
2. Simon Klose, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, 2013. (1 h 22 min) ★★★½
3. Claude Zidi, L'Aile ou la cuisse, 1976. (1 h 44 min) ★★★½
4. Bruno Bozzetto, Yes & No, 2001. (4 min, Youtube) ★★★
5. Malik Bendjelloul, Searching for Sugar Man, 2012. (1h 26 min) ★★★
6. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo, 1964. (2h 17 min) ★★★★★
7. Bernard Stora, La Dernière campagne, 2013. (1h 45 min) ★★★
8. Lars Lundström, Äkta människor, 2012. (TV, 10 x 55min) ★★★
9. Laurent Cantet, Entre les murs, 2008. (2 h 08 min) ★★★★½

 

[Setre]

Setre - 4/50 Books | 25/50 Movies

Books:

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

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
Pulp Fiction

 

[markhimself46]

IN PROCESS: 11/22/63 (Stephen King) Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (Sean Howe)

BOOKS

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)
4. When David Lost His Voice (Judith Vanistendael)
5. Francona: The Red Sox Years (Terry Francona, Dan Shaughnessy)
6. Point Your Face at This (Demetri Martin)
7. The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
8. Under the Dome (Stephen King)
9. Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise (Gene Luen Yang, Michael Dante DiMartino)

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
9. Django Unchained
10. The Master
11. Iron Man 3

 

[Kud Dukan]

Kud Dukan - 8/50 Books | 12/50 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
• The Bourne Legacy
• Iron Man 3
• Children of Men

 

[Nezumi]

Update:

Nezumi - 22/50 books | 30/50 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
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• The wonderful wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
• Sabriel - Garth Nix
• The Price of Spring - Daniel Abraham
• Ensel und Krete - Walter Moers
• Solange der Haifisch schläft - Milena Agus
• Lirael - Garth Nix
• The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Book One - Bill Watterson
• Unrast - Olga Tokarczuk
• Schilf - Juli Zeh
• Sweet Silver Blues - Glen Cook
• Abhorsen - Garth Nix
• La marche du crabe (book 1) - Arthur de Pins

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
• Fire walk with me
• Sherlock: The Great Game
• Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
• Sherlock:The Hounds of Baskerville
• Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall
• The Intouchables
• Looper
• A town called Panic
• Road to El Dorado
• The Dark Knight Rises
• The Raid
• Stalker
• The Princess Bride
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• The 36th chamber of Shaolin
• I ♥ Huckabees
• The Frighteners

Abhorsen was really goos, though I thought it dragged a bit in the ending. All in all I's say that Lirial was my favorite out of the trilogy.

La marche du crabe was a cute little graphic novel It is the first part of a trilogy and I'm really looking forward for the second book to finally be translated to German.

 

[BrokenEchelon]

BrokenEchelon - 26/50 Books | 60/50 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
• The Magus
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
• To the Lighthouse
• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• On the Road
• 'Salem's Lot
• Nausea
• The Magic Mountain
• Brazil
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
• Ironclad
• Life is Beautiful (1997)
• Cinema Paradiso
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Gangster Squad
• Brick
• Unforgiven
• Iron Man 3
• Parker
• The Last Stand
• In the Mood for Love
• Roman Holiday
• Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
• A Good Day to Die Hard
• Star Trek Into Darkness
• The Raven (2012)
• Trek Nation
• Coriolanus
• Halo: Forward Unto Dawn
• Jackie Brown
• Ju-on: The Grudge

World War Z, man, what a boring piece of shit. I've read video game books more interesting. I can't believe that thing got any sort of praise. Sociopolitical commentary my ass. Parker was equally awful. Not even "so bad it's good", it was just idiotic. The Last Stand was a bit better (than crap) but pretty boring for an action flick.

 

[choodi]

choodi - 6/50 Books | 27/50 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)
19. TRON: Legacy (B)
20. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (C)
21. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (C)
22. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (C)
23. The Life of Pi (B)
24. Blonde Ambition (D)
25. So Undercover (E)
26. My Brother the Devil (B)
27. Iron Man 3 (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)
3. Pyramids - Terry Pratchett (B)
4. Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett (A)
5. The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons (A)
6. Old Man's War - John Scalzi (A)

So Old Man's War would have to be one of my favourite books ever. I loved the pace and the way the whole thing just felt fresh and not like a retread of the same old cliches. In many ways the writing reminded me of Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, but it did have a tone and life of its own that made it really resonate with me.

As far as movies, I was forced to sit through some utter trash by my girlfriend (Blone Ambition and So Undercover). However, I did manage to convince her to watch My Brother the Devil, which is a great movie from the UK. Really worth seeing if you are at all interested in the migrant experience, especially the second generation and the trials and tribulations of being poor, the wrong colour and wanting to break out of a bad situation.

I am heading off now to see Iron Man 3 and maybe Star Trek after that if I am not too tired.

 

[Nymerio]

Update

Nymerio - 38/50 Books | 9/50 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)
• Turn Coat (Jim Butcher)
• Changes (Jim Butcher)
• Ghost Story (Jim Butcher)
• Cold Days (Jim Butcher)
• Legion (Brandon Sanderson)
• The House on the Borderlands (William Hope Hodgson)
• Sweet Silver Blues (Glenn Cook)
• Redshirts (John Scalzi)
• Bitter Gold Hearts (Glenn Cook)
• Cold Copper Tears (Glenn Cook)
• Old Tin Sorrows (Glenn Cook)
• Dread Brass Shadows (Glenn Cook)
• Red Iron Nights (Glenn Cook)
• Deadly Quicksilver Lies (Glenn Cook)
• Petty Pewter Gods (Glenn Cook)
• Faded Steel Heat (Glenn Cook)
• Angry Lead Skies (Glenn Cook)
• Whispering Nickel Idols (Glenn Cook)
• Cruel Zinc Melodies (Glenn Cook)
• Gilded Latten Bones (Glenn Cook)

Movies

• Stardust
• A Scanner Darkly
• Savages
• Sinister
• Skyfall
• The Hobbit
• Oz the Great and Powerful
• Wreckit Ralph
• Man with the Iron Fists

Finished all the currently released book of the Garrett P.I. series. This is now one of my favourite series.

Not sure what I'll read next. I may start the Malazan series.

 

[choodi]

Saw Iron Man 3.

It was ok. Story pretty much went nowhere and they delayed any real action until the end. It was funny as hell though.

 

[gloomy]

gloomy - 3/50 Books | 22/50 Movies

Books:

The sailor who fell from grace with the sea - Yukio Mishima
Wind Up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami
Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler

Movies:

Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
Midnight In Paris (2011)
Rurouni Kenshin (2012)
Octopussy (1983)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012)
Hurt Locker (2008)
Django Unchained (2012)
Win Win (2011)
The American (2010)
Limitless (2011)
Argo (2012)
Sunrise (1927)
Chacun Son Cinema (2007)
Wreck It Ralph (2012)
Looper (2012)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
In the City of Sylvia (2007)
The City of Lost Children (1995)
The Fly (1986)
Kikujiro (1999)
The Hunger Games (2012)
Dark Shadows (2012)

 

[Tragicomedy]

New book:

[*] The Black Company by Glen Cook. ★★★★★ -- Easily in my top 5 fantasy novels ever. I instantly feel in love with the world, the lore, magic system, military camaraderie, and the dark undertones. I like how there are no "good" or "bad" characters...even the likeable protagonist wears shades of gray. This is the first book I've read by Cook, but certainly will not be the last.

 

[Nezumi]

Update:

Nezumi - 23/50 books | 30/50 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
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• The wonderful wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
• Sabriel - Garth Nix
• The Price of Spring - Daniel Abraham
• Ensel und Krete - Walter Moers
• Solange der Haifisch schläft - Milena Agus
• Lirael - Garth Nix
• The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Book One - Bill Watterson
• Unrast - Olga Tokarczuk
• Schilf - Juli Zeh
• Sweet Silver Blues - Glen Cook
• Abhorsen - Garth Nix
• La marche du crabe (book 1) - Arthur de Pins
• Bitter Gold Hearts - Glen Cook

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
• Fire walk with me
• Sherlock: The Great Game
• Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
• Sherlock:The Hounds of Baskerville
• Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall
• The Intouchables
• Looper
• A town called Panic
• Road to El Dorado
• The Dark Knight Rises
• The Raid
• Stalker
• The Princess Bride
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• The 36th chamber of Shaolin
• I ♥ Huckabees
• The Frighteners

Even better than the first one. I'm really looking forward for reading the rest od the series.

 

[Wok]

UPDATE

Wok - 6/50 books | 11/50 movies​

Books​

1. Alessandro Baricco, Emmaüs, 2012. (144 pages, ISBN-13: 9782070131709) ★★★★½
2. Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Les Trois Soeurs Minkelsönn (T1), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631308) ★★★½
3. Denis Le Bihan, Le cerveau de cristal ; ce que nous révèle la neuro-imagerie, 2012. (220 pages, ISBN-13: 9782738125279) ★★★★
4. Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Le Royaume du chaos (T3), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631964) ★★★
5. Philippe Valette, George Clooney : Une histoire vrai[e]. La grosse épopée orthographique de qualit[é] (T1-T2-T3-T4), 2013. (300 pages, ISBN-13: 9782756041513) ½
   [*]Daniel Pennac, Cabot-Caboche, 1982. (200 pages, ISBN-13: 9782266086417) ★★★★½
   

Movies​

1. Alice Bissonnet, Aloyse Desoubries-Binet, Sandrine Han Jin Kuang, Juliette Laurent, Sophie Markatatos, In-Between, 2012. (3 min 05 s, Youtube) ★★★½
2. Simon Klose, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, 2013. (1 h 22 min) ★★★½
3. Claude Zidi, L'Aile ou la cuisse, 1976. (1 h 44 min) ★★★½
4. Bruno Bozzetto, Yes & No, 2001. (4 min, Youtube) ★★★
5. Malik Bendjelloul, Searching for Sugar Man, 2012. (1h 26 min) ★★★
6. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo, 1964. (2h 17 min) ★★★★★
7. Bernard Stora, La Dernière campagne, 2013. (1h 45 min) ★★★
8. Lars Lundström, Äkta människor, 2012. (TV, 10 x 55min) ★★★
9. Laurent Cantet, Entre les murs, 2008. (2 h 08 min) ★★★★½
10. Giulio Base, Terence Hill, Doc West, 2009. (1 h 33 min) ★½
11. Giulio Base, Terence Hill, Triggerman, 2009. (1 h 37 min) ★

 

[SaltyDoughnut]

SaltyDoughnut - 12/50 Books | 19/50 Movies | 9/24 TV Seasons | 5/24 Games​

Books:
Now reading: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
-★★★★½- Crime and Punishment [551 pages] - Jan 6th
-★★★- Meditations in an Emergency - Feb 9th
-★★★★½- Hamlet - March 14th
-★½- Dead Man Walking - March 22nd
-★★★★★- Invisible Man [581 pages] - March 26th
-no rating- The Wasteland - March 27th
-★★★- Song of Solomon - April 22nd
-★★★★- Cosmicomics - April 22nd
-★★- Ishmael - May 11th
-★★★★★- The Catcher in the Rye - May 11th

Movies:
-★★★½- Les Misérables - Jan 2nd
-★★★★- Shame - Jan 7th
-★★★½- Zero Dark Thirty - Jan 12th
-★★★- Boogie Nights - Jan 13th
-★★★- In Bruges - Jan 24th
-★★★★½- Django Unchained - Jan 26th
-★★★- Blue Valentine - Jan 27th
-★★★★- The Kids Are All Right - Feb 16th
-★★★½- Jean de Florette - Feb 22nd
-★★★★½- Beasts of the Southern Wild - Feb 22nd
-★★★½- Howl's Moving Castle - Feb 28th
-★★★½- Food Inc. - March 21st
-★★½- Sound of Noise - April 3rd
-★★★★½- The Godfather - April 4th
-★★★★½- Reservoir Dogs - April 12th
-★★★★- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - April 20th
-★★★- Star Trek Into Darkness - May 17th
-★★★- Behind the Candelabra - May 28th
-★★★- Prometheus - May 28th


TV Seasons:
Now watching: Samurai Champloo, Game of Thrones s3
-★★★½- Girls season 1 - Jan 11th
-★★½- Anohana - Jan 26th
-★★★½- Downton Abbey season 3 - Feb 17th
-★★★★- Tsuritama - March 9th
-★★★- Girls season 2 - March 20th
-★★★★★- Mad Men season 5 [audio commentary set 2] - April 2nd
-★★★★½- Game of Thrones season 2 - May 18th
-★★★★- Parade's End - May 28th
-★★★★★- Band of Brothers - May 29th

Games:
Now playing: Monaco, Halo 4
-★★★★- Hotline Miami - Jan 11th
-★★★★- Sound Shapes - Jan 14th
-★★½- Gunman Clive - Jan 25th
-★★★★- Bit. Trip Runner - April 30th
-★★★★½- Monaco - May 12th

 

[Tragicomedy]

New book:

[*] The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson. ★★★½ -- My first Sanderson read. I really dug the forgery system of magic, which was quite original and unique. Shai was a very likable protagonist. Overall, a short and enjoyable read.

 

[Setre]

Setre - 5/50 Books | 27/50 Movies

Books:

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

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
Pulp Fiction
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Scream 4

 

[Nezumi]

Update:

Nezumi - 23/50 books | 31/50 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
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• The wonderful wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
• Sabriel - Garth Nix
• The Price of Spring - Daniel Abraham
• Ensel und Krete - Walter Moers
• Solange der Haifisch schläft - Milena Agus
• Lirael - Garth Nix
• The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Book One - Bill Watterson
• Unrast - Olga Tokarczuk
• Schilf - Juli Zeh
• Sweet Silver Blues - Glen Cook
• Abhorsen - Garth Nix
• La marche du crabe (book 1) - Arthur de Pins
• Bitter Gold Hearts - Glen Cook

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
• Fire walk with me
• Sherlock: The Great Game
• Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
• Sherlock:The Hounds of Baskerville
• Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall
• The Intouchables
• Looper
• A town called Panic
• Road to El Dorado
• The Dark Knight Rises
• The Raid
• Stalker
• The Princess Bride
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• The 36th chamber of Shaolin
• I ♥ Huckabees
• The Frighteners
• Ashura

 

[ReiGun]

Update: 5/13

Current Books: 7 with 3 in progress

• Sula by Toni Morrison
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• On Writing by Stephen King
• Superman: Secret Origin by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank
• Jungle Action: "Panther's Rage" and "Panther vs the Klan" by Don McGregor and Various Artists
• Superman: Secret Identity by Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen
• Strangers in Paradise Vol 1 and 2 by Terry Moore
• The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed (in progress)
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (in progress)
• New X-Men by Grant Morrison and Various Artists (in progress)

Current Movies: 21

• 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
• Bad Teacher
• Waiting for Superman
• Friends with Benefits
• The Art of Rap
• Finding Forrester
• Rosewood
• Iron Man 3
• Ratatouille
• Superman Unbound

Curse me slow reading speed. lol I also find myself watching more shows than movies nowadays.