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Atrophis · May 14, 2013

Atrophis - 4/50 Books | 28/50 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)
27. Argo (3/5, watched 12/05)
28. Star Trek Into Darkness (4/5, watched 13/05)

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

6/?? 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)
6. God of War: Chains of Olympus (PSP)

markhimself46 · May 14, 2013

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

BOOKS

Building Stories (Chris Ware)
Batman: Year One (Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley)
When David Lost His Voice (Judith Vanistendael)
Francona: The Red Sox Years (Terry Francona, Dan Shaughnessy)
Point Your Face at This (Demetri Martin)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Under the Dome (Stephen King)
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise (Gene Luen Yang, Michael Dante DiMartino)

MOVIES

Looper
VHS
Argo
Brave
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Indie Game: The Movie
Wreck it Ralph
The Place Beyond the Pines
Django Unchained
The Master
Iron Man 3
Silver Linings Playbook
Star Trek (2009)

Kud Dukan · May 15, 2013

Kud Dukan - 9/50 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
Wool by Hugh Howey

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

Absolutely fantastic book. I guess it's five books technically, but I'll count it as one here since that's how I read it. I went into it blind, knowing absolutely nothing about the story, and fell in love with the world and characters. Now I see there is a set of prequels books which appear to be great as well, so I've already ordered the omnibus version. Can't wait to continue!

Forsaken82 · May 15, 2013

Update Forsaken82 5/50 Books | 29/50 Movies

Books:
1. A Dance with Dragons
2. The Road
3. Gone Girl
4. Wool Book 1
5. Wool Book 2

Movies:
1. Looper
2. V/H/S
3. American Reunion
4. Dredd
5. This Means War
6. Wrath of the Titans
7. Mindhunters
8. Dream House
9. Thats My Boy
10. The Ring 2
11. The Thing (2011)
12. Project X (2012)
13. Paranormal Activity 3
14. Men In Black 3
15. Wanderlust
16. Rock of Ages
17. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
18. Silent Hill: Revelations
19. Snow White and the Huntsman
20. Paranormal Activity 4
21. The Campaign
22. Resident Evil: Retribution
23. Zero Dark Thirty
24. Compliance
25. Django Unchained
26. Premium Rush
27. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
28. Chernobyl Diaries
29. Sinister

BrokenEchelon · May 15, 2013

Regarding going over 50 movies or books...do they roll over for next year?

choodi · May 15, 2013

BrokenEchelon said:
Regarding going over 50 movies or books...do they roll over for next year?

The only rules you have to follow are he rules you set for yourself. It's not some game that you have to score pints and win.

That being said, why would they roll over?

Nezumi · May 15, 2013

Update:

Nezumi - 24/50 books | 32/50 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
Cold Copper Tears - 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
Wreck it Ralph

So far my favorite in the series if they keep getting better and better like this I'm really looking forward to the other books.

Tragicomedy · May 15, 2013

New book:

[*] American Gods by Neil Gaiman. ★★★ -- This book felt dense, given that it's only 500+ pages in length. There were entire passages dedicated to historical/apocryphal recounts of the settling of America, and my interest really waned through those sections. The strongest elements were the characterization of the protagonist, the personifications of the various gods, and the general darkness of the setting. I wasn't crazy about the dialogue in general, and several scenes came across as downright annoying. All in all, this didn't live up to the hype I've heard about it, but it was still an enjoyable read.

markhimself46 · May 16, 2013

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

BOOKS

Building Stories (Chris Ware)
Batman: Year One (Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley)
When David Lost His Voice (Judith Vanistendael)
Francona: The Red Sox Years (Terry Francona, Dan Shaughnessy)
Point Your Face at This (Demetri Martin)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Under the Dome (Stephen King)
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise (Gene Luen Yang, Michael Dante DiMartino)

MOVIES

Looper
VHS
Argo
Brave
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Indie Game: The Movie
Wreck it Ralph
The Place Beyond the Pines
Django Unchained
The Master
Iron Man 3
Silver Linings Playbook
Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Fast and Furious 6

Tragicomedy · May 17, 2013

New book:

[*] Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew by Ellen Notbohm. ★★★★ -- Very informative and uplifting read about interacting with, teaching, and supporting a child with autism. The big focus is on unconditional love, understanding the areas where an autistic child struggles socially, and how to deal with simulation overload and language delays.

RatskyWatsky · May 18, 2013

RatskyWatsky - 17/20 TV | 9/25 Books | 52/50 Movies

TV

Bob's Burgers (1 season so far)
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (2 seasons)
Xam'd: Lost Memories (1 season)
Crash (2 seasons)
Sleeper Cell (2 seasons)
Afro Samurai (1 season)
TO (2 episode OVA)
House of Cards (1 season)
Lilyhammer (1 season)
Elfen Lied (1 season)
Lights Out (1 season)
Terriers (1 season)
Generation Kill (miniseries)
From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)
Carnivale (2 seasons)
Elizabeth I (miniseries)
The Pacific (miniseries)

Books

V for Vendetta (Alan Moore and David Lloyd)
Bone (Jeff Smith)
Maus (Art Spiegelman)
Batwoman: Elegy (Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III)
Batman: Year One (Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli)
Batman: The Killing Joke (Alan Moore and Brian Bolland)
Batman: The Long Halloween (Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale)
Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope (Emmanuel Guibert)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Movies

~ January ~
How to Steal a Million
Crash
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Shakespeare in Love
Tiny Furniture
Arabian Nights
Bottle Rocket
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
Take Her, She's Mine
Jackie Chan's Project A
Dead Space: Downfall
Dead Space: Aftermath
Beasts of the Southern Wild
The Fighter
A Cat in Paris
The Grey
Let's Make Love
Paris is Burning
The Thing (1982)
Alakazam The Great
Chris and Don: A Love Story
Harold and Maude
Small Town Gay Bar
Enter The Void
Winter's Bone
Wasabi
Irreversible
The Usual Suspects
We're Not Married
The Ambassador's Daughter
Chinatown
Robocop
Apocalypse Now Redux
Groundhog Day
~ February ~
Sexual Chronicles of a French Family
The Workshop
Ned Kelly
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Marriage Italian Style
Jim Jefferies: Fully Functional
The Graduate
~ March ~
Wreck It Ralph
The Amazing Spider-Man
~ May ~
The Secret World of Arrietty
Pitch Perfect
~ June ~
Oz The Great and Powerful
The Mexican
~ July ~
The Beaver
Fargo
The Beast of Hollow Mountain
Minority Report

Maklershed · May 18, 2013

Maklershed - 23/50 books | 40/50 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
23. A Clash of Kings (re-read)

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
37. The Campaign
38. The Rundown
39. Gone in 60 Seconds
40. Django Unchained

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

Ovid · May 18, 2013

Haven't updated in a while (2 months lol)

UPDATE

Tarius1210 - 4/50 Books | 28/50 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)
Olympus Has Fallen
The Central Park Five (2012)
Boiler Room
Oblivion
Iron Man 3

Other

Oliver Stone's Untold Story of The United States - Episodes 1-10

Books have stagnated in two months. I'm still trying to finish "Life of Pi".

Nezumi · May 18, 2013

Update:

Nezumi - 25/50 books | 33/50 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
Cold Copper Tears - Glen Cook
Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey

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
Wreck it Ralph
Seeking a friend for the End of the World

Exellent book. Fast paced and never boring with interesting characters.

Seeking a friend for the end of the world was a really sweet movie. The tone reminded me a bit of Garden State.

LuffyZoro · May 19, 2013

The Wool Omnibus is $1.99 today on Amazon.

Tragicomedy · May 19, 2013

LuffyZoro said:
The Wool Omnibus is $1.99 today on Amazon.

And the Shift omnibus (sequels) is as well:
http://www.amazon.com/Shift-Omnibus-Edition-Silo-ebook/dp/B00B6Z6HI2

Glaurungr · May 20, 2013

Glaurungr - 83/50 books | 29/50 movies

Update! New entries in italic.

Books:

Agatha Christie - Poirot Investigates (1924)
Agatha Christie - The Big Four (1927)
Agatha Christie - Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
Agatha Christie - Murder in the Mews (1937)
Agatha Christie - Sad Cypress (1940)
Agatha Christie - The Body in the Library (1942)
Agatha Christie - Taken at the Flood (1948)
Agatha Christie - A Murder Is Announced (1950)
Agatha Christie - Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950)
Agatha Christie - Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)
Agatha Christie - 4.50 from Paddington (1957)
Agatha Christie - The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)
Agatha Christie - The Clocks (1963)
Agatha Christie - At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
Agatha Christie - Third Girl (1966)
Agatha Christie - Hallowe'en Party (1969)
Agatha Christie - Nemesis (1971)
Agatha Christie - Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories (1979)
Agatha Christie - Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991)
Agatha Christie - While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997)
Agatha Christie and Charles Osborne - Black Coffee (1998)
Alfred S. Bradford - Flying the Black Flag: A Brief History of Piracy (2007)
Alf R. Jacobsen - Attack at Dawn: Narvik, 9.-10. April 1940 (2012)
Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper - Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949 (1994)
Bart D. Ehrman - Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine (2004)
Bart D. Ehrman - Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don't Know About Them) (2009)
Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Fury (2006)
Birger Sivertsen - For noen troll: Creatures and Monsters in Folklore (2000)
Brandon Sanderson - Legion (2012)
Brandon Sanderson - The Emperor's Soul (2012)
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol (1843)
David Brawn - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Creatures (2002)
David Gemmell - Quest for Lost Heroes: Book Four of The Drenai Tales (1990)
Diana Wynne Jones - Charmed Life (1977)
Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle (1986)
Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Edwin A. Abbott - Flatland (1884)
Gro Steinsland (ed.) - The Dream Poem and Texts from the Nordic Middle Ages (2004)
Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (2008)
James Brady - Hero of the Pacific: The Life of Marine Legend John Basilone (2010)
Jan Guillou - Enemy's Enemy (1989)
Jan Guillou - The Honourable Murderer (1990)
Jan Guillou - Vendetta (1991)
Jan Guillou - No Man's Land (1992)
Jón Viðar Sigurðsson - The Norse Society: The Viking, King, Archbishop, and Farmer (2008)
Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949)
Joseph P. Byrne - The Black Death (2004)
J.R.R. Tolkien - Bilbo's Last Song (1990)
J.R.R. Tolkien - Tolkien's World: Paintings of Middle-earth (1992)
Knut Lindh - Vikings: The Discovery of America (2004)
Leif G.W. Persson - Between Summer's Longing and Winter's Cold (2002)
Leif G.W. Persson - Another Time, Another Life (2003)
Leif G.W. Persson - Falling Freely, as in a Dream (2007)
Melitta Weiss Adamson - Food in Medieval Times (2004)
Neil Gaiman - Odd and the Frost Giants (2008)
Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book (2008)
Nicholas Hooper and Matthew Bennett - The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: The Middle Ages, 768-1487 (1996)
Peter Connolly - The Roman Fort (1991)
Robert Bly - My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (2005)
Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson - A Memory of Light: Book Fourteen of The Wheel of Time (2013)
Robert Wilson - The Hidden Assassins (2006)
Robert Wilson - The Ignorance of Blood (2009)
Robert Wilson - Capital Punishment (2012)
Simon Anglim, et al. - Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World 3000 BC to 500 AD: Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics (2002)
Siri Walen Simensen - Women During the War (2009)
Terry Pratchett - The Dark Side of the Sun (1976)
Terry Pratchett - Only You Can Save Mankind: Book One of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1992)
Terry Pratchett - Johnny and the Dead: Book Two of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1993)
Terry Pratchett - Johnny and the Bomb: Book Three of The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (1996)
Terry Pratchett - The Last Hero (2001)
Terry Pratchett - Where's My Cow? (2005)
Terry Pratchett - Nation (2008)
Terry Pratchett - The World of Poo (2012)
Terry Pratchett - Dodger (2012)
Terry Pratchett - A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction (2012)
Terry Pratchett, et al. - Nanny Ogg's Cookbook: A Useful and Improving Almanack of Information Including Astonishing Recipes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld (1999)
Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson - The Folklore of Discworld (2008)
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990)
Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld (1999)
Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (2002)
Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (2005)
Tim Taylor (ed.) - The Time Team Guide to the History of Britain: Everything You Need to Know About Our History Since 650,000 BC (2010)
Vernor Vinge - A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)

David Howarth - We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance (1957)
Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic (1983)

Films:

A Good Day to Die Hard - John Moore (2013)
Argo - Ben Affleck (2012)
Code Name Coq Rouge - Pelle Berglund (1989)
Darkman - Sam Raimi (1990)
Despicable Me - Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud (2010)
End of Watch - David Ayer (2012)
Frankenweenie - Tim Burton (2012)
Hamilton: In the Interest of the Nation - Kathrine Windfeld (2012)
Hamilton: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter - Tobias Falk (2012)
Happy Feet Two - George Miller (2011)
Jack Reacher - Christopher McQuarrie (2012)
Jim Jefferies: Fully Functional - Jim Jefferies (2012)
Johnny Mnemonic - Robert Longo (1995)
Les Misérables - Tom Hooper (2012)
Louis C.K.: Chewed Up - Louis C.K. (2008)
Minority Report - Steven Spielberg (2002)
Pale Rider - Clint Eastwood (1985)
ParaNorman - Sam Fell and Chris Butler (2012)
Red Dawn - Dan Bradley (2012)
Rise of the Guardians - Peter Ramsey (2012)
RoboCop - Paul Verhoeven (1987)
Skyfall - Sam Mendes (2012)
Taken 2 - Olivier Megaton (2012)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Jackson (2012)
The Last Stand - Kim Ji-woon (2013)
The Philadelphia Experiment - Stewart Raffill (1984)
War - Philip Atwell (2007)
Wreck-It Ralph - Rich Moore (2012)
Zero Dark Thirty - Kathryn Bigelow (2012)

Now reading:

Jan Guillou - The Only Victory

Setre · May 20, 2013

Setre - 6/50 Books | 28/50 Movies

Books:

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

Movies:

Total Recall (2012)
Looper
Troll Hunter
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Dredd
Django Unchained
Zero Dark Thirty
The Crazies (2010)
Fright Night (2011)
Limitless
Primer
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
Dream Home
Taken
Star Trek (2009)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
The Woman In Black
My Scary Girl
Following
Fido
The Bigfoot Hunter: Still Searching
The Jeffrey Dahmer Files
Sunshine
Moon
Pulp Fiction
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Scream 4
Get the Gringo

Wok · May 21, 2013

UPDATE

Wok - 6/50 books | 12/50 movies

Books

Alessandro Baricco, Emmaüs, 2012. (144 pages, ISBN-13: 9782070131709) ★★★★½
Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Les Trois Soeurs Minkelsönn (T1), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631308) ★★★½
Denis Le Bihan, Le cerveau de cristal ; ce que nous révèle la neuro-imagerie, 2012. (220 pages, ISBN-13: 9782738125279) ★★★★
Yann & Roman Surzhenko, Le Royaume du chaos (T3), 2013. (48 pages, ISBN-13: 9782803631964) ★★★
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

Alice Bissonnet, Aloyse Desoubries-Binet, Sandrine Han Jin Kuang, Juliette Laurent, Sophie Markatatos, In-Between, 2012. (3 min 05 s, Youtube) ★★★½

Simon Klose, TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard, 2013. (1 h 22 min) ★★★½

Claude Zidi, L'Aile ou la cuisse, 1976. (1 h 44 min) ★★★½

Bruno Bozzetto, Yes & No, 2001. (4 min, Youtube) ★★★

Malik Bendjelloul, Searching for Sugar Man, 2012. (1h 26 min) ★★★

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo, 1964. (2h 17 min) ★★★★★

Bernard Stora, La Dernière campagne, 2013. (1h 45 min) ★★★

Lars Lundström, Äkta människor, 2012. (TV, 10 x 55min) ★★★

Laurent Cantet, Entre les murs, 2008. (2 h 08 min) ★★★★½

Giulio Base, Terence Hill, Doc West, 2009. (1 h 33 min) ★½

Giulio Base, Terence Hill, Triggerman, 2009. (1 h 37 min) ★

Jakob Belaga, Baptiste Magontier, Can't we be friends?, 2011. (11 min, Youtube) ½

Nezumi · May 21, 2013

Update:

Nezumi - 26/50 books | 33/50 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
Cold Copper Tears - Glen Cook
Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
Old Tin Sorrows - 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
Wreck it Ralph
Seeking a friend for the End of the World

Really starting to love that series. So entertaining.

markhimself46 · May 22, 2013

IN PROCESS: The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (Stephen King) Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (Sean Howe)

BOOKS

Building Stories (Chris Ware)
Batman: Year One (Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley)
When David Lost His Voice (Judith Vanistendael)
Francona: The Red Sox Years (Terry Francona, Dan Shaughnessy)
Point Your Face at This (Demetri Martin)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Under the Dome (Stephen King)
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise (Gene Luen Yang, Michael Dante DiMartino)
11/22/63 (Stephen King)

MOVIES

Looper
VHS
Argo
Brave
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Indie Game: The Movie
Wreck it Ralph
The Place Beyond the Pines
Django Unchained
The Master
Iron Man 3
Silver Linings Playbook
Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Fast and Furious 6

TV

The Office (Seasons 1-9)
Game of Thrones (Season 1)

Illithid Dude · May 22, 2013

Illithid Dude -5/50 books | 57/50 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
The French Connection
Repo Man
The Fury
Medium Cool
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

Books:

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

markhimself46 · May 23, 2013

IN PROCESS: Inferno (Dan Brown), The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (Stephen King), Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (Sean Howe)

BOOKS

Building Stories (Chris Ware)
Batman: Year One (Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley)
When David Lost His Voice (Judith Vanistendael)
Francona: The Red Sox Years (Terry Francona, Dan Shaughnessy)
Point Your Face at This (Demetri Martin)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Under the Dome (Stephen King)
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise (Gene Luen Yang, Michael Dante DiMartino)
11/22/63 (Stephen King)
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (Stephen King)

MOVIES

Looper
VHS
Argo
Brave
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Indie Game: The Movie
Wreck it Ralph
The Place Beyond the Pines
Django Unchained
The Master
Iron Man 3
Silver Linings Playbook
Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Fast and Furious 6

TV

The Office (Seasons 1-9)
Game of Thrones (Season 1)
Arrested Development (Season 1)

TetraxShards · May 23, 2013

Books (4/50):
Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours by Jim Butcher (B+)
It's Only A Movie by Mark Kermode (B)
The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex by Mark Kermode (B+)
Dawn of the Dumb by Charlie Brooker (C)

Movies (5/50):
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Part Two (A-)
Dredd (A+)
Wreck-It Ralph (B)
Iron Man 3 (B+)
Star Trek Into Darkness (B+)

I've really struggled for time. However, I've got the next three months off, joined the library and Netflix and have Amazon credit. LET'S DO THIS THING

KuwabaraTheMan · May 24, 2013

Update

KuwabaraTheMan - 14/50 Books | 3/50 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
Star Wars: Star by Star (x2)
Deadhouse Gates (x2)
Vicious Circle (x2)

Movies:
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Iron Man 3
Man of Steel

It's been two months since the last time I finished anything (although I'm somewhat close on a couple of books I've been reading), but I finally went out and saw Iron Man 3, which I thought was incredible. One of these days I'm going to have to start watching some more movies if I want to actually reach 50 this year.

Tragicomedy · May 24, 2013

New movie:

[*] Dredd. ★★ -- Really poorly cast and executed, laughably simple and generic plot, and cartoonishly over the top villains. I actually might prefer the Stallone version, and that's a scary thought.

Nymerio · May 24, 2013

Update

Nymerio - 40/50 Books | 10/50 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)
Gardens of the Moon (Steven Erikson)
The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfield)

Movies

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

After The Thirteenth Tale I went back to the Malazan Series, I'm only at the beginning though but the second book already feels like an improvement from the first.

LuffyZoro · May 24, 2013

LuffyZoro - 18/50 Books | 26/50 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)
Deathworld (B)
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2012 (B+)
Stuff White People Like (B-)
The Eyre Affair (A-)
Across The Universe (A-)
The Sacrifice and Other Steam-Powered Stories (A-)
Superman: Red Sun (A)
Secret Identity (A-)
[*]Marvel 1602 (A-)
[*]Life of Pi (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+)
All Star Superman (A)
Batman: Year One (B)
The Muppet Movie (A-)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (B+)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (A+)
Lilo & Stich (A-)
High School Musical 2 (C-)
Les Miserables (B+)
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (A)
The Princess and the Frog (A-)
[*]Pitch Perfect (A-)
[*]Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (B+)
[*]Iron Man 3 (A)
[*]The Great Gatsby (B)
[*]Star Trek (A+)

I'm a little behind on books, but now that summer has started, I should be able to increase my pace a bit.

Nezumi · May 24, 2013

Update:

Nezumi - 26/50 books | 34/50 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
Cold Copper Tears - Glen Cook
Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
Old Tin Sorrows - 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
Wreck it Ralph
Seeking a friend for the End of the World
Silver Linings Playbook

What a wonderful movie. Really loved it. And how haven't I noticed how hot Bradley Cooper is before?

Tragicomedy · May 24, 2013

Nezumi said:
What a wonderful movie. Really loved it. And how haven't I noticed how hot Bradley Cooper is before?

Have you been living under a rock the past few years? I'm a heterosexual male and find ridiculously handsome.

grumpy · May 24, 2013

UPDATED 24/04/2013

grumpy - 17/50 Books | 20/50 Movies

Books

Movies

Nezumi · May 24, 2013

Tragicomedy said:
Have you been living under a rock the past few years? I'm a heterosexual male and find ridiculously handsome.

I really don't know. Maybe it was the shorter hair in Silver Linings Playbook. Not a fan of that semi-long hair.

TJ Bennett · May 25, 2013

After yesterday's Fast & Furious marathon, I'm at 145 movies for the year. I'm gunning for 500, but 365 should at least be attainable. All 145 movies are feature length, no shorts.

Oh and I've read 1 book.

Forsaken82 · May 25, 2013

Forsaken82 5/50 Books | 35/50 Movies

Books:
1. A Dance with Dragons
2. The Road
3. Gone Girl
4. Wool Book 1
5. Wool Book 2

Movies:
1. Looper
2. V/H/S
3. American Reunion
4. Dredd
5. This Means War
6. Wrath of the Titans
7. Mindhunters
8. Dream House
9. Thats My Boy
10. The Ring 2
11. The Thing (2011)
12. Project X (2012)
13. Paranormal Activity 3
14. Men In Black 3
15. Wanderlust
16. Rock of Ages
17. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
18. Silent Hill: Revelations
19. Snow White and the Huntsman
20. Paranormal Activity 4
21. The Campaign
22. Resident Evil: Retribution
23. Zero Dark Thirty
24. Compliance
25. Django Unchained
26. Premium Rush
27. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
28. Chernobyl Diaries
29. Sinister
30. Silent Night
31. Moonrise Kingdom
32. Hostel: Part 3 <--- they made a third...
33. Brave
34. Deadfall
35. Evil Dead 2

choodi · May 25, 2013

choodi - 7/50 Books | 28/50 Movies

Films

The Man with the Iron Fists (B)
The Men Who Stare at Goats (C)
The Inbetweeners Movie (A)
The Social Network (A)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (D)
This is 40 (C)
Skyfall (B)
Hotel Transylvania (B)
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (C)
Bachelorette (D)
Pitch Perfect (D)
Django Unchained (B)
Lincoln (A)
Here comes the boom (C)
10 Years (B)
Wreck-it Ralph (C)
The Secret World of Arrietty (C)
Zero Dark Thirty (A)
TRON: Legacy (B)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (C)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (C)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (C)
The Life of Pi (B)
Blonde Ambition (D)
So Undercover (E)
My Brother the Devil (B)
Iron Man 3 (C)
Jack Reacher (B)

Books

Inverting the Pyramid: The history of football tactics - Jonathan Wilson (A)
A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (B)
Pyramids - Terry Pratchett (B)
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett (A)
The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons (A)
Old Man's War - John Scalzi (A)
The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks (C)

Jack Reacher was a competent and well made action movie, but it won't ever be remembered by anyone, including me.

The Zombie Survival Guide was great for the first half, but then quickly ran out of steam and became quite a chore. There really wan't any need for the lengthy section on historical zombie outbreaks. I found that section completely boring and nowhere near as clever as the author thought it was. The survivalist section at the start though was very good and quite funny.

Kud Dukan · May 25, 2013

Update:

Kud Dukan - 10/50 Books | 14/50 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
Wool by Hugh Howey
Inferno by Dan Brown

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
Star Trek Into Darkness
Insomnia

kinoki · May 25, 2013

kinoki - 11/50 Books | 67/50 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 - ★★★★
Woolf, Virginia (1929), A Room of One's Own - ★★★★★
King, Stephen (2006), On Writing - ★★★★½
Hymowitz, Kay S. (2011), Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys - ★★★½
King, Stephen (2009), Under the Dome - ★★★★ - It was a pleasure to read. Some at-the-edge-of-your-seat writing combined with just the right amount of cliché. One month left for the TV-show. Hopefully it's as good as the book.

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
The Conspirator (2010, dir. Robert Redford) - ★★★
Youth in Revolt (2009, dir. Miguel Arteta) - ★★
The Flowers of War (2011, dir. Yimou Zhang) - ★★★½
Eden Lake (2008, dir. James Watkins) - ★★½
Iron Man Three (2013, dir. Shane Black) - ★★★★
The Expendables 2 (2012, dir. Simon West) - ★★
Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013, dir. J.J. Abrahms) - ★★★½
Indie Game: The Movie (2012, dir. Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky) - ★★
The Great Gatsby (2013, dir. Baz Luhrmann) - ★★★★★ - I'd like to compare Luhrmann with Zack Snyder. Great directors with great sense of style. This talent is mostly wasted on boring movies. But, if you give them a source-material they really understand, like Watchmen, they make great movies. The Great Gatsby is the not only the only Buz Luhrmann movie I like but it's also the greatest movie I've seen this year.
Only God Forgives (2013, dir. Nicolas Winding Refn) - ★★★★ - I dig the mood and tempo it's building. The foreshadowing is strong with this one as it spins a surreal classic tragedy. Most movie-goers will most likely have no clue what they're getting into.
Chronicle (2012, dir. Josh Trank) - ★★★★ - A fun and creative spin on the superhero concept. I like it and it feels authentic.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Part 1 (dir. Jay Oliva) - ★★★ - I've never watched the animated series and I never dabbled in DC's comics. I plan on reading some, though. It was fun but I didn't get too much out of it. All good though.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011, dir. Rupert Wyatt) - ★★★★ - A really good movie and a great companion-piece to the original. Franco seems a bit lost at times but Serkis keeps things grounded.
Carrie (1976, dir. Brian De Palma) - ★★★½ - Holds up surprisingly well. Well directed and suspensful.
Silent Hill Revelations (2012, dir. Michael J. Bassett) - ★½ - Silent Hill is one of the great horror franchises that noone does anything inspired with. All the wrong people have been involved with it since after it left Team Silent. It's almost as if... it's... haunted!!!
The Dead Zone (1983, dir. David Cronenberg) - ★★★ - A fun little movie exploring a supernatural phenomenom. It's what you expect. It's aged a bit but it still brings it home.
The Dictator (2012, Larry Charles) - ★★★ - I have to admit I laughed. I laughed alot more than I thought I would. It's good and it gets its point across. Very, very childish and stupid, and I applaud the movie for it.

Bonus: 14/24 TV | 20/24 Video Games

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
Girls (Season 1, 2012) - ★★★½
The Walking Dead (Season 2, 2011-12) - ★★★★
Mad Men (Season 4, 2010) - ★★★★ - TV is really eating up more of my time and I can't really blame it. Netflix is addicting and Mad Men is the perfect vehicle for it. Awesome pacing, great acting and strong writing all make for one of the best series ever.
Arrested Development (Season 4, 2013) - ★★★★ - Thank you Netflix. If you keep on producing these quality series (and reviving murdered series like Arrested Development) I'm going to keep throwing money at you.
Game of Thrones (Season 3, 2013) - ★★★★½ - HBO knows how to make good TV and I keep on gobbling it up. The season felt cut off, though, and the ending didn't feel like a proper season finale.
The Walking Dead (Season 3, 2012-13) - ★★★★ - It's still good. But, I recently found out that the comic just keeps on going. Like with Lost I'm feeling that they need to explain things soon. Without some sort of closure this series is just going to get worse by the 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) - ★★★★
Little Inferno [PC] (2012, Tomorrow Corperation) - ★★ - From the creators of World of Goo comes nothing at all. Well, you drag stuff that you buy into a Little Inferno and burn it. Burning specific things together creates combinations. That's about it.
Thomas Was Alone [PS3] (2012, Mike Bithell) - ★★½ - Half of it is interesting and the other half is just a drawn out. The narration is cute but doesn't really do anything. The thing that's really wrong with it is that it's boring.
Proteus [PC] (2013, Ed Key & David Kananga) - ★★½ - I get it... I think. It's an audio-visual exploration of something like the four seasons. A meta play on life: there's really no interaction except to sit down and watch the beauty of it all. But do I think it's good? No, but it doesn't have to be. It's unique and interesting. If that's your thing.

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

Tragicomedy · May 26, 2013

UPDATE

Tragicomedy - 36/50 Books | 25/50 Movies

Books

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ★★★
Jane Austen - Persuasion ★★★
L. Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ★★★
Peter S. Beagle - The Last Unicorn ★★★★★
Oliver Broudy - The Convert ★★
Jim Butcher - Storm Front ★★★
Glen Cook - The Black Company ★★★★★
Glen Cook - Shadows Linger ★★★
Glen Cook - The White Rose ★★★★
Andy Diggle - Shadowland (2010 series) ★★½
Neil Gaiman - American Gods ★★★
John Green - The Fault in Our Stars ★★★★
Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl ★★★½
Chad Johnston - Nightmarriage ★★★★½
Stephen King - Guns ★★★½
Mark Lauren - Body by You ★★★
Jack London - The Call of the Wild ★
Carolyn Nash - The Trunk Key ★★½
Ellen Notbohm - Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew ★★★★
R. J. Palacio - Wonder ★★★★★
Chuck Palahniuk - Phoenix ★★★½
Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture ★★★½
Terry Pratchett - The Color of Magic ★★★½
Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic ★★★★
Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites ★★★★
Terry Pratchett - Mort ★★★
Terry Pratchett - Sourcery ★★★½
Terry Pratchett - Wyrd Sisters ★★★
Rick Remender - Uncanny X-Force (issues 1-35) ★★★★½
Rick Remender - Punisher (2008-2010 series) ★★★
Veronica Roth - Divergent ★★★★
Veronica Roth - Insurgent ★★★
Brandon Sanderson - The Emperor's Soul ★★★½
Brandon Sanderson - Legion ★★★
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ★★★★½
Jim Wendler - 5/3/1: The Simplest and Most Effective Training System to Increase Raw Strength ★★★★

Movies

48 Hours ★½
Bernie ★★½
Breaking Dawn, part 2 ★
Bull Runners of Pamplona ★★★
Casa de mi Padre ★
Chasing Ice ★★★★★
Deadfall ★½
Dredd ★★
Drive ★★★★★
Indie Game: The Movie ★★★★
John Carter ★★★
Knuckleball! ★★★★
Les Miserables ★★★
Looper ★★★½
Moonrise Kingdom ★★★★
Pulling John ★★★
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows ★★★★
Silver Linings Playbook ★★★★
Skyfall ★★★★½
Sleepwalk with Me ★★★★★
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ★★★★
The Queen of Versailles ★★★
The Two Escobars ★★★½
Undefeated ★★★★★
Zero Dark Thirty ★★★★½

Mumei · May 26, 2013

Books

Tarzan of the Apes, by Edward Rice Burroughs (271)
Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy, by James Stark (258) [529]
The Mark of Athena, by Rick Riordan (586) [1115]
Challenging Casanova, by Andrew Smiler (204) [1319]
Great Singers on Great Singing, by Jerome Hines (358) [1677]
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, by Timothy Snyder (417) [2094]
Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino (165) [2259]
Sonnets: From Dante to the Present, edited by John Hollander (256) [2515]
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solhenitsyn (178) [2693]
The Complete Dinosaur, Second Edition, edited by Michael K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., and James O. Farlow (1181) [3874]
The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances, by Peter S. Beagle (180) [4054]
Unearthing the Dragon: The Great Feathered Dinosaur Discovery, by Mark Norell (244) [4298]
A Canticle for Liebowitz, by Walter M. Miller (334) [4632]
Maria Callas: A Musical Biography (224) [4856]
"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity, by Beverly Tatum Daniels (220) [5076]
The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien (388) [5464]
[*]Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality, by John Schwartz (271) [5684]
[*]Miles, Mystery & Mayhem, by Lois McMaster Bujold (556) [6240]
[*]Reading Without Limits: Teaching Strategies to Build Independent Reading for Life, by Maddie Witter (361) [6601]
[*]Hyperion, by Dan Simmons (482) [7083]
[*]Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert (356) [7439]
[*]Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School, edited by Mica Pollock (361) [7800]
[*]The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison (224) [8024]
[*]What's Wrong with Fat?, by Abigail C. Saguy (182) [8206]
[*]The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, by Catherynne M. Valente (258) [8464]
[*]What's Wrong with Homosexuality?, by John Corvino (154) [8618]
[*]The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think, by Brian hare (286) [8904]
[*]Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis (290) [9194]
[*]The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, by Michael Lewis (335) [9529]
[*]A History of Opera, by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker (548) [10077]
[*]The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English, by Roy Peter Clark (300) [10377]
[*]The Reformation: A History, by Diarmaid MacCulloch (684) [11061]

Batman & Robin: Batman Reborn (Vol 1), by Grant Morrison
The Annotated Hobbit: The Hobbit, or, There And Back Again, by J.R.R. Tolkien
To What Miserable Wretches Have I Been Born: Revenge Poetry for Babies and Toddlers, by Suzanne Weber
T. rex: Hunter or Scavenger?, by Thomas Holtz
Akira (Vol 1 - 6)
The Lord of the Rings
Sharaz-de, by Sergio Toppi
[*]Captain America: Winter Soldier Ultimate Collection, by Ed Brubaker
[*]X-Men: Days of Future Past, by Chris Claremont
[*]Hulk WWH: World War Hulk, by Greg Pak
[*]The Books of Magic, by Neil Gaiman

Movies

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2001: A Space Odyssey
Aliens
Django Unchained
The Abyss
The Animatrix
The Amazing Spider-Man
[*]Iron Man 3
[*]How To Train Your Dragon
[*]Despicable Me
[*]Rise of the Guardians
[*]Star Trek: Into Darkness

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Extended Edition

Video Games

Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm

Bonus:

Television Shows

Breaking Bad, Seasons 1 - 5

Justified, Seasons 1 - 2

The X-Files, Season 1

I am currently working on The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin for my reading list. I don't have any plans for the other lists right now. <_<

Tragicomedy · May 26, 2013

New book:

[*] Shadows Linger by Glen Cook. ★★★ -- Book number two of the Black Company series. While not quite as memorable as the first, it still sets the stage very nicely for the next book. I'm really enjoying Cook's writing and the characters he's created in this world.

Kud Dukan · May 27, 2013

Update:

Kud Dukan - 11/50 Books | 15/50 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
Wool by Hugh Howey
Inferno by Dan Brown
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

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
Star Trek Into Darkness
Insomnia
X2: X-Men United

choodi · May 27, 2013

choodi - 7/50 Books | 29/50 Movies

Films

The Man with the Iron Fists (B)
The Men Who Stare at Goats (C)
The Inbetweeners Movie (A)
The Social Network (A)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (D)
This is 40 (C)
Skyfall (B)
Hotel Transylvania (B)
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (C)
Bachelorette (D)
Pitch Perfect (D)
Django Unchained (B)
Lincoln (A)
Here comes the boom (C)
10 Years (B)
Wreck-it Ralph (C)
The Secret World of Arrietty (C)
Zero Dark Thirty (A)
TRON: Legacy (B)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (C)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (C)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (C)
The Life of Pi (B)
Blonde Ambition (D)
So Undercover (E)
My Brother the Devil (B)
Iron Man 3 (C)
Jack Reacher (B)
A Separation(B)

Books

Inverting the Pyramid: The history of football tactics - Jonathan Wilson (A)
A Memory of Light - Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (B)
Pyramids - Terry Pratchett (B)
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett (A)
The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons (A)
Old Man's War - John Scalzi (A)
The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks (C)

Wow, A Separation was a pretty intense film. Essentially a study of stubborness and the way that people will cut off their nose to spite their face.

LuffyZoro · May 27, 2013

LuffyZoro - 22/50 Books | 27/50 Movies

Books

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (A-)
Shadow Show (B+)
The Rapture of the Nerds (A)
Wool - Part One (A-)
Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 (A-)
Ready Player One (A++)
The Windup Girl (A)
Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (B)
Deathworld (B)
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2012 (B+)
Stuff White People Like (B-)
The Eyre Affair (A-)
Across The Universe (A-)
The Sacrifice and Other Steam-Powered Stories (A-)
Superman: Red Sun (A)
Secret Identity (A-)
Marvel 1602 (A-)
Life of Pi (B+)
[*]Wool - Part Two (B+)
[*]Wool - Part Three (A-)
[*]Wool - Part Four (A)
[*]Wool - Part Five (A+)

Movies

Brave (A-)
Bruce Almighty (A)
Chronicle (B)
Dr. Strangelove (B)
Minority Report (B+)
Paranorman (A-)
American Pop (C+)
The Color of Magic: Night 1 (B+)
The Color of Magic: Night 2 (B)
Limitless (A)
Stardust (A+)
All Star Superman (A)
Batman: Year One (B)
The Muppet Movie (A-)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (B+)
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (A+)
Lilo & Stich (A-)
High School Musical 2 (C-)
Les Miserables (B+)
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (A)
The Princess and the Frog (A-)
Pitch Perfect (A-)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (B+)
Iron Man 3 (A)
The Great Gatsby (B)
Star Trek (A+)
[*]The Nightmare Before Christmas (A-)

BrokenEchelon · May 27, 2013

BrokenEchelon - 30/50 Books | 70/50 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
Sons and Lovers
Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
Casino Royale
Live and Let Die

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
Harvey
Act of Valor
The Last House on the Left (2009)
The Sum of All Fears
Festen
La Dolce Vita
La Haine
The Numbers Station
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
The Bicycle Thief

Azrael · May 28, 2013

It's been a few weeks since I updated. I've had a lot of family functions and things going on. I've gotten a bit behind on books, but I'm currently juggling three at once, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. I and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer for my book club and An Autumn War by Daniel Abraham as personal reading, all of which I'm half-finished with. I expect to finish the first two in a few more days anyway.

Azrael - 16/50 books | 75/50 movies

Books

16. Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut ★★★

This is a collection of Vonnegut's short stories I read for a book club I recently joined. They range from love stories like Long Walk to Forever, quasi-autobiographical anecdotes like The Hyannis Port Story, and typical Vonnegut sci-fi/satire like Harrison Bergeron and the story that gave the collection its name. It's my least favorite Vonnegut book so far, and many of the stories are easily forgettable, but the better stories in the collection equal his brilliant novels. My favorite story is All the King's Horses, a chilling suspense thriller about the dehumanizing effect power has on those who are both objects and wielders of it.

Movies

70. Trollhunter ★★★

I don't normally like these cinema verite-style horror films, but this was amusing. Had a rather abrupt ending though.

71. Neds ★★★★

Brilliant British indie film about how society's broken institutions forces a thoughtful, sensitive boy from the wrong side of the tracks into a downward spiral of violence and depravity.

72. Indie Game: The Movie ★★★

Documentary which follows the trials and tribulaons of indie game makers, focusing on the creation of Fez, Super Meat Boy, and Braid. I'm very biased towards this material, because I enjoy these kinds of games more than the AAA Call of Dutys and Halos that dominate retail, and I found the story of the making of these games fascinating.

73. Falcon and the Co-Eds ★★

Cheesy old movie about Falcon investigating a murder on a women's college with a ridiculous hypnosis angle tossed in.

74. Catch-22 ★★★★

Solid and pretty faithful adaptation of one of the greatest, if not the greatest, war stories ever written. It's not as good as the book, of course, but it's a good film in its own right.

75. The Lady and the Bandit (1951) ★★★

Fun little movie about the exploits of British highwayman Dick Turbin, in the vein of other "lovable rogue" characters like Zorro and Robin Hood which were very popular at the time. Nothing special, but an entertaining 80 minutes.

markhimself46 · May 29, 2013

IN PROCESS: Inferno (Dan Brown), The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (Stephen King), Marvel Comics: The Untold Story (Sean Howe)

BOOKS

Building Stories (Chris Ware)
Batman: Year One (Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley)
When David Lost His Voice (Judith Vanistendael)
Francona: The Red Sox Years (Terry Francona, Dan Shaughnessy)
Point Your Face at This (Demetri Martin)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Under the Dome (Stephen King)
Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise (Gene Luen Yang, Michael Dante DiMartino)
11/22/63 (Stephen King)
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (Stephen King)

MOVIES

Looper
VHS
Argo
Brave
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Indie Game: The Movie
Wreck it Ralph
The Place Beyond the Pines
Django Unchained
The Master
Iron Man 3
Silver Linings Playbook
Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Fast and Furious 6
The Kings of Summer

TV

The Office (Seasons 1-9)
Game of Thrones (Season 1)
Arrested Development (Seasons 1 & 2)

Nezumi · May 29, 2013

Update:

Nezumi - 26/50 books | 36/50 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
Cold Copper Tears - Glen Cook
Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
Old Tin Sorrows - 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
Wreck it Ralph
Seeking a friend for the End of the World
Silver Linings Playbook
The perks of being a Wallflower
Star Trek: Into Darkness

Thought that Perks of being a Wallflower was rather boring. There wasn't really anything new to the story.

Into Darkness was the first Star Trek movie I ever watched, so I don't know how it holds up against the old ones. I enjoyed it.

SaltyDoughnut · May 30, 2013

SaltyDoughnut - 13/50 Books | 22/50 Movies | 11/24 TV Seasons | 8/24 Games

Books:
Now reading: Invisible Cities
-★★★★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
-★★★★½- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - June 12th

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
-★★★★½- Ain't Them Bodies Saints - June 7th
-★★½- The Way - June 12th
-★★★½- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - June 13th

TV Seasons:
Now watching: Game of Thrones s3, Mad Men s6
-★★★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
-★★★★★- Samurai Champloo - June 2nd
-★★★★½- Game of Thrones season 3 - June 9th

Games:
Now playing: Runner 2, ZombiU, Halo 4
-★★★★- Hotline Miami - Jan 11th
-★★★★- Sound Shapes - Jan 14th
-★★½- Gunman Clive - Jan 25th
-★★★★½- Bit. Trip Runner - April 30th
-★★★★★- Monaco - May 12th
-★★★★- Proteus - June 5th
-★★★★½- Dishonored - June 13th
-★★★½- Gunpoint - June 13th

BrokenEchelon · May 30, 2013

I've got about 12-14 hours of flights + layover in the next week or so. Grabbed all of Ian Fleming's Bond novels. Should be good fun.

Thought that Perks of being a Wallflower was rather boring. There wasn't really anything new to the story.

Didn't you feel infinite though?

Nezumi · May 31, 2013

BrokenEchelon said:
Didn't you feel infinite though?

NO. Just bored.

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