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

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Sai-kun

Banned
Totally doing this!

Sai-kun - 0/50 books | 1/50 movies​

No books yet, but I did watch Contagion yesterday. Pretty decent movie, interesting concept, and the music was pretty good!

I really need some books to read. I'm a fan of myster/thriller/sci-fi stuff, but I haven't really made an attempt to look for anything interesting lately.
 
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Manik

Member
-Update-

Manik - 0/50 Books | 2/50 Movies

Books:
Coming Soon

Movies:
Grizzly Man (2nd Jan) (B)
Tintin (3rd Jan) (A)


Also about a quarter of the way through reading Soon I Will Be Invincible so will hopefully have my first book done and dusted by the end of the weekend, fingers crossed.
 
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BrokenEchelon

Banned
BrokenEchelon - 2/50 Books | 7/50 Movies​

Books
  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • Dead Souls

Movies
  • Ip Man
  • Nosferatu
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
  • Mary and Max
  • Trainspotting
 
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AndyD

aka andydumi
AndyD - 2/50 books | 3/50 movies

Movies:
Iron Skies, Extreme Measures, Midnight in Paris

Books:
The Historian, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
 
rukland

rukland

Member
Rukland - 1/50 Books | 2/50 Movies

Books:
Foundation - Can't believe I waited this long to start this series. Amazing so far

Movies:
Looper - 7/10 was pretty much what I expected but it could have been a bit better.
Medal of Valor - 4/10 was pretty much the Yeah America movie I thought it would be.
 
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
RatskyWatsky - 0/20 TV | 0/25 Books | 5/50 Movies

TV

  • Coming Soon

Books

  • Coming Soon

Movies

  • How to Steal a Million
  • Crash
  • Terminator 2: Judgement Day
  • Jiro Dreams of Sushi
  • Shakespeare in Love

Shakespeare in Love was pretty good, but I don't know if it's necessarily Best Picture Oscar material. I knew it won Best Picture going in, but I was surprised to learn that Gwyneth Paltrow won Best Actress and that Judy Dench won Best Supporting Actress. Neither had standout performances, so I'm a little boggled as to why they won.
 
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sammyCYBORG

Member
sammyCYBORG - 1/50 Books | 3/50 Movies

Books
  • The Fellowship of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien

Movies
  • Heat - Michael Mann (1995)
  • Army of Darkness: Evil Dead III - Sam Raimi (1992)
  • Drag Me to Hell - Sam Raimi (2009)
 
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luiztfc

Member
Luiztfc - 0/50 Books | 4/50 Movies

Books
  • None

Movies
  • Mission Impossible III - J. J. Abrams (2006)
  • Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol - Brad Bird (2011)
  • Scarface - Brian De Palma (1983)
  • Crimson Tide - Tony Scott (1995)
 
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SlowRevolution

Member
SlowRevolution - 2/50 books | 3/50 movies

Books
  • The Price of Politics
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Movies
  • Looper
  • John Dies At The End
  • Arbitrage
 
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Cookie18

Member
Cookie18 - 0/50 books | 1/50 films

This is perhaps the worst year for me to do this but I'll give it a go anyway. I easily did 50 films last year but I'm not so sure this year.

Watched:

The Young Victoria

I'm sure I've watched more since Tuesday but The Young Victoria is all I remember and that's because I watched it tonight :/
 
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Atrophis

Member
Atrophis - 0/50 Books | 7/50 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)

Books

In progress: Haunted - James Herbert (started 04/01)
 
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BrokenEchelon

Banned
BrokenEchelon - 2/50 Books | 8/50 Movies​

Books
  • Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • Dead Souls

Movies
  • Ip Man
  • Nosferatu
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
  • Mary and Max
  • Trainspotting
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
 
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Leopold

Member
1/50 Books | 2/50 Movies


Just saw two movies today, heading for a third one.

Books

- Governing the World - The Rise and Fall of an Idea 1815 to the Present by Mark Mazower.

Movies

- Amanhã Nunca Mais - a brazilian movie. Eh.

- Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides - Jesus, what an awful movie, omg.
 
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d_escudero

Neo Member
d_escudero - 1/50 Books | 0/50 Movies​


Books

1.- The Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury

It remembers all the movies of "children adventures in a small town of America" that plays on the tv. It's a new view of Bradbury for me, first non sciencie fiction book of him that I read, I liked, but it's not the best of him.


Movies
...


Next one: Ana Karenina - Leon Tolstoi
 
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Madridy

Member
I'm in.


Madridy - 0/50 Books | 0/50 Movies​


Books:


Movies:



Yet to watch and read list:

Movies:
  • Zodiac
  • Eastern Promises
  • Juno
  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  • Gone Baby Gone
  • Donnie Brasco
  • Hugo
  • Warrior
  • A Separation
  • Elite Squad
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Drive
  • 50/50
  • The Descendants
  • Moneyball
  • The Adventures of Tintin
  • Real Steel
  • Gran Torino
  • War Horse
  • The Tree of Life
  • Midnight in Paris
  • The Help
  • The Artist
  • The Road
  • Terminator Salvation
  • Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
  • Incendies
  • Serenity
  • Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
  • Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
  • Melancholia
  • Fearless
  • Ip Man
  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes
  • The Ides of March
  • Super 8
  • The Grey
  • The Hunger Games
  • 21 Jump Street
  • Chronicle
  • The Intouchables
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
  • The Secret in Their Eyes
  • Mary and Max
  • John Carter
  • Snow White and the Huntsman
  • Men in Black 3
  • Brave
  • The Expendables 2
  • End of Watch
  • Dredd
  • The Master
  • Lawless
  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
  • Looper
  • Ted
  • Argo
  • The Amazing Spider-Man
  • Cloud Atlas
  • Wreck-It Ralph
  • Lincoln
  • Flight
  • Django Unchained
  • Love
  • Silver Linings Playbook

Books:
  • Ender's Game
  • The Last Unicorn
  • The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1)
  • Mistborn (Mistborn, Book 1)
  • The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, Book 2)
  • The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, Book 3)
  • The Way of Kings
  • Perdido Street Station
  • The Game
  • Starship Troopers
  • The Forever War
  • Old Man's War
 
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Red

Member
In for another try.

Movies:
1. Batman Begins (w/ commentary)
2. The Perfect Human Diet
3. Looper
4. John Dies At the End

Books:
1. Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla (in progress)
 
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LoneTraveler

Member
LoneTraveler - 1/50 Books | 3/50 Movies

Books

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Amazing little book, shame I didn't read this in high school.

Movies
Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World

3 Idiots - A really great Bollywood movie. Great cast and great writing. I can see Hollywood remaking this sometime in the future.

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower - Finished reading the book and essentially went and watched the movie. The cast really surprised me, they each brought their characters to life. Excellent adaptation.
 
Setre

Setre

Member
Setre - 2/50 Books | 5/50 Movies

Books:

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Ground Zero (Repairman Jack #13)

Movies:

Total Recall (2012)
Looper
Troll Hunter
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
Django Unchained
 
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Illithid Dude

Member
Illithid Dude -1/50 books | 10/50 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

Books:

Catcher in the Rye
 
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Yager

Banned
Update:

Yager - 0/50 books | 2/50 movies

Code: 
Books: -

Movies: A Knight in Camelot (the things you do for your SO), Cloud Atlas.
 
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Leopold

Member
1/50 Books | 3/50 Movies


Just saw two movies today, heading for a third one.

Books

- Governing the World - The Rise and Fall of an Idea 1815 to the Present by Mark Mazower.

Movies

- Amanhã Nunca Mais - a brazilian movie. Eh.

- Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides - Jesus, what an awful movie, omg.

- Brave - so cute but so unexpected. loved it.
 
Kiraly

Kiraly

Member
Kiraly - 0/50 books | 2/50 movies​

Movies:
  • Cloud Atlas (1 jan)
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2 jan)
 
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CronosBlade

Member
LTTP but I'd like to join in. Movies are no problem, and hopefully this will motivate me to read more again.

Cronosblade - 0/50 books | 1/50 movies

Movies:
Looper - 9/10. So good!

Upcoming -
Kingkiller chronicles (books)
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter (movies)
 
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
RatskyWatsky - 0/20 TV | 0/25 Books | 7/50 Movies

TV

  • Coming Soon

Books

  • Coming Soon

Movies

  • How to Steal a Million
  • Crash
  • Terminator 2: Judgement Day
  • Jiro Dreams of Sushi
  • Shakespeare in Love
  • Tiny Furniture
  • Arabian Nights

Tiny Furniture - basically the spiritual ancestor to HBO's Girls. There isn't really a plot, but I like Lena Dunham's writing, and I thought it was a good film overall.

Arabian Nights is basically a softcore porn film with an Arabian setting made in the 1970s. It was fucking abysmal and I actually contemplated leaving it off this list because I wasn't sure I wanted to even admit that I watched it. In the end, I decided to take the bullet so no one else would have to. Just to reiterate, the movie is horrible; poorly acted, incoherent, grainy as fuck, and the "porn" aspect is just terrible.

And that guy's teeth will haunt me forever. :mad:
 
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Somnia

Member
Somnia - 3/50 Books | 2/50 Movies

Books

The Perfect Game
The Secret of Ella and Micha
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End

Movies

Haywire
Total Recall (2012)
 
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desu

Member
desu - 1/50 Books | 2/50 Movies

Books

The Wheel of Time 1: The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

Movies

Karate Kid
Shaft
 
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comedy bomb

Banned
It'd be fun to see if I could hit the 50 movie mark.

Books are a no go though. I read 1 book last year (flowers for algernon) and it was the first book I read since Steven King's Cell came out. My goal this year is to double last year's output : p
 
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Baconsaurus Rex

Member
Baconsaurus - 0/50 Books | 4/50 Movies​

Books
  1. Coming soon

Movies
  1. Contact
  2. Minority Report
  3. Eden of the East I: The King of Eden
  4. The Cabin in the Woods

Think I might finish my book today.
 
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Cartman86

Banned
So I've finally been reading my trade paperbacks that I got of Ex Machina a while back. I've read the first two volumes (about 130 pages each). Should I count each of these volumes as one book or all 10 trades as one?

Same thing with Saga. It's an ongoing series so how should that be counted? Technically only the first volume is out right now.

This is coming from someone who doesn't read comics either. I decided to start back in 09 so I purchased a ton of trades, but never really got around to reading anything but Buffy and this thing has motivated me.
 
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Forsaken82

Member
Have a bunch of books that'll hopefully be added soon.

EDIT: I know you said to create new posts but its only one post later so adding Vhs

books 0/50

movies 2/50
Looper
VHS
 
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Frustrated_Grunt

Member
Update:

Frustrated_Grunt - 0/50 books | 2/50 movies

Books - Coming Soon

Movies -
The Pianist (9/10; Saw January 2)
Django Unchained (10/10; Saw January 5)


Absolutely love Tarantino's film style. Had goosebumps all the way through.
 
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Laekon

Member
Laekon - 0/50 Books | 3/50 Movies

Books
Coming Soon

Movies
All Good Things
Jeff Who Lives at Home
Winter's Bone

Jeff wasn't all that interesting. It's the only Jason Segel movie I haven't really liked.
 
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Somnia

Member
Somnia - 3/50 Books | 3/50 Movies

Books

The Perfect Game
The Secret of Ella and Micha
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End

Movies

Haywire
Total Recall (2012)
Tomorrow, When the War Began


Tomorrow, When the War Began - I really REALLY liked this movie. I do not understand how it was not promoted beyond Australia. It's a lot like Red Dawn, but I really liked the characters. I highly recommend watching it if you have Netflix, really good film and it sounds like a sequel is getting made.

I heard its based on a book series so time to look those up =)
 
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LuffyZoro

Member
Adding scores!

LuffyZoro - 0/50 Books | 7/50 Movies​

Books
  • Coming Soon

Movies
  • Brave (A-)
  • Bruce Almighty (A)
  • Chronicle (B)
  • Dr. Strangelove (B)
  • Minority Report (B+)
  • Paranorman (A-)
  • American Pop (C+)
 
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Tragicomedy

Member
Tragicomedy - 1/50 Books | 3/50 Movies​

Books
  • The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett.

Movies
  • Looper -- 7/10. Time travel movies really screw with my mind, but this one was enjoyable and well thought out. It was a bit over the top for me, plot-wise. Kudos to Bruce Willis and JGL, who I think is the best young actor working today.
  • Indie Game: The Movie -- 8/10
  • The Queen of Versailles -- 6/10

Closing in on book #2.
 
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bryan12112

Member
I'll give this a try. I have a few movies sitting around that I plan on watching soon, and I really, really need to get back into reading regularly.

bryan12112 - 0/50 Books | 0/50 Movies
 
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TheSchwab_7

Member
TheSchwab_7 - 0/50 books | 2/50 movies

Books:

Movies:
Warrior (A-)
Django Unchained (A)

Django was such a good movie. I can't believe how many N-words were in it. I know that it was right before the Civil War, but still it was surprising. I loved all of the actors and especially thought that Sam Jackson did a great job.
 
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