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50 Movies. 50 Books. 1 Year.
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Books
1. Catch-22 [Joseph Heller]
02. The old man and the sea [Ernest Hemingway]
03. Breakfast at Tiffany's [Truman Capote]
04. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Voltaire]
05. The Sorrows of Young Werther [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
06. Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Gabriel García Márquez
07. The Great Gatsby [F. Scott Fitzgerald]
08. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story [George Orwell]
09. Daisy Miller [Henry James]
10. The Hunger Games [Suzanne Collins]
11. Ender's game [Orson Scott Card]
12. Catching Fire [Suzanne Collins]
13. On Writing: A memoir of the craft [Stephen King]
14. To the Lighthouse [Virginia Woolf]
15. Fahrenheit 451 [Ray Bradbury]
16. Brave New World
17. Mockingjay
18. Metamorphosis
19. World War Z
20. Reading Women [Stefan Bollmann]
21. Emma [Jane Austen]
22. Of Mice and Men [John Steinbeck]
23. Heart of Darkness [Joseph Conrad]
24. The Death of Ivan Ilyitch [Leo Tolstoy]
25. Notes from the Underground [Fyodor Dostoyevsky]
26. The Stranger [Albert Camus]
27. Holes
28. Slaughter House Five
29. The Last Guardian (Artemis Fowl, #8)
30. The Thorn of the Roses
31. The Lord of the Flies
32. The Postman always Rings Twice
33. The Daughter of Time
34. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
35. The Road
36. Ethan Frome
37. Billy Budd sailor
38. Hunger
39. Death in Venice
40. The 39 Steps
41. The Rainbow Orchid
42. The Pearl
43. Frankenstein
44. Fantastic Mr Fox
45. 1984
46. The Turn Of The Screw
47. The Big Sleep
48. Winnie-the-Pooh
49. The Wind in the Willows
50. Silas Marner
+
223+ short stories, 113+ poems, and several thousand pages from books that helped me to understand the novels I was reading [which I didn't count as I hadn't read from cover to cover, merely looked at the chapters of interest].
Films
01. 127 hours [Danny Boyle]
02. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [David Fincher]
03. The Artist [Michel Hazanavicius]
04. Birdsong. [Dir. Philip Martin] [Series Writing credits: Sebastian Faulks, Abi Morgan]
05. The Descendants [Alexander Payne]
06. The Tree of Life [Terrence Malick]
07. Brothel Lights [Aleksandr Gordon]
08. The Taming of the Shrew [dir. Franco Zeffirelli; pw .William Shakespeare]
09. Hugo [ dir. Martin Scorsese]
10. The Grey [dir. Joe Carnahan]
11. Kahaani [dir. Sujoy Ghosh]
12. M [dir. Fritz Lang]
13. Alien [dir. Ridley Scott]
14. Tyrannosaur [Paddy Considine]
15. Aliens [Dir. James Cameron]
16. Wild Strawberries (1957) [Dir. Ingmar Bergman]
Smultronstället (original title)
17. Shutter Island [dir. Martin Scorsese]
18. Parinda [Dir. Vidhu Vinod Chopra]
19. Pyaasa [ Dir. Guru Dutt]
20. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol [ Dir. Brad Bird]
21. Grand Prix: The Killer Years [dir. Richard Heap]
22. I Saw The Devil [dir. Jee-woon Kim]
23. Monsters
24. The Pursuit of Happiness.
25. Moneyball
26. Horrible Bosses
26. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
27. Attack the Block
28. Berserk [entire season, I watched 1 episode a week]
29. Alien 3
30. Victoria Pendleton: Cycling's Golden Girl
31. The Woman in Black
32. Gentleman Prefer Blondes
33. Sleeping Beauty
34. Vicky Donor (2012)
35. From dusk till dawn
36. Udaan
37. Kill list
38. The Paras (all season six episodes)
39. The Avengers
40. Snowtown
41. War and Peace (all season 4 episodes)
42. Witch Hunter Robin (all season 25 episodes)
43. Shame
44. The Help
45. The Hunger Games
46. Delhi Belly
47. Elfen lied (all season 13 episodes)
48. Moonrise Kingdoms
49. The Name of the Rose
50. The Cabin in the Woods
bonus - The Brothers Bloom
Prometheus
A Separation
+ another twenty films after I stopped counting...
1. Catch-22 [Joseph Heller]
02. The old man and the sea [Ernest Hemingway]
03. Breakfast at Tiffany's [Truman Capote]
04. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Voltaire]
05. The Sorrows of Young Werther [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
06. Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Gabriel García Márquez
07. The Great Gatsby [F. Scott Fitzgerald]
08. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story [George Orwell]
09. Daisy Miller [Henry James]
10. The Hunger Games [Suzanne Collins]
11. Ender's game [Orson Scott Card]
12. Catching Fire [Suzanne Collins]
13. On Writing: A memoir of the craft [Stephen King]
14. To the Lighthouse [Virginia Woolf]
15. Fahrenheit 451 [Ray Bradbury]
16. Brave New World
17. Mockingjay
18. Metamorphosis
19. World War Z
20. Reading Women [Stefan Bollmann]
21. Emma [Jane Austen]
22. Of Mice and Men [John Steinbeck]
23. Heart of Darkness [Joseph Conrad]
24. The Death of Ivan Ilyitch [Leo Tolstoy]
25. Notes from the Underground [Fyodor Dostoyevsky]
26. The Stranger [Albert Camus]
27. Holes
28. Slaughter House Five
29. The Last Guardian (Artemis Fowl, #8)
30. The Thorn of the Roses
31. The Lord of the Flies
32. The Postman always Rings Twice
33. The Daughter of Time
34. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
35. The Road
36. Ethan Frome
37. Billy Budd sailor
38. Hunger
39. Death in Venice
40. The 39 Steps
41. The Rainbow Orchid
42. The Pearl
43. Frankenstein
44. Fantastic Mr Fox
45. 1984
46. The Turn Of The Screw
47. The Big Sleep
48. Winnie-the-Pooh
49. The Wind in the Willows
50. Silas Marner
+
223+ short stories, 113+ poems, and several thousand pages from books that helped me to understand the novels I was reading [which I didn't count as I hadn't read from cover to cover, merely looked at the chapters of interest].
Films
01. 127 hours [Danny Boyle]
02. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [David Fincher]
03. The Artist [Michel Hazanavicius]
04. Birdsong. [Dir. Philip Martin] [Series Writing credits: Sebastian Faulks, Abi Morgan]
05. The Descendants [Alexander Payne]
06. The Tree of Life [Terrence Malick]
07. Brothel Lights [Aleksandr Gordon]
08. The Taming of the Shrew [dir. Franco Zeffirelli; pw .William Shakespeare]
09. Hugo [ dir. Martin Scorsese]
10. The Grey [dir. Joe Carnahan]
11. Kahaani [dir. Sujoy Ghosh]
12. M [dir. Fritz Lang]
13. Alien [dir. Ridley Scott]
14. Tyrannosaur [Paddy Considine]
15. Aliens [Dir. James Cameron]
16. Wild Strawberries (1957) [Dir. Ingmar Bergman]
Smultronstället (original title)
17. Shutter Island [dir. Martin Scorsese]
18. Parinda [Dir. Vidhu Vinod Chopra]
19. Pyaasa [ Dir. Guru Dutt]
20. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol [ Dir. Brad Bird]
21. Grand Prix: The Killer Years [dir. Richard Heap]
22. I Saw The Devil [dir. Jee-woon Kim]
23. Monsters
24. The Pursuit of Happiness.
25. Moneyball
26. Horrible Bosses
26. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
27. Attack the Block
28. Berserk [entire season, I watched 1 episode a week]
29. Alien 3
30. Victoria Pendleton: Cycling's Golden Girl
31. The Woman in Black
32. Gentleman Prefer Blondes
33. Sleeping Beauty
34. Vicky Donor (2012)
35. From dusk till dawn
36. Udaan
37. Kill list
38. The Paras (all season six episodes)
39. The Avengers
40. Snowtown
41. War and Peace (all season 4 episodes)
42. Witch Hunter Robin (all season 25 episodes)
43. Shame
44. The Help
45. The Hunger Games
46. Delhi Belly
47. Elfen lied (all season 13 episodes)
48. Moonrise Kingdoms
49. The Name of the Rose
50. The Cabin in the Woods
bonus - The Brothers Bloom
Prometheus
A Separation
+ another twenty films after I stopped counting...
I failed by about three books. My year turned out much differently than I'd planned. Instead of being divorced and alone -- with plenty of time to read -- my wife and I reconciled and I got a new job, which ate up a bunch of free time. I am definitely not complaining, though. I'll upload my list later.
Edit: Wait, do graphic novels count?
Edit: Wait, do graphic novels count?
white dynamite
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THE FINAL LIST
Movies
1. The Adventures of Tin Tin
2. The Tree of Life
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Sunset Blvd.
5. Boogie Nights
6. A Beautiful Mind
7. Limitless
8. Se7en
9. Cleo from 5 to 7
10. Say Anything
11. 8 1/2
12. Stalag 17
13. A Hard Day's Night
14. Groundhog Day
15. Glory Road
16. Viva Cuba
17. The Wild Bunch
18. Can't Buy Me Love
19. Taxi Driver
20. Jeff, Who Lives at Home
21. Trouble in Paradise
22. The Descendants
23. Rosemary's Baby
24. The American Friend
25. sex, lies, and videotape
26. Salaam Bombay
27. Nights of Cabiria
28. Young Adult
29. Amores Perros
30. Hot Fuzz
31. House on Haunted Hill (1959)
32. The Matrix
33. 21 Grams
34. Waitress
35. The Cabin In The Woods
36. Y Tu Mamá También
37. Mel Blanc: The Man Of A Thousand Voices
38. Nine Lives
39. They Live
40. Sick Nurses
41. Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight
42. Paranormal Activity 2
43. Last Night
44. The Fly (1986)
45. How To Cook Your Life
46. Beerfest
47. I Love You, Beth Cooper
48. DMT: The Spirit Molecule
49. Thor
50. The Dream Team
51. Being Elmo
52. Tapped
53. Shutter Island
54. Tales from the Script
55. Shutter Island
56. Little Shop of Horrors
57. Trick 'r Treat
58. Ted
59. Bonnie and Clyde
60. The Dark Knight Rises
61. Captain America: The First Avenger
62. The Avengers
63. The Producers
64. Overboard
65. Carrie
66. The Expendables 2
67. Hellraiser
68. Adaptation
69. Blue Valentine
70. Murder, My Sweet
71. Winter's Bone
72. Hairspray
73. The Killers
74. True Romance
75. Roadblock
76. Gun Crazy
77. Love Me Tonight
78. Looper
79. Outrageous Fortune
80. Shoot The Piano Player
81. Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
82. Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
83. Blade Runner (Final cut)
84. Chinatown
85. A Foreign Affair
86. Seven Psychopaths
87. The Killer
88. Safety Not Guaranteed
89. Skyfall
90. Body Heat
91. Collateral
92. Dr. Strangelove
93. Drive
94. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
95. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
96. 50/50
97. The Artist
98. Django Unchained
99. Room in Rome
100. The Terminator
BOOKS
1. Looking for Alaska
2. Bossy Pants
3. Save the Cat!
4. I Drink For A Reason
5. The Accidental Billionaires
6. Winter's Bone
Movies
1. The Adventures of Tin Tin
2. The Tree of Life
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Sunset Blvd.
5. Boogie Nights
6. A Beautiful Mind
7. Limitless
8. Se7en
9. Cleo from 5 to 7
10. Say Anything
11. 8 1/2
12. Stalag 17
13. A Hard Day's Night
14. Groundhog Day
15. Glory Road
16. Viva Cuba
17. The Wild Bunch
18. Can't Buy Me Love
19. Taxi Driver
20. Jeff, Who Lives at Home
21. Trouble in Paradise
22. The Descendants
23. Rosemary's Baby
24. The American Friend
25. sex, lies, and videotape
26. Salaam Bombay
27. Nights of Cabiria
28. Young Adult
29. Amores Perros
30. Hot Fuzz
31. House on Haunted Hill (1959)
32. The Matrix
33. 21 Grams
34. Waitress
35. The Cabin In The Woods
36. Y Tu Mamá También
37. Mel Blanc: The Man Of A Thousand Voices
38. Nine Lives
39. They Live
40. Sick Nurses
41. Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight
42. Paranormal Activity 2
43. Last Night
44. The Fly (1986)
45. How To Cook Your Life
46. Beerfest
47. I Love You, Beth Cooper
48. DMT: The Spirit Molecule
49. Thor
50. The Dream Team
51. Being Elmo
52. Tapped
53. Shutter Island
54. Tales from the Script
55. Shutter Island
56. Little Shop of Horrors
57. Trick 'r Treat
58. Ted
59. Bonnie and Clyde
60. The Dark Knight Rises
61. Captain America: The First Avenger
62. The Avengers
63. The Producers
64. Overboard
65. Carrie
66. The Expendables 2
67. Hellraiser
68. Adaptation
69. Blue Valentine
70. Murder, My Sweet
71. Winter's Bone
72. Hairspray
73. The Killers
74. True Romance
75. Roadblock
76. Gun Crazy
77. Love Me Tonight
78. Looper
79. Outrageous Fortune
80. Shoot The Piano Player
81. Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
82. Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
83. Blade Runner (Final cut)
84. Chinatown
85. A Foreign Affair
86. Seven Psychopaths
87. The Killer
88. Safety Not Guaranteed
89. Skyfall
90. Body Heat
91. Collateral
92. Dr. Strangelove
93. Drive
94. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
95. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
96. 50/50
97. The Artist
98. Django Unchained
99. Room in Rome
100. The Terminator
BOOKS
1. Looking for Alaska
2. Bossy Pants
3. Save the Cat!
4. I Drink For A Reason
5. The Accidental Billionaires
6. Winter's Bone
Depending on length. Yes. If you believe you have had read the equivalent of a novel experience, I'd say yes. Same to regarding a Shakespearean work. I'd say reading a play counts as one entry.
Aw, yissss... managed to squeeze in one more book and one more movie, so here's the final, final update. Wasn't done watching TDKR until after midnight, but it's still 2012 in other parts of the world, so it counts!
Books:
1: Underground by Haruki Murakami
2: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
3: Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
4: Windrush by Mike and Trevor Phillips
5: Dead Right by Peter Robinson
6: The Tin Drum by Günther Grass
7: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8: The Arrival by Shaun Tan
9: Underworld by Don DeLillo
10: Sindbad and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights by Husain Haddawy
11: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
12: Rashomon and 17 Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
13: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
14: Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
15: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
16: Black Money by Ross Macdonald
17: Promised Land by Robert B. Parker
18: Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
19: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
20: Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell
21: Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle
22: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics by Janet Holmes
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23: Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour by Richard Gross (half finished)
Films:
1: Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
2: Castaway on the Moon
3: Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
4: Note by Note
5: The Dark Knight Rises
Books:
1: Underground by Haruki Murakami
2: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
3: Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
4: Windrush by Mike and Trevor Phillips
5: Dead Right by Peter Robinson
6: The Tin Drum by Günther Grass
7: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8: The Arrival by Shaun Tan
9: Underworld by Don DeLillo
10: Sindbad and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights by Husain Haddawy
11: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
12: Rashomon and 17 Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
13: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
14: Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
15: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
16: Black Money by Ross Macdonald
17: Promised Land by Robert B. Parker
18: Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
19: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
20: Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell
21: Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle
22: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics by Janet Holmes
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23: Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour by Richard Gross (half finished)
Films:
1: Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
2: Castaway on the Moon
3: Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
4: Note by Note
5: The Dark Knight Rises
AtomskEater
Member
Just barely squeezed in that last one.
Books: 50/50
39. Equal of the Sun
40. The Last Good Man
41. Awfully Familiar
42. Lucille
43. Adventure Time tpb 1
44. The Cowboy and the Vampire
45. Journey Into Mystery: Fear Itself tpb 1
46. AX: Alternative Manga
47. Catching Fire
48. Who Fears Death
49. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mademoiselle Odile
50. Grendel omnibus 1
Full list.
Books: 50/50
39. Equal of the Sun
40. The Last Good Man
41. Awfully Familiar
42. Lucille
43. Adventure Time tpb 1
44. The Cowboy and the Vampire
45. Journey Into Mystery: Fear Itself tpb 1
46. AX: Alternative Manga
47. Catching Fire
48. Who Fears Death
49. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mademoiselle Odile
50. Grendel omnibus 1
Full list.
Foxy Fox 39
Banned
I've probably seen at least 250 films this past year.
Books:
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
2. The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
3. The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson
4. The Trial by Franz Kafka
5. The Walking Dead Compendium One by Robert Kirkman
6. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (reread; I read the book originally 15 years ago)
7. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
8. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
9. Animal Farm by George Orwell
10. America Again by Stephen Colbert
11. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
12. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
13. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
14. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
15. Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic by Jeff Smith
16. Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell
17. A Betrayal in Winter by Daniel Abraham
18. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
19. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
20. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Movies - too many to mention. I watch 2/3 a week. But here are 50 off the top of my head:
1. Django Unchained
2. Argo
3. Wreck It Ralph
4. Finding Nemo
5. Brave
6. 12 Angry Men
7. Spartacus
8. Donnie Darko Director's Cut
9. Incendies
10. In Bruges
11. Moonrise Kingdom
12. Looper
13. Lawrence of Arabia
14. The Hidden Fortress
15. The Secret Life of Arietty
16. Cabin in the Woods
17. The Dark Knight Rises
18. The Avengers
19. Take Shelter
20. Cowboys and Aliens (didn't pick this one lol)
21. The Descendants
22. Apocalypse Now Redux
23. The Godfather Part II
24. Headhunters
25. Lincoln
26. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
27. Source Code
28. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
29. Das Boot Director's Cut
30. A Separation
31. Yojimbo
32. The Muppets
33. Drive
34. Dead Snow
35. Bernie
36. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
37. Contagion
38. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
39. The Artist
40. The Lion King 3D
41. The Good, the Bad, and the Weird
42. The Raid: Redemption
43. Life of Pi
44. M
45. Metropolis Restored
46. The Bourne Legacy
47. Skyfall
48. Game Change
49. Black Swan
50. Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
2. The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
3. The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson
4. The Trial by Franz Kafka
5. The Walking Dead Compendium One by Robert Kirkman
6. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (reread; I read the book originally 15 years ago)
7. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
8. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
9. Animal Farm by George Orwell
10. America Again by Stephen Colbert
11. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
12. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
13. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
14. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
15. Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic by Jeff Smith
16. Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell
17. A Betrayal in Winter by Daniel Abraham
18. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
19. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
20. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Movies - too many to mention. I watch 2/3 a week. But here are 50 off the top of my head:
1. Django Unchained
2. Argo
3. Wreck It Ralph
4. Finding Nemo
5. Brave
6. 12 Angry Men
7. Spartacus
8. Donnie Darko Director's Cut
9. Incendies
10. In Bruges
11. Moonrise Kingdom
12. Looper
13. Lawrence of Arabia
14. The Hidden Fortress
15. The Secret Life of Arietty
16. Cabin in the Woods
17. The Dark Knight Rises
18. The Avengers
19. Take Shelter
20. Cowboys and Aliens (didn't pick this one lol)
21. The Descendants
22. Apocalypse Now Redux
23. The Godfather Part II
24. Headhunters
25. Lincoln
26. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
27. Source Code
28. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
29. Das Boot Director's Cut
30. A Separation
31. Yojimbo
32. The Muppets
33. Drive
34. Dead Snow
35. Bernie
36. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
37. Contagion
38. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
39. The Artist
40. The Lion King 3D
41. The Good, the Bad, and the Weird
42. The Raid: Redemption
43. Life of Pi
44. M
45. Metropolis Restored
46. The Bourne Legacy
47. Skyfall
48. Game Change
49. Black Swan
50. Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
Maklershed
Member
Final update of 2012. New stuff in bold ...
Books
1. The Devil in the White City
2. Nightwoods
3. Gateway
4. Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
5. 11/22/63
6. The Merchant and the Alchemist Gate
7. Robopocalypse
8. Heechee Rendezvous
9. The Annals of the Heechee
10. The Mote in God's Eye
11. Eon
12. The Eden Hunter
13. Free Will Flux
14. The Door into Summer
15. Pushing Ice
16. The Purple Cloud
17. The God Delusion
18. Mistborn: The Final Empire
19. The Silent Sea
20. Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
21. Great Expectations
22. Pudd'nhead Wilson
23. No Country for Old Men
24. Wool Omnibus
25. Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV
26. State of Wonder
27. The Stars My Destination
28. The Wrecker
29. Containment
30. Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
31. Wastelands
32. I Am America and So Can You
33. A Tale of Two Cities
34. The Angel's Game
35. Skeletons on the Zahara
36. The Glory Game
37. Bleak House
38. Blindness
39. The Dog Stars
40. J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets
41. Leviathan Wakes
42. The Dragon's Path
43. The Killer Angels
44. The King's Blood
45. The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
46. Eternity Road
47. The Blade Itself
48. The Sisters Brothers
49. Before They Are Hanged
50. Thunderstruck
51. The Last Argument of Kings
52. Hull Zero Three
53. Best Served Cold
54. The Man in the High Castle
55. The Lost City of Z
56. Echoes of Earth
57. The Lost World
58. An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
59. Roadside Picnic
60. The Old Man and the Wasteland
Movies
1. 13 Assassins
2. Tucker & Dale vs Evil
3. The Help
4. Castaway on the Moon
5. Jeremiah Johnson
6. Robin Hood
7. Valkyrie
8. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
9. Bridesmaids
10. The World, The Flesh, and The Devil
11. Warrior
12. Unforgiven
13. Dr. Strangelove
14. Super 8
15. Moneyball
16. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
17. Hanna
18. The Old Curiosity Shop
19. Casablanca
20. The Social Network
21. The Illustrated Man
22. To Have and to Have Not
23. The Big sleep
24. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
25. Drive
26. Sitting Pretty
27. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
28. Captain America
29. Collateral
30. Aliens
31. Alien 3
32. Tim and Eric's B$M
33. Senna
34. Three Days Later
35. Contagion
36. J. Edgar
37. Resurrect Dead: Mystery of Toynbee Tiles
38. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
39. Pulling John
40. Total Recall
41. Safe House
42. National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets
43. Sherlock Holmes 2: Game of Shadows
44. The Tramp and the Dictator
45. Amadeus
46. Conan the Barbarian (2011)
47. The Avengers
48. Prometheus
49. The Artist
50. Treasure of the Sierra Madre
51. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
52. Snow White and The Huntsman
53. Predators
54. Total Recall (2012)
55. Jackie Brown
56. The Grey
Books
1. The Devil in the White City
2. Nightwoods
3. Gateway
4. Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
5. 11/22/63
6. The Merchant and the Alchemist Gate
7. Robopocalypse
8. Heechee Rendezvous
9. The Annals of the Heechee
10. The Mote in God's Eye
11. Eon
12. The Eden Hunter
13. Free Will Flux
14. The Door into Summer
15. Pushing Ice
16. The Purple Cloud
17. The God Delusion
18. Mistborn: The Final Empire
19. The Silent Sea
20. Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
21. Great Expectations
22. Pudd'nhead Wilson
23. No Country for Old Men
24. Wool Omnibus
25. Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV
26. State of Wonder
27. The Stars My Destination
28. The Wrecker
29. Containment
30. Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
31. Wastelands
32. I Am America and So Can You
33. A Tale of Two Cities
34. The Angel's Game
35. Skeletons on the Zahara
36. The Glory Game
37. Bleak House
38. Blindness
39. The Dog Stars
40. J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets
41. Leviathan Wakes
42. The Dragon's Path
43. The Killer Angels
44. The King's Blood
45. The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
46. Eternity Road
47. The Blade Itself
48. The Sisters Brothers
49. Before They Are Hanged
50. Thunderstruck
51. The Last Argument of Kings
52. Hull Zero Three
53. Best Served Cold
54. The Man in the High Castle
55. The Lost City of Z
56. Echoes of Earth
57. The Lost World
58. An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
59. Roadside Picnic
60. The Old Man and the Wasteland
Movies
1. 13 Assassins
2. Tucker & Dale vs Evil
3. The Help
4. Castaway on the Moon
5. Jeremiah Johnson
6. Robin Hood
7. Valkyrie
8. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
9. Bridesmaids
10. The World, The Flesh, and The Devil
11. Warrior
12. Unforgiven
13. Dr. Strangelove
14. Super 8
15. Moneyball
16. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
17. Hanna
18. The Old Curiosity Shop
19. Casablanca
20. The Social Network
21. The Illustrated Man
22. To Have and to Have Not
23. The Big sleep
24. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
25. Drive
26. Sitting Pretty
27. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
28. Captain America
29. Collateral
30. Aliens
31. Alien 3
32. Tim and Eric's B$M
33. Senna
34. Three Days Later
35. Contagion
36. J. Edgar
37. Resurrect Dead: Mystery of Toynbee Tiles
38. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
39. Pulling John
40. Total Recall
41. Safe House
42. National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets
43. Sherlock Holmes 2: Game of Shadows
44. The Tramp and the Dictator
45. Amadeus
46. Conan the Barbarian (2011)
47. The Avengers
48. Prometheus
49. The Artist
50. Treasure of the Sierra Madre
51. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
52. Snow White and The Huntsman
53. Predators
54. Total Recall (2012)
55. Jackie Brown
56. The Grey
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Final tally for 2012:
Only 3 books.
529 TV episodes (not counting repeats or random things on syndication)
374 different movies. 103 of them brand new to me. This is not counting repeats.
Only 3 books.
529 TV episodes (not counting repeats or random things on syndication)
374 different movies. 103 of them brand new to me. This is not counting repeats.
Based on that math, right around 50. But I would rather count them as one and strive to do better this year.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Banked three movies today. Off to a pretty sick start.
That is fair enough, but those were official guidelines, not our own interpretations, so I'm going to put you down for 50 books.
Final tally. New entries in italic.
Books:
Movies:
Books:
- Cana, Proinsias Mac - Celtic Mythology
- Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Game
- Clausewitz, Carl von - On War
- Duckers, Peter - Shrewsbury Castle: A Brief History and Description
- Ehrman, Bart D. - Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
- Ehrman, Bart D. - Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
- Grant, R. G. - Soldier: A Visual History of the Fighting Man
- Lackey, Mercedes - Arrows of the Queen: Heralds of Valdemar - Book I
- Liddiard, Robert - Beeston Castle: English Heritage Guidebooks
- Lindqvist, Herman - Napoleon
- Manguel, Alberto - A History of Reading
- Nygårdshaug, Gert - Finger of Cassandra: Book Five in the Series about Fredric Drum and Skarphedin Olsen
- Nygårdshaug, Gert - Coffin Number Five: Book Six in the Series about Fredric Drum and Skarphedin Olsen
- Nygårdshaug, Gert - The Embalmed Wolf: Book Seven in the Series about Fredric Drum and Skarphedin Olsen
- Nygårdshaug, Gert - Lilies from Jerusalem: Book Eight in the Series about Fredric Drum and Skarphedin Olsen
- Nygårdshaug, Gert - The Mother of All Hurricanes: Book Nine in the Series about Fredric Drum and Skarphedin Olsen
- Nygårdshaug, Gert - The Red Zone: Book Ten in the Series about Fredric Drum and Skarphedin Olsen
- Pratchett, Terry - Snuff: A Discworld Novel
- Rekdal, Jan Erik - Celtic Myths
- Robinson, Tony - Tony Robinson's Kings and Queens
- Sanderson, Brandon - The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel
- Steinsland, Gro - Norse Religion: Myths, Rites, Society
- Vogler, Christopher - The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers
- Warmind, Morten - Celtic Gods and Heroes
- Wilson, Robert - The Silent and the Damned
Movies:
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - Timur Bekmambetov (2012)
- Alex Cross - Rob Cohen (2012)
- A Scanner Darkly - Richard Linklater (2006)
- Asterix the Gaul - Ray Goossens (1967)
- Batman Begins - Christopher Nolan (2005)
- Battleship - Peter Berg (2012)
- Brave - Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman (2012)
- Chaos - Tony Giglio (2006)
- Cleanskin - Hadi Hajaig (2012)
- Contagion - Steven Soderbergh (2011)
- Coraline - Henry Selick (2009)
- Crimson Rivers - Mathieu Kassovitz (2000)
- Dark City - Alex Proyas (1998)
- Devil in a Blue Dress - Carl Franklin (1995)
- Dredd - Pete Travis (2012)
- Elektra - Rob Bowman (2005)
- Equilibrium - Kurt Wimmer (2002)
- Gallipoli - Peter Weir (1981)
- Get the Gringo - Adrian Grunberg (2012)
- Hard Rain - Mikael Salomon (1998)
- Hugo - Martin Scorsese (2011)
- Ice Age: The Meltdown - Carlos Saldanha (2006)
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - Carlos Saldanha (2009)
- In the Electric Mist - Bertrand Tavernier (2009)
- John Carter - Andrew Stanton (2012)
- Johnny English Reborn - Oliver Parker (2011)
- Judge Dredd - Danny Cannon (1995)
- Kon-Tiki - Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg (2012)
- Last Man Standing - Walter Hill (2006)
- Lockout - James Mather and Stephen St. Leger (2012)
- Looper - Rian Johnson (2012)
- Machine Gun Preacher - Marc Forster (2011)
- Madagascar - Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath (2005)
- Men in Black III - Barry Sonnenfeld (2012)
- Moon - Duncan Jones (2009)
- Over the Hedge - Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick (2006)
- Paycheck - John Woo (2003)
- Puss in Boots - Chris Miller (2011)
- Rambo: First Blood Part II - George P. Cosmatos (1985)
- Resident Evil: Retribution - Paul W. S. Anderson (2012)
- Rocky - John G. Avildsen (1976)
- Safe - Boaz Yakin (2012)
- Safe House - Daniel Espinosa (2012)
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - Edgar Wright (2010)
- Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden - John Stockwell (2012)
- Shaun of the Dead - Edgar Wright (2004)
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - Guy Ritchie (2011)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking - Simon Cellan Jones (2004)
- Shrek 2 - Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon (2004)
- Shrek the Third - Chris Miller and Raman Hui (2007)
- Sister Act - Emile Ardolino (1992)
- Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit - Bill Duke (1993)
- Space Cowboys - Clint Eastwood (2000)
- Star Trek: First Contact - Jonathan Frakes (1996)
- Star Trek: Insurrection - Jonathan Frakes (1998)
- Star Trek: Nemesis - Stuart Baird (2002)
- Strange Days - Kathryn Bigelow (1995)
- The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn - Steven Spielberg (2011)
- The Amazing Spider-Man - Marc Webb (2012)
- The Assault - Julien Leclercq (2011)
- The Avengers - Joss Whedon (2012)
- The Bourne Legacy - Tony Gilroy (2012)
- The Dark Knight Rises - Christopher Nolan (2012)
- The Devil's Advocate - Taylor Hackford (1997)
- The Expendables 2 - Simon West (2012)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - David Fincher (2011)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Niels Arden Oplev (2009)
- The Girl Who Played with Fire - Daniel Alfredson (2009)
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest - Daniel Alfredson (2009)
- The Goonies - Richard Donner (1985)
- The Haunted Castle - Georges Méliès (1896)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles - David Attwood (2002)
- The Hunger Games - Gary Ross (2012)
- The Iron Giant - Brad Bird (1999)
- The Island - Michael Bay (2005)
- The Ninth Gate - Roman Polanski (1999)
- The Raven - James McTeigue (2012)
- The Road to El Dorado - Eric Bergeron and Don Paul (2000)
- The Rundown - Peter Berg (2003)
- The Sign of Four - Desmond Davis (1983)
- The Substitute - Robert Mandel (1996)
- The Three Musketeers - Paul W. S. Anderson (2011)
- Thunderheart - Michael Apted (1992)
- Timeline - Richard Donner (2003)
- Titan A.E. - Don Bluth and Gary Goldman (2000)
- Total Recall - Len Wiseman (2012)
- Traitor - Jeffrey Nachmanoff (2008)
- Underworld: Awakening - Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein (2012)
- Upside Down - Juan Diego Solanas (2012)
- Volcano - Mick Jackson (1997)
- Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - Nick Park and Steve Box (2005)
- War Horse - Steven Spielberg (2011)
- Wonderland - James Cox (2003)
- Wrath of the Titans - Jonathan Liebesman (2012)
- xXx - Rob Cohen (2002)
- Young Sherlock Holmes - Barry Levinson (1985)
- Zombieland - Ruben Fleischer (2009)
- Æon Flux - Karyn Kusama (2005)
Thanks to cheap detective novels that I started to read on my way to work, I made it around 100 books actually but stopped keeping track at somepoint.
Books
The Sea and Poison
Caim
Plague
The Outsider
The Shadow of the Torturer
American Gods
Spring Snow
Runaway Horses
The Temple of Dawn
The Decay of the Angel
The General of the Dead Army
The Palace of Dreams
Pyramids
Molloy
Malone Dies
The Unnamable
Waiting for Godot
Watt
The Third Policeman
At Swim-Two-Birds
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Girl With Curious Hair
Oblivion: Stories
Consider the Lobster
Waiting for the Barbarians
Life & Times of Michael K
Foe
Disgrace
Diary of a Bad Year
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Great Shark Hunt
The Curse of Lono
The Rum Diary
American Pastoral
Sabbath's Theater
Glasshouse
Amsterdam
Ender's Game
Slaughterhouse five
Catch 22
Dune
Things Fall Apart
The Time Machine
Faust
John Adams
My Name Is Asher Lev
Notes from Underground
Transparent Blue
Coinlocker Babies
Siddhartha
Movies
In Cold Blood
Encounters at the End of the World
Breathless
Dirty Money
The Red Circle
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
The White Diamond
Fall Guy
Sympathy for the Underdog
Harlan County, USA
Apocalypse Now
The Crazy Family
The Road
Page One - Inside The New York Times
12 Angry Man
A Serious Man
Bad Sleep Well
Dogtooth
In the heat of the night
Breathless
Cruel Gun Story
Dazed and Confused
Gumma
Love exposure
Man of vendetta
Network
Rashomon
Musashi Miyamoto trilogy
Sabata trilogy
Suicide Bus
Tampopo
Take Aim at the police van
Synecdoche, New York
The Big Lebowisk
The getaway
The human condition trilogy
Yojimbo
Welcome Back Mr. Mcdonald
Kamikaze Taxi
Peeping Tom
Z
French Connections
Doom
Moon
Books
The Sea and Poison
Caim
Plague
The Outsider
The Shadow of the Torturer
American Gods
Spring Snow
Runaway Horses
The Temple of Dawn
The Decay of the Angel
The General of the Dead Army
The Palace of Dreams
Pyramids
Molloy
Malone Dies
The Unnamable
Waiting for Godot
Watt
The Third Policeman
At Swim-Two-Birds
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Girl With Curious Hair
Oblivion: Stories
Consider the Lobster
Waiting for the Barbarians
Life & Times of Michael K
Foe
Disgrace
Diary of a Bad Year
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Great Shark Hunt
The Curse of Lono
The Rum Diary
American Pastoral
Sabbath's Theater
Glasshouse
Amsterdam
Ender's Game
Slaughterhouse five
Catch 22
Dune
Things Fall Apart
The Time Machine
Faust
John Adams
My Name Is Asher Lev
Notes from Underground
Transparent Blue
Coinlocker Babies
Siddhartha
Movies
In Cold Blood
Encounters at the End of the World
Breathless
Dirty Money
The Red Circle
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
The White Diamond
Fall Guy
Sympathy for the Underdog
Harlan County, USA
Apocalypse Now
The Crazy Family
The Road
Page One - Inside The New York Times
12 Angry Man
A Serious Man
Bad Sleep Well
Dogtooth
In the heat of the night
Breathless
Cruel Gun Story
Dazed and Confused
Gumma
Love exposure
Man of vendetta
Network
Rashomon
Musashi Miyamoto trilogy
Sabata trilogy
Suicide Bus
Tampopo
Take Aim at the police van
Synecdoche, New York
The Big Lebowisk
The getaway
The human condition trilogy
Yojimbo
Welcome Back Mr. Mcdonald
Kamikaze Taxi
Peeping Tom
Z
French Connections
Doom
Moon
Not everyone made it to the shore... but for those of us still standing... we can look back and say... Aye, I did that. And so without further ado, here are those of us who are left still standing...:
All conquering Winners
Maklershed - Books 60/50+ | Films 56/50+*****
Kabouter - Books 50/50 | Films 52/50 | Games 26/25 *****
Ashes1396 - Books 50/50 | Films 50/50 *****
Besada - Books 50/50 | Films 50/50 *****
AndyD - Books 50*/50 | Films 50/50 *****
AAequal - Books 100+/50 | Films 50/50 *****
Ceebs - Books 100+/50 | Films 50+/50 *****
Books > Films
AtomskEater - Books 50/50 | Films 3/50 ****
Films > Books
PhoncipleBone - Books 03/50 | Films 374/50+ | TV Episodes 529/50+****
Ward - Books 06/50 | Films 259/259+****
Max Armstrong - Books 0/50 | Films 211/300****
Yenrot - Books 20/20 | Films 150+/50****
Glaurungr - Books 25/50 | Films 98/50****
white dynamite - Books 06/50 | Films 100/50+****
xyla - Books 12/50 | Films 87/50+ ****
SteveWinwood - Books 04/50 | Films 60/60+****
Azrael - Books 20/50 | Films 50/50+****
Crunched - Books 17/50 | Films 59/50 ****
EliCash - Books 07/50 | Films 50/50
Lafiel - Books 29/50 | Films 50/50****
Read a lot of books
thomaser - Books 22/50 | Films 5/50 ***
Watched a lot of films
Plasmid - Books ?/50 | Films 40/50***
ShinAmano - Books 05/50 | Films 37/50***
Would love to know how they finished up
Overture - Books 27 | Films 37/50**
[at half way stage of the year too, I think]
--
Lost at Sea
Ceekus - Books 6/50 | Films -/50 *
Cerebral Assassin - Books 07/50 | Films 12/50 *
Weepy - Books 04/50 | Films 12/50 *
Kilrogg - Books 02/50 | Films 03/50*
Plywood - Books 10/50 | Films 14/50*
Eltacoman - Books 11/50 | Films 11/50*
AvidNobody - Books 08/50 | Films 10/50*
MorisUkunRasik - Books 20/25 | Films 06/50*
And tons more who were left to the wilderness... a year is a long long time. I should add that there were several gaffers in the book thread that blasted past fifty books too. Have a look in the December 2012 book thread, for ideas, inspiration etc..
ps. stars should link to last update. If you do have a master post, and/or intend to post a new one, please feel free, I'll update where I can...
Good luck to all those who are trying this in 2013.
All conquering Winners
Maklershed - Books 60/50+ | Films 56/50+*****
Kabouter - Books 50/50 | Films 52/50 | Games 26/25 *****
Ashes1396 - Books 50/50 | Films 50/50 *****
Besada - Books 50/50 | Films 50/50 *****
AndyD - Books 50*/50 | Films 50/50 *****
AAequal - Books 100+/50 | Films 50/50 *****
Ceebs - Books 100+/50 | Films 50+/50 *****
Books > Films
AtomskEater - Books 50/50 | Films 3/50 ****
Films > Books
PhoncipleBone - Books 03/50 | Films 374/50+ | TV Episodes 529/50+****
Ward - Books 06/50 | Films 259/259+****
Max Armstrong - Books 0/50 | Films 211/300****
Yenrot - Books 20/20 | Films 150+/50****
Glaurungr - Books 25/50 | Films 98/50****
white dynamite - Books 06/50 | Films 100/50+****
xyla - Books 12/50 | Films 87/50+ ****
SteveWinwood - Books 04/50 | Films 60/60+****
Azrael - Books 20/50 | Films 50/50+****
Crunched - Books 17/50 | Films 59/50 ****
EliCash - Books 07/50 | Films 50/50
Lafiel - Books 29/50 | Films 50/50****
Read a lot of books
thomaser - Books 22/50 | Films 5/50 ***
Watched a lot of films
Plasmid - Books ?/50 | Films 40/50***
ShinAmano - Books 05/50 | Films 37/50***
Would love to know how they finished up
Overture - Books 27 | Films 37/50**
[at half way stage of the year too, I think]
--
Lost at Sea
Ceekus - Books 6/50 | Films -/50 *
Cerebral Assassin - Books 07/50 | Films 12/50 *
Weepy - Books 04/50 | Films 12/50 *
Kilrogg - Books 02/50 | Films 03/50*
Plywood - Books 10/50 | Films 14/50*
Eltacoman - Books 11/50 | Films 11/50*
AvidNobody - Books 08/50 | Films 10/50*
MorisUkunRasik - Books 20/25 | Films 06/50*
And tons more who were left to the wilderness... a year is a long long time. I should add that there were several gaffers in the book thread that blasted past fifty books too. Have a look in the December 2012 book thread, for ideas, inspiration etc..
ps. stars should link to last update. If you do have a master post, and/or intend to post a new one, please feel free, I'll update where I can...
Good luck to all those who are trying this in 2013.
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