[VonRehausen]

I'm in to!

Books
1. Pandoras star
2. Manhattan in reverse
3. The winter queen
4. Our culture whats left of it
5. The foundation
6. Second foundation


Movies
1. Too big to fail
2. Midnight in Paris
3. The Help
4. Apollo 18
5. In time
6. In 30 minutes or less
7. The hangover 2
8. Margin Call
9. Contagion
10. Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy
11. The departed
12. What's your number
13. The debt
14. Crazy stupid love
15. Tower Heist
16. Sherlock Holmes

[Mushroom021]

I like the idea, however I dont really read to many books...if it was just movies I would do it. I loved the 31 nights of October challenge.

[JLG-]

Updates in Bold

Books:
1. World War Z
2. Issac Asimov: Foundation
3. Murakami: Norwegian Wood
4. Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
5. An Apple For Zoe (Currently reading)

Films:
1. The Man From Nowhere
2. Captain America
3. Bottle Rocket
4. X-Men First Class
5. Sucker Punch
6. Drive
7. 50/50

[bengraven]

Add to mine:

Film: Beowulf (2007)

[Meatpuppet]

Count me in. So far:

Books:
A Very British Coup - Chris Mullins
Sun Dog - Monique Roffey
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Films:
Warrior
Real Steel
Moneyball
The Guard
Tremors 2: Aftershocks

Currently trying to decide what to buy for my kindle next.

[Ratrat]

Ratrat
BOOKS 1. Jane Eyre 2. The Long Ships 3. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress 4. Flashman
MOVIES 1. Never Let Me Go 2. Robocop 3. A Single Man 4. X-men First Class 5. Clash of the Titans(shitty remake) 6. Doubt

Updates in bold. I'm finding this quite difficult. Kind of sad when I forgo a book I wanted to read with something lighter.

[DevelopmentArrested]

50 books is 50x harder than 50 movies

[Cindres]

50 books is 50x harder than 50 movies

As someone whose new year's resolution was to read more (having not read heavily for quite some time) I can echo this, only read 3 so far. It was my exams though, hoping I'll have more time now.

As for movies I'm only on 5, but that's much easier to catch up on, exam period really screwed me

Books
01/50 - Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
02/50 - Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
03/50 - The Dark Tourist - Dom Joly

Movies
01/50 - Senna
02/50 - The A-Team
03/50 - Leon
04/50 - Saving Private Ryan
05/50 - Limitless

[Yenrot]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...&postcount=385

6. 127 Hours
7. Alien

5. The Green Mile by Stephen King (currently reading)
6. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (currently reading)

[Nappuccino]

Fixing this to fit the rules

Movie 1: The Adventures of Tin Tin
Movie 2: Jackass 2.5
Movie 3: Jackass 3
Movie 4: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Book 1: Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut[

edit: I feel so far behind now.

[white dynamite]

I'm in this, too, yo!

MOVIES
1. The Adventures of Tin Tin
2. The Tree of Life
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Sunset Blvd.

BOOKS
1. Looking for Alaska
2. Bossy Pants


Question: Do we get any points for watching TV? Like what if we watch the first of half of the season of Dexter. That has to be good for something, right?

[Ashes1396]

I'm not counting the keanu Reeves film I saw. But I'm counting BirdSong instead. Tv drama / tv film. What's the difference?

Film 4. Birdsong.

[PhoncipleBone]

The final January list-
Movies:
Alien, Aliens, Hard Boiled, The Killer, Jerry Maguire, Tangled, Age of Innocence, Total Recall, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Taxi Driver, Untouchables, 10 Things I Hate About You, A Knight's Tale, Death at a Funeral, Wonder Boys, Blade Runner, and Kingdom of Heaven.

TV Episodes:
Alcatraz x4, Chuck x19, Being Human (US) x3, Fringe x3, Big Bang Theory x3, Doctor Who x3, Sherlock x3, Sopranos x7, White Collar x2, How I Met Your Mother x1, New Girl x2, Wonder Years x3, Burn Notice x3, Supernatural x2.

Books:
Hound of the Baskervilles (almost finished)

[white dynamite]

MOVIES
1. The Adventures of Tin Tin
2. The Tree of Life
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Sunset Blvd.
5. Boogie Nights

BOOKS
1. Looking for Alaska
2. Bossy Pants

[Kabouter]

Final January list:
Books: 1. Tony Judt - Postwar, 2. Stephen E. Ambrose - Band of Brothers, 3. Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days (read all the other Verne books as a kid, never read this one, loved it even as an adult!)
Films: 1. Moneyball, 2. The Manchurian Candidate (1962), 3. Killer Elite 4. The Double 5. Audience of One, 6. In Time, 7. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, 8. Drive
Games: 1. Puzzle Agent 2. Puzzle Agent 2, 3. Deus Ex: Human Revolution 4. The Great Art Race

[i_am_ben]

Books finished:

Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune


the pseudo shit these characters keep saying is starting to become very very very annoying.

[Doncamatic]

Books: 5. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin 6. Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig Films: 7. Killer Elite 8. The Ides of March 9. Crazy Stupid Love 10. Contagion 11. Bridesmaids 12. 50 - 50 13. Easy A 14. Good Night and Good Luck 15. Lars and the Real Girl 16. One Day 17. Control

The latest additions.

[Emitan]

50 movies in one year? I think that's more than I've seen in my life!

[Ashes1396]

Film 5 - The Descendents

[Lafiel]

Oh yeah.

Final January list.

Books

1. For whom the bell tolls by Erenst hemingway
2. Huckleberry finn by Mark Twain
3. The Price of spring by Daniel Abraham

Films

1. All About Eve
2. The Social network
3. Zodiac
4. Lars and the real girl
5. Eyes without a face
6. Girl with the dragon tattoo (2011)
7. All About My Mother
8. The Red Shoes
9. Late Spring
10. Vivre sa vie
11. Paris, Texas
12. Winter Light
13. Red Dog
14. A Separation

[white dynamite]

MOVIES
1. The Adventures of Tin Tin
2. The Tree of Life
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Sunset Blvd.
5. Boogie Nights

BOOKS
1. Looking for Alaska
2. Bossy Pants
3. Save the Cat!

[MorisUkunRasik]

MOVIES
1. 2001
2. The Iron Giant
3. Apocalypto
4. The Graduate
5. Chronicle


BOOKS
1. The Pearl
2. The Sun Also Rises

I'm only doing 25 books cause of full time work/school. =\

[Ashes1396]

January Final. For the op: Books 1/50 | Films 6/50.

Films

1. 127 hours [Danny Boyle]
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [David Fincher]
3. The Artist [Michel Hazanavicius]
4. Birdsong. [Dir. Philip Martin] [Series Writing credits: Sebastian Faulks, Abi Morgan]
5. The Descendants [Alexander Payne]
6. The Tree of Life [Terrence Malick]

Books

1. Catch-22 [Joseph Heller]


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Obviously lost out on the book front last month. In my defence, I've read 12 poems, in the midst of writing a further 4 of them. Read another 23 short stories, and written a further 4 1/2 my self, and wrapped them up in a magazine fashion.

[Fintan]

OK I've decided to take part. Here's what I've done this year.

Books:
1. Orson Welles: The Road To Xanadu by Simon Callow
2. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
3. A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.

Films:
1. Fast Five
2. Alien
3. Lost in Translation
4. Chronicle


I'm going to need to pick up my rate both in terms of books and films!

[AndyD]

AndyD
Books
1. The Trial/Franz Kafka 2. A Selective History Of Max Werner/Scott Forbes 3. A Storm Of Swords/George R.R. Martin 4. Call of Cthulu 5. Arabian Nights 6. The Giver
Movies
1. Dinner For Schmucks 2. Due Date 3. The Eagle 4. Date Night 5. Elizabeth I 6. McGruber 7. Leap Year 8. Coming to America 9. Funny People 10. Rise of the Planet of the Apes 11. It's Complicated 12. Robin Hood 13. The Kids Are Allright 14. Drive

Update: Drive is an interesting movie. Violent and explicit, not sure why as it was not terribly necessary.

[Socreges]

What are you guys doing about the 500+ pgs rule? Counting them as two books since they're twice as long as many books or still going with one since that's what they technically are?

I'm going to count Storm of Swords as two books since it's 900+ pages long and has actually been divided into two books before. Not sure what to do with ACoK and AFfC (yet to read), though. 700 pages each. My conscience says No, but if it's common practice among other people then I'm happy to count them as two.

For the record, I know I'm not going to get to 50, but I'd like to get as close as possible while not feeling like I'm cutting corners.

[Ashes1396]

Catch 22 is 500 pages +. I'm counting it as one book though. I think the law of averages will take care of that since I plan to read a lot of short novels. ;)

[Kabouter]

What are you guys doing about the 500+ pgs rule? Counting them as two books since they're twice as long as many books or still going with one since that's what they technically are? I'm going to count Storm of Swords as two books since it's 900+ pages long and has actually been divided into two books before. Not sure what to do with ACoK and AFfC (yet to read), though. 700 pages each. My conscience says No, but if it's common practice among other people then I'm happy to count them as two. For the record, I know I'm not going to get to 50, but I'd like to get as close as possible while not feeling like I'm cutting corners.

Counting them as one personally. I know I don't need encouragement to need longer books. If anything, I'm doing this to expand my horizons in terms of what I read. I've been reading my first fiction books in years. For years I only read long non-fiction works. Gonna have to speed my reading up to get to 50 though. Waste less time playing videogames and stuff, I can probably make the 25 games anyway.

[besada]

Hey, BenjaminBirdie

Books
1. When the Sacred Ginmill Closes by Lawrence Block
2. The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
3. The City and the City by China Mieville
4. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

Movies
1. Cowboys and Aliens
2. The Debt
3. Middle Men
4. Gosford Park
5. Bridesmaids
6. Contagion
7. Killer Elite

I'm catching up on some science-fiction classics that I've somehow managed to miss in all my years of reading science fiction.

[ThanksVision]

Thought I would update. It's been a little while:

Books:
1) 1984 (George Orwell)
2) Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
3) The Stranger (Albert Camus)
4) Brave New World (Alduous Huxley)
5) Choke (Chuck Palahniuk)

Movies:
1) 2001
2) Speed Racer
3) 50/50
4) Blade Runner
5) Drive

Right on schedule! Hah.

[JLG-]

Updates in Bold

Books:
1. World War Z
2. Issac Asimov: Foundation
3. Murakami: Norwegian Wood
4. Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
5. An Apple For Zoe
6. Ted Chiang: The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
7. Murakami: The Elephant Vanishes (Currently Reading)
8. Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash (Currently Reading)

Films:
1. The Man From Nowhere
2. Captain America
3. Bottle Rocket
4. X-Men First Class
5. Sucker Punch
6. Drive
7. 50/50
8. The Kite Runner
9. Howl's Moving Castle

[Cerebral Assassin]

Update:

Books

1. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut.
2. Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie
3.The Killing Joke - Alan Moore
4. The Damned Utd - David Peace
5. Past Caring - Robert Goddard


Films

1. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
2. District 13 (2004)
3. The Cat & the Canary (1978)
4. The Wrestler (2008)
5. Red Cliff (International Version 2009)

[xyla]

Update:

Movies:

1. Let Me In - 7/10
2. Real Steel - 7/10
3. Sunshine Cleaning - 9/10
4. Insidious - 7/10
5. Our idiot Brother - 6/10
6. Friends With Benefits - 7/10
7. Lars and the Real Girl - 8/10
8. Punisher: Warzone - 6/10
9. Clerks II - 8/10
10. Columbiana - 7/10
11. Elizabeth - The Golden Age 6/10
12. Unknown Identity - 6/10
13. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 8/10
14. Drive - 8/10
15. In Time - 4/10
16. Don't be afraid of the Dark - 4/10
17. The Muppets - 8/10
18. Dead Silence - 7/10

Books:

1. The Hound of the Baskervilles - 8/10
2. Baron Munchhausen's adventures - 6/10

I'm still reading Walhall - didn't have much time to read books the past few weeks.
Most of the things I've read, I had to, for study - which I won't count here.

Edit: Since I find myself scanning the thread for books and movies I'd like to read/watch, I put the -/10 Scala next to mine for those that do the same.
For me, its a mixture of enjoyment and quality. If a film is bad, but I had fun watching it, expect 6-7 for genre/trash reasons. 5 and below - avoid.

[Plywood]

Updated list again.

[AAequal]

RED= Read.

Books:
#1 The Sea and Poison by Shusaku Endo
#2 Caim by José Saramago
#3 [highlightPlague[/highlight] by Albert Camus
#4 The Outsider by Albert Camus
#5 The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
#6 American Gods by Neil Gaiman
#7 Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
#8 Runaway Horses by Yukio Mishima
#9 The Temple of Dawn by Yukio Mishima
#10 The Decay of the Angel by Yukio Mishima
#11 The General of the Dead Army by Ismail Kadare
#12 The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare
#13 Pyramids by Ismail Kadare

Movies:
#1 In Cold Blood by Richard Brooks
#2 Encounters at the End of the World by Werner Herzog
#3 Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard
#4 Dirty Money by Jean-Pierre Melville
#5 The Red Circle by Jean-Pierre Melville
#6 Cave of Forgotten Dreams by Werner Herzog
#7 The White Diamond by Werner Herzog
#8 Fall Guy by Kinji Fukasaku
#9 Sympathy for the Underdog by Kinji Fukasaku
#10 Harlan County, USA by Barbara Kopple
#11 Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola
#12 The Crazy Family by Sōgo Ishii
#13 The Road by John Hillcoat

I have probably watched more films then the added three in these past months but those are pretty much the only ones I actually remember watching :D Friend gave me Place of Dreams and after that I have been reading a lot of Ismail Kadare. Great stuff.

[Krispy]

Here are mine so far: Dune, Solaris Rising, Harbinger, Forge of God, Anvil of Stars, By the Rivers of Babylon, The Forever War, Halo Primordium and Halo Cryptum. That makes 9, although I think I'm forgetting something. Yes I have a job.

[Murkas]

Mini Update:

BOOKS
1. A Storm Of Swords/George R.R. Martin
2. Darkly Dreaming Dexter

MOVIES
1. The Amityville Horror
2. Braveheart
3. Bulletproof Monk - some funny parts but a pretty poor film. Only watched it for Chow Yun Fat

Haven't watched as much films as I would have liked.

[Monty Mole]

Well it's not like I do it every month, I rarely go over 30 a month, it's very time consuming, but if you do it for a "challenge" it can be done easily. Two movies a night is not that hard, plus the weekends you can watch 4-5 per day. The most I've done is 64 in a month, but I was unemployed at the time.

Please, see daylight (not the movie).

[AndyD]

AndyD
Books
1. The Trial/Franz Kafka 2. A Selective History Of Max Werner/Scott Forbes 3. A Storm Of Swords/George R.R. Martin 4. Call of Cthulu 5. Arabian Nights 6. The Giver
Movies
1. Dinner For Schmucks 2. Due Date 3. The Eagle 4. Date Night 5. Elizabeth I 6. McGruber 7. Leap Year 8. Coming to America 9. Funny People 10. Rise of the Planet of the Apes 11. It's Complicated 12. Robin Hood 13. The Kids Are Allright 14. Drive 15. Astropia

[BenjaminBirdie]

Hey dudes, glad to see you're still keeping up. I haven't been able to update the OP for ages due to my recent relocation.

Also, I went straight from Clash of Kings to Storm of Swords so I am in TROUBLE.

[Glaurungr]

Books:

1. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why - Bart D. Ehrman

Movies:

1. Equilibrium

I'm a bit behind on both, mostly because I've been chipping away at my gaming backlog (and not really succeeding due to buying more games...).

[AtomskEater]

Neat, I started a personal challenge like this on goodreads. http://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/336986

Today I'll start up Imajica by Clive Barker.

[white dynamite]

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



BOOKS
1. Looking for Alaska
2. Bossy Pants
3. Save the Cat!

[Nappuccino]

Movie 1: The Adventures of Tin Tin
Movie 2: Jackass 2.5
Movie 3: Jackass 3
Movie 4: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Movie 5: Olympia
Movie 6: Wings of Desire

Book 1: Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut

[Crunched]

Book 1: Brave New World
Book 2: Steve Jobs
Book 3: A Theory of Fun for Game Design
Book 4: Fahrenheit 451
Book 5: War and Peace (in progress)
Book 6: Night and Low-Light Photography
Book 7: The Photoshop Darkroom: Creative Digital Post-Processing
Book 8: The Art of Storytelling: Easy Steps to Presenting an Unforgettable Story (would be more accurately titled I Love God So Much My Dick is Rock Hard: The Jesus Christ Blowjob Book)
Book 9: David Busch's Canon EOS 7D Guide to Digital SLR Photography (in progress)

Movie 1: Amadeus
Movie 2: Waiting for Superman
Movie 3: Revolution OS
Movie 4: Exit Through the Gift Shop
Movie 5: Mission Impossible
Movie 6: Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Movie 7: Orgasm, Inc.
Movie 8: The Thin Blue Line
Movie 9: Chinatown
Movie 10: Toy Story 3
Movie 11: Tangled
Movie 12: Primer
Movie 13: Minority Report
Movie 14: The Thin Red Line
Movie 15: Zodiac
Movie 16: The Broken Tower
Movie 17: Bellflower
Movie 18: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Movie 19: Contagion
Movie 20: Paranormal Activity 3
Movie 21: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Movie 22: The Girl Who Played With Fire
Movie 23: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest
Movie 24: The Workshop
Movie 25: DMT: The Spirit Molecule
Movie 26: Kill List
Movie 27: Naked Ambition: An R-Rated Look at an X-Rated Industry
Movie 28: The Pixar Story
Movie 29: Helvetica
Movie 30: Art & Copy
Movie 31: Tales From the Script
Movie 32: Fire in the Sky


I'm not sure if textbooks or reference books count, but I've included a few. I haven't included literary magazines, of which I've gone through several.

[white dynamite]

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

BOOKS
1. Looking for Alaska
2. Bossy Pants
3. Save the Cat!

[Ashes1396]

Book 2: The old man and the sea.

[Heel]

I dunno how some of you guys do it! 50 movies seems feasible at ~2 hours a piece, but averaging a book a week is going to be tough for me.

Movies:
1. Moneyball
2. Drive
3. Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
4. El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
5. Redline
6. Tron: Legacy

Books:
1. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonneguit
2. Burning Chrome by William Gibson
3. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
4. Neuromancer by William Gibson

By the way, if anyone is looking for a site to keep a list of what movies they've watched, check out ICheckMovies.com. It's the best I've been able to find.

[Max Armstrong]

50 movies out of 300

|01-25|

26. Anchorman
27. Terminator
28. Terminator 2
29. Caged
30. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
31. The Sting
32. Le sens de l'humour
33. Cedar Rapids
34. The Artist
35. Amores Perros
36. A Dangerous Method
37. Take Shelter
38. Bad Teacher
39. Due Date
40. EraserHead
41. The Elephant Man
42. Barton Fink
43. Garden State
44. Airplane!
45. Frisson des Colinnes
46. This is Spinal Tap
47. Blue Velvet
48. Spirited Away
49. Shaun of the Dead
50. My Neighbor Totoro

[Kabouter]

50 movies out of 300 |01-25| 26. Anchorman 27. Terminator 28. Terminator 2 29. Caged 30. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 31. The Sting 32. Le sens de l'humour 33. Cedar Rapids 34. The Artist 35. Amores Perros 36. A Dangerous Method 37. Take Shelter 38. Bad Teacher 39. Due Date 40. EraserHead 41. The Elephant Man 42. Barton Fink 43. Garden State 44. Airplane! 45. Frisson des Colinnes 46. This is Spinal Tap 47. Blue Velvet 48. Spirited Away 49. Shaun of the Dead 50. My Neighbor Totoro

You really saw all those for the first time? Surprised you hadn't seen movies like Airplane! and Terminator 1/2 before.