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50 books. 50 movies. 2015. (Follow Format in OP!)

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lt519

Member
I'm in on this although I don't think I'll reach 50 books without drastically changing my hobbies so I may just challenge myself to 5200 pages.

lt519 - 31/50 books | 40/50 movies​

Movies:
1. Despicable Me (9/10) (Jan 2)
2. Despicable Me 2 (9/10) (Jan 3)
3. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (7/10) (Jan 17)
4. The Giver (5/10) (Jan 17)
5. Gone Girl (9/10) (Jan 17)
6. The Interview (5/10) (Feb 22)
7. Big Hero 6 (9/10) (Feb 28)
8. Hercules (6/10) (Mar 2)
9. Wild (7/10) (Mar 21)
10. Gomorrah (9/10) (Mar 23)
11. The Lego Movie (10/10) (Apr 2) --watched this for like the 5th time
12. Ride Along (4/10) (Apr 2) --HBOs finest in a hotel
13. The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies (9/10) (Apr 4)
14. The Maze Runner (5/10) (May 16)
15. Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (8/10) (May 16)
16. Kingsmen: The Secret Service (9/10) (May 16)
17. Mad Max: Fury Road (10/10) (May 22)
18. Jurassic World (8/10) (June 25)
19. Starred Up (9/10) (July 4)
20. Captain America: The First Avenger (4/10) (July 11)
21. Immortals (5/10) (July 11)
22. Chappie (7/10) (July 20)
23. Ex Machina (9.5/10) (July 26)
24. The Equalizer (4/10) (August 2)
25. Montage of Heck (10/10) (September 23)
26. The Martian (9/10) (October 16)
27. Unbroken (5/10) (October 24)
28. Halloween (7/10) (October 31)
29. The Shining (9/10) (October 31)
30. Inside Out (10/10) (November 9)
31. Minions (6/10) (November 29)
32. Ant Man (8/10) (December 13)
33. Nightcrawler (9/10) (December 18)
34. Blade Runner (8/10) (December 20)
35. A Very Murray Christmas (3/10) (December 21)
36. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (10/10) (December 26)
37. Happy Gilmore (9/10) (December 26)
38. Star Trek: Into Darkness (8/10) (December 26)
39. Maze Runner: Scorch Trials (6/10) (December 28)
40. Insurgent (4/10) (December 29)

Books: 9455 Total Pages
1. City of Stairs (7.5/10) (Jan 30) -- 464 Pages
2. David and Goliath (9/10) (Feb 8) -- 332 Pages
3. Atlantis Gene (8/10) (Feb 14) -- 489 Pages
4. Atlantis Plague (8/10) (Mar 2) -- 441 Pages
5. Atlantis World (8/10) (Mar 9) -- 355 Pages
6. Starship Troopers (8.5/10) (Mar 20) -- 292 Pages
7. Half Way Home (6/10) (June 1) -- 368 Pages
8. Old Man's War (9/10) (June 8) -- 332 Pages
9. Ghost Brigades (8/10) (June 15) -- 356 Pages
10. The Last Colony (8/10) (June 21) -- 340 Pages
11. Zoe's Tale (7/10) (June 29) -- 420 Pages
12. Armor (10/10) (July 5) -- 432 Pages
13. What the Dog Saw (7/10) (July 5) -- 444 Pages
14. Beacon 23: Little Noises (7/10) (July 9) -- 20 Pages
15. The Box (5/10) (July 10) -- 15 Pages
16. Beacon 23: Pet Rocks (9/10) (July 21) -- 29 Pages
17. Armada (6/10) (August 2) -- 370 Pages
18. Beacon 23: Bounty (8/10) (August 3) -- 38 Pages
19. Beacon 23: Company (9/10) (August 4) -- 42 Pages
20. Beacon 23: Visitor (10/10) (August 17) -- 34 Pages
21. The Human Division (8/10) (August 30) -- 432 Pages
22. The End of All Things (10/10) (September 2) -- 381 Pages
23. Agent to the Stars (6/10) (September 25) -- 370 Pages
24. Terms of Enlistment (9/10) (October 8) -- 347 Pages
25. Lines of Departure (8/10) (October 18) -- 329 Pages
26. Angles of Attack (7/10) (October 28) -- 352 Pages
27. Lucky Thirteen (9/10) (October 29) -- 14 Pages
28. Measures of Absolution (3/10) -- 64 Pages
29. Off to be the Wizard (4/10) (November 17) -- 387 Pages
30. Leviathan Wakes (9/10) (December 5) -- 583 Pages
31. Caliban's War (9/10) (December 18) -- 583 Pages
Unfinished: Liar's Poker, Dune Messiah, Neuromancer, Hyperion
 
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Cryxo93

Banned
Might as well give this year a good go. There are way to many books in my back catalogue.

Cryxo93 - 3/50 books | 4/50 movies

Books
  1. Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity - Marc Auge 4/5
  2. Ruins - Brian Dillon 4/5
  3. Utopia - Richard Noble 3.5/5
Movies
  1. Locke 4/5
  2. The Birdcage 3/5
  3. Nightcrawler 4.5/5
  4. Frank 4.5/5
 
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Foofaraw

Member
Foofaraw - 2/50 Books | 6/50 Movies​

Books


  1. Blood Rites by Jim Butcher (Dresden Files Book # 6)
  2. Dead Beat by Jim Butcher (Dresden Files Book #7)
    Currently Reading: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman and Critical Care Nursing Made Incredibly Easy
Movies

  1. The Lego Movie
  2. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
  3. I, Frankenstein
  4. Into the Abyss
  5. Snowpiercer
  6. Galaxy Quest
 
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SleazyC

Member
What the hell, I failed this last year (got about 39 books in and stopped keeping track of movies). Going to smash it this year...

SleazyC - 40/50 Books | 8/50 Movies​

Books

  1. The Thousand Names (Shadow Campaign Book #1) [01.01.15] ★★★★
  2. The Shadow Throne (Shadow Campaign Book #2) [01.02.15] ★★★★
  3. Station Eleven [01.05.14] ★★★★★
  4. Firefight (Reckoners #2) [01.09.15] ★★★ ½
  5. Leviathan Wakes (Expanse #1) [01.16.15] ★★★★
  6. Caliban's War (Expanse #2) [01.18.15] ★★★★
  7. Abaddon's Gate (Expanse #3) [01.25.15] ★★★★
  8. Golden Son (Red Rising #2) [02.07.15] ★★★★★
  9. The Autumn Republic (Powder Mage #3) [02.12.15] ★★★★
  10. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq [02.24.15] ★★★ ½
  11. Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0 #1) [02.28.15] ★★★★
  12. Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0 #2) [03.03.15] ★★★★
  13. An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0 #3) [03.06.15] ★★★ ½
  14. Ex-Heroes (Ex-Heroes, #1) [03.12.15] ★★★★
  15. Ex-Patriots (Ex-Heroes, #2) [03.13.15] ★★
  16. Ex-Communication (Ex-Heroes, #3) [03.14.15] ★★
  17. Ex-Purgatory (Ex-Heroes, #4) [03.16.15] ★★
  18. The Providence of Fire (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #2) [03.20.15] ★★★★
  19. American Sniper [03.20.15] ★★★
  20. Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader [04.12.15] ★★★★
  21. Half Wild (The Half Bad Trilogy, #2) [04.15.15] ★★★★
  22. Symbiont (Parasitology, #2) [04.17.15] ★★★
  23. The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle #2.5) [04.29.15] ★★★★
  24. Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2) [05.09.15] ★★★
  25. Angles of Attack (Frontlines #3) [05.10.15] ★★★
  26. The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1) [05.15.15] ★★★
  27. The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2) [05.17.15] ★★★
  28. The Daylight War (Demon Cycle, #3) [05.24.15] ★★★★
  29. The Skull Throne (Demon Cycle, #4) [05.27.15] ★★★★★
  30. Seveneves [05.28.15] ★★★★
  31. A Darker Shade of Magic (A Darker Shade of Magic, #1) [06.02.15] ★★★★
  32. Starship Troopers [06.13.15] ★★★★
  33. Dawn of Wonder (The Wakening, #1) [06.15.15] ★★★★
  34. Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus [06.18.15] ★★★★
  35. Elon Musk: Inventing the Future [06.18.15] ★★★★
  36. Nemesis Games (Expanse #5) [06.22.15]★★★★
  37. The Last Wish (The Witcher #1) [06.25.15] ★★★★
  38. Sword of Destiny (The Witcher #2) [07.05.15]] ★★★★
  39. Queen of Fire (Raven's Shadow #3) [07.12.15] ★★★
  40. Armada [07.18.15] ★

Movies

  1. The Interview [01.02.15] ★★★ ½
  2. Frank [01.05.15] ★★★★★
  3. The Equalizer [01.06.15] ★★
  4. John Wick [01.15.15] ★★★ ½
  5. Fury [01.16.15] ★★
  6. Nightcrawler [01.31.15] ★★★★★
  7. Foxcatcher [02.12.15] ★★★ ½
  8. Whiplash [02.12.15] ★★★★★
 
J

Jungleland

Neo Member
Jungleland - 51/50 Books | 51/50 Movies

Books

  1. Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott - ★★★★
  2. Sandman (Volumes 1-5) - Neil Gaiman - ★★★★½
  3. Sandman (Volumes 6-10) - Neil Gaiman - ★★★★½
  4. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman - ★★★★
  5. Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson - ★★★★
  6. Yes Please - Amy Poehler - ★★★
  7. Food: A Love Story - Jim Gaffigan - ★★★½
  8. A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson - ★★★
  9. Dad is Fat - Jim Gaffigan - ★★★
  10. How I Became a Famous Novelist - Steve Hely - ★★★★
  11. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett - ★★★★
  12. Leavin' Trunk Blues - Ace Atkins - ★★★
  13. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom - ★★★
  14. The Downhill Lie - Carl Hiaasen - ★★★
  15. Dark End of the Street - Ace Atkins - ★★★
  16. Stardust - Neil Gaiman - ★★★½
  17. The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls - ★★★★
  18. On Tennis: Five Essays - David Foster Wallace - ★★★★
  19. Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself - David Lipskey - ★★★
  20. Mr. Mercedes - Stephen King - ★★★
  21. Finders Keepers - Stephen King - ★★★½
  22. Ready Player One- Ernest Cline - ★★★★
  23. The Big Miss - Hank Haney - ★★½
  24. Silver Screen Fiend - Patton Oswalt - ★★★
  25. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M Cain - ★★★★½
  26. In The Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick - ★★★½
  27. How to Talk to a Widower - Jonathan Tropper - ★★★★
  28. Dirty South - Ace Atkins - ★★½
  29. Animal Farm - George Orwell - ★★★★
  30. Who I Am- Pete Townshend - ★★★½
  31. Sh*t My Dad Says - Justin Halpern - ★★★
  32. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk - Ben Fountain - ★★★½
  33. Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die - Willie Nelson - ★★½
  34. Ten Years in the Tub - Nick Hornby - ★★★★
  35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - ★★★½
  36. Black Chalk - Christopher J. Yates - ★★½
  37. The Martian - Andy Weir - ★★★★
  38. The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros - ★★★
  39. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride - Cary Elwes - ★★★★
  40. Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie - ★★★½
  41. How to be Alone - Jonathan Franzen - ★★★
  42. Flash Boys - Michael Lewis - ★★★★
  43. Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman - ★★★
  44. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway - ★★★★
  45. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - ★★★★
  46. Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates- ★★★★½
  47. Do the Work - Steven Pressfield - ★★★
  48. Train Dreams - Denis Johnson - ★★★★
  49. Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson - ★★★½
  50. When I Stop Talking You'll Know I'm Dead - Jerry Weintraub - ★★★½
  51. The Friends of Eddie Coyle - George V. Higgins - ★★★★½

Movies

  1. The Imitation Game - ★★★★
  2. Neighbors- ★★
  3. John Wick - ★★½
  4. The Theory of Everything - ★★★½
  5. Birdman- ★★★★
  6. Still Alice - ★★★
  7. American Sniper - ★★★
  8. Citizenfour - ★★★
  9. Life Itself - ★★★
  10. The Lego Movie - ★★★½
  11. Clear History - ★★½
  12. Wild - ★★★
  13. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - ★★★
  14. A Most Voilent Year - ★★★½
  15. Unbroken - ★★½
  16. Kingsman: The Secret Service - ★★★
  17. Mad Max: Fury Road - ★★★★
  18. Stardust- ★★★
  19. Side by Side - ★★★½
  20. Whiplash - ★★★★½
  21. Taken 3 - ★
  22. The Descendants- ★★★★
  23. How to Train Your Dragon 2 - ★★★½
  24. Jurassic World - ★★★
  25. Ex Machina - ★★★★
  26. Interstellar - ★★★★
  27. Ant-Man - ★★★½
  28. Trainwreck - ★★★
  29. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - ★★★½
  30. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room - ★★★½
  31. About Time - ★★½
  32. Nightcrawler - ★★★★
  33. Spy - ★★★
  34. Avenger: Age of Ultron - ★★★½
  35. The Armstrong Lie - ★★★
  36. Inside Out - ★★★★
  37. The Martian - ★★★½
  38. Amy- ★★★★
  39. Spectre- ★★★
  40. The Nightmare Before Christmas - ★★★
  41. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - ★★½
  42. The Gift - ★★★
  43. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief - ★★★★
  44. Oz: The Great and Powerful - ★★½
  45. Terminator Genisys - ★★½
  46. The End of the Tour - ★★★
  47. The Ties that Bind - ★★★
  48. Rush - ★★★★
  49. Fast & Furious 7 - ★★★
  50. Lucy - ★½
  51. Star Wars: The Force Awakens - ★★★★

 
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RevoDS

Junior Member
I've finally gotten into the habit of reading regularly a few months ago, so I'll be trying for real this year. The real challenge I'm tackling is the books, but hey, I might do the movies too...two books down.

RevoDS - 7/50 Books | 10/50 Movies
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Books
1.Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
2.SuperFreakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
3. A mind for numbers - Barbara Oakley
4.Think like a Freak - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
5.Emotional Intelligence 2.0 - Travis Bradburry and Jean Greaves
6.100 things every designer needs to know about people - Susan M. Weinschenk
7. What to say when you talk to yourself - Shad Helmstetter

Movies
1.Side Effects (2013)
2.Lucy (2014)
3.Office Space (1999)
4.Anchorman - the legend of Ron Burgundy (2003)
5.Anchorman 2 - The legend continues (2013)
6.Secretary (2002)
7.The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014)
8.Focus (2015)
9.The Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
10.Tomorrowland (2015)
 
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Madn

Member
Madn – 15/50 Books | 21/50 Movies

Books:

1) Angel's Ink by Jocelynn Drake 4/5
2) Terra! by Stefano Benni 4/5
3) Second Paradigm by Peter J. Wacks 4/5
4) Whack Job by Mike Baron 4/5
5) The Godmakers by Frank Herbert 5/5
6) Lifeline by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason 3/5
7) L'Ombra della Profezia by George R.R. Martin 5/5
8) I Guerrrieri del Ghiaccio by George R.R. Martin 4/5
9) I Fuochi di Valyria by George R.R. Martin 4/5
10) La Danza dei Draghi by George R.R. Martin 4/5
11) Temps Glaciaires by Fred Vargas 4/5
12) The Way Into Chaos by Harry Connolly 3/5
13) The Way Into Magic by Harry Connolly 4/5
14) The Way Into Darkness by Harry Connolly 5/5
15) Hollow World by Michael J. Sullivan 4/5

Movies:

1) American Sniper 3/5
2) Saving Private Ryan 5/5
3) Big Eyes 5/5
4) Martyrs 3/5
5) Il ragazzo invisibile 5/5
6) Jupiter Ascending 4/5
7) Selma 3/5
8) Noi e la Giulia 5/5
9) Avengers: Age Of Ultron 3/5
10) Home 2/5
11) La grande bellezza 4/5
12) La Famille Bélier 5/5
13) Nightcrawler 4/5
14) The Grand Budapest Hotel 5/5
15) Big Hero 6 4/5
16) Gone Girl 5/5
17) The Smash Brothers 5/5
18) Groundhog Day 4/5
19) Ant-Man 3/5
20) Along came Polly 4/5
21) Inside Out 5/5
 
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MikeyB

Member
MikeyB - 1/50 books | 3/50 movies

Books:
Hard Choices - Jerry Buckland

Movies:
A Time for Love
The One I Love
Cloud Atlas
 
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The Outsider

Member
Finished my first book!

I know reading is going to be the toughest part of this challenge. If I can even get to 25 for the year (2 per month on average), I'd be pretty happy.

Not worried about the movies at all. I watch waaaay too many movies.
 
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Tragicomedy

Member
The Outsider said:
Finished my first book!

I know reading is going to be the toughest part of this challenge. If I can even get to 25 for the year (2 per month on average), I'd be pretty happy.

Not worried about the movies at all. I watch waaaay too many movies.
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Congrats! The ultimate goal is obviously to finish the challenge, but even reading 25 books in one year would be extremely impressive.

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101% of Americans are accounted for in this poll data, so it must be true! :)

And you are the bizarro me. I've read six books so far this year and have watched no movies. Looks like a repeat of 2013 unless I get my butt in gear.
 
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FullMetaltech

Member
My first time doing this so here goes.
FullMetalTech - 2/50 books | 4/50 movies

Books
  1. The Wolf in Winter - John Connelly
  2. Mr. Mercedes - Stephen King
Movies
  1. The Reightous Thief (Korean on Netfix)
  2. Confessions of Murder (Netfix)
  3. The Interview
  4. Big Hero 6
 
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Tragicomedy

Member
Just a quick note to make Pau's life easier. The best thing you can do for the OP in this thread is to maintain one master tracking post that you edit as the year progresses, that way she can just check one place for your update.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't talk about what new stuff you are reading or watching, but reference or linking back to your original post is ideal.
 
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kinoki

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Tragicomedy said:
Just a quick note to make Pau's life easier. The best thing you can do for the OP in this thread is to maintain one master tracking post that you edit as the year progresses, that way she can just check one place for your update.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't talk about what new stuff you are reading or watching, but reference or linking back to your original post is ideal.
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I remember my first year of the growing list. It got so cumbersome to edit every week. Now I just sit down on sunday morning before my girlfriend wakes up and write a new post with the progress and then update the main post. Any additional movie or books I happen to have watched or read during the day gets added on before I go to bed.
 
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richardhawk

Member
I always say I'm going to do this when I see these threads come up. Finally gonna dive in.

RichardHawk - 0/50 Books 2/50 Movies


Books:



Movies:
1. American Sniper ; 3/5
2. Blue Ruin ; 4/5
 
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Deleted member 98878

Unconfirmed Member
Flips360 - 16/50 books | 18/50 movies

Books:
01. Uldart - Die Zeit des Neuen 3 by Markus Heitz - 5 Jan
02. Das Lied von Eis und Feuer: Die Königin der Drachen by George R. R. Martin - 16 Jan
03. Das Lied von Eis und Feuer: Zeit der Krähen by George R. R. Martin - 2 Feb
04. Das Lied von Eis und Feuer: Die dunkle Königin by Geroge R.R. Martin - 15 Feb
05. Das Lied von Eis und Feuer: Der Sohn des Greifen by George R.R. Martin - 24 Feb
06. Das Lied von Eis und Feuer: Ein Tanz mit Drachen by George R.R. Martin - 1 March
07. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Chris Clark - 4 March
08. Er ist wieder da by Timur Vermes - 6 March
09. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - 8 March
10. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins - 12 March
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - 16 March
12. Tales of the Greek Heroes by Roger Lancelyn Green - 21 March
13. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green - 10 April
14. Ghettoside: A Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy - 21 April
15. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides - 28 April
16. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins - 9 May​

Movies:
01. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) - 1 Jan
02. The Interview (2014) - 3 Jan
03. Snowpiercer (2013) - 5 Jan
04. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011) - 8 Jan
05. American Sniper (2014) - 9 Jan
06. The Imitation Game (2014) - 10 Jan
07. The Drop (2014) - 13 Jan
08. Dumb and Dumber To (2014) - 14 Jan
09. Birdman (2014) - 15 Jan
10. Taken 2 (2012) - 25 Jan
11. Taken 3 (2014) - 16 Feb
12. RoboCop (2014) - 26 Feb
13. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014) - 28 Feb
14. Escape from L.A. (1996) - 8 March
15. Big Hero 6 (2014) - 10 March
16. Wreck-It Ralph (2012) - 13 March
17. 3-Iron (2004) - 8 May
18. Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) - 19 May​


Bonus

TV:
01. Fargo (Season 1) - 6 Jan
02. Hannibal (Season 1) - 15 Jan
03. Game of Thrones (Season 4) - 21 Jan [rewatch]
04. Hannibal (Season 2) - 19 Feb
05. House of Cards (Season 2) - 3 March
06. The 100 (Season 1) - 14 March
07. House of Cards (Season 3) - 26 March
08. Better Call Saul (Season 1) - 14 April
09. Gotham (Season 1) - 10 May​
 
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Beeblebrox

Member
First update for the year! And man, how I wish I didn't waste 2 hours of my life watching Lucy. I can and I do enjoy silly premises and flawed stories in games and movies (I really liked Prometheus for example, despite its problems), but Lucy was just plain bad and stupid and awful... I went in expecting brainless action flick which plays with the theory that "humans only use 10-15% of their brains, imagine what would happen if we used 100%!", but man, this was nonsensical, not fun... yeah, I think I won't bother with Luc Besson's movies ever again.

Anyways, master list update:

Beeblebrox - 0/50 books | 1/50 movies
 
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pete_townshend

Banned
pete_townshend - 00/50 Books | 04/50 Movies
Books:

Movies:
1. Pacific Rim ★★★
2. Life is Sweet ★★★½
3. The Trip to Italy ★★★½
4. Eyes Without a Face ★★½
 
K

kinoki

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Writing an essay and being without internet for the larger part of the week put a dent in my movie watching. I did manage to finish some books, though.

kinoki - 2 books | 6 movies

Books
  • Red Dragon (1981), Thomas Harris - ★★★ - Having watched both seasons of Hannibal last year I was interested in seeing how the books held up. Red Dragon is good but since 1981 we've seen detectives come and go. Murder mysteries have been serialised and Hannibal and Tooth Fairy are now as shocking as prime time TV. The lack of female characters and an ending that comes together a little too practical brings it down a notch.
  • Spår av passager (2014), Dan Lindfors - ★★★ - A colleague at work published his first book last year. It is his debut novel and there's a lot of places he could improve I still think it's a good book. It's entertaining and was fun reading something from someone I know first hand.

Movies

  • Not this week...
 
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Trey

Member
Trey - books 8/50 | movies 40/50​

Movies

  1. Selma
  2. Return to Paradise
  3. Player's Club
  4. Grand Budapest Hotel
  5. Cast Away
  6. Batman Forever
  7. Dear White People
  8. Birdman
  9. Rain Man
  10. Enemy of State
  11. Kingsman
  12. Starter for 10
  13. Aliens
  14. Aviator
  15. Focus
  16. Dallas Buyer's Club
  17. Robocop (2014)
  18. The Devil's Advocate
  19. Hannibal
  20. Under the Skin
  21. Purge: Anarchy
  22. Bounce
  23. Children of Men
  24. Ex Machina
  25. Avengers: Age of Ultron
  26. MAD MAX: Fury Road
  27. Crank
  28. Boyhood
  29. Inside Out
  30. Jurassic World
  31. Beyond the Lights
  32. Hot Fuzz
  33. Boomerang
  34. The Warriors
  35. The Wood
  36. The Counselor
  37. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
  38. Chasing Amy
  39. Contact
  40. Horrible Bosses 2
Books

  1. Flowers for Algernon
  2. Starship Troopers
  3. Across the Universe
  4. The Forever War
  5. The Martian
  6. More Than Human
  7. Is Bill Cosby Right?
  8. Broken Circle
 
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Westlo

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Gonna try this again this year, only watched 2 movies and read 1 book last year, I blame football manager.... got a lot of books I've ordered the last few years I need to read..

Westlo - 5/50 Books | 2/50 Movies

Books

  • Magician: Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga, #1) ★★★½
    The Black Prism (Lightbringer, #1) ★★★★
    The Blinding Knife (Lightbringer, #2) ★★★★½
    The Broken Eye (Lightbringer, #3) ★★★★
    Magician: Master (The Riftwar Saga, #2) ★★★½
Movies

  • Edge of Tomorrow ★★★★
    The Blind Side ★★★½
 
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Viridian6

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Viridian6 - 2/50 Books | 20/50 Movies​

Books

1. A Dance with Dragons - George R R Martin - 10 Jan, ★★½
2. The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell - 30 Dec, ★★★★½

Movies

1. Ah Boys to Men 3: Frogmen - 27 Feb, ★★★
2. Kingsmen: The Secret Service - 10 Mar, ★★★★½
3. Chappie - 12 Mar ★★★½
4. The Grand Budapest Hotel - 28 Mar, ★★★½
5. Inside Job - 11 Apr ★★★
6. Avengers: Age of Ultron - 1 May ★★★½
7. The Book of Life - 16 May ★★★
8. Big Hero 6 - 28 May ★★★½
9. Birdman - 28 May ★★★½
10. Jurassic World - 14 June ★★★
11. Ant-Man - 30 July ★★★★
12. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation - 7 Aug ★★★½
13. Mr. Holmes - 27 Aug ★★★½
14. Inside Out - 29 Aug ★★★★
15. Mad Max: Fury Road - 18 Oct ★★★½
16. Spectre - 14 Nov ★★★
17. Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper - 12 Dec ★★★½
18. Hitman: Agent 47 - 12 Dec ★★
19. Back to the Future - 13 Dec ★★★★
20. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - 18 Dec ★★★★
 
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Christoff Yurievich

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Also updated the original post.

allegate - 4/50 Books 5/50 Movies

Books
1. Untimed: a Time Travel Adventure (Rules of the Regulator Book 1) - Andy Gavin Jan 2nd, 3.5/5
2. Wool: The Graphic Novel - Hugh Howey Jan 5th, 4/5
3. Rudolph!: He Is the Reason for the Season - Mark Teppo Jan 9th, 4/5
4. Baron: The Cat Returns - Aoi Hiiragi, Jan 10th, 4/5
5.

Movies
1. Up, Jan 1st, 4.5/5
2. A Bug's Life, Jan 1st, 4/5
3. Guardians of the Galaxy, Jan 1st, 4.5/5
4. The Incredibles, Jan 1st, 4.5/5
5. The Cat Returns, Jan 9th, 4/5
6.

Read and watched The Cat Returns over the weekend. I didn't mean to, I came home and my wife had picked the movie up from the library so we could watch it and my son had grabbed the book at the same time. So that was weird, reading it after I watched it. It was also weird reading it as it was the first time I've read a manga so the right to left thing took some getting used to.
 
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Beeblebrox

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Beeblebrox - 0/50 books | 2/50 movies

I should have waited with my first update, so I could add Dredd to my list of movies, but here I am... Anyways, it was pretty good. After getting disappointed with Lucy last night, it was so nice to watch something like this. Dredd and Anderson were great duo, Ma-Ma was also a nice surprise (I love Lena Headey!), and action was punchy and meaty just enough. I'll probably rewatch it some time soon, and while I'm at it, I could rewatch original Die Hard and The Raid. Any other (preferably good) action movies with guy/girl trapped in a building where they have to survive day/night?

Also, should we
our overall challenge progression in update posts, or just in the master list?​
 
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Tragicomedy

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I must be the only Gaffer who thought Dredd was hot garbage. There's basically zero story there, and the director covered up weak scene framing and cinematography with buckets of blood and guts. I couldn't think of a single redeemable thing about the movie, and only forced myself to finish it so I could +1 last year's challenge count.

Give me The Raid 2, or hell, John Wick (also simple storyline, but far more fleshed out characters). Both were more interesting and stylistic action movies.
 
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Freeza Under The Shower

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Freeza Under The Shower - 5/50 books | 91/50 movies | 5 shows

Books:

1. Short stories that I will count as one book: Wool, and I have No Mouth And I Must Scream. That was fun. :)
2. Story by Robert McKee (1999). Extremely helpful in getting down to writing structure.
3. Snoop (2008). Not as insightful as I had hoped, as basically the only semi-good predictor of personality is 'what's in the bookcase', with personal websites giving the best chances at a correct guess. The correctness is determined by self-reported scores though, so it's unclear to what extent this measures ecology instead of psychology.
4. Papierverwerkende industrie (2009).
5. Superfreakonomics (2009). The less said about this the better.

Movies:

1. Big Hero 6 (turd)
2. Hobbit 3 (turd)
3. Birdman (excellent!)
4. Tintin (holy sheeet is this movie insane. Zhou wasn't kidding)
5. Safety Not Guaranteed (nice, though it cheapens the ending a bit. I also felt the main character was written to be male, with the whole Star Wars thing)
6. Hotel Transylvania (bleh. Bleh bleh. Felt restrained for some reason)
7. Legend (never saw it in full, but that early Ridley Scott insane amount of details is there. The doll scene in Blade Runner is exceptional in this regard though. It's strange to see how patient Scott was back then, allowing an insane amount of detail to carry the viewer's attention instead to pay them off with some spectacle. The walk-through-glass in particular combined with the oner just before it still holds up very well. As does Alien, of course. Legend is no different in that regard, with the dance scene and 'the kitchen' . The Grey does show that same patience though, not too eager to jump to 'the next action' like most people would. )
8. Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the federation (basically cheap body horror based on an idea from Roughnecks, but it's not altogether unserviceable. It has nothing to do with the novel though)
9. Jupiter Ascending. Damn shame they choose cinderella as their entry into a Dune-like universe. It's kind of a mess, but it's not for lack of trying. I do want an entire movie of 'the Kunis family' though. Those scenes are charming and worth it, but the 'House Artreides' stuff just doesn't pan out the way it should. As said, this movie hinders its own story by its narration perspective. This could have used a merciless editor, but damn if they didn't try to make this a spectacle. Also: the ship you see within the first ten minutes just screams Warhammer 40k to me.
10. Red Planet (2000). Somehow I had never seen this movie. Like pretty much all movies involving Mars it's kind of a mess, but I have to say that it feels 'better' than the average of its day and age. I mean, it doesn -kind of- try to keep its science self-consistent, where 'the other Mars movie' by Palma didn't as far as I remember. Somehow however, this movie bombed hard and that movie did even.
11. Mission to Mars. Yup, still a turd
12. Heat (1995). Holy hell, this shit ERUPTS.
13. Logan's Run (1976). Somehow missed this one. It was solid. All I could think off with the soundtrack was "MASS EFFECT" though. Man, that is just never going to stop hurting isn't it...
14. Silent Running (1972). It's official. I do not know my genre of choice, apparently. I had not seen this one either, but I've seen that ship design EVERYWHERE.
15. Forbidden Planet (1956). A dashing young Leslie Nielsen finds himself stranded on a planet with one woman and a horde of horny shipmates. Oh right, and an invisible monster that wants to kill them all. details, details.... fun movie though. Heavy on the exposition (like, really damn heavy), but fun either way. I can see why people liked Robby the Robot so much though.
16. Nightcrawler (2014). See: this post I loved it.
17. No country for old men. I have to admit I don't really 'get' the ending, other than on a superficial level. It probably helps if you know the title came from a poem, but that doesn't really help much.
18. Leviathan (1989). A seemingly expensive rip-off from Alien and The Thing, but it does entertain, even if the direction is messy with ques and such.
19. Of Origin Unknown (1983). The polar opposite of Leviathan: a tight, well made struggle between a '80's yuppy and a rat. Wonderful movie.
20. Debug (2014). Doc McKay from Stargate Atlantis presents: a fairly decent space slasher movie featuring hackers this time. It's a little over-doing it on the special effects and somewhat underwritten(scenes and characters, mostly), but it's serviceable. One rather 'newbie' mistake however, is the names of characters. You should also make sure your character have very different names, so the audience can always tell them apart, particularly in dialogue about another character. Every character in this movie seems to have an a at the end of their name, which makes it hard to tell who is who. And of course character motivations needs more background and less telling, more showing. So basically newbie mistakes, but the integration of effects into the movie is quite good.
21. I completely forgot I watched Avengers 2: Age of Ultron (2015). It's an easy movie to forget about, though not for lack of trying. It just doesn't work as it should.
22. There Will Be Blood (2007). Hmm. Excellent performances, but I find the implied mystic element to be a detriment to my enjoyment of the story.
23. Gone Girl (2014). Good story, but as a film there is a certain disconnect between the novel as a 'dark comedy' and Fincher's usual thriller tone. There is also the evident mismatch between the character of Ben Affleck and him clearly being buff for Batman. It's impossible to ignore that, as well as the cops immediately starting an investigation. That's jumping the gun a bit, and a bit too much 'jump to conclusions' with awkward Law & Order reference as a result. It takes an hour to get down to business, and it is worth it once it gets there, but I feel that the movie could have used a little bit more refinement. For a first screenplay by a novelist it's great though.
24. Ex machina (2015). Good, but perhaps in need of a little refinement to make certain elements more evident. I suppose it's nitpicking though.
25. Chappie (2015). Well this movie is pretty fucking dumb. Very good effects work, but not a lot story meat to it. Also I got tired of the Die Antwoord peeps real fast.
26. Kingsman (2015). Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiird, the entire fucking thing. Amazing. 007 is going to have to work to earn his keep with Kingsman around. Also, you can tell Bradley James Allan did stunt coordination, and that is a very, very good thing.
27. The imitation game (2014). A dramatized account of the Enigma decryption program, focused on Alan Turing. Quite nice and good performances, but it doesn't escape that whole 'propaganda / oscar bait' that these movies tend to have. It's a good movie though.
28. Rollerball (1975). Okay. It's movie about the re-discovery of individuality in a future dystopia, with the game serving as its means to do so, but it fell a little flat. The 'game' scenes themselves are solid though.
29. Network (1976). I can pretty much stop watching movies now, because I think I really have just seen the perfect movie. Prophetic, erudite without shame, awesome performances, and edited without mercy for maximum meaning. THIS is a real movie, for real people. Call it satire all you want, but you will see what I mean when you watch it.
30. The Princess Bride (1987). Hadn't seen this one yet, so all those references were lost on me.
31. something something feminism, in theathers. Neat.
32, Jurassic World. I wish I could say it was good, but it really isn't.
33. Terminator Genisys (2015). Much more entertaining than I expected. Much better than Jurassic World, I would say.
34. There and back again (2015, fan edit of The Hobbit movies). I'm counting this one because it's three hours long and basically creates a 'new' movie, which is basically the 'old' story of The Hobbit. Both awkward in terms of cuts as well as surprisingly better than the actual movies in terms of the titular character.
35. Day of the dead (1985). Eh. Romero's least serviceable movie in the 'dead' series, probably.
36. Altitude (2010). Got tricked by gaf into thinking this was a Lovecraft type movie. It's just a regular teen slasher / shlock movie. Creative in terms of how to drag shit out into scenes, but aside from that curiosity rather boring.
37. Battle for Terra (2007). A little simple CG and stiff narrative, but a good story otherwise.
38. 12 Angry Men (1957). Still relevant.
39. Halloween (1978).
40. THX 1138 (1971; 2004. The original version is apparently better than this 2004 cgi changed version, mainly because the changes don't stop at just backgrounds (which would be harmless).
41. Ant-Man (2015). "nothing's gonna stop us!"
42. Prince of Darkness (1987). eh.
43. The Abyss, special edition (1989). I never saw the whole movie, just bits of it and the ending.
44. Bolt (2008). That was really nice. Surprising selection of voice actors too.
pseudo 45: Paperman (2012, short), per suggestion of VR animation thread.
45. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970). meh.
46. somehow I completely forgot about Dragonball: Resurrection of F (2015).
47. 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968). I'm counting this one because I never really watched the thing from start to finish. I bothered to, to see if I was wrong in not enjoying it. I don't believe I was. It remains very much an art movie, but with a big budget. It's obviously a good thing it exists, and has done good things in terms of its legacy, but as a movie I would not force myself to watch it for fun.
48. Halloween II (1981). Well, that was disappointing. Aside from using some unnecessary tropes ('he's your DUN DUN DUN!' ) there is also some really odd behavior from the director. What I mean by that is that at the start he plays it by the numbers and we get a natural flow of things, and then the editing becomes slower and slower and downright sloppy as the movie progresses.
49. Rear Window (1954). A frame story using one set and windows sounds absurd, but this movie pulls it off. It's great.
50. Halloween 3 (1981). A flawed movie, but a reasonably strong script when the movie finally plays its hand (which is basically by the third act, so it's a long sit to get there). That ending is harsh as shit.
51. Halloween 4 (1988). See recent movies thread.
52. Halloween 5 (1989). Better than 4.
53. Halloween: the curse of Michael Myers (1995).
54. Halloween: H20 (1998)
55. Halloween 6: the producer's cut (this is the other, much better, version of the 1995 movie)
56. Halloween Resurrection (2002)
57. Aladdin (1992)
58. Halloween (2007)
59. Halloween (2009). It's dead, Jim!
60. Lockout (2012). Wubba Lubba Dub Dub!
61. The Fog (1980).
62. Night of the Creeps (1986). Thrill me!
63. Plan 9 from outer space (1959)
64. Ed Wood (1994)
65. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
66. Dawn of the Dead (1978): Extended Mall Hours Uncut. I'm counting this fan-edit the same way as the Hobbit movies edit, since it's a fairly different movie.
67. Return of the Living Dead (1985).
68. Escape Plan (2013).
69. Inside Out (2015).
70. The Dead Zone (1983). Barely had the opening credits started and I suddenly recognized the music that accompanied DBZ Abridged's The Dead Zone. D'oh!
71. Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
72. Planet of the Vampires (1965).
73. The Day of the Triffids (2009)
74. The Man from UNCLE (2015)
75. Scanners (1981)
76. Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964). First half was good, second is pulp unfortunately.
77. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
78. Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
79. kind of late to remember I saw this one this year, but Max Headroom (the 1985 TV movie)
80. Spectre (2015)
81. Night of the Comet (1986)
82. Monsters: Dark Continent (2015).
pseudo 83. Florida Man (2015), a fifty minute documentary that's on vimeo. Strangely mesmerizing.
83. Absolutely Anything (2015). Nice, but somewhat underwhelming as a comedy.
84. Childhood's End part 1 (TV movie, 2015)
85. Childhood's End part 2
86. Childhood's End part 3
87. Call Me Lucky (2015). Really good movie, rough topic to go in-depth with after the comedy part.
88. Twilight (2008). Not as bad as I expected, still disappointingly bad in other areas.
89. Fifty Shades of Grey (2015). A miserable pile of secrets.
90. Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
91. The Martian (2015). Sadly, I was left disappointed.

Shows / seasons:

1. Hannibal
2. Defiance
3. Falling expectations- I mean Skies
4. Dragon Ball - the entire run. Abridged jokes now make more sense. All of them?
5. Dragon Ball Z - entire run over the course of this year, mainly to see how much overlap there is with Abridged.
 
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tmarques

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tmarques - 51/50 books | 89/50 movies​


Books:

1. Three plays by Kobo Abe - Kobo Abe
2. El grupo de petición anticanibalista y los tres caballeros - Kobo Abe
3. Le Grand Michu / Jacques Damour / Angeline - Émile Zola
4. The Wisdom of Eve - Mary Orr
5. Les dangers de l'inconduite - Balzac
6. Le petit Nicolas s'amuse - Sempé & Goscinny
7. Hamlet - W. Shakespeare
8. Sitting Pretty - Clifton Webb
9. Crónica de una Muerte Anunciada - Gabriel García Márquez
10. Phèdre - Jean Racine
11. Le petit Nicolas, c'est Nöel! - Sempé & Goscinny
12. Un coeur simple / La Légende de Saint Julien / Hérodias - Gustave Flaubert
13. Mrs. Warren's Profession - George Bernard Shaw
14. Candida - George Bernard Shaw
15. Le Diable au Corps - Raymond Radiguet
16. Ken / Martyre - Yukio Mishima
17. The Devil's Disciple - G. B. Shaw
18. Man and Superman - G.B. Shaw
19. La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote - Balzac
20. Libro de Sueños - Jorge Luis Borges
21. L'auberge Rouge - Balzac
22. Candide - Voltaire
23. Contes du jour et de la nuit - Maupassant
24. La Complainte de la Sirène / Le Pied de Fumiko - Junichiro Tanizaki
25. Tonto, muerto, bastardo e invisible - JJ Millás
26. Vidas Secas - Graciliano Ramos
27. The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton
28. Z Marcas - Balzac
29. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Can't be bothered to look up who wrote this travesty
30. Le Pont Flottant des Songes - Tanizaki
31. Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
32. Historia de las pulgas que viajaron a la luna y otros cuentos de ficción científica - Kobo Abe
33. Le Faste des Morts - Kenzaburo Oe
34. Adieu - Balzac
35. Tres Sombreros de Copa - Miguel Mihura
36. N or M? - Agatha Christie
37. Knock - Jules Romains
38. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
39. Le Médecin Volant / L'Amour Médecin - Molière
40. Doce Cuentos Peregrinos - Gabriel García Márquez
41. Les bagarres du petit Nicolas - Sempé & Goscinny
42. The man who turned into a stick / The deaf girl / The dog / The dream soldier / The cliff of time - Kobo Abe
43. Justine, ou les malheurs de la vertu - Marquis de Sade
44. On ne badine pas avec l'amour - Musset
45. The Mother's Recompense - Edith Wharton
46. I'd Love to Kiss You... Conversations With Bette Davis - Whitney Stine
47. L'étranger - Albert Camus
48. Confessions of a Mask - Mishima
49. La Femme d'un Autre / Le Mari Sous le Lit - Dostoïevski
50. La Casa de Bernarda Alba - García Lorca
51. Un Royaume de Femmes / De L'amour - Tchekhov
52. El Verdugo / L'élixir de Longue Vie - Balzac
53. Le Horla (1886) / Le Horla (1887) / Lettre d'un Fou - Maupassant

Movies:

1. Sullivan's Travels
2. The Animal Kingdom
3. The Thin Man Goes Home
4. Topper Returns
5. Made for Each Other
6. Seventh Heaven (1937)
7. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
8. Historias Mínimas
9. Mince alors
10. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
11. Les Choristes
12. Keeper of the Flame
13. The Palm Beach Story
14. Mister Scoutmaster
15. The Girl from Misouri
16. The Long, Long Trailer
17. The Third Man
18. Possessed (1931)
19. No Time for Love
20. The Egg and I
21. Séptimo
22. The Heavenly Body
23. Dishonoured Lady
24. The Kennel Murder Case
25. The Killing of Sister George
26. Song of the Thin Man
27. The VIPs
28. Boy's Town
29. How to Steal a Million
30. Yours Mine and Ours (1968)
31. The Harder They Fall
32. The Devil and the Deep
33. Scared Stiff
34. The Man I Love
35. L'avare
36. Vilaine
37. Respire
38. La Corporación
39. I know where I'm going
40. Hedda Gabler (1963?)
41. You Came Along
42. Above Suspicion
43. Topper Takes a Trip
44. One Rainy Afternoon
45. The Major and the Minor
46. Strange Cargo
47. Encore
48. Turn the Key Softly
49. Quartet
50. Trio
51. One Thrilling Night
52. It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
53. The Other Love
54. Death of a Salesman (1951)
55. Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
56. Romance on the Run
57. The 9th Guest
58. Framed
59. Second Honeymoon
60. Three Blind Mice
61. Lonelyhearts
62. The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
63. Dreamboat
64. We're Not Married
65. Tom, Dick and Harry
66. No Time for Comedy
67. Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au bon Dieu?
68. No Highway in the Sky
69. Pitfall
70. Three Girls About Town
71. Call Her Savage
72. Sanctuary
73. Good Girls go to Paris
74. The Amazing Mr. Williams
75. The Secret Heart
76. The Gilded Lily
77. Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters
78. Escape
79. Christmas Eve
80. Roxie Hart
81. The Most Dangerous Game
82. He Married His Wife
83. The Baroness and the Butler
84. Double Harness
85. Love Me Tonight
86. The Unauthorized 90210 Story (No judging)
87. Safe in Hell
88. Hors les Murs
89. Solo
90. Letter of Introduction
 
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pete_townshend

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pete_townshend - 00/50 Books | 05/50 Movies
Books:

Movies:
1. Pacific Rim ★★★
2. Life is Sweet ★★★½
3. The Trip to Italy ★★★½
4. Eyes Without a Face ★★½
5. 30 for 30: The U Part 2 ★★★
 
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Forsaken82

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Zeitgeister said:
Go watch the '90s version and then come back, criminal scum.
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I feel like the Stallone Judge Dredd gets to much shit (or im just the only person that actually tolerated it). Sure... it had Rob Schneider... and didn't stay that true to the source... but it had pretty good production values and that Alan Silvestri score is pretty awesome. I felt like Dredd suffered a bit much from its small budget. Dredd could have been a much better film with the budget of the original.
 
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Gastone

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I don't read alot, but i'll give it a go.
Movies, on the other hand...

Books


Movies
1.The Guest (3/5)
2.Gone Girl (5/5)
3.Dumber and Dumber To (2/5)
4.Fury (3/5)
5.Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (4/5)
6.Blue Ruin (3/5)
7.John Wick (4/5)
8.What we do in the shadows (3/5)
9.The Drop (3/5)
10.American Sniper (4/5)
11.Whiplash (4/5)
12.Nightcrawler (3.5/5)
13.Foxcather (2/5)
14.Birdman (4.5/5)
15.The Theory of Everything (4/5)
16.Trash (3.5/5)
17.Big Hero 6 (3/5)
18.St.Vincent (3.5/5)
19. Regarding Henry (2.5/5)
20. The Hobbit : Battle of the five armies (2.5/5)
21. The Tale of Princess Kaguya (4/5)
 
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sestrugen

Member
I will partake in this again, I am not going to delude myself into thinking I will read 50 books during this year, if I can reach 10% of the book goal I'll be content, movies should not be a problem.



sestrugen - 1/5 Books 13/50 Movies

Books
1. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Movies

1. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies ★★
2. Nightcrawler ★★★
3. The Interview ★★★
4. The Theory of Everything ★★★★
5. Begin Again ★★
6. Penguins of Madagascar ★★
7. Birdman ★★ ★
8. The Unbelievers
9. Europa Report ★★
10. 50 Shades of Grey ★
11. The Imitation Game ★★
12. American Sniper ★
13. Furious 7 ★★
 
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Freeza Under The Shower

Member
Forsaken82 said:
I feel like the Stallone Judge Dredd gets to much shit (or im just the only person that actually tolerated it). Sure... it had Rob Schneider... and didn't stay that true to the source... but it had pretty good production values and that Alan Silvestri score is pretty awesome. I felt like Dredd suffered a bit much from its small budget. Dredd could have been a much better film with the budget of the original.
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maybe. But the issue is more that they had all those neat gadgets with the gun, and they never used them outside of the opening. The newer one used them all in actual combat / plot situations, creating that much needed reality effect while doing so. Including "wait" as dialogue. That entire section was a result of everything we as viewers know up till that point and flowed naturally from A to B, whereas most action movies (marvel...) just make stuff up to further the non-existent story.
To me it was an excellent reboot. I don't expect every movie to be the next greatest artistic achievement, but I do expect them to play by their own rules and the setting they have created. The '90's one is a huuuuuumongous turd in contrast, and compared to the other Marvel movies, Dredd is the best written of the bunch. Though I have to admit Guardians worked well too, probably because it wasn't meant to.
 
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pete_townshend

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pete_townshend - 01/50 Books | 05/50 Movies

Books:
1. Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times ★★★

Movies:
1. Pacific Rim ★★★
2. Life is Sweet ★★★½
3. The Trip to Italy ★★★½
4. Eyes Without a Face ★★½
5. 30 for 30: The U Part 2 ★★★
 
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daripad

Member
Ok, I'll try this even though I'll get far from the goal, but it is still worth giving it a chance.

daripad - 3/50 books | 3/50 movies

Books:
1. The Front Runner
2. Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
3. The Fight Club


Movies:
1. Exodus
2. Carrie
3. Fury
4. Ouija
 
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
RatskyWatsky - 8/50 Books | 71/50 Movies


Books - 8/50

Southern Bastards Volumes 1 & 2 (Jason Aaron, Jason LaTour)
Lost at Sea (Bryan Lee O'Malley)
Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister: My Lively Life in and Out of Hollywood (Evelyn Keyes)
Howl's Moving Castle (Diana Wynne Jones)
Seconds (Bryan Lee O'Malley)
The Walking Dead Volumes 23 & 24 (Robert Kirkman, Dave Steward, Charlie Adlard)
Scalped Deluxe Volume 1 (Jason Aaron, R.M. Guera)
East of West The Apocalypse: Year One (Nick Dragotta, Jonathan Hickman)


Movies - 71/50

~ January ~
Scream (1996)
Barbarella (1968)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
Ida (2013)
In Bruges (2008)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Fantasia (1940)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Chico & Rita (2010)
Fantasia 2000 (2000)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Moonstruck (1987)
Armour of God II: Operation Condor (1991)
Armour of God (1986)
Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992)
~ February ~
Boyhood (2014)
Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Big Hero 6 (2014)
~ March ~
Dragon Lord (1982)
Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (2013)
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
Virunga (2014)
I Know That Voice (2013)
I am Divine (2013)
Scream 2 (1997)
Redline (2009)
Dead Leaves (2004)
~ April ~
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
Strictly Ballroom (1992)
~ May ~
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
9 to 5 (1980)
Miss Representation (2011)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
~ June ~
Jurassic World (2015)
Inside Out (2015)
Léon: The Professional (1994)
~ July ~
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2011)
Dear Murderer (1947)
Song of the Sea (2014)
The Boxtrolls (2014)
Ernest & Celestine (2012)
A Letter to Momo (2011)
~ August ~
The Rabbi's Cat (2011)
Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
~ September ~
The Search for General Tso (2014)
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
Genius Party (2007)
Force Majeure (2014)
Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
Happy (2011)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Cinderella (2015)
Home (2015)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
~ October ~
The Celluloid Closet (1995)
Cheatin' (2013)
Corpse Bride (2005)
The Trip (2010)
~ November ~
Little Big Soldier (2010)
Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
~ December ~
Ant-Man (2015)
Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Do I Sound Gay? (2014)
Twinsters (2015)
 
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Cookiemonster17

Neo Member
I will challenge myself with this, I watch way more movies than I read books though.

Movies 2/50
1- Snowpiercer
2- Minority Report


Books 1/50
1- A Good Marriage by Stephen King
 
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Christoff Yurievich

Member
Updated original post.

allegate - 5/50 Books 6/50 Movies

Books
1. Untimed: a Time Travel Adventure (Rules of the Regulator Book 1) - Andy Gavin Jan 2nd, 3.5/5
2. Wool: The Graphic Novel - Hugh Howey Jan 5th, 4/5
3. Rudolph!: He Is the Reason for the Season - Mark Teppo Jan 9th, 4/5
4. Baron: The Cat Returns - Aoi Hiiragi, Jan 10th, 4/5
5. The Heart Does Not Grow Back - Fred Venturini, Jan 12th, 4/5
6.

Movies
1. Up, Jan 1st, 4.5/5
2. A Bug's Life, Jan 1st, 4/5
3. Guardians of the Galaxy, Jan 1st, 4.5/5
4. The Incredibles, Jan 1st, 4.5/5
5. The Cat Returns, Jan 9th, 4/5
6. This Is Where I Leave You, Jan 13th, 3 or 4/5, not sure.
7.
 
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