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

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Ashes

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Dudes & Dudettes. You have two whole months. Spring into action. Instead of these negative attitudes, get with the programme.

WE CAN DO THIS SHIT! Ahem..
 
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donny2112

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Ashes said:
Dudes & Dudettes. You have two whole months. Spring into action. Instead of these negative attitudes, get with the programme.
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Kindle reading has really helped me. Physical books require decent lighting (unless you want to mess up your eyes) and have to be carried with you when you go places. E-books don't have that limitation, though, and they're usually with you on your phone, anyways. I think I've gone through ~15 physical books this year but more than twice that in digital. I haven't gotten through my physical backlog as much as I thought I would at the beginning of 2015, but I'm pretty much caught up on my digital one, which was really unexpected! :lol

On movies, I just saw Dracula (1931) and the Spanish-language Dracula (1931, same plot, different actors and quality) for the first time on Sunday. That's two! Find something semi-interesting on Netflix or Amazon Instant Video and just sit through it.

Me, I like movies and books, so that makes it easier. I just hadn't read many books in the last several years because I didn't have real motivation. This challenge has been great in providing that this year, though. Never thought I'd have read through so many diverse (based on my history of reading) books this year as I have. Found some good series that I want to keep following, too, so that's a real plus!
 
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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.
GK86 said:
Fuck books.


Although, I finally picked up a book and actually am making my way through it.
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You should be required to read one book for every 10 movies you see. ;)
 
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orthodoxy1095

Banned
The only thing that might save my reading at this point is my traveling I'll be doing in the next two month. Otherwise, I'm like 27 books behind schedule...
 
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Krauser Kat

Member
Books 40/50
Madd Adam 10/19/2015 A Margret Atwood
Currency 10/27/2015 A Neal Stephenson

Still Reading
the last empire B Brandon Sanderson

I need some shorter books to read something less than 400 pages. T help bolster the physical book end of my list.

I think i should run through the whole series of the young adult witch (tiffany aching) from terry pratchett in book form and say goodbye with the last book.

Any other Recommendations. I should map out my last 9 books.

I think i have a rough outline of my last 9 books for the year.
i dont know what order i am going to do them in. My girlfriend is moving to las vegas in 2 weeks and i may have more time on my hands or might not.
Wee Free men pratchett
Hat Full Of Sky pratchett
Wintersmith pratchett
I smell Wear Midnight pratchett
Shepards Crown pratchett
Cinder Spires Butcher
Hero Of Ages Brandon Sanderson
System Of the World Neal Stephenson
20th century Ghost Joe hill
 
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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.
kinoki - 62/50 books | 134/50 movies​

Books
  • Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2013), Haruki Murakami - ★★★ - A good Murakami novel. The super realism elements are pretty much left up to the reader. It wasn't a full on disappointment but I felt that he could have done something more with it.
  • My Fellow Skin [Mijn tweede huid] (2000), Erwin Mortier - ★★★½ -
  • The Lover [L'amant] (1984), Marguerite Duras - ★★★★
  • Jane Eyre (1847), Charlotte Brontë - ★★★★★
  • Crisis [Kris] (1934), Karin Boye - ★★★½
Movies
  • The Imitation Game (2014, dir. Morten Tyldum) - ★★★ - The formulatic bio-pic. Does nothing that hasn't been done before. The story was fun but I'd rather just read a book about the subject.
  • Lucy (2014, dir. Luc Besson) - ★★½ - Stupid, so stupid but still so entertaining. Goes full on retarded towards the end.
  • Loong Boonmee raleuk chat [Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives] (2010, dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul) - ★★★½ - A still story about ghosts, past lives and taking responsibilty. Works as a good companion to The Act of Killing.
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011, dir. Lynne Ramsey) - ★★★★ - Evil Child Trilogy #1: Emotional, poeticly arranged and strong performances sell this.
  • The Omen (1976, dir. Richard Donner) - ★★★½ - Evil Child Trilogy #2: Classic horror with the usual twists. Really the blue print of these movies.
  • Rosemary's Baby (1968, dir. Roman Polanski) - ★★★½ - Evil Child Trilogy #3: Boring but haunting. Not what I expected but still captivating.
  • American Hustle (2013, dir. David O. Russell) - ★★★
  • Человек с киноаппаратом [Man with a Camera] (1929, dir. Dziga Vertov) - ★★★★½
  • Cidade de Deus [City of God] (2002, dir. Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund) - ★★★★
  • Locke (2013, dir. Stephen Knight) - ★★★½
  • Die Welle [The Wave] (2008, dir. Dennis Gansel) - ★★★★
  • Hiroshima mon amour (1959, dir. Alain Resnais) - ★★★★
  • El laberinto del fauno [Pan's Labyrinth] (2006, dir. Guillermo del Toro) - ★★★★
  • El secreto de sus ojos [The Secret in Their Eyes] (2009, dir. Juan José Campanella) - ★★★½
  • La voyage dans la lune (1902, dir. Georges Méliès) - ★★★★
  • Cops (1922, dir. Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton) - ★★★½
  • Junun (2015, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson) - ★★★
  • Ida (2013, dir. Pawel Pawlikowski) - ★★★★
  • The Counselor (2013, dir. Ridley Scott) - ★★
  • Apollo 13 (1995, dir. Ron Howard) - ★★★
  • Beasts of No Nation (2015, dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga) - ★★★½ - Fukunaga isn't a director as much as he's a cinematographer. This is a gorgeous but ultimatly hollow movie. there's no stake for the viewer and the emotional core is nowhere to be found. Give Fukunaga a better script (like True Detective) and he's in his most favourable.
  • Ex Machina (2015, dir. Alex Garland) - ★★★★ - Here's the rub: as science fiction it's pretty much worthless. As something akin to Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf it's great. Compare it to Her and it's laughable.
  • The Martian (2015, dir. Ridley Scott) - ★★★★½

This month's haul. Will be writing up reviews when I get more time.
 
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Jungleland

Neo Member
Very slow month on the movie front but hopefully I'll get back on track this month.

October Update

Books

The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros - ★★★
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride - Cary Elwes - ★★★★
Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie - ★★★½
How to be Alone - Jonathan Franzen - ★★★

Movies

The Martian - ★★★½
Amy - ★★★★
 
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GK86

Homeland Security Fail
October update:

GK86 - 0/50 Books | 151/50 Movies

1- 13 Sins 3.5/5
2- Evil Dead (2013) 3/5
3- Curse of Chucky 3/5
4- Creep .5/5
5- American Sniper 5/5
6- Spring 3/5
7- The Orphanage 3/5
8- The House at the End of Time 3.5/5
9- Nightbreed: Director's Cut 2/5
10- Teeth 3.5/5
11- Dead End 2/5
12- Beasts of No Nation 4.5/5
13- Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom 5/5
14- It Follows 5/5
15- Ex Machina 5/5
16- Today's Special 4/5
17- Eden Lake 4/5
18- The Loved Ones 4/5
19- Circle 5/5
20- The Relic 3.5/5
21- Captain Phillips 5/5
22- The Killing Room 3/5
 
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Dandy Crocodile

Member
October Update:

New in October:
2 Books | 18 Movies

Books:
Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty - 4/5
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building - David J. Peterson - 5/5

Movies:
The Martian (2015) - 4/5
Cuban Fury (2014) - 4/5
Poto and Cabengo (1980) - 4/5
TRON: Legacy (2010) - 4/5
The Woman in Black (2012) - 4/5
Day of the Dead (1985) - 3/5
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014) - 3/5
Housebound (2014) - 5/5
The Lazarus Effect (2015) - 1/5
Unfriended (2014) - 3/5
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) - 3/5
The Human Centipede (2009) - 4/5
Creep (2014) - 3/5
House of 1000 Corpses (2003) - 2/5
Goonight Mommy (Ich seh, Ich seh) (2014) - 5/5
Pontypool (2008) - 4/5
Children of the Corn (1984) - 3/5
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) - 3/5

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Didn't complete the 31 days of horror challenge, but it sure did boost up my movie total. Wow.
Really slow month for books. I got The Art of Language Invention which was INCREDIBLE if you're into conlangs or linguistics in general but nonfiction always just murders my reading rate and slows me down considerably. It got me into Poto and Cabengo though which was an interesting documentary about twins who were rumored to have an advanced idioglossia but really had a sort of babytalk pidgin. Goodnight Mommt and Housebound are new favorites in the horror genre.
 
choodi

choodi

Banned
FUBAR McDangles said:
Worst movie for me was Conan the Barbarian. I see so many gifs and people really liking this movie...but I thought it sucked ass. Arnold wasn't even good in it. The acting wasn't good. The fights were terrible. The story was bad. I was going to quit watching it but then I realized there was only 15 minutes left, so I kept it on just for the sake of finishing it. No redemption. It sucked.
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Did you watch Barbarian or Destroyer? I could understand this view if you accidentally watched Destroyer, but Conan the Barbarian is an amazing film.
 
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Saad

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October Update
Saad - 26/50 books | 72/50 movies

Movies
  • Bronson (2008) ★★☆☆☆
  • The Thin Red Line (1998) ★★★★☆
  • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) ★★★★☆
  • Inherent Vice (2014) ★★★☆☆
  • The Martian (2015) ★★★★★
  • Paper Towns (2015) ★★☆☆☆
  • Dope (2015) ★★★★☆
  • Another Earth (2011) ★★★☆☆
  • A Most Violent Year (2014) ★★★★★
  • Casino Royale (2006) ★★★☆☆
  • The Godfather: Part II (1974) ★★★★★
  • Everest (2015) ★★★☆☆
  • Inside Out (2015) ★★★★☆
  • Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) ★★★☆☆
  • Hunger (2008) ★★★☆☆
  • Gangs of New York (2002) ★★★★☆
  • Hanna (2011) ★★★☆☆
  • The Gift (2015) ★★★★☆
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) ★★★☆☆
  • Prometheus (2012) ★★★★☆
  • Top Gun (1986) ★★☆☆☆
  • Pineapple Express (2008) ★★☆☆☆

Zero books past month. I started reading The Count of Monte Cristo but that thing is huge.
 
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Mumei

Member
FUBAR McDangles said:
Book of the month for me was the first Fairyland book. Great recommendation from someone on gaf. Really enjoyed it. I liked all of the characters, the story, the setting, the species...everything. The only problem with it was that it was quite predictable. Which I can't really blame it on because it's aimed at a younger audience than me. Great. Runner up was the latter part of the Star Wars Republic comics. Kind of by default, but they were fun enough. Vader and the Death Prison was awesome.
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Yay! I thought it had a couple good twists, especially some of the backstory stuff, though.
 
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TestMonkey

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TestMonkey - 73/50 Books | 65/50 Movies​

Books

  • When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
  • Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
  • The Cunning Linguist: Ribald Riddles, Lascivious Limericks, Carnal Corn, and Other Good, Clean Dirty Fun by Richard Lederer
  • Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Movies

  • Tekkonkinkreet
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  • Page One: Inside the New York Times
 
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gaiages

Banned
Here's my update for this month. Glad I didn't post it early, because I watched three (!) movies yesterday.

I'm probably not going to be hitting that book goal...

gaiages - 10/50 Books | 38/50 Movies​
 
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donny2112

Member
donny2112 said:
donny2112 - 53/50 books | 61/50 movies​

Books
  • Flee (247 pages) (2012) - ★★★☆☆ (October 4, 2015)
  • Trail of Dead (299 pages) (2013) - ★★★★★ (October 6, 2015)
  • Arena Mode, Book 1 (299 pages) (2013) - ★★★★☆ (October 8, 2015)
  • Once Bitten (234 pages) (2015) - ★★★☆☆ (October 14, 2015)
  • Disenchanted (Land of Dis) (221 pages) (2012) - ★★★★☆ (October 17, 2015)
  • The Good Neighbor (205 pages) (2015) - ★★☆☆☆ (October 24, 2015)
  • The Confession (417 pages) (2010) - ★★★☆☆ (October 31, 2015)

Movies
  • The Martian (2015) - ★★★★★ (October 1, 2015)
  • Goosebumps (2015) - ★★★★☆ (October 15, 2015)
  • The Guild (2007-2012) - ★★★★★ (October 24, 2015)
  • Bridge of Spies (2015) - ★★★★☆ (October 24, 2015)
  • Dracula (1931) - ★★☆☆☆ (October 25, 2015)
  • Dracula (Spanish-language version) (1931) - ★★★☆☆ (October 25, 2015)
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October update!

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mu cephei

Member
October Update


Films

37. Tomorrowland
38. The Martian
39. Inside Out
40. Unbroken
41. Everest

Books

38. Aurora - Kim Stanley Robinson
39. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
40. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein
41. Inverted World - Christopher Priest
42. The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
43. Blue Remembered Earth - Alastair Reynolds
44. Waystation - Clifford Simak
45. Babel 17 - Samuel R. Delany

I've decided I have no issue counting audiobooks for this challenge. Probably partly because it makes things easier!, but mostly because for me, a book is a thing that contains an entire world, each one unique with its own rules, themes, perspectives. and I read books in an attempt to experience a different viewpoint, other lives. Whether I read it or listen to it is usually irrelevant for this. Pagecount generally is too. (Though there are books that do need to be read, not listened to, I think.)

Anyway. Unbroken was an odd mess of a film. Slow, badly put together, with frequent and extended scenes of torture and abuse. I have no idea of what Jolie was going for. The Martian was really enjoyable. Maybe not quite as good as I was hoping, not enough science and problem-solving! I should probably watch Apollo 13 again. Inside Out was really good, it had a few irritating bits but Abstract Thought was one of the most hilarious things I've seen for quite a while.
 
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orthodoxy1095

Banned
orthodoxy1095 - 14/50 Books | 54/50 Movies​

Books
  1. I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti - Oct. 5
  2. The Spiritual Meadow by St. John Moschos - Oct. 28
Movies
  1. Song of the Sea - Oct. 8
  2. Pitch Perfect 2 - Oct. 15
  3. Wild - Oct. 16
  4. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - Oct. 30
Didn't get a whole lot done this month, but whatever. I Saw Ramallah was a stupendous read for anyone interested in an insight to the Palestinian-Israeli situation. The lyrical prose was just fantastic.

On the movie side, Song of the Sea was the best thing I watched this month and easily amongst the best animated files I've see all year. Beautifully animated and set to an amazing OST. Pitch Perfect felt like a meh followup to the first movie, Wild was ok and Mockingjay felt incredibly mediocre. I didn't like how obviously the movie tried to make J-Law carry the entire film. The whole "let's make a two part movie from a source material that doesn't call for two movie" needs to stop ASAP.

Narag said:
Narag - 53/50 Books | 50/50 Movies​


feels good to be done early as opposed to 10 pm on 12/31 like last year or whatever.
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Congrats!
 
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Mumei

Member
Update

Mumei - 98/50 Books | 44/50 Movies

Books
  • Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, by Douglas A. Blackmon
  • After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War, by Gregory P. Downs
  • The Riddle-Master of Hed, by Patricia A. McKillip
  • Heir of Sea and Fire, by Patricia A. McKillip
  • Harpist in the Wind, by Patricia A. McKillip
  • Victorian Fairy Tales, edited by Michael Newton
  • The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder, by Peter Zeihan
  • The Traitor Baru Cormorant, by Seth Dickinson
  • The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Colbert
  • Final Jeopardy: Man vs Machine and the Quest to Know Everything
Movies
  • The Martian
  • A Christmas Carol
  • An Honest Liar
  • Sicario
  • X+Y
  • Ex Machina
  • Crimson Peak
  • Erased
 
choodi

choodi

Banned
End of month update.

Finished a few more things sonce my mid-month update.

I'll be happy with 30 books, but i am going to put some serious effort over the christmas holidays to exceed 50 films.

The biggest problem has really been finding films that i haven't seen that interest me enough to put in the 2 hours effort. So many bad movies these days.


Books
  • The Hero of Ages - Brandon Sanderson (A)

Movies
  • The Martian (A)
  • Circle (D)
 
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GK86

Homeland Security Fail
Maybe it is because I'm a sucker for the genre, but I enjoyed Circle. I could have done without the
Aliens
thing though.
 
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Ben Morales

Member
October Update:

Ben Morales - 49/50 Books | 32/50 Movies​


Books

43. Wayward - Blake Crouch - ★★★★
44. The Maze Runner - James Dashner - ★★★★
45. The Last Town - Blake Crouch - ★★★★
46. Rae of Hope - W.J. May - ★★★½
47. 314 - A.R. Wise - ★★★½
48. Scavenger Hunt - Christopher Pike - ★★★★½
49. The Disappeared - Kristine Kathryn Rusch - ★★★★★​

Movies

29. The Fog (2005) - Dir. Rupert Wainwright - ★
30. V/H/S/2 (2013) - Dir. Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sánchez, Timo Tjahjanto, Adam Wingard - ★★★
31. Devil's Pass (2013) - Dir. Renny Harlin - ★★★
32. Atari: Game Over (2014) - Dir. Zak Penn - ★★★★★​

One more book to go which will be finished by tomorrow. Movies? I got dis!
 
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Glaurungr

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Glaurungr - 76/50 books | 161/50 movies​
October update:

Books:

  • Christian Janss and Christian Refsum - Lyrikkens liv (2003)
  • Gro Steinsland - Mytene som skapte Norge (2012)
  • John Ringo - A Hymn Before Battle (2000)
  • Nils Gilje - Heksen og humanisten (2003)
  • Simon Urban - Plan D (2011)

  • J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)
  • Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot (1952)

Films:

  • Amadeus - Milos Forman (1984)
  • Back to the Source: Historical European Martial Arts - Cédric Hauteville (2015)
  • Casper - Brad Silberling (1995)
  • Darkman III: Die Darkman Die - Bradford May (1996)
  • Evil Dead II - Sam Raimi (1987)
  • Fast & Furious - Justin Lin (2009)
  • Fast Five - Justin Lin (2011)
  • Fire and Ice - Ralph Bakshi (1983)
  • Furious 6 - Justin Lin (2013)
  • Ghostbusters II - Ivan Reitman (1989)
  • Inside Out - Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen (2015)
  • Knowing - Alex Proyas (2009)
  • Minions - Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin (2015)
  • Nothing to Lose - Steve Oedekerk (1997)
  • Pafekuto buru (Perfect Blue) - Satoshi Kon (1997)
  • Pixels - Chris Colombus (2015)
  • San Andreas - Brad Peyton (2015)
  • Stargate - Roland Emmerich (1994)
  • The Bank Job - Roger Donaldson (2008)
  • The Perfect Storm - Wolfgang Petersen (2000)
  • Troy - Wolfgang Petersen (2004)
  • Turbo Kid - François Simard and Anouk Whissell (2015)
  • Waking Life - Richard Linklater (2001)

  • Jackass 3D - Jeff Tremaine (2010)
 
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Christoff Yurievich

Member
allegate - 66/50 Books, 85/50 Movies​

Books
63. So Long and Thanks for All the Fish - Douglas Adams, Oct. 01, 3.5/5
64. The Opposite of Loneliness - Marina Keegan, October 5th, 3.5/5
65. Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff VanderMeer, October 10th, 4.5/5
66. Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams, October 23rd, 3/5
67.

Movies
72. What We Do in the Shadows, October 3rd, 3.5/5
73. Toy Story, October 10th, 4.5/5
74. The Strongest Man in the World, October 14th, 3/5
75. Strange Magic, October 16th, 1.5/5
76. Age of Adaline, October 17th, 4/5
77. I, Robot, October 17th, 3/5
78. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, October 18th, 1.5/5
79. Some Like it Hot, October 18th, 3.5/5
80. Back to the Future II, October 21st, 4/5
81. Beetlejuice, October 21st, 3.5/5
82. Inside Out, October 22nd, 5/5
83. Hocus Pocus, October 23rd, 3.5/5
84. Jurassic World, October 28th, 4/5
85. Ernest Scared Stupid, October 31st, 1.5/5
86.

Updated original post.

Not a lot done this month, not as much free time.
 
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Pau

Member
Pau - 55/50 Books | 25/50 Movies​

books
48. The Wicked + The Divine: The Faust Act (2014) - Kieron Gillen
49. Boyhood - J.M. Coetzee
50. Blue Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
51. Finding Mañana (2005) - Mirta Ojito
52. The Knife of Never Letting Go (2008) - Patrick Ness
53. Pavane for a Dead Princess (2009) - Min-gyu Park
54. Ms. Marvel: No Normal (2014) - G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona
55. The Ask and the Answer (2009) - Patrick Ness

movies
22. Crimson Peak (2015) - Guillermo del Toro
23. Madam Bovary (2014) - Sophie Barthes
24. Over the Garden Wall (2013) - Patrick McHale
25. The Cell (2000) - Tarsem Singh

I really need to catch up on movies. It's just so, so hard finding a movie I want to watch. :/
 
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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.
Pau said:
I really need to catch up on movies. It's just so, so hard finding a movie I want to watch. :/
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Tragicomedy said:
If you find one, let me know. You and I are in nearly identical situations, though I still have some books to go.
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Well, you're in the right thread. Just give us five examples each of movies you love and we'll recommend some essentials.
 
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Tragicomedy

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kinoki said:
Well, you're in the right thread. Just give us five examples each of movies you love and we'll recommend some essentials.
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That's difficult, since my taste is all over the place. This year I loved Begin Again and Interstellar the most. My favorites last year were Upstream Color, The Raid 2, Gravity, and 12 Years a Slave. The year prior I loved Drive, Chasing Ice, Sleepwalk with Me, and Temple Grandin.

I don't really have a type. I like science fiction, action, adventure, comedies, documentaries, brainy stuff, mindless stuff, who knows. I managed a Blockbuster prior to entering the military so I've got the 90s and early 2000s pretty well covered.

Looking for something newer. Rarely go to the theater with our five year old, so on demand or streaming is ideal. I do plan on seeing The Martian (read the book) and Star Wars later this year. We watch the superhero stuff but I think my wife is nearing burnout level on them. We usually catch up on two out three awards fodder films late every year.
 
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Ben Morales

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Pau said:
I really need to catch up on movies. It's just so, so hard finding a movie I want to watch. :/
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This is how I feel. I end up going on Netflix or Hulu or whatever and queueing up movies that look interesting. But I'm never in the mood to watch them. I'll just sit there for 30 minutes browsing movies and just not wanting to watch anything. =(
 
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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:
That's difficult, since my taste is all over the place. This year I loved Begin Again and Interstellar the most. My favorites last year were Upstream Color, The Raid 2, Gravity, and 12 Years a Slave. The year prior I loved Drive, Chasing Ice, Sleepwalk with Me, and Temple Grandin.

I don't really have a type. I like science fiction, action, adventure, comedies, documentaries, brainy stuff, mindless stuff, who knows. I managed a Blockbuster prior to entering the military so I've got the 90s and early 2000s pretty well covered.

Looking for something newer. Rarely go to the theater with our five year old, so on demand or streaming is ideal. I do plan on seeing The Martian (read the book) and Star Wars later this year. We watch the superhero stuff but I think my wife is nearing burnout level on them. We usually catch up on two out three awards fodder films late every year.
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You've seen stuff like: Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010), Sånger från andra våningen (2000), La Pacte des Loups (2001), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), Attack the Block (2011), Prisoners (2013), Moon (2009) or Jagten (2012)?

You seem to have the same basic taste as me but I tend to indulge my guilty pleasures more.
 
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Pau

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Tragicomedy said:
If you find one, let me know. You and I are in nearly identical situations, though I still have some books to go.
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Yup. I was gonna say earlier, I'm joining you in watching like twenty movies in December. Should exchange lists. Here are some things I'm planning on watching, some that haven't come out on streaming yet or that I can't find to rent:

  1. Assassination of Jesse James
  2. Immortals
  3. Mirror Mirror
  4. Princess Arete
  5. Ex Machina
  6. Edge of Tomorrow
  7. Mr. Nobody
  8. Upstream Color (which you already watched...)
  9. Anna Karenina
  10. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
  11. Summer Wars
  12. Inside Out
  13. Big Hero 6
  14. Jurassic World
  15. Mockingjay: Part 2
kinoki said:
Well, you're in the right thread. Just give us five examples each of movies you love and we'll recommend some essentials.
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I love 2D animation, but I tend to keep up pretty well with it. I'm really, really picky when it comes to anime (and media in general honestly) because of all the shitty female character stuff, but there's a few things I know I want to watch from a few directors. Favorites include: Spirited Away, The Secret of Kells, Hunchback of Notre Dame.

I really like science fiction although film doesn't tend to do it in a way that I enjoy in literature. I really like: 2001, Alien, The Fountain, Sunshine, Children of Men.

Also am drawn to stuff that is visually interesting like Tarsem's The Fall. So I'm planing on going through all of his stuff.

The problem is finding it streaming. I don't mind paying to rent it digitally, but I try to limit that to once a week or every two weeks. :/

Ben Morales said:
This is how I feel. I end up going on Netflix or Hulu or whatever and queueing up movies that look interesting. But I'm never in the mood to watch them. I'll just sit there for 30 minutes browsing movies and just not wanting to watch anything. =(
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Same. Problem's exacerbated by the fact that I'll usually watch with my boyfriend, and he doesn't want to watch a lot of the movies or doesn't get the point of watching stuff just to hit a quota. :p I like the challenge because it forces me to watch a lot more than I otherwise would and I do find things I like and I'm glad I picked, but yeah, just takes a bit.
 
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Tragicomedy

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kinoki said:
You've seen stuff like: Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010), Sånger från andra våningen (2000), La Pacte des Loups (2001), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), Attack the Block (2011), Prisoners (2013), Moon (2009) or Jagten (2012)?

You seem to have the same basic taste as me but I tend to indulge my guilty pleasures more.
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I've only seen Moon from that list and loved it. Heard of Exit and Hedwig, not the others. I'll look into them, thanks.


Pau said:
Yup. I was gonna say earlier, I'm joining you in watching like twenty movies in December. Should exchange lists. Here are some things I'm planning on watching, some that haven't come out on streaming yet or that I can't find to rent:

  1. Assassination of Jesse James
  2. Immortals
  3. Mirror Mirror
  4. Princess Arete
  5. Ex Machina
  6. Edge of Tomorrow
  7. Mr. Nobody
  8. Upstream Color (which you already watched...)
  9. Anna Karenina
  10. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
  11. Summer Wars
  12. Inside Out
  13. Big Hero 6
  14. Jurassic World
  15. Mockingjay: Part 2
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Edge of Tomorrow is a lot of fun. We started Inside Out earlier this morning and the first thirty minutes were superb.

Jurassic World stands as the worst thing I've seen this year, but lots of people liked it so it might be worth a try.

I need to plan out a list of some sort, I think.
 
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