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50 Movies. 50 Books. 1 Year.

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white dynamite

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MOVIES
1. The Adventures of Tin Tin
2. The Tree of Life
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Sunset Blvd.
5. Boogie Nights
6. A Beautiful Mind
7. Limitless
8. Se7en
9. Cleo from 5 to 7
10. Say Anything
11. 8 1/2
12. Stalag 17
13. A Hard Day's Night
14. Groundhog Day
15. Glory Road
16. Viva Cuba
17. The Wild Bunch
18. Can't Buy Me Love
19. Taxi Driver
20. Jeff, Who Lives at Home
21. Trouble in Paradise
22. The Descendants

BOOKS
1. Looking for Alaska
2. Bossy Pants
3. Save the Cat!
4. I Drink For A Reason
 
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AndyD

aka andydumi
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 7. Frankenstein 8. Logic of Chance 9. The Magicians 10. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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 16. Harry Potter Deathly hallows part 2. 17. Hugo 18. Explorers 19. Mary and Max 20. Lawrence of Arabia 21. 50/50 22. Megamind 23. Young Adult
 
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Kilrogg

paid requisite penance
AndyD said:
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 7. Frankenstein 8. Logic of Chance 9. The Magicians 10. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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 16. Harry Potter Deathly hallows part 2. 17. Hugo 18. Explorers 19. Mary and Max 20. Lawrence of Arabia 21. 50/50 22. Megamind 23. Young Adult
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Is it the French movie Le Dîner de Cons by any chance? What did you think about it?
 
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AndyD

aka andydumi
It is the 2011 American version. It was OK. The French movie was great. The American version from 1998, not as good. This new 2011 one much better, good but not great. Although the miniatures in this movie are amazing. They easily steal the whole show. I would recommend seeing it just for the miniatures.

We sometimes watch a foreign movie, then within a week or so the American version just for fun.
 
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AndyD

aka andydumi
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 7. Frankenstein 8. Logic of Chance 9. The Magicians 10. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 11. Kim
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 16. Harry Potter Deathly hallows part 2. 17. Hugo 18. Explorers 19. Mary and Max 20. Lawrence of Arabia 21. 50/50 22. Megamind 23. Young Adult 24. In Time
 
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Snowman Prophet of Doom

Member
I'm not participating, but how does this work if you read a book that is a collection? I read 33 Shakespeare plays over the course of the last 3 weeks, but it's all in a collected works. Would I count all of those individually, since they're all separate works, or do I count the volume as a whole unto itself?
 
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CiSTM

Banned
Snowman Prophet of Doom said:
I'm not participating, but how does this work if you read a book that is a collection? I read 33 Shakespeare plays over the course of the last 3 weeks, but it's all in a collected works. Would I count all of those individually, since they're all separate works, or do I count the volume as a whole unto itself?
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I don't think people are strict with rules here in the first place, call it how you see it ;) Tho, your case seem easy, Shakespeare plays are individual works so you have read 33 works.
 
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white dynamite

Member
MOVIES
1. The Adventures of Tin Tin
2. The Tree of Life
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Sunset Blvd.
5. Boogie Nights
6. A Beautiful Mind
7. Limitless
8. Se7en
9. Cleo from 5 to 7
10. Say Anything
11. 8 1/2
12. Stalag 17
13. A Hard Day's Night
14. Groundhog Day
15. Glory Road
16. Viva Cuba
17. The Wild Bunch
18. Can't Buy Me Love
19. Taxi Driver
20. Jeff, Who Lives at Home
21. Trouble in Paradise
22. The Descendants
23. Rosemary's Baby
24. The American Friend


BOOKS
1. Looking for Alaska
2. Bossy Pants
3. Save the Cat!
4. I Drink For A Reason
 
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Red

Member
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: The Art of Storytelling: Easy Steps to Presenting an Unforgettable Story (in progress… probably will not finish, terrible book)
Book 7: The Gettysburg Review Winter 1988 (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
Movie 33: Objectified
Movie 34: Superbad
Movie 35: Quarantine 2
Movie 36: Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
Movie 37: Take Shelter
Movie 38: Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie
Movie 39: Man on Wire
Movie 40: The Chaser
Movie 41: Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade
Movie 42: Project Nim
Movie 43: I Love You Philip Morris
Movie 44: Being Elmo
Movie 45: The Muppets
Movie 46: Puss in Boots
Movie 47: 9 to 5: Days in Porn


Almost at 50.

War and Peace takes forever to get through.
 
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Ashes

Banned
I'll do a March round-up later this week.

Books

5. The Sorrows of Young Werther [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
6. Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Gabriel García Márquez]

Films

13. Alien [dir. Ridley Scott]
 
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Yen

Member
Movies: 
1. Devil's Backbone
2. LA Confidential
3. Senna
4. Barton Fink
5. 50 Dead Men Walking
6. 127 Hours
7. Alien
8. Starship Troopers
9. Blade Runner: Final Cut
10. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
11. Inception
12. Kickass
12. A Scanner Darkly
13. Babel
14. Hard Candy
15. City of God
16. Road to Perdition
17. Requiem for a Dream
18. Taxi Driver
19. This Is Spinal Tap
20. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
21. Battle Royale

Books: 
1. Drawing of the Three: Dark Tower 2 by Stephen King
2. Mr Unbelievable by Chris Kamara
3. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner) by Phillip K. Dick
4. Carrie by Stephen King
5. Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
 
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Cerebral Assassin

Member
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
6. Takeaway Secret - Kenny Mcgovern
7. Work! Consume! Die! - Frankie Boyle

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)
6. The Expendables (2010)
7. The Condemned (2007)
8. Little Big Soldier (2010)
9. The Storm Warriors (2009)
10. Star Trek (2009)
11. Shaolin (2011)
12. Twin Dragons (1992)
 
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EliCash

Member
Not updated in a while.

Books
1. Game of Thrones / George RR Martin
2. American Gods / Neil Gaiman
3. Clash of Kings / George RR Martin
4. A Storm of Swords / George RR Martin
5. A Feast for Crows / George RR Martin
6. Scorsese on Scorsese / Ian Christie, David Thompson
7. Fever Pitch / Nick Hornby

Movies
1. A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988)
2. Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (Stuart Samuels, 2005)
3. Submarine (Richard Ayoade, 2010)
4. The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman, 1943)
5. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011)
6. Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara, 1981)
7. Stardust Memories (Woody Allen, 1980)
8. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer ,1945)
9. Melancholia (Lars Von Trier, 2011)
10. Play It Again Sam (Herbert Ross, 1972)
11. Zelig (Woody Allen, 1983)
12. Bananas (Woody Allen, 1971)
13. The Matrix (Wachowski Bros., 1999)
14. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen, 1985)
15. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
16. Rio Bravo (Rio Bravo, 1949)
17. The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964)
18. The Magic Box (John Boulting, 1951)
19. Logan's Run (Michael Anderson, 1976)
20. Badlands (Terence Malick, 1973)
21. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese, 1974)
22. The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978)
 
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white dynamite

Member
MOVIES
1. The Adventures of Tin Tin
2. The Tree of Life
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Sunset Blvd.
5. Boogie Nights
6. A Beautiful Mind
7. Limitless
8. Se7en
9. Cleo from 5 to 7
10. Say Anything
11. 8 1/2
12. Stalag 17
13. A Hard Day's Night
14. Groundhog Day
15. Glory Road
16. Viva Cuba
17. The Wild Bunch
18. Can't Buy Me Love
19. Taxi Driver
20. Jeff, Who Lives at Home
21. Trouble in Paradise
22. The Descendants
23. Rosemary's Baby
24. The American Friend
25. sex, lies, and videotape
26. Salaam Bombay
27. Nights of Cabiria

BOOKS
1. Looking for Alaska
2. Bossy Pants
3. Save the Cat!
4. I Drink For A Reason
 
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Ashes

Banned
Ashes1396 said:
February

7. Brothel Lights [Aleksandr Gordon]

Books

2. The old man and the sea [Ernest Hemingway]
3. Breakfast at Tiffany's [Truman Capote]
4. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Voltaire]

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March

Films

8. The Taming of the Shrew [dir. Franco Zeffirelli; pw .William Shakespeare]
9. Hugo [ dir. Martin Scorsese]
10. The Grey [dir. Joe Carnahan]
11. Kahaani [dir. Sujoy Ghosh]
12. M [dir. Fritz Lang]
13. Alien [dir. Ridley Scott]

Books

5. The Sorrows of Young Werther [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
6. Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Gabriel García Márquez]
 
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Yen

Member
22. Minority Report
23. Shutter Island
24. 21 Grams
25. Brazil
26. Dr. Strangelove or:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
27. Miller's Crossing
28. The Adjustment Bureau
29. The Wrestler
 
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Ashes

Banned
Films

15. Aliens [Dir. James Cameron]
16. Wild Strawberries (1957) [Dir. Ingmar Bergman]
Smultronstället (original title)
 
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deleted

Member
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
  19. Warrior 9/10
    [*]The Inbetweeners Movie 7/10
    [*]Fargo 8/10
    [*]Black Snake Moan 9/10
    [*]From Hell 7/10
    [*]Layer Cake 8/10
    [*]TinTin 7/10
    [*]Tower Heist 6/10
    [*]Inkheart 6/10
    [*]There Will be Blood 8/10
    [*]Chaos Theory 7/10
    [*]Lincoln Lawyer 7/10
    [*]Iron Sky 6/10
    [*]Angels & Demons 6/10

Books:
  1. The Hound of the Baskervilles - 8/10
  2. Baron Munchhausen's adventures - 6/10
    [*]Alice in Wonderland - 7/10
    [*]Walhall - 2/10 (as far as mythology goes, its fine, but the book was written in 18xx and the author was a nationalist and antisemit, which comes through. It was free in the amazon kindle store, so no money wasted on it at least)
    [*]Geliebte Teufelin - 1/10 (worst book I ever read. Another free kindle book, though, so I only wasted time I guess)
    [*]I Shall Wear Midnight - 7/10 (great book, strange translation)
    [*]The Hunger Games - 7/10 (last third was a letdown)

Currently reading 11/22/63, after that I'll start with Game of Thrones.
 
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AndyD

aka andydumi
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 7. Frankenstein 8. Logic of Chance 9. The Magicians 10. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 11. Kim 12. Camp Follower

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 16. Harry Potter Deathly hallows part 2. 17. Hugo 18. Explorers 19. Mary and Max 20. Lawrence of Arabia 21. 50/50 22. Megamind 23. Young Adult 24. In Time 25. The Descendants
 
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Ashes

Banned
Books

09. Daisy Miller [Henry James]
10. The Hunger Games [Suzanne Collins]
11. Ender's game [Orson Scott Card]


Films

17. Shutter Island [dir. Martin Scorsese]
 
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white dynamite

Member
MOVIES
1. The Adventures of Tin Tin
2. The Tree of Life
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Sunset Blvd.
5. Boogie Nights
6. A Beautiful Mind
7. Limitless
8. Se7en
9. Cleo from 5 to 7
10. Say Anything
11. 8 1/2
12. Stalag 17
13. A Hard Day's Night
14. Groundhog Day
15. Glory Road
16. Viva Cuba
17. The Wild Bunch
18. Can't Buy Me Love
19. Taxi Driver
20. Jeff, Who Lives at Home
21. Trouble in Paradise
22. The Descendants
23. Rosemary's Baby
24. The American Friend
25. sex, lies, and videotape
26. Salaam Bombay
27. Nights of Cabiria
28. The American Friend
29. Amores Perros
30. Hot Fuzz
31. House on Haunted Hill (1959)
32. The Matrix
33. 21 Grams

BOOKS
1. Looking for Alaska
2. Bossy Pants
3. Save the Cat!
4. I Drink For A Reason
 
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AndyD

aka andydumi
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 7. Frankenstein 8. Logic of Chance 9. The Magicians 10. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 11. Kim 12. Camp Follower

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 16. Harry Potter Deathly hallows part 2. 17. Hugo 18. Explorers 19. Mary and Max 20. Lawrence of Arabia 21. 50/50 22. Megamind 23. Young Adult 24. In Time 25. The Descendants 26. Baraka 27. The Fall
 
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Ashes

Banned
Ashes1396 said:
March

Films

8. The Taming of the Shrew [dir. Franco Zeffirelli; pw .William Shakespeare]
9. Hugo [ dir. Martin Scorsese]
10. The Grey [dir. Joe Carnahan]
11. Kahaani [dir. Sujoy Ghosh]
12. M [dir. Fritz Lang]
13. Alien [dir. Ridley Scott]

Books

5. The Sorrows of Young Werther [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
6. Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Gabriel García Márquez]
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April

Film

14. Tyrannosaur [Paddy Considine]
15. Aliens [Dir. James Cameron]
16. Wild Strawberries (1957) [Dir. Ingmar Bergman]
Smultronstället (original title)
17. Shutter Island [dir. Martin Scorsese]

Books

07. The Great Gatsby [F. Scott Fitzgerald]
08. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story [George Orwell]
09. Daisy Miller [Henry James]
10. The Hunger Games [Suzanne Collins]
11. Ender's game [Orson Scott Card]
 
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Maklershed

Member
Update time ..

New stuff in bold

Books
1. The Devil in the White City
2. Nightwoods
3. Gateway
4. Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
5. 11/22/63
6. The Merchant and the Alchemist Gate
7. Robopocalypse
8. Heechee Rendezvous
9. The Annals of the Heechee
10. The Mote in God's Eye
11. Eon
12. The Eden Hunter
13. Free Will Flux
14. The Door into Summer
15. Pushing Ice
16. The Purple Cloud
17. The God Delusion
18. Mistborn: The Final Empire
19. The Silent Sea


Movies
1. 13 Assassins
2. Tucker & Dale vs Evil
3. The Help
4. Castaway on the Moon
5. Jeremiah Johnson
6. Robin Hood
7. Valkyrie
8. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
9. Bridesmaids
10. The World, The Flesh, and The Devil
11. Warrior
12. Unforgiven
13. Dr. Strangelove
14. Super 8
15. Moneyball
16. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
17. Hanna
18. The Old Curiosity Shop
19. Casablanca
20. The Social Network
21. The Illustrated Man
22. To Have and to Have Not
23. The Big sleep
24. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
25. Drive
26. Sitting Pretty
 
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Ashes

Banned
Initial list for Week 20 (May 14, 2012 >May 20, 2012)

AndyD - Books 12/50 | Films 27/50
white dynamite - Books 04/50 | Films 33/50
xyla - Books 07/50 | Films 32/50
Yenrot - Books 05/50 | Films 29/50
EliCash - Books 07/50 | Films 22/50
Cerebral Assassin - Books 07/50 | Films 12/50
Crunched - Books 07/50 | Films 47/50
Maklershed - Books 09/50 | Films 26/50
Ashes1396 - Books 12/50 | Films 18/50
Kabouter - Books 12/50 | Films 24/50 | Games 13/25
Glaurungr - Books 06/50 | Films 20/50
AAequal - Books 16/50 | Films 10/50
Weepy - Books 04/50 | Films 12/50
Kilrogg - Books 02/50 | Films 03/50
Plywood - Books 10/50 | Films 14/50
Ceebs - Books 21/50 | Films 0/50
Lafiel - Books 06/50 | Films 32/50
Eltacoman - Books 11/50 | Films 11/50
AvidNobody - Books 08/50 | Films 10/50
Max Armstrong - Books 0/50 | Films 75/300
AtomskEater - Books 12/50 | Films 0/50
MorisUkunRasik - Books 20/25 | Films 06/50
thomaser - Books 01/50 | Films 1/50
Ward - Books 04/50 | Films 52/52

Final week 20 list will be hopefully be up by Sunday next (the following Sunday I guess).
 
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Kabouter

Member
Oh, I'm on Books 12/50, Films 24/50, Games 13/25
Definitely need to do some more reading over the summer. Should be around 20 books already :/.
 
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Ceekus

Member
I'm in this on the book front. It's a good way to keep motivated for summer reading w/o particular classes to necessarily motivate me.

Here's my list so far. Yes, it's entirely nonfiction/academic. I will be adding some fiction soon, I hope.

1. The Measure of Merit -- John Carson
2. Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform -- Thomas Popkewitz
3. After Finitude -- Quentin Meillassoux
4. Trust in Numbers -- Theodore Porter
5. Objectivity -- Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison
6. A History of the Modern Fact -- Mary Poovey

At the current rate, I'm not going to come close to fifty; but, I'd at least like to read 10-to-15 over the summer break. We'll see how that goes.
 
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thomaser

Member
My list so far:

Books:
1: Murakami: Underground
2: Franzen: Freedom
3: Toibin: Brooklyn
4: Svartvik/Leech: English: One Tongue, Many Voices
5: Phillips/Phillips: Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain
6: Robinson: Dead Right
7: Grass: The Tin Drum

Movies:
1: Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
2: Castaway on the Moon
 
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Ashes

Banned
Books

13. On Writing: A memoir of the craft [Stephen King]

Films

19. Pyaasa [ Dir. Guru Dutt]
20. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol [ Dir. Brad Bird]
 
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Yen

Member
Ashes, what did you think of On Writing? I've only recently got into King, haven't read that one yet.
 
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AndyD

aka andydumi
AndyD

Books
1. The Trial 2. A Selective History Of Max Werner 3. A Storm Of Swords 4. Call of Cthulu 5. Arabian Nights 6. The Giver 7. Frankenstein 8. Logic of Chance 9. The Magicians 10. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 11. Kim 12. Camp Follower 13. A Feast for Crows 14. The Art of Racing in the Rain 15. Night and Day 16. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 17. In the Garden of Beasts 19: Endurance: Shackleton's Voyage

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 16. Harry Potter Deathly hallows part 2. 17. Hugo 18. Explorers 19. Mary and Max 20. Lawrence of Arabia 21. 50/50 22. Megamind 23. Young Adult 24. In Time 25. The Descendants 26. Baraka 27. The Fall 28. Old Boys 29. The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover 30. The Adventures of Tin Tin 31. Antichrist
 
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Ashes

Banned
Yenrot said:
Ashes, what did you think of On Writing? I've only recently got into King, haven't read that one yet.
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On Writing: A memoir of a craft.

The book is in three parts

*life story until the beginning of writing the current book.
* writing help section
*and post the above two sections; you'll see what I mean when you read the book.


This is a good book in of itself, because Stephen King makes it easily accessible. It's short, insightful, funny in places, helpful and overall very readable. Because King wanted the book to be all the things aforementioned, it's more a summary of a ( economically) successful writer's life in the arts. Rather than how to be a critically acclaimed writer (in fact King reckons good writers can't be great).

I breezed through the opening, because I really only wanted to read the 'writing help' part, but that first part was actually insightful as well as poignant in parts, from a writing perspective as well.

The actual writing section, and the editing example is a summation of lots of advice found elsewhere, but still a good round-up of the main points. It isn't a style guide per se, rather a career writer's view on the pitfalls to avoid, and the habits to keep.

Tldr; recommended - with greater appeal for those interested in the art of writing.
 
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AtomskEater

Member
Halfway done, as far as books go. I might do a movie marathon since it looks like I'll finish 50 books early.

Books:
1. City of Bones
2. City of Ashes
3. I Am Legend
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. The Tales of Beedle the Bard
6. Invisible
7. Siddhartha
8. In Her Name: Omnibus Edition
9. Hunger Games
10. Alice in Deadland (would not recommend)
11. The Empire of Ice Cream
12. The Other Hand
13. Fire Angels
14. A Tear of Blood
15. The Devotion of Suspect X
16. Jake's Take
17. Heaven is High and the Emperor Far Away
18. Tick Tick Tick
19. The Slut Always Rides Shotgun
20. Season of the Macabre
21. Ramblefoot
22. Celtic Storms
23. Popgun Vol. 1
24. Wicked As They Come
25. Maka-Maka Vol. 2

Movies:
1. Chronicle
2. The Grey
 
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white dynamite

Member
MOVIES
1. The Adventures of Tin Tin
2. The Tree of Life
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Sunset Blvd.
5. Boogie Nights
6. A Beautiful Mind
7. Limitless
8. Se7en
9. Cleo from 5 to 7
10. Say Anything
11. 8 1/2
12. Stalag 17
13. A Hard Day's Night
14. Groundhog Day
15. Glory Road
16. Viva Cuba
17. The Wild Bunch
18. Can't Buy Me Love
19. Taxi Driver
20. Jeff, Who Lives at Home
21. Trouble in Paradise
22. The Descendants
23. Rosemary's Baby
24. The American Friend
25. sex, lies, and videotape
26. Salaam Bombay
27. Nights of Cabiria
28. The American Friend
29. Amores Perros
30. Hot Fuzz
31. House on Haunted Hill (1959)
32. The Matrix
33. 21 Grams
34. Waitress
35. The Cabin In The Woods
36. Y Tu Mamá También
37. Mel Blanc: The Man Of A Thousand Voices
38. Nine Lives
39. They Live
40. Sick Nurses
41. Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight
42. Paranormal Activity 2
43. Last Night
44. The Fly (1986)
45. How To Cook Your Life
46. Beerfest
47. I Love You, Beth Cooper
48. DMT: The Spirit Molecule

BOOKS
1. Looking for Alaska
2. Bossy Pants
3. Save the Cat!
4. I Drink For A Reason
 
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Banned
RED= Read.

Books:
#1 The Sea and Poison by Shusaku Endo
#2 Caim by José Saramago
#3 Plague 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
#14 Molloy by Samuel Beckett
#15 Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
#16 The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
#17 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
#18 Watt by Samuel Beckett
#19 The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
#20 At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
#21 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
#22 Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
#23 Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace
#24 Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
#25 Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
#26 Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
#27 Foe by J. M. Coetzee
#28 Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
#29 Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee

Saw Coetzee's Foe on Harold Bloom's Western Cannon list and decided to check it out and really liked it, after that I have been steadly reading his works. I wonder why he isn't more popular, he has won the booker prize twice and on top off that he is nobel laureate, yet I don't know many people who have heard of him. Waiting for the Barbarians has been my favorite so far and after that Foe.
 
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So I guess I need to catch up on my books.

Book 5: Walking Dead Rise of the Governer

Movie 5: Agengers
Movie 6: Gone
Movie 7: Contraband
Movie 8: Underworld Awakening
Movie 9: Shame
Movie 10: One for the Money
Movie 11: Warrior
Movie 12: Haywire
Movie 13: Hop
Movie 14: Miss Bala
Movie 15: The Sitter
Movie 16: Mission Imppossible Ghost Protocol
Movie 17: Water for Elephants
Movie 18: Immortals
Movie 19: The Adventures of Tin Tin
Movie 20: Dirty Girl
Movie 21: Flypaper
Movie 22: Colombiana
Movie 23: Our Idiot Brother
Movie 24: Hereafter
Movie 25: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Movie 26: A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
Movie 27: 13
Movie 28: Friends with Benefits
Movie 29: Apollo 18
Movie 30: Shark Night
Movie 31: Dumb and Dumber
Movie 32: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Movie 33: Killer Elite
Movie 34: The Thing
Movie 35: Tower Heist
Movie 36: Three Musketeers
Movie 37: Young Adult
 
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