50 books. 50 movies. One year - 2018 edition

Min · Jun 5, 2018

May Update:

Minishdriveby - 3/50 books | 54/50 Movies

Books
3. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Films
49. Black Panther (2018) directed by Ryan Coogler
50. Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) directed by Hayao Miyazaki
51. Annihilation (2018) directed by Alex Garland
52. Phantom Thread (2017) directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
53. Coco (2017) directed by Lee Unkrich
54. Three Colors: Red (1994) directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski

nny · Jun 7, 2018

It's sad how poorly I'm doing; I'm 3 games away from reaching 50 games, though.

May Update

nny - 5/50 books | 10/50 movies

Books:

May

Movies:

May
7. Black Panther (2018)
8. Isle of Dogs (2018)
9. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
10. Deadpool 2 (2018)

TV Shows:

May
14. Trailer Park Boys (S12, 2018)
15. Dear White People (S2, 2018)

Huh, all 2018.

GK86 · Jun 7, 2018

Alphabetical for May:

User - Books, Movies

1000 Needles - 19 28

2B or not 2B - 11 17

Amroth - 26 85

Atraveller - 14 34

Dec - 34 18

Edge - 0 49

FRANKEINSTEIN - 32 97

Fuu - 15 21

Gaiages - 12 27

GK86 - 1 36

Henry Jones Jr - 8 47

JetSetSoul - 34 146

Kinoki - 18 29

Kmonk - 24 56

Minishdriveby - 3 54

Mr. Doop - 18 29

Nappuccino - 16 12

Narag - 4 19

Nny - 5 10

Not Asleep - 34 20

Peaceland - 17 29

S.T.A.R.S Beret - 13 117

Sonyx - 22 21

Spectromixer - 22 56

SteveWinwood - 18 72

Tertullianlrenaeus - 22 0

TestMonkey - 44 25

V1n1c1uS - 16 39

Yakkue - 31 24

Book Worms:

TestMonkey 44

Dec 34

JetSetSoul 34

Not Asleep 34

Var 33

FRANKEINSTEIN 32

Yakkue 31

Roosters93 28

Amroth 26

Kmonk 24

Pau 23

Sonyx 22

Spectromixer 22

Tertullianlrenaeus 22

1000 Needles 19

Kinoki 18

Mr. Doop 18

SteveWinwood 18

Dandy Crocodile 18

Peaceland 17

Divination 17

G-Nitro 17

Nappuccino 16

V1n1c1uS 16

EverythingShiny 16

Nola 16

Movie Buffs:

JetSetSoul 146

S.T.A.R.S Beret 117

FRANKEINSTEIN 97

Amroth 85

Louie 73

SteveWinwood 72

Kmonk 56

Spectromixer 56

Minishdriveby 54

RatskyWatsky 51

Edge 49

Henry Jones Jr 47

V1n1c1uS 39

Roosters93 38

GK86 36

Atraveller 34

Nola 31

Hamarr 31

Kinoki 29

Mr. Doop 29

Peaceland 29

1000 Needles 28

Krauser Kat 28

Gaiages 27

Maker · Jun 8, 2018

Damn, missed the update. Just got back from vacation.

May Update

Maklershed - 14/50 books | 24/50 movies | 3 games

Books
14. Seveneves part 1

Movies
21. Solo
22. Body Rock
23. Ghost in the Shell
24. Predator 2

GK86 · Jun 8, 2018

Maker said:
Damn, missed the update. Just got back from vacation.

May Update

Maklershed - 14/50 books | 24/50 movies | 3 games

Books
14. Seveneves part 1

Movies
21. Solo
22. Body Rock
23. Ghost in the Shell
24. Predator 2

Updated yours.

Body Rock was fantastic. I would pay to see a dance off between Jason and June.

Maker · Jun 9, 2018

GK86 said:
Updated yours.

Body Rock was fantastic. I would pay to see a dance off between Jason and June.

With Alison doing the worm in between them. BTW - just watched The Hurricane Heist. Hooo boy was that stupid. I can't wait to hear them tear that one apart. Should be a good episode.

Ashes · Jun 15, 2018

Ashes 10/50 Books | 19/50 films

roosters93 · Jun 24, 2018

So didn't get round to doing a May Update :/
Might as well post now and consider it my June Update too, just edit it if I finish anything else before the end of the month.

roosters93- 36/50 books | 52/50 movies

Books

29. Award Winning Australian Writing 2016 edited by Chloe Brien ★★★
30. The Museum of Modern Love - Heather Rose ★★★★
31. Familiar Things - Hwang Sok-yong ★★★★
32. The Lebs - Michael Mohammed Ahmad ★★★
33. The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium #4) - David Lagercrantz ★★
34. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Millennium #5) - David Lagercrantz ★★
35. Shy: A Memoir - Sian Prior ★★★★
36. Panic - David Marr ★★★

Movies

39. Game Night (2018) ★★
40. Deadpool 2 (2018) ★★½
41. Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) ★★★
42. The Greatest Showman (2017) ★★½
43. Believer (2018) ★★★
44. Outrage (2010) ★★★
45. Outrage Beyond (2012) ★★½
46. Golden Slumber (2018) ★½
47. 1987: When the Day Comes (2017) ★★★★
48. Outrage Coda (2017) ★★½
49. What a Man Wants (2018) ★★★½
50. Little Forest (2018) ★★★★
51. Broken (2014) ★★★★
52. Wrath of Silence (2017) ★★★½

Watched over 50 movies now

Ashes · Jun 29, 2018

Ashes 13/50 Books | 20/50 films

https://www.resetera.com/threads/50-books-50-movies-one-year-2018-edition.13235/page-3#post-3016170

divination · Jun 29, 2018

So, I missed the last 3 months of updates, but I have been reading and watching movies! I'll just post my list in full.

divination - 48/50 books 35/50 movies

Books
1. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
2. No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin
3. Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin
4. Planet of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin
5. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
6. City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin
7. Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
8. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
9. The Waves by Virginia Woolf
10. Late in the Day: Poems 2010–2014 by Ursula K. Le Guin
11. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
12. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
13. The Divine Comedy, Vol. 1: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
14. Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
15. The Divine Comedy, Vol. 2: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri
16. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
17. Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold
18. Persuasion by Jane Austen
19. Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
20. The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump by Corey Robin
21. The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World by Alan Downs
22. The Plum in the Golden Vase (金瓶梅) : Vol. One: The Gathering by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
23. The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
24. Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future by Svetlana Alexievich
25. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
26. The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
27. Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
28. Le Morte D'Arthur: Volume I by Sir Thomas Malory
29. The Oracle Year by Charles Soule
30. Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist
31. Magician: Master by Raymond E. Feist
32. Silverthorn by Raymond E. Feist
33. Circe by Madeline Miller
34. Mary Anne by Daphne du Maurier
35. A Darkness at Sethanon by Raymond E. Feist
36. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
37. Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do with God by Greta Christina
38. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
39. As You Like It by William Shakespeare
40. Four Futures: Life After Capitalism by Peter Frase
41. Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
42. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
43. The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England by Dan Jones
44. Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling
45. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
46. Stalking Darkness by Lynn Flewelling
47. All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
48. The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer

Movies
1. 東京物語 (Tokyo Story) [1953]
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb [1964]
3. Doctor Zhivago [1965]
4. Singin' in the Rain [1952]
5. The Shape of Water [2017]
6. Persona [1966]
7. Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows) [1959]
8. Casablanca [1942]
9. The Grand Budapest Hotel [2014]
10. Rebel Without a Cause [1955]
11. The Bridge on the River Kwai [1957]
12. To Catch a Thief [1955]
13. Vertigo [1958]
14. North by Northwest [1959]
15. Chinatown [1974]
16. The Phantom of the Opera [2004]
17. The Harvey Girls [1946]
18. Fat Head [2009]
19. How to Marry a Millionaire [1953]
20. The Misfits [1961]
21. Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat [2014]
22. Niagara [1953]
23. Mr Smith Goes to Washington [1939]
24. Pride and Prejudice [2005]
25. Black Panther [2018]
26. A Date With Judy [1948]
27. Tomb Raider [2018]
28. RBG [2018]
29. Rosemary's Baby [1968]
30. Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1956]
31. The Amityville Horror [1979]
32. Murder on the Orient Express [2017]
33. Carrie [1976]
34. Ocean's 8 [2018]
35. Nosferatu [1922]

Narag · Jun 30, 2018

Narag - 4/50 Books | 21/50 Movies

June update reminding me I should read something new but I'm so comfortable in old stuff right now.

Not Asleep · Jun 30, 2018

divination said:
divination - 48/50 books 35/50 movies

You've been having a fun year! Are you following any sort of guide? Your movie list reads a bit like the AFI 100 list.

Did you like Traister's book? She's been one of my favorite writers on the feminist beat for the last 10 years. I bought All the Single Ladies pre-election, spent most of the year obsessively reading election coverage instead, and then found myself recoiling at the thought of reading the implicit optimism of the book's concept after the election.

I was oddly relieved to see her announce that her new book of women's rage was available for pre-order. I've very much wanted to read a book of hers for the last year and couldn't bring myself to read either Single Ladies or Big Girls Don't Cry.

Min · Jun 30, 2018

June Update:

Minishdriveby - 3/50 books | 71/50 Movies

Films
55. Avengers: Infinity War (2018) directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo
56. Society (1992) directed by Brian Yuzna
57. The Alchemist Cookbook (2017) directed by Joel Potrykus
58. The Myth of the American Sleepover (2010) directed by David Robert Mitchell
59. Tokyo Story (1953) directed by Yasujiro Ozu
60. Playtime (1967) directed by Jacques Tati
61. Chunking Express (1994) directed by Wong Kar-wai
62. Paris, Texas (1984) directed by Wim Wenders
63. The Boss of It All (2006) directed by Lars von Trier
64. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) directed by Luis Buñuel
65. The Phantom of Liberty (1974) directed by Luis Buñuel
66. In the Mood for Love (2000) directed by Wong Kar-wai
67. The Hidden Fortress (1958) directed by Akira Kurosawa
68. Easy Rider (1969) directed by Dennis Hopper
69. Ikiru (1952) directed by Akira Kurosawa
70. Dogville (2003) directed by Lars von Trier
71. Yi Yi (2000) directed by Edward Yang

So I watched quite a few movies, and I'm working through the next book on my reading list (it's just rather long).

FRANKEINSTEIN · Jun 30, 2018

June Update

FRANKEINSTEIN - 45/50 Books | 124/50 Movies

Books
1. (33) The Dirty Parts of the Bible by Sam Torode ★★★
2. (34) The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt ★★★★★
3. (35) Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer ★★★★
4. (36) Bash Bash Revolution by Douglas Lain ★★
5. (37) The Sellout by Paul Beatty ★★★
6. (38) Six-Gun Snow White by Catherine M. Valente ★★★★
7. (39) Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore ★★★★★
8. (40) Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem ★★★★
9. (41) Authority by Jeff Vandermeer ★★★★
10. (42) The Catcher was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff ★★★
11. (43) Billionaires, Bullets, Exploding Monkeys by Mike Attebery ★★
12. (44) Coraline by Neil Gaiman ★★★★
13. (45) Failure is an Option: An Attempted Memoir by H Jon Benjamin ★★★★

Movies
1. (98) Annihilation ★★★★
2. (99) The Fog (1980) ★★★
3. (100)The Imitation Game ★★★★★
4. (101) Halloween 2 (1981) ★★★
5. (102) Terror in the Aisles ★★
6. (103) Kickboxer: Retaliation ★★★
7. (104) The Stand ★★★
8. (105) Lady Snowblood ★★★
9. (106) All the Money in the World ★★★
10. (107) Please Srand By ★★★★
11. (108) Thoroughbreds ★★★★
12 (109) Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance ★★
13. (110) Bushwick ★★★★
14. (111) The Whole Truth ★★★
15. (112) The Little Hours ★★★
16. (113) Dirty Grandpa ★
17 (114) Shot Caller ★★★
18. (115) Valley of the Dolls ★★★
19. (116) Mom and Dad ★★★
20. (117) Mimic ★★★★
21. (118) Zoolander 2 ★★★
22. (119) Cronos ★★★★
23. (120) Pacific Rim: Uprising ★★★
24. (121) The Devil's Backbone ★★★★
25. (122) Rick and Morty season 3 ★★★
26. (123) Jack Reacher ★★★
27. (124) Jack Reacher: Never Go Back ★★★

OP
https://www.resetera.com/posts/2625516/

I quit my job at the end of May because we are currently in the middle of moving to another state. So I had a lot more time than usual so got through a good amount of books and movies.

TestMonkey · Jun 30, 2018

June Update

TestMonkey - 49/50 books | 27/50 movies

Books:

Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk

If You Can Talk, You Can Write by Joel Saltzman

First Lord's Fury by Jim Butcher

Noir: A Novel by Christopher Moore

Movies:

Incredibles 2

W. Kamau Bell: Private School Negro

divination · Jun 30, 2018

Not Asleep said:
You've been having a fun year! Are you following any sort of guide? Your movie list reads a bit like the AFI 100 list.

Did you like Traister's book? She's been one of my favorite writers on the feminist beat for the last 10 years. I bought All the Single Ladies pre-election, spent most of the year obsessively reading election coverage instead, and then found myself recoiling at the thought of reading the implicit optimism of the book's concept after the election.

I was oddly relieved to see her announce that her new book of women's rage was available for pre-order. I've very much wanted to read a book of hers for the last year and couldn't bring myself to read either Single Ladies or Big Girls Don't Cry.

I've been working off of a list my movie buff friend gave me as well as BFI's 100 best films of all time. I realized that I hadn't seen hardly any classic films, so I decided to change that this year!

I loved the book actually! I initially had the same thoughts as you about reading it, but I figured what better time to read it than right now when women are taking such a prominent role in politics? Def excited for her new book as well. Anytime I see her post a new article on NYMag I have to read it right away lol.

Yakkue · Jun 30, 2018

June Update:

Yakkue - 36/50 books | 26/50 movies

Books:

For We Are Many - Dennis E. Taylor ★★★
All These Worlds - Dennis E. Taylor ★★★
After The Funeral - Agatha Christie ★★★★
Murder is Easy- Agatha Christie ★★★★
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan ★★

Movies:

Black Panther ★★★★
The Awakening (2011) ★★★

Peaceland · Jun 30, 2018

June Update

Peaceland - 18/50 Books | 36/50 Movies

books:

18. Difficult Men - Brett Martin

Movies:

30. I, Tonya (2017)
31. Upgrade (2018)
32. Hereditary (2018)
33. Lupin The 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
34. Colossal (2016)
35. Rad (1986)
36. Christine (2016)

Not Asleep · Jun 30, 2018

June Update

Not Asleep - 39/50 books | 27/50 movies

Books:

Radium Girls - Kate Moore - ★★★★★
Quilting with a Modern Slant - Rachel May - ★★★
Trip of the Tongue - Elizabeth Little - ★★★★
Code Girls - Liz Mundy- ★★★★★
Victoria and Abdul - Shrabani Basu - ★★★1/2

Movies:

The Chinese Exclusion Act (American Experience, 2018) - ★★★★★
RFK (American Experience, 2018) - ★★★1/2
The Brainwashing of My Dad - (2016) - ★★★
Missing Mom (2016) - ★★1/2
The Gilded Age (American Experience, 2018) - ★★★1/2
Crime After Crime (2011) - ★★★★
Phyllis and Harold (2008) - ★★1/2

For anyone interested in women's history (or labor or military history), both Radium Girls and Code Girls were amazing. Radium Girls is about watch dial painters in the early 20th century who painted with radium and suffered terrible disabilities and illnesses as a result. Their lawsuits against their companies were important for establishing workers' right to safety in the workplace.

Code Girls is about the women codebreakers in the Army and Navy in WWII. The units they worked in were precursors to the NSA. Men were needed for combat service, so this technical work fell to some 7000 women, who enlisted and/or were commissioned to do cryptographic work that helped ensure the success of naval and land campaigns against the Axis powers.

Code Girls was a little better than Radium Girls in zooming out to the larger societal context of women working at a time when women generally didn't work or encouraged to go to college but both paint vivid portraits of these (mostly young) women and of the times they lived in.

divination I love her NYMag columns! It always feels like she so eloquently expresses the incoherent, scared and angry spluttering and flailing that's constantly in my head. I'll see if I can work in reading Single Ladies this summer. :)

I sort of envy your watching all those movies for the first time. I did something similar years ago (lol, I had to rent VHS to watch most of them) and it was immensely gratifying.

1000 Needles · Jun 30, 2018

June Update

1000 Needles - 19/50 books | 29/50 movies

Books:

None

Movies:

American Made (2017)

Well, that's just plain embarrassing all around.

Dec · Jun 30, 2018

June Update:

Dec - 42/50 books | 21/50 movies

Books:

35. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Nagaru Tanigawa ★★★½
36. City of Stairs - Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★★½
38. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (606 pages) ★★★★
39. Half a King - Joe Abercrombie ★★★½
40. The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett ★★½
41. 1984 - George Orwell ★★★★½
42. Along Came A Spider - James Patterson ★★★½

Movies:

19. Tomb Raider ★★★½
20. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ★★★
21. The Hitman's Bodyguard ★★★½

Spectromixer · Jun 30, 2018

Spectromixer - 23/50 Books | 63/50 Movies

June Update

Books:

Authority by Jeff VanderMeer

Movies:

Always (1989) dir. Steven Spielberg
Upgrade (2018) dir. Leigh Whannell
Evil Dead II (1987) dir. Sam Raimi
Army of Darkness (1992) dir. Sam Raimi
The Lovely Bones (2009) dir. Peter Jackson
Abott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) dir Charles Lamont
Incredibles 2 (2018) dir. Brad Bird

Deleted member 1265 · Jun 30, 2018

June update

S.T.A.R.S Beret - 14/50 Books | 128/50 Movies

Books:

14. The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - 2.5/5

Movies:

118. Vive L'Amour (1994) - Tsai Ming-liang - 4/5
119. Goodbye, Draqon Inn (2003) - Tsai Ming-liang - 4/5
120. Call Me by Your Name (2017) - Luca Guadagnino - .5/5
121. Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (2015) - Stephen Cone - 2/5
122. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006) - Tsai Ming-liang - 4/5
123. Hereditary (2018) - Ari Aster - 4/5
124. 4 Moons (2014) - Sergio Tovar Velarde - 2/5
125. Paris 05:59: Theo & Hugo (2016) - Oliver Ducastel, Jacques Martineau - 2.5/5
126. Private Romeo (2011) - Alan Brown - 2/5
127. Departure (2015) - Andrew Steggall - 1.5/5
128. Alone (2013) - Marcelo Breim Stamm - .5/5

Fuu · Jul 1, 2018

June update

Fuu - 19/50 books | 25/50 movies

Books:
16. Kindred (1979), Octavia E. Butler
17. Fim (2013), Fernanda Torres
18. It Chooses You (2011), Miranda July
19. The Hike (2016), Drew Magary

Movies:
22. They Remain (2018), Philip Gelatt
23. Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), Steven S. DeKnight
24. Kate Can't Swim (2017), Josh Helman
25. Modern Life is Rubbish (2017), Daniel Gill

Amroth · Jul 1, 2018

Amroth - 27/50 books | 91/50 movies

June update:

Books:

Gert Nygårdshaug - Mengele Zoo (1989)

Movies:

Bridesmaids - Paul Feig (2011)
Ghost in the Shell - Rupert Sanders (2017)
Now You See Me 2 - John M. Chu (2016)
Solyaris - Andrei Tarkovsky (1971)
Transformers: The Last Knight - Michael Bay (2017)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets - Luc Besson (2017)

kinoki · Jul 1, 2018

kinoki - 25/50 books | 34/50 movies

The June Update - Midpoint

Books

Husmoderns död och andra texter (2014), Sara Danius - ★★★½
Lincoln in the Bardo (2017), George Saunders - ★★★
Il barone rampante (1957), Italo Calvino - ★★★½
Nordisk kokbok (2015), Magnus Nilsson - ★★★★
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Enrich Maria Remarque - ★★★★
Fashion (2003), Christopher Breward - ★★★
Architecture for the Poor (1969), Hassan Fathy - ★★★★

Movies

Coco (2017), dir. Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina - ★★★½
Toy Story 3 (2010), dir. Lee Unkrich - ★★½
Lilo & Stitch (2002), dir. Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders - ★★
The Rescuers (1977), dir. John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, Art Stevens - ★★½
High-Rise (2015), dir. Ben Wheatley - ★★★½

Midpoint reached. Books finally up to pace. Movies have been mostly Disney. Rewatched a few movies, again mostly Disney. Have just been in a cartoon-y feel.

Mr. Doop · Jul 1, 2018

June Update

Mr. Doop - 23/50 Books | 31/50 Movies

Books:
19/20. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood (2000) - June 5
21. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (1927) - June 15
22. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (1818) - June 18
23. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (1916) - June 29

Movies:
30. The Incredibles 2 (2018) - June 16
31. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - June 20

Sonyx · Jul 1, 2018

June update:

Sonyx - 24/50 Books | 21/50 Movies

Books:
23. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
24. Robots and Empire - Isaac Asimov

Movies:
None :(

Soooo I'm a book behind. I've been really slacking with reading the last few months, barely catching up. Hopefully I'll manage the second half of the year better. As for movies, while I'm behind on schedule, I should have no trouble reaching 50 by the end of the year.

Maker · Jul 1, 2018

June Update

Books
15. Seveneves part 2
16. Based on a True Story
17. Time Out of Joint
18. Bread
19. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
20. Bearskin

Movies
25. Avengers Infinity War
26. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Games
4. Far Cry 5

EDIT: I also watched Rad and The Hurricane Heist but I dont feel good about putting them on my list because I didn't pay close enought attention to Rad and I missed the final 30 minutes or so of the The Hurricane Heist and I'll be damned if I rent it again just to finish it.

Kmonk · Jul 1, 2018

June Update:

Kmonk - 29/50 books | *65/50 movies

Books:

25. Foundation - by Isaac Asimov - ★★★★★
26. Foundation and Empire - by Isaac Asimov - ★★★½
27. The Private Eye - by Brian K. Vaughan(W), Marcos Martin(A) - ★★★★½
28. Second Foundation - by Isaac Asimov - ★★★★
29. Invincible: Ultimate Collection Vol 12 - By Robert Kirkman(W), Ryan Ottley(A) - ★★★★★

Movies:

57. A Futile and Stupid Gesture - ★★★½
58. The Shape of Water - ★★★★★
59. Broad City (Season 4) - ★★★★
60. Iron Fist (Season 1) - ★★★
61. Won't You Be My Neighbor - ★★★★½
62. The Defenders (Season 1) - ★★★★½
63. Pele: Birth of a Legend - ★★★
64. Strange Days - ★★★½
65. Easy Rider - ★★★★

-Finishing the entire original Foundation trilogy in one month was great. It gave me some new perspective on Asimov's work.

-While it disappointed me that I fell off my pace for reading books, I'm proud of myself for staying on track for the challenge at the halfway point.

TertullianIrenaeus · Jul 2, 2018

June update:

TertullianIrenaeus - 25/50 books | 0/50 movies

Books:

23. The blind assassin - Atwood, Margaret
24. To the lighthouse - Woolf, Virginia
25. The waves - Woolf, Virginia

I thought The waves was a spectacular book, which surprised me because I did not enjoy To the lighthouse.

Currently working on Henry James' The portrait of a lady.

TertullianIrenaeus · Jul 2, 2018

Mr. Doop said:
June Update

Mr. Doop - 23/50 Books | 31/50 Movies

Books:
19/20. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood (2000) - June 5
21. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf (1927) - June 15
22. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (1818) - June 18
23. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce (1916) - June 29

Movies:
30. The Incredibles 2 (2018) - June 16
31. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - June 20

How did you like Portrait of the artist? I've never read any Joyce before and I've been meaning to get into him.

Mr. Doop · Jul 2, 2018

TertullianIrenaeus said:
How did you like Portrait of the artist? I've never read any Joyce before and I've been meaning to get into him.

I actually enjoyed it quite a bit! It was my first experience with Joyce, but I actually found it to be pretty managable in terms of content. It's a bit hard to understand in the beginning before Stephen matures and grows up, but the way the novel follows him as he grows is fascinating. Give it a shot, it's not a very long book.

SteveWinwood · Jul 2, 2018

SteveWinwood - 19/50 Books | 83/50 Movies

June Update

Books

19. The Old Man and the Sea (1952) - Ernest Hemingway ★★★

Movies

73. The Kissing Booth (2018) ★
74. Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987) ★
75. Ocean's 8 (2018) ★★★
76. Hereditary (2018) ★★★★
77. Blue Jasmine (2013) ★★★
78. Gringo (2018) ★★★
79. Set It Up (2018) ★★
80. Red Sparrow (2018) ★★★
81. Incredibles 2 (2018) ★★★★
82. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) ★★★
83. Book of Henry (2017) ★

I am falling far behind in books :/

TertullianIrenaeus · Jul 2, 2018

Mr. Doop said:
I actually enjoyed it quite a bit! It was my first experience with Joyce, but I actually found it to be pretty managable in terms of content. It's a bit hard to understand in the beginning before Stephen matures and grows up, but the way the novel follows him as he grows is fascinating. Give it a shot, it's not a very long book.

Definitely will; thanks!

GK86 · Jul 2, 2018

June update:

GK86 - 1/50 books | 43/50 movies

Hereditary
Baywatch
Hurricane Heist
Blue Brothers 2000
Set it Up
Striptease
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Been doing such a shit job with reading.

Given the holiday coming up, I will try to update Friday, to give people more time.

JetSetSoul · Jul 3, 2018

Haven't had time to do a tally as I've been vacationing in Montreal. A lot of updating to do for the month, so may take a maitaince month.

I'm really enjoying Less, the Pulitzer winner from last year. And David Lynch's biography / memoir has been instructive. Won't You Be My Neighbor is one of my favorites this year and I've never seen a theater cry together like that. First Reformed and Hereditary were very interesting and well done although I don't personally love them. Still recommend them fully because I know the type of person who will love them.

v1n1c1uS · Jul 3, 2018

June Update.

Books

17.Morning Miracle - Hal Elroad - 06/06
18.Blade of the Immortal(Full Series) - Hiroaki Samura - 07/06
19.The Subtle Art of giving a f*ck - Mark Manson - 30/06

TV Shows

40.Billions - Season 3(2018) - 11/06
41.The Expanse - Season 3(2018) - 28/06

fuzzylogic · Jul 3, 2018

June

fuzzylogic - 14/50 books | 20/50 movies

Henry Jones Jr · Jul 3, 2018

June Update

Henry Jones Jr - 8/50 books | 49/50 movies

Books

None :(

Movies

Wonder Woman (2017)
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

Bad month all around. Spent a lot of time reading comics this month, but I don't want to count them.

GK86 · Jul 3, 2018

Will update again come Friday for any late comers. I'm surprised nobody has completed the challenge so far this year. We usually have a handful of posters that do by this time.

June update:

User - Books, Movies:

1000 Needles - 19 29

Amroth - 27 91

Ashes - 13 20

Dec - 42 21

Divination - 48 35

FRANKEINSTEIN - 45 124

Fuu - 19 25

Fuzzylogic -14 20

GK86 - 1 43

Henry Jones Jr - 8 49

Kinoki - 25 34

Kmonk - 29 65

Maker - 20 26

Minishdriveby - 3 71

Mr. Doop - 23 31

Narag - 4 21

Not Asleep - 39 27

Peaceland - 18 36

Roosters93 - 36 52

S.T.A.R.S Beret -14 128

Sonyx - 24 21

Spectromixer - 23 63

SteveWinwood - 19 83

Tertullianlrenaeus - 25 0

TestMonkey - 49 27

V1n1c1uS - 19 41

Yakkue - 36 26

Book Worms:

TestMonkey 49

Divination 48

FRANKEINSTEIN 45

Dec 42

Not Asleep 39

Roosters93 36

Yakkue 36

JetSetSoul 34

Var 33

Kmonk 29

Amroth 27

Kinoki 25

Tertullianlrenaeus 25

Sonyx 24

Mr. Doop 23

Spectromixer 23

Pau 23

Maker 20

1000 Needles 19

Fuu 19

SteveWinwood 19

V1n1c1uS 19

Peaceland 18

Dandy Crocodile 18

G-Nitro 17

Movie Buffs:

JetSetSoul 146

S.T.A.R.S Beret 128

FRANKEINSTEIN 124

Amroth 91

SteveWinwood 83

Louie 73

Minishdriveby 71

Kmonk 65

Spectromixer 63

Roosters93 52

RatskyWatsky 51

Henry Jones Jr 49

Edge 49

GK86 43

V1n1c1uS 41

Peaceland 36

Divination 35

Kinoki 34

Atraveller 34

Mr. Doop 31

Nola 31

Hamarr 31

1000 Needles 29

Krauser Kat 28

DorkLord54 · Jul 4, 2018

May and June Update

DorkLord54 - 5/50 Books | 27/50 Movies

Books

3. Annihilation (2014) - Jeff VanderMeer ★★★
4. The Looting Machine (2015) - Tim Burgis ★★★★★
5. The South Side (2016) - Natalie Y. Moore ★★★★

Movies

20. Tropic Thunder (2008) - Ben Stiller ★★★★
21. Paddington 2 (2017) - Paul King ★★★★★
22. Super Dark Times (2017) - Kevin Philips ★★★★
23. Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) - Ron Howard ★★★
24. Thor: Ragnarok (2017) - Taika Watiti ★★★★
25. Incredibles 2 (2018) - Brad Bird ★★★★★
26. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) - James Gunn ★★★
27. IT (2017) - Andy Muschietti ★★★

Deleted member 21220 · Jul 4, 2018

June Update:

2B or not 2B - 12/50 Books | 20/50 Movies

Books:

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Still making my way through the series. The writing has gotten better, but I feel whenever it gets to a point where someone has died that it just happens and is quite anti-climatic . Guess I'll just have to see how the rest of the books are handled. ★★★★

Movies:

Your Name
While body swapping isn't a new concept, it's rarely done well, and I think Your Name is a good example of it done right. The characters were great, the story was amazing, it was something different and I would defiantly recommend it!!
★★★★
We Need to Talk About Kevin
This isn't an amazing film, and definitely not one where you have to try and figure out the twist. But it is gripping and makes you want to keep watching. The performances are good, sometimes a bit confusing at times, but overall it's a good movie.
★★★½
Hereditary
I went in not expecting anything amazing, but this movie is almost a joke. It was over the top and overly dramatic for no reason other than being edgy. The acting wasn't great and the story is just a big jumble. It was okay at the beginning, which is the reason I'm giving it 2 and a half stars, but it quickly goes downhill with it's nonsense.
★★½

louie · Jul 4, 2018

June Update :Louie - 19/50 Books | 100/50 Movies

Books:

June
19. East of Eden - John Steinbeck (500+ pages)

Movies:

June
90. Juene Femme
91. Get Carter
92. Deadpool 2
93. My Friend Dahmer
94. This Is An Adventure
95. On Chesil Beach
96. The Good The Bad and The Ugly
97. Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom
98. The Sound of Music
99. Hereditary
100. Leave No Trace

Another slow month as I sort out some health issues.

nny · Jul 4, 2018

E3 followed by the World Cup? Yeah, it's not surprising that this was my June:

June Update

nny - 6/50 books | 11/50 movies

Books:

June
6. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (Randall Munroe, 2014)

Movies:

June
11. Arion (1986)

TV Shows:

June
16. The Toys That Made Us (S1, 2018)

Atraveller · Jul 5, 2018

June Update
Books

Official GRE Quantitative Reasoning Practice Questions
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans At War
The Black Company

Movies

Isle of Dogs
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Hereditary
The VVitch
The Incredibles 2

Maker · Jul 6, 2018

Atraveller said:
June Update
The Black Company
The VVitch

Nice.

Atraveller · Jul 7, 2018

Maker said:
Nice.

I don't like The Black Comoany that much to be honest. It's a bit juvenile for something that's suppose to be dark fantasy, and most characters were different shades of "cool guy with a dark past" and "I'm too old for this shit.", the physician wasn't terribly engaging either.

Maker · Jul 7, 2018

Atraveller said:
I don't like The Black Comoany that much to be honest. It's a bit juvenile for something that's suppose to be dark fantasy, and most characters were different shades of "cool guy with a dark past" and "I'm too old for this shit.", the physician wasn't terribly engaging either.

I understand if you wouldn't stick with it because its a big commitment but the books change into a newish/great series after the first three. It's more of an adventure.

JetSetSoul · Jul 7, 2018

Here we are:

Books
Less (Andrew Greer, 2017) ★★★★★

Films
Disobedience (Sebastián Lelio, 2018) ★★★★
A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1954) ★★★
Duck Butter (Miguel Arteta, 2018) ★★
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Gary Trousdale, 1996) ★★★★
ET (Steven Spielberg, 1982)★★★★★
Braven (Lin Oeding, 2018) ★★½
Adrift (Baltasar Kormákur, 2018)★★★★
Dark Passage (Delmer Daves, 1947) ★★★★½
Mad Max Fury Road (George Miller, 2015) ★★★★★
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathon Demme, 1991) ★★★★★
The Light Between Oceans (Derek Cianfrance, 2016) ★★★½
Nathan for You: Finding Frances (Nathan Fielder, 2017) ★★★★½
Upgrade (Leigh Wannel, 2018) ★★★
Mission Impossible (Brian De Palma, 1996)★★★★
Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007) ★★★★½
Love Simon (Greg Berlanti, 2018) ★★½
Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973) ★★★★½
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (Morgan Neville, 2018) ★★★★★
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962) ★★★★
The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004) ★★½
Mary Shelley (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2018) ★★★★
Primal Rage (Patrick Magee, 2018) ★★½
Party Bus to Hell (Rolfe Kanefsky, 2018) ★½
Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995) ★★★★½
Island Zero (John Garritson, 2018) ★★
Tag (Jeff Tomsic, 2018) ★★★½
Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018) ★★★★
Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993) ★★★★★
Monsters University (Dan Scanlon) ★★½
Permanent (Colette Burson, 2017) ★★★½
Haxan (Benjamin Christensen, 1922)★★★★½
Indian Horse (Stephen S Campenelli, 2018) ★★★★
Roman J Israel, Esq. (Dan Gilroy, 2017) ★★★★
First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017) ★★★★
Recovery Boys (Elaine Sheldon, 2018) ★★★
Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom (Juan Bayona, 2018) ★★½

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