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Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Tue February 19, 2019 12:56 am
I've been POOSSTTIiiEEnngeeaahh
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Yep I read the book. The movie very much felt like it was for people that read the book and could fill in the blanks in the plot they cut for time and expense.
Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Tue February 19, 2019 4:36 pm
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32222 Location: Where everybody knows your name
18/50 Books
The Green Eagle Score- Richard Stark The Sour Lemon Score- Richard Stark Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 1 Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 2 Essential Captain Marvel Vol 2 Steely Dan: The Complete Guide to Their Music Deadly Edge - Richard Stark Slayground - Richard Stark Plunder Squad - Richard Stark The Damsel - Richard Stark The Blackbird - Richard Stark Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 3 (over 500 pages) Butcher’s Moon - Richard Stark Lemons Don't Lie - Richard Stark Comeback - Richard Stark Backflash - Richard Stark Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
5/50 Movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Sin City Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
_________________ Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing! - C. Montgomery Burns
Frankie “The Machine” Machianno is one of the greatest mobster characters ever created, in the range of Michael Corleone and Tony Soprano. Like those two iconic gangsters, Frankie balances his life as a violent criminal with a practical and affectionate concern for his family, immediate and extended. Perhaps more Corleone than Soprano in his sensibilities and old school moralities, he is nonetheless a blue-collar soldier, a hitman with the instincts of a killer.
Frankie is a retired and legendary button man, a fixer who is “automatic” and so the alliterative moniker stuck. He is a beloved bait shop owner who also has interests in a linen and a fresh fish business, his days as a hired gunman are far behind him. He is a hard working entrepreneur who is holding down multiple jobs to support his ex-wife and to pay for his daughter’s school. But when his Mafioso past comes back in the form of a “meeting” he finds himself on the outside looking in as decades old crimes come back to haunt him. Frankie is on the run, trying to survive while also trying to learn who has set him up.
I'm re-reading it now and it's similar to the Parker stories...kind of like a 60-year-old Parker. Winslow is a great writer and I think this is right up your alley.
Frankie “The Machine” Machianno is one of the greatest mobster characters ever created, in the range of Michael Corleone and Tony Soprano. Like those two iconic gangsters, Frankie balances his life as a violent criminal with a practical and affectionate concern for his family, immediate and extended. Perhaps more Corleone than Soprano in his sensibilities and old school moralities, he is nonetheless a blue-collar soldier, a hitman with the instincts of a killer.
Frankie is a retired and legendary button man, a fixer who is “automatic” and so the alliterative moniker stuck. He is a beloved bait shop owner who also has interests in a linen and a fresh fish business, his days as a hired gunman are far behind him. He is a hard working entrepreneur who is holding down multiple jobs to support his ex-wife and to pay for his daughter’s school. But when his Mafioso past comes back in the form of a “meeting” he finds himself on the outside looking in as decades old crimes come back to haunt him. Frankie is on the run, trying to survive while also trying to learn who has set him up.
I'm re-reading it now and it's similar to the Parker stories...kind of like a 60-year-old Parker. Winslow is a great writer and I think this is right up your alley.
Hey, thanks bune! I’ll definitely check this out.
_________________ Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing! - C. Montgomery Burns
Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Thu February 21, 2019 1:22 am
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32222 Location: Where everybody knows your name
19/50 Books
The Green Eagle Score- Richard Stark The Sour Lemon Score- Richard Stark Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 1 Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 2 Essential Captain Marvel Vol 2 Steely Dan: The Complete Guide to Their Music Deadly Edge - Richard Stark Slayground - Richard Stark Plunder Squad - Richard Stark The Damsel - Richard Stark The Blackbird - Richard Stark Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 3 (over 500 pages) Butcher’s Moon - Richard Stark Lemons Don't Lie - Richard Stark Comeback - Richard Stark Backflash - Richard Stark Born Standing Up - Steve Martin Flashfire - Richard Stark
5/50 Movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Sin City Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
_________________ Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing! - C. Montgomery Burns
Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Fri February 22, 2019 1:58 am
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32222 Location: Where everybody knows your name
20/50 Books
The Green Eagle Score- Richard Stark The Sour Lemon Score- Richard Stark Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 1 Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 2 Essential Captain Marvel Vol 2 Steely Dan: The Complete Guide to Their Music Deadly Edge - Richard Stark Slayground - Richard Stark Plunder Squad - Richard Stark The Damsel - Richard Stark The Blackbird - Richard Stark Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 3 (over 500 pages) Butcher’s Moon - Richard Stark Lemons Don't Lie - Richard Stark Comeback - Richard Stark Backflash - Richard Stark Born Standing Up - Steve Martin Flashfire - Richard Stark The Complete Making of Indiana Jones - JW Rinzler
5/50 Movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Sin City Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
_________________ Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing! - C. Montgomery Burns
Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Fri February 22, 2019 4:31 am
The Master
Joined: Sun May 25, 2014 9:32 pm Posts: 31614 Location: Garbage Dump
1. Nightwing (1979) 2. DreamChild (1985) 3. Second Act (2018) 4. Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) 5. Hell Fest (2018) 6. Stephanie (2018) 7. Roadgames (1981) 8. The Last Laugh (2019) 9. Eye See You (2002) 10. Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018) 11. Seeds (1968) 12. Short Eyes (1977) 13. Fyre (2019) 14. Brides of Blood (1968) 15. Guru, the Mad Monk (1970) 16. Flesh & Blood (2018) 17. Night Train Murders (1975) 18. Joy Ride (2001) 19. Who Can Kill a Child? (1976) 20. Beast with a Gun (1977) 21. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018) 22. Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972) 23. Kin (2018) 24. Kidnapped (1998) 25. Deep Cover (1992) 26. The Learning Tree (1969) 27. Skinner (1993) 28. Philadelphia (1993) 29. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) 30. Rituals (1977) 31. Shock Corridor (1963) 32. Carnival of Blood (1970) 33. The Fan (1982) 34. The Devil's Honey (1986) 35. Intruder in the Dust (1949) 36. Overlord (2018) 37. Corruption (1983) 38. Last House on Dead End Street (1977)
4/50 Movies: 1. The Avengers: Infinity War 2. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 3. Ocean's 8 4. Fyre
3/50 Books: 1. The End of the End of the World - Jonathan Franzen 2. Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi 3. Becoming - Michelle Obama
8/50 Albums: 1. Around the Sun - R.E.M. 2. Accelerate - R.E.M. 3. Here We Rest - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit 4. Lifers - Cody Jinks 5. Ash & Ice - The Kills 6. Canterbury Girls - Lily & Madeliene 7. My Woman - Angel Olsen 8. Horses - Patti Smith (revisiting after more than a decade)
Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Sat February 23, 2019 7:31 am
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:03 pm Posts: 9359 Location: Washington State
09/50 Books
Cable & Deadpool, Volume 1: If Looks Could Kill by Fabian Nicieza Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1) by Hugh Howey Wrapped-Up FoxTrot: A Treasury with the Final Daily Strips by Bill Amend Space Unicorn Blues by T.J. Berry Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay by J.K. Rowling Breach (Cold War Magic #1) by W.L. Goodwater Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse by Steve Behling Hark! the Herald Angels Scream: An Anthology by Christopher Golden (Editor) The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow
Really liked Breach. Just enough magic mixed with alternate history and it was great. It says book 1 but who knows if there will be a book two. The ending made it seem like a bit of a cop out but here's hoping.
Spider-Man was great. Very short - finished it in a day - but then it didn't expand on the movie at all. No extra inside-voice beats or anything that you'd expect from a novel.
The anthology had some good stories in it but they were far outstripped by the bad ones.
Little bit better on my reading challenge now. Though I have a book that I've been reading for months because it just hasn't grabbed me. It sucks because I won it from a Goodreads giveaway contest and they keep asking me when I'm going to write a review.
21/50 Movies
Hogfather (2006) Adventures in Babysitting (1987) Brigsby Bear (2017) Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) Better Off Dead... (1985) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes: Aquaman - Rage of Atlantis (2018) ¡Three Amigos! (1986) For Your Consideration (2006) Bumblebee (2018) Sorry to Bother You (2018) Blood Father (2016) Seven Psychopaths (2012) Sicario (2015) Bronson (2008) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017) Christopher Robin (2018) Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Top Secret! (1984) How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
Blood Father was...odd. Not enough revenge. Might have to read the book and see how that fares, since it seemed like it was maybe a little sped up in spots. A book would be able to do that slow burn revenge that's oh so good.
Seven Psychopaths was and interesting flick, not at all what I was expecting. Though I just read the wiki for it and realized I should have expected that since it was the same guy as In Bruges. Weird that Sam Rockwell ended up playing the same basic person three years later in Mr. Right.
Sicario was great all-round. I've seen that scene on the roadway a couple times in gifs and memes but it didn't make it any less awesome. And seeing everyone's favorite burned spy was nice, though the mustache was a weird touch.
The bad guy in MIRN reminded me of Mike McCready with the hair and glasses. Took me out of the movie every time because that's just who I saw.
Top Secret is better in gif form as there's too many parts that were just dull, like not even a funny background thing going on.
HTTYD was really good.
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Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Sun February 24, 2019 1:02 am
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32222 Location: Where everybody knows your name
21/50 Books
The Green Eagle Score- Richard Stark The Sour Lemon Score- Richard Stark Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 1 Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 2 Essential Captain Marvel Vol 2 Steely Dan: The Complete Guide to Their Music Deadly Edge - Richard Stark Slayground - Richard Stark Plunder Squad - Richard Stark The Damsel - Richard Stark The Blackbird - Richard Stark Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 3 (over 500 pages) Butcher’s Moon - Richard Stark Lemons Don't Lie - Richard Stark Comeback - Richard Stark Backflash - Richard Stark Born Standing Up - Steve Martin Flashfire - Richard Stark The Complete Making of Indiana Jones - JW Rinzler Firebreak - Richard Stark
5/50 Movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Sin City Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
_________________ Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing! - C. Montgomery Burns
Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Sun February 24, 2019 8:11 pm
I've been POOSSTTIiiEEnngeeaahh
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:53 pm Posts: 12077
Movies:
01. The Hill (1965) 02. Sahara (1943) 03. Island in the Sky (1953) 04. Shalako (1968) 05. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) 06. Death Rides a Horse (1967) 07. Zardoz (1974) 08. The Revenant (2015) 09. Blood Father (2016) 10. Edge of Tomorrow (2014) 11. Murder on the Orient Express (1974) 12. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 13. Point Blank (1967) 14. Solomon Kane (2009) 15. The Professionals (1966) 16. Aquaman (2018) 17. Deadpool 2 (2018) 18. Suicide Squad (2016) 19. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) 20. Vera Cruz (1954) 21. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) 22. Thor: The Dark World (2013) 23. Justice League Dark (2017) 24. Paths of Glory (1957) 25. Sorcerer (1977) 26. The Death of Superman (2018) 27. Reign of the Supermen (2019) 28. Watusi (1959) 29. The Legend of Tarzan (2016) 30. Son of Batman (2014) 31. Batman vs. Robin (2015) 32. Batman: Bad Blood (2016) 33. Police Story (1985) 34. Warriors Two (1978) 35. Lucky Logan (2017) 36. The Nice Guys (2016) 37. The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) 38. Drive (2011) 39. John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) 40. Kingdom of Heaven - Director's Cut (2005) 41. Hostiles (2017) 42. Hell or High Water (2016) 43. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) 44. The Wages Of Fear (1955) 45. Drunken Master (1978) 46. Executioners from Shaolin (1977) 47. The Third Man (1949) 48. Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976) 49. Ride Lonesome (1959) 50. Rio Conchos (1964) 51. The Inglorious Bastards (1978) 52. Clan of the White Lotus (1980) 53. Rolling Thunder (1977) 54. MacKenna's Gold (1969) 55. Vanishing Point (1971) 56. The Sisters Brothers (2018) 57. Der Fan (1982) 58. Truck Turner (1974) 59. 10 Brothers Of Shaolin (1977) 60. Kung Fury (2015) 61. Black Dynamite (2009) 62. Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) 63. Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973) 64. The Predator (2018) 65. Nighthawks (1981) 66. Django (1966) 67. Waterloo (1970) 68. Duck, You Sucker! (1971) 69. Black '47 (2018) 70. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) 71. Dr. No (1962)
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Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Sun February 24, 2019 9:29 pm
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32222 Location: Where everybody knows your name
22/50 Books
The Green Eagle Score- Richard Stark The Sour Lemon Score- Richard Stark Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 1 Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 2 Essential Captain Marvel Vol 2 Steely Dan: The Complete Guide to Their Music Deadly Edge - Richard Stark Slayground - Richard Stark Plunder Squad - Richard Stark The Damsel - Richard Stark The Blackbird - Richard Stark Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 3 (over 500 pages) Butcher’s Moon - Richard Stark Lemons Don't Lie - Richard Stark Comeback - Richard Stark Backflash - Richard Stark Born Standing Up - Steve Martin Flashfire - Richard Stark The Complete Making of Indiana Jones - JW Rinzler Firebreak - Richard Stark Hellboy: Omnibus Volume 4
5/50 Movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Sin City Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
_________________ Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing! - C. Montgomery Burns
Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Mon February 25, 2019 2:28 am
likes rhythmic things that butt up against each other
Joined: Sun January 06, 2013 6:05 pm Posts: 741
15/50 Movies
Fruitvale Station Beautiful Boy Mission Impossible Fallout Venom Ant-man and the Wasp Sorry To Bother You Incredibles 2 The Dark Tower Ocean's 8 The Quick and the Dead North by Northwest The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) BlacKKKlansman Mildred Pierce (1945) Bohemian Rhapsody
10/50 Books
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower 1) - Stephen King The Drawing of the Three (Dark Tower 2) - Stephen King New Orleans Stories - edited by John Miller Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth The Waste Lands (Dark Tower 3) - Stephen King The Postman Always Rings Twice - James Cain The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman The Origin of Others - Toni Morrison The Water Cure - Sophie Mackintosh Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James
Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Mon February 25, 2019 4:15 am
I Have A Third Nipple
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19694 Location: Cumberland, RI
12/50 Movies: 1. Blue Velvet (1986) [re-watch] 2. Trolls (2016) [re-watch] 3. Sing (2016) [re-watch] 4. Frozen (2013) [re-watch] 5. Lady and the Tramp (1955) [re-watch] 6. Get Out (2017) 7. Cinderella (1950) [re-watch] 8. The Sixth Sense (1999) [re-watch] 9. Mulan (1998) [re-watch] 10. Beauty and the Beast (2017) [re-watch] 11. Tangled (2010) [re-watch] 12. Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
5/50 Books: 1. The Musical Brain - Cesar Aira 2. Hannah Versus the Tree - Leland de la Durantaye 3. An Episode In The Life Of A Landscape Painter - Cesar Aira [re-read, last read 2009] 4. Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin 5. Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos
19/100 Albums: 1. Laura Gibson - Goners (2018) 2. The 1975 - The 1975 (2013) 3. The Decemberists - Traveling On (2018) 4. Beck - Colors (2017) 5. Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle (2013) 6. Feist - The Reminder (2007) 7. Haley Bonar - The Size of Planets (2003) 8. Cat Power - Wanderer (2018) 9. Two EPs: Stella Donnelly - Thrush Metal EP (2017) 10. Cherry Glazerr - Stuffed & Ready (2019) 11. William Tyler - Goes West (2019) 12. Sarah Jaffe - Bad Baby (2017) 13. Phosphorescent - C'est La Vie (2018) 14. William Tyler - Impossible Truth (2013) 15. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It (2016) 16. Courtney Barnett - How To Carve A Carrot Into A Rose (2013) 17. The Casket Girls - The Casket Girls EP (2013) 18. Broken Social Scene - Let's Try The After (Vol 1) (2019) 19. Peter Bjorn and John - EPBJ (2019)
7/30 Etc. 1. Game of Thrones Season 1 [re-watch] 2. Making a Murderer Season 2 3. No One Loves You - Roy Wood Jr. 4. The Office Season 4 [re-watch] 5. Big Mouth: My Furry Valentine 6. The Office Season 5 [re-watch] 7. True Detective Season 3
Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Mon February 25, 2019 5:01 pm
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32222 Location: Where everybody knows your name
24/50 Books
The Green Eagle Score- Richard Stark The Sour Lemon Score- Richard Stark Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 1 Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 2 Essential Captain Marvel Vol 2 Steely Dan: The Complete Guide to Their Music Deadly Edge - Richard Stark Slayground - Richard Stark Plunder Squad - Richard Stark The Damsel - Richard Stark The Blackbird - Richard Stark Hellboy: Omnibus Vol 3 (over 500 pages) Butcher’s Moon - Richard Stark Lemons Don't Lie - Richard Stark Comeback - Richard Stark Backflash - Richard Stark Born Standing Up - Steve Martin Flashfire - Richard Stark The Complete Making of Indiana Jones - JW Rinzler Firebreak - Richard Stark Hellboy: Omnibus Volume 4 Hellboy: The Short Stories Vol 1 Hellboy: The Short Stories Vol 2
5/50 Movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Sin City Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
_________________ Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing! - C. Montgomery Burns
Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Tue February 26, 2019 2:41 am
An enigma of a man shaped hole in the wall between reality and the soul of the devil.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:13 pm Posts: 39543 Location: 6000 feet beyond man and time.
books (15/50): some are re-reads:
Notes From the Underground - Dostoevsky The Gay Science - Nietzsche On the Genealogy of Morals - Nietzsche The Aeneid - Virgil The Open Society and its Enemies - Popper Rules for Radicals - Alinsky On Liberty - Mill Mortal Engines - Reeve (blech!) On the shortness of life - Seneca Letters from a Stoic - Seneca The Myth of Sisyphus - Camus All Things Are Possible - Shestov (I really need to find more from this guy) The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera Leviathan Wakes - Corey Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre - Kaufmann
I've been trying to figure out if adult oriented illustrated novels are a good idea, and with one exception, it doesn't look good: Above the Timberline - Manchess (boring, confusing) The Electric State - Stålenhag (this is cool!)
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