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Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Wed January 30, 2019 6:21 pm
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32523 Location: Where everybody knows your name
11/50 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
1/50 Movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Wed January 30, 2019 10:04 pm
I Have A Third Nipple
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19725 Location: Cumberland, RI
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
did the sixth sense hold up for you?
It was a weird experience. I haven't seen it in 15+ years, and back then I probably only saw it like 2-3 times. But, still, I remembered nearly every beat of the story, every scare, most of the important dialogue. I think that speaks to how impactful it was the first time I saw it; at the same time, though, it wasn't a thrilling experience by any means this time. HJO is great, for sure, and there are lots of moments that are beautifully shot or gripping emotionally, but it does lose a lot of its revelatory power when you know what's coming.
And even back in 1999, the first time I saw it, I wasn't all that surprised: a friend of mine ruined it for me by talking about the ending. He later introduced me to my wife, though, so he's 1 for 2.
Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Wed January 30, 2019 10:50 pm
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:03 pm Posts: 9359 Location: Washington State
It's probably the first time my wife has been excited to show me a movie. We'd only been married about a year or so when it came out on video and she had seen it while visiting her mom. She came back and said you have to see this! He gets shot and I ask her, "So he's a ghost now, yeah?" and she didn't talk to me for the rest of the movie. Every time there was a scene where it was obvious he was a ghost - like at the dinner with his wife or talking to the mom - I'd ask "is this where he finds out he's a ghost?"
Some of it just doesn't play at all with that knowledge. I get that she'd ignore him for showing up late for dinner but ostensibly he was in the room with HJO's mom and what, he didn't notice that he wasn't invited in? That she didn't talk to him at all? How was that scene framing OK for the twist that was coming up?
Signs is still his best movie. I still get legit creeped out every time the alien walks from behind the bush or stands up on the barn roof.
Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Wed January 30, 2019 11:05 pm
The Master
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 3:21 pm Posts: 42273
Simple Torture wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
did the sixth sense hold up for you?
It was a weird experience. I haven't seen it in 15+ years, and back then I probably only saw it like 2-3 times. But, still, I remembered nearly every beat of the story, every scare, most of the important dialogue. I think that speaks to how impactful it was the first time I saw it; at the same time, though, it wasn't a thrilling experience by any means this time. HJO is great, for sure, and there are lots of moments that are beautifully shot or gripping emotionally, but it does lose a lot of its revelatory power when you know what's coming.
And even back in 1999, the first time I saw it, I wasn't all that surprised: a friend of mine ruined it for me by talking about the ending. He later introduced me to my wife, though, so he's 1 for 2.
i kinda feel like this would be my experience too were i to watch it again...it wasn't ruined for me at least when it first came out
Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Thu January 31, 2019 2:05 am
I Have A Third Nipple
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19725 Location: Cumberland, RI
8/50 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]
4/50 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
12/75 Albums: 1. Laura Gibson - Goners (2018) 2. The 1975 - The 1975 (2013) 3. The Decemberists - Traveling On (2018) & Courtney Barnett - How To Carve A Carrot Into A Rose (2013) (2 EPs, so counting them as just one album) 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) and The Casket Girls - The Casket Girls EP (2013) 10. Cherry Glazerr - Stuffed & Ready (2019) 11. William Tyler - Goes West (2019) 12. Sarah Jaffe - Bad Baby (2017)
3/30 Etc. 1. Game of Thrones Season 1 [re-watch] 2. Making a Murderer Season 2 3. No One Loves You - Roy Wood Jr.
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Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Thu January 31, 2019 7:31 pm
likes rhythmic things that butt up against each other
Joined: Sun January 06, 2013 6:05 pm Posts: 745
8/50 Movies
Fruitvale Station Beautiful Boy Mission Impossible Fallout Venom Ant-man and the Wasp Sorry To Bother You Incredibles 2 The Dark Tower
Jesus, did they fuck up The Dark Tower. Terrible movie. I went in with low expectations, and it didn't even meet those. Idris Elba did a great job with Roland though.
5/50 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
Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Thu January 31, 2019 7:35 pm
Mind Your Tanners
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 6:03 pm Posts: 9359 Location: Washington State
You are not wrong, good sir. There is apparently a different cut out there because they realized that they were losing the thread so just made it a standalone flick instead of their grand "movie / tv / movie" thing.
Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Thu January 31, 2019 9:09 pm
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32523 Location: Where everybody knows your name
13/50 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)
1/50 Movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark
_________________ 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 01, 2019 1:13 am
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32523 Location: Where everybody knows your name
14/50 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
1/50 Movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark
_________________ 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 01, 2019 3:26 am
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32523 Location: Where everybody knows your name
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
wease wrote:
I’m on pace for 168 books. After I get thru my Christmas and birthday hauls, that’ll slow down.
were any of these over 20 pages?
They all were. There’s a LOT of down time at work and we work 12 hour shifts. Until this last one, the average length of this Stark books is 180-200 pages. It’s nothing to knock one of those out on a slow day.
_________________ 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 01, 2019 3:27 am
The Master
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 3:21 pm Posts: 42273
wease wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
wease wrote:
I’m on pace for 168 books. After I get thru my Christmas and birthday hauls, that’ll slow down.
were any of these over 20 pages?
They all were. There’s a LOT of down time at work and we work 12 hour shifts. Until this last one, the average length of this Stark books is 180-200 pages. It’s nothing to knock one of those out on a slow day.
i wish i could read at work...i'd probably just post instead, actually
Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Fri February 01, 2019 4:10 am
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32523 Location: Where everybody knows your name
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
wease wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
wease wrote:
I’m on pace for 168 books. After I get thru my Christmas and birthday hauls, that’ll slow down.
were any of these over 20 pages?
They all were. There’s a LOT of down time at work and we work 12 hour shifts. Until this last one, the average length of this Stark books is 180-200 pages. It’s nothing to knock one of those out on a slow day.
i wish i could read at work...i'd probably just post instead, actually
I do that too.
_________________ 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 01, 2019 4:13 am
The Master
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 3:21 pm Posts: 42273
wease wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
wease wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
wease wrote:
I’m on pace for 168 books. After I get thru my Christmas and birthday hauls, that’ll slow down.
were any of these over 20 pages?
They all were. There’s a LOT of down time at work and we work 12 hour shifts. Until this last one, the average length of this Stark books is 180-200 pages. It’s nothing to knock one of those out on a slow day.
i wish i could read at work...i'd probably just post instead, actually
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