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Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Fri February 15, 2019 2:32 am
The Master
Joined: Sun May 25, 2014 9:32 pm Posts: 31614 Location: Garbage Dump
TV shows are a way bigger time commitment, in my experience. But, in any case, I don’t have kids and movies are one of my very few hobbies, so finding time isn’t hard.
But also, please note that bada is blowing me away
Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Fri February 15, 2019 12:12 pm
See you in another life, brother
Joined: Thu December 20, 2012 4:45 pm Posts: 6635
Simple Torture wrote:
You better read some fiction next, buster.
Well I'm 230 pages into an economic history of the great depression and about 160 pages into Wealth of Nations at the moment so that's not looking good. But I did just order a couple Vonnegut and Steinbeck novels that I haven't read yet, so at least there's that.
_________________ "I want to see the whole picture--as nearly as I can. I don't want to put on the blinders of 'good and bad,' and limit my vision."-- In Dubious Battle
Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Fri February 15, 2019 1:27 pm
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32238 Location: Where everybody knows your name
17/50 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
3/50 Movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Sin City
_________________ Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing! - C. Montgomery Burns
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
5/50 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
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Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Fri February 15, 2019 7:54 pm
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32238 Location: Where everybody knows your name
17/50 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
4/50 Movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Sin City Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
_________________ 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 15, 2019 7:59 pm
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32238 Location: Where everybody knows your name
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
how was a dame to kill for?
Pretty much the same as the first. Just more of it. Apparently, there were two stories in it that were written just for the movie and have never been in the comics. I liked them as much as the other ones. If someone did a cut with all the stories and made just one long Sin City movie it would actually work. And be pretty cool.
All in all, if you enjoyed the first one, you’ll enjoy this one. Fewer titties in this one, tho. And Jessica Alba’s Nancy has got to be the only stripper in the world to never take her top off.
_________________ 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 17, 2019 4:24 pm
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.
20/50 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)
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.
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Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Mon February 18, 2019 1:02 pm
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32238 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
4/50 Movies
Raiders of the Lost Ark The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Sin City Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
_________________ 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 18, 2019 8:58 pm
I've been POOSSTTIiiEEnngeeaahh
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:53 pm Posts: 12077
67/365 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)
05/50 Albums:
01. Funkadelic - Funkadelic (1970) 02. Funkadelic - Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow (1970) 03. Parliament - Osmium (1970) 04. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (1971) 05. Funkadelic - Funkadelic Live (1971)
01/12 TV:
01. The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina - Season 1
00/12 Books:
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Post subject: Re: 2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One
Posted: Tue February 19, 2019 12:39 am
I've been POOSSTTIiiEEnngeeaahh
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:53 pm Posts: 12077
wease wrote:
Do you just sit around watching movies all the time?
I watch one a day and a couple on the weekend days. It's really not that hard. Most of the movies are around 90 min. Its like watching two tv shows a day.
I did this stretch in one day but I was sick as a dog and couldn't get off the couch.
35. Lucky Logan (2017) 36. The Nice Guys (2016) 37. The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) 38. Drive (2011) 39. John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
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