2021 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One Year

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Some guidelines:

1) Um…What happens if I don’t read 50 books and watch 50 movies this year?
Just like last year this is a personal challenge, so all we ask is that you try. No matter what, you’ll probably consume more books/movies than you’ve ever done before.

2) Why does it say and/or in the title?
You don't have to do 50 of each - you can do 50 total. So if you don't think you can read that much or watch that much, go for the combined score of 50 total. Either way it's a win and you never know where you'll be at the end of the year.

3) Do I have to read the books, or can I just skim?
I can see how this would be confusing. Oh wait, no. C’mon people, it’s a reading challenge! Same as fast-forwarding through a movie isn’t the same as really watching one, this is about taking the time to really enjoy. For the avoidance of doubt, please read the book for it count.

4) Do long books count as 2? What about movies?
If your book is over 500 pages, you can count it as two books if you like. We still consider you an Overachiever. However, if the book is 2,000 pages, it’s still just two books — not four! We want to encourage you to read longer pieces. This answer has been posted for the benefit of all you Game of Thrones fanatics out there. Go forth and prosper or whatever it is. No matter the length, a movie is still just a (one, 1, “ONE”) movie. That said, installments in a movie series (example: the individual Godfather movies) would each snag an individual point. Go you.

5) Can I rewatch/reread?
Of course you can rewatch and reread! If it's been more than ten years since you last saw the movie, count it!

5a) What if I'm a parent?
If you're on the 25th viewing of Frozen, count them all! I've love to see those numbers.



6) What should I read/watch?
Anything you like! Fiction, nonfiction, documentaries, graphic novels, technical manuals, the back of a shampoo bottle...ok, maybe not the shampoo bottle.

7) What if I want to watch television or play a game instead?
Sure, throw them in the count. Television is one season = one listing, unless it's released in two parts i.e. Breaking Bad part 1 and part 2.

A brief summary/rundown of favorites or disappointments is suggested but not required. Recommendations based on someone else's list are also welcome, so everyone can pretend to be Amazon. (You like this, we think you'll like that)

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[bada]

Since bune is on sabbatical....

[bada]

2021

Movies
01. Come Play (2020)
02. The Babadook (2014)
03. House of the Devil (2009)
04. Get Out (2017)
05. The Hole in the Ground (2019)
06. The Lodge (2019)
07. Sinister (2012)
08. Awoken (2019)

Television
01. The Boys S1 [Amazon Prime]
02. The Boys S2 [Amazon Prime]
03. Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal S1 [Cartoon Network]
04. Cobra Kai S3 [Netflix]

Albums
01. The Dirty Nil - Fuck Art (2021)
02. Steve Earle - J.T. (2021)

2020

Spoiler: show

Movies:
01. Cobra Verde (1987)
02. Logan (2017)
03. The Black Swan (1942)
04. Parasite (2019)
05. The Aeronauts (2019)
06. Tolkien (2019)
07. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
08. Uncut Gems (2019)
09. Ford v Ferrari (2019)
10. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
11. Thunderball (1965)
12. White Lightning (1973)
13. The Stone Killer (1973)
14. Joker (2019)
15. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
16. Ex Machina (2014)
17. 1917 (2019)
18. Hustlers (2019)
19. Snowpiercer (2013)
20. The Indian Fighter (1955)
21. Underwater! (1955)
22. Captain Phillips (2013)
23. Nocturnal Animals (2016)
24. Color Out of Space (2019)
25. Repo Man (1984)
26. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
27. Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
28. Holiday (2018)
29. Only God Forgives (2013)
30. Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
31. The Last Wagon (1956)
32. The Invisible Man (2020)
33. Mr. Holmes (2015)
34. The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
35. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
36. Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
37. The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (1984)
38. A Quiet Place (2018)
39. Attack! (1956)
40. Downhill (2020)
41. Gone Girl (2014)
42. Breakout (1975)
43. Villain (1971)
44. Sea Fever (2019)
45. Young Billy Young (1969)
46. Pathfinder (1987)
47. Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
48. Tobruk (1967)
49. The Colditz Story (1955)
50. Back to Bataan (1945)
51. Play Dirty (1969)
52. Gretel & Hansel (2020)
53. Zulu (1964)
54. The Lost City of Z (2016)
55. The Night Stalker (1972)
56. The Night Strangler (1973)
57. And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
58. The Skull (1965)
59. Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
60. Falling For Vermont (2017)
61. The Thanksgiving House (2013)
62. Harvest Moon (2015)
63. Harvest Love (2015)
64. Pumpkin Pie Wars (2016)
65. A Holiday Engagement (2011)
66. Love At The Thanksgiving Parade (2012)
67. Autumn Dreams (2015)
68. A Harvest Wedding (2017)
69. A Blue Ridge Mountain Christmas (2019)
70. Christmas Under the Stars (2019)
71. Christmas Bells are Ringing (2018)
72. Christmas Cookies (2016)
73. Christmas at Grand Valley (2018)
74. Spenser Confidential (2020)
75. Inception (2010)
76. Tenet (2020)
77. California Christmas (2020)
78. Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

Books:
01. Kindness Goes Unpunished (Walt Longmire, #3) - Johnson, Craig
02. Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1) - King, Stephen
03. The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story - Preston, Douglas
04. Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes--A Memoir - Gorman, Steve
05. When the Game Was Ours - MacMullan, Jackie
06. LaBrava - Leonard, Elmore
07. Blue-Eyed Devil (Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch #4) - Parker, Robert B.
08. Manitou (Manitou #1) Masterton, Graham
09. Paper Doll (Spenser #20) - Parker, Robert B.
10. Valdez Is Coming - Leonard, Elmore
11. The Deep - Benchley, Peter
12. Fletch's Moxie (Fletch, #5) - McDonald, Gregory
13. Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge - Yarm, Mark
14. Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2) - King, Stephen

Television:
01. Outlander S4
02. GLOW S3
03. Star Trek: Picard S1
04. Roseanne S10
05. The Conners S1
06. Stargirl S1
07. Doom Patrol S2
08. PEN15 S1
09. PEN15 S2 (Part 1)
10. Cobra Kai S1
11. Cobra Kai S2
12. Magnum, P.I. (1980) S1
13. Fear The Walking Dead S5
14. The Walking Dead S10
15. The Haunting S2 - Bly Manor
16. Castle Rock S1
17. Castle Rock S2
18. Ducktales (2017) S2
19. The Expanse S1
20. The Witcher S1
21. The Flight Attendant S1

Video Games:
01. Strange Brigade (PS4)
02. NBA 2K20 (PS4)
03. Street Fighter V (PS4)
04. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Switch)

2019

Spoiler: show

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)
72. The Seventh Seal (1957)
73. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
74. Throne of Blood (1957)
75. From Russia with Love (1963)
76. Arrival (2016)
77. Annihilation (2018)
78. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
79. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
80. Ms .45 (1981)
81. Straight Outta Compton (2015)
82. Coogan's Bluff (1968)
83. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
84. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
85. Holmes & Watson (2018)
86. Glass (2019)
87. Silent Rage (1982)
88. Spring Breakers (2012)
89. Justice League vs. the Fatal Five (2019)
90. Christopher Robin (2018)
91. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
92. The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
93. The Three Caballeros (1944)
94. Brave (2012)
95. Frozen (2013)
96. Ratatouille (2007)
97. The Good Dinosaur (2015)
98. Tangled (2010)
99. Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
100. Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
101. Winnie the Pooh (2011)
102. Cinderella (2015)
103. Avengers: Endgame (2019)
104. Kidnapped (1960)
105. Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
106. Apache Woman (1976)
107. Arctic (2019)
108. Challenge of the Masters (1976)
109. Dragged Across Concrete (2019)
110. The Last Stand (2013)
111. The African Queen (1951)
112. Hatari! (1962)
113. Mountains of the Moon (1990)
114. Spielberg (2017)
115. Five Element Ninjas (1982)
116. Keoma (1976)
117. Donovan's Reef (1963)
118. The Great Silence (1968)
119. The Professor and the Madman (2019)
120. Dunkirk (2017)
121. Darkest Hour (2017)
122. Toy Story 4 (2019)
123. The Expendables 2 (2012)
124. Shazam! (2019)
125. The Mark Of Zorro (1940)
126. Goldfinger (1964)
127. Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
128. The Lion King (2019)
129. Captain Marvel (2019)
130. Batman: Hush (2019)
131. Kong: Skull Island (2017)
132. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
133. Horror of Dracula (1958)
134. The Mummy (1959)
135. Overlord (2018)
136. Suspiria (1977)
137. The Beyond (1983)
138. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
139. Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
140. Dead of Night (1945)
141. The Company of Wolves (1984)
142. Don't Breathe (2016)
143. Werewolf of London (1935)
144. The Gorgon (1964)
145. Annabelle (2014)
146. The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
147. Annabelle: Creation (2017)
148. The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot (2018)
149. Lights Out (2016)
150. Blood for Dracula (1974)
151. Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
152. It Follows (2014)
153. The Nun (2018)
154. The Kiss of the Vampire (1963)
155. Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
156. Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974)
157. The VVitch: A New England Folktale (2015)
158. Witchfinder General (1968)
159. The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
160. Night Creatures (1962)
161. It (2017)
162. Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
163. The Visit (2015)
164. Pet Sematary (2019)
165. Fright Night (1985)
166. Star Trek Beyond (2016)
167. Ready Player One (2018)
168. Free Solo (2018)
169. Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
170. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)

[Mickey]

2021

Movies
01. Come Play (2020)

Television
01. The Boys S1
02. The Boys S2
03. Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal S1

Dude we are less than 48 hours into the new year. How is this even possible

[lennytheweedwhacker]

ban bada

[bada]

I was 90% through the boys season 1 and primal. I finished them yesterday and binged boys season 2. Watched the movie last night.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

so i can count seasons i started 3 years ago, but didn't finish at the time?

[bada]

Well. If I started a show on Dec 30th and finished it on Jan 1st does it fall through the cracks of the multiverse?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Well. If I started a show on Dec 30th and finished it on Jan 1st does it fall through the cracks of the multiverse?

you should have waited, but now you've broken the rules and your punishment is losing your third round selection in the who's going to croak tournament

[bada]

I feel guilty picking the 90210 girl.

[epilogue]

50/50 Movies
1. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2. I'm Your Woman

50/50 Books

50/50 Albums

50/50 TV Shows
1. The Undoing

[epilogue]

50/50 Movies
1. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2. I'm Your Woman

50/50 Books

50/50 Albums
1. J.T. - Steve Earle

50/50 TV Shows
1. The Undoing
2. The Queen's Gambit

[Monkey_Driven]

trying to watch more than 10 non-kid movies this year

[epilogue]

trying to watch more than 10 non-kid movies this year

Excellent goal. Good luck!

[CopperTom]

Books
1.


Movies
1.


Television
1. A Wilderness of Error
2. Curb Your Enthusiasm - Season 1


Video Games
1. Immortals: Fenyx Rising - PS5
2. Gravity Rush 2 - PS4

[LetMeSleep]

Movies 8/50
01. Crackerjack
02. Chasing Amy
03. Midnight Oil: 1984
04. S.F.W
05. Paul Kelly: Stories Of Me
06. Lost In Translation
07. In Bruges
08. Bad Eggs


Books 0/50


2021 Albums 1/50
01. Steve Earle - J.T.


Pre 21 Albums 5/50
01. Paul Kelly - Post
02. Paul Kelly and The Coloured Girls - Gossip
03. Paul Kelly and The Coloured Girls - Under The Sun
04. bdrmm - Bedroom
05. Muzz - Muzz


Television 0/50

[Stardog Champion]

3/50 Books

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man - Emmanuel Acho
Ready Player Two - Ernest Cline
God-Level Knowledge Darts: Life Lessons from the Bronx - Desus and Mero

1/50 Movies

Amy

[blueviper]

wait there's a sequel to Ready Player One? yeesh

[Monkey_Driven]

wait there's a sequel to Ready Player One? yeesh

Yes and it is really bad from all accounts.

[Anders]

Too bad. I enjoyed the movie. First one I saw with my wife.