2019 50/50 Challenge - 50 Books and/or 50 Movies in One Year

[wease]

25/50 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
Breakout - 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?

[LoathedVermin72]

Getting close.

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)
39. Vapors (1965)
40. Red Roses of Passion (1966)
41. Fair Game (1986)
42. BlacKkKlansman (2018)
43. Manhattan Baby (1982)
44. Murder Rock (1984)

[wease]

Getting close.

Are you going to stop when you get to 50?

[LoathedVermin72]

Getting close.

Are you going to stop when you get to 50?

hell no

[wease]

Getting close.

Are you going to stop when you get to 50?

hell no

Stop at 51.

[epilogue]

5/50 Movies:
1. The Avengers: Infinity War
2. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
3. Ocean's 8
4. Fyre
5. Tag

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)

[bune]

12/50 Books

• Cable & Deadpool, Volume 1: If Looks Could Kill by Fabian Nicieza (GN)
  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)
  Atomic Marriage by Curtis Sittenfeld (AB)
  The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow (AB)
  Seed by Ania Ahlborn (AB)
  Oak Avenue (Dark Corners Collection #7) by Brandi Reeds (AB)
  The Remedy (Dark Corners Collection #6) by Adam Haslett (AB)
  The Tangled Woods (Dark Corners Collection #5) by Emily Raboteau (AB)

Frankie Machine was great, like a mob murder mystery with a wise guy enforcer in the detective role.

Atomic Marriage was very middling and the narration was the best thing about it.

Seed was bad. Every single time something started to work the author would make the husband do something exactly counter to what should be happening. It was a complete shit show. Even the "wild ending" that reviews talked about was terrible. Straight out of a 90's horror serialized television show for it's inability to make you care.

Oak Avenue was not a good story, and the terrible narrator did not help things. Her guy voice made it sound like the voice you'd use back in the 90's to make fun of retarded people* and it was really jarring.

The Remedy had a better narrator and was just OK right up to the end where the Remedy is realized. Bold choice.

The Tangled Woods was also pretty bad but the description of the hell that is Great Wolf Lodge was pretty spot on. Like, I could see them suing him for how close it comes to being libel. Also the main character made me think of LV for some reason.

Poison-tongued film critic Reginald Wright is known for his creative insults and intolerance for the garbage culture, insufferable rudeness, and thoughtless racism of predictably common people.

Also the ending would have been much better if the kid had killed the guy instead of the guy committing suicide. Would have been a stronger horror story instead of a really bad Black Mirror episode.

There are seven short stories in the series and I wanted to review them as I read them but will be amending the count to be for the series as a whole.

*

Spoiler: show

You know, back when people were terrible people out in the open and didn't try to hide behind anything.

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)

HTTYD was really good.

[wease]

26/50 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
Breakout - Richard Stark
Nobody Runs Forever - 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?

[Simple Torture]

13/50 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)
13. Apocalypse Now (1979)

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

20/100 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)
20. Strand of Oaks - Eraserland (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

[lennytheweedwhacker]

that was really your first viewing of apocalypse now?

[Simple Torture]

that was really your first viewing of apocalypse now?

Yeah. It was definitely in the neighborhood of movies like Citizen Kane and The Graduate which I saw and already felt like I knew the beats of due to the amount of times I've seen it parodied or given homage. But I'd never sat down to watch the whole thing before.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

that was really your first viewing of apocalypse now?

Yeah. It was definitely in the neighborhood of movies like Citizen Kane and The Graduate which I saw and already felt like I knew the beats of due to the amount of times I've seen it parodied or given homage. But I'd never sat down to watch the whole thing before.

i see...your thoughts?

[Simple Torture]

that was really your first viewing of apocalypse now?

Yeah. It was definitely in the neighborhood of movies like Citizen Kane and The Graduate which I saw and already felt like I knew the beats of due to the amount of times I've seen it parodied or given homage. But I'd never sat down to watch the whole thing before.

i see...your thoughts?

Not incredibly entertaining but good, if that makes sense. Impressive at times, and gripping at others, but I was in no rush afterwards to sing its praises or to re-watch.

[bada]

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)

[LoathedVermin72]

How’d you like Dr. No? It’s my favorite Bond movie.

And is Seventh Seal your first Bergman?

[wease]

Dr. No is right up there. Love it.

[epilogue]

Dr. No is right up there. Love it.

It's a great film.

[bada]

How’d you like Dr. No? It’s my favorite Bond movie.

And is Seventh Seal your first Bergman?

Dr. No was good. I've seen bits and pieces of the Connery Bonds but only Never Say Never Again in its entirety. That was my first Bond movie. Though outside of the beginning I don't remember any of it. I've seen all the Bonds after that. None of the Moores except for maybe half of Live and Let Die a million years ago. I'm looking forward to watching the ones I've missed. Seventh Seal was my first Bergman. I avoided him in my youth cause it looked like homework but I've grown up...a little. I liked it but I think I made a mistake watching it with the english dub but I was too lazy to find a sub title file. The dub seemed accurate but it took me out of it a bit. I'll probably watch it again with sub titles.

[LoathedVermin72]

Oof, dubbed Bergman...yeah that’s definitely a huge mistake

The Seventh Seal is actually a pretty fun movie. Bergman is playful more often than his reputation leads one to believe.

[wease]

How’d you like Dr. No? It’s my favorite Bond movie.

And is Seventh Seal your first Bergman?

Dr. No was good. I've seen bits and pieces of the Connery Bonds but only Never Say Never Again in its entirety. That was my first Bond movie. Though outside of the beginning I don't remember any of it. I've seen all the Bonds after that. None of the Moores except for maybe half of Live and Let Die a million years ago. I'm looking forward to watching the ones I've missed. Seventh Seal was my first Bergman. I avoided him in my youth cause it looked like homework but I've grown up...a little. I liked it but I think I made a mistake watching it with the english dub but I was too lazy to find a sub title file. The dub seemed accurate but it took me out of it a bit. I'll probably watch it again with sub titles.

Never Say Never again is just a Thunderball redo.