Red Mosquito

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

theplatypus wrote:But that is the best one

hmmm

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:how was a perfect world?

fantastic, i loved it

That one's been in my queue, it's just finding the time.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:First viewings only:

So, just to go back to our earlier conversation: I've seen most of the HDTGM movies because I was alive back then and we rented videos from Blockbuster. I count ~30 movies on your list that I've already seen, most of them multiple times. I mean, Buckaroo Banzai? Or Tomb Raider? Or WarGames? Or Pretty Woman? I saw all of those in the theater, let alone on video.

I can't speak for the rest of the oldies on the board but yeah, I've seen a lot of good movies already.

You should check out DARYL or Cloak & Dagger or even Firefox (get your Clint kick on) if you like good-bad 80's movies.

Wow....I forgot about DARYL and Cloak & Dagger. I watched those a million times.

We need a new thread I'm going to go movie hardcore this year. Even LV is going to be like bada you gotta chill out.

Books: 24/50:
1. Ernest Hemingway on Writing
2. The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost
3. Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger
4. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
5. Pattern Recognition by Wiiliam Gibson
6. Ancient History - David Ives
7. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
8. Crapalachia - Scott McClanahan
9. Exit Ghost - Philip Roth
10. The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
11. To Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday - Sarah Ruhl
12. Universal Harvester - John Darnielle
13. Paris Nocturne - Patrick Modiano
14. The Cave - Jose Saramago
15. How To Win A War (first draft) - Brady Gerber
16. Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
17. The Mars Room - Rachel Kushner
18. When Women Were Birds - Terry Tempest Williams
19. Needful Things - Stephen King
20. Adjustment Day - Chuck Palahniuk
21. The Dead Mountaineer's Inn - Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
22. The Changeling- Joy Williams
23. Unsheltered - Barbara Kingsolver
24. The Cloven - Brian Catling

Movies: 38.5/50:
1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2. What If
3. Logan
4. The Shape of Water
5. Call Me By Your Name
6. Phantom Thread
7. A Bad Moms Christmas
8. A Ghost Story
9. A Futile and Stupid Gesture
10. Black Panther
11. David Bowie: The Last Five Years
12. Annihilation
13. Girls Trip
14. The House
15. A Quiet Place
16. License to Wed
17. Kodachrome
18. Downsizing
19. Coco
20. Thor: Ragnarok
21. Disobedience
22. Tully
23. Solo: A Star Wars Story
24. Won't You Be My Neighbor?
25. Sorry to Bother You
26. Black Klansman
27. Crazy Rich Asians
28. A Simple Favor
29. A Star is Born (2018)
30. Game Night
31. Border
32. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
33. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
34. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
35. Mary Poppins Returns
36. The Christmas Chronicles
37. Isle of Dogs
37.5 Fist Fight (couldn't finish it, jumped after an agonizing hour)
38. I Think We're Alone Now

100/50 Books

• Son of Retro Pulp Tales by Joe R. Lansdale
  Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
  The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke
  A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Hope Larson
  Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys: A Novel by Eric Garcia
  We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher (AB)
  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
  Null States by Malka Ann Older
  Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (Red Dwarf #1) by Grant Naylor (AB)
  Better than Life (Red Dwarf #2) by Grant Naylor (AB)
  Backwards (Red Dwarf #4) by Rob Grant (AB)
  Last Human (Red Dwarf #3) by Doug Naylor (AB)
  Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia
  Shadow Moon (Chronicles of the Shadow War #1) by Chris Claremont, George Lucas
  Who Could That Be at This Hour? (All the Wrong Questions #1) by Lemony Snicket
  You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words by Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras
  Mr. and Mrs. Bunny—Detectives Extraordinaire! by Polly Horvath
  When Did You See Her Last? (All the Wrong Questions #2) by Lemony Snicket
  Lord and Lady Bunny--Almost Royalty! by Polly Horvath
  File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (All the Wrong Questions, #2.5) by Lemony Snicket
  Shadow Dawn (Chronicles of the Shadow War #2) by Chris Claremont, George Lucas
  1984 by George Orwell (AB)
  Moone Boy: The Blunder Years by Chris O'Dowd
  Dragonslayer by Wayland Drew
  Willow (Chronicles of the Shadow War) by Wayland Drew
  Moone Boy: The Fish Detective by Chris O'Dowd
  The Last Jedi by Jason Fry (AB)
  The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (AB)
  All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells (AB)
  The Smartest Book in the World by Greg? Proops (AB)
  Only Human (Themis Files #3) by Sylvain Neuvel (AB)
  Shadow Star (Chronicles of the Shadow War #3) by Chris Claremont
  20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill (AB)
  Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo
  Shouldn't You Be in School? (All the Wrong Questions #3) by Lemony Snicket
  Pines (Wayward Pines #1) by Blake Crouch
  Wayward (Wayward Pines #2) by Blake Crouch
  Horns by Joe Hill (AB)
  The Last Town (Wayward Pines #3) by Blake Crouch
  Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
  Mustache Shenanigans: Making Super Troopers and Other Adventures in Comedy by Jay Chandrasekhar
  Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? (All the Wrong Questions #4) by Lemony Snicket
  Guardians of the Whills by Greg? Rucka
  FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
  The Escape Artist by Brad Meltzer
  Savage Season (Hap and Leonard #1) by Joe R. Lansdale
  The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne #1) by Mark Hodder
  Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk
  False Idols (The Dragon Lords #2) by Jon Hollins
  Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
  Night Shift by Stephen King
  Blindsight (Firefall #1) by Peter Watts (AB)
  The Blade Itself (The First Law #1) by Joe Abercrombie
  Gideon's Sword (Gideon Crew #1) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
  Gideon's Corpse (Gideon Crew #2) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
  The Hatching (The Hatching #1) by Ezekiel Boone
  The Lost Island (Gideon Crew #3) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
  Beyond the Ice Limit (Gideon Crew #4) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
  The Pharaoh Key (Gideon Crew #5) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
  The Authorities™ by Scott Meyer
  Frank Miller's RoboCop by Frank Miller (GN)
  Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe (Deadpool Killogy #1) by Cullen Bunn (GN)
  Deadpool Kills Deadpool (Deadpool Killogy #3) by Cullen Bunn (GN)
  Deadpool vs. Carnage (Deadpool VS) by Cullen Bunn (GN)
  Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets: The Official Movie Novelization by Christie Golden (AB)
  Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
  A-Force Presents Vol. 1 by Nathan Edmondson (GN)
  Mechanical Failure (Epic Failure #1) by Joe Zieja (AB)
  A-Force Presents Vol. 2 by Nathan Edmondson (GN)
  A-Force Presents Vol. 3 by Nathan Edmondson (GN)
  Run Program by Scott Meyer (AB)
  Ghosts of Greenglass House (Greenglass House #2) by Kate Milford
  The Elementals by Michael McDowell
  The Circle by Dave Eggers
  The Mysterious Howling (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #1) by Maryrose Wood
  Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Lost Command by W. Haden Blackman (GN)
  The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals by Aaron Mahnke
  The X-Files: Cold Cases (The X-Files (Audible Original) #1) by Joe Harris (AB)
  Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky (AB)
  The Tattooed Potato and Other Clues by Ellen Raskin
  Year Zero by Rob Reid (AB)
  The Hidden Gallery (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #2) by Maryrose Wood
  Nightbooks by J.A. White
  The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel) by Ellen Raskin
  The Unseen Guest (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #3) by Maryrose Wood
  The Interrupted Tale (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #4) by Maryrose Wood
  Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
  The Unmapped Sea (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #5) by Maryrose Wood
  The Long-Lost Home (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #6) by Maryrose Wood
  The Thanos Quest (The Thanos Quest #1-2) by Jim Starlin (GN)
  The Infinity Gauntlet (The Infinity Gauntlet #1-6) by Jim Starlin (GN)
  The Criminal Mastermind of Baker Street by Rob Nunn
  Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
  Sheets by Brenna Thummler (GN)
  Semiosis by Sue Burke
  Marvel's Spider-Man: Hostile Takeover by David Liss
  Bad Faith (The Dragon Lords #3) by Jon Hollins
  Black Bolt, Vol. 1: Hard Time by Saladin Ahmed
  Bird Box by Josh Malerman

84/50 Movies

• Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
  The Dark Tower (2017)
  Kong: Skull Island (2017)
  Justice League (2017)
  Geostorm (2017)
  The Book of Henry (2017)
  Black Panther (2018)
  Being Canadian (2015)
  Willow (1988)
  Justice League Dark (2017)
  Despicable Me 3 (2017)
  Journey Through the Past (1974)
  Coco (2017)
  The Music of Strangers (2015)
  The Big Sick (2017)
  Chronicle (2012)
  Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
  Darkest Hour (2017)
  The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
  Ready Player One (2018)
  Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
  Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
  Peter Rabbit (2018)
  Paddington 2 (2017)
  The Greatest Showman (2017)
  Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
  Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
  Solo (2018)
  Annihilation (2018)
  Incredibles 2 (2018)
  The Shape of Water (2017)
  A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
  Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
  Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
  CHiPS (2017)
  The Equalizer (2014)
  Bubble Boy (2001)
  Beerfest (2006)
  Best in Show (2000)
  Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)
  Inside Man (2006)
  Mission Impossible 2 (2000)
  Downsizing (2017)
  Collateral Beauty (2016)
  Mission Impossible 3 (2006)
  Teen Wolf (1985)
  Hellboy (2004)
  Star Trek Beyond (2016)
  The Monster Squad (1987)
  Deadpool 2 (2018)
  Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
  Ant-Man & The Wasp (2018)
  Weird Science (1985)
  War on Everyone (2016)
  Inherent Vice (2014)
  It Follows (2014)
  Atomic Blonde (2017)
  Tomb Raider (2017)
  The Stepford Wives (2004)
  Death Becomes Her (1992)
  300: Rise of an Empire (2014)
  Super Troopers 2 (2018)
  The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)
  Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
  Dragon Warriors (2015)
  Lady in the Water (2006)
  Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
  The Mummy (2017)
  Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
  The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)
  Apollo 18 (2011)
  Ocean's Eight (2018)
  Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
  Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
  Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
  Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
  In Bruges (2008)
  Hotel Transylvania 3 (2018)
  Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
  Aquaman (2018)
  The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
  Early Man (2018)
  Meet the Patels (2014)
  Lion (2016)

I did not intentionally pick two Indian movies to end the year with,

that's just what came up. Thought MtP would be funnier than it was. Lion I knew nothing about but my wife picked it. Stupid subtitles crapped out halfway through and we found out that the movie did not hard-code them for translation purposes so there were entire scenes where we had no clue what was being said until five minutes later when the subtitles started again but with the five minute delay. So we'd be listening to the conversation and reading what we missed five minutes ago. Great way to watch a movie.

We also watched Monuments Men. I watched it on the way back from Europe in 2016 but the airline saw fit to blur the artwork (ffs people, it's art). There wasn't anything really that offensive but whatevs. The movie was as good as I remember, though the writing was like someone saw the Ocean's movies and thought they could imitate that. (Looking at you Clooney) There were some swings from comedy and serious, sometimes too close to each other. But overall it's still a good movie.



TOTALS
I read 31,693 pages across 112 books
(last year: I read 52,882 pages across 215 books)

SHORTEST BOOK
1 page
(last year: 20 pages)

LONGEST BOOK
544 pages
(last year: 597 pages)

AVERAGE LENGTH
282 pages
(last year: 245 pages)

MOST POPULAR
3,675,216
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HIGHEST RATED ON GOODREADS
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by Ta-Nehisi Coates

1 page is not a book.

187 movies, 15 books.

durdencommatyler wrote:1 page is not a book.

Yeah, what the hell is that, bune?

Also am I misreading it or are you counting individual issues of comic books as books?!

bune is a fraud

Goodreads has a far too expansive definition of the word "book"

IVe done tons of audiobooks this past year just for ease and time compatibility and it’s just not the same. Even when it’s done well.

Podcasts have taken over and ruined me in terms of the time I spend and how I engage. Reading has taken a major hit. I need to fix that.

dimejinky99 wrote:IVe done tons of audiobooks this past year just for ease and time compatibility and it’s just not the same. Even when it’s done well.

Podcasts have taken over and ruined me in terms of the time I spend and how I engage. Reading has taken a major hit. I need to fix that.

I’m not 100% convinced you can read tbh

Post something that isn’t your usual constant insecure snivelling and whining and I’ll let you know.
Your posts read like a 4 year old who’s shit himself in class and has to make sure we all know about it.
Ever day.

LV, do you even read books, bro?

The Argonaut wrote:LV, do you even read books, bro?

Not very often, no. It’s not an activity I generally find much pleasure in.

Think he’s married? She probably reads to him at bedtime.
God bless her. Some women take being maternal to extremes.

Dime, settle down. You always get like this.

LV should settle down, too. he attac

Some posters have a blind spot when it comes to LV. Yet your trees and the like get dragged over coals for the same thing.

It’s a bit odd.