April ([info]darkspectre) wrote,
@ 2009-12-31 19:33:00
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A 2009 list of sorts
I found this from dexterette's journal and since I don't watch enough a lot of TV to do the 500 list, I'm just doing the 100 Movie list. And a 50 Book list that was inspired from a community gothayesd51708 is a part of.

UPDATED: 11/30/09

MOVIES
Rules and Guidelines:

1. I watch 100 movies or more in 2009.
2. I keep track of how many I watch in this post.
3. I only record first-time movies.
4. I leave the entry public. If you want to recommend any movies to me, go for it.

01:My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)
02: The Unborn
03: The Fountain
04: Rendition
05: Friday the 13th (2009)
06: Tooth and Nail
07: Crazy Eights
08: Under the Sea (IMAX)
09: Cube
10: The Poughkeepsie Tapes
11: Harold and Maude
12: Hellboy 2
13: Watchmen
14: Autopsy
15: The Signal
16: How I Got Lost
17: Yes Man
18: Star Trek (2009)
19: Shoot Em' Up
20: Terminator: Salvation
21: UP
22: Joe Dirt
23: Terminator (Yes, I'd never seen it before shutup!)
24: Drag Me To Hell
25: The Hangover
26: AI
27: Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
28: GI Joe
29: District 9
30: The Hitcher (Remake w/Sean Bean)
31: The Hills Run Red
32: Trick 'r Treat
33: Zombieland
34: Paranormal Activity
35: The Cake Eaters
36: Night of the Living Dead (1960's)
37: Saw 6
38: The 4th Kind
39: The Box

Total: 39/100


BOOKS
Rules and Guidelines:

1. I read 50 books or more in 2009.
2. I keep track of how many I read in this post.
3. I only record first-time books.
4. I leave the entry public. If you want to recommend any movies to me, go for it.

01: "The Dark Tower: Book I; The Gunslinger" by Stephen King (231 pgs)
02: "Mutant Cinema: The X-Men Trilogy from Comics to Screen" by Thomas J. McLean (301 pgs)
03: "Animorphs: #40; The Other" by K.A Applegate (130 pgs)
04: "Ticktock" by Dean Koontz (338 pgs)
05: "John Winchester's Journal by Alex Irvine (218pgs) [AWESOME, AWESOME BOOK!]
06: "Terminator: Salvation: The Official Movie Novelization" by Alan Dean Foster (281pgs)
08: "The Dark Tower: Book II; The Drawing of the Three" by Stephen King (399 pgs)
09: "The Last Watch" by Sergey Lukyanenko (370 pgs)
10: "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (pgs)


Total: 10/50


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[info]gothayesd51708
2009-01-03 03:54 am UTC (link)
I think I will start doing more movie reviews as I watch them. It seems like I don't watch as many as I used to.

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[info]goddess_raven
2009-01-03 04:09 am UTC (link)
The library I work for is celebrating it's 100th year... so we're having a reading challenge this year: read 100 books. I don't think I can do it!
I do recommend Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. And The Zombie Survival Guide. I got them both for Christmas! ^_^
OMG and thanks for the Christmas card! *hugs*

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[info]elaine
2009-01-05 09:22 am UTC (link)
i second ZSG and World War Z.

actually, my SO is working on a list of literature (heavily influenced by Richard Matheson of I Am Legend...) that best represents the post-apocalyptic genre-- i think you (April) may enjoy that since we're all of the kind that prepares for a zombie apocalypse. currently, i'm reading The Road (C. McCarthy) from that list. so far, so good.

i think my problem is that i really want to read vampire fiction or something V.C. Andrews-esque on my downtime which doesn't qualify.


E.

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[info]darkspectre
2009-01-06 07:37 am UTC (link)
I've read The Zombie Survival Guide and I Am Legend. I thought they were awesome reads. Although, ZSG was slightly boring, but it was humorous.

elaine: What's "The Road" about?

goddess_raven: You're welcome about the xmas card. :)

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[info]elaine
2009-01-07 12:56 am UTC (link)
from what i remember Bill telling me, it's about a father and son who travel on the road after a gigantic shitstorm ended civilized society.

from what i've read before falling asleep, it's really dramatic and also really depressing.

from the back of the book:

"A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food-- and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, 'each the other's world entire,' are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, The Road is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation."

hope that helps.


E.

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[info]weaz3l
2009-01-03 05:16 am UTC (link)
I'm thinking of starting to post book and movie reviews but I might do it in my literary blog on google. I think I only made it to like 20 or 30 something for books for last year though.

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[info]banana_fishie
2009-04-25 10:23 pm UTC (link)
I found you in a horror community. Nobody reads animorphs anymore. I was obsessed with those books in elementary and high school. Harold and Maude is a favorite movie of mine. Care if I add you?

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[info]darkspectre
2009-04-25 10:48 pm UTC (link)
Haha yeah, when I was a kid, I was obsessed with the books. Nearly collected all of them but stopped reading them. Since I still had the books lying around (I'm such a pack rat) I decided to finish the series...

Honestly, I'm surprised I waited as long as I did to watch Harold and Maude. I heard a lot of great things about it, but finally just got around to watch it.

I'd love to be friends. :D

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[info]banana_fishie
2009-04-25 11:04 pm UTC (link)
· Did you like Harold and Maude? my boyfriend by the main song from the movie so I could listen to it whenever I wanted. My favorite scene is the dandelion scene.

I remember they even had a television series devoted to animorphs.

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[info]darkspectre
2009-04-25 11:29 pm UTC (link)
Yeah! I loved it. I was sad when I watched it, (I'd experienced some deaths in the family) but it lightened up my mood and made me feel better. despite the sad ending.

Yeah, Nick had the Animorphs TV series. I remember being bummed about it because at the time I didn't have cable and couldn't watch it.

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[info]banana_fishie
2009-04-25 11:36 pm UTC (link)
you have dealt with death in the family you should read a book called a dirty job by Christopher Moore. a thrift store owner because a grim-reaper after his wife dies in child birth. It's pretty lighthearted and amusing despite the dark theme. Thought I would suggest it since you are also listing books.

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[info]duckysrus
2009-06-06 02:57 am UTC (link)
I wish I had the patience to read. Does that make me stupid ? Lol. I love movies though! FAIL.

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[info]darkspectre
2009-06-15 07:15 am UTC (link)
No, it doesn't make you stupid. Pfft, I've only read 5 books and we're almost halfway through the year. I fail this list so hard!

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[info]duckysrus
2009-12-01 08:51 am UTC (link)
And haha! Much love.

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[info]duckysrus
2009-12-01 08:51 am UTC (link)
Babe, by any chance do you own the following?

Pulse 2.
An American Haunting
Quarantine
The Return

Christmas... ehem. I'm still on the hunt!

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