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Movies and Books I should have seen/read
minnmess
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minnmess Posted Mon 09 Jan, 2012 12:43 PM Quote
Okay, I feel like there are a whole lot of movies that everyone on the planet has seen but me. What is on your list on 'must watch.' They don't necessarily need to be classics (ie- Casablanca, which I have seen, but classics are allowed), but also things like...Die Hard. Never seen. Everyone else has.
Same goes for books. What are the must read books of our time?
Let's see how many I can cross of the list in 2012.


And let me just state for the record that I have never seen Star Wars and don't plan to :P
 
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TheBoyWithAName
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TheBoyWithAName Posted Mon 09 Jan, 2012 1:24 PM Quote
IMDB top 250
 
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thewishlist
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thewishlist Posted Mon 09 Jan, 2012 1:53 PM Quote
there are quite a few movies & books everyone seems to love that I just don't... get? like? I don't know... like, for example:

- Lord of the Rings Trilogy (started The Fellowship of the Ring - and stopped an hour later... then saw the first movie [had to, a school thing] but didn't like it either (I liked Pippin, but only because I like Billy Boyd)... I did read The Hobbit, though.)

- The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (got it for my birthday a few years ago, read about 50 pages, got angry & confused & bored all at the same time and can't bring myself to try again. blargh.)

- The Swarm by Frank Schätzing. I hate underwater stuff. Freaks my out anyway, I don't need to read about scary things happening below the surface...

- Everything Twilight-related. I think the books & films send a terrible message...

Oh and I've never seen Kill Bill I & II and many many more movies... mostly because I didn't want to see them ;)

minnmess wrote:

And let me just state for the record that I have never seen Star Wars and don't plan to :P


me, neither.
 
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TheBoyWithAName
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TheBoyWithAName Posted Mon 09 Jan, 2012 2:00 PM Quote
Kill Bill are great, but probably guy movies ;) And you really should watch Star Wars, at least the 3 classic ones.
 
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thewishlist
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thewishlist Posted Mon 09 Jan, 2012 2:20 PM Quote
The Top 100 books of all time, according to The Guardian...

ah... I read 16 out of 100. oops. counting only those I have read-read, not those I only know the story/content of (like Buddenbrooks. Another great German classic I've never read. Oh dear...)
 
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minnmess
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minnmess Posted Mon 09 Jan, 2012 2:31 PM Quote
thewishlist wrote:


- The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (got it for my birthday a few years ago, read about 50 pages, got angry & confused & bored all at the same time and can't bring myself to try again. blargh.)




I saw the movie on a not very good date, and I fear reading this would just make me angry.
I'm not reading Twilight. And probably not going to read/watch the Lord of the Kings. I'm SUPER open minded about all of this :P

I feel like I should read more Kafka, but it just reminds me of first year university English classes.

How about people give their lists and not generated by journalists lists.
 
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TheBoyWithAName
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TheBoyWithAName Posted Mon 09 Jan, 2012 2:54 PM Quote
How about Into The Wild? Great movie!
If you like Wallace and Gromit you might like Mary & Max. It's really funny.

These are my movie tips right now.
 
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thewishlist
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thewishlist Posted Mon 09 Jan, 2012 3:14 PM Quote
TheBoyWithAName wrote:
How about Into The Wild?


Nooo, that's a TERRIBLE movie! a terrible terrible story! I think it sends the worst possible message, it's misanthropic... maaaaan that guy made me ANGRY, you wouldn't believe it! when I went to see it, I already knew how it'd end and everything, but I never would've thought they turned it into such a terrible piece...

sorry ;D talking about this particular film always makes me want to yell at someone *LOL*

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I looooooove Wallace & Gromit!! have never seen Mary&Max - I read about it, wanted to go & see it but it was too late... and then I forgot about it, thanks for reminding me!! :)
 
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minnmess
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minnmess Posted Mon 09 Jan, 2012 3:17 PM Quote
I'm going to rename this 'Alex and Lil Argue About Pop Culture."

:P
 
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thewishlist
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thewishlist Posted Mon 09 Jan, 2012 3:35 PM Quote
apologies ;P
 
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Sunny
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Sunny Posted Mon 09 Jan, 2012 3:39 PM Quote
(I don't 'do' films ... I've only every seen about a dozen films in my life - I don't feel I'm missing out on anything)

A selection of my best books:

- A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khalid Hosseini
- The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (give it another try!)
- The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
- The Help - Kathrun Stockett
- My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
- anything by Tom Rob Smith (best start at the beginning of the series)
- anything by Mark Billingham (again, best start at the beginning)
- The Complaints - Ian Rankin
- The Shetland Series by Ann Cleaves (the last of which is the only book to ever make me cry)
- The Radleys - Matt Haig
- The House at Riverton - Kate Morton
- Relentless - Simon Kernick
- About A Boy - Nick Hornby
- The Beach Alex Garland
- Dead Famous - Ben Elton
- A Taste Of Sorrow - Jude Morgan

 
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ricv64
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ricv64 Posted Mon 09 Jan, 2012 4:31 PM Quote
filims

the cabinet of Dr Caligari

Macario

Micmacs

City of Lost Children

The Wild Bunch

All quiet on the Western Front

Duck Soup

The Scarlet Empress

The Blue Angel

Sherlock Jr

Los Olvidados


The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

That Obscure Object of Desire


books

Moby Dick

Ask the Dust

The Grapes of Wrath

 
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Turtleneck
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Turtleneck Posted Mon 09 Jan, 2012 5:28 PM Quote
We could start a project and work our way through the Top 100 films. We've probably already seen quite a few of them, so it wouldn't take that long.

http://www.afi.com/100years/movies10.aspx
 
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thewishlist
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thewishlist Posted Mon 09 Jan, 2012 5:37 PM Quote
ok, right... here comes my list of must-reads (part 1) ;P

- at least one novel by Charles Dickens (Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Hard Times)
- Jane Austen: Emma
- William Dean Howells: A Hazard of New Fortunes
- John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Alan Bennett: The Uncommon Reader
- Nick Hornby: High Fidelity
- Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- Stephen Chbosky: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Sten Nadolny: The Discovery of Slowness
- Hermann Hesse: Demian
- Max Frisch: Homo Faber
- Michael Ende: Momo
- Otfried Preussler: Krabat
- Rafik Schami: A Hand Full of Stars
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Idiot
- Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Chingiz Aitmatov: Jamilia

to be continued... ;)

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ok part 1-and-a-half:

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Jonathan Tropper: How to Talk to a Widower
Kate Fox: Watching the English
Danny Wallace: Yes Man
Leonie Swann: Three Bags Full (it's a sheep detective story. need I say more? it's awesome. author is German, btw, but it's set in Ireland ;D)

I'd add Goethe (Sorrows of Young Werther, Faust), but Goethe in English? guess that wouldn't make much sense...
 
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thewishlist
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thewishlist Posted Mon 09 Jan, 2012 5:44 PM Quote
Turtleneck wrote:
We could start a project and work our way through the Top 100 films. We've probably already seen quite a few of them, so it wouldn't take that long.

http://www.afi.com/100years/movies10.aspx


19.
that project would take me aaages... ;)
 
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