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Title: DVD & Video Guide 2004 by MARSHA PORTER, MICK MARTIN ISBN: 0-345-44993-2 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Pat yourself on the back, you've found the BEST!
Comment: With over 18,000 film reviews and right at 1616 pages there is no way one will agree with everything that Mick Martin & Marsha Porter will have to say. However this is the ultimate movie dictionary. A vital tool for a film buff on any level. This guide is by far the guide with the least missing links, I've read many other film guides (Ebert, Maltin, Bones, ect.) they are not as complete as "DVD & VIDEO GUIDE 2004" By Mick Martin & Marsha Porter. Stars and Directors are flawlessly included. If you've directed one movie,.. your listed. If you've played a key role in one film,.. your listed. An actor or director doesn't have to be a famous celebrity to be included in this guide. That's why I call this guide a movie dictionary. Thruthfully I disagree with alot of their star ratings and reviews. But that's to be expected. My review is not based on how many movies I loved and they hated. It's based on the fact that over all, as a whole.. it's the BEST! This fulfilling guide isn't lazy, believe it. Now buy it!
Rating: 5
Summary: 5 STARS !!!
Comment: I've been turning to Martin and Porter for around 14 years now and all I can say is that I eagerly await each year's edition. When I first went looking for a paperback movie guide to keep on my desk, I spent a lot of time checking out the competition and found them all lacking in some area. Leonard (who is quite film savvy) and I just didn't see eye-to-eye at all. If he didn't like a certain genre, those type movies didn't get a fair shake. Many of the others were geared for family viewing (which is fine but I've been there, done that, and have moved on to encompass a wider range of films). The only one that I found to be fair and have the technical info (color or b&w, running time, rating, subtitles, year released, cast, director, etc.) that I was looking for was Video & DVD Guide (VDG - formerly Video Movie Guide [VMG]). I've watched the book's format change (for the better) over the years (I happily don't have to figure out the genre of the movie before looking it up anymore). After reading some of the other reviews of this series over the years, I understand the frustration of not having all of an actor's or director's films listed but if you read the Foreward/Introduction, you'd know that only the available (for rent and/or purchase) titles are covered (at the time of publication). This is why I've kept my old VMG/VDGs for reference. Nobody seems to mind when a book or DVD has an incomplete filmography on an actor or director, so what's the beef?
Rating: 5
Summary: The best, complete, honest, no nonsense movie guide around
Comment: Ten years ago, long before Istarted surfing the web, I purchased my first ever copy of what was then called VMG. As I was passionate about movies (and still am), I read every single review there was in the book, and in the end it looked as tattered as hell. I still have my first copy, it's yellow-brownish and torn, and for me symbolizes my great love for this book and for movies.
I've leafed through Maltin's guide quite a few times, and the "video and dvd movie guide" is hands down the best there is. Here's why:
Five stars to turkey, a rating system flexible enough for nuiances, and there are also the 1/2 ratings, i.e ***1/2. This allows for great accuracy in reviews, as opposed to the broad strokes which a four star rating sometimes uses.
The book is very easy to read, the title is highlighted, the stars are bold and clear (unlike in Maltin's). Not to mention the Turkey!
The fabulous cast and director indexes. Today, at the Internet age, you can log on to imdb.com and find complete filmographies, but in the past those indexes taught me a great deal about cast and directors body of work. And it still does. Sometimes I don't feel like opening the computer to find something.
This is a no nonsense guide. It's totally unpretentious, it usually shows a movie true worth, without over analizing, without apologies. It is impossible to agree with everything in the book, yet I've seen hundreds of films which appear in this guide, and as far as I'm concerned, it stands at about 90 percent hit, 10 percent miss.
So, ten years later, I'm still buying the new editions of this book. It was and still is a great tool for me, and it taught me a great deal about movies.
People Magazine was right. This is THE BEST.
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Title: Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2004 by Leonard Maltin ISBN: 0451209400 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2004 by Editors of World Almanac ISBN: 0886879108 Publisher: World Almanac Pub. Date: 05 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever 2004 (VIDEOHOUND'S GOLDEN MOVIE RETRIEVER) by Jim Craddock ISBN: 0787673129 Publisher: Gale Group Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: TLA Video & DVD Guide 2004 : The Discerning Film Lover's Guide by David Bleiler ISBN: 0312316860 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 24 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows: 1946-Present by TIM BROOKS, EARLE F. MARSH ISBN: 0345455428 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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