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Title: Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2000 by Leonard Maltin ISBN: 0-452-28123-7 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.79 (258 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Eternally handy
Comment: Leonard Maltin's Film Guide premiered in 1969, pre-dating the now crowded market of contemporary movie database books. It's still the best and most clearly organized of these types of references...essentially what people utilized back in ancient times before the Internet Movie Database. For in-depth film analysis one should look to Pauline Kael's 5001 Nights at The Movies, David Thomson's A Biographical Dictionary of Film or The Time Out Film Guide...this book is not film analysis and never was intended to serve this function. It's a comprehensive listing of all major films released worldwide including running time, date of release, film aspect ratio and other technical details. There is a brief one or at most two sentence review and then a star rating. This is not film analysis (which requires more than two sentences), it's simply the subjective rating system used by every other film guide on the market. Most of the time Leonard is on the mark although with over 20,000 entries there will inevitably be discrepencies. I recommend the larger format Plume paperback over the mass-market size as the typeface is more readable.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great movie guide
Comment: I've been buying each edition of this book since the 1979 edition and I never felt disappointed. I was surprised at the amount of bad reviews this book got, although some seemed to be written by some weird psychos who can't get over that Maltin's given their trashy horror film favorites a bad rating. Maltin says in his introduction that his rating is suppose to be taken as a guideline and not a gospel. Ofcourse it's all based on personal opinion of his crew but I've made the experience that I could mostly rely on that opinion. I also sometimes disagree with some ratings but what do you expect? Atleast I get all the information I need for a quick use. It doesn't tell me the name of the writer of each entry(like one reviewer complained), but if I really want to know the name of the "Gopher" of every production, I look in other resources because it would be impossible to cover everything in one paperback edition. It's not true that Maltin only gives the mainstream good ratings. It's the opposite, he also gives lesser known international films no one's ever heard of good ratings if they're good movies. A lot of people complain that he has given the usual cliché favorites like Bladerunner, Taxi Driver and so on bad ratings, but so what? Just because a lot of people liked it. I mean a lot of people had bad hair-cuts in the eighties... All in all, this book is a good resource for films and you can mostly rely on the information, a definate must for every film buff.
Rating: 1
Summary: BOMB!
Comment: I can't believe Leonard Maltin would give Mission to Moscow and Baby Doll a ***1/2 rating and give Saratoga Trunk a *1/2 and Unconquered a **1/2. Stupid, stupid man who only cares about films HE likes. And no, Mission to Moscow is not a "well-made propaganda film", since everything in it is lies, lies and more lies.
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Title: Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2004 by Leonard Maltin ISBN: 0451209400 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present (Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present, 8th Ed) by Tim Brooks, Earle Marsh ISBN: 0345455428 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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