Widely acclaimed as the biggest, best, and most authoritative book of its kind, this 18th edition features 400 new movie entries, making a total of over 19,000 entries, and has expanded coverage of films available on video for home viewing (over 14,000 videocassette, and over 6,000 laser disc listings), plus enlarged indexes of leading performers and directors, and updated lists of mail-order sources for buying and renting videocassettes and laser discs.
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If you buy only one film book in your life, this should be it. Maltin is the filmgoer's guide--the most compact, intelligent, and informative reference available. Alphabetized by title, each of its more than 19,000 entries lists year of release, running time, director, principal cast, and availability on video. Other guides may offer even more information, but Maltin's is distinguished by the quality of its reviews. Rating films on a scale from "****" to "BOMB," it offers a comprehensive introduction to the international cinema, covers the classics with the respect they deserve, unearths thousands of little-known gems, takes the wind out of the overrated, and laughs at the awful with appropriate good humor. If you want proof of Maltin's versatility, compare the reviews of The Battleship Potemkin, History Is Made at Night, Blue Velvet, and The Navy vs. the Night Monsters. Standard, crucial, great fun to read, chock full of trivia, and bursting with passion for the movies. --Raphael Shargel
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We use this book about as often as we use the dictionary! The descriptions are longer than those found in the TV guides, but are still pretty short. I don't think they could be any longer without leaving out a lot of titles.
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I'm an old lady. I signed on because I was trying to look up a movie by Helena Bonham Carter in Leonard Maltin's 2001 Movie and Video Guide and found she was not listed. I wanted to inform Maltin of this oversight. Please forward this information to him if you know how; I don't. Sigh. Eileen
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Anyone who would refer to my husband as a "dimwitted master" is pretty dimwitted himself.I would like to see him enter an arena full of lions. That is one profession where you have to have your wits to stay alive. But I think it is easier to sit back and just criticize.("Fearless Fagan")
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If you watch movies, you simply must own this book!
As someone who watches, reviews, studies, and has loved film their whole life, I'd have to say I pick up Leonard Maltin's book more often than any of the dozen of books on film I... Read more
Published on Jun 3 2000 by LBO3410
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Everybody's a critic. Why?
Imagine a doctor or a CPA so incompetent at his/her job. Makes you wish there was a standardised test for critics. A perfect book for the moronic "two thumbs up" set. Read more
Published on May 2 2000
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He gives me milk when I want vodka
Safe. Unimaginative. Pedestrian. Conformist. Boring. Spielberg fan.
That's it, I'm out of insults to throw at this book.
And to think people take it seriously!
Published on April 24 2000 by MAX
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Don't pay attention to the last three reviews
The most complete and accurate movie analysis out there. Though I do not agree with every review of every movie, no one can. Read more
Published on April 12 2000 by Craig C. Kling
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Maltin's Movie Guide
If your taste in movies runs to the safe, the predictable, the formulaic, the mainstream, the unadventurous, the commercial, then this is definitely the movie guide for you. Read more
Published on April 5 2000
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Give me Roger Ebert any day.
Poor, poor Leonard Maltin. He just hates his job. How do I know this? I've read hundreds of his reviews and always find him complaining that the film went on too long. Read more
Published on Mar 20 2000 by Ryan Honeyman
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Is this guy a putz, or what?
This guy's opinions are for people who don't have much depth of emotion. Otherwise, he's right on the money. Try Roger Ebert, instead.
Published on Mar 6 2000
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Shallow
is the man who rates Richard Burton's wonderful acting in Wagner The complete epic as "uninspirational". Read more
Published on Feb 3 2000 by Ken Mogi
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Biased beyond belief
If his review of "Moonraker" is anything to go by, Leonard Maltin sounds like the kind of guy who's spent his entire life in a dentist's waiting room. Read more
Published on Jan 29 2000
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This is NOT a guide to films/videos
Maltin are to much influenced by an eager wish to slaugther all films. Naturaly he does not do so in his particular taste. Read more
Published on Jan 26 2000 by T. Helge Heldre
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