Blockbuster Entertainment Guide to Movies and Videos 1999

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Summary: A BOOK TO OWN AND FINDING MOVIES!
Review: A definitive comprehensive book to have because it gives the actors & actresses their list of films for a collection you'd might have or don't to check mark off of. And tells how many stars it gives for the rating of their review. Last who's director of that film by Blockbuster Video!

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Summary: A movie guide from America's biggest censor
Review: After browsing through this book a full ten minutes, I was unable to find a single video with a rating lower than two stars. Virtually every movie is given a hearty recommendation, even those which were universally panned by critics and viewers alike. Unless you intend to purchase this guide solely for the plot synopses or actor/director cross-references, it is virtually useless. My advice: stick with the IMDB, or, if you must have a book, get one by Ebert or Maltin instead.

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Summary: A shameless attempt to increase video rentals
Review: After browsing through this book a full ten minutes, I was unable to find a single video with a rating lower than two stars. Virtually every movie is given a hearty recommendation, even those which were universally panned by critics and viewers alike. Unless you intend to purchase this guide solely for the plot synopses or actor/director cross-references, it is virtually useless. My advice: stick with the IMDB, or, if you must have a book, get one by Ebert or Maltin instead.

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Summary: A Great Objective Source
Review: I find the Blockbuster Guide to be honest, concise and objective but most of all, the reviews are accurate. The guide tells it like it is and doesn't try to promote anything.

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Summary: Consider this one, before Leonard Maltin's guide
Review: The blockbuster guide is worth it. It is at least better than Maltin's. His reviews are extremely critical and closed-minded. I also recommend a Cd-rom guide to movies & videos that blockbuster released, it is a fun way to search for a movie. To be honest, check out Martin & Porter's Video Movie Guide 1999 before you make a final decision, its the best.

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Summary: Consider this one, before Leonard Maltin's guide
Review: The blockbuster guide is worth it. It is at least better than Maltin's. His reviews are extremely critical and closed-minded. I also recommend a Cd-rom guide to movies & videos that blockbuster released, it is a fun way to search for a movie. To be honest, check out Martin & Porter's Video Movie Guide 1999 before you make a final decision, its the best.

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Summary: Don't buy this one!
Review: They don't even get the story line right. Read the review of Hud and weep.

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Summary: Great short summaries to help pick a movie!
Review: This is a great guide to movies, one of the best you can get. The only thing I didn't like about the book was it reviewed EVERY movie ever made, almost, so there were a lot of old movies to search through. But overall, it is a great guide to movies! Every movie-lover should have a copy!

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Summary: Blockbuster never met a video they didn't like.
Review: This is more of a sales catalog of Blockbuster videos than a critical review to find those movies which are gems or worth two hours of your time. The result is that this book is designed to increase your rentals, not be more discerning in the process.

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Summary: A movie guide from America's biggest censor
Review: Trusting Blockbuster to write a movie guide is like trusting the wolf to take care of the sheep. Blockbuster, the company that bans letterboxed DVDs and independent films from its shelves (really), does not understand the first thing about movies. All they know is if it is a hot seller. Does popularity make a movie good? If you have no mind of your own, maybe so. But take a look at the shelves at Blockbuster for the really good movies that you missed in the theatre: Airplane, Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver, Valmont, etc. Oh, they're not there? Guess Blockbuster threw them out to make space for another copy of Gladiator. Really. Ask them.

If you want a good movie guide, try Roger Ebert's reviews or Amazon.com's Internet Movie Database...But stay away from Blockbuster -- and their books.