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Summary: What a guide!
Review: Mick martin and marsha porters giude is the best there is. Okay so they underrate some films, who cares! Its the only guide that gets the job done...Maltin sucks. Ebert's guide is very lenghty but there are barley any movies in it. Video Hound doesn't know anything. This is the best.
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Summary: Old editions, were best organized
Review: This is the third edition (1999) I bought. Older editions classified videos as drama, sci-fi, etc. For me, was a quick reference video in this way. Now, I have to look through the actor list, that is not in page order, as others editions and go again in the alphabetical order of all of the movies to see the description of the movie I want. Please, return to the format of the past editions; in clasifications of type of video, and list with page number in the actor/director video list. Thanks, A perpetual reader of your guide.
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Summary: The Internet Movie Database Rules!
Review: The one-line summary I have provided makes the point of what I'm going to quickly say very clear. In my opinion I believe the Internet Movie Database is the best, most concise, witty, and LARGEST (over 80,000 titles!) movie and video guide. What Martin is missing is that it's all just his opinion. Like most critics (Ebert, Leonard Maltin) he tends to believe that he's right and every one else should believe he's right. To accomplish this he uses big and intimidating words to get the less educated readers to believe that he's right and everyone else is wrong. To me he is no different from Halliwell, Leonard Maltin, and Roger Ebert. Go to the IMDB or read VideoHound instead, they're a helluva lot better.
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Summary: Simple the Best!
Review: There is simply no better movie guide on books than Video Movie Guide. I can recommend it to everyone!
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Summary: The best guide for selcet the movies
Review: I use it for looking for the movies i like. The rating system is good. I t's the best for everyone who love movies.
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Summary: Adequate, but not what I needed. My fault.
Review: I got this book to update my old Maltin for my small reference library. Due to my own carelessness, I failed to consider that this volume does not include movies that are not on video, i.e., most TV productions and many older films. Another aggravation is the presentation of the indices of cast and director credits. While the number of individuals listed is impressive, their credits do not seem to be complete and worst of all, there are no dates. These lists should be chronological. The reviews are so-so. I'll keep this one in my library, but I guess I need to get another Matlin also.
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Summary: BUY THIS ONE!!! (DONT BUY MALTIN'S)
Review: This is a fantastic guide to movies. This is a fun and easy to read quide as well. DON'T BUY LEONARD MALTIN'S GUIDE!!! Buy this one. Go to the book store and read some of them both if you are not convinced. Maltin is a film historian who really does'nt like many movies. Many of Maltin's "reviews" are very short and uniformative. Trust me Martin and Porter's guide is the way to go!!!!!!
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Summary: Accurate, Helpful, and Funny
Review: This book has a great rating system, an excellent index of actors and directors and their movies, and the authors have a good sense of humor about the bad movies. One of my favorites is "Speed 2" It says, "It generates as much excitement as watching snails on a collision course with fifty yards between them." One review that I don't understand is for "Hello, Dolly!" It received a turkey without any explanation other than a one-sentence plot summary.
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Summary: Critic of the Critics
Review: One of the most boring novels I've ever read. There was no plot, just a bunch of movies I've never seen. What no life has this much time to watch this many movies? I just hope they don't make a movie on this book of movies.
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Summary: Prefer older version
Review: I bought this book because my 1996 edition was too out of date. However, I was very disappointed that the categories (action, comedy, drama, etc.)have been eliminated. Now I cannot look up "family" films when I want a movie that will be appropriate for watching with the kids. Sure you can browse for movies rated PG, but in a book with about 1260 pages, this can take forever.
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