Customer Reviews

Blockbuster Entertainment Guide to Movies and Videos 1999

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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!

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.

I have both the Blockbuster Entertainment book and the Leonard Maltin, and I have foound the Blockbuster to be far more complete and inclusive than Maltin's. Maltin doesn't even show James Arness. Eva Marie Saint, and a host of other fine actors that do appear in the Blockbuster edition. I wish Blockbuster would put out a more recent edition than the 1998 one.

Why would a movie store make a movie guide? They sell videos so don't you think there reviews would be a little one sided. I found them giving high ratings to Killer Klowns from Outer Space and such. It didn't even review many movies made before 1940. I guess those movies are just not very marketable. One good note is the rather large actor index. I would take Leonard Maltin over Blockbuster.

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.

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.

No one is going to agree with all of the movie reviews in this book, just as readers so often take issue with newspaper film critics. It would be nice to see a "just the facts" approach without quite so much editorializing on the individual movies, but with that point set aside, it is a decent guide. The indices in the back are perhaps the best feature, allowing you to look up a particular director or actor's filmography, and to find films by category (whereas the book as a whole is alphabetized by film title).

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!

They don't even get the story line right. Read the review of Hud and weep.

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.