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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
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Enjoying this Book you many years,
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This review is from: VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (Paperback)
Excellent and fun critique book of movies. Be aware this book only rates movies put in VHS and DVD, not all movies ever made, but it does cover most. Good coverage of the other movies actors are in, enjoyable for my spouse and I and we get a new one about every other year. My 90 YO father loves it and uses it everyday and this is his third as a gift. Great for TCM and old movie lovers, too. It makes a very nice gift. Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies is good for info about actors, those behind the scenes, and movie making, and Time-Out is good for all movies made. This is a very good reference; 5 stars. Highly recommend.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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The standard for movie lovers!,
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I have been getting Videohound Golden Movie Retriever: Complete Guide to Movies for many years. It offers a complete reference to movies, actors, directors, etc. It is always handy near the big screen TV and it is used almost on a daily basis. I do not throw the old versions away. I hand them down to other family members. I always have the most recent publication, but it is nice for the rest of my family to have an older version rather than none at all. Sometimes when you can't remember an actor's name or the name of a movie,., but you do remember what the movie was about, you are able to cross reference under the subject of the movie. Voila' ...there it is...in black and white...1954...submarine flick with ..Oh, yeah! The guy in Run Silent, Run Deep...
Yes. This book will always have a special place in our house!
21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not sure they've really seen all the movies they review.,
This review is from: VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (Paperback)
While some of Videohound's specialized movie guides are fun and informative reads (by this I mean the books devoted to specific genres such as Sci-Fi, Horror, Martial Arts, etc.), their standard all-inclusive movie guides are really only useful for reference purposes regarding dates, actors, directors, years, etc. Many of the reviews are so short and generic that I have huge doubts that some of the movies were actually seen before reviewing. In complete contrast to the genre specific guides, the basic Hound seems to have a disdain for cult and/or exploitation films. Violence and nudity are considered especially offensive to the Hound in the basic Movie Guides, while they are revered in the genre specific ones. It's easy to tell that there are numerous reviewers penning the basic Hound and that they are often at odds with eachother. Not only that, but I find it extremely annoying when some 2 and a half star movies are given mostly positive descriptions while others with the same amount of stars are trashed (how can they both receive the same rating then?). If you are looking for a book that lists tons of mainstream movies (and lists some non-mainstream genre movies but is seriously lacking in that department - kung fu, blaxploitatin, foreign, silent, direct to video/DVD, and especially movies not released to video/DVD, etc.) and you want to look up certain actors or genres, or you want to just flip pages in a big movie book and see if your finger lands on any titles that sound good that you haven't seen, then this book is pretty good for those purposes. However, if you want detailed reviews with logical reasoning behind the opinions and are looking to distinguish the good from the bad, then you may want to avoid this and grab a more genre specific movie guide book instead. So far, Roger Ebert's general movie books seem to be the most detailed and personal, even though he hates some movies I love and vice/versa. Leonard Maltin and the Hound's basic books are just thumb guides and not really serious critical "review" books. (I didn't devote too much time to writing this, but I still feel I gave more time and reasoning that the Hound does.)
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