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Blockbuster Video Guide to Movies and Videos, 1997
The most complete video guide available includes more than 21,500 movie reviews and plot summaries, arranged in alphabetical order and cross-indexed by title, director, actor, and film category, along with a section on family viewing, and more.
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1585 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 31, 1994
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April 5, 2021
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July 27, 2010
From my blog: (\__/)nymfaux
The Blockbuster Entertainment Guide to Movies and Videos 1999 is THE BEST movie reference guide I've ever had. Unfortunately, my edition is ten years old, and I have yet to find a newer version. I have tried some other guides, but this is my favorite. I like the comprehensive set up of this guide. It's set up like an encyclopedia and has "over 23,000" entries, with small blurbs for each movie. It also includes director and actor filmographies indexes in the back of the book, and a special section for children and family recommendations.
I've read it cover-to-cover twice, although I do debate some of the ratings, most of the reviews are fair and accurate. Every once in a while I ran across reviews where it seemed like the reviewer had a particularly long day, along with at least one reviewer with a sense of humor, and a stockpile of bland and questionable adjectives such as: simple, uninvolved, bucolic, subtle, uneven, predictable, charming, painless, insignificant, mindless, entertaining, sprawling, masterpiece, breezy, overdone, and descriptions of attractive and likable casts, and categories labeled character study, soap opera, and comic drama.
I plan to save some of these adjectives for my own future reviews. ;)
The Blockbuster Entertainment Guide to Movies and Videos 1999 is THE BEST movie reference guide I've ever had. Unfortunately, my edition is ten years old, and I have yet to find a newer version. I have tried some other guides, but this is my favorite. I like the comprehensive set up of this guide. It's set up like an encyclopedia and has "over 23,000" entries, with small blurbs for each movie. It also includes director and actor filmographies indexes in the back of the book, and a special section for children and family recommendations.
I've read it cover-to-cover twice, although I do debate some of the ratings, most of the reviews are fair and accurate. Every once in a while I ran across reviews where it seemed like the reviewer had a particularly long day, along with at least one reviewer with a sense of humor, and a stockpile of bland and questionable adjectives such as: simple, uninvolved, bucolic, subtle, uneven, predictable, charming, painless, insignificant, mindless, entertaining, sprawling, masterpiece, breezy, overdone, and descriptions of attractive and likable casts, and categories labeled character study, soap opera, and comic drama.
I plan to save some of these adjectives for my own future reviews. ;)
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