World Famous Comics: Leonard Maltin's 2008 Movie Guide (Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (Signet))
Leonard Maltin's 2008 Movie Guide (Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (Signet))
By: Leonard Maltin Publisher: Signet Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Signet Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 1648 Publication Date: August 07, 2007
Product Description: Leonard Maltin's comprehensive film guide remains the biggest, best, and most authoritative in the field. The 2008 edition will feature more than 18,000 entries, and updated indexes of leading performers.
Hopefully not the only game in town in the future. Hopefully Mick Martin and Marsha Porter will be able to get their much more comprehensive annual movie guide back into print. The Leonard Maltin book is considered "comprehensive" (apparently by less than avid movie fans) but contains far fewer titles than the Martin/Porter guide. Fonts and symbols make the text difficult to read. And where on earth did the editors learn to alphabetize? The supplemental indices are sorely lacking. The only advantage this guide has over the other is a longer listing of movie cast. Sorry, Leonard.
Very Thorough Movie Guide You will not be disappointed with this guide. With so many choices of TV movies and DVD rentals, use this guide to make your best choices.
Actor Index Lacking After years of buying the DVD and Video Guide by Martin and Porter, I accidentally purchased Leonard Maltin's book last August 2007.
Looking up movies by actors names is miserable in Maltin's book. Hundreds of well-known actors are omitted from the index. DVD and Video Guide provides many, many more names -- both well-known and obscure.
My TV stand staple First and foremost, as other reviewers have pointed out, you have to resign yourself to the fact that not all movies will be included. That's why I only rate this four stars because when I look up a movie, I want to find it in this book. That said, to include "everything" would make the book twice as thick as it already is, which is well over two inches. Maltin makes his own decisions regarding what not to include, but if you're not willing to go along with this idea, you shouldn't be reading his reviews. I have been buying his books for over 10 years because I believe that his reviews are fair, and when he bombs a movie, it deserves it.
Encyclopedia Of Movies Mr. Maltin has done a great service to movie buffs like myself. It's very important to me to know the names of the actors while watching the so-called old movies on TCM and AMC.
I don't know what's wrong with these channels now days. They do not show the credits at the end of the movies. Neither do they inform us during a movie "you are watching so and so and so." Mr. Maltin's guide takes away the frustration of these iniquitous acts by the cable companies.
Anything Goes Trivia
Megaton Man
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Trevor
