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Leonard Maltin's 2009 Movie Guide (Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (Signet)) | 
 enlarge | Author: Leonard Maltin
Publisher: Signet
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 2398
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1664
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.2 x 2.3
ISBN: 045122468X
Dewey Decimal Number: 016.7914375
EAN: 9780451224682
ASIN: 045122468X
Publication Date: August 5, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
The most authoritative book in the field, now with more entries than ever before, updated and revised for 2009.
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Reviewing the Reviewer August 27, 2008
As with his past movie guides Leonard Maltin gives me the info I need to
decide if that film is worth my time & $$$.
With all the films that are made that is a great help.
 Maltin's new movie guide August 26, 2008
I ordered this book because I wanted to get Leonard Maltin's most recent listings. When it arrived, I found it completely unusable. Obviously, it has many more entries, but instead of being larger than my old one (from about 3 years ago), the book is of smaller size. As a result, the type is so small that, with my 76-year-old eyes, I could not read it. I was planning to pass the old one along to my grown children but, instead, I gave them this one and kept the old one for myself. With more and more listings being added each year, somebody has to give serious thought to developing a reasonable format to accommodate the ever-increasing volume. This review clearly does not address itself to the content, which I was not able to access. I've enjoyed Maltin's guide for many years, and I can't imagine that the quality of the content has suffered. By giving it only one star I am only trying to communicate that this new guide did not serve MY purpose. It may be totally satisfactory for someone else with better eyesight.
 Maltin's the king of the succinct review August 19, 2008
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
Every movie lover should have this compact, brick-sized guidebook. With more than 17,000 movie reviews -- including 300 new entries for this edition -- Leonard Maltin's 2009 Movie Guide is a valuable resource. My favorite movie critic has been and always will be Roger Ebert; I always buy his annual Movie Yearbook. This Leonard Maltin guide is also a must-buy.
I like it for the writing. Maltin is the king of the succinct review, with each movie capsule containing from one to five sentences. For example, here is his review of the 1995 movie Toy Story: "A boy's favorite toy, a cowboy doll named Woody, feels threatened (and rightly so) by the arrival of a new birthday present, a high-tech spaceman model advertised on TV. Clever, incredible-looking animated film, produced entirely on computer. A grownup story masquerading as a kid's film, this story of friendship, fickleness, and the need for acceptance features a colorful cast of characters led by Woody and his rival, Buzz Lightyear. The `acting' of the two leads -- their facial expressions and body language -- is as good as anything ever seen in a conventional animated cartoon." Only four sentences, but it sums up the plot and gives you enough information to choose whether to see the movie or not.
My only qualm is the quality of the presentation. The paper is a little see-through and grayish, like newsprint. The typeface is a bit small. Instead of paying less for this quality level, I'd rather spend a few dollars more and get a nicer, whiter paper which would make reading the tiny words easier.
Other than the reviews, the book contains:
* A three-page introduction
* A key to the book, which explains the alphabetization format used to put the movie reviews in order, Maltin's rating system, symbols used and the MPAA ratings system.
* A list of 50 good to great movies that viewers may have missed. Included are a couple of my personal favorites, "The Man in the Moon" from 1991, and "Miss Potter" from 2006.
* A directory of mail-order and online sources for buying and renting DVDs and videos.
* A widescreen glossary, listing the aspect ratio of special widescreen processes such as CinemaScope and Technirama.
* An index of leading actors and directors with a list of their movies.
Husband's fetish August 19, 2008
My husband loves old movies, new movies, cable movies, I buy this for him every year so he can refer to actors, etc., that no one else remembers.
Dorothy Harper
No it doensn't include the Dark Knight review, but..... August 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
if you really want to find out what Leonard Maltin thought of the Dark Knight, check out his homepage. He didn't like it just so you know (neither did I, so I wasn't as bummed as some people would be).
Yet again still the best reference guide to movies.
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