1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

THIS BOOK IS AMAZING! It covers every genre, good or bad, culturally important, cinematically revolutionary, narratively stirring, and the notoriously awful movies people watch for a laugh or guilty pleasures. I never thought 1001 movies could be so limited, but the main difference, between this and other lists like AFI or IMDB top 250 is that this book was created by 30+ critics of all different walks that cover almost every year of cinema's existence worldwide. It cast such a wide swathe that noone will like or agree with every movie, but all the more fun. So yes, many of your favorites will be missing, as many of mine were, but you already found them, you shouldn't be getting the book just for confirmation but to extend that base. WARNING: EXCESSIVE MOVIE WATCHING WILL OCCUR WHEN THIS IS MIXED WITH A NETFLIX ACCOUNT. This book would work as just a casual read I guess, but this is book necessitates netflix or a four-star video heaven. The regular blockbuster store or hollywood video isn't going to cut it if you want to find most of these titles.P.S. And if you've wondered which is better, blockbuster delivered or netflix, the answer is netflix. I've tested out both, and netflix has faster delivery, far better interface, phenomenal recommendation service, and ONLINE STREAMING to the computer or TV with any of the internet ready dvd/blu-ray players out there or the XBOX 360. (BBI just caught on and came out with their own box, but netflix has support through vizio, lg, samsung, microsoft, roku and others) Still not sure, check out their stock prices... BBI vs NFLX.

i like the cover . it also has pictures of the movies

I got it forever ago. I looked through it once. I basically bought it just as a conversation piece.

great book!

As a film student I found this book very interesting. It was pretty cool to read alot of the movies talked about in lecture. Although, I now realize how many movies I have to watch. After reading this book, I fell like I have seen nonthing! Great buy!

EXCELLANT

It doesn't miss many U.S. titles, but it has many classics of which nowadays remakes have succeeded... It should have considered more non-U.S. titles...

I bought the book for my son who is in college and a real movie buff. He absolutely loves the book.

Make your own. Much more fulfilling.

海外行った時に見た「死ぬ前に〜すべき1000シリーズ」の映画版。他にもロックアルバム編や地名編等があります。ロックアルバムはそうでもないが、この映画版は歴史が古い分だけ戦前の映画のボリュームが多く、半分以上の映画は私が聞いたこともないものが含まれております。また残りの映画も1000本も映画をピックアップすると「別に見なくていいよー。どっちかと言えば見ると後悔するよ。」映画もかなりあります。でも酒飲みながらペラペラ見るのは最高のサカナとなる本。英語読めなくても眺めているだけでも割と幸せになれます。表紙はハードカバーでかなり見てくれは立派なつくりです。