A review by micha
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Frank Lafond, Margaret Pomeranz, Roumiana Deltcheva, Kyung Hyun Kim, Geoff Andrew, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Adrian Martin, Michael Tapper, Linda Badley, Jean-Michel Frodon, Kathryn Bergeron, Kim Newman, Marsha Orgeron, Adisakdi Tantimedh, Aniko Imre, Steven Jay Schneider, Ernest Hardy, Andy Willis, Garrett Chaffin-Quiway, Ginette Vincendeau, Tom Gunning, Nezih Erdoğan, Devin Orgeron, David Stratton, Josephine Woll, Sam Umland, Chris Fujiwara, Richard Pena, Matt Venne

A weight has been lifted off my shoulders! Finally, I am done! I first started reading this book in November of 2011 and finished it in January of 2013. It has to be the longest time I have spent on reading a book. And I did read the WHOLE book; I read the people who were involved in the movie making, the description, and even the info about the contributors who wrote the descriptions at the end of the book. This book was also the longest I have ever read so far (900+ pages). It took me a while to get through the 1900s, once I got to 1990 and the 2000s the book went by faster. I think one of the reasons for that is because there weren't that many movies mentioned in the 2000s. For example: there would be like 3 movies mentioned in 2003 whereas there would be like 10 movies mentioned in 1950-something. At times I was wondering 'why is this movie in here?' and other times I was mainly wondering 'why is so-and-so NOT in here?' This book was missing a few movies, but that's okay, I guess, since I recently found out that they made an updated version in October of 2012 -___- <<<< my face when I realized this. I added that book to my to be read list but it's going to be a while until I get to reading that. Also, some problems I had with this book are that at times some of the descriptions did spoil a movie, but mainly I felt like this book unfairly went into detail in its description of some movies more than others. Some of the descriptions talked about the movie plot, the actors and director(s) whereas others didn't dive into the movie so much. For example: the movie The Color Purple was mentioned in this book. In it's description the writer talked about Steven Spielberg who directed the movie. The plot of this movie was hardly mentioned and the writer made it seem like this movie should only be viewed because it has Steven Spielberg's name attached to it. Really? I didn't care for that.
I don't feel like this is a book that should be rated (my opinion). There are always going to be updated versions and there wasn't a story here. All I know is that I don't want to read a book that's going to take me this long to read ever again.