Four-Star Movies: The 101 Greatest Films of All Time

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Summary: Has some head-shakingly bad errors
Review: Was at a store earlier, and the book looked interesting, so I picked, first thinking I would see the typical "best-of" list of all-too-familiar film titles, and there were a lot of those, but I also saw that it had some of my favorites -- "Seven Samurai," "Do the Right Thing" and "Saving Private Ryan -- so I picked it up. But my interest in it was soon lost. It has some just plain bad errors in describing some pivotal scenes. (spoilers ahead)
In "Seven Samurai," it describes briefly how one of the samurai falls in love with a farm girl (which is true), but then it goes on to say this young samurai is one of the dead at the end. Utterly false. This young samurai is one of the three to survive.
And then in its description of "Saving Private Ryan," it talks about the scene in which the American soldiers let a Nazi soldier go, blindfolding him, and telling him to walk and be picked up by Allied forces (which is correct). But then it says that he runs away, and he is shot in the back! (what films exactly were the authors watching?)
Seems they rushed this out without fact-checking, or didn't pay much attention to these films, or mistook one for another, or all three of these possibilities. Just after reading those two glaring errors alone, I laughingly put the book done, and thought "That's one book I won't be buying." So, if you like your movie books to have such glaring errors, then this is the book for you. Otherwise, skip it, and buy the numerous other "best-of" books out there.