Reviews

10 Bad Dates with De Niro: A Book of Alternative Movie Lists, by Richard T. Kelly, Andrew Rae

woodge's review against another edition

4.0

A movie list book is usually not my thing. This book was a gift. But then I opened it at random and started idly reading and kept going back to it until I'd finished the whole book in a week. The lists are unusual, witty, informative, and naturally have plenty of room for argument. These top 10 lists are backed up by commentary on why the movie in question was included and lets you know some of which are intentionally excluded and why. Lists include such stuff as 10 Worst Wigs an Actor Dared to Wear, 10 Gratuitous Machine-Gun Frenzies (I'd seen number 1 thru 8), 10 Best Uses of Poetry in Film, best endings, best opening credits, best use of food, 10 best Coen Brothers minor characters... topics were mercurial and wide-ranging. I've added some films to my to-see list and some to my to-see-again list. Good book for cinephiles.