A love of movies since childhood and a passion for
writing combined long ago to drive the author into creating an account at
Amazon and later Epinions so that he could write movie reviews. While those
reviews have expanded into other content areas, movies remain the primary
driving force for Alex Diaz-Granados. The result is this self-published book
featuring just some of his eight years of movie review work at Epinions.com.
After an introduction that discusses the passion the
author has had all his life for movies¸ it is on to the reviews. The book is
broken down into four chapter sections covering movies he liked and movies that
he didn’t. The reviews are extensively detailed both in terms of plot and
storylines as well as analysis of the films regarding these same details. As a
result these are reviews you do not want to read if you have not seen the movie
as the review will reveal all.
“Chapter 1: The Star Wars Saga: "A Long Time Ago,
in a Galaxy Far, Far Away...." opens the book and
clearly covers the various Star Wars
films including the animated 2008 project The
Clone Wars. The movies are reviewed in sequence order making the review of Star Wars-Episode IV: A New Hope
released in 1977 the fourth review of this chapter.
The title of the second section also makes it very
clear what it is about. “Chapter 2: A Film by Steven Spielberg” covers the
various films such as Minority Report, The
Indiana Jones series, ET and others.
After discussing movies
he liked in the first two sections, Author Alex Diaz-Granados turns to movies
that he feels should not have been made in “Chapter 3: The Franchises That
Shouldn’t Have Been Created.” This includes the Airport franchise though he does note that the original Airport does work well especially for
its time period. Like with Airport, the
original JAWS receives praise while
the various sequels do not.
The book then moves on
to the concluding chapter, “Chapter 4: Movies That Have Stood The Test Of Time.”
These are The Bridge Over The River Kwai,(1957) Gone With the Wind (1939), The
Good, The Bad, And the Ugly (1966) a personal favorite of mine and others.
The book closes with a
brief bio of the author.
Overall, Save Me the Aisle Seat: The Good, the Bad and the Really Bad Movies:
Selected Reviews by an Online Film Reviewer is an interesting book.
The focus is primarily on plot and story details over technical movie making
aspects of each film. The plots and storylines are covered in exhaustive detail
and therefore contain numerous spoilers for those who have not seen the covered
films. For those familiar with the 34 films covered in this book, such detail
is not an issue. For those who are not familiar, it would be best to see
the film first before reading the review contained in this book.
Save Me the
Aisle Seat: The Good,
the Bad and the Really Bad Movies: Selected Reviews by an Online Film Reviewer
Alex
Diaz-Granados
CreateSpace
(division of Amazon)
978-1475075045
April 2012
Paperback (also available
as an e-book)
114 Pages
$8.99
ARC provided by the author quite some time ago in exchange
for my objective review.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2012
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