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Movies you think are absolutely perfect for what they are.

Metalhead

Metalhead

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This thread is for that rare breed of film - the flawless gems with zero missteps in their construction.

My list includes -

GoodFellas
Pulp Fiction
The 400 Blows
Ran
The Seven Samurai
The Seventh Seal
Jules & Jim
Le Samourai
Patlabor 2
Amadeus Theatrical Cut
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

What are your perfect movies?
 
Literally none. Even movies that are supposed to be historical/biographical, I always catch the things the director (or whoever) says "close enough, no one will notice". That's the good ones.

Some are SO bad I can't keep watching.
 
The Princess Bride
Leon, The Professional
Last of the Mohicans
Silver Streak
Drive
Fight Club
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spontaneous
Groundhog Day
Runaway Train
13 Samurai
Lucy
Alien
Blade Runner
The Prestige
A Bridge Too Far
Sorcerer
A Night at the Opera
No Time For Sergeants
The Ninth Gate
 
The Age of Innocence, with Michelle Pfeiffer. Any film done by Martin Scorese, Coen Brothers, Most movies with Kevin Spacy, Adam Sandler, Alex Baldwin, Seth Rogen, Cris Katten, Kamehl Butabi, Robert DeNiro, Gene Hackman. Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, After Hours, etc... Too many to put all here.:)
 
FayetheAspie said:
There's probably always something I would change.
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I see that as a profound comment in the big scheme of things. Especially when you consider how a film is envisioned by a director, versus the studio moguls, those who finance them, and lastly actors who seem to think they should have the last word in whether or not they deviate from a script. And how especially in Hollywood, where "a horse comes out as a camel".

Plus the reality that a lot goes wrong in the course of film production, and in some cases some very big names in motion pictures were miracles in that they made it to the audience at all.

But then I'm a tad biased over such concerns, being somewhat acquainted with the dynamics and exposures involved in film production insurance. So when you consider how many things routinely can and do go wrong in post and pre film production, it seems unrealistic to think of any one of them as being "perfect". Whether they can be indemnified or not.

Artistically "perfect" ? That's in the eye of the beholder. ;)

Whether you're talking about David Lean or Ed Wood. Which makes me think of one particular film.


IMO, as close as a film can come on all levels to being a "masterpiece".
 
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- Raising Arizona
- Fail Safe
- Forbidden Planet
- A Silent Voice (anime)
- True Grit (2010)
- Full Metal Jacket
- Tampopo
- Pans Labrynth
- 2001
- North by Northwest (actually, anything from Hitchcock)
- Glory
- Brazil
- Interstellar
- Spirited Away (anime)
- The Man Who Would Be King
- Rear Window
- Road to Perdition
- Your Name (anime)
- The Long Riders
- Harriet
- Silverado
- Shaun of the Dead
- Bridge on the River Kwai (I walked the present day bridge)
 
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Metalhead said:
This thread is for that rare breed of film - the flawless gems with zero missteps in their construction.

My list includes -

GoodFellas
Pulp Fiction
The 400 Blows
Ran
The Seven Samurai
The Seventh Seal
Jules & Jim
Le Samourai
Patlabor 2
Amadeus Theatrical Cut
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

What are your perfect movies?
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"Perfect" movie is extremely subjective. One I think comes close not mentioned yet is Stalag 17.
 
Joe Verses the Volcano
Greatest Showman
Ghostbusters Afterlife
Please Stand By
Where'd you go, Bernadette
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (story was excellent, but the actors makeup looked like cheap Halloween costumes.)
 
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I second Spirited Away and Alien, as being movies that I love and wouldn't want changed.
I also really love Fantastic Mr. Fox. But then again, I don't often think about what I'd change in a movie.
 
Spice World. Let me explain. It is a movie that was never supposed to be taken seriously and it knows it and has fun running around having a good time. Of course it’s silly and not going to win any Oscars and that’s okay. Sometimes a silly little movie with a very paper thin plot full of wacky antics is all you need to be happy and that’s okay. The Muppets have several silly movies that are just fun to watch.
 
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