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What is your "perfect" movie?
- Thread starter ffgameman
- Start date
Sure, I have a lot more favorite movies but by "perfect", I was thinking of the ones that feel perfectly cohesive and complete, where adding or subtracting anything would disrupt the film, where every element felt exactly how and where it needed to be
That's kind of why I didn't say Aliens. Because I prefer the Special Edition cut over the Theatrical one
There's a few that I would pick as perfect. They aren't my favorites (though I do love some of them), but sometimes I walk out of a movie going "God damn that executed exactly what it was attempting flawlessly."
- Back to the Future
- Casino Royale
- Perfect Blue
- The Handmaiden (Ahgassi)
- No Country For Old Men
- There Will Be Blood
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Most of Kurosawa's filmography probably qualifies.
Also, Hitchcock's Psycho and John Carpenter's Halloween.
Also, Hitchcock's Psycho and John Carpenter's Halloween.
My man.
This would probably just be a list of my favorite movies, which would be a lot.
It's really hard to narrow it down to one, but if there's one that I feel absolutely doesn't miss a single note, it would be Road to Perdition.
- direction
- cinematography
- acting
- score
- editing
That's a criminally underappreciated film.
I remember seeing it in the theater and noting that many people in the audience clearly weren't happy seeing Tom Hanks as a cold-blooded killer.
Yeah that seems to have been a common complaint, that Hanks was "mis-cast." But if you actually judge his performance on its own merits - which seems to be kind of tough for some given how prevalent he is - he does an outstanding job.
But the entire cast - particularly the main son - is absolutely wonderful.
The irony about people claiming he was miscast is that I don't think many other actors could have pulled it off. The whole point of the character - which the son basically reinforces at the end of the film - is that he was both a genuinely decent family man and a murderous mob enforcer. He was somebody who felt he had no choice in how he provided for his family but he was clearly weighted down by those decisions.
We had to like the character to some capacity otherwise it would have devolved into a story about a bad man killing other bad men.
I honestly can't imagine anyone else in the role.
And that moment when he guns down Newman's character...like a son killing his own father.
Anyways, good choice. :)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy immediately came to my mind as well. Nothing's perfect but they realized their goals really well I think. Some others:
Princess Bride
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Princess Bride
Raiders of the Lost Ark
I'm going by the movies I've rated 10/10 on IMDb
Die Hard
Robocop
Predator
Terminator 1 & 2
Kill Bill Volume 1 - I would actually like the Whole Bloody Affair, but it hasn't been released in the US I don't think.
Alien
Spirited Away
Blade Runner 2049
Mad Max Fury Road
Batman Begins
The Fly
The Thing
Hellraiser
Halloween
Tenebre
Pulp Fiction
Die Hard
Robocop
Predator
Terminator 1 & 2
Kill Bill Volume 1 - I would actually like the Whole Bloody Affair, but it hasn't been released in the US I don't think.
Alien
Spirited Away
Blade Runner 2049
Mad Max Fury Road
Batman Begins
The Fly
The Thing
Hellraiser
Halloween
Tenebre
Pulp Fiction
Old boy
The original off Course. I watched it more thzn 10 times and i could watch it 10 times more.
Everything is perfect in this movie; music, sets, figting scènes, the actors are all amazing and the story is really great. If you havemt seen this movie, do it asap.
The original, not the stupid american remake
The original off Course. I watched it more thzn 10 times and i could watch it 10 times more.
Everything is perfect in this movie; music, sets, figting scènes, the actors are all amazing and the story is really great. If you havemt seen this movie, do it asap.
The original, not the stupid american remake
Jaws is a perfect movie. I can rewatch it endlessly and still marvel at its perfectly balanced construction, and all the emotional beats still land exactly as they should.
Me as well. Every time I think "What movie does not even remotely qualify as cinematic perfection" I think of Con Air.
Off the top of my head:
Die Hard
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Casino
The Dark Knight
Interstellar
Aliens
Terminator 2
It's a Wonderful Life
12 Angry Men
Tropic Thunder
Scream
The Thing
The Shining
Spirited Away
Die Hard
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Casino
The Dark Knight
Interstellar
Aliens
Terminator 2
It's a Wonderful Life
12 Angry Men
Tropic Thunder
Scream
The Thing
The Shining
Spirited Away
Jurassic Park, obviously. Even from a feminism perspective, the movie has aged great. Score, casting, special effects, script, memorable moments. Everything is perfect. One of the reasons I don't enjoy blockbuster movies any more is because I grew up with the best one ever. Also, it has a lot of personal significance to me.
Oh, did I mention it has huge, scary and fascinating fucking dinosaurs?
Oh, did I mention it has huge, scary and fascinating fucking dinosaurs?
It literally does tho. They don't call love a form of madness for nothing
I watched In Bruges for the first time yesterday so another vote for that. It's so tight that pretty much every last moment matters, seemingly throw away scenes/lines take on more significance later. There's barely any fat to cut.
The main characters are fully fleshed out with some great acting, the themes are always bubbling away, it looks great and it's fucking funny.
There may be better films but not many others where I don't think it's worth changing a single thing.
The main characters are fully fleshed out with some great acting, the themes are always bubbling away, it looks great and it's fucking funny.
There may be better films but not many others where I don't think it's worth changing a single thing.
Lawrence of Arabia
Not a single thing I would change.
Perfectly written, casted, filmed, edited, scored; the list goes on.
Yup.