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What is your "perfect" movie?
- Thread starter ffgameman
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It's a toss up between:
Aliens
Terminator 2
Lawrence of Arabia
Blade Runner
Snatch
Full Metal Jacket
Aliens
Terminator 2
Lawrence of Arabia
Blade Runner
Snatch
Full Metal Jacket
Alien, Predator, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, LOTR triology, John Wick, Captain America: Winter Soldier, Casino Royale, Back to the Future. To name a few
Can I just say, nice to see 500 Days of Summer get some love, I'd also say that film was perfect. Loved it.
Can I just say, nice to see 500 Days of Summer get some love, I'd also say that film was perfect. Loved it.
Not necessarily my favorite movie of all time (though it's up there), but Raiders of the Lost Ark. It hits all the right marks: comedy, adventure, excitement, action, story, special effects, great characters, music, setpieces. It's all balanced and excuted perfectly. Hell, it even has the best intro of any movie, ever.
That's like saying no game is a 10/10. In a world where perfection is impossible, "perfect" is understood to mean something like "surpassingly exceptional."
I lied above, but it's the most perfect film in existence.
10/10 simply means "this is the best possible score we could give".
There are many, many 10/10 films.
T2, Aliens, Brick, Moon, Let the Right one In, Drive, The Handmaiden, It Follows, Die Hard, Blade Runner/2049, etc...
This being subjective make those lists endless.
10/10 simply means "this is the best possible score we could give".
There are many, many 10/10 films.
T2, Aliens, Brick, Moon, Let the Right one In, Drive, The Handmaiden, It Follows, Die Hard, Blade Runner/2049, etc...
This being subjective make those lists endless.
Hard to say. For me, a perfect movie has to be one that impacts me a great deal and doesn't have clear areas of improvement. Blockbusters are usually great fun, but don't leave a lasting impact, while more arthouse-style films have a greater propensity for impact, but also for weird/awkward moments that don't seem to serve the film.
A perfect movie is a movie that accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do, with little to no room for improvement. Even most of my personal favourite movies wouldn't qualify.
Two examples off the top of my head would be My neighbor Totoro and Songs from the second floor. The former is a perfect childrens movie, with immaculate writing, style and animation, the latter a slow, black, disjointed and insanely funny satire about the human condition and the general absurdity of it all .
I wouldn't change a thing about either of those two movies.
Though it's cliché to mention it, Citizen Kane absolutely qualifies too. It perfectly did what it set out to do, while inventing modern film grammar and technique in the process.
Two examples off the top of my head would be My neighbor Totoro and Songs from the second floor. The former is a perfect childrens movie, with immaculate writing, style and animation, the latter a slow, black, disjointed and insanely funny satire about the human condition and the general absurdity of it all .
I wouldn't change a thing about either of those two movies.
Though it's cliché to mention it, Citizen Kane absolutely qualifies too. It perfectly did what it set out to do, while inventing modern film grammar and technique in the process.
The Godfather.
It's the only perfect 100% for me, not a single second feels off and not a single scene too much. The only film that has me in its grip from start to finish, without a single scene that drops in quality. No film in the history of films has that effect on me.
Obviously there are other films sitting at around 95-99% for me, like the The Godfather II, the Lord of the Rings trilogy (which I view as one film), The Matrix, La Haine, Goodfellas, and Blade Runner, but all of those have at least one scene that isn't sheer perfectness like their entirety, which drags it down a tiny bit for it to not make 100%.
It's the only perfect 100% for me, not a single second feels off and not a single scene too much. The only film that has me in its grip from start to finish, without a single scene that drops in quality. No film in the history of films has that effect on me.
Obviously there are other films sitting at around 95-99% for me, like the The Godfather II, the Lord of the Rings trilogy (which I view as one film), The Matrix, La Haine, Goodfellas, and Blade Runner, but all of those have at least one scene that isn't sheer perfectness like their entirety, which drags it down a tiny bit for it to not make 100%.
The Invitation
That movie to me is the definition of perfect thriller, it's just so briliiantly executed.
That movie to me is the definition of perfect thriller, it's just so briliiantly executed.
Ghostbusters. It's why a sequel can never truly work... the original is perfect and no sequel will ever live up to that.
"You know, some guys would look at this glass and they would say, you know, "that glass is half empty". Other guys would say, "that glass is half full". I peg you as a "glass is half empty" kind of guy. Am I right?"
- Gus, Groundhog Day
Tremors 2 baby, no joke.
- Fun monsters
- Memorable, convincingly motivated characters
- Mystery and surprises
- Contextualised comedy
- Scenes to build sense of adventure
- Subtle subversion of many elements of the original film
- Good moral/social lessons
- Premium Burt quotes
- Fun monsters
- Memorable, convincingly motivated characters
- Mystery and surprises
- Contextualised comedy
- Scenes to build sense of adventure
- Subtle subversion of many elements of the original film
- Good moral/social lessons
- Premium Burt quotes
2001
Blade Runner
Blade Runner 2049
Alien
Aliens
ET
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Thing
There Will Be Blood
Vertigo
Rear Window
Psycho
Lawrence of Arabia
Silence of the Lambs
Just going to stop here. There are tons and tons of practically perfect films.
Blade Runner
Blade Runner 2049
Alien
Aliens
ET
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Thing
There Will Be Blood
Vertigo
Rear Window
Psycho
Lawrence of Arabia
Silence of the Lambs
Just going to stop here. There are tons and tons of practically perfect films.
One of my favorites. To me this and Before Sunrise are perfect.
Also,
Blood Simple
Jaws
Graduate
Honestly, I could list so many and go on and on.
Mad Max Fury Road is about as perfect a movie as they come. Incredibly well shot, insane action, well paced (understands when to take a breather and when to just keep pushing), has some nice unique touches on all fronts (art design, characters, music, story etc.) to give it some personality, some nice dark humor, great OST that goes perfectly with what is shown on the screen.
Maybe a few of the performances could be argued to have room for some improvement but there are no performances that bring the movie down or anything.
Maybe a few of the performances could be argued to have room for some improvement but there are no performances that bring the movie down or anything.
No movie is perfect. Pulp Fiction has that flat scene with the cab driver, Terminator 2 has that awful goofy roll when Arnie jumps off the tanker at the end. 9.9/10
I'd actually argue that the original's an even better candidate. It features nearly everything you said, but the mystery is also enhanced because it was a new franchise. We didn't know anything of the Graboids yet, so we were learning alongside the main characters. With a sequel, we already inevitably knew a lot of the rules already, and that kind of lessens the impact a bit to me.
This is a nice pull too.
Just amazing.
This is my answer as well. The next closest being Toy Story 2 (seriously).
Empire Strikes Back would get it, but it's not self contained and doesn't resolve until the next film. Still, though, so beautifully done by Kirshner.
Yup, ESB only loses due to not being self-contained and dependent on being bookended by ANH and ROTJ. (ANH is way more self contained though, so it'd actually rank higher when we're talking about "individual movies")
I couldn't, for the life of me, name anything that could be improved upon with BttF... The characters are fantastic, the attention to detail is out of this world (Single Pine Mall ... ) - the soundtrack is stellar. And since it's mostly a film set in the past, it ages incredibly gracefully.
Other nominees (in my book) would be: Star Wars - A New Hope, Last Crusade, Jurassic Park, Aliens.
I don't think Terminator 2 is a perfect movie. It has some pacing issues after they make it out of LA.