Pacific Rim. Another movie that knocks what it tried to do out of the park. Is it good? Maybe? But damn if it isn’t perfect.
Movies that are Perfect:
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The Hunt for Red October is done.
Frank Zinnerman's The Day Of The Jackal. That's a perfect movie.
Bit older than some of the suggestions. But these are superb.
The treasure of the sierra madre (1948)
Citizen Kane.(1941)
Touch of Evil.(1958) The opening scene alone.
To have and to have not.(1944)
The Third Man.(1949)
The Searchers.(1956) Not really a John Wayne fan, but John Ford directed. So yeah.
The treasure of the sierra madre (1948)
Citizen Kane.(1941)
Touch of Evil.(1958) The opening scene alone.
To have and to have not.(1944)
The Third Man.(1949)
The Searchers.(1956) Not really a John Wayne fan, but John Ford directed. So yeah.
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Bogart and Bacall's first movie together. Script by William Faulkner, based on a story by Hemingway. And it is as quoteable as Casablanca.
Slim: "I've been mad ever since I met you!"
Morgan: "Most people are."
Slim: "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and... blow."
Grosse Pointe Blank is one of my all time favorite films. I was tempted to put it on my list. And I am still unsure whether or not it should have been there.
But the thread is about perfect films, not our favorites, nor classics, nor really good or even great films. And to be honest, I am unsure if a couple of my picks should be on the list.
But the thread is about perfect films, not our favorites, nor classics, nor really good or even great films. And to be honest, I am unsure if a couple of my picks should be on the list.
Good question. If it does perfectly what it sets out to do, then maybe it belongs. I also can't think of something that should be changed to make it better.
Now that I am done with the triple feature, here are my thoughts on them.
- Hunt for Red October is easily the most rewatchable of the 3 movies. It is one of those movies that you find while flipping through the channels and you are not leaving the couch until it is over. Funny enough, I barely remember the first few minutes of the movie from all of the partial viewings over the year. The transition from speaking Russian to speaking English is one of the best language transitions in all of cinema. Lots of great scenes and lots of great one liners.
- Heat is probably the best movie of the 3, but it isn't as rewatchable as Red October. The bank heist scene is still just absolutely incredible. All of the performances are just fantastic, especially Al Pacino's. It still bugs me that you were pretty much cheering for De Niro's character to get away. He had a plan and was set for life, but made a single decision that cost him everything.
- Ronin is still good, but the 3rd of the other 3 easily. The two car chase scenes are just incredible. Other than that, it feels like a generic 90s action movie that fits in with style of other action movies at the time. Also, the fact that Sean Bean's character was exposed as a fraud at the beginning without being killed was a nice twist. I did enjoy the friendship between De Niro and Reno.
I disagree; I think that movie would have been stronger if it had ended its Harvey Dent arc showing him in the hospital bed, and leaving the rest of his story arc for the next movie where he would come back as Two Face.
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For what that movie set out to do and be? It’s just about perfect.
I just want the American people to know that we still have 2 out of 3 branches of government working for them, and that ain't bad!
So I have the Aliens collection on Blu-Ray (Alien(s) 1-3, Resurrection, Promethus, and Covenant).
Still in the process of ripping Disc 1, Alien. It includes both the original cut and the 2003 Director's Cut (which, contrary to most such endeavours, is actually slightly shorter despite including over a dozen minutes of cut material).
It's completely engrossing, especially with Ridley Scott's commentary and the major cast/crew commentary tracks. I queue them up to make sure I have my Handbrake settings right and just keep watching for 30 minutes before I reluctantly stop. Of course the set design is great, the filmography is amazing, and even when you can't hear their lines the acting is just so damn naturalistic that you instantly know 'who' each character is and their dynamics. Really impeccable.
If you don't have a version of this movie with at least one of the commentary tracks, I really recommend fixing that. And it deserves its mention on here as a "perfect" movie.
Still in the process of ripping Disc 1, Alien. It includes both the original cut and the 2003 Director's Cut (which, contrary to most such endeavours, is actually slightly shorter despite including over a dozen minutes of cut material).
It's completely engrossing, especially with Ridley Scott's commentary and the major cast/crew commentary tracks. I queue them up to make sure I have my Handbrake settings right and just keep watching for 30 minutes before I reluctantly stop. Of course the set design is great, the filmography is amazing, and even when you can't hear their lines the acting is just so damn naturalistic that you instantly know 'who' each character is and their dynamics. Really impeccable.
If you don't have a version of this movie with at least one of the commentary tracks, I really recommend fixing that. And it deserves its mention on here as a "perfect" movie.
I suppose I am going to have to try again to rewatch and reappraise Terminator. It was never helped for me by the fact that I only watched it after watching Terminator 2. Which might have been a mistake. Likewise Alien, come to think of it.
Do we re-open that rancid can of worms that is love/hate Newt?
Do we re-open that rancid can of worms that is love/hate Newt?
The Terminator perfectly conveys one note: absolute implacableness. It's similar in many ways to John Wick, in that it also conveys a single note, but it does it very, very well.
Does that make it perfect? If a one-note movie can be perfect, then Terminator and John Wick (the first one) would be two of them.
I was tempted to nominate Sicario, but the ending didn't stick for me. It would have been perfect if the conflict developed between Kate and Reggie rather than Kate and Alejandro/Matt.
Implacable, relentless, inexorable. Reinforced by the number of times the Terminator gets "killed" but keeps coming back.
Terminator and Aliens are also perfect because they are among the rare action films that have no plot holes or comic book physics. Die Hard is the best example of these because there aren't even sci fi elements.
Sicario is an excellent film but it's weird that the POV character isn't the protagonist.
I think that works because we get taken along for a ride with the POV character, thinking that she's going to be some big hero in this whole thing, only to end up feeling used and realizing how fucked up the whole drug war is.
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No. Just no. NOPE. Not happening. Worst damn movie to ever disgrace this holy planet of ours. A fucking pox upon mankind's existence. I hate this film with the vengeance of a thousand suns.
I would pay good money to have this monstrosity scrubbed out of my brain. If I could find the asshats that thought that writing that script was a good idea I would burn their house down with a missile while they were inside it. Complete with kerosene soaked pages of their damned writing stapled to their naked bodies. I'd piss on the ashes.
This fucking film broke my childhood. It has been almost exactly four decades after that film came out and I'm still pissed about it. Fuck it, fuck the film makers, and double-fuck whomever greenlighted that whole project.
And that's all I have to say about that.
Don't hold back now, tell us how you really feel.
Seriously though, I can't tell if you didn't like the translation of the book to screen, or if the horrors that film contained damaged you emotionally. Both are valid answers...
On the note of "movies that fucked up my childhood", but could be considered perfect in spite of / because of that
Secret of Nimh
Secret of Nimh
That junkyard scene from The Brave Little Toaster still gives me nightmares sometimes. Fuckin song is an earworm too.
The Fog.
I think I was twelve. No, I have no fucking idea what my parents were thinking, either!