[Closed] Perfect Films

Duel ? (Spielberg )

Prince 'sign o the times' - slightly off topic but as near perfect as you can get I reckon in a film

Actually, Weird Science has to be a almost perfect example of teen geek celluloid dream.

I know they're a bit childish, but I really enjoyed:-
Kung Fu Panda,
Surfs Up,
and The Incredibles.

One flew over cuckoos nest
Top gun
Lock stock and two smoking barrels
Forest gump
Bitter moon
Four weddings and a funeral
Leon +1
Intouchables +1
Starship troopers+1

I don't necessarily like all these but they achieve what they set out to perfectly IMO

I cannot believe nobody has mentioned home grown (Bristol) talent.
I re-watched Wallace and Gromit a matter of loaf and death yesterday and I can't think how it could be improved.

Andrei Rublev is the greatest, most perfect film of all time.
Closely followed by IMO:

Stalker
Solaris (Tarkovsky version)
Mirror
Ivans Childhood

Jaws....almost perfect but not quite as good as the book.

I thought it was better than the book...

+1 for Delicatessen!!!!

Also the Big Blue, Life is Beautiful, the Pianist, Fever Pitch and High Fidelity

24 Hour Party People
Seven Samurai
The Godfather Parts 1 & 2
Quadrophenia
Dead Mans Shoes
Scareface (Pacino version)

empire strikes back
apocalypse now
bladerunner
predator
alien
terminator
the thing
pans labyrinth
princess bride
big lebowski
no country for old men
akira
5th element

(& shawshank is cheesey sentimental pap)

The only two I can think of that I wouldn't cut or add anything to are Withnail and I, Requiem for a Dream and Napoleon Dynamite.

Others that are great for me but could be tweaked are;

The Thing
A Scanner Darkly
Alien
Elephant man
Fargo
Eraserhead
Taxi Driver
The Fountain
Time Bandits
A Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Mission
Mutiny on the Bounty (1984) The best acting I've ever seen from Hopkins.

Haven't seen The Illusionist pop up yet.

Would agree with 'Some like it hot', 'Starship Troopers', and 'Fifth Element'. All are really internally consistent in quality and pace, and (for Troopers and Fifth Element) effects and props - nothing ever drags or jars.

The Matrix would be perfect if the humans in pods were being networked as a giant computer (as the W Bros reputedly initially envisioned) but the 'battery' nonsense renders it merely the best film ever - but not perfect. 😆

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The Fly (Jeff Goldblum version)
Agree with Bounty. Great acting. Lots of tension between the main characters and a terrific soundtrack by Vangelis.
Frost/Nixon
Collateral
Jason and the Argonauts
Rope

Matrix, best film ever?

Leave the thread now...

Airplane
Pulp Fiction
Intermission
In Bruges
Midnight Express

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - how could I forget that?! Perfect.

[i]I know they're a bit childish, but I really enjoyed:-

...The Incredibles.[/i]

Nothing childish about the Incredibles.. brilliant film (much better than Up, says I)

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Yeah good choice, I can't think how they would have made it better, therefore perfect.

More exploding helicopters? That makes any film better, surely?

Russell Crowe could have died, that always improves a fillum.

Hero
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas

Nothing childish about the Incredibles.. brilliant film

Except now I wait the whole film to see the kid right at the end

"THAT WAS TOTALLY AWESOME!"

Oops - I forgot.

Usual Suspects.

Why is the Matrix "bad"?

Don't get me wrong. It's a great film, highly enjoyable and groundbreaking in many ways. It's a thing of beauty and incredibly slick. But the underlying plot is twaddle of the highest order. Batteries? Really?

I'm really not a loony, or a film snob:

I really, really meant to put a smiley at the end of that statement. No offence intended.

You can have a great action film with also has depth and subtlety.
Point Break & Top Gun are just all surface and bluster

Sure. But it's not a prerequisite for an enjoyable film. For a 'perfect' film, sure.

& Cougar, regarding Source Code, thought it was good but the ending pretty much ruined it for me.

I can't actually remember the ending. I'll have to rewatch it.

Another thread maybe "Films ruined by the ending"?

Heat (the shootout at the airport was utter crap)
Terminator 2 (not sure if it was the end - the thumbs up: bluegh!)
and
Silence of the Lambs (can't see a bloody thing beats infra-red glasses, yeah right.)

Dez, don't spoil tomorrow's fun!

Fear & Loathing was very good and very close to the book, but is it perfect? Can a film that freaky be perfect?

Cougar, sorted out that stuff with the alien numbers yet?

Leon
Hangover
Gorgeous (jackie chan)
From dusk til dawn

Just introduced my youngest to "the lion king" which is Disney's finest pre-pixar film. All the songs are superb.

Cougar, sorted out that stuff with the alien numbers yet?

Yeah, sort of. I had to look up the population of Hadley's Hope - I remembered Burke saying "60 or 70 families" - it's 158. So your "160" was near enough. And there's way more aliens than that. They took out maybe a couple of dozen during the first encounter, and the sentry guns accounted for a hundred. One colonist = one alien doesn't add up.

But. We're assuming that the only way to produce xenomorphs is by the traditional impregnation and chest-burst scenario. There may be other ways we've not seen. Isn't there a bit in one of the AvP movies where an alien is bred in a human womb? I don't believe the AvP franchise is regarded as canon, but point is that there could be other mechanisms. Hell, maybe the colonists kept pets.

It's a serious bit of reconning, of course. The obvious answer is Cameron either employed a bit of artistic licence, or simply didn't notice (or care). So you're right, it doesn't add up, but in the grand scheme of things I don't really think it's a show-stopper. A simple dialogue change upping the numbers would have fixed it (and it's not an issue in the original release anyway due to the absence of the sentry gun plot line).

Can a film that freaky be perfect?

looked like a normal day at the office to me..