The "Perfect" movie ...what's yours?
#51
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I don't think I have a perfect movie... and I don't think such a thing exists.
No matter what film - even if I love it and it ranks among my favourites - there's always something that I would change... even if it's a tiny thing.
No matter what film - even if I love it and it ranks among my favourites - there's always something that I would change... even if it's a tiny thing.
#52
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I will have to echo Raiders of the Lost Ark. The concepts are great, the pacing works, the mash-up of old school storytelling / new school technique, the plot is engaging, the music is inspiring, the acting is fun, and the chase scenes are excellent. I'm a sucker for a great chase scene. I love, love, love chase scenes.
#53
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Coral. Ssshh...
#60
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#61
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To me, it's a film that pretty much truly has it all-the adventurous feeling of a great action film and the intelligence of an art house movie. And you could hang frame of it in art museums, if it's not the most visually beautiful movie ever made, it's in the top ten.
It's funny, I never thought about that until someone pointed it out to me. Given the length of the film and its size, that actually is quite unusual.
That's a pretty hard choice to dispute, few films can claim to have the cultural longevity it does. Half of the people who've never even seen it probably know dialogue from it. I had a chance to see it on the big screen, but had to work, couldn't call in or I'd lose my holiday pay.
Given my cosmic directional ineptitude, the need to get time off of work, and my total status as the most naive person on on Earth owing to having spent my entire life in the suburbs, I'm worried I'd be eaten alive even if I managed to get there . In all seriousness, it's certainly something I should look into. There are countless films I'd love to see projected, but if I had to make a dying man-type of wishlist, it'd be Lawrence of Arabia and 2001: A Space Odyssey in 70mm and a 35mm print of Ran. There are countless others too, of course. Ah, to dream....
Don't know if I could even afford a motel room out there, but that theater seems to show an amazing amount of cool stuff. Some 35mm, some DCP, but all kind of things. They seem to try to show 35mm when the can, difficult as it is apparently getting. I suppose that TV and the home video market completely killed the revival houses.
Ah, to venture beyond the suburbs! I dream of lands far beyond, young grasshopper.
That's one of the first movies I ever remember seeing where more than just absorbing or enjoying the movie, I began to become conscious of the sheer power of the filmmaking. Although interestingly, I saw that film on Lifetime once too. What it was doing there remains a great mystery to me.
I saw it at a local theater, I assume it was a DCP, the credits which ran listed the restoration for 2012. Hopefully unlike their sister cinema across the street, they weren't simply projecting the Blu-Ray, though if they were, their projectionist had the sense to turn it off before the menu started running unlike across the way. It's still a hell of a sight on a big screen.
James Bernadelli points that out in his review at reelviews.com, which I read years before I saw that episode. As he says, it's probably part of the conceit of the film, all of Indy's Herculean efforts in the end amount to nothing as a sort of dark joke. I'd watch Raiders again if the specter of the still unrestored Star Wars movies didn't linger in the background of my mind whenever I saw Indiana Jones onscreen. Alas George, you have damaged my fanboy psyche .
The only thing I'd add is that there are no women in Lawrence, which might count against it from some viewers (certainly my wife is disinclined to watch it because of this).
That's a pretty hard choice to dispute, few films can claim to have the cultural longevity it does. Half of the people who've never even seen it probably know dialogue from it. I had a chance to see it on the big screen, but had to work, couldn't call in or I'd lose my holiday pay.
The Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood has a 70mm print showing on Friday, January 31.
It's out there. You just have to look ... and travel.
That's one of the first movies I ever remember seeing where more than just absorbing or enjoying the movie, I began to become conscious of the sheer power of the filmmaking. Although interestingly, I saw that film on Lifetime once too. What it was doing there remains a great mystery to me.
James Bernadelli points that out in his review at reelviews.com, which I read years before I saw that episode. As he says, it's probably part of the conceit of the film, all of Indy's Herculean efforts in the end amount to nothing as a sort of dark joke. I'd watch Raiders again if the specter of the still unrestored Star Wars movies didn't linger in the background of my mind whenever I saw Indiana Jones onscreen. Alas George, you have damaged my fanboy psyche .
#64
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Second to Raiders and Pulp Fiction.
Also:
Jaws
The Right Stuff
12 Monkeys
Also:
Jaws
The Right Stuff
12 Monkeys
#66
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Boogie Nights.
Great music, direction, story, writing, everythin. Just flawless.
And that cast! William H Macy, Julianne Moore, Luiz Guzman, John C. Reilly, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Don Cheadle, Burt Reynolds, Alfred Molina, Thomas Jane and Phillip Baker Hall. Oh yeah, and Whalberg is very underrated in this film and I see so many parallels with Whalberg the person the Dirk Diggler character. Just never get tired of this film.
Great music, direction, story, writing, everythin. Just flawless.
And that cast! William H Macy, Julianne Moore, Luiz Guzman, John C. Reilly, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Don Cheadle, Burt Reynolds, Alfred Molina, Thomas Jane and Phillip Baker Hall. Oh yeah, and Whalberg is very underrated in this film and I see so many parallels with Whalberg the person the Dirk Diggler character. Just never get tired of this film.
#68
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Toy Story is so perfect, that the remake didn't even come from Hollywood!
#69
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BTTF, Twelve Angry Men and Gremlins 2.
To me a perfect film is a film that may have been on and you've missed the 1st 20 minutes but it doesn't matter.
To me a perfect film is a film that may have been on and you've missed the 1st 20 minutes but it doesn't matter.
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#75
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Four movies comes to mind right off the bat.
1. Fight Club
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Goodfellas
4. Blade Runner
And i would be willing to add in "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Dr. Zhivago."
1. Fight Club
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Goodfellas
4. Blade Runner
And i would be willing to add in "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Dr. Zhivago."