Perfect Films

Inspired in part by the “Up” thread and also because I have sod all else to do.

Give us your perfect films.

Not neccesarily the highest rated or the most critically acclaimed but films that in your mind just couldn’t be improved upon.

I’ll start with “Back to the Future”

Amélie.

Paper Moon.

Where Eagles Dare.

the lord of the rings trilogy.

robocop!

The Princess Bride

Withnail and I 🙂

Deadly does Dallas

Hot Rod.

deadlydarcy – Member
The Princess Bride

Do you have any idea how much I dislike agreeing with you? 😉

Also;
Taxi. The original French version. Pure, unplug your brain fun!

Leon

The Princess Bride, drops the ball a bit through the middle section IMO.

Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Jurassic Park
The Big Country

Fight Club
And I’ll be the first to say Bladerunner

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – what a masterpiece!

Solaris……the original….not the crappy remake with wotsisname in it

Solaris……the original

And also Stalker. What tires for the zone?

For me (and this is of course personal) two stand out as perfect in execution:

The Fifth Element
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Up, whilst excellent and moving, isn’t perfect. The pathos of the beginning takes a back seat whilst a kids’ movie takes over. Not that kids movies are bad but the change of tack gets it marked down *very slightly*

We are talking about perfect films, not films you really liked. You can love a flim that has flaws. Taxi (French) for example is hugely enjoyable but not a perfect film.

How has no one said this yet?

Scott Pilgrim, Zombieland, The Fountain, Drive, NCFOM, Hot Fuzz, Attack The Block, The Matrix….

The Big Lebowski

Withnail and I

Blazing Saddles

Apocolypse Now (The original – not the utterly pointless Redux, which just proves the whole ‘couldn’t be improved on’ point)

And I’ll be the first to say Bladerunner

See as much as I love it I have to disagree. The pacing is a bit slow, plus it exists in more than one version.

Toy Story

plus it exists in more than one version.

I was about to ask, “which version?”

I know I’m in the minority but, I’m going to say it:

Withnail and I and Apocalypse Now are the two films I have enjoyed the least, ever. I absolutely loathed them.

There, I’ve said it.

Despicable me
Taken
Layer cake
Body of lies

Toy Story 1, 2 & 3

Raiders of The Lost Ark

Withnail & I

Kelly’s Heroes

Starship Troopers

The Spy Who Loved Me

…and

Smokey and The Bandit 😀

To have and have not
The African Queen
Ice cold in Alex
The Truman show

The princess bride.
The burbs.

Wristcutters: A love story.

Requiem for a Dream.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.

Rear Window.

Wings of Desire.

House of Games.

Dead Letter Office.

The Sting.

Casablanca.

The Deerhunter.

Show me Love.

The African Queen
Ice cold in Alex

Damn right…. 🙂

The Third Man

Blazing Saddles
Vanishing Point
Shawshank Redemption
633 Squadron
Life of Brian

Withnail and I and Apocalypse Now are the two films I have enjoyed the least, ever. I absolutely loathed them.

In the sea of badly made crap that represents about 99.5% of the films made, why specifically didn’t you like these 2 fella?

The Blues Brothers and Highlander, both have excellent soundtracks that complement the films perfectly. Or maybe it should be the films complement the soundtracks perfectly. Can’t decide which.

Oh yeah and Top Gun!

Withnail and I was a story of two unlikeable w@nkers not being funny in the Lake District (or wherever they were).

Apocalypse Now was just really, really dull.

Raiders of the lost Ark (all of them).
In Bruges.
The Darhjeling Ltd.
A Life Aquatic.
The Grinch.
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Terminator 2.
The Fifth Element.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

leon

And I’ll be the first to say Bladerunner
See as much as I love it I have to disagree. The pacing is a bit slow

amen and a bit too subtle for me, however it has produced one of my treasured memories. Mrs hadn’t seen it so thought I better show her one of the genre’s most acclaimed films.
Mrs, halfway through “I thought wesley snipes was in this”

A tricky one. Lots of ilms have been good for me, some even superb, but perfect? Tricky indeed. I’ll throw my hat in the ring with Apocalypse Now.

Bladerunner comes close too.

To my shame I’ve never actually seen “The Princess Bride”

Die Hard, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Shawshank Redemption are all perfect film contenders

Star Wars
The Terminator
Blues Brothers
Ghost Busters

Die Hard +1

The Straight Story
Three Colours Blue

Silent Running
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World