The Terminator
RoboCop
Predator
Nausicaa
Warriors of the Wasteland
Those are five examples of movies I consider to be absolutely perfect. Nothing -- nothing -- could improve upon them and I never, ever, get tired of them.
What are some of yours?
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Certainly not many:
Chinatown
Blade Runner
Apocalypse Now Redux
Spirited Away
Robocop
The outlaw Josey Whales
Conan the Barbarian
Cop
2001
Unforgiven
The bulk of my favourite list are movies that are *almost* perfect, like Minority Report, LA Confidential or most Eastwood westerns.
Jaws
Halloween
Star Wars (the original -- it could stand by itself, without the sequels/prequels/nightquels)
King Kong
A Night at the Opera
The Producers
Casablanca (yeah, yeah, I know, but there's a reason it wins all those damn polls!)
Night of the Living Dead
The Godfather
probably The Exorcist.....
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
Slackers
Charade
Troll 2
Close, but not quite: Empire Records, About a Boy, Almost Famous
The only one that springs to mind is the Godfather and Jaws. Both are flawless, or as close to it as possible. The Godfather isn't really a favorite of mine though.
Since humans are not perfect....and films are made by humans.....no film is perfect.
There are imperfections in every movie. No exceptions.
My list of "near perfect" movies includes:
THE GODFATHER
THE GODFATHER, PART II
CASABLANCA
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
BEN-HUR
TAXI DRIVER
THE FRENCH CONNECTION
THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
SHANE
The Wizard of Speed and Time
-------ooo-'U'-ooo-------Kilroy was here.
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.
Also, not really the same thing, but Plan 9 From Outer Space is the "perfect" b-movie.
Silence of the lambs
The castle of cagliostro
Army of darkness( ultimate B flick :D, IMO)
The Terminator
X-2
Fight Club-By far the best film in my collection. A strange story with a strange nameless hero. Great stuff!
Se7en-Can anyone see that I like Fincher's stuff?
American Beauty-Awesome film. I was AMAZED by this film when it first came out. Love, hate, humor, heart.
Bowling For Columbine-I can honestly say this film is perfect. Having been a Michael Moore fan for years, this flick is his crowning achievment. Moore can perfectly mix humor with scenes of desperation and pain like no other.
Ghost World-Saw this film about a year ago when it first came out on DVD. Watched it last night and remembered just how great it was. Not exactly perfect, more near perfect.
It Happened One Night
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Duck Soup
A Night at the Opera
Casablanca
Bridge on the River Kwai
In my humble opinion
Clerks, I enjoy every minute of that movie, it's a funny collection of conversations, not much could make it better in my opinion.
Silence of he Lambs, Hopkinds at his best.
Psycho, sick twisted film, it was before it's time and the scenes and stories in it have been spoofed by so many cartoons, films, and shows, very influencial.
Brother hood of the wolf
Princess Mononokee
Vampire Hunter D:Blood lust
Alien
Aliens
The Thing(remake)
The Score
The Terminator 1 and 2
Predator
Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
28 days later
Dawn of the Dead
>The Terminator
I like The Terminator, but I don't know if I'd call it perfect. The scene of Arnold operating on his eye was an obvious puppet and the full-figure shots of the endoskeleton at the end were obvious stop motion.
I KNEW I forgot something, THIS is the perfect film :)
Perfect flims? Eep.
I'd say Nausicaa, but after having read the manga, I can't in good concience reccomend it as perfect. It's merely 'Incredibly good'. Hmm. A Night At the Opera springs to mind, as does The Godfather, blah blah blah. I'm gonna throw up a couple lesser-known ones.
The Perfect Action Movie: John Woo's 'The Killer'. Good God I love this movie.
Perfect Movie to watch just for the flying sequences: Porco Russo.
Perfect Movie Involving a John Denver Song: WHisper of the Heart
Perfect film, like no other, no parralells on this Earth: Backdoor sluts 9.