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The Perfect Movie

Unforgiven
Gran Torino
Meet Joe Black
The Usual Suspects
Quantum of Solace
Chinatown
Once Upon a Time in the West
Godfather
Condorman
Big trouble in little china
Touch of Evil
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
 
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Pianist
Shawshank
Edward Scissorhands
Almost every Daniel Day Lewis film (particularly There Will be Blood)
First two Godfathers
Raging Bull


more will come to me. I love LazyD's list though (although I never liked Vertigo that much).
 
dalamon said:
Pianist
Shawshank
Edward Scissorhands
Almost every Daniel Day Lewis film (particularly There Will be Blood)
First two Godfathers
Raging Bull


more will come to me. I love LazyD's list though (although I never liked Vertigo that much).
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Fully expected your list to be foreign films no one has ever heard of.
 
meant raging bull instead of bull Durham

totally forgot laura which is a classic
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
To each his own. Easily towards the bottom of Sandler's work.
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Agreed to each his own. I definitely put Deeds above Punch Drunk Love, Spanglish and the gosh-darn-awful Grownups 2. Ugh.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Agreed to each his own. I definitely put Deeds above Punch Drunk Love, Spanglish and the gosh-darn-awful Grownups 2. Ugh.
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You didn't like Punch-Drunk Love? Thought that was one of his better movies.

Grownups series are his worst stuff probably.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
You didn't like Punch-Drunk Love? Thought that was one of his better movies.

Grownups series are his worst stuff probably.
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I liked the part when he finally snapped, but he should have snapped and killed his sisters, not just some random ******* on a street. I am not much for the artsy-fartsy movies that are generally made to show how good a film-maker the person who made it is. I agree about Grownups as well, the first was mediocre at very very best and the 2nd was just garbage. I think he really started going downhill when he did Mr. Deeds (I supposed if you didn't like Deeds then it started with that one), but after that he seems to be 3-1 duds to decent flicks. We could probably do a thread on Sandler's best and worst movies and get a decent convo going about it.
 
So "perfect" here means "can be rewatched infinitely without much loss in enjoyment"? If that's the criteria, then there's so many I hardly know where to start, but here we go (alphabetical order):

Aliens (2nd movie)
As Good As It Gets
Back to the Future
Baraka
Battle Royale
City of God
Dark City
Die Hard
Erin Brockovich
A Few Good Men
Forrest Gump
Ghost in the Shell
Ghostbusters
The Godfather (1st one)
Good Will Hunting
Gran Torino
Groundhog Day
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
High Fidelity
Hoosiers (no one has mentioned this yet? seriously? it's a friggin' basketball board...)
Howl's Moving Castle
The Hunt for Red October
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Jurassic Park
The Karate Kid
Kill Bill (vol. 2 especially)
Kung Fu Hustle
Life of Brian
Lord of the Rings (all of them, but particularly the first)
The Matrix
Millennium Actress
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Mr. Holland's Opus
My Neighbor Totoro
Ninja Scroll
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Paprika
Porco Rosso
The Princess Bride
Princess Mononoke
The Remains of the Day
Rounders
Samsara (2011)
Sanjuro
Schindler's List
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Seven Samurai
The Shawshank Redemption
Spirited Away
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Star Wars (4 and 5)
Terminator 2
Tokyo Gore Police (amazing for what it is, which is a cheesy gore-fest)
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Whisper of the Heart
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Willow

...and I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff.

EDIT: Forgot Ghostbusters, added it to my original list.
 
@ athiestpreacher, wow you are way more forgiving than I am when it comes to movies. More than a few of your list are on my never-watch-again list, with the tops of that list being Jurassic Park. I was not a big Hoosiers fan either.
 
LogGrad98 said:
@ athiestpreacher, wow you are way more forgiving than I am when it comes to movies. More than a few of your list are on my never-watch-again list, with the tops of that list being Jurassic Park. I was not a big Hoosiers fan either.
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I'm interested, why do you hate Jurassic Park?
 
Kevin Costner isn't getting enough love yet. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is possibly my favorite movie of all time. Waterworld and Dances With Wolves are honorable mentions. The guy knocked it out of the park for a good stretch there.

Also worth mentioning are The Three Musketeers with Kiefer, Sheen, O'Donnell, and others, and First Knight with Sean Connery and Gere.
 
For Jurassic Park, way too many continuity errors and logical issues. Pulls me out of the movie and I start thinking just about that. Ruins it for me and I just can't rewatch it. I mean seriously, where did the cliff come from?
 
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LogGrad98 said:
For Jurassic Park, way too many continuity errors and logical issues. Pulls me out of the movie and I start thinking just about that. Ruins it for me and I just can't rewatch it. I mean seriously, where did the cliff come from?
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What cliff?

Srs



#nTn
 
LogGrad98 said:
For Jurassic Park, way too many continuity errors and logical issues. Pulls me out of the movie and I start thinking just about that. Ruins it for me and I just can't rewatch it. I mean seriously, where did the cliff come from?
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To each his own. As far as continuity errors go, even great movies often have them. I frequently notice, for instance, when there are characters with drinks in a scene, that the amount of liquid that's in their glasses will change with the different shots. But generally I don't let that stuff bother me, it's just entertainment.

franklin said:
Also worth mentioning are The Three Musketeers with Kiefer, Sheen, O'Donnell, and others...
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I almost mentioned this one. Didn't because I remember an occasion or two where I watched that movie and was underwhelmed. Probably I was just in a bad mood those days. It's a really entertaining flick. And hey, it has Tim Curry, love that guy.

Speaking of Tim Curry, how about Legend?

And another random-*** one I just remembered: Dangerous Liasons, featuring Glenn Close, my favorite actress. Also starring Close is Serving in Silence, which I believe is the only gay/lesbian-themed movie that I've ever liked.
 
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