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What Are Your Near Perfect Movies?

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If you feel like it please go into why you like each film.


Here is my list in no order and even though it is a list of 10 that is just a coincidence.


Falling Down (1993) Falling Down has stuck me since I was a kid. Even before I understood fully about the film it grabbed me and has never let go. “Not Economically Viable Man” has been my most though character from any movie and I am not sure I will ever get over him.

It's My Party (1996) I first saw It's My Party as a kid and it showed me there are many types of love. I still didn’t fully believe in love until later, but when I did this movie helped me understand.

Alpha (II) (2018) Took a friend to see this on her birthday. It just seems like an original idea that was written, acted and directed in a way that I had not seen before.

Meet Joe Black (1998) I love the overall movie, but the dialogs between Brad Pit & Claire Forlani at the coffee shop and Brad Pitt and Jeffery Tambor before the party sums up my feeling pretty well about love.

Nobody's Fool (1994) A great movie most have never heard of about how life doesn’t always work out the way you would like. When I first saw this it was something I need to know.

12 Angry Men (1957) This movie got me to realize to always look at things different ways. Such a simple movie, but such a powerful story and message.

Gattaca (1997) As not much of a fan of SF I was wondered by the stories and not giving up.

The Cure (1995) First and only movie to make me cry. Along with Lean On Me (1989) it shows some of the closest scenes from a movie or show that I feel represents my idea of what friendship is.

Prisoners (2013) Another movie that was just written, acted and directed in a way that it seems as if nothing else I had seen came close to it. Makes you ask the question how far would you go?

Table 19 (2017) A movie most disliked, if heard of at all by most people, shows one of my great philosophies, communicate.
 
I love watching "Clueless" :LOL: never get tired of it no matter how many times I've watched it. Also, all the "Brat Pack" 80's movies "Sixteen Candles, "Breakfast Club" "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". I love "My best friend's wedding" all the 80's and 90's movies mainly. "Pretty Woman" "Dirty Dancing"
 
Ghost world too me is perfect as it was a movie I heavily related to when I was much younger. Other films for me are Vertigo, Edward Scissorhands, Django, Pan’s Labyrinth, Amelie, Bride of Frankenstein, and Santa Sangre
 
Since I slagged Franco Zeffirelli off on another thread yesterday, I'll make up for it here:

His Romeo & Juliet, in its original cut, was wonderful.

Beautifully photographed, costumed, and acted. Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey were really convincing as in-over-their-heads young lovers, and for performers so young, they handled the verse extremely well. Michael York (Tybalt) and John McEnery (Mercutio) were excellent, Milo O'Shea as Friar Laurence even better. And I really think Pat Heywood deserved an Oscar, or at least a nomination, for her performance as the Nurse.

Remember when she's trying to convince Juliet to go along with her father's wishes, forget Romeo (who has just killed Tybalt), and marry Count Paris? ("Romeo's a dishclout to him.") Juliet looks at her and asks incredulously, "Speakst thou from thy heart?" The concerned, conflicted, guilty look on her face in that pause before she answers "Aye, and from my soul, too, else beshrew 'em both", and the reluctance with which she gave her answer, deserve an award in themselves. (Heywood was also very funny in her comic scenes, especially when she tried to pretend to be all grand when she went to the church to meet Romeo.)

I saw the original release when I was a kid, and, seeing it subsequent times, I could tell it had been cut: there were a number of abrupt transitions that hadn't been there before. I presume the suits at Paramount insisted on cutting to make it shorter before re-releasing it. I hope the original cut is on the DVD, which I've never seen.

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By the way, that lawsuit that Hussey and Whiting filed for "child abuse" in that one quick little nude scene is completely bogus.
 
Off the top of my head...

Return to Oz
The Color Purple
Batman Returns (Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman is the best imo)
My Best Friend's Wedding (one of if not the best romcom ever)
Eve's Bayou
 
Yeah, My Best Friend's Wedding really is one of the best romcoms ever (along with When Harry Met Sally).
If you know Cameron Diaz's other work, then you realize just how good, and how funny, she was as Kimmy. (She's generally an underrated actress.)
And that movie could not have worked as well as it did without Rupert Everett.
 
rmcrae said:
Off the top of my head...

Return to Oz
The Color Purple
Batman Returns (Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman is the best imo)
My Best Friend's Wedding (one of if not the best romcom ever)
Eve's Bayou
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I had forgotten about how good Return to Oz and Batman Returns are. I definitely have to add those to my list as well as the movies below:

Ed Wood
Sweeny Todd
Beetlejuice
Addams Family Values
Killer klowns from outer space
The lost boys
Clue
Death becomes her
 
LoveMyPeppermill said:
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By the way, that lawsuit that Hussey and Whiting filed for "child abuse" in that one quick little nude scene is completely bogus.
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I'm glad that you mentioned this. I first saw this film in Bangkok, Thailand and it included a nude scene. Two or more years later I saw it in Cleveland, Ohio and it did not include a nude scene. I wondered what happened to the nude scene and wondered if the international release included it and the U.S. release did not.
 
Rickrock said:
I'm glad that you mentioned this. I first saw this film in Bangkok, Thailand and it included a nude scene. Two or more years later I saw it in Cleveland, Ohio and it did not include a nude scene. I wondered what happened to the nude scene and wondered if the international release included it and the U.S. release did not.
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Oh, it was in the US release, even in the studio cut. Literally a one-second glimpse of Hussey's breasts when she hears the birdsong for the second time, says "It is the lark" and turns to grab a garment and get out of bed. Plus, just before that, about five seconds of Whiting's bare back and butt As he gets out of bed, stretches, and goes to the window.. (A shot that was parodied in Monty Python's Life of Brian.)
 
The best films are in black and white. And the best of those, if you ask me, is The 400 Blows. 1959
No images or trailer because the protagonist was under 18 at the time. The real star of the film is not the boy though, it is the city of Paris. She has never looked more captivating than in this movie. The depth of the grey scale is awesome. Perfect lighting, perfect editing. It just looks better every time I watch it.
 
m1thousand said:
The Piano (won 3 Academy Awards, 3 Bafta Awards, won at Cannes)

While watching the movie, I knew Anna Paquin would win.

Returning to theaters on June 15th

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I can't believe it's 25 years!



That's Russ Conway in the white suit.
 
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