Perfect Movies

[mikeyboy]

As discussed on the show, what are your perfect movies. I nominate "The Apartment". I love that movie.

[DolaMight]

12 Angry Men

[HBox]

Dr. Strangelove.

[DiabloSammich]

Glengarry Glen Ross and Super Troopers.

[HBox]

Glengarry Glen Ross and Super Troopers.

One of these things, is not like the other.......

[JerseyRich]

Empire of the Sun

[King Hippos Bandaid]

I enjoy Shawshank, will always watch it from beginning to end


edited: departed is not good enough I see

[Tallman388]

Raising Arizona

[Neckbeard]

Empire of the Sun

I now fully support Rich replacing Gvac.

[DolaMight]

I enjoy the Departed, will always watch it from beginning to end

The topic is Perfect Movies not Mediocre Movies.

[JerseyRich]

I now fully support Rich replacing Gvac.

Fuckin' A right, you do!

Only until Easter though.

[Snacks]

12 Angry Men

I watched that last week. What a great movie!!! 99% of the movie takes place in 1 small room and the acting is great.



Dr. Strangelove.

I never liked that movie. maybe because i was forced to watch it and write a report on it in jr high.

Citizen Cane was a perfect movie, gone with the wind on the waterfront, etc a lot of the old movies were perfect.

My current favorite are Remember the titans. It has everything I love, football, race relations that work out, a true story, denzel one of my favorite actors and so much more.

An a great underrated movie "Beautiful Girl" stars a lot of great actors from the late 80's early 90's

[angrymissy]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

[HBox]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
YES

[JerseyRich]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Fan(Fuckin')tastic!

[A.J.]

http://www.homevideos.com/movies-covers/airplane.jpg

[Furtherman]

Miller's Crossing.

[Servo]

My picks from the listening thread - Shawshank and O Brother Where Art Thou?

[booster11373]

To keep the old school trend going

The Quiet Man and Gunga Din

[DolaMight]

Has anyone said Operation Dumbo Drop yet?

[drjoek]

The Graduate
Its a wonderful life

[Badinia]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SPPHSQG8L._AA240_.jpg

Obviously.

[nate1000]

http://www.dvdtown.com/images/displaymedia.php?id=8030&sizew=500&cat=3&type=1&page=0

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418WK7VG5EL._SX220_.jpg

[Badinia]

OK SRSLY:

A morality tale for the past, present, and future:

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/blade_runner/bladerunner_4discboxartbig.jpg

Phenomenally creepy:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare3/manchurian/s_mtitle.jpg

Film within a film within a film:

http://www.brooklynrecord.com/archives/09singing.jpg

[realmenhatelife]

Barton Fink is really the only one I can think of right now.

[Mike Teacher]

Point of Order Mr. Chairman...

What defines the perfect movie?

The only reference I have from the show was when they discussed perfect albums. The perfect album didn't have a single bad cut, not one filler song, the rest could be epic, but one song takes it out of contention. So, for me, a single scene/character that really sucks and it's not perfect.

Bruce Willis' whiny girlfriend was the perfect example. Pulp Fiction is awesome, but those scenes suck. Fuck your blueberry pancakes and remember the fucking watch. Maybe it was meant to annoy. It worked.

Thats setting the bar high. A lot of movies I love but then I gotta be honest and say ;Well, that one person is miscast' or 'Wow great but that backstory was so un-needed' or whatever.

[tommyzman]

I enjoy Shawshank, will always watch it from beginning to end edited: departed is not good enough I see

I was going to say Shawshank. The acting is phenomenal and I watch it every damned time it is on TV.

I would also say Animal House. It's the one every ensemble comedy flick like this was based on.

[Snacks]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SPPHSQG8L._AA240_.jpg

Obviously.

jamie lee curtis is so hot in this movie!

[envirogator]

To Catch a Mockingbird. Perfection defined...

[outlawfrank]

To Catch a Mockingbird. Perfection defined...

KILL? Im confused, is there such a film.

I would say Unforgiven.

[envirogator]

you're right...To Kill a Mockingbird...doing two things at once..

[JerseyRich]

you're right...To Kill a Mockingbird...doing two things at once..

I can relate.

[Lady Resin]

I love Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

[Badinia]

I've always enjoyed the comedy thriller, To Mock A Killing-Bird.

[AlabamaMan]

The good,the bad, and the ugly. or any of those spagettii westerns

[NewYorkDragons80]

Back to the Future. Whoever said Empire of the Sun is right, too

[WampusCrandle]

i'm gonna be a movie nerd right now and say Citizen Kane. there is soo much that i have learned from that movie, about movies, shots, scenes, character development. my god, anything any movie has ever done can somehow be connected to Citizen Kane.


. . . . it's a fucking sled

[RhinoinMN]

I think it was called in today and I didn't read the listening thread, but I cannot turn of Big Lebowski when its on. My all time favorite.


I like it so much that I am going to Lebowskifest in Chicago. I can't wait.

[Gmann]

The Mummy

Die Hard

and Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

[JDE]

As discussed on the show, what are your perfect movies. I nominate "The Apartment". I love that movie.


When I was listening today, I came up with a quick list of 5 films I consider perfect, The Apartment was one of them, so here are the other 4.


The Philadelphia Story
Red River
The Best Years of Our Lives
Rear Window

[Badinia]

i'm gonna be a movie nerd right now and say Citizen Kane. there is soo much that i have learned from that movie, about movies, shots, scenes, character development. my god, anything any movie has ever done can somehow be connected to Citizen Kane.


. . . . it's a fucking sled

MAN! You Gotta SPOILER ALERT that thang!

I was finally gonna watch Citizen Kane tonight!

[WampusCrandle]

MAN! You Gotta SPOILER ALERT that thang!

I was finally gonna watch Citizen Kane tonight!

oh drat, next time i will remem - Bruce Wilils was DEAD the entire time!

[Tall_James]

http://www.cinemahype.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/the-quiet-man-poster-c10280072.jpeg

[fezident]

Do I have to just pick one?
Can I pick one favorite for each genre?

Damn, it's still really hard to narrow it down.


WIZARD OF OZ is up there. You dig it as a child... then you see it when you're an adult and appreciate it on a whole other level.
WATERSHIP DOWN is another one that works on two levels. Sooo damn good.


REQUIEM FOR A DREAM really affected me. It doesn't look or feel like any other movie. It felt REAL to me. Perfection indeed.

[TeeBone]

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:EWm9nlY5sXFKvM:http://www.trojanwire.com/football/images/raising-arizona-goodman.jpg

The Snoates Brothers are the best duo in any movie.

[JDE]

Another perfect film, and this could be the first one ever made is It Happened One Night.

For those who have never watched this one, it's on TCM tonight at 8PM.

[jetdog]

to state the obvious:

2001

Seven Samurai

The Shining

Old school perfection:

A night at the opera

Casablanca

A curve ball:

I'll say...Patton

[Tenbatsuzen]

Raiders nor T2 has been mentioned yet.

[DIRTY_MEX]

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
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FIGHT CLUB
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RESERVOIR DOGS
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[tonedef04]

a lil japanese film by the name of Oldboy. if you haven't seen, it, do yourself a favor and rent it.

and i'm not sure why i like it, but The Salton Sea, was amazing.

[Ritalin]

...and I'm serious about this, too:

http://www.cindy-morgan.com/WebPageArt/caddyshack.jpg

[donnie_darko]

i seem to be the only person that enjoys love liza.

jesus' son

virgin suicides


and how fucking great is swingers?
guh

[Enabler]

http://rentmovie.com/movie-posters/sunset-boulevard-blvd.jpg

http://www.hollywood-diecast.com/MADMAD%20WORLD.jpg

[Drunky McBetidont]

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[Biking Mexican]

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1173/2452tn1.th.jpg (http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2452tn1.jpg)

Love this movie since I was a little kid.

[FUNKMAN]

She's The One

Sling Blade

[sailor]

i'm more marc mainstream than you all, but for me tombstone and the matrix are my perfect movies.

[RADIO-SHARK]

Mickey Rourke in Angel Heart..

[DIRTY_MEX]

TRUE ROMANCE
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/gianca718/true_romance-poster.jpg

[Snacks]

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1173/2452tn1.th.jpg (http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2452tn1.jpg)

Love this movie since I was a little kid.

I never understood the love for this movie

[BoondockSaint]

Cool Hand Luke.

[silas]

Doing the usual "in-out" of the car during the show today (imo Clockwork Orange disqualifies cuz it loses some steam in the 3rd act), i don't know who the 2 gents were that came in during the perfect-movies segment;

Still, great timing; i almost tuned out of what seemed to turning into YET ANOTHER Coen Bros-Tarintino-Scorcese etc dittohead segment; it was nice to hear the gang challenged with movies that are luved for other reasons.

My $0.02; the films that influenced the great 70's American auteurs; Antonioni's "L'aventurra" , Renais's "Hiroshima Mon Amour", Godard's "Weekend" and the many post-ww2 influenced noir flics starring JL Belmondo

FIN

[MikeB]

Chinatown.



Lock the thread.

[Badinia]

i seem to be the only person that enjoys love liza.

jesus' son

virgin suicides


and how fucking great is swingers?
guh

Suicide, drug addiction, suicide, and...swing dancing!

All great movies, but what a special personality you are!

[FUNKMAN]

Dolores Claiborne

Angela's Ashes

Let It Ride

[Wickedballs]

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Star-Wars---The-Empire-Strikes-Back-Poster-Card-C10229285.jpeg

It has just about everything that a movie needs.

[thepaulo]

for lots of reasons but mostly because most of you have never seen it.....

Women in Love

[danner1515]

TRUE ROMANCE
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/gianca718/true_romance-poster.jpg

Anyone else just not get the appeal of this movie at all? I love Tarantino and all, but everything about this one rubbed me the wrong way.

Has anyone mentioned Fargo yet? I can't think of anything I'd change there.

[EliSnow]

I've said it once, and I'll say it again, but Casablanca is a perfect film. There's not one bad character, there's not one bad/mismatched actor, and not one bad scene. It's the perfect mix of romance, suspense, and comedy.

[joethebartender]

my top 2 were already mentioned (Blues Brothers and It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.)

Adding:
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[Chip Vaughn]

A lot of good ones already mentioned...One more for the pile

The Sting

http://supak.com/images/posters/The_Sting.jpg

[aramg83]

A couple flicks in the same vein:

The Great Escape

La Grande Illusion

I second The Sting

Surprised no one's mentioned Godfather 1 and/or 2

[Mafialife Chris]

A couple flicks in the same vein:

The Great Escape

La Grande Illusion

I second The Sting

Surprised no one's mentioned Godfather 1 and/or 2

Godfather 1, and 2. :clap:

[nate1000]

. . . . it's a fucking sled

Nope- it was Marion Davies' most intimate of areas.

[AKA]

As discussed on the show, what are your perfect movies. I nominate "The Apartment". I love that movie.

My peronal favorite is another Billy Wilder film - "Sunset Blvd." - the first movie narated by a dead guy. Funny, dark, cynical, it's maybe one of the first "black comedies." It's hard to pick up on the fact that the humor is intendend (the opening scene she's burying a monkey!); William Holden, Gloria Swanson and Erich von Stroheim rocked it.

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/entertainment/0203/wilder.films/sunset.boulevard.jpg

[[Hey! Enabler and I can be Sunset Blvd buddies!]]

Trivia - for anyone who loved Twin Peaks, you need to see Sunset Blvd. Not only are there obvious allusions to the movie, including lines of diaglog, but there are really cool sublte ones - my favorite being David Lynch himself, whose character on Peaks, Agent Gordon Cole, is the same name of a person mentioned, but never seen, in Sunset Blvd. - during the scene with Cecil B. Demille...

[ravn816]

See, for me it almost has to be broken down by genre. Perfect in a horror film is different from perfect in a Romantic Comedy. That being said here are some of my picks below. I'm sure I could think of more categories, but this is what came to mind first.

Perfect Horror Film-Poltergeist
Perfect Romantic Comedy-Moonstruck
Perfect Overall film if I had to pick-A tie between The Godfather part 1 and Fight Club
Perfect Sequel-Godfather 2
Perfect Trilogy-Lord of the Rings. I'd pick Star Wars but unfortunately the 2nd round of trilogy almost ruins it for me.

[aramg83]

Godfather 1, and 2. :clap:

Why I oughta :nono:

[DIRTY_MEX]

MATCH POINT
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[BrooklynHipster]

Oldboy is korean

[DIRTY_MEX]

DR. STRANGELOVE
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[nassue]

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i like "the fountain" as well but it's a little to recent

[Neckbeard]

I already talked about one here. (http://ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=63645)

[epo]

http://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/lawrence-of-arabia-DVDcover.jpg

[AnnoyedGrunt]

http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/spinal-tap/spinaltap1.jpg

[TrevorDodds]

any "black kids can do stuff to" film. i love fiction though.