Your "perfect" movies

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Now I know that any list of "perfect" movies is going to be highly subjective. My definition here is "a movie in which you would change nothing" -- not casting, scenes, dialog, even music. I'd bet, however, that some of my choices would intersect with those of other film buffs.

Anyway, the list as of today:

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and its semi-remake, You've Got Mail (1998)

Larger than Life (1996)

Ghostbusters (1984)

Groundhog Day (1993?)

Die Hard (1988)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

White Heat (1949)

The Apartment (1960)

City Slickers (1991)

Odd, perhaps, that for an avowed action/drama/science fiction junkie, I only have 2 crime/action movies and 1 SF on the list. And peculiar, also, that no less than 3 of my choices star Bill Murray, who until I compiled this list I would not have mentioned as my favorite actor of all time; but there it is.

What would be on your list of films you would change nothing about?
 
I like this idea. Gives me something to reference when looking for good (not over-hyped Hollywood garbage) movies.

Here's a few of mine:

The Shining

Vanishing Point

American Beauty

Revolutionary Road

Fight Club

The Matrix

Back to the Future

A Patch of Blue

To kill a Mockingbird

The Game

Two Days, One Night

Irreversible
 
Originally Posted By: Benzadmiral

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)


♥ (or, I heart this^)

Also:

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolf? (1996)
Face/Off (1997)
Signs (2002)
Office Space (1999)
The Idolmaker (1980)
The Women (1939), The Opposite Sex (1956) (remake)
The Way, Way Back (2013)
GoodFellas (1990)
Love Actually (2003)
The Blood on [censored]'s Claw (1971)

(okay, that's an odd word to censor)

There's more, but that'll do for now.
 
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The original 1973 movie "The Day of the Jackal" directed by Fred Zinnemann and based on the 1971 novel, The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin known as the "Jackal" who is hired to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle in the summer of 1963.
 
No Country For Old Men

Unforgiven

The Shootist
 
The 1969 True Grit, Jaws, and The Sting should go on my list too. Wonderful Life I'm too close to, having appeared several times in a radio stage play version of it; but it's worthy of consideration.
 
Originally Posted By: NateDN10
Shawshank Redemption

+1; that, and Stand By Me.

I think we're finding out here that not ALL the output of Hollywood over the decades, even fairly recently, has been garbage or mere fluff. A lot, yes, but not all.
 
Heat
Akira
Ghost in the Shell (original movie)
Aliens
Big Trouble in Little China
 
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep (original Bogie & Bacall version)
Rio Bravo
Donovan's Reef
El Dorado
LeMans
Groundhog Day (was just on last night. Why don't they show it every Groundhog's Day?)
The Guns of Navarone
U-571
The Best Years of Our Lives
Apollo 13
North by Northwest

I could go on and on...
 
Originally Posted By: NateDN10
Shawshank Redemption


The Departed

Edward Scissorhands

Forrest Gump

The Town

Lord Of War

The Place Beyond The Pines

Titanic

Back To The Future

trilogy

The Godfather trilogy

Not a single thing wrong with any of these movies. And Edward Scissorhands will bring you to tears, if you let it.

I have not seen Forrest Gump a single time without crying when Forrest loses his mom.
 
Originally Posted By: JennyHemi
Originally Posted By: Benzadmiral

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)


♥ (or, I heart this^)

Also:

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolf? (1996)
Face/Off (1997)
Signs (2002)
Office Space (1999)
The Idolmaker (1980)
The Women (1939), The Opposite Sex (1956) (remake)
The Way, Way Back (2013)
GoodFellas (1990)
Love Actually (2003)
The Blood on [censored]'s Claw (1971)

(okay, that's an odd word to censor)

There's more, but that'll do for now.


The Way, Way Back (2013) - This was filmed down the street from where I grew up.

Back to the future
A Few Good Men
Gran Torino
Jaws
Godfather
The Shootist

guilty pleasure movie - Varsity Blues
 
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