Holes.
Much as I love that movie, it does drag a little in the middle. The first scene, however, needs an adjective beyond “perfect”.
I’m going to go in a slightly different direction and pick Jackie Brown. The casting was perfect, the choice of director was perfect (and I don’t even like Tarantino! But nobody else would have made his directorial choices!) and even the decision to radically rewrite the source material, Elmore Leonard’s Rum Punch, turned out perfectly. That movie could have been such a bomb, and instead it just worked.
Annie Hall
Spinal Tap
Life of Brian
Which movie or TV show was it that had a character who said his life’s ambition was to do a re-make of Annie Hall? That cracked me up - of all the films that could never be re-made…
Rear Window
Tombstone
The Fifth Element
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
A Clockwork Orange
Monsters, Inc.
M. It’s put together like a Swiss watch - not a thing out of place. I can’t recall a story told on screen with more economy and punch.
Mad Max II (The Road Warrior)
Re: The Third Man
The first scene? Are you sure you don’t mean the final shot?
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Joe
Ocean’s Eleven. The Clooney version, not the Rat Pack.
I almost had this as well, except for…
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[br]When the team knocks off the vault, they fill the vault (booby trapped money) and X-marked-duffel-bags with hooker flyers. How did they carry enough hooker flyers into the vault to to explode some in the vault and fill the duffel bags. Daniel, Rusty and Yen carried nothing and the imposter SWAT team only carried one smaller bag each.
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Joe
Sorry, guy. AMC has been playing the original, John Wayne version ad nauseum. I hadn’t seen it before the new remake, last year.
I thought the remake was decent - not great, but a good enough movie.
The original - well, let’s just be polite and say it hasn’t aged well. Clunky, stiff dialogue, a Mattie that is visibly too old to be a young teenager.
I get it if it’s nostalgia that makes you love the original, but honestly having seen both the original and the remake - neither is great, and the original ain’t that good.
Not a single thing wrong about Sky High.
Dude, Where’s My Car managed to wrap up the entire storyline by the end of the movie. It might not have been the best movie in the world but it was well made.
8MM, with Nicolas Cage - Cage’s second-best movie (behind Wild at Heart), one of the most suspenseful, creative, interesting thrillers I have ever watched. I’ve seen it so many times now, and I never get tired of it.
Stay Hungry - Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first real acting role (with his own voice) and, strangely, basically his only turn as a serious character in a film that’s not an action flick or a comedy. Also stars Sally Field and Jeff Bridges. A host of incredibly talented and quirky '70s character actors make appearances: Woodrow Parfrey, Joe Spinell, Helena Kallianiotes, John David Carson, Scatman Crothers, R.G. Armstrong, and Joanna Cassidy, among others. Robert Englund (Freddy Kruger) has a supporting role, as does a very young Ed Begley Jr. Such an amazing cast, and directed by the genius Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces.) The movie has equal parts drama, comedy, and oddball philosophical musings. Based on a fantastic novel by Charles Gaines - I know this guy, and he is a true gentleman and artist.
I never get tired of this movie!
Agreed. (I’m the one who posted this film.) It’s hard to watch because it should be. The horror of that scene (as we see it), and Esposito’s silently horrified reaction to the aftermath (as he sees it), helps make the ending of the story all the more powerful and thought provoking. I think.
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Rosemary’s Baby was a perfect movie, mostly because Roman Polanski followed Ira Levin’s perfect book (and how often does that happen in Hollywood?).
Time After Time. Not a thing wrong with it. Astonding, considering the premise.