What purpose is that?
Bridge on the River Kwai would be my choice for the perfect war movie.
For the perfect cheesy assed one liner pun fest of a low brow comedy movie…Airplane is hard to beat.
Not my theory, but once Marge Gunderson found out Mike had been lying, that made her realize that Jerry Lundergaard might also have been lying about the Tan Sierra. So she went back to interview him again. This made him bolt and led to the case being solved.
I don’t think I’d enjoy a perfect movie. All my favorite things have flaws.
Another Bill Murray classic, The Man who Knew too Little.
Depending on your definition of perfect, Millers Crossing is damn near perfect. I defy you to find one single line in that movie that does not drive the action forward. Good acting, good directing, fantastic script, superb cinematography! Really, perfect.
Another script I’d label perfect: Hombre.
But there are many great, near perfect movies listed here. This one however:
… confuses me. I do not mean to be a jerk or thread shit but can someone please explain why this is considered good, much less perfect?
Boring, rambling, pretentious. If you love it, fine. I probably love a lot of films that most here would hate but I wouldn’t call them perfect.
Care to elaborate on what makes it perfect?
You are confusing perfect for GOOD.
2001 is IMO exactly what it is trying to be. Slow, methodical, precise blah blah blah. Now, I suppose one could say “okay, that ending…WTF? was up with THAT”…but again, for the most part the rest of movie nearly perfect for what it was.
And on that note, I suspect plenty of other wise near perfect movies kinda fall short ending wise.
A perfect comedy from a different era? It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
Probably “Snakes on a Plane” because it deals perfectly with, yes, snakes on a plane. It really nails down the subject.
I thought Hot Fuzz was about as close to perfect as a movie gets, and rewatched it to make sure – but I was wrong; it turns out the film could have been slightly better.
It turns out to be slightly better if you’ve seen Broadchurch.
The Godfather, except for Sonny’s phantom punch.
What about The Blues Brothers? They threw everything at the wall, and it all worked. And the best music ever.
Similarly, “Sharknado”.
I thought “As Good as it Gets” was wonderful, and so well done. I loved it.
**Tootsie **is the first response I thought of.
Nothing that could be added or taken away would improve it.
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A nominee from left field, but I think for me “Battle: LA” comes close. The combat scenes are perfectly chaotic, the moments of melodrama are pure cheese, but by the end you are right where the movie planned to put you emotionally the whole time. Not high art, by any means, yet I can watch it repeatedly.
I am prepared to be mocked.
A film that doesn’t leave me thinking “boy, if I’d been in charge, I’d have done , [y], and/or [z] differently.”
I thought it was a great movie.
But the ending isn’t the ending. Because despite all Jack Nicholson’s growth, there’s no way he can actually be Helen Hunt’s boyfriend. This relationship can’t work. And the end, where it seems like it can work, is not the end. The movie needs to end with him growing a bit, and with her leaving him, and him being OK with that.
Great movie, but not perfect, because it doesn’t show the real ending.
Well, that’s as good as it gets.
The perfect movie? I have seven of them.
El ángel exterminador
Simón del desierto
Belle de jour
La voie lactée
Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Le fantôme de la liberté
Cet obscur objet du désir
What makes them absolutely perfect films? Just two words. Luis Buñuel.