I don't think you could make High Fidelity any better at what it tries to be. In that sense it's more perfect than many films suggested here IMO, even if it's not as good as a movie.
Most people here have never seen the actual original version of Star Wars. The special effects were already tinkered with a couple of times in the eighties.
Just recently saw Fight Club again in theater BTW, and man, movies really do look really boring to what they used to. Also, perfect casting in that movie.
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I think this is about perfect movies, not just movies you really enjoy. We're talking films that are top of the class, across the board (script, pacing, acting, technical etc).
Going with that criteria, I can only say "Spirited Away" and "Pulp Fiction". There are a lot of movie's I could call near-perfect that I enjoy as much as those two, but in terms of every inch of the movie having to be perfect, than it's just those two.
Lots of movies listed that I agree with. I look at movies like Aliens and Raiders of the Lost Ark and feel there's literally nothing that could have been done better. They are perfect without a dull moment but I feel it's easier to achieve in an action movie than say a drama. I feel Mulholland Drive is a masterpiece but it's probably overly complex so being perfect probably means catering to a broad audience rather than being outstanding in it's genre.
I don't think you could make High Fidelity any better at what it tries to be. In that sense it's more perfect than many films suggested here IMO, even if it's not as good as a movie.
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I don't think you could make High Fidelity any better at what it tries to be. In that sense it's more perfect than many films suggested here IMO, even if it's not as good as a movie.
Based on that criteria it’d open up a whole new world of perfect movies, mainly comedies.
Trading Places, South Park, Animal House, Dr Strangelove, Super Troopers, Bad Santa, Clerks, Tommy Boy.
I’d also then include Silence of the Lambs, Terminator 2 and One Flew Over the ####oos Nest.
All of those movies were perfectly made for what they intended to do. Be it raunchy comedy, black comedy, satire, action, thriller etc.
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Hold on now. Aliens is an action movie. Alien is the perfect sci-fi space horror movie. Alien is the better of the 2. Not saying Aliens isn't also great, just not the best.
Just because it has action doesn’t make it not sci-fi. They’re both sci-fi movies but in very different ways and equally awesome imo. I wish more franchises would evolve like that instead of just doing the same thing over and over.
I dunno, Aliens just feels like mostly an action movie set on an alien planet. Alien was a horror, but the space setting also had a lot more to do with that horror. The isolation, cinematography, set pieces etc all benefit from the sci-fi space setting. Aliens could have really been set anywhere and had largely the same story.
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I dunno, Aliens just feels like mostly an action movie set on an alien planet. Alien was a horror, but the space setting also had a lot more to do with that horror. The isolation, cinematography, set pieces etc all benefit from the sci-fi space setting. Aliens could have really been set anywhere and had largely the same story.
