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A film that you can't think of any way to improve it. A wonderful cast, dialogue, storyline, etc.
Here are a few that I thought of
The Princess Bride
The Blues Brothers
Bad Day at Black Rock
Singing in the Rain
Some Like it Hot
Philadelphia Story
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)Starman.
My Fair Lady.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Phone home
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)The Graduate
Cool Hand Luke
The Conversation
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)That film was created by people who had "named names" during the Red Scare, and was basically an extended justification for their actions in putting others on the blacklist.
applegrove
(118,642 posts)My Brilliant Career
Much Ado About Nothing
The Post
jg10003
(976 posts)Freethinker65
(10,017 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)...those were the first ones that came to me.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)I win!
Codeine
(25,586 posts)What a perfect film.
yonder
(9,664 posts)catbyte
(34,376 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)What a great film!
I think Mongol was pretty special too.
Wish I was better at remembering the names of all the terrific films!
Skittles
(153,160 posts)7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Godfather
Godfather II
Treasure of Sierra Madre
Chinatown
Alien
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)The Maltese Falcon
A Hard Day's Night
Von Ryan's Express
Fantasia
stopbush
(24,396 posts)And thats just a couple of Bogey movies.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)All are superb!
malthaussen
(17,193 posts)... by losing Mary Astor. IMO, she butchered the role, making it very hard for me to believe Bogart would have had any feelings for her. Might have been the director's fault, of course.
-- Mal
Kablooie
(18,632 posts)It's so bad that no one could improve it.
FuzzyRabbit
(1,967 posts)Upthevibe
(8,042 posts)Goodfellas, It's a Wonderful Life, (and more recently) The Hangover, and Bridesmaids (there are many others but I'm fading out for the night...
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...Supergirl, Heaven's Gate, The Sound of Music--well, maybe that doesn't quite have enough Nuns 'n Nazis--At Long Last Love, Parnell, Birth of a Nation, A Place for Lovers, Jaws: the Revenge, and The Oscar. I wouldn't have a moment of these golden treasures changed at all...
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Actually Sound of Music is pretty classic ... same with TTCM.
Ahpook
(2,750 posts)Whether you like horror movies or not, that one leaves you breathless. I wanted a shower after first viewing
It just oozes insanity!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Directed by Rob Zombie.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,853 posts)"It's 1183 and we're barbarians"
In my opinion the very best movie ever.
This was Anthony Hopkins very first movie role. Wow.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,491 posts)Just a perfect movie. Hell, Id put almost every QT film on the list.
Shawshank
Jaws
Young Frankenstein
Slap Shot
White Heat
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Casablanca, Key Largo, High Noon, 12 Angry Men, The Magdalene Sisters, Rabbit Proof Fence and Downton Abbey come to mind.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)lastlib
(23,224 posts)Jeremiah Johnson
Brother Buzz
(36,423 posts)The 'I'll Be There' scene the glues the whole film together:
Tom: I been thinking about us, too, about our people living like pigs and good rich land layin fallow. Or maybe one guy with a million acres and a hundred thousand farmers starvin. And I been wonderin if all our folks got together and yelled
Ma: Oh, Tommy, theyd drag you out and cut you down just like they done to Casey.
Tom: Theyd drag me anyways. Sooner or later theyd get me for one thing if not for another. Until then
Ma: Tommy, youre not aimin to kill nobody.
Tom: No, Ma, not that. That aint it. Its just, well as long as Im an outlaw anyways maybe I can do somethin maybe I can just find out somethin, just scrounge around and maybe find out what it is thats wrong and see if they aint somethin that can be done about it. I aint thought it out all clear, Ma. I cant. I dont know enough.
Ma: How am I gonna know about ya, Tommy? Why they could kill ya and Id never know. They could hurt ya. How am I gonna know?
Tom: Well, maybe its like Casy says. A fellow aint got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody, then
Ma: Then what, Tom?
Tom: Then it dont matter. Ill be all around in the dark Ill be everywhere. Wherever you can look wherever theres a fight, so hungry people can eat, Ill be there. Wherever theres a cop beatin up a guy, Ill be there. Ill be in the way guys yell when theyre mad. Ill be in the way kids laugh when theyre hungry and they know suppers ready, and when the people are eatin the stuff they raise and livin in the houses they build Ill be there, too.
Ma: I dont understand it, Tom.
Tom: Me, neither, Ma, but just somethin I been thinkin about.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)
I assume that's what you meant?
Anyway, East of Eden was directed my notorious McCarthyite snitch Elia Kazan (see On the Waterfront, above), and was shot in color.
Brother Buzz
(36,423 posts)I'm gonna leave it up there because I'm an idiot with a Swiss cheese brain.
Elia Kazan aside, I did not like reading East of Eden. The book was dark, and so I had a predisposition to not like the film, even though it was filmed mostly in Mendocino.
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)LiberalLoner
(9,761 posts)But I saw it as a little girl and loved it, still think its a great film, Jackie Gleason in Gigot.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Saw it as a little kid too! I still love Jackie Gleason, he reminded me of my Dad.
Thanks for reminding me, Ill have to find it now.
Did you love Thomasina? Thats another great childrens movie from my past.
LiberalLoner
(9,761 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)42bambi
(1,753 posts)phatkatt
(1,376 posts).
Tech
(1,771 posts)Harvey, Arsenic and Old Lace. They still make me laugh. I don't normally like watching movies more than once, but I can still giggle every time I watch these.
Upthevibe
(8,042 posts)have it playing on in the background every damn day...
Smickey
(3,318 posts)or Lawrence of Arabia
malthaussen
(17,193 posts)Captain Zero
(6,805 posts)I know because I've probably watched it 15 times.
The Polack MSgt
(13,188 posts)edbermac
(15,939 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)I remember this 'take the cannoli' scene, was cited by a pop philosopher [name escaping me now] as encapsulating the philosophy of the Godfather family.
Initech
(100,068 posts)IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I forgot to include that film.
Initech
(100,068 posts)Toga! Toga! Toga! Toga! Toga! Toga!
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I really want to be able to use that quote someday.
Initech
(100,068 posts)Demovictory9
(32,454 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Snakes on a Plane
Apocalypse Now
The Truman Show
Full Metal Jacket
Batman (the Michael Keaton one, not the crappy Nolan ones)
The Green Mile
Initech
(100,068 posts)Orrex
(63,208 posts)Aside from a few strong moments in each, they're so unrelentingly terrible that I can't believe that people are still willing to pretend that they were good.
Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)Especially since this scene is so relevant right now:
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Yippee-ki-yay.
RobinA
(9,888 posts)But first The Wizard of Oz.
yellowdogintexas
(22,252 posts)there is no way to improve on these
Glorfindel
(9,729 posts)Twelve Monkeys, Ready to Wear, The Hudsucker Proxy, Latter Days
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)Doodley
(9,088 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)Jeremiah Johnson
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)Very well done. Even the score was good.
Also ... It Happened One Night
GP6971
(31,146 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)Paul
Airplane
Last of the Mohicans
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appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)The Heiress, The Verdict, All The President's Men, Schindler's List, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Selma, Dances with Wolves, 12 Years A Slave, so many more.
jrandom421
(1,003 posts)Saving Private Ryan
We Were Soldiers
The Great Santini
Iron Man
Marty
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: I think you oughta get yourself an M-16.
Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: Sir, if the time comes I need one, there'll be plenty lying on the ground.
jrandom421
(1,003 posts)Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: "Custer was a pussy. You're not, Sir."
Bayard
(22,063 posts)The Princess Bride
Legends of the Fall
Dances with Wolves (Both Dances and Legends written by Michael Blake)
Shawshank Redemption
Jeremiah Johnson
Silverado (except for the way Scott Glenn rides a horse!)
cos dem
(903 posts)This Is Spinal Tap
Full Metal Jacket
The Big Lebowski
Airplane!
The Killing
Dr Strangelove (at least it used to be funny).
2001
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)So I will add;
Dodsworth
The Court Jester
Home Alone
The Santa Clause
The Women ( the original version)
Galaxy Quest
The Station Agent
Death at a Funeral ( the English version)
Make Way for Tomorrow ( if you catch this on TCM, bring two boxes of Kleenex)
White Christmas
West Side Story
If I keep thinking, I'll be here all night. This is a good start.
missingthebigdog
(1,233 posts)Dirty Dancing
Aliens
Rain Man
Hokie
(4,286 posts)Forest Gump.
And Shawshank Redemption is perfect.
Kablooie
(18,632 posts)Hokie
(4,286 posts)Hokie
(4,286 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)I can improve the new film Ad Astra.
List left
(595 posts)Seven Samurai
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)Tikki
(14,557 posts)Repo Man, Alfie....
Tikki
Mike Nelson
(9,954 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,954 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,954 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,954 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,954 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,954 posts)Response to IrishEyes (Original post)
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mucifer
(23,542 posts)1931 sassy nurse whose boyfriend is a bootlegger. I LOVE this film. It's a hoot!
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,985 posts)CommonSenseMom
(43 posts)A Christmas Story
When Harry Met Sally
The Green Mile
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)MrsMatt
(1,660 posts)Young Frankenstein
Bringing up Baby
MontanaMama
(23,313 posts)Beautiful Girls.
Field Of Dreams
AmandaRuth
(3,105 posts)The Commitments
NoPasaran
(17,291 posts)It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World
No Country For Old Men
The Great Escape
Bridge on the River Kwai
Just to add a few I don't think anyone has mentioned yet
Beringia
(4,316 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(9,985 posts)Lady & the Tramp
101 Dalmations
The Trouble with Angels
The Curse of the Cat People
Doreen
(11,686 posts)Creator
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
Blazing Saddles
Airplane 1 and 2
LisaM
(27,808 posts)Uma Thurman at her best.
ZZenith
(4,122 posts)And Wild Strawberries, Winter Light, and Fanny and Alexander by Bergman.
Also Rashomon and Seven Samurai.
Yes, I am into moody foreign films.
nocoincidences
(2,218 posts)My preference for which one has changed as I aged.
ZZenith
(4,122 posts)Vox Populi
(40 posts)Best film ever made
dawg day
(7,947 posts)They live together in a boarding house at 158 West 58th Street in New York City. The film stars Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, Ann Miller.
1937, and totally passes the Bechdel test: 1. It has to have at least two [named] women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.
In fact, men are practically irrelevant in this film, except for the Harvey Weinsteinish producer (things haven't changed much in 80 years) and a few dates who are useful to pay for a good dinner out some nights.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)SeaTownBlue
(98 posts)Saw the prezident. Uhginn.
pansypoo53219
(20,976 posts)DFW
(54,370 posts)And about 200 others that are ALMOST perfect.
e.g. The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, The Shawshank Redemption, Die Blechtrommel, Les 400 Coups, Ådalen '31, L'Homme de Rio, The Life Of Brian, Luftslottet Som Sprängdes, Avatar, Fame, Mrs. Doubtfire, August Rush, The Illusionist, Godfather II, the list goes on.....
Nay
(12,051 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)2001 A Space Odyssey
Barry Lyndon
Lawrence of Arabia
Casino
Melancholia
My Dinner with Andre
All That Jazz
JCMach1
(27,556 posts)And basically anything by Kubrick
lastlib
(23,224 posts)NO WAY it could be made any funnier!
And "Tunnelvision"--"the 'No-Bullshit network"!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I think a present-day sequel could work. William Hurt gets out of prison, and looks up Ted Danson. Hurt persuades Danson that Kathleen Turner is still alive, and they go off to find her and bring her to justice.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,429 posts)IGoToDU
(177 posts)Room With a View
Like Water for Chocolate
A Little Romance
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (both the Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp versions!)
Love Actually (minus the fat shaming)
Glory
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Roger and Me
What About Bob
Breakfast Club
Christmas Story
Its A Wonderful Life
Paladin
(28,254 posts)Leith
(7,809 posts)Whatever you may think of the film adaptations and how they differed from the books, the films were beautifully done and the actors were superb.
While Casablanca is my favorite movie of all time, I have one nitpick with one minor character: the wife of the young couple from Bulgaria. A cardboard cutout could not have been worse.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Judgement at Nuremberg
My Fair Lady
Gypsy
The Music Man
nocoincidences
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Cicada
(4,533 posts)Zoonart
(11,860 posts)Local Hero
All About Eve
Fargo
randr
(12,412 posts)spooky3
(34,444 posts)Blue_playwright
(1,568 posts)sorcrow
(418 posts)Dersu Uzala by Kurosawa
Watch it if you haven't.
My favorite movie of all time.
Regards,
Crow
LAS14
(13,783 posts)mokawanis
(4,440 posts)aikoaiko
(34,169 posts)It really spoke to me as a poor, struggling graduate student.
yellowdogintexas
(22,252 posts)I have seen it so many times and I still have to think through how (Mr) Tibbs puts it all together.
Fabulous movie Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger were magic.
"we got the motive which is money and the body which is DEAD"
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)canetoad
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