Perfect films

[YaMuvva]

What films wouldn’t you change a moment of?

Ive just watched Billy Elliot and I think it’s absolutely perfect. The characters, the set, the very palpable despair displayed by the miners during strikes - anyone familiar with these areas know that these places have barely progressed as a direct result of Thatcher’s destruction. I feel that somehow came across in the movie.

The ending 🥺 it’s actual perfection

When Harry met Sally
A room with a view
The Graduate
Groundhog Day
Strictly Ballroom

Bend It Like Beckham
Shawshank Redemption
When Harry Met Sally
Beauty and the Beast animated

Pride. - ‘I’ll take another gay but not a lesbian, its their cuisine I can’t be doing with’.

Gawd, I hated Bohemian Rhapsody. It's a work of fiction.
Rehearsing for Live Aid 'We haven't played together for years '.
They were on tour at the time! I saw them three times at Wembley Arena the previous September.
YY to When Harry Met Sally.
The English Patient
The Way We Were
Apollo 13

High Society

surprised it hasn’t been mentioned before.

Hot Fuzz
A Field in England
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jaws
Aliens
Institut Benjamenta
Dredd
A Dark Song
Wicker Man

Oh that was so sweet!

@beguilingeyes I didn't know that about Queen.

Bohemian Rhapsody is full of errors which caused some controversy when it came out. There are so many it's quite strange especially as band members were involved in the making of the film. Some are obviously for dramatic effect, but some are just inaccuracies.

I thought the oddest one was making a big thing of their break up with EMI, which in reality didn't happen then and in fact Queen stayed with EMI for a long time and years and years after Freddie Mercury's death.

The way they treated FM's character was awful. They soft-soaped him and turned him into a victim.

I love that film, and much prefer it to The Philadelphia Story.

You could add in a lot of screwball comedies, though. His Girl Friday is pretty perfect.

And Roger Taylor was portrayed as some sort.of cockney oik who didn't know whe Galileo was, when he's a posh public school boy (it's Roger Meddows-Taylor) who has two degrees.

The hangover - I just love the reconstruction of the previous night's events in my opinion storytelling is flawless

Green mile

My girl

Les Miserables (2012)

The Ladykillers (1955 version obviously).

Fargo, Dirty Dancing, Groundhog Day, Thelma & Louise, Orphan

Pride
About Time
Brassed Off

All class movies

Death of Stalin
Shaun of the Dead
Four Lions

Can watch these on repeat. Four Lions is so funny but so sad.

Sorry don't know why it's quoted a post.

Oh yes, I agree with The Others & The Talented Mr Ripley

Oh gosh yes. I need to watch it again maybe to 'get' it a bit more but I found the final scene with his mother very emotional. I adore Andrew Scott, his face is full of expression and he has the loveliest smile

Alien
JAWS
The Talented Mr Ripley
Thelma & Louise
Withnail and I
Goodfellas
The Shining
Godfathers 1 and 2
North by Northwest
There Will be Blood
Phantom Thread

caveat being that there’s always a slight scene that might jar in a teensy tiny way but I love these films so much I forgive it immediately.

And a special shoutout for Joker, which is immaculate and underrated. It’s a masterpiece in my mind.

Btw, @StoatofDisarray while I may not agree that A Dark Song is perfect, I did love it. Especially the transcendent scene towards the end. Won’t say more than that as it would spoil it, but you’ll know the one I mean. It was so stunning.

City of God AMAZING
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I really love Ripley but it’s nothing like the book, which I’ve just read. The recent TV adaptation was much more accurate ( but sooooo sloooooow ).

I hated the tv adaptation of Ripley to start off with but now think it’s perfection - as long as I separate it in my mind from the film. I’ve rewatched it about 4 times. It’s aesthetic perfection, and the Caravaggio focus is genius.

Oh God, so many already mentioned. Pride was the first that sprang to mind.

Back to the Future is the most structurally perfect film of the 20th century, an absolute masterclass in scriptwriting.

I could, and do, watch Terminator 2 and Aliens over and over again.

I love The Talented Mr Ripley (film) but it's not super accurate an adaptation.
And yes to When Harry Met Sally and Shawshank!