I'm not sure if I understand what you mean by "100% movie."
Is there an unflawed movie, I think, is what it means at this point. It started with the Tomato meter, but I think we digressed from there.
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I'm not sure if I understand what you mean by "100% movie."
Is there an unflawed movie, I think, is what it means at this point. It started with the Tomato meter, but I think we digressed from there.
What does unflawed mean? Because I love "Goodfellas" a lot. Would consider it *practically* perfect, except that owing to content,they run it late at night, and it's close to three hours long. So most of the time, I decide *not* to watch it.
Well, I thought The Apartment was pretty perfect.
Man on Wire was very slight, but pleasant. It's a good movie primarily because Petit is a great character - the filmmaking is nothing terribly special.
I loved it, but for me, it's an amazing story, I'm not sure it's a "good" film.
I'm not sure what you mean by unflawed, either. Perfection seems to be in the eye of the beholder to me.
And for what it's worth, I though Man on Wire was pretty good. The director's strategy of structuring the story like a heist film was sharp.
What, I love heist films. I think I will enjoy that thing.
Well, then - are there personal 100% movies?
Night of the Hunter - perfect.
Sunset Boulevard - perfect.
Touch of Evil - perfect.
L'atlante - better than perfect.
Rushmore - perfect for me.
The Lady Eve - sheer perfection. Could not be improved.
Yessir, all of those plus:
The Rules of the Game
The Grand Illusion
Ikiru
Zero For Conduct
Vertigo
The Wild Bunch (can't leave that off, or David will think I've gone soft)
Unfaithfully Yours
Chinatown
and, truth be told, it would be easier to talk about my favorite movies that are perfect because of their flaws.
Continuity errors bug me. Poorly delivered lines bug me. Cameras reflected in windows bug me. So I guess that means I have no personal 100% movies. I've got plenty of 99%s, though.
Continuity errors bug me. Poorly delivered lines bug me. Cameras reflected in windows bug me.
Laga, you should look into a career as a script supervisor. Not at all kidding. They can make pretty good money.
I generally ignore continuity errors unless they're really obvious. If that's what I'm paying attention to, there's something else wrong with the movie besides the continuity errors. Poorly delivered lines bug me too, though. But movie making really happens in the editing room. Many scenes are significantly altered from how they were performed, or even invented whole cloth in the editing room. Assembled from spare parts. The editor (along with the director) has complete control over which take gets used.