re: 5 perfect films- name yours !

Get that allegory son

The Patriot is an awesome movie. Near perfect!

Pride & Prejudice (2005)
The Godfather
Psycho
(500) Days Of Summer
Dead Poets Society


Very difficult to exclude:

Saving Private Ryan
Goodfellas
The Shawshank Redemption
Gone With The Wind
The Empire Strikes Back
The Caine Mutiny
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
The Right Stuff
L.A. Confidential
About A Boy

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The Patriot is a complicated movie because I and many others think it’s so bad it’s good. There are a few other films listed so far that are that, but I’m confident those posters know that. They’re infinitely entertaining knowing what they are. But there are people that actually think the Patriot is an all time great movie. It is pure schlock. It’s great schlock, but it’s schlock nonetheless. It paints the Redcoats into literal Brownshirts. We still remember the Boston Massacre, and 5 people died there. Do you really think we would have forgotten a British colonel putting a hundred people in a church and then burning it with everyone inside? That is something so severe that historians think that act alone would have kept us out of the First World War at best and maybe even supporting Germany at worst. We’d call Brits church burners forever over that. And that was based on a historical crime by the way. Not a British atrocity, but a Nazi atrocity. A French town was holding an SS officer hostage. They found him, put all the women and children in a barn, and lit it on fire after they shot the legs out from under the men and made them watch, and then they brutally tortured the men to death. That’s what it was based on. “Burning the church” is one of the 10 most ridiculous and insulting scenes in cinematic history. It’s an awful movie but a very entertaining one. I enjoy it, but it is an awful movie.

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Kidding. Love your opining Shark.

Inherent Vice
Children of Men
The Big Lebowski
Jackie Brown
Coming to America

The Godfather
Jaws
Young Frankenstein
Dirty Harry
For a Few Dollars More

The only ones that popped into my head immediately - of whether or not I'd change or improve on the film and couldn't think of anything to change...

Casablanca
It's a Wonderful Life
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Back to the Future
Trading Places

Not saying this is a greatest flick line-up...but there's not a false note in any of them and that's what immediately came to mind. There's no scenes I'd cut.

Lawrence of Arabia is the greatest film of all-time IMO but there are scenes I'd shorten or cut.

But the pacing and editing of the 5 movies I mentioned are just fantastic...which makes them so immensely rewatchable after all these years.

Big Lebowski
Groundhog Day
The Godfather
Saving Private Ryan
Pulp Fiction

But tomorrow I might have a different opinion

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OMLandshark

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Everybody make way for the auteur.

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Unforgiven

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That's a good call. That would probably make my revised list.