The Perfect Movie

Quentin Tarantino was on one of the US late-night comedy/talk shows and listed some of the movies he considered to be perfect, "they may not be everyone’s cup of tea", he says, "but there still isn’t really anything within it to bring it down". 

What is a perfect movie in my mind? I recently watched the fictionalised series on how The Godfather came to be and, it did give me an appreciation of what goes into making a movie. 

In the interview, Tarantino lists Back To The Future (which I agree with and the reunion of Doc and Marty at a Comicon recently had me doing the ugly cry), The Exorcist (yeah okay), 1974s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (yeah maybe one day I’ll get to see it) and others. And it got me thinking… (not very deeply), about just how I would categorise the millions of movies, that live rent-free, in my (sub and) consciousness.

The thing is, what makes a perfect movie? Yes, it’s all mostly subjective and a few characteristics we all coalesce around and agree on at the time, but really, and therefore, there can only be a perfect movie for me!

Mine? Well, even with the best of movies that I have rewatched too many times I still find that element of: no it did not have to end this way, or, yeah, I can see why people don’t like this guy, but if they just watched the movie and understand that Chip’s struggle is all of our struggles, and, there is no planet where Queen Latifah is crushing on some dude is remotely, aww romantic. 

So no, I don’t have a perfect movie. I have had movies that hit the spot at that moment! Crying for 6 days after Brokeback Mountain thinking it could have turned out differently, that Ang Lee could have chosen a more optimistic conclusion, and saved Jack for goodness' sakes! the only movies of the same genre then were made in the horrible time of the epidemic, there were no happy endings, few! Why couldn't she just let us have this? 

Okay, fuck it, Brokeback Mountain is a perfect movie. for me.

To fleeting and lingering spoons