What is a "Perfect Film"? For me, a perfect film can be different from a favorite film, or a great film. A perfect film is something that sings from start to finish with no obvious mistakes, whether they be aesthetic or structural. There are no logical lapses. #FivePerfectMovies

For instance, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is one of my all time favorite movies. But the weird shift in the civil war section harms the perfect flow of the film. The highs might be higher than a movie like, say, Babe, which is to me perfect, but it's not perfect.

Likewise, the film Breaking Away is pretty wonderful, but the homophobic (and incredibly dumb) washing-my-balls joke with the gay bowler in the middle of the movie stops it from being perfect, even if I like it more overall then many "perfect" films.

Raiders of the Lost Ark is almost perfect. But the fact that Indy accomplishes nothing in the movie (that is, if he was never involved at all, the story would have the same exact climactic moment - the Nazis would open pandora's box and melt) stops it from being perfect.

Back to the Future SEEMINGLY could be imperfect (why don't Mom and Dad remember Marty?), but I would still argue it's a perfect film because there are reasons why this could conceivably be the case (time protects itself from unraveling, etc). Or maybe I'm in denial. Who knows.

Again, I think people are using this hashtag in a different way than me, but that's how I perceive it. Here are five more perfect films:
1) Back to the Future
2) Chinatown
3) Rashomon
4) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5) The Thing
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