lazarus
Blue Crack Supplier
You're a much bigger fan of War in the Worlds than I would have expected. That ending torpedoes anything that may have come before it. It's ridiculous, and way too neat.
Also, The Terminal. And Crystal Skull a.k.a. Nuke The Fridge/Swinging on Vines With Monkeys. Total embarrassments.
So what you're left with is A.I. (brilliant but compromised), Minority Report (ditto, and in the end a mockery of Philip K. Dick's worldview), and Catch Me If You Can, probably the most "perfect" of the bunch.
That don't cut it.
In addition to the two films I mentioned previously, Marty has The Departed, an unambitious but perfectly-calibrated thriller with some social commentary, and The Aviator, a very ambitious but slightly-less personal work that still manages some bravura sequences. And there's also the Dylan documentary and the Stones concert film.
Marty wins.
Also, The Terminal. And Crystal Skull a.k.a. Nuke The Fridge/Swinging on Vines With Monkeys. Total embarrassments.
So what you're left with is A.I. (brilliant but compromised), Minority Report (ditto, and in the end a mockery of Philip K. Dick's worldview), and Catch Me If You Can, probably the most "perfect" of the bunch.
That don't cut it.
In addition to the two films I mentioned previously, Marty has The Departed, an unambitious but perfectly-calibrated thriller with some social commentary, and The Aviator, a very ambitious but slightly-less personal work that still manages some bravura sequences. And there's also the Dylan documentary and the Stones concert film.
Marty wins.