The Perfect Movie
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Some people say it's "Citizen Kane." Others say it's "The Godfather." And then there are people who favor "Casablanca," "Star Wars," "The Silence of the Lambs," and even "The Matrix." But are any of these really the best movie ever? If so, what makes them the best movie ever?

Well... any thoughts? No? Of course you have a favorite movie and a least favorite movie and that one movie you thought was good but not as good as that other movie. You and everyone else on the planet have some idea of what the best movie is and what the ultimate best movie should be.

So what, right? You already knew that. I am here to tell you exactly what the all time, ultimate, best movie should be like. Are you ready?

The ultimate, best movie should take the entire audience and totally submerse them into the story. And that is it. Easy huh? Not really. This is how I rate movies, though, and if you are planning to work with movies then you better learn to work with this.

You see, there are so many types of movies (sci-fi, drama, fantasy, fiction, historic, documentary, action/adventure, and any combination of these) that we cannot really compare a sci-if movie to a drama movie. A sci-if will most likely be good on a different level or for a different reason than a drama movie would. A sci-fi movie has action and strange characters combined with awesome special effects. A drama has a compelling story with interesting characters whose lives impact each others in some strange yet interesting way. You can't really compare the two movies because they really have nothing to compare. Ok, the actors in the drama showed better emotion, but the sci-fi had awesome computer generated effects... wait... you can't say that because there is nothing in the drama to compare it to.

This is why my way of rating movies is better. It involves looking not at the movie, but at myself. I could pick apart a movie piece by piece. I will sit there during a movie (that I just paid six bucks to see) and wonder how they accomplished that spectacular effect. I will think of a better way they could have began the story, or introduced a character. I will do all of this eventually. The best movies, however, completely immerse me into the story and I become so involved in what will happen to the characters next that I do not stop to think about the acting or the lighting etc. So when I rate a movie I rate it on how well it did at pulling me in and making me care about the characters in the story, instead of the actors and the wardrobe.

This is the best way to rate movies in general. Although, some people are completely bored at the sight of the intro to a drama. Likewise, other people do not enjoy high paced action. So for a general rating of a movie (directed towards, let's say, the entire country) my system would work pretty well. Of course, then, it only makes sense that the ultimate best movie ever (drama, action, or sci-if) would be able to hold the attention of every single audience member in every theater. So, who wants the job?