Flawless

Rating: 10/10 (19 August 2017)

I love movies. I've seen thousands of them over the years. Many entertain me, some make me laugh, some make me cry, some give me new ideas on how to handle or live life. Some I know are kind of bad, but I love them for the atmosphere(Sliver for instance), some are good, but I don't love them(Shawshank Redemptions). And very few are absolutely perfect for me.
Here on IMDb, I rated less than two hand full of movies 10/10. L.A. Confidential is one of them. I've seen it 5 or 6 times now and I try not to be too biased, I try to see if maybe I give it a 10/10 because I like it so much that I overlook some flaws. But I just can't find any.
The cast is brilliant, down to the smallest role! Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey...they all would have deserved an Oscar for this one! This seems to be the kind of movie that would make even average actors look good. Maybe that's why this was Kim Basinger's only Oscar? I really can't remember her being very memorable in any other movie but this one. And compared to the male cast, she doesn't even shine that much to me(even though she did a great job).
The sets...oh, how I love the sets. I often wonder how they managed to pull off such an amazing L.A. of the 50's, but in the 90's. The cars, the suits, every small detail seems to fit perfectly. I think the only other movie I saw that managed to make L.A. look so beautiful is "Heat"(another 10/10).
The soundtrack is amazing as well. Many say L.A. Confidential is the China Town of the 90's, so it makes sense that they got Jerry Goldsmith to do the soundtrack(since he did it for China Town).
It's such a shame that no one seems interested to make movies like this one these days. It's all CGI, all some young actors I never heard of(and don't really want to either) and a lame excuse of a story. It seems like film makers in the US forgot that a good movie should have a good story.
I heard that they used China Town as an example on how to write a good story for movies in the 80s and afterwards. They should do that nowadays with L.A. Confidential. No matter how often I see this movie, I never get tired of it. It has such a great atmosphere and I think it's the atmosphere that can make a movie a true classic.
Heat, China Town, Blade Runner...all movies with atmosphere, all movies we consider classics. Please add L.A. Confidential to that list.