Nothing in life is guaranteed. How often have you heard that? Those who use that phrase are probably right…most of the time. But when Netflix-DVD provides you with a “Best Guess” of 4.9 for a particular movie, I can say that you are guaranteed to “really like” that movie and be pretty confident that I am right. In my database of 1,980 movies, 51 have received a perfect score of 4.9 from Netflix-DVD. That is 2.6% of all of the movies I have watched in the last 15 years. Of those 51 perfect score movies, I have given a “really like” score of 75 (out of 100) or higher to all 51 movies. I have given a “love” score of 85 or higher to 48 of the 51. If Netflix-DVD presents me with a movie with a Best Guess of 4.9, there is a 94.1% probability that I will “love” the movie, and close to 100% that I will “really like” it. That is pretty darn close to a guarantee.
So, after providing all of these guarantees, it would be just cruel of me not to share with you the 51 perfect score movies. Here they are:
| Netflix-DVD Perfect Score Movies | ||
| American President, The | King’s Speech, The | |
| Apollo 13 | L.A. Confidential | |
| Argo | Lincoln | |
| Batman Begins | Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | |
| Bourne Identity, The | Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The | |
| Bourne Ultimatum, The | Martian, The | |
| Braveheart | Million Dollar Baby | |
| Casablanca | Mystic River | |
| Cinderella Man | Raiders of the Lost Ark | |
| Dark Knight, The | Rocky | |
| Departed, The | Saving Private Ryan | |
| Few Good Men, A | Schindler’s List | |
| Field of Dreams | Shawshank Redemption, The | |
| Forrest Gump | Silver Linings Playbook | |
| Fugitive, The | Sixth Sense, The | |
| Gladiator | Sleepless in Seattle | |
| Glory | Social Network, The | |
| Godfather, The | Sound of Music, The | |
| Godfather: Part II, The | Spider-Man 2 | |
| Gone Baby Gone | Star Trek | |
| Good Will Hunting | Star Wars IV: A New Hope | |
| Hoosiers | Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back | |
| It’s a Wonderful Life | Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi | |
| Jerry Maguire | Sting, The | |
| Juno | To Kill a Mockingbird | |
| When Harry Met Sally | ||
Those of you who are movie lovers probably have seen all or most of these. If not, you probably can’t go wrong sampling some movies from this list. The list is also a peek at my taste in movies. Netflix-DVD is uncanny in its capability to look into the depths of my movie soul and pick out the perfect movie. I’ll just mention again that I’m not referring to the recommendations that you get on Streaming Netflix. It seems like they give five stars to everything. The perfect scores for this post is from the DVD recommender.
We all strive for perfection at different times in our lives. Netflix 4.9 movies define perfection for movie recommendations.
