My recipe for a great movie

Movies need to impact the viewer, give them something to connect to and even inspire something deep within them. Here's a list of movie ingredients that I notice in movies i find great in my mind.

A Good lead Actor/Actress: Sometimes movies are based on a sole person's performance that brings the story to life and makes a human connections with the viewer. There are always exceptions to this rule, but most the time it's when a supporting Actor/Actress just has a more interesting character (example: Christen Bale in The Fighter) and it's often not the lead's fault, it's just the writing.

Good Story Acing: Movies need to have a good pace to them, or else they audience will start to get bored by the slow pace of the movie. (Examples of good pacing: True Grit, The Karate Kid [2010], Unstoppable, Toy Story 3, The King's Speech, The Social Network)

A Good Director: The Director has to know what shots work for certain situations and which don't. Often i see movies with shaky camera movements when it's just two people sitting and talking (Example: The bar scene in Star Trek where a young Kirk is talking to Pike, after a fight) One of my favorite Directors are Steven Spielberg, Edgar Wright, Clint Eastwood, Quentin Tarantino, Hayao Miyazaki, Guillermo del Toro  .

Good Visuals: Whether it's computer graphics or just the scene the scene is in, it has to be stunning. Visuals that when you see them you think "Wow, that's cool". (Example of Good Computer Graphics: Wall-e, Final Fantasy- The Spirits Within, and most Pixar films) (Examples is live action visuals: The King's Speech, True Grit, Unbreakable, Million Dollar Baby, The Godfather, Hellboy 1/2) (Examples of Drawn Visuals: Anything done my Hayao Miyazaki)

Two Movies I love are The Big Lebowski and Predator. Both Movies are complete opposites, but have some of the ingredients i enjoy in a movie. Both have Good main Actors, Jeff Bridges and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jeff is more of a laid back slacker as Arnold is a Man's man Commander afraid of nothing. The Visuals in both are stunning, from the Drug induced musical in The Big Lebowski to the jungles of Central America in the Predator. It's strange to compare movie from two different genre and like both equally.