I can't believe I lost point break. I thought it was mine for sure. Its cheesy but the third best action film ever made.

I love Point Break

I prolly saw it 50 times as a kid

Great choice

point break is awesome, agree with clovis one of the best crime/action flicks....

like truman show pick too, that movie was miles ahead of its time it seems with the whole reality craze...

office space contains some of the best scenes ever... when ron livingstons boss tries to talk with him in the hall and he just walks right by him, im pretty sure i have never laughed that hard in my life...

I even like the Point Break remake The Fast and the Furious

I didn't like Office Space the first time I saw it, but on future viewings, I started liking it more and more.

I really like the Truman show too.

I've never seen Point Break. I assumed it was a stupid cheesy movie.

Lot of fun movies still left. This thing will easily get to 144 picks. Some of the picks in the last couple rounds might be "guilty pleasure" picks but that's fine.

it is

Come on. It isn`t. It`s a good action movie. plain and simple.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron) 1991



I think this is the sci fi classic of the decade after The Matrix. (The Matrix feels more like a 2000s movie.) Arnold was born to play a terminator and use his wooden acting skills to good advantage and Linda Hamilton is the other great action heroine after Sigourney's Ripley. And the villain is terrifying and pretty much all-powerful. The first terminator was fantastic and this is better.

Point Break was on my list too. Very watchable and enjoyable.

Good pick, I had that on my list as one of the best sequels ever.

I need to find more movies :-)

I'm too tired to even send PM out feel free to skip me if fds picks soon. Might be more alert in a few hours--I tend to be real tired when I initialky lay down only to wake up when I'm not trying to but who knows maybe I'll fall asleep...

T2 another on my list; I should have thought about it more as it's obv it wouldn't drop far

I love T2, but it wasn't on my list because it didn't impact me personally. The villain in T2 is one of the coolest villains ever.

Pick 67

Breaking The Waves, Lars von Trier, 1996



So LVT is one of them guys that gets them haters mad. Whether you like his work or not, you gotta admit that the dude's got balls. He doesn't compromise. I respect that. I passed over two of his films that I like in the 2000 draft, Dogville and Dancer in the Dark, so I'm gonna give him some love here for what I consider to be his best film.

Breaking The Waves is about a young and incredibly naive girl, Besse, who believes that sleeping with other men will cure her sick husband. Yes, you read that correctly. The film takes place in 1970 in a small town in Scotland. Besse marries an outsider from the town, Jan, whom her Church and family question. They marry anyways, and the two consumate the marriage at the reception itself. Besse, like everybody in that town, strictly obeys the oppressive rules of the Church, and she's a virgin. She loves her husband dearly and unconditionally; she doesn't want him to leave to go to work on an oil rig because she doesn't want to be without him. But he goes, and he is nearly fatally injured. While nearly paralyzed in the hospital, he asks her to sleep with other men and tell him about it. She resists because she only loves him, but he tells her that it will remind him of what it's like to make love, and love is what will keep him alive. She eventually gives in.

Throughout the film, Besse prays aloud, asking questions to God and speaks allowed as God Himself answering her own questions. Nearly all God's answers scold her, put her down, and make her feel guilty. The priests at the Church do the same thing. Besse falls deeper and deeper into delusion, actually believing that her praying thoughts and her whoring can save and cure her husband Everything that she does in this film is selfless and truly out of love, and, aside from her sister-in-law and the doctor, nearly everything everyone else does is selfish. As Besse becomes more delusional, the Church and her mother push her further and further away until the end, which I won't divulge. As Besse lies helpless in the dirt, the Father walks up to her, looks her in the eye, looks to see if anybody is around, and turns his back and walks away. This film is a scathing condemnation on the hypocricy of the Church and addresses other linked issues like female sexuality and general female suppression.

Ok, religious hypocricy isn't exactly revolutionary, but the execution (shot on handheld) of this film is so incredibly powerful. If you went into this film totally blind, you'd never expect to see what you see later in the film based on what you see in the beginning. Also, LVT moves the film along in a perfect pace, building and building slowly until you don't even know how you got to this point. After the first time I saw it, I thought about it for days.

A reason alone to select this film is the jaw-dropping performance of Emily Watson. I praise a lot of great performances, but this performance is easily one of the best of the decade without question. It may just be that she carries the film and I'm giving LVT too much credit. She is so powerful in this role. I was mesmerized by Besse, and almost all of that was from Watson's performance. I really don't even know how to describe it. By the end of the film, I was so engrossed in her character.

Critics of Dogville say LVT went a little too far. I don't really agree. But either way, in Breaking The Waves, he stayed in bounds and provides one of the most emotionally powerful films of the decade with a bittersweet ending. Besse is "good," the doctor says. How do we describe everybody else?

Ok, let the haters hate.

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Leaving Las Vegas
The Sweet Hereafter
Bad Lieutenant
La Belle Noiseuse
Breaking The Waves

shocked that T2 fell this far

Damn I forgot about T2. Awesome movie.

i am, too.

breaking the waves is a great movie... ive only seen it once but it's great...

breaking the waves looks interesting, but seriously **** LVT, it will be a while before i give any of his movies another chance

not a fan of dogville either, but breaking is awesome for sure imo

ya this looks very interesting and i suppose i will check this out sooner rather than later

lol, first sentence

I like Dogville and Dancer in the Dark, so I should check this out too.

Dancer in the Dark is great, but not my favorite LVT of the decade.