Important Movies

M. Night ruined his legacy.

Office Space is WAY more realistic than The Office. This is like saying Clerks II replaced Clerks as the definitive spoof of minimum wage jobs.

Office Space revitalized the cult movie in the 90-00's. It's a movie, like Idiocracy, that the studio tried to bury, then word of mouth combined with video/cable sales built the audience.

Much much more of a cultural phenomenon then Magnolia, and endlessly referenced in desk jobs since its release.

Strongly disagree re: Office Space, its cult popularity was a blip and no one cares that much anymore. When they end up writing future text books about film history that movie isn't going to warrant a mention, Magnolia might.

Every other movie nominated this year is more important than Magnolia. Including American Pie.

Thinking on it more, Eternal Sunshine is already serving our list as a representation of Charlie Kaufman and his influence, so I'll be pulling my support for Being John Malkovich and shifting it to The Blair Witch Project. It heralded the found-footage thing, was a unique project in its day, and had a bold marketing campaign. Also, while I do think Drac makes an excellent case for Phantom Menace, there doesn't seem to be a lot of takers. Plus, The Two Towers was largely voted in for the mo-cap work in creating Gollum and while Phantom was certainly first, I think that entry is enough for representing that aspect of filmmaking. I'll switch my support to American Beauty, which still has great crossover appeal with critics and general audiences and taps into the discontentment with both suburbia and mundane careers that a lot of work was expressing at the time.

So, my revised list:

1. The Matrix
2. Fight Club
3. Magnolia
4. The Blair Witch Project
5. American Beauty

But Eternal Sunshine is already listed, so we've already got Kaufman covered. I think it should certainly be considered, but, well, this is a tight year with a lot of films bringing a lot of different elements to the table. Ultimately, too much of Being John Malkovich's importance lies in elements which are already reflected in the list, in my opinion.

Alright, The Matrix, Fight Club, and Blair Witch are on everyone's ballot.  Beyond that Magnolia's on 3, American Beauty is on 3, Being John Malkovich is on 2, The Sixth Sense is on 2 and then there are stray votes for Audition and The Phantom Menace (although Deexan actually voted for six and never made his final cut).  I'm willing to admit defeat on the Phantom Menace front but I'm not sure what I'd switch my vote to.  

Didnt a bunch of us say Office Space?

I did.

Won't speak for Sabin and Ian, but they looked to be leaning that way as well.

I'm voting for it