Temptation. Gets you every time.

The Movie: The Fast and the Furious, directed by Rob Cohen
Recommendation: Me!
Reason: I have an unreasonable like of Vin Diesel.

When you earn your driver's license so you can play a hard-driving badass in a Vin Diesel movie about street racing, it's not such a stretch that four years later you might get a DUI and get kicked off of the most awesomest show on television. Michelle Rodriguez, we salute your badassosity, if not your acting skills. (She can act. I know she can. Just not in The Fast and the Furious.)

Badassosity. That's what this movie's all about. The definition of badassosity, which is a word I made up all by my lonesome, is as follows: Badassosity is a subjective rating system, by which it can be determined how awesome a character is. Being portrayed by Vin Diesel? Maximum badassosity rating. Being portrayed by William H. Macy? No badassosity whatsoever. So the score jumped off of the charts in this movie, due to Vin Diesel, cool guns, awesome cars and some really excellent stuntwork.

There was a poll up on the imdb main page this last week that suggested that perhaps there should be an Oscar for best choreography. That just might be one of the best ideas I've ever heard. Just look at The Fast and the Furious's Last Heist, the Dojo Battle between Jen and Shu Lien in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the brutally memorable Roxanne sequence in Moulin Rouge...the artistry of some of these scenes elevates cinema just as much as editing and cinematography can, and not all of them are based on spectacle.

-93/365 down, 272/365 to go