"You Are a Plague, and We Are the Cure"

Watching the original Matrix on TBS right now. It's easy to forget, after the horrible sequels, just how great this movie really was. Not just the action scenes, though they were mind-blowing, ground-breaking, and - just a month or so after the Columbine Massacre - deeply disturbing. Even the small scenes, which became so pretentious and ridiculous in the sequels, are great in the original. I especially like the sequence in which Agent Smith, alone with Morpheus for a moment, confesses his hatred for the world of the Matrix: "it's the smell." Before he turned into the ASCII Lucifer, Smith was actually quite a character (perhaps even worthy of this list).