re: 100 Years of Cool: The Coolest Movie By Decade Challenge

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1950s I'd put The Wild One as an Honorable Mention

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Figured someone would put that head to head against Rebel. Hard not to go with Brando.

Once Upon a Time was cool as hell, for sure.

"I think there's definitely a case to be made that Reservoir Dogs is cooler than Pulp Fiction."

... you are correct? Truth be told, Vick Vega was twice as cool as Vincent Vega. And Reservoir Dogs is a better, cleaner and more linear movie with a much better ending. C'mon, what's cooler than Mr. Blonde, Mr. Pink, Mr. White, etc, etc?

1960s - What could be cooler than The Chairman of the Board, the rest of the Rat Pack with Angie Dickinson in Las Vegas?

We've gotta toss Ocean's Eleven into the mix, right?

I actually think "To Sir, With Love" could be considered the 'coolest' Poitier performance of that era simply because it was filmed at the absolute height of Swinging 60s London.

That film now (from an art direction standpoint) is essentially a blueprint for Austin Powers.

Movies I think of:

The African Queen & Casablanca
Early Bond (Connery)
Cool Hand Luke
The Hustler
Magnificent Seven
Bullit
2001
BC and the SK
Scarface
Indiana Jones ROLA
Top Gun
Predator
Die Hard
The Hunt for Red October
T2
Miami Blues
Heat
Out of Sight
Thomas Crowne Affair
LA Confidential
Inside Man
Collateral
Inception
OUATIH

Despite all the downvotes, this is a pretty good post/idea. Going to think about it and post mine tomorrow.

I was with you some until you went and ruined it with...

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Ultimate Cool Grand Champion - 8 1/2

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The most overrated trash of all time. I absolutely despise this pretentious crap more than probably any movie ever made. Just a crap movie that some popular critic somewhere decided it was great and the idea caught on. There is absolutely nothing good about this movie. I'll stop there.

Have a downvote

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. I absolutely despise this pretentious crap

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I'll give you 8 1/2's pretentiousness. When movies make fun of arthouse/foreign movies, they always include a parody of 8 1/2's surrealism scenes.

But if you can't honestly watch that movie and admit that it's the coolest goddamn movie ever made, with the coolest actors, and the coolest locations, and the coolest fashions, and the coolest shots, and the coolest lighting, and the coolest... well, I'm just speechless...

8 1/2 Tribute

Is "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) still deemed cool? I know it was for decades, being pretty iconographic for the baby-boom generation. But I've been getting the sense that such whiney teen angst and 50s-era 'method' acting has been gradually losing critical allure in these more recent years. It's a well-made film (Nicholas Ray, always pretty solid), but the subject-matter... eh.

As for Fellini, I really don't have any use for his films after "Juliet of the Spirits," which in many ways I always preferred to "8 1/2."

But anyway, I don't think 'coolness' has ever particularly been a factor in my film tastes. I think I've always tended to have a reactionary streak that embraces the 'anti-cool.' Give me a Rod Cameron or a Ruby Keeler, over Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, or James Bond.

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I think there's definitely a case to be made that Reservoir Dogs is cooler than Pulp Fiction.

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The only thing cool about Pulf Fiction IMHO was Samuel L. Don't find much cool otherwise.

Dazed & Confused for the 90's