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

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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...

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Well, this was my very shortened opinion on it...

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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.

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So no . I guess I could give it cool fashion. But that's as far as I'll go and that's probably too much.

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1960s - Breathless, 8 1/2 (Tie)

Both too cool AF to separate. You'll feel like a square even watching these movies today. Jean-Paul Belmond verbally sparring with Jean Seberg is an acting masterclass. And if you want to see where Tarantino got his inspiration for the Pulp Fiction dance scene, look no futher than Fellini's 8 1/2.

Honorable Mentions: The Wild Bunch, The Virgin Spring

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Are you out of your fricking mind?

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Coolest Movie By Decade

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No Cool Hand Luke?

I mean its right there in the title. That one was a gimme, and you blew it

I think there are just a handful of actors who were just cool dudes. Paul Newman being one of them, and that character just being iconic for being a super chill guy who doesn't give a frick.

It's the same reason I felt I had to put Bullitt as an honorable mention. Mcqueen was just too cool a dude not to be mentioned

Cool dudes: Bogie, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen, Sean Connery (really one of the Bonds needs to be in your list), Lee Marvin, James Garner, Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Leonardo Dicaprio, Tom Hardy, Ryan Gosling. There is a pattern w/ fewer and fewer cool actors and less and less testosterone.

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I was going to say how is this over Casino Royale but I looked it up and that was in 2006. Man it doesn't feel that old.

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Lol right? I had to double check to make sure that Skyfall was in the 2010's and was surprised it was ten years old. I would have included Casino Royale in my honorable mentions for the 00's if I didn't pick Skyfall for the 2010's. Catch Me if You Can is just a fun cool movie that I've always really liked.

Also, Casino Royale and Skyfall have two of the best villains in recent James Bond history imo. I think the best bond movies are those with the best villains


ETA: Kudos for Once Upon a Time in The West. At worst that should have been an honorable mention for me. Thats a cool arse flick

My picks through the 90s.:

1920s

Metropolis is such a cool looking movie. I think he's right going with it.

The Sheik, or another of Rudolph Valentino's movies should probably be included.

1930s



The Adventures of Robin Hood: Errol Flynn's 1930's is the coolest Robin Hood ever. He's a refined rebel. He gets Olivia De Havilland!

The Thin Man: William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charlesm, are the coolest couple of their era.

My Man Godfrey is also very cool.

1940s

Casablanca Boggie's coolest role, and it has the coolest bar for its day. We get to look at Ingrid Bergman, & he shoots a Nazi near the end. How could it not be the coolest movie.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir: Such a cool story of the sea captain's ghost and the hot widow.

The Thief of Bagdad has to be one of the coolest looking movies made in the 40’s. Flying carpets, a giant genie, a prince, a kidnapped princess, a truly evil villain, and a young thief.

1950s

North by Northwest: Cary Grant's coolest role of Roger Thornhill, who gets to say: "I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself "slightly" killed."

and this, "I don't like the way Teddy Roosevelt is looking at me."

and, "The moment I meet an attractive woman, I have to start pretending I have no desire to make love to her."

and "You're the smartest girl I ever spent the night with on a train."

3:10 to Yuma: Glenn Ford is so cool as Ben Wade. Very confident when he's robbing the stagecoach, and when he's captured, wearing handcuffs.




On the Waterfront-I think the coolest part of it is that’s really how the docks were worked in lots of places. I bet the docks in New Orleans were some of the most corrupt in the country. Brando really sounds hurt during his, “I could have been a contender” speech to his greedy brother.

1960s

Planet of the Apes: The whole ape universe was thought provoking. It was the first movie that made me think about the possibility of society regressing,. That really feels important in 2022

Cool Hand Luke was one of the coolest characters. He fooled me just like he fooled the other prisoners. It's also one of the coolest casts with Newman, Kennedy & Strother Martin playing big roles, and Dennis Hopper, Harry Dean Stanton & Ralph Waite in smaller roles.

The Magnificent Seven-Hard to decide who the coolest character is, in this movie.

1970s

Patton: It made history fun. The way the German’s respect for Patton, while he was being vilified back home, helped make D Day successful. One of the first movies I saw with important people cursing the way we did when our parents weren't listening.

The Outlaw Josey Wales: Clint's best character. He has the best one-liners. Other great one-liners are said by others too. His relationship with Lone Watie and the dirty nose girl is cool and brings about a few one-liners. I can’t think of another movie with so many great lines to quote.

Blazing Saddles- Cleavon Little’s Bart the Sheriff is one cool character. When Slim Pickens’ Taggart character wants the black railroad workers to sing, he breaks out with Cole Porter’s ‘I Get a Kick Out Of You’ ,
He gets to respond to, “They said you was hung” with, “ And they was right”
When Lili Von Shtupp whispers something in his ear, he answers, “Baby, please! I am not from Havana” Which always makes me think of The Godfather Part II. He shares a joint with Gene Wilder’s character in his sheriff’s office. That always reminds me of the time when nobody at NLU could find any weed. I called one a high school buddy to see if he could find anything there. He said to drive over and we’d go get some. After we got it he was rolling a joint in my car and asked “You know I’m a deputy sheriff now, don’t you?” He wasn’t kidding.

Sheriff Bart becomes friends with Mongo. He wins over the lady that brings him a pie, as long as he keeps it on the down low. He’s just a cool character.

1980s

Back to the Future was cool because it’s about a kid doing grown up things with his parents when they were kids. He really impresses both, he rocks out on guitar at their high school dance, and gets them together. The ending is the coolest part of the movie.

The Road Warrior made Mel Gibson a star. The look he threw down in it was ultra-cool in 1981. He was every bit the bad arse as Ray Liotta in Something Wild in 1986 or George Clooney in From Dusk til Dawn in 1996.





The cars in it were cool too.

An American Werewolf in London, Beverly Hills Cop,

1990s

Agree with him on Pulp Fiction, It’s another Who’s the coolest situation.
1.Marsellus Wallace talking about “Getting some hard, pipe-hittin' N-word’s about to get medieval on Zed.
2.Vincent Vega asking “Which one's Trudi? The one with all the sh*t in her face?” or him calling Butch “Palooka” and “Punchy” at the bar, or calling Mia “Kitty Kat” at Jack Rabbit Slim's.
3.Butch saying “Zed’s dead!”
4.Jules saying “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon you."
5.Winston Wolfe saying “Well, let's not start sucking each other's d*cks quite yet.” Which is the perfect comment for that situation.


Point Break-Has anyone been cooler than Bodhi?



Dazed and Confused True Romance, The Crow

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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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Reservoir Dogs set the stage, but Pulp Fiction was a cultural phenomenon. It was cool AF when it was released, and remains cool AF to this day.

It's the first film that came to mind when I clicked into this thread, and the biggest slam dunk for the 90s. The other decades are more difficult.

Huh

Casablanca
African Queen
North by Northwest
Rear Window - just hearing Grace Kelly pronounce the word weird "wee-uhd" is worth watching this movie
Touch of Evil
Where Eagles Dare
The Great Escape - Garner, McQueen, Bronson, Richard Attenborough, David McCcallum, et al all in the same movie, Steve McQueen jumping barbed wire fences on a 1962 Triumph TR6 650 Special...pretty cool
Black Rain - Ridley Scott has made many cool movies
Proof of Life

Honorable Mention - Fandango