Films with the highest "coolness" factor?

[Khephra]

Hmmmm?

[Skittles]

1. Spinal Tap, Repo Man, Pulp Fiction are my "cool" favorites

:D

[Khephra]

8. Pablo Picasso was never called an Asshole!

"John Wayne was a fag."

"The Hell he was!"

"Was to you boys"

:evilgrin:

Repo Man is ALWAYS intense!

[Skittles]

60. OMG

the best thing about Repo Man, bar none, is Harry Dean Stanton, God love him. He's so freaking good!

[FunBobbyMucha]

61. I don't want no Communists in my ride...

...and no Christians either!

[CanuckAmok]

67. "Let's get sushi and not pay!"

n/t

[Kamika]

2. Terminator 1

Club Noir scene

[Khephra]

3. Which Blade film is it with the cool club scene?

One or two?

[Tummler]

12. The bloodshower

...followed by the vampire slaughter?

One.

[HuckleB]

4. Raising Arizona

[spooky3]

14. A GREAT, underrated movie! Also, Gilbert Grape, with Johnny Depp.

It was so uncool it was cool.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Ice Station Zebra.

Shivered throughout the whole thing.

[Leilani]

6. To Live & Die in L.A.

with Willem Defoe...I love him.

Also Light Sleeper, but not many people have seen that.

[spooky3]

17. hope you missed him in

"Streets of Fire"--it was so laughably (literally) bad.

[FunBobbyMucha]

62. I can quote this movie backwards and forwards...

...my friend Jeff will challenge me when we're drunk...

"He was burning some paintings I found quite beautiful..."
"You're welcome to fill out form blahblahblah stating the reasons why you're requesting a new partner"
"Don't you think the stars are God's eyes?" "NO."
"Mister Jessup...like your work?"
"I don't know who you are, but you're in the wrong place at the wrong time..."

[Khephra]

7. One of my recent faves

"Once Upon A Time In Mexico"

If people think Depp stole the show in "Pirates", well...they ain't seen nothing yet.

[supernova]

21. Blind Gunslinger

Yeah, Bay-beee! B-)

[HuckleB]

9. Y Tu Mama, Tambien; Ghostdog; The Wild One; Sexy Beast

[Khephra]

31. I adore Ghostdog!

What a unique blending of genres into a perfect new form! I have to get that on DVD soon. Each time I think of it, I get goosebumps inside.

[Coventina]

10. Bound

For whatever reason, that movie really impressed me.

[Insider]

11. same fav: west side story

the jets, the sharks, the choreography, the clothes

school dance scene, rooftop (america) scene

tops my cool list

[oneighty]

13. Six Bridges to Cross

Tony Curtis...Gangster.

You-all be way too young to know that kinda cool!

180

[HuckleB]

15. Bullet; Miller's Crossing; Dr. Strangelove; Apocalypse Now

[Cleita]

16. "Scott of the Antartica"?

I'll bet that wasn't the coolness you had in mind. :evilgrin:

On edit: It has a really cool movie score though by John Williams in his early days.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

18. The Limey

[HuckleB]

27. Very cool! Hip even!

[CanuckAmok]

69. That great scene where he thows the bodyguard over the railing...

...all in the background, while Peter Fonda, foreground, is oblivious.

[HuckleB]

19. CASABLANCA!

[SOteric]

22. I was thinking that.

It definitely has a timeless 'coolness' factor.

[EstimatedProphet]

20. My list

Repo Man, Dark City, clockwork Orange, 2001, Excalibur, Buckaroo Banzai, Bill&Ted 1, free Enterprise, and of course all the LOTR (including the Bakshi cartoon version)

[DS1]

23. Fight Club

.

[populistmom]

44. You picked mine

Geesh, I hate getting in late on this stuff.

[HuckleB]

24. Where Eagles Dare; MASH; From Russia With Love; Dr. Zhivago

[supernova]

25. Here's my list!

Johnny Depp besides those that have already been mentioned:

Dead Man (a classic of american cinema that hardly anyone has seen)
Benny & Joon
Don Juan DeMarco
Blow
Pirates of the Carribean (on the DVD there is an easter egg of Keith Richards talking about Johnny! :D )

Others:
Alien (original)
Blade Runner (director's uncut version)
LOTR

I'm sure there's a lot I'm forgetting. I haven't even mentioned classic movies.

[HuckleB]

26. Rushmore; Waking Life; Nashville; Bad Santa

OK. I'll stop now.

[HEyHEY]

28. Goodfellas. Miller Crossing. Stand By Me. Fear and loathing Lock stock

[GOPisEvil]

29. Cool Hand Luke and Hud

:-)

[SOteric]

30. Okay, after thinking about it, my list,

In no particular order:

Any James Bond film
Anything with Humphrey Bogart in it
Anything with Jean Reno in it
Blade Runner
Fight Club
Grosse Pointe Blank
Pulp Fiction

and the film from which my sigline is taken, Akira.

[put out]

33. Ha! My first read-through, I thought you said

"Janet Reno". What was that again?

[VelmaD]

70. I love "Grosse Pointe Blank"

Would love to get all tangled up in the Nurses Office with my ex from high school at my next reunion. Hubba. :-)

[rbnyc]

32. Dead Man

Black and White, Johnny Depp, Iggy Pop, Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Steve Buscemi, awesome soundtrack by Neil Young.

Kill Bill. Uma Thurman is way cool.

Fight Club. I think there's a cool thing going on there.

Hmmm.

I'll probably be back with more.

[PartyPooper]

34. "Rebel Without A Cause" is classical "cool".

Also, I'd include: "Giant", "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof", "Some Like It Hot", "Niagara", "Oklahoma", etc. etc.etc.

Okay, these were pretty "cool" films when they first came out...and, they still are!

B-)

[rumguy]

35. Taxi Driver

[solinvictus]

36. Reservoir Dogs

One of the best heist films ever.

[ktranz]

37. Fight Club

"The things you own end up owning you."

[ldoolin]

38. Two Lane Blacktop, Vanishing Point, and...

Thunder Road.


Nuff said.

[mitchum]

45. Yesssss!

[Dees]

72. James Taylor, Dennis Wilson and the 55 Chevy.

Could you possibly put anymore cool on the screen?

78. & Warren Oates!!!!!

one of the great character actors.

I go with

Two Lane Blacktop
Repo Man
the Wild Bunch
Once Upon a Time in the West
Hard Days' Night

[Dees]

39. Any movie with Steve McQueen in it. Soldier in the Rain, Tom Horn

Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, The Getaway, The Great Escape, Nevada Smith, The Sand Pebbles, Papillon and his TV series Wanted: Dead or Alive.

[Printer70]

40. Pluto Nash

joke.

[thebigidea]

41. Faster, Pussycat... KILL! KILL!

anything by Takeshi Kitano
anything with Groucho Marx
anything by David Lynch

[jonnyblitz]

46. aaah..russ meyer.

yup. anything david lynch for me also.

[leftyandproud]

42. "Go" and "Kill Bill"--my all time favs

[markses]

43. Thank God nobody said LOTR

Which, of course, has the highest GEEKNESS factor.

Oh, damn, somebody did say it.

My vote:

"The Warriors" (or maybe that just has the highest "Bum Ass New York in the Seventies" Factor, or the highest "Bodega" factor?

[Paul Hood]

47. Drugstore Cowboy n/t

[HuckleB]

50. Ultimate COOL! I can't believe I forgot that one.

[Draven]

48. Blade, Interview With The Vampire, Queen of the Damned.

The Crow...

[lazarus]

49. my list

partial, of course:

The Crow
Blade and Blade 2
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Fight Club
Snatch
Ocean's Eleven
The Big Lebowski (because the Dude abides)

[rppper]

51. some of my cool favorites....

"tin cup"...i know it's a kevin costner flick, but he is cool in it

"american beauty"...the rose petal scene...real cool....

"body double"...it had frankie goes to hollywood in it...

"near dark"...vampire meets cowboy flick w/bill paxton and lance henriksen...if you have never seen this, you are missing out on one of the best vampire movies ever...

"the hitcher"...rutger hauer's best film...creepy, dark. best scene...hauer and c. thomas howell in the cafe...rent this movie!!!

"duel"...dennis weaver being chased by an old 18 wheeler through the desert...not as creepy as the hitcher, but equally as cool a flick....

[TheMightyFavog]

52. Big Trouble in Little China!

Ahh yes, a great Movie!

[rucky]

53. Trainspotting

heroin is KEWL!

[guitar man]

54. The Outlaw Josie Wales

"not a hard man to track,leaves dead men every where he goes"


And of course, "The Blues Brothers"

"No Ma'am,... we're musicians"

[LosinIt]

55. One Night at McCool's

such a fun/cool movie

[VOX]

56. Blade Runner, Natural Born Killers, Fight Club, Reservoir Dogs, Dead Man,

The Fifth Element, Evil Dead trilogy, Donnie Darko, Amelie, Edward Scissorhands, Dancer in the Dark, Dirty Pretty Things, Love and Basketball, Breaking the Waves, Trainspotting, Tank Girl, American Psycho, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Harold and Maude, Requiem for a Dream, Withnail and I, Shawshank Redemption, Beetlejuice...

[rucky]

57. Swingers - duh

[phillybri]

77. How the hell does only one other person say "Swingers"?

I mean :wtf:

[MinnFats]

58. Only ONE person mentions the MOST OBVIOUS film: 'Cool Hand Luke'

one of the greatest and coolest films of all times.

the rest of you should spend the night in the box.

"What we have here is failure to communicate."

Jeeezahs! are you all that goddamn young?

do a google search....look at the cast!
in addition to Paul Newman and George Kennedy (he won an Oscar), you got Dennis Hopper, Strother Martin, Harry Dean Stanton, Wayne Rogers, Anthony Zerbe and Ralph Waite (Pa Walton!)

helicool!
mega-mega-cool (apologies to Cartman)

[Kamika]

59. ohohoh the COOLEST movie ever

COOL AS ICE

[FunBobbyMucha]

63. Where's the money, Lebowski????

Big Lebowski is the schnitzel, as the kids today say...

[carols]

64. Boondocks Saints and The Matrix

n/t

[DarkSim]

65. What is the point of this thread?

seriously.

[ohiosmith]

66. The Wild One

[HuckleB]

68. OK. I'm adding "The Triplets of Belleville." Cool and awesome!

[Seggie]

71. The Cincinnati Kid

The Hustler

[tigerbeat]

73. Brazil and Almost Famous

n/t

[patdem]

74. Panic in Needle Park" I remember that movie cause I went with M-I-L

and she got up and walked out the first time a butt was shown...all pimply...anyway I had to go back alone to see the rest of the movie...

[jimbo fett]

75. Black Rain. Very cool cinematography. Bladerunner-esque.

[scottcsmith]

76. Superman

Yes, "Superman the Movie." So many great moments. The scene where Superman has just finished his 12-years with Jor-El and we see Superman for the first time in his Fortress of Solitude. He's in the classic Superman outfit, just standing there, and then he flies for the first time. Now that's cool. And of course the whole scene where Superman rescues Lois Lane from the helicopter.

Now that's movie-making, done in an era without computers, old fashioned optical effects. Even 20 years later it still looks good, and the flying scenes are still believable.