'cool' movies

[Diplomat]

A few more: Bullitt, Top Gun, The French Connection.

-Diplomat

[Oski]

The Usual Suspects

[Garbonzo]

Strictly Ballroom.
You Can Count on Me.
Unforgiven.
His Girl Friday
Deer Hunter
Fargo

A few of my favorites....

[astroglide]

unforgiven is fantastic. so is fargo, but what is cool about it?

[elwoodblues]

Fargo is without a doubt cool. Unforgiven is meant to be anti-cool (isn't that the whole point of the movie --- the de-glamorization of the wild west). Paradoxically, that's what's cool about it.

[astroglide]

how is fargo COOL?

[elwoodblues]

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Lots of snow.

For me, Fargo succeeded because it took characters, situations, and dialog that were uncool and wove them together in a movie that, as a whole, was cool. Lesser movies would have made the kidnappers cool. Lesser movies wouldn't have had Frances McDormand's character be pregnant (or female for that matter). Lesser movies wouldn't have had the whole scene with the asian man with the Minnesota accent hitting on the cop. The fact that Fargo did all these things makes it a cool movie.

[Garbonzo]

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Ummm, if you don't get how "cool" Fargo is, then you ain't cool enough to understand....

Just kidding, I misunderstood the thread and was referring to generically "cool" movies, which explains both Fargo and Strictly Ballroom.

BTW, if any of you have not seen Strictly Ballroom, really, you must, it's a foookin gem.

Clint is "cool" in any and all cases. If he ain't "cool" in Unforgiven, then "cool" ain't "cool"...the last scene, c'mon, who is cooler than that?

You can count on me, also awesome, also not particularly "cool", oops.

His Girl Friday, the coolest.

Deer Hunter, well, "cool" is a bit of a simplification.

Hmmmm, "cool" huh, let me think.

All things Bruce Lee and Clint Eastwood.
James Bond, pretty damn "cool"...

Sheesh, movies are made to be cool 75% of the time, so many movies are "cool" like this, Rollerball for example, hella cool.

Anyway, rambling, back to another sorry Monday in the office...

Edit: Double props for Donnie Darko, that's one "cool" kid.

[sfer]

His Girl Friday is beyond cool.

[Victor]

The Big Lebowski