The Rat Pack

You keep switching sides, saying it's enough one minute and then claiming it isn't the next. Just pick a lane already.🍿

I’ll say it again: just smashing everything in your path doesn't make someone cool. Nobody earns "cool" status just because they take down 250 bad guys on screen. Sure, maybe that works for some 12-year-old kid, but it doesn't do anything for me.
True coolness comes from attitude, charisma, a certain look, posture, presence, and the way someone speaks... it's all of those things working together.
Take Jason Statham, for example. He just breaks everything in front of him, so I would never call him cool. He has the charisma of a grocery store radish and the vacant stare of a pig.

Paul Newman is cooler than both Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger combined. In his role playing one of the most iconic characters ever—Steve Bannon—he was absolutely perfect.
Just like Luke Skywalker in Cool Hand Luke. 🙏

Say whatever you want, but Max Rockatansky is cool as hell (and honestly, Mel Gibson too)

Mel Gibson is just legendary, right up there with Martin Riggs 🙏 and I really need to add one more important emoji whenever we're talking about Mel 😍.

What do you mean Bud? Or Statham? Or even Terrence Hill... Mickey eats them all for breakfast.

Smooth, tender, yet rugged and sexy to the core—Marcello Mastroianni 😍

briskhound2 said:What do you mean Bud? Or Statham? Or even Terrence Hill... Mickey eats them all for breakfast.

Yeah, Mickey Rourke. 🙏

I'm moving back to 80s action. Sly Stallone and Cobra. 🙏

That movie is packed with damn one-liners.



I’m going to bend the rules a bit here, but I have to cast Carradine as Wild Bill Hickok in the Deadwood series. Every single scene he’s in is sharp enough to cut with a knife—pure tension and style.

Macon Blair, looks like just another average Joe at first glance... 😍

What's actually cool about that guy? 🤔

He’s got a beard while holding the rifle, then suddenly he doesn't, yet he's still holding the rifle. 🕺

briskhound2 said:What's actually cool about that guy? 🤔

Everything 😍

Without the beard, he just looks like some average Joe picking up a rifle for the very first time. But once you see him in that third shot with the beard? He looks like a guy who’s taken out a thousand people and is just finally walking back home. 🤷

With that beard and the way he's holding that gun, it’s like he’s picking up a weapon for the first time in his life. Honestly, he looks totally lost—like he’s not even sure which end the bullet comes out of. And that beard, plus the greasy hair... it just isn't working. It's... man, seriously, go take a shower.

This is what a total loser looks like trying to act tough with a gun 😁

^ 👍

Redneck is just plain boring.

Macon is chill, I don't find this Deckard guy all that intense 👎he looks like he was born clutching a gun, whereas Macon actually went through a transformation 👍

That whole makeover thing? Honestly, didn't do much for him—he still looks like he’s terrified of actually pulling the trigger. And man, Clint Eastwood is just in a league of his own... nothing else even comes close. 😁 Sorry, but your guy is basically the poster child for being uncool—both the look and the attitude. He’s just got zero swagger. It’s not even about being embarrassing, some actors are just built that way...

Please, give me a break. He's just pre-cool to me, end of story. 🍿
Action stars are everywhere—Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson... but there's only one Macon.

Now for something completely different...





Brad Dourif

Maybe Mickey Mouse had that certain charm back in 1988, but seeing him the way he looks today? I don't know, it just doesn't sit right with me...

Cut it out, don't even bother putting that in. 🙂
I still remember him as a total heartthrob...

Moving on, let's look at Prizzi's Honor:

James Garcia50 said:Please, give me a break. He's just pre-cool to me, end of story. 🍿
Action stars are everywhere—Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson... but there's only one Macon.

Now for something completely different...





Brad Dourif

That's fine. For you. Not for everyone else. Just look at my avatar. Miles Matheson. Billy Burka. It's basically Kulerčina squared—but just because I love him doesn't mean I'm gonna post him here...😉

You can find action heroes everywhere—Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson... but there's only one Macon.

What does being an action hero even have to do with this? Arnold and half that whole crew aren't even "cool," they're just straight-up macho guys. Half of them don't even belong in this conversation, including Macon, and especially not Dourif.

Chow Yun-fat, though... now he's a legend in every single movie he's in.



He might be practically unrecognizable by now, but honestly, nobody holds a candle to R. J. MacReady...

vivideagle7 said:

Oh yeah. 🙏

Is it Jack Torrance or Nicholson's Joker cool? Good question. They're psychopaths. As for being cool... 🤣maybe only the Joker when he spits.



The latter is especially cool here.



Perhaps even the most charismatic actor.