04-10-2002 18:16									#31
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I guess it depends on your definition of cool. I voted Brad Pitt because he has played some of the funniest characters I've ever seen. Plus he was on Jackass with Johnny Knoxville and company. He's also been to bed with Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow... can't get much cooler than that.

my fave Pitt roles:
Irish Traveler in Snatch
Tyler Durden in Fight Club
the wacko in 12 monkeys

Seriously though, how could you leave Pacino off this poll. That was lame. Frank Serpico? Oh man.... SCARFACE? How is that not the coolest role of all time?

And where's Bruce Willis? Mr Die Hard? Butch from Pulp Fiction? And Last Man Standing was great also.

	04-10-2002 18:18									#32
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No Pacino

John Goodman deserves to be on the list too.

	04-10-2002 18:21									#33
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yeah Goodman in Arachnaphobia and Blues Bros 2000...

	04-10-2002 18:21									#34
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As you all know, only 24 options are available, and only 23 when the "other" is considered. I'll defend my choices that you question, because I am the one making the poll . However, I will admit that I should have Sean Connery on there, perhaps in place of Jon Leguizamo.

I specifically chose not to include the following:

Edward Norton - from what I've heard, he's not a well liked guy in hollywood, and therefore not "cool"

Keanu Reeves - Ok, come on...why is this guy "cool"?!

Val Kilmer - Too much like Brad Pitt, not enough like his coolness

Anthony Hopkins - I just don't consider him a "cool" actor, but that's my opinion

Perhaps I should remove Leguizamo, Malkovich, and Voight, and put in Connery, Pacino, and Snipes

	04-10-2002 18:22									#35
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Jimmy...which ONE guy would you ABOVE ALL vote for as coolest...otherwise, stop flaming

I specifically left off Murphy, Carrey, Williams, and Hoffman...in fact, I had Murphy on but took him off

Dude, honestly, shut up, cause I have no control on the number of choices, and I already said which I would take off, so stop being childish

And just so you don't have to go through it all, here you go: John Travolta, Nicholas Cage, John Cleese, Mike Myers, Dan Akroyd, Bill Murray, Billy Chrystal, Ben and Jerry Stiller, Ben Affleck, Samuel L Jackson, Rob Lowe, All three Sheens/Estevezes, Sean Penn, Will Ferrell, Jason Lee, Chris Rock, the Baldwins, Patrick Swayze, 80's teen movie actors, 90's Shakespeare movies, and every actor in every superhero movie ever

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	04-10-2002 18:26									#36
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I was actually thinking of Goodman in 'Big Lebowski' and 'O' Brother Where Are Thou'.

	04-10-2002 18:52									#37
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quote: Originally posted by Sava I don't think Pitt was in True Romance... that was Christian Slater...

Yeah, Slater played Clarence (the lead character) in True Romance, but Pitt was in it too.
He had a very minor role - he was Clarence's friend's roomate: the one who was completely stoned the whole time.
I saw this film again yesterday and had forgotten that Pitt was in it myself. An unusually low-profile role for him.

	04-10-2002 18:57									#38
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quote: Originally posted by FrustratedPoet Yeah, Slater played Clarence (the lead character) in True Romance, but Pitt was in it too. He had a very minor role - he was Clarence's friend's roomate: the one who was completely stoned the whole time. I saw this film again yesterday and had forgotten that Pitt was in it myself. An unusually low-profile role for him.

OH YEAH, I remember now... he was the pot head.. another cool role for Pitt

	04-10-2002 20:56									#39
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quote: Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous Keanu Reeves - Ok, come on...why is this guy "cool"?!

He is not cool, he was cool...I have seen two of his movies: matrix ( ) and Bill and Ted's crazy journey (Don't know the english title, but that's the german title, translated to english)...that's a "cool" movie...

But as the thread title says: "who is the coolest actor..." then he doesn't deserve to be in

Also John Goodman was a good actor (He might still be, but it's been a while, since he has been in a good movie)...

Maybe there should be a thread (no poll), were you post your top 5 actors (Like they have with games in this thread...) from all time...that way, people can't complain about missing actors/actresses (Maybe have a top 5 guys, and a top 5 girls...)

	04-10-2002 21:24									#40
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Jude Law, because he is both cool and SEXY AS HELL!!!!!!!!!

	04-10-2002 21:26									#41
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quote: Originally posted by jimmytrick Russell Crowe

There's nothing cool about an animal like Crowe. He's a mediocre hot-head who can't control his temper. "Cool" guys don't shove people up against walls.

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Sexiness does not equate cool, Boris

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quote: Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous Sexiness does not equate cool, Boris

I said cool and sexy, didn't imply they were the same thing.

However, "coolness" is often a big part of being sexy.

	04-10-2002 21:48									#44
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Russel Crowe was cool in LA Confidential, although, and I'm sure I'm in the minority here, he sucked in that sucky movie Gladiator. Brian Dennehy and Vincent Gallo are both very cool actors too. I loved Buffalo '66 and Dennehy was a tour de force in Belly of an Architect.

How could anybody think Kevin Spacey is cool. He is a block of wood.
His best role was in Swimming with Sharks. Has anyone ever heard the story of him and Pacino in GlenGary GlenRoss? Pacino was so frustrated with Spacey's wooden demeanor, that before one scene, he smacked Spacey in the face, so that Spacey would be angry enough for the scene. Assault maybe, funny definitely.

	04-10-2002 21:55									#45
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Hehehe, I like the Marathon Man story myself.

In order to get ready for a scene where his character had been up all night running from the bad guys, Dustin Hoffman actually stayed up for something like 36 hours straight, and then dunked himself in ice to be cold and shivering. He then kept blowing his lines in his scenes, due to being so tired and cold.

Laurence Olivier asked him between takes what the problem was. When Hoffman explained, Olivier frowned and said, "That's very nice, my boy. Next time, why don't you try acting?"

	04-10-2002 21:59									#46
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Boris, I've heard that one too. That's a great story.

	05-10-2002 00:44									#47
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quote: Also John Goodman was a good actor (He might still be, but it's been a while, since he has been in a good movie)...

*cough*

O'Brother Where Are Thou?

	05-10-2002 04:03									#48
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Brad Pitt didn't play in True Romance.

True Romance had the following big name actors/actresses in it

Patricia Arquette (heroine)
Christian Slater (hero)
Dennis Hopper (hero's father)
Christopher Walken (drug lord type guy)
Val Kilmer (elvis)
and that guy that played Balkie on perfect strangers (work with that big movie producer guy)
and the guy that worked for the drug lord type guy, and a few of the cops. i don't remember any of their names, but they're the kind of actors that you'd recognize if you saw them. Brad Pitt is not one of them.

	05-10-2002 04:17									#49
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quote: Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous Jimmy...which ONE guy would you ABOVE ALL vote for as coolest...otherwise, stop flaming I specifically left off Murphy, Carrey, Williams, and Hoffman...in fact, I had Murphy on but took him off Dude, honestly, shut up, cause I have no control on the number of choices, and I already said which I would take off, so stop being childish And just so you don't have to go through it all, here you go: John Travolta, Nicholas Cage, John Cleese, Mike Myers, Dan Akroyd, Bill Murray, Billy Chrystal, Ben and Jerry Stiller, Ben Affleck, Samuel L Jackson, Rob Lowe, All three Sheens/Estevezes, Sean Penn, Will Ferrell, Jason Lee, Chris Rock, the Baldwins, Patrick Swayze, 80's teen movie actors, 90's Shakespeare movies, and every actor in every superhero movie ever

Okay, if I have to just pick one I'll have to go with the one that uttered this famous line:

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes."

	05-10-2002 04:20									#50
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True Romance Cast please note in bold face BRAD PITT.

From IMDB

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0108399

Christian Slater .... Clarence Worley
Patricia Arquette .... Alabama Whitman
Dennis Hopper .... Clifford Worley
Val Kilmer .... Mentor (Elvis)
Gary Oldman .... Drexl Spivey
Brad Pitt .... Floyd (Dick's Roommate)
Christopher Walken .... Vincenzo Coccotti
Bronson Pinchot .... Elliot Blitzer
Samuel L. Jackson .... Big Don
Michael Rapaport .... Dick Ritchie
Saul Rubinek .... Lee Donowitz
Conchata Ferrell .... Mary Louise Ravencroft
James Gandolfini .... Virgil
Anna Levine (I) .... Lucy (as Anna Thomson)
Victor Argo .... Lenny
(more)

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quote: Originally posted by jimmytrick Okay, if I have to just pick one I'll have to go with the one that uttered this famous line: "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes."

Is that the same one that who's second wife gave birth to their first child seven months after their marriage. Full term.

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quote: Laurence Olivier asked him between takes what the problem was. When Hoffman explained, Olivier frowned and said, "That's very nice, my boy. Next time, why don't you try acting?"

a very well known quote indeed!


Bridges and Goodman in The Big Lebowski are the coolest pair of actors EVER!!


though of course nicholson, pacino and deniro have a natural cool, but the coolest...not sure!

	05-10-2002 04:42									#53
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Dennis Hopper in Super Mario Brothers???????

How about Speed, for instance?

	05-10-2002 04:48									#54
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Save one for the Gipper

Besides Ronnie, I'd have to go with Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Robert DeNiro and Tom Hanks.

If we include deceased actors, well there's never been anyone cooler than John Wayne. Not even close.

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If we include dead actors:

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Or:

	05-10-2002 05:55									#57
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No one has mentioned Clint Eastwood. All of his spaghetti westerns are classics.

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Yeah I mentioned him. The Outlaw Josey Wales. Loved to see him spit. Crowe probably got his rubbing the dirt from Eastwood's spitting example.

	05-10-2002 06:57									#59
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Did you forget about Steve McQueen? How could you?

Then again, there's always Humphrey Bogart.

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James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson.

My number two pick would be the great Spencer Tracey.