Here’s some nominees me and my wife came up with. I’m sure we left some out, since I left my handwritten list on the back of a Target receipt back at Olive Garden (yeah, In know, I’m a real fun date!):
THIS LIST IS IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!
Nada played by Roddy Piper in “They Live”. One line says it all: “I came to chew bubble gum and kick ass…and I’m all out of bubble gum.” Unfortunately, like other wrestlers who tried to go Hollywood, Hot Rod’s suprisingly cool performance lead him right to clunkers such as “Terror in Tiny Town” an eventually, back to the mat. Guess Piper had some gum hiding under that skirt after all.
Harrison Ford as Han Solo. What can we say except the wisecracking skipper of the Millennium Falcon oozes cool?
Points off: Falls in love and ack:eek: marries Princess Leah. Major wussy points, and have you seen Carrie Fisher lately?
Vacendak, played by Mick Jagger in Freejack with Emilio Estevez and Rene Russo. Jagger is as cool as ice as a bounty hunter in this one. It’s a shame he never did more movies. Then again, how many parts are there for cool as ice as a bounty hunters?
Billy Dee Williams schmoozes the silver screen as Lando Carlissian in the Empire Strikes back. This was one slick wheelin brother from another planet.
Points off: Stabs Han Solo at the end of ESB; but makes an effort to redeem himself in Return of the Jedi. Still . . . . not a guy I’d trust as my wingman at the local pick up bar.
Zaphod Beeblebrox, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Two headed scoundrel President of the Milky Way Galaxy and babe magnet. This might be the coolest sci-fi character EVER.
Starbuck from the ORIGINAL Battlestar Galactica. Gamblin, flirting, cigar smoking hustler . . . and an ace starfighter pilot to boot. What twelve year old boy DIDN’T want to be Starbuck in 1978?
Wesley Snipes plays ** Simon Phoenix** in Demolition man. Super hyper futuristic criminal.
Points off: The hair and threads, man, the hair and threads!!!
Dana Scully from the X-Files. Hot, brainy, counterpart to ultradork Fox Mulder. She also looks like she could down a few shots with the boys too.
** Richard B. Riddick** (Vin Diesel) in Pitch Black. If you saw this movie when it first came out, you knew Vin was going to be a star. He plays a “misunderstood” con who ends up on a planet of light phobic badass aliens. In other words, he crash lands at the Rebublican National Convention.
Ellen Ripley, the Aliens movies. “Take that you bitch!” yells Sigourney Weaver as she blasts that mother of all lizards, and we knew she was one of the boys. Even her clones are cool, so you know you are on the list when even your DNA kicks ass.
Captain James T. Kirk. Cheated on his Captains final exam, and gets all the intergalactic chicks. Forget about “brown sugar”- Jame T. has had green, blue, purple, whatever! Lord knows what diseases he picked up on the way however. That is one STD clinic that needs to be quranantined . . . from the next star system.
Morpheus from The Matrix.
Points off: With his beer belly hanging out from his vest, Lawrence Fishburne looks too much like James Earl Jones in Reloaded. Marovingian outcools him, for godssake.
Lex Luthor, Smallville.
Points off: Enough whining about your daddy, all ready! Just take over the damn world!!!
Wolverine from X-Men. Definitely a dude I’d want watching my back in a barfight. Not SCRATCHING my back, mind you . . but watching it!
Neo from Matrix. Actually whether it be Keanu Reeves, Carrie Ann Moss or Lawrence Fishburne, how can you NOT look cool in that long leather jacket and sunglasses?
The Goose from Mad Max. Bleached blonde adreneline junkie copper who got off whenever he crashed his motorcycle. Too bad he was unable to get off when he was burnt into a marshmallow by the evil biker gang.
Some others:
** Captain Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds** from the short lived TV show “Firefly”.
Rutger Hauer’s demented android ** Roy Batty** from Blade Runner.
** Captain Steven “Steve” Hiller** (Will Smith) in Independence Day.