Comments on: What’s the Best Example of the ‘Rule of Cool’ in a Movie? https://popculturereferences.com/whats-the-best-example-of-the-rule-of-cool-in-a-movie/ Brian Cronin takes a look at interesting pieces of pop culture history from the worlds of TV, film, music and more. Tue, 01 Nov 2022 01:19:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: LHN https://popculturereferences.com/whats-the-best-example-of-the-rule-of-cool-in-a-movie/#comment-6263 Tue, 01 Nov 2022 01:19:08 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=3090#comment-6263 The odd thing is that Marty ordered a Pepsi Free, which was free of caffeine, not sugar. Then as now, the one “without any sugar” was Diet Pepsi. (There was also Diet Pepsi Free, which had neither.)

I’m sort of guessing it was product placement done without a lot of attention to detail.

]]> By: Xander https://popculturereferences.com/whats-the-best-example-of-the-rule-of-cool-in-a-movie/#comment-6184 Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:20:41 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=3090#comment-6184 Ricardo, I don’t know. Firefly and Serenity managed to remain pretty compelling despite the lack of sound in space.

]]> By: Riccardo N https://popculturereferences.com/whats-the-best-example-of-the-rule-of-cool-in-a-movie/#comment-6176 Wed, 26 Oct 2022 11:17:27 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=3090#comment-6176 There’s no greater rule of cool application that noise effects in space.

Everybody asking for silent explosions and laserbeams, nobody really wants them.

]]> By: Brian Smith https://popculturereferences.com/whats-the-best-example-of-the-rule-of-cool-in-a-movie/#comment-6169 Tue, 25 Oct 2022 22:39:33 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=3090#comment-6169 My first thought was Roger Ebert’s take on a scene in 2002’s “Resident Evil”: “There is one neat effect when characters unwisely venture into a corridor and the door slams shut on them. Then a laser beam passes at head level, decapitating one. Another beam whizzes past at waist level, cutting the second in two while the others duck. A third laser pretends to be high but then switches to low, but the third character outsmarts it by jumping at the last minute. Then the fourth laser turns into a grid that dices its victim into pieces the size of a Big Mac. Since the grid is inescapable, what were the earlier lasers about? Does the corridor have a sense of humor?”

]]> By: Xander https://popculturereferences.com/whats-the-best-example-of-the-rule-of-cool-in-a-movie/#comment-6166 Tue, 25 Oct 2022 20:44:55 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=3090#comment-6166 Let’s go back to Star Wars: A New Hope. The swing across the shaft because the bridge controls were broken. It looks cool, but it does illustrate how a lot of the original Death Star’s design was “rule of cool.” Deep shafts everywhere? Sure. No railings? Why not.

]]> By: Scott Fry https://popculturereferences.com/whats-the-best-example-of-the-rule-of-cool-in-a-movie/#comment-6145 Tue, 25 Oct 2022 06:23:45 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=3090#comment-6145 Marty could’ve been diabetic and having a hypo at night.

]]> By: Sam Orona https://popculturereferences.com/whats-the-best-example-of-the-rule-of-cool-in-a-movie/#comment-6143 Tue, 25 Oct 2022 02:08:30 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=3090#comment-6143 In Back to the Future, Marty McFly is seen stuffing candy into his mouth late at night when Doc calls him to tell him to bring the video camera to the mall. Slightly later in the film, Marty orders something without sugar at the diner in 1955.

It would’ve corresponded with his sugar phobia if he was seen eating raisins or nuts, rather than candy, but candy is cooler.

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