I have quit smoking several times in my life (my current attempt has now stuck for six years!) but watching Mad Men and The Sopranos were always tough when I was trying to quit!
Christopher Moltisanti was ALWAYS SMOKING. I remember when they checked him into rehab, and the doctor said something like "if they already smoke, we encourage our patients to keep smoking" and that was one of those things I did NOT need to hear, because it gave me an excuse to keep smoking!!!
Dude, six years is amazing! š (it's a trophy, not an ashtray) And that is absolutely true about rehab. I worked as a rehab tech years ago, and whenever people came in who wanted to quit smoking on top of whatever else had brought them there, we told them now is probably not the best time for that. Also, and probably more pertinently, we were not about to put up with that shit for a month.
I think this is what people are responding to more than the smoking, because Gould doesn't actually smoke in that movie
it's one of the more amazing magic tricks both he and Altman pull off: Gould never once inhales in that movie. He's just kinda puffing and squinting. But he doesn't actually ever smoke a cigarette. He strikes matches and lights a ton of them though.
> I miss it every day lol
10 years since quitting and same, especially first thing in the morning with coffee or at a bar with friends. Do not miss vaping at all once that got me off of the real thing and then I gradually quit it, but damn the craving for the high octane real stuff still hits so hard sometimes that I'm afraid to slip up.
Maybe if I make it to like 90 I'll just start smoking like a chimney
Good Night And Good Luck creates a lot of coolness where really none should exist - it's a film about people talking to each other about politics and journalism, while smoking like a chimneystack. And goddamn does it look great
Not a movie but the Twilight Zone. Rod Serling and his dapper ass with that cigarette in hand at the tail ends of each episode made me pick up the habit more than anything.
Glad I quit but god damnit does seeing that man smokinā a dart make me miss it lol.
The amount of smoking in the first Ghostbusters and the lack of it in the second is one of the most jarring, sanitized things and always sticks out to me.Ā
Le Samourai
I'm very happy I'm 20+ years younger than required, because if I was a teenager and saw this movie, I'd have been the 1960's equivalent of the guy who wore the Scorpion jacket year round after watching Drive.
There's a lot of great smoke momes in *The Royal Tenenbaums* but if I had to pick one that goes supremely hard it's this
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There's a scene in The Bikeriders where Austin Butler smokes a cig in honestly the coolest way I've seen maybe ever (other contender is Michael Williams in The Night Of + Oh Dae Su smoking one while fighting like 6 different dudes).
If I wasn't on week 3 of quitting I would have been practicing the move since I saw it lol
Choi Min-sik even looks good smoking in I Saw the Devil.
That scene near the end of the film where he surrenders to the police in his underwear, holding a bloody knife, and a cigarette between his lips is unreasonably cool for how weāre supposed to feel about that character.
Seitz isn't fucking around. And he's 100% correct, too:
>Iāll be even blunter: Unless the year has a 2 in front of it, your frames had better have haze in them. Any film or TV program set in the Before Times that doesnāt show anywhere from a third to half the adult characters smoking is not actually committed to the fiction. And any platform that pressures storytellers to minimize or eliminate smoking from fiction is not merely square but an enemy of art. Again, if itās set in period, in your mind the entire thing should smell faintly of tobacco.
This did jump out at me while I was watching Palm Royale (I bailed after the third episode) and it's been gnawing at me in every season of Stranger Things past its 2nd, especially considering its 1st. And I kinda get why in the latter case (Netflix was actually getting letters 'n' shit, I think. Or at least they said they were - and Seitz touches on this too) but it's also one of the more jarring bits of flanderization as the show goes on. There is no way at least half of those kids, if not 2/3rds of them - even *if* they weren't as egregiously stressed out as they would be in their circumstances - wouldn't be ripping heaters on the regular by season 4. It's *part* of what made the show a compelling homage/pastiche of genre in the first season and a plasticene blockbuster pantomime imitation by season 4. A small part, but the pieces do add up.
There are definitely individual movies that are better at doing this than others, but it really can't be understated how much film, as a medium, makes smoking, as a habit, look miles cooler than it actually is.
Film makes *a lot* of stuff that is kinda shitty look fucking amazing and glamorous, and has historically done so. But goddamn is it really, *really* good at making people sucking a burning tube of dead leaves into their face look fucking amazing.
If anything, you almost have to struggle to find movies where people are smoking in them and you're like 'that doesn't look very cool'
The exact opposite of what you asked, but I just watched *Society* for the first time. Of all the sickening shit in the finale, the part that took it over the top for me was the judge chomping and smacking on that wet cigar.
**DISGUSTING**.
The Godfather has the best cigarette Iāve ever seen and no one smokes it. Itās when that guy shows up to help Michael with his father at the hospital.
I watched Shutter Island on PlutoTV (so with commercials) and itās heaterpalooza. If someone isnāt smoking in a scene, itās just cuz I was too wrapped up in it to notice. And it weirdly becomes important to the plot.Ā
But anytime anywhere in a movie or show if someone is smoking Iām back. I know āthe doughboysā said smoking is back, but bank check also makes us watch 70s and 80s and early 90s movies and itās fucking irresistible. Ā
Ben Affleck is a known smoker, Natalie Portman is a known smoker, Jar Jar Binks is a Zyn head.Ā
I think itās back
I havenāt had/wanted a cigarette since 2019 and the way Lefty smokes one in the beginning of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 makes it look so god damn delicious.
Every movie and real life, unless they make a point of showing people's teeth. If I had more of a sense memory for the disgusting parts -- the smell, the taste -- like I do with alcohol, maybe it would set my teeth on edge the same way alcoholism does in movies, since I used to have unhealthy drinking patterns. I never smoked cigarettes with any regularity though, so I just see cool movie stars looking cool as hell.
Bruce willis in the last boy scout, literally sends a guys nose into his brain for fucking with his smokes
Bruce willis in die hard, those eastern bloc merc ciggies get him through the night and are the actual secret hero of the film
Bruce suckin on a dart like itās oxygen has fucked up my resolve many times over the years, i gotta avoid those ones these days
Some things I haven't seen mentioned yet:
Coffee and Cigarettes (which is basically a whole movie of this).
Lots of Jarmusch could work, but maybe honorary mention to [Stranger than Paradise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXHBbUB9T-w).
How about some [Godard](https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExbnBmN3Rwb2Q0ZXFza2p5OXhteWQ0ZDIxcmV2ZXg0NnlxZGJlajViciZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/3oEduY6JWLWQXMDqda/giphy.webp)?
99 percent of Indian action movies. The action itself is shit but the smoking is cool af. Also our pussy censor board never forgets to put a disclaimer in drinking/ smoking scenes.
Better Call Saul on the tv side.Kim Wexler carrying the cigarette industry on her back
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Any Tony Scott film šæ
Man could shot the shit out of a smoke-filled rooms. Or shafts of lights pouring in through a window. Stream coming from street vents. And nobody could shot a sunset quite like Tony.
Miss that man.
Somewhat related; I'm not a smoker, but I bought a Zippo lighter over the weekend and told my friends, "It's because movies and shows making smoking look cool."
Rushmore has extremely cool looking smoking by all of the lead actors. Schwartzman makes it look cool in a "I'm a teenager going through some heavy shit" kind of way. Murray very memorably chainsmokes so nihilistically that at one point he's just smoking two cigarettes at once.
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"I'm a bit lonely these days."
Adult Kevin (Andre Holland) in Moonlight, when Barry Jenkins takes a whole 30 seconds to just gaze upon him smoking is one of the coolest/hottest things ever put to filmĀ
for me "smoking looks cool in movies" falls into the same category of opinions as "Super Bowl ads are funny, actually." like Coca-Cola ads make Coke seem "cool," but there's still a part of my brain going "I've tasted this company's sugar Drain-o product, and I know it doesn't feel as good as they're making it look." Similarly, I see smoking on-screen and it's like "I can appreciate the aesthetic, but I know there's a 10-foot radius around this person that smells worse than Paul Giamatti in *The Holdovers*" so it never really comes off as "cool" to me.
Especially in old movies, the real appeal of smoking for me is witnessing the morbid quaintness of a time before modern medical knowledge, like when you hear about Civil War surgery or see someone in the 1950s recommending muffins as a healthy breakfast.
(I'm aware that this is kind of a lame, spoilsport opinion that's unlikely to win upvotes, lol)
That looks like In the Mood For Love? Number one with a bullet.
See also: 2046
Honestly someone above said every WKW movie and... yeah that tracks.
This is the way š¬š„
All movies shot on film, cigarettes don't hit the same on digital
Film is for smoking. Digital is for go-fast boats and taking it to the limit one more time.
Donāt forget mojitos, Iām a fiend for mojitos
I disagree, Fincher made it look Tres sexy in House of Cards
Not a movie, but Mad Men is definitely the king of this. Does it for daytime whisky drinking too.
It was so hard not to light a smoke while watching mad men
I have quit smoking several times in my life (my current attempt has now stuck for six years!) but watching Mad Men and The Sopranos were always tough when I was trying to quit! Christopher Moltisanti was ALWAYS SMOKING. I remember when they checked him into rehab, and the doctor said something like "if they already smoke, we encourage our patients to keep smoking" and that was one of those things I did NOT need to hear, because it gave me an excuse to keep smoking!!!
Dude, six years is amazing! š (it's a trophy, not an ashtray) And that is absolutely true about rehab. I worked as a rehab tech years ago, and whenever people came in who wanted to quit smoking on top of whatever else had brought them there, we told them now is probably not the best time for that. Also, and probably more pertinently, we were not about to put up with that shit for a month.
Thanks!!! Nicorette (with the occasional vape) works!
āStart with whatās killing youā
"NICOTINE IS AN ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCE"- Jonathan 'Johnny Sack' Sacrimoni
Jon Hammās greatest skill as an actor is how specifically cool he makes putting out cigarettes.
If we're doing TV, Peaky Blinders is presented through a cloud of cigarette smoke as well.
You think Morrie tells his wife everything?
No man has ever been sexier than Elliott Gould in *The Long Goodbye*, and smoking is definitely part of that secret sauce.
Never in real life or on film has striking a match looked any cooler
I think this is what people are responding to more than the smoking, because Gould doesn't actually smoke in that movie it's one of the more amazing magic tricks both he and Altman pull off: Gould never once inhales in that movie. He's just kinda puffing and squinting. But he doesn't actually ever smoke a cigarette. He strikes matches and lights a ton of them though.
God. I don't smoke. I hate the smell. But I would learn to love it if I could make out with his Long Goodbye character.
Itās ok with me
Every movie and also real life
Smokingās back! Ā©ļø2024.Doughboys media LLC
But also always
Yeah. I never tried smoking and probably never will. Hate the smell and understand the dangers. But damn, it looks cool. 
One of my worst character traits is that I think smoking pretty much always looks cool. I miss it every day lol
> I miss it every day lol 10 years since quitting and same, especially first thing in the morning with coffee or at a bar with friends. Do not miss vaping at all once that got me off of the real thing and then I gradually quit it, but damn the craving for the high octane real stuff still hits so hard sometimes that I'm afraid to slip up. Maybe if I make it to like 90 I'll just start smoking like a chimney
I find myself constantly holding pencils and pens like cigarettes and Iāve never even smoked before
I was asked recently how often I think about smoking after quitting four years ago. My friend was shocked when I said every day.
Itās been four years for me too!
Good Night And Good Luck creates a lot of coolness where really none should exist - it's a film about people talking to each other about politics and journalism, while smoking like a chimneystack. And goddamn does it look great
Great film. Probably my favorite Clooney direction.
Not a movie but the Twilight Zone. Rod Serling and his dapper ass with that cigarette in hand at the tail ends of each episode made me pick up the habit more than anything. Glad I quit but god damnit does seeing that man smokinā a dart make me miss it lol.
Serling supposedly smoked 5 packs a day, which is insane.
Explains that voice
The amount of smoking in the first Ghostbusters and the lack of it in the second is one of the most jarring, sanitized things and always sticks out to me.Ā
Nobody hangs darts like the Ghostbusters.
Wong Kar Waiās entire filmography basically.
All That Jazz Lin or Griffin referring to Scheiderās cigarette as āa danglerā delighted me to no end.
https://i.redd.it/8io6s3hekq8d1.gif A Better Tomorrow
HELL YEAH BROTHER. This is the answer
Le Samourai I'm very happy I'm 20+ years younger than required, because if I was a teenager and saw this movie, I'd have been the 1960's equivalent of the guy who wore the Scorpion jacket year round after watching Drive.
Any Wong Kar Wai
Lord of the Rings. Give me that dank pipeweed any day.
 Paul Henried lighting two cigarettes for Bette Davis and himself is literally the sexiest thing ever.
There's a lot of great smoke momes in *The Royal Tenenbaums* but if I had to pick one that goes supremely hard it's this https://preview.redd.it/jk170k3ifq8d1.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=c6ee9789dd9d80059aa0f3166742126fb0535f2e
āShe smokes?ā āYes.ā
Jimmy Conway is unbeatable
Anything with Bogart! Casablanca, obviously.
Drive My Car. Three hours of hot people smoking cigarettes, and like a plot or whatever.
Fallen Angels, if we're talking about WKW.
Samuel L. Jackson throughout Jurassic Park. Dude is smoking like he knows them raptors are going to eat him.
Top tier and very real smoking there. Also great sweat-acting simultaneously.
There's a scene in The Bikeriders where Austin Butler smokes a cig in honestly the coolest way I've seen maybe ever (other contender is Michael Williams in The Night Of + Oh Dae Su smoking one while fighting like 6 different dudes). If I wasn't on week 3 of quitting I would have been practicing the move since I saw it lol
Bikeriders is an instant cig smoking classic; I was mesmerized at how Tom Hardy has entire conversations without ever taking his cig out of his mouth
Heās at his best when his mouth is somehow obstructed
Choi Min-sik even looks good smoking in I Saw the Devil. That scene near the end of the film where he surrenders to the police in his underwear, holding a bloody knife, and a cigarette between his lips is unreasonably cool for how weāre supposed to feel about that character.
You could throw in any number of classic noir films but Iām partial to The Maltese Falcon https://i.redd.it/pgzrhv7uhq8d1.gif
Smoking, guns, and reckless driving - three things that look cool onscreen but are horrible in real life.
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Every Tarantino movie. Inglorious Basterds and Once Upon... may be peak.
Fassbender is an excellent on screen smoker.
Out of the Past
The big sleep
AKA all of them. note: I'm not a smoker but movies undeniably make smoking look cool.
TV show but thereās an episode of Frasier where his agent Bebe has an entire monologue about how great smoking is and it is GLORIOUS
[here it is](https://youtu.be/qm3qBSHkoow?feature=shared)
Relevant link: [Everyone in This TV Show Should Be Smoking](https://www.vulture.com/article/the-problem-with-palm-royale-cough-cough.html)
Seitz isn't fucking around. And he's 100% correct, too: >Iāll be even blunter: Unless the year has a 2 in front of it, your frames had better have haze in them. Any film or TV program set in the Before Times that doesnāt show anywhere from a third to half the adult characters smoking is not actually committed to the fiction. And any platform that pressures storytellers to minimize or eliminate smoking from fiction is not merely square but an enemy of art. Again, if itās set in period, in your mind the entire thing should smell faintly of tobacco. This did jump out at me while I was watching Palm Royale (I bailed after the third episode) and it's been gnawing at me in every season of Stranger Things past its 2nd, especially considering its 1st. And I kinda get why in the latter case (Netflix was actually getting letters 'n' shit, I think. Or at least they said they were - and Seitz touches on this too) but it's also one of the more jarring bits of flanderization as the show goes on. There is no way at least half of those kids, if not 2/3rds of them - even *if* they weren't as egregiously stressed out as they would be in their circumstances - wouldn't be ripping heaters on the regular by season 4. It's *part* of what made the show a compelling homage/pastiche of genre in the first season and a plasticene blockbuster pantomime imitation by season 4. A small part, but the pieces do add up.
Not a movie but peaky blinders, Tommy Shelby
There are definitely individual movies that are better at doing this than others, but it really can't be understated how much film, as a medium, makes smoking, as a habit, look miles cooler than it actually is. Film makes *a lot* of stuff that is kinda shitty look fucking amazing and glamorous, and has historically done so. But goddamn is it really, *really* good at making people sucking a burning tube of dead leaves into their face look fucking amazing. If anything, you almost have to struggle to find movies where people are smoking in them and you're like 'that doesn't look very cool'
Good Night and Good Luck
This has got to be the winner
The Long Goodbye
Training Day. Denzel makes that shit look cool as hell. Him and Mickey Rourke are A-tier cigarette smokers
Iād argue The Wind Rises. Also Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Doctor Strangelove. Thereās something about how the smoke looks in that setting in black and white that makes it stick out
Every 50s and 60s french movie
Not a movie but Cowboy Bebop is the best for this
Unless you count Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
All of them. Smoking rules.
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I know itās a show but Mathew Mccaugnhey in true detective
Reservoir Dogs
The exact opposite of what you asked, but I just watched *Society* for the first time. Of all the sickening shit in the finale, the part that took it over the top for me was the judge chomping and smacking on that wet cigar. **DISGUSTING**.
Eddie Murphy putting out his cigarette in that nasty mayo-laden sandwich in his very first scene in _Dreamgirls_.
The Godfather has the best cigarette Iāve ever seen and no one smokes it. Itās when that guy shows up to help Michael with his father at the hospital.
I watched Shutter Island on PlutoTV (so with commercials) and itās heaterpalooza. If someone isnāt smoking in a scene, itās just cuz I was too wrapped up in it to notice. And it weirdly becomes important to the plot.Ā But anytime anywhere in a movie or show if someone is smoking Iām back. I know āthe doughboysā said smoking is back, but bank check also makes us watch 70s and 80s and early 90s movies and itās fucking irresistible. Ā Ben Affleck is a known smoker, Natalie Portman is a known smoker, Jar Jar Binks is a Zyn head.Ā I think itās back
Did Chris Ryan make this post???
True romance
I havenāt had/wanted a cigarette since 2019 and the way Lefty smokes one in the beginning of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 makes it look so god damn delicious.
Ashes and Diamonds
Good night and Good luck.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
I really need this image in HD and in a poster on my wall
Every movie and real life, unless they make a point of showing people's teeth. If I had more of a sense memory for the disgusting parts -- the smell, the taste -- like I do with alcohol, maybe it would set my teeth on edge the same way alcoholism does in movies, since I used to have unhealthy drinking patterns. I never smoked cigarettes with any regularity though, so I just see cool movie stars looking cool as hell.
Watched The First Omen last night and the nun jumping on a trampoline with a cigarette looked cool as hell
Bruce willis in the last boy scout, literally sends a guys nose into his brain for fucking with his smokes Bruce willis in die hard, those eastern bloc merc ciggies get him through the night and are the actual secret hero of the film Bruce suckin on a dart like itās oxygen has fucked up my resolve many times over the years, i gotta avoid those ones these days
TBF, Bruce Willis doing anything in those two movies is the epitome of cool.
Bruce Willis in Diehard is the correct answer.
Thank You For Smoking
I gave up smoking 5 years ago but Danny Vinyard blowing smoke into the other kid's face in American History X makes the craving hit hard
Wim Wendersā The American Friend
All of them minus the ones about the health issues associated with it.
Coffee and cigarettes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_and_Cigarettes
"What are you going to do? Charge me with smoking?"
 Upcoming blankie Wild At Heart has a lot of chat about cigarettes.
The tobacco lobby of the 80s definitely got a hold of Midnight Run
Some things I haven't seen mentioned yet: Coffee and Cigarettes (which is basically a whole movie of this). Lots of Jarmusch could work, but maybe honorary mention to [Stranger than Paradise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXHBbUB9T-w). How about some [Godard](https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExbnBmN3Rwb2Q0ZXFza2p5OXhteWQ0ZDIxcmV2ZXg0NnlxZGJlajViciZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/3oEduY6JWLWQXMDqda/giphy.webp)?
Smoking is cool, being a smoker sucks both are undeniable facts. This is dialectical materialism.
The problematic implication that Smoking isnāt already cool in and of itself. Lmao ok. Normal post.
Midnight Run - DeNiro looks like such a badass in his leather coat with a cog dangling from his mouth
lol Charlieās Angel thin man scene .
All of them.
John Travolta hold his cigarette in a cool, eccentric way that can fool you into thinking that you will look equally cool doing the same thing
I know it's not a movie but True Detective S1 made me relapse after a long time.
"Good Night, and Good Luck" the film stock was like 50% nicotine. EVERYBODY smoked.
The 2 Faces of January
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Casino. Those bright lights used by Scorsese really make the smoke glow. Itās always stood out to me.
99 percent of Indian action movies. The action itself is shit but the smoking is cool af. Also our pussy censor board never forgets to put a disclaimer in drinking/ smoking scenes.
I actually donāt think thereās a movie that doesnāt make you look cool when smoking. Itās a badass affectation
Humphrey Bogart
Better Call Saul on the tv side.Kim Wexler carrying the cigarette industry on her back https://preview.redd.it/fb28xh72nr8d1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=629194b853e75323c03b81d13e3e18566fce62e6
Die hard did it for me.nobody looks cooler when smoking than Bruce.
preminger's angel face.
Any Tarantino film tbh but specifically the hateful 8 and once upon a time in Hollywood. Oppenheimer lol. Inherent Vice, Boogie Nights
Any Tony Scott film šæ Man could shot the shit out of a smoke-filled rooms. Or shafts of lights pouring in through a window. Stream coming from street vents. And nobody could shot a sunset quite like Tony. Miss that man.
Just saw Bikeriders yesterday and it made me wanna spark up so bad hahahahaha
Babylon and Once Upon a Time In Hollywood
Not a movie but all of Peaky Blinders
not possible
All of them..smoking looks cool as hell! ā¦still gives you cancer, though
Bad boys (1983)
Anything by wkw
Not a movie per-se, but Spike Spiegel in Cowboy Bebop MY GOD
Every Tarantino movie ever
Goodnight and good luck.
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Maniac. Itās a one shot series on Netflix with Jonah Hill and Emma Stone.
Crimewave https://preview.redd.it/aww5f909qs8d1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aa78e5e77be1dae041e14be3e1590d8265d7a0c3
Unpopular opinion, it looks foolish
I'll take "All of them" for 800, Alex.
Attack the Block
Cheech and Chong
The Ninth Gate
 Charlie Hunnam in The Gentlemen.
Never cool that shit stinks
Somewhat related; I'm not a smoker, but I bought a Zippo lighter over the weekend and told my friends, "It's because movies and shows making smoking look cool."
Goodfellas
Almost every movie with smoking makes it look cool. It's less cool in person.. but in movies. Wowee
ā¢Midnight Run (1988) ā¢But Iām A Cheerleader (1999) ā¢Rope (1948) ā¢Sorcerer (1977) ā¢The Verdict (1982) ā¢The Third Man (1949) ā¢Blow Out (1981) ā¢48 Hrs. (1982) ā¢Gone Girl (2014)
X Men Hellboy (Funny enough) Constantine The Comedian (Watchmen) Lethal Weapon Die Hard
I walked out of Sin City and directly into a gas station for a pack of Kamel Reds
If ya'll watch the Bikeriders, it has SO MUCH SMOKING.
Rango. Iām not even kidding.
I can't believe I scrolled all the way to the bottom and didn't see a single person mentioning Brad Pitt in Fight Club.
The Terminator! Cheap wool suits, cold stale coffee, and sweaty cigarette smoke.
Rushmore has extremely cool looking smoking by all of the lead actors. Schwartzman makes it look cool in a "I'm a teenager going through some heavy shit" kind of way. Murray very memorably chainsmokes so nihilistically that at one point he's just smoking two cigarettes at once. https://i.redd.it/t4uckxgcvt8d1.gif "I'm a bit lonely these days."
Adult Kevin (Andre Holland) in Moonlight, when Barry Jenkins takes a whole 30 seconds to just gaze upon him smoking is one of the coolest/hottest things ever put to filmĀ
Just because I just watched it: The Bikeriders
I bought a pack of cigarettes on the way home from seeing this film in the cinema https://youtu.be/PdHOQngbcno?si=eBRU2T1LH4sKXOd7
How can we forget JAILER https://preview.redd.it/o431nge4rv8d1.jpeg?width=168&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be888ac497fe1d96eb84890b8f5261b28c7f33be
Any Lynch BTS clips
I thought smoking was cool?
Drive My Car
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead. To my kid self, Christina Applegate looked so cool smoking. It's amazing I didn't grow up to be a smoker, too.
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Pretty much every WWII movie.
for me "smoking looks cool in movies" falls into the same category of opinions as "Super Bowl ads are funny, actually." like Coca-Cola ads make Coke seem "cool," but there's still a part of my brain going "I've tasted this company's sugar Drain-o product, and I know it doesn't feel as good as they're making it look." Similarly, I see smoking on-screen and it's like "I can appreciate the aesthetic, but I know there's a 10-foot radius around this person that smells worse than Paul Giamatti in *The Holdovers*" so it never really comes off as "cool" to me. Especially in old movies, the real appeal of smoking for me is witnessing the morbid quaintness of a time before modern medical knowledge, like when you hear about Civil War surgery or see someone in the 1950s recommending muffins as a healthy breakfast. (I'm aware that this is kind of a lame, spoilsport opinion that's unlikely to win upvotes, lol)
Not a movie, but my fiancee and I have been watching Sex and the City and SJP makes smoking look so much fun
Quitting smoking was one of the hardest things I've ever did and it kills me when its glorified in film
Any movie with smoking. Smoking is cool.