Badass Actors and Their Sunglasses

Some people are just born being extremely cool badasses. Others take time to develop their badass nature. Others (me) are in the badass hall-of-fame, and others (the dude who plays Screech and that Carrot Top toolbag) will never be badass. Whichever category you fall into, the right pair of sunglasses can help you improve your badass ranking.

While there are countless examples of real-world dudes who are badass, like it or not, certain actors are the ones who get the most visibility. And while these people aren’t necessarily badasses in real life (though some of them are), they look even more hardcore and cool in sunglasses. Here’s the list in no certain order:

Georgy Clooney (Oceans 11-13, Syriana, others) and Brad Pitt (Fight Club, the Oceans movies

Proof points:

George Clooney (as Danny Ocean): [on Rusty’s attire for picking him up from prison] Ted Nugent called, he wants his shirt back.

Brad Pitt (as Tyler Durden): All the ways you wish you could be, that’s me. I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not.

Bruce Willis

Proof points: Die Hard and just about every movie he’s ever been in.

The Rock (Dwane Johnson)

Proof Points: The Rock almost didn’t make my list (and maybe he shouldn’t have) but his awesome single-eye brow raise is even more deadly when combined with sunglasses.

Will Smith

Proof Points:

Men in Black, Bad Boys, Independence Day…

As Mike Lowrey in Bad Boys: Please, man. Married life is easy. You only got one woman to satisfy.

Al Pacino

Proof Points:

As Tony Montana in Scarface: All I got in this world is my word and my balls. And I don’t break ‘em for nobody!

And the entire movie…

Denzel Washington

Proof points: Training Day, Man on Fire, American Gangster…pretty much every Denzel movie.

As Creasy in Man on Fire: I’m going to cut your fingers off. One by one, if I have to.

There are others who could potentially make the list. These people are in badass movies and look so cool in sunglasses that they could probably sell ice to an eskimo. But they’ve also done some shitty movies, too, so they ultimately don’t make the list:

Vin Diesel.