# Best "Macho Movie"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-macho-movie/156501 "2003-02-21T06:01:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-macho-movie/156501/41 "2003-02-22T12:46:35Z")
Well, seeing as hwo Kurt Russels already got a few good movies under his belt, I’m going to go ahead and also vote for **Soldier**. Alright, it’s not all that good, but it fits every criteria, and his character in the movie is a serious bad ass. Plus, he’s very quiet and hardly speaks, but has one of my favorite lines in an action movie about one man against the odds: “One man against all those soldiers, what are you going to do?” “I’m going to kill them all…sir.” Plus, the bit in the final fist fight where he breaks the guy’s arm is pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![MrPeabody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@MrPeabody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrPeabody)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-macho-movie/156501/42 "2003-02-22T15:25:34Z")
What about Die Hard? Yippie-ki-ay, Muther\*\*\*\*\*R ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-macho-movie/156501/43 "2003-02-22T17:22:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MC Master of Cermonies \* > \*\*“Please excuse my friend he’s DEAD tired.” \*\* [After Schwarzenegger dangles a minor villain over the edge of a cliff, and then releases him so that he falls to his doom] GIRL: “What did you do with him?” SCHWARZENEGGER: “I let him go.” ---
**Author:** ![jack\_ss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c77e96/32.png) [@jack\_ss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jack_ss)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-macho-movie/156501/44 "2003-02-22T17:40:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Except for the hero saying something catchy (he pretty much says nothing at all) **The Road Warrior** hits every one of the criteria. “If you people want to get out of here, talk to me.” ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-macho-movie/156501/45 "2003-02-22T17:59:13Z")
The diaolog alone makes Commando a shoe-in: > [@](#): > > Soldier: Fuck you, asshole! > Matrix: FUCK YOU, asshole! > Cindy: I don’t beleive this macho bullshit! I’ll buy those lines for a dollar 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-macho-movie/156501/46 "2003-02-22T22:57:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Piper and David Keith get into a huge 5.5-minute (!) fistfight, and this ain’t one of your sissified kung-fu dustups, either. I like _They Live_ too, but – that was **Keith David** , not **David Keith**. David Keith is a goofy-looking redneck; Keith David is a tall, deep-voiced black man, and he was also in _The Thing_. We can all live by Roddy Piper’s words: “I ain’t Daddy’s little boy no more…and there’s gonna be Hell to pay.” ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-macho-movie/156501/47 "2003-02-22T23:49:46Z")
All five “Dirty Harry” pics. ---
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-macho-movie/156501/48 "2003-02-23T00:03:54Z")
You guys are forgetting Death Race 2000. The movie itself has no redeeming qualities, but is a blast to watch. And no woman I’ve ever met likes it. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0072856](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0072856) ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-macho-movie/156501/49 "2003-02-23T00:10:36Z")
**Where Eagles Dare** Lots of gunfire, explosions, nasty nazis and for a cool vehicle, a Junkers JU-52 in winter camouflage. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-macho-movie/156501/50 "2003-02-23T01:22:37Z")
I’ll vote for “Last Man Standing.” It fits on all counts if you consider the bad guys squeeze to have been “abducted” from him by the good guy. Plus, the Ry Cooder score is UNDOUBTEDLY the most macho movie score ever created. It kicks the ass of other macho movie scores and also kicks the ass of other entire macho movies! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-macho-movie/156501/51 "2003-02-23T05:30:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baldwin \* > I like _They Live_ too, but – that was **Keith David** , not **David Keith**. Thanks for pointing that out, Winbald. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-macho-movie/156501/52 "2003-02-25T02:26:19Z")
I don’t believe nobody’s mentioned such classics as _ **Independence Day** _ and _ **Star Wars** _ yet! - The villain has no redeeming qualities. **Check.** ID4 features evil aliens out to wipe us out and devour the Earth’s resources like locusts, and SW has Darth Vader (who only gains redeeming qualities in the 3rd movie, so it doesn’t count here). - Things will be blown up. **Check.** In ID4, whole freakin’ _cities_ get blown up, fer cryin’ out loud, and in SW they blow up an entire _planet_. - Guns will be fired and meaningless characters will be killed. **Check.** Admittedly, the guns usually fire red or green blaster bolts. (Except for the scene in ID4 where they turn the alien holding onto Brent Spiner into Swiss cheese.) - The main character won’t say much but he will say some catchy things. **Check.** “I ain’t heard no fat lady!”, and “Yeah, I’ll bet you have. \” - A woman or child will be kidnapped. **Check.** (At least in the case of SW. In ID4, the women were only missing in the rubble for a while.) - There will be hand-to-hand combat to prove who is really the toughest. **Check.** Will Smith punches out an alien, and Vader has a lightsaber duel with Kenobi. - Someone will have a very cool vehicle. **Check.** Will Smith has a flying saucer, and the SW heroes have X-wing fighters and the Millennium Falcon (not to mention a landspeeder). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-macho-movie/156501.md?page=2)