# Poignant moments in "guy" movies. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126 "2006-06-18T01:18:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/21 "2006-06-18T17:44:20Z")
The only good part of _Sleepless in Seattle_: > [@](#): > > Sam Baldwin: Well I’m not looking for a mail-order bride! I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner. Without it falling down into weepy tears over some movie! > Greg: She’s, as you just saw, very emotional. > Sam Baldwin: Although I cried at the end of “the Dirty Dozen.” > Greg: Who didn’t? > Sam Baldwin: Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin > [Begins to cry] > Sam Baldwin: were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis… > Greg: [Crying too] Stop, stop! > Sam Baldwin: And Trini Lopez… > Greg: Yes, Trini Lopez! > Sam Baldwin: He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines… > Greg: Stop. > Sam Baldwin: And Richard Jaeckel - at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet… > Greg: [Crying harder] Please no more. Oh God! I loved that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/22 "2006-06-18T18:05:24Z")
The ending of _Das Boot_. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/23 "2006-06-18T22:57:01Z")
[QUOTE=Wesley Clark] Sin City when Bruce Willis’s character takes his own life after his third time protecting Nancy from predators. His relationship with Nancy in general was really touching. [/QUOTE] The score playing under the opening scene of Bruce Willis saving young Nancy really works for me. Those notes wrapped around his inner monoluge saying “An old man dies, a little girl lives; fair trade” are perfectly editing into and around that line, which Willis delivered flawlessly. The ending scene was close, but that opening one just grabs me every time. I’ve seen the movie two or three times, but anytime it’s on I’ll switch over just for that one scene, which I’ve probably seen a dozen times at least. I’ll add the aftermath of the soap-bar justice from _Full Metal Jacket_. Hearing the fat guy’s plaintive sobbing always affected me. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/24 "2006-06-18T23:11:37Z")
“I am Spartacus!” ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/25 "2006-06-18T23:42:54Z")
The last agonizingly long scene in **Brian’s Song** between Sayers and Piccolo. Oh my god, we were in Middle School when that thing came out and we watched it in school. EVERYONE cried. Over and over. " I’m feeling…kinda…punk… " -sniffle- ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/26 "2006-06-19T00:47:48Z")
At the end of \*Apollo 13 \* when Ed Harris rubs his nose and wipes a tear from his eye. A great example of guy crying. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/27 "2006-06-19T01:00:42Z")
The look that passes between John Wayne and Ron Howard at the climax of _The Shootist_. I may have to turn in my “guy” credentials, but the one little snippet that always make me choke back a sob is towards the end of _Camelot_, when the three people that loved each other more than life itself are forced to war because of that love. \*By the score fell the dead As the sky turned to red Countless numbers felt his spear As he rescued Guenevere In that dawn, in that gloom More than love met its doom In the dying candle’s gleam Came the sundown of a dream Guenevere, Guenevere In that dim, mournful year Saw the men she held most dear Go to war for Guenevere\* ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/28 "2006-06-19T02:25:54Z")
The death of Old Yeller. ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/29 "2006-06-19T03:22:02Z")
The bit in _Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle_ where they put the tape into the tape recorder expecting something EXTREME, and it starts to play… Wilson Phillips. They awkwardly try to be all manly and distant and cool about it, and then end up both singing along with it at the top of their lungs. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/30 "2006-06-19T07:46:00Z")
Not just when Kevin Costner gets to play catch with the ghost of his dad, but the shot of the long line of cars waiting to see the Field of Dreams. That made me gasp and almost shed a tear, when the emotional resonance hit me. ---
**Author:** ![M.Meursault](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@M.Meursault](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/M.Meursault)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/31 "2006-06-19T12:05:29Z")
Near the end of _The Great Escape_ when James Garner and Donald Pleasance _almost_ make it. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/32 "2006-06-19T12:39:33Z")
The ending of 12 Monkeys As Young Cole watches his older self die and the woman turns to look into young Cole’s eyes and has a moment of recognition The ending of Shane. High Noon as the Marshall realizes he’s alone. He sits at his desk and bows his head. It looks as if he is ready to cry. A great little moment. The Godfather when Don Carlone asks the mortitian to restore his son’s looks for the funeral. Brando’s reading of “Look how they massacred my boy!” gets me every time. Worse since the birth of my two boys. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/33 "2006-06-19T13:14:01Z")
I’ve a feeling this one may be slightly more personal so i’ll tell the surrounding story as well: Just over a year ago, as i was about to move to the US, i was having final drinks with my best mate (who i’d lived with for years) on my last day in England (i flew out the next morning). I’d done all the big “goodbye party” type stuff earlier in the week, but he’d taken that final day off so we could spend a final lazy day together. We spent the night before doing what blokes do - getting really drunk and watching the dodgy bloke films that always get pulled out on occasions like that - _Predator_, _Last Samurai_, _Aliens_ etc. We got up late the next day, had a big old English breakfast down the local cafe and then headed into Camden, where we went to see _Sin City_ and followed up by spending the rest of the day shooting shit together over beers and pub food. Even though i’d be returning in a year and we’d still stay mates, it was very much the end of an era, and we both knew it (though you wouldn’t have guessed it from the conversations we had). At the end of the day we were both just enjoying one final chance to live the lifestyle we’d really enjoyed together for one last time. The day turned into evening and, as evening turned into night, we moved back to our local pub for a last couple of pints for the road. Finally, as last orders were called and, as we raised our glasses in celebration of the life and lifestyle we’d both enjoyed for the last time, he smiled at me and quoted a line from _Last Samurai_, which we’d watched the night before: > [@](#): > > I will miss… our conversations It was a relatively average line from a relatively average movie, but somehow it summed up every thought and feeling that really needed to be said and which (though we both felt the same way) being stereotypical blokes, we’d left unsaid. It was a perfect moment, and i can’t hear that line now without getting slightly emotional about it (in a very manly way of course :D). ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/34 "2006-06-19T13:33:12Z")
In _The Hunt for Red October_: “I would like to have seen Montana…” ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/35 "2006-06-19T14:16:11Z")
“You are who you choose to be” . . . “Suuuupermannn!” \ ---
**Author:** ![teemingONE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/36 "2006-06-19T15:18:28Z")
[QUOTE=MacTech] “You are who you choose to be” . . . “Suuuupermannn!” \ [/QUOTE] That did it for me. ---
**Author:** ![tlacour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d78d45/32.png) [@tlacour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tlacour)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/37 "2006-06-19T15:26:53Z")
[QUOTE=MacTech] “You are who you choose to be” . . . “Suuuupermannn!” \ [/QUOTE] Heack yes! Not only a guy movie, but a cartoon! Anyone remember who did the voice of the Giant? ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/38 "2006-06-19T15:43:48Z")
[QUOTE=tlacour] Not only a guy movie, but a cartoon! [/QUOTE] Actually, just a cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/39 "2006-06-19T15:50:24Z")
when Rudy finally gets out on the field in _Rudy_ gets me every time… ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126/40 "2006-06-19T16:49:05Z")
[QUOTE=tlacour] Heack yes! Not only a guy movie, but a cartoon! Anyone remember who did the voice of the Giant? [/QUOTE] Vin Diesel, actually. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poignant-moments-in-guy-movies/361126.md?page=3)