# Sadest Man-movie moments (Possible Spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 10, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadest-man-movie-moments-possible-spoilers/239370 "2004-04-10T21:44:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadest-man-movie-moments-possible-spoilers/239370/81 "2004-04-12T16:49:57Z")
WHAT!?!??! Two pages of teary moments in manly man movies and ONLY ONE MENTION OF **LEON**? You people are hopeless I need me a better arts message board (jk you lot just need to catch up on your Luc Besson). Speaking of comrade Besson here is two more for ya: **Le Femme Nikita** (the real one) the embassy show down where the cleaner keeps on going until what seems like well after his heart stops beating, and in the end where Nikita has to leave her boyfriend, gets me everytime. **5th element** the part where Leeloo gets completely dissillusioned with the human race for what they do to life and almost doesn’t save the world. Last but not least I know I’m gonna get stones thrown at me for this but what about Starship Troopers where the bugs kill Johnny’s girlfriend? I thought it was very said. - Faldureon runs off dodging rocks and thinking it could have been worse Lemme also add I 100% agree with everyone who bashed Lamelord or whatever his nick for a most unacceptable definition of manly movies in the history of manly movies. ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadest-man-movie-moments-possible-spoilers/239370/82 "2004-04-12T17:04:11Z")
Roy Batty’s death scene in **Blade Runner** always makes me a little weepy. > [@](#): > > I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams … glitter in the dark near Tanhauser Gate. All those … moments will be lost … in time, like tears … in rain. Time … to die. ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadest-man-movie-moments-possible-spoilers/239370/83 "2004-04-12T18:07:14Z")
> [@faldureon](#): > > WHAT!?!??! Two pages of teary moments in manly man movies and ONLY ONE MENTION OF **LEON**? You people are hopeless I need me a better arts message board (jk you lot just need to catch up on your Luc Besson). Yeah, there was one scene mentioned, but the whole movie is up there. No one can doubt that that one is a guy movie, but I end up clearing my throat a lot during it. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadest-man-movie-moments-possible-spoilers/239370/84 "2004-04-12T18:23:10Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > What about comedies? I’d nominate _Mrs. Doubtfire_, when Robin Williams is told he can no longer see his kids without a social worker present: _“Whenever I hug them, she wonders WHY. Do you have any idea what that feels like??”_ Get out How could I forget this one: “I would have liked to have seen…Montana…_blah_” ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadest-man-movie-moments-possible-spoilers/239370/85 "2004-04-12T18:33:47Z")
Armageddon, where Liv is giving her tearful goodbyes to Bruce Willis. “That’s my father up there!!!” Rutger’s death in Bladerunner The final scenes of Knightriders when the king crashes his motorcycle Independence Day, when when Randy Quaid kamikazes into the alien ship “Hello boys, I’m back!” Death of Sean Connery in the first Highlander. ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadest-man-movie-moments-possible-spoilers/239370/86 "2004-04-12T18:44:19Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > “I would have liked to have seen…Montana…_blah_” When I watched **The Hunt For Red October** I laughed at that scene. Then again I laughed at the fact they had Sean Connery playing a Russian. I have been told to add this by my stepfather: **The Godfather** : When the old man dies (heart attack?) in front of his grandson and the kid runs away crying. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadest-man-movie-moments-possible-spoilers/239370/87 "2004-04-12T18:44:35Z")
> [@Lamar Mundane](#): > > Animated movies, no matter the subject, are not Man movies… I have to go with the majority. Iron Giant is a man movie, for the reasons others have mentioned, and that the kids’ mom was a hottie. Animation with hotties automatically qualifies it for man-movie status. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadest-man-movie-moments-possible-spoilers/239370/88 "2004-04-12T19:30:34Z")
> [@Phelan](#): > > **Glory** : The whipping scene. Good one! How about the end of **The Paths of Glory** with the German girl and the soliders? That scene always sends a chill down my spine. If anyone knows the English translation of that song could you tell me? ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadest-man-movie-moments-possible-spoilers/239370/89 "2004-04-12T20:51:52Z")
My husband cries like a little girl during the Bill Pullman as President speech in **Independence Day**. Also in the beginning sequence of **Saving Private Ryan**. He also bawled through most of **Miracle**. Two parts especially are when the coach asks the team to stop and listen when the crowd is chanting “USA! USA” and of course the famous “Do you believe in miracles?” I guess those are treading into “emotional” as opposed to “sad” but I’ve never seen a man weep like my husband during man movies. Then he farts and tries to grope me to prove he’s not a big puss. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadest-man-movie-moments-possible-spoilers/239370/90 "2004-04-12T21:05:47Z")
The thing about **The Iron Giant** is that if we try to claim that it is a man movie, we are in some sense denying the right of women to enjoy it. It isn’t a Man Movie or a Chick Flick, it’s a brilliant modern fairy tale with universal appeal to anyone with a shred of human feeling. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadest-man-movie-moments-possible-spoilers/239370/91 "2004-04-12T21:33:23Z")
> [@yoyodyne](#): > > Roy Batty’s death scene in **Blade Runner** always makes me a little weepy. All the better for being completely ad-libbed by Rutger ---
**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:** [April 13, 2004, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadest-man-movie-moments-possible-spoilers/239370/92 "2004-04-13T05:11:56Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > Independence Day, when when Randy Quaid kamikazes into the alien ship “Hello boys, I’m back!” What – not the scene where the First Lady says, “Liar!”? Or where his daughter asks him if mommy is sleeping? ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadest-man-movie-moments-possible-spoilers/239370/93 "2004-04-13T05:37:25Z")
In the original _Highlander_… The “Who Wants to Live Forever?” sequence, ending with “Good night, m’ bonnie Heather.” If you aren’t choked up by that, even a little, you aren’t Human. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadest-man-movie-moments-possible-spoilers/239370/94 "2004-04-13T18:44:51Z")
> [@emekthian](#): > > You’ve obviously never seen the ending of the Futurama episode “Luck of the Fryrish”. Or for that matter, the Futurama episode “Jurassic Bark”. The ending bit with the scenes of Fry’s poor dog waiting for him to come home for YEARS got me good. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadest-man-movie-moments-possible-spoilers/239370/95 "2004-04-13T18:50:37Z")
> [@Sqube](#): > > I’ve not been able to find any information about a movie called “In the Beginning” that would fit what your movie seems to be talking about. Can you tell me more about it? It’s Babylon 5: In the Beginning. It was a made-for-TV movie dealing with the Earth-Minbari war. \*\* Darkhold’s \*\* quote was sad, but what got me was Londo’s description of the humans’ resolve. > [@](#): > > The Humans, I think, knew they were doomed. But where another race would surrender to despair, the Humans fought back with even greater strength. They made the Minbari fight for every inch of space. In my life I have never seen anything like it. They would weep. They would pray. They would say goodbye to their loved ones, and then throw themselves without fear or hesitation at the very face of death itself, never surrendering. No one who saw them fight against the inevitable could help but be moved to tears by their courage… their stubborn nobility. When they ran out of ships, they used guns. When they ran out of guns they used knives and sticks and bare hands. They were magnificent. I only hope that when it is my time, I die with half as much dignity as I saw in their eyes in the end. They did this for two years. But in the end, they didn’t run out of courage, they ran out of time." ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadest-man-movie-moments-possible-spoilers/239370/96 "2004-04-13T19:32:18Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > Armageddon, where Liv is giving her tearful goodbyes to Bruce Willis. “That’s my father up there!!!” I almost got punched for laughing out loud during that scene in the theater. Some big happy fun blockbusters (Indepence Day, for one) I can just relax and enjoy. But Armageddon, from (as The Onion calls him) producer-and-antiChrist Jerry Bruckheimer, just took itself way too seriously, and all I could do was scorn it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadest-man-movie-moments-possible-spoilers/239370.md?page=4)