Fictional movies only, not actual documentary footage.
I’ll start with a fun one. Reb Brown having, perhaps, one of his few actual good moments on film. It’s this clip that got me thinking about what could be manlier than machine gunning a bunch of people with a cool explosion behind…and screaming while doing so.
OK, so I’m sure that is nothing compared to what you will all post, but it’s a start.
Oh, define manliest how every you like.
Stephen Maturin performing thoracic surgery on himself with no anaesthetic in Master and Commander took gorilla balls.
Edward James Olmos, walking out of his cell in American Me
Roy Schieder “Smile you son of a bitch!”
Rorshalk in Watchmen.
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I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me!!!*
It’s a group effort, on both sides.
It’d probably not in the top 100, but in Princess Bride I like the line, “We are men of action – lies do not become us.” Said with a smile.
Maybe Aliens’: Get away from her, you bitch!"
Zulu’s a great nomination.
I’m going with Aron Ralston cutting off his own arm to survive in 127 Hours.
“I ain’t got time to bleed!”
Bruce Lee tasting his own blood in “Enter The Dragon”.
Will Munny walking into the bar and killing Little Bill and the rest.
On a similar note, John Rambo suturing himself in First Blood.
Good ones!
I’ll add this one, my favorite tough-guy-beating-up-people in any James Bond movie. Casino Royale, if you are curious.
Bonus points for blowing everyone up at the end of the clip.
How could I forget? :smack:
Will Kane, alone, facing down Frank Miller and his gang in High Noon.
Only slightly less manly because Kane’s wife snuck up on Pierce and shot him from behind.
You brought two too many. (youtube.com link)
I thought it was amazingly cool when I first saw it as a kid.
Opening scene from Once Upon a Time in the West
I really like TriPolar’s True Grit link as well.
I’ve always thought that one of the manliest scenes in moviedom was in Gone with the Wind when Rhett Butler wept bitterly after the accidental death of his little girl Bonnie Blue Butler. Rhett, as played by Clark Gable was the epitome of masculinity, and it took some big secure brass ones to do this on camera. Any woman in the audience who wasn’t already in love with him fell at that point.
To be honest, that is one of the manliest moments in the series and it comes in the fourth movie. Very cool way to take out the villain.
Richard Dreyfuss crushes the styrofoam cup with one hand.
Inigo Montoya’s revenge on Count Rugen.
“Offer me money!”
“Yes!”
"Power too; promise me that!’
“All that I have and more. Please!”
“Offer me everything I ask for!”
“Anything you want!”
“I want my father back you sonuvabitch!”