# What are the manliest moments in movie history? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 28, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201 "2012-02-28T00:08:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mkecane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/41 "2012-02-28T14:53:22Z")
Luke Skywalker, after being told to clean the droids, “But I was going to the Toshi station to pick up some power converters.” Ok, not that one. But refusing Darth Vadar’s hand in ESB and being willing to take the plunge into space rather than join the Dark Side was pretty manly. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/42 "2012-02-28T14:58:41Z")
Pretty much every moment in the fake trailer for **[Machete](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1GTPwMN2qg)**. NSFW (language and boobs). ---
**Author:** ![Evin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@Evin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evin)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/43 "2012-02-28T15:12:59Z")
Atticus Finch. “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/44 "2012-02-28T15:14:52Z")
Every second of The Last of the Mohicans. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/45 "2012-02-28T15:28:10Z")
The hug at 2:00 in [this clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXr0m7SaGvs). ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/46 "2012-02-28T16:13:36Z")
Tyler Durden. “Didn’t quite catch that Lou. Still not getting it. OK! OK! I GOT IT! Shit, I lost it.” " Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond K. Hessel’s life. His breakfast will taste better than any meal you and I have ever tasted." "Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. **And we’re very, very pissed off.**" ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/47 "2012-02-28T16:20:45Z")
Harold Russell, as Homer Parish, uses his prosthetic hand to slide a wedding ring on the finger of his bride in _The Best Years of Our Lives_. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/48 "2012-02-28T16:23:11Z")
Well, maybe I’m weird, but I always thought real manliness was doing the right thing, even if it hurt you. And to my mind, nothing demonstrates that better than Bogart giving up his true love, because it was the right thing to do (_Casablanca, Maltese Falcon_, probably others). ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/49 "2012-02-28T16:36:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat oysters? > Antoninus: When I have them, master. > Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you eat snails? > Antoninus: No, master. > Marcus Licinius Crassus: Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral? > Antoninus: No, master. > Marcus Licinius Crassus: Of course not. It is all a matter of taste, isn’t it? > Antoninus: Yes, master. > Marcus Licinius Crassus: And taste is not the same as appetite, and therefore not a question of morals. > Antoninus: It could be argued so, master. > Marcus Licinius Crassus: My robe, Antoninus. My taste includes both snails and oysters. I don’t remember there being any women estrogening up that scene. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/50 "2012-02-28T16:52:19Z")
Albert Finney. Danny Boy. [Miller’s Crossing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAnD9P4ummA) ---
**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 28, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/51 "2012-02-28T16:59:01Z")
I dunno if it’s THE manliest, but I thought the shot of Daniel Baldwin lighting a cigarette on the charred skull of a vampire he’d just pulled out of it’s lair with a winch so it would catch fire in the sunlight was one of the manlier images on film, in “John Carpenter’s Vampires.” In fact the whole scene where they clear out the infested vampire lair was pretty damn testosterone-filled. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/52 "2012-02-28T17:25:24Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > [You brought two too many.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=yUmJkRn_Qxw#t=548s) ([youtube.com](http://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 Yes. Yes. Yes. Harmonica has so many great lines. I also like the bit when he first meets Jason Robards that ends with “..in those men were three bullets.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/53 "2012-02-28T17:39:21Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > Well, maybe I’m weird, but I always thought real manliness was doing the right thing, even if it hurt you. And to my mind, nothing demonstrates that better than Bogart giving up his true love, because it was the right thing to do (_Casablanca, Maltese Falcon_, probably others). Mine was a Casablanca quote. I think you misunderstood the end of Maltese Falcon. Spade hated Briget O’Shaunessy and was lying to her. He didn’t like his partner Miles Archer, but when someone kills a man’s partner he’s supposed to do something about it. He is being cruel to Briget and dumping her. I do agree that most of the choices here are “badass”, but it is really a matter of opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/54 "2012-02-28T17:40:42Z")
> [@wedgehed](#): > > Yeager! > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3BMg99K\_o0&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3BMg99K_o0&feature=related) Glad I read through all of the posts first, because this was the first clip that came to mind. I guess there’s always this one, from [The Dirty Dozen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z43cqUq_DpU#t=1m30s). Is it O.K. if I cry? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/55 "2012-02-28T17:48:07Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > I do agree that most of the choices here are “badass”, but it is really a matter of opinion. I don’t believe that Crassus thought there was anything the least bit bad about Antoninus’ ass. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/56 "2012-02-28T17:55:06Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Mine was a Casablanca quote. I think you misunderstood the end of Maltese Falcon. Spade hated Briget O’Shaunessy and was lying to her. He didn’t like his partner Miles Archer, but when someone kills a man’s partner he’s supposed to do something about it. He is being cruel to Briget and dumping her. And indeed, in the book, was sleeping with Archer’s wife. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/57 "2012-02-28T18:33:01Z")
The opening scene in [Hard Boiled](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wYCh5nxyCI). And of course, (I’m shocked no one came up with this yet. Shocked, I say!) [“Say hello to my little friend!”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVQ8byG2mY8) ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/58 "2012-02-28T18:42:49Z")
From an obscure Charlie Sheen movie called _Beyond the Law_: [I got an idea-- let’s shoot each other](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-5feAYiLPBA#t=161s). ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/59 "2012-02-28T18:47:34Z")
[I’m your huckleberry](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfbAFgD2mLo) [Fuck you! That’s my name.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/60 "2012-02-28T18:50:54Z")
The Shootist: John Bernard Books trying to educate a young man: “I won’t be wronged. I won’t be insulted. I won’t be laid a-hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” And then he walks into the saloon, knowing that he’s dying and determined to take some bad guys with him. And then there’s Paul Newman and Richard Boone in Hombre: Grimes: Mister, you’ve got alot of hard bark on you walkin’ down here like this. Now, I owe you. You put two holes in me. John Russell: Usually enough for most of 'em. Grimes: Don’t try it again, that Vaquero is more than a fair hand. Grimes: You got the money? John Russell: Guess I brought my dirty laundry down by mistake. Grimes: Let me see it. John Russell: Look for yourself. Grimes: [opens bag, pulls out a handful of clothes] Well now, what’ya suppose hell’s gonna look like? John Russell: We all die, just a question of when. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201.md?page=4)