# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/81 "2012-02-29T15:45:50Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > IIRC, Ebert’s review of the movie opined that if our hero had then gone for the jugular with that palmed arrowhead – and, okay, gotten sliced to ribbons a moment after getting the kill, but you can’t have everything – the film would’ve been twice as good. [I don’t remember that. Then again, I don’t have time right now to re-read it.](http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000505/REVIEWS/5050301/1023) ---
**Author:** ![newcomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e5b9ba/32.png) [@newcomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcomer)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/82 "2012-02-29T15:50:00Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [I don’t remember that. Then again, I don’t have time right now to re-read it.](http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000505/REVIEWS/5050301/1023) This Ebert’s review is a prime example of “epic fail”. He’s clueless. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/83 "2012-02-29T16:09:23Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [I don’t remember that. Then again, I don’t have time right now to re-read it.](http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000505/REVIEWS/5050301/1023) The way I’m remembering it – or, possibly, misremembering it – was from his on-air discussion when he was, y’know, At The Movies, with bickering co-host. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/84 "2012-02-29T16:41:18Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > On a similar note, John Rambo suturing himself in _First Blood_. I came in to mention a scene from one of the Rambos but I don’t know if it’s the one you mean. I recall a scene where Rambo was shot through and through in the abdomen, and to cauterize the wound he stuffed the hole with gunpowder and then ignited it causing a little explosion out each side of his torso. Which Rambo was this in? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/85 "2012-02-29T17:51:15Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > I came in to mention a scene from one of the Rambos but I don’t know if it’s the one you mean. I recall a scene where Rambo was shot through and through in the abdomen, and to cauterize the wound he stuffed the hole with gunpowder and then ignited it causing a little explosion out each side of his torso. Which Rambo was this in? Rambo III ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/86 "2012-02-29T18:20:52Z")
_ **1776:** _ “The count, being twelve to none, with one abstention, the resolution on independence _is_ adopted.” _ **Galaxy Quest:** _ “Quellek… by Grabthar’s hammer… by the Sons of Warvan… you \*shall \*be… avenged.” _ **Lawrence of Arabia:** _ “Nothing is written.” _ **The Iron Giant:** _ “Supermaaaaan.” ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/87 "2012-02-29T18:43:23Z")
“Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.” ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/88 "2012-02-29T19:05:31Z")
_The Big Country_, with Gregory Peck and Charleton Heston dukin’ it out mano-a-mano, without an audience, just to prove to themselves that they are manly men. (Peck’s character refuses to be goaded into a fight by Heston’s character earlier in the movie.) Edit: There’s a lot of scenes in this film where “a look” by one actor or another seems to be full of unspoken communications. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/89 "2012-02-29T20:15:55Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > This is what I thought of along with Audie Murphy’s Hang on a minute and I will let you talk with them line which is double bad because it is from real life. Damn right. Standing on top of a burning tank destroyer firinf a .50cal after ordering his men to retreat. Walking the artillery in with the advancing enemy until he orders the rounds dropped on his own position. “How close is the enemy?” “Hang on a minute I’ll let you talk to them.” And it was toned down from actually happened. My submission is Jerimiah Johnson taking on the entire Crow Nation. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/90 "2012-02-29T20:23:35Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > I came in to mention a scene from one of the Rambos but I don’t know if it’s the one you mean. I recall a scene where Rambo was shot through and through in the abdomen, and to cauterize the wound he stuffed the hole with gunpowder and then ignited it causing a little explosion out each side of his torso. Which Rambo was this in? That’s not manly, that’s hilarious. 😃 At least my scene has the thin veneer of plausibility in that Rambo screamed like a sonuvabitch when he did this. I bet the Rambo of R3 merely grimaced in pain. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/91 "2012-02-29T21:33:48Z")
How about Spencer Tracy, having lost his arm in WW2, kicking the shit out of Ernest Borgnine in [Bad Day At Black Rock](http://youtu.be/A2o3QWwwQLI)? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/92 "2012-02-29T21:34:56Z")
So “manly” equates across the board with fighting? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/93 "2012-02-29T21:42:17Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > So “manly” equates across the board with fighting? How about you sumbit your own as a counter-example rather than just tut-tutting “across the board.” ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/94 "2012-02-29T21:51:05Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > So “manly” equates across the board with fighting? Well, there is that John Holmes compilation video where he’s giving it to the 50 hottest porn stars of the 1970’s… ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/95 "2012-02-29T22:11:40Z")
> [@wedgehed](#): > > Yeager! > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3BMg99K\_o0&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3BMg99K_o0&feature=related) Sweet mother of crap! How have I never realized that Levon Helm is in that movie?! ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/96 "2012-02-29T22:17:07Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > So “manly” equates across the board with fighting? Yes. Any more questions? ---
**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:** [March 1, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/97 "2012-03-01T00:06:50Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Yes. Any more questions? For the record, here’s one of my other nominations, from 1989’s _Parenthood_— [“My dad’s going away…?” “…yes.” “He’s leaving right away?” “Yes…” “Is he ever coming back?” “…no.” “[…]” “Would you like to stay here, with us?” “Yeah.” “Good.”](http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-oqLVtmbu2h442/parenthood_1989_grandson_and_grandfather_talk/) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/98 "2012-03-01T00:57:06Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > So “manly” equates across the board with fighting? Not fighting, kicking ass. ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/99 "2012-03-01T01:05:34Z")
[Dying ain’t much of a living, boy.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEClGMJ2r3g) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-manliest-moments-in-movie-history/614201/100 "2012-03-01T01:39:04Z")
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