I don’t remember that. Then again, I don’t have time right now to re-read it.
This Ebert’s review is a prime example of “epic fail”. He’s clueless.
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.
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
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.”
“Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.”
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.
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.
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. 
How about Spencer Tracy, having lost his arm in WW2, kicking the shit out of Ernest Borgnine in Bad Day At Black Rock?
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.”
Well, there is that John Holmes compilation video where he’s giving it to the 50 hottest porn stars of the 1970’s…
Sweet mother of crap! How have I never realized that Levon Helm is in that movie?!
Yes. Any more questions?
For the record, here’s one of my other nominations, from 1989’s Parenthood—
Not fighting, kicking ass.
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