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re: Name Your Favorite Movie Characters That Sacrificed Their Lives For the Greater Good
Posted on 1/18/25 at 7:37 pm to Tangineck
Posted on 1/18/25 at 7:37 pm to Tangineck
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Tangineck
Creasy (Denzel) in Man on Fire. Such a powerful scene.
This. Once he decided to go after her kidnappers, he had one purpose and he knew it.
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Posted on 1/18/25 at 8:11 pm to CU_Tigers4life
Posted on 1/18/25 at 10:59 pm to CU_Tigers4life
Posted on 1/18/25 at 11:08 pm to MasonTiger
No mention of the Holdo Maneuver yet? 
Posted on 1/18/25 at 11:15 pm to TeddyPadillac
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Everyone from Rogue One.
So you support terrorist scum
Posted on 1/19/25 at 12:08 am to McCaigBro69
Ol' Darth sacrificed himself throwing the Emperor and his lightning bolts down the shaft.
Just watched the original trilogy for the first time in probably 40 years.
Have no idea how it has such a cult following. Hasn't aged all that well and I can see kids liking it. Adults.... eh.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 5:31 am to Honest Tune
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This one needs no explanation.
An elite squad of troops is diverted to save 1 fricking private?
Posted on 1/19/25 at 6:47 am to BuckyCheese
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Have no idea how it has such a cult following. Hasn't aged all that well and I can see kids liking it.
I don’t understand it either. I used to be part of it but the sequel trilogy ruined it. Now it’s just a pretty good set of old movies to me.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 7:38 am to Ace Midnight
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An elite squad of troops is diverted to save 1 fricking private?
Wellllll, when you put it that way. Ha!
Not a fan?
Posted on 1/19/25 at 7:43 am to tigermeat
Not even the best sacrifice from the movie. Shelly Winters sacrifice hit much harder to me
Posted on 1/19/25 at 7:45 am to Honest Tune
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Not a fan?
As good as I think Band of Brothers is, I think SPR is overrated - excepting the beach scene. Once they open Dog 1, the film becomes shockingly mediocre.
Compared to other WWII epics like The Longest Day, Patton, A Bridge Too Far? SPR barely breaks the Top 10, IMHO. However, it seems to be the only WWII film the younger generation regards at all. (ETA: I'm not sure SPR is better than either of Eastwood's Iwo Jima pictures.)
This post was edited on 1/19/25 at 7:47 am
Posted on 1/19/25 at 7:59 am to Ace Midnight
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As good as I think Band of Brothers is, I think SPR is overrated - excepting the beach scene. Once they open Dog 1, the film becomes shockingly mediocre. Compared to other WWII epics like The Longest Day, Patton, A Bridge Too Far? SPR barely breaks the Top 10, IMHO. However, it seems to be the only WWII film the younger generation regards at all.
I’m probably part of that generation you speak of, as it came out when I was 16, even though I was a fan of a lot of other WW2 movies as well.
The small town I grew up in had a fairly large number of men that served in WW2/D-Day and our little patriotic town made sure they knew how much we loved and appreciated their sacrifices. One gentleman I went to church with was a POW on TWO separate occasions. A fine man (even though as a kid my friends and I used to joke with him at church that he was either a damn good soldier or a damn bad one, he would laugh).
Also, for me in the 90s, Tom Hanks was my guy and did no wrong.
The scene where Gio Ribissi’s character talks about his mom coming home from work and him pretending to be asleep, while the candle light flickers on his face in the dark room (foreshadowing his upcoming death scene), is a gut punch for me.
Posted on 1/19/25 at 1:59 pm to Riseupfromtherubble
What Walt Kowalski does to put the bad guys away in Gran Torino, feels a little like it stole from 1947's Kiss of Death, where Victor Mature plays the same ex-con role that David Caruso did in 1995's Kiss of Death. He does something similar to what Eastwood's Kowlski does to help the cops take down a crazed hood named Tommy Udo, which is played up just as crazy as Nick Cage's hood character in the 1995 version of Kiss of Death, by Richard Widmark. See the scene below as proof of how crazy Whitmark's character is.
Kiss of Death - "Clean Up Their Own Backyard" - Nicolas Cage x Michael Rapaport on YouTube
Posted on 1/19/25 at 5:07 pm to chinese58
Spock in Wrath of Kahnnnnn
Posted on 1/19/25 at 6:54 pm to cypresstiger
First one I thought of.
As a kid we used to reenact it when playing Army.
Like doing the Joe Morgan elbow shake when playing ball.
Shown here at 18 seconds on YouTube
"Our heroes were brothers."
As a kid we used to reenact it when playing Army.
Like doing the Joe Morgan elbow shake when playing ball.
Shown here at 18 seconds on YouTube
"Our heroes were brothers."
This post was edited on 1/19/25 at 6:57 pm
Posted on 1/19/25 at 7:15 pm to CU_Tigers4life
C. Thomas Howell in Red Dawn
Posted on 1/19/25 at 7:21 pm to Buck_Rogers
Wolverinnnnnes!
Posted on 1/19/25 at 11:03 pm to CU_Tigers4life
Kyle Reese
Posted on 1/20/25 at 12:23 am to CU_Tigers4life
Posted on 1/20/25 at 10:55 pm to bayouteche
Ripley
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