Originally posted by jaden101
Kung Fury
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Also Nemesis (1992)
It has nudity and violence.
Gonna cheat a little, and cite an anime movie (It's anime, but still a movie, no?)
Farewell to Yamato. The main character, Kodai:
1. Went on a suicide mission to save Earth. Returned alive, while his captain died.
2. Petitioned his military superiors to send aid to stop a comet that was destroying alien civilizations. When theys refused, he chewed them out, and then STOLE a battleship. AND convinced a crew of some thousands to join him, proving how much he's earned their respect from their last mission..
3. Stopped the comet, after it wiped out Earth's fleet. Then stopped it again, after it morphed into a flying city of death.
All of this is standard already pretty manly because no whining ala Shinji Ikari, or Amuro about getting in their damned machines and fighting for a good cause. Giving authority the middle finger and putting your life on the line for your beliefs is at least as manly as any action hero's ever been.
But here's the defining moment, that makes Kodai a man among men:
4. The death comet turned death city still wasn't done. Now, it becomes a death dreadnaut.. Dwarfing Yamato in size, with an exausted crew, everyone dying around him, and his fiancee he intended to marry in his arms Kodai does the only thing he could.
He orders everyone off the ship and intends to ram the bastards. His crew, naturally, refuses. They want to die with him, and share in his sacrifice.
And Kodai tells them this is NO SACRIFICE. To prevent the extinction of their species is no sacrifice at all. And, that NO ONE ELSE needs to die to accomplish this.
This is such a tremendous subversion of military based anime, and service based movies in general, suggesting that dying for your duty and country is NOT the be all, end all. It was a great speech... I can't really convey how it was in writing, but it was something I've never seen before, and was very well done and emotional.
So in the end, the crew that remains reluctantly enters the life boats, departs into space, and salutes Kodai, with his last words being to his dead finacee in his arms: "We can finally spend some time alone together.."