The Top Ten Manliest Movies Of 2016
2) Blood Father
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJHL3srsMy8
The only movies I’ve enjoyed as much as Blood Father in recent years have been The Revenant and John Wick. I had high expectations for this thriller, directed by Mesrine (seriously, check those movies out) director Jean-François Richet – these expectations were met. Blood Father is Mel Gibson’s best starring/acting role since 2002’s Signs and some may chalk it up as his best acting work since Braveheart. Not since that movie has Gibson really taken an alpha male role by the teeth and really shaken the life out of it, like he has done in this movie.
Gibson plays a hard-bitten ex biker out to defend his daughter from ganster pissants. To be sure, they fucked with the wrong man this time around. Here is a movie that makes Sons of Anarchy look like soft ass melodramatic shit.
At one point, I really wanted to see Mel star in Under & Alone, a movie where he’d play an undercover FBI biker. But you know, this will do fine!
1) Hacksaw Ridge
With Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto under his directorial belt, Mel Gibson’s track record as a filmmaker is second to none, and thankfully his staggering winning streak is confidently maintained with 2016’s Hacksaw Ridge. Even though a decade has elapsed since Gibson’s Apocalypto, he makes his return behind the camera without missing a beat, showing yet again why he seriously needs the opportunity to direct more movies. A stunningly vivid World War II picture, Hacksaw Ridge dramatises the heroic story of conscientious objector Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), who determinedly set out to serve his country without ever picking up a weapon. Almost impossibly, Gibson transforms what could have been a preachy religious fable into a frequently gripping and emotive war film.
Affecting and powerful, Hacksaw Ridge is the movie of the year. There’s no chance it will not be beaten – it’s the greatest motion picture of 2016, and one of the best movies of the decade. The story of Desmond Doss absolutely needed to be told, and it’s satisfying to behold such a phenomenal motion picture after many decades of attempts to get it made. Hacksaw Ridge may be corny at times, but Gibson commits to the material with utmost sincerity. The movie even closes with archival footage and interviews of the real people of this story, which serves as an effective footnote. Hacksaw Ridge is Gibson’s best movie to date, and that’s a big call.
-Pvt.Caboose
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