Hacksaw Ridge (2016) / Square 6 Wheated Bourbon

Brad, we have much to discuss with Hacksaw Ridge.

I think the place to start is by laying a bit of groundwork here, uh, from last week to this week.

So folks, if you're new to the podcast, welcome into Film and Whiskey.

We talk about movies, we talk about whiskey.

This season, what we're doing is we have picked 10 standard films to watch.

Uh, I say standard.

10 codified films to watch, and every three weeks we'll watch one of these movies, and at the end of that watch, Brad will pick a movie for us to watch as the next sequential film totally based on what he just saw.

Most of the time he's watching these movies for the first time, so I have no idea what he's gonna pick.

And then I come in in week three and try to form some sort of cohesive three film miniseries out of that.

And boy, oh boy, have you created a challenge for me this time, Brad, because we watched the movie Seven last week, a uh, notorious not war film.

Uh, very famously not a war movie.

[laughs]

Not set during, uh, World War II.

So this is a serial killer movie, and I thought we were gonna do some spooky season stuff, and you said, "Nope.

This movie made me feel icky in my soul, and I need to wash the yuck off of myself with a movie in which a man redeems his soul." And so you decided that it was time for another first time watch for you, and that is Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge.

Brad, I've been, I've been yammering on here.

I'll turn it over to you.

Having now watched Hacksaw Ridge, do you feel like this was the right move? Did we go in a, in a good direction here?

I absolutely feel like every move I've ever made in my life is the right move.

[laughs]

So I, uh, cannot be deterred.

I've been there for some moves that you've made, and I can-

[laughs]

... very, very factually say not the right move, Brad.

I've made right moves throughout my entire existence.