.I'm keeping the intros brief because this part's notsomuch about words. Although there are words. But also pictures, do not fear. We just posted
twelve runners-up a bit ago - now here's number twenty through number eleven of my favorite male gratuitousness of 2011.
Joel Edgerton,
Warrior - See this is what I was talking about in
my list of runners-up when I said that the rules governing this list only follow some kind of insane logic in my head - for a movie promising an endless parade of beefcake,
Warrior was strangely shy, and I ought to punish it for that. Especially when say for instance Thomas Jane and Rob Lowe, who only made runner-up, both
got totally starkers in their movie. But Joel Edgerton is just so sexy, y'all. I cannot deny him. Just think if the movie had been more of a giver with that ass-kicking physique he built up. Oh what could have been.

Ryan Reynolds for
Green Lantern - And this is another one. The fact that they CG'd a suit onto a body like Ryan Reynolds has, thereby muddying up ur understanding of how much everything below his neck actually was his for entire stretches of the film, is unforgivable.
But then... he does wear tighty-whities for a second! And he does writhe around on that space-table in litte underpants that one time! And... it's Ryan Reynolds, man. I can't help myself. Cut from fucking marble, this one. (more
here)
Julián Villagrán for
Extraterrestrial - We just posted some caps from this
earlier this week, which do the scene some justice but not enough, because it just goes on and on for a wonderfully long time, even filling the entire screen with his underpants-clad crotch for a moment. It's a keeper.
Daniel Radcliffe for
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II - Gone are the days when I will feel weird for lusting after young
Harry Potter. They left right around the time he flashed his treasure-thicket in
those promotional Equus pics. That's he's become such a staunch gay rights advocate only makes it feel even better.
Ashton Kutcher for
No Strings Attached and
Justin Timberlake for
Friends With Benefits - Consider these two a tie since they made the exact same movies and I hate them both about the exact same amount and yet I cannot deny that they did their jobs by showing us their sexy hateful asses, thereby filling me with a confused lustful rage. I couldn't sit through these movies, but I could certainly fast-forward and then pause through them. See more Ashton
here, and more Justin
here. Justin gets bonus points for
that jean-humping scene in Bad Teacher. Sebastian Schipper and Devid Striesow for
Three - This one's more for Sebastien since I just find him completely adorable, but Striesow can come along for the ride. So to speak.
Their hook-up scenes in Tom Tykwer's film are very very hot, especially that first one in the locker-room where Schipper's completely taken by surprise... very happy surprise... by Striesow's sudden advances.
Daniel Craig for
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and
Cowboys and Aliens and
Dream House (more
here) - As much as I love
DC's little black underpants in Dragon Tattoo, we seem to be judging him based on a curve at this point. It's the only explanation I can find for him only making it this high. We've been spoiled, I guess.
Tom Hardy for Warrior and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - You know what I said about Joel Edgerton barely making the list because Warrior was so criminally stingy with exploiting its prepped-for-exploitation menfolk? Same goes for Hardy's case therein, but then Tom went for extra credit by wearing a dress shirt and nothing else in Tinker and whoosh he shot ahead. As you'll see further on in the list, that's a look we seem to like a lot.
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And on top of that
he made that short film where he went above and beyond the call of duty, if by "above and beyond the call of duty" I mean going full-frontal and
wiggling his dick around and wrestling with another guy all at once. Which I guess in this instance I absolutely do mean it that way. Bless you, Tom Hardy, for making me mean something that way.