Top Ten Movie Mullets
Bush on top, trim sides and the tail... It's the best of the mullet
Top Ten Movie Mullets
There was a time when mullets were cool. It was a magical world of blue-denim jackets, Bob Saget's comedic prowess, and conservatives with some sanity. That world is extinct now. But archeological remnants linger everywhere, the most fascinating of which is the mullet. We find traces of the mullet in photos, TV shows, and movies from this time period known as "The Rad Years." We point and laugh and wonder who would ever ask for such a ridiculous hairdo. Some of us even copycat the mullet as some ironic tribute to a simpler time where looking stupid was looking fine. A few real mullets still exist, hiding in the backwoods, trailer parks, and 24-hour bowling alleys of the once-proud Confederate states. Yet, for the most part, the mullet died about 15 years ago. A slow fadeout. Some wept, some did not. Yet, all of us, secretly or not, still loves to see a good mullet even when it's just an artifact of the past.
 | Juliette Lewis and Woody Harrelson – Natural Born Killers |
 | Mullets and psychopaths go well together. I'm not sure if that was Oliver Stone's intended message, but it's what I took away from Natural Born Killers. The film handed us a cinematic rarity: the non-lesbian stereotype fem-ullet. And surprisingly, Juliette Lewis looked damn sexy with hockey hair. However, Lewis wasn't the only actor showing off a bi-level do. A balding Woody Harrelson provided the missing evolutionary link between mullet and skullet, which is what this film should be remembered for. |
 | Mel Gibson – Lethal Weapon |
 | Officer Martin Riggs was suicidal and crazy. Not because he jumped off buildings with fellow suicidal folk or got in lawn fist-fights with your local neighborhood Gary Busey. No, the man was a nutbag because his planned suicide involved a hollow-point bullet through the back of his skull, which would have completely ruined one of the great manes of the 20th century. To even consider destroying such a fine, rare specimen of the mullet is pure insanity. |
 | Billy Mitchell – King of Kong |
 | Look at this fool. You can tell just by looking at him that he's a douche. That's the text-book definition of a douche-bag mullet. Video-game champ Billy Mitchell is a real guy who sports a real shiny, douche mullet, and if you've seen the brilliant doc, King of Kong, then you know Mitchell doesn't flaunt the mullet as an ironic statement. Nope, he thinks it's real cool. But actually, it's real douchey in a sad, never-was-cool-even-when-tossed-into-the-time-capsule sort of way. So, and you already know this if you've watched the film, this is a haircut that perfectly fits the man. |
 | Kurt Russell – Big Trouble in Little China |
 | Just remember what ol' Jack Burton says at a time like this, "Drive a big-rig, have a mullet. Wear a tank-top, have a mullet. Shoot a machine-gun, have a mullet. Fight ancient Chinese spirits have a mullet. Nail a Kim Cattrall, have a mullet. It's the all-handy, all-American tool." |
 | Darth Vader – Star Wars |
Star Wars was about many things, and one of those was mullets. Anakin Skywalker may have lost all his limbs, skin, and hair during that epic battle with once mullet-headed Obi-wan Kenobi, but no amount of scalp scarring would prevent him from losing his proud mullet. This was a literal case of helmet hair.
C'mon the best movie mullet is David Spade in just about anything but best of all in Joe Dirt.
The only thing I would say against Spade's mullet in Joe Dirt is that it was meant for comedic effect, all of the mullets David lists are actually a product of the time and meant for something of a cool/stylish factor.
As a man who has worn many a mullet in my younger days and living in an area of Indiana still populated by morons still wearing this abortion of a hairstyle, I must say that some of these are NOT MULLETS!! The definition of a mullet is at least shoulder length hair in the back and a decided decrease in length on top. Hence the phrase "All business up top, party in the back".The guy from the kong movie does not appear to be wearing a mullet, at least in this shot, I have not seen the movie. Christiensen, while possibly the worst actor ever, is not sporting the do. That's just medium length long hair. Bowie's hair, while definitely the most interesting, is not mullet potential. Finally, we get to the Swayze. The photo to the far right is a mullet, but come on, his hair from point break is not a mullet. That's just the coolest hair ever.
Now that thing that Keifer Southerland is wearing, THAT'S a mullet.
Yeah, agree there, though it doesnt necessarily shoulder length. Some of those are just dudes with long hair and shorter bangs…
STLB, Short Top, Long Back, not short front…. Mel's hair is pushing the mullet boundary, but Hayden is safe, for instance…
Bowies though Id call a mullet…theres a pretty big difference in length from top to back/sides…
What an odd thing to debate… :)
I admit Hayden Christensen and Swayze in Point Break push the definition of a mullet somewhat (although Darth's helmet is definitely a plastic-molded mullet). However, I believe what separates long hair from a mullet is whether or not the front bangs can be pulled back along with rest of the hair into one collective pony tail. Hayden's hair seems too short on top to do so. And while that picture of The Swayze from Point Break looks like he has longer hair on top, there are several scenes in the movie (usually when his hair is wet) in which the top of his hair looks much shorter.
However, I think if you search the web, there's a general agreement that Gibson definitely has a mullet in Lethal Weapon.
And anyone who doesn't think Bowie is sporting a mullet as The Goblin King is just kidding themselves.
Gibson had a better mullet in Mad Max than in the lethal weapon movies.
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