Friday, July 13, 2012

Best First Date Ever



4 comments:

Jordan said...

Reminds me of the first date in Lethal Weapon 2 (between Mel Gibson and Patsy Kensit), which would have been the best first date ever if it hadn't ended so tragically. Mel meets Patsy in the grocery store, invites her to his trailer, they drink beer and watch the sun set, have the kind of olympian sex marathon that you find in 1980s movies, and are awakened by crooks in a helicopter machinegunning the trailer into smithereens. Then they escape, Mel somehow manages to blow up the helicopter, and they go back to her place. I've certainly never had a date like that. (The rest of the night doesn't go so well for her, however...and his night's just getting started.)

Kal said...

I only feel creep out by Mel these days but there was a time when I was one of his greatest fans. Lethal Weapon is a good little actioner.

Jordan said...

I agree, it's very hard to see past what we now know about what a horrible, crazy jerk he is (and evidently always was; they've worked very hard to conceal it from us, since he's been so lucrative). But vintage Gibson -- like, for example, the first 2 or maybe 3 Lethal Weapon movies -- is great stuff. He definitely has a very high dosage of the movie star gene.

Kal said...

Galippoli, he was great in that. You gotta give him Braveheart too but I watch THAT movie now with an entirely different understanding of who William Wallace and Mel Gibson REALLY are/were like.