SugarTits (a post from the past)

The past couple weeks have been exceedingly busy and I haven't even had a chance to sit down and watch movies (it's all I can do to keep up with this season of The Voice - don't judge!).

I originally wrote this in Feb 2015 (so the "last week" mentioned below isn't LAST week). And I hope you all remember the incident which is the reason for the title of this blog:

"What do you think you're looking at, sugar tits?" — to female police officer during 2006 DUI arrest

(I actually was going to point you to a link of all the terrible things Gibson has said over the years, but they are frankly scary as shit.  He's a complete nutter.)

So until we meet again, Happy Cinco de Mayo...have a margarita for me!

Last week I was (again) watching commercial TV and the Lethal Weapon series was on.  Naturally my first thought on this was "Pure Gold"!  I mean, how can you lose?  I could go with two from the series, I could go with Danny Glover or...the obvious choice.

So it's been years since I've seen Lethal Weapon.  I loved it when it came out...cop movie, buddy movie, Mel Gibson's naked ass.  It was released in 1987 and spawned FIVE sequels.  Wow.   The "1987" was so clear in the hairdos (Mel is sporting a fine mullet) and outfits. And the music is all bluesy sax.  The story is that Mel plays a guy who's had a lot of personal tragedy and no one can tell if he's truly crazy or trying to pull a scam to get out of his job.  There is a poignant (heh) scene where Mel is maybe gonna put a bullet in his brain, but ends up all sobby instead.  Danny Glover is a guy who just turns 50 and doesn't want to deal with any of this.  His tagline is 'I'm too old for this shit".  They get caught up in stuff they shouldn't which leads to Glover's family being threatened.  Then Mel gets to show off and shoot a lot of people.

To add to the crazy in this movie is Gary Motherfucking Busey!  I had completely forgotten he was in this!  He's a bizarre guy anyway, but he's playing a really driven second to the main bad guy.  He does shit like burns his arm with a lighter but doesn't flinch.  Oy!

Sidenote: my mother LOVED Danny Glover, she met him at the Bammies one year and he kissed her cheek.  She was over the moon.  Even back then (nearly 30 years!) he still moved like an old man.  I looked up if he had any injuries when he was young...I discovered he's epileptic and dyslexic but nothing about why he runs like he's 80.

(I'd suggest pairing this movie with a PBR.  Seriously, it's such a dude movie)

To round out my Gibson experience, I thought I'd revisit Mad Max.  Mad Max came out in 1978.  I didn't discover it until 1981, after I saw The Road Warrior and my world was rocked.  Some of you may know this, but when I went to college, my dream was to move to Australia and make movies with George Miller and Peter Weir.  I loved their movies so much in the '80s!

Mel Gibson is a baby in this movie.  He is adorable, honestly.  But O.M.G. is the dialog in this film terrible.  There is a whole section where Mel and his wife go on this vacation and he tries to tell her that he loves her but he's crap at it.  He gets teary here too.  What's with the crying all the time, Mel?  Showing your "acting" chops??  The bad dialog is made up for by the excellent costuming and hair-raising chase scenes!  I think this film was made on a shoestring budget (I read that only Mel and one other guy got to wear real leather as their costumes...all the other cops had to wear vinyl cuz it's cheaper), so it's pretty impressive that it's so ambitious.

Anyway, Max actually doesn't get "mad" until the last 15 minutes of this movie.  Seriously?   For an hour and 15 minutes he's all sappy and wanting to quit his job because it's dangerous and his friends are getting hurt (my favorite is the guy who has a throat injury and has to talk through one of those mechanical things!).  Then his family is killed by the crazy gang of hooligans and he gets Mad.  He paints his car all black (Sexy!  Before it was yellow and said Interceptor on the back), gets shot in the leg, run over, whatever.  He's like the Terminator...he doesn't quit until he's killed everyone he wants to.

The music was particularly interesting to me.  It is completely over the top dramatic and was really reminding me of Hitchcock movies.  It turns out the composer's earlier work reminded George Miller of Hitchcock's composer which is why he was chosen.  

(My pairing suggestion for this one is a valium and a big glass of water.  It's a stressy film!)

My take away is this:

#1 - Mel had no choice but to go batshit crazy after all the bizarre shit that is the Mad Max world and Gary Busey. He's been surrounded by it from the get go.

#2 - He really has beautiful eyes.

#3 - I wonder what would have happened if he'd stayed in Australia?  Would he have stayed sane?

#4 - I watched a lot cop/car chase movies when i was young (I still do).

All right...there you have it.  I thought about doing a Mel Gibson flight but there was NO WAY I was going to watch Apocalypto.

xoxo....hashtagSueslife