The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any Six Flags staff gonna put their greasy carny hands on his boy's birthright, so he hid it, in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long days, he wore this watch up his ass.

Does Australia have fun Aussie slang words for aspects of stripping? Like do they call boobs like “bongarongoos” or anything like that?

I have to wonder if it even became annoying to him once it became an endlessly repeated cheap punchline like it did to the rest of us

So I was 13 when Die Hard came out and being that age in the 80s raised on cable and VHS rentals put it square in my wheelhouse. But by summer 88 the idea of the One Man Army action star felt beyond stale.
It was just a tired idea. And while I was a big Moonlighting fan and liked Willis it just didn’t seem like a very original idea. Had little to no interest in seeing it.
But then it became a surprise late summer hit. Yes it came out mid-July but it was the definition of a word of mouth sleeper. It gained steam in august and that’s when it really opened up. In fact what I remember thinking at the time was that I learned that a plot concept doesn’t need to be totally original if all the components are well-made.
The “Everyman” thing only ever half landed for me since even at the time Bruce was a buff action star looking guy, if not a Sly or Arnold. And of course the franchise eventually wasted that goodwill turning him into an indestructible farce. Fortunately you can still enjoy the OG entry and not have to think about where it all went from there

>That sounds so romantic!!

So I had our photographer and members of her family all hiding out around the area behind power boxes and light rail steps and forgot they didnt all know each other so that led to some fun "Uhhhh youre here for the proposal?" conversations while they hid.

Also fun: The Crest offers a small bar during screenings and since we had like 12 people there to see the film after the proposal I went down to the bar where there was a "Maximum 3 drinks per guest" sign and I was like "Can I just this once get 12 champagnes? I assure you Im not like Dudley Moore in Arthur or anything. These are for other people" and people behind me in line were like "hey youre that guy that proposed outside! Congratulations!" And they all chipped in and bought the champagnes for us.

The phone scene is one of the hottest scenes I've ever seen in a movie. Real heat is generated.

>They didn't need to bother because Donna Reed broke it in the first take.

That's referenced in the terrific Making Of that was on the special edition DVD back in the day but you can now watch on Youtube (and should))

I used to be shocked at that line until I learned about pre-Hayes Code Hollywood.

It plays every year at the old movie palace in our town and it was in front of it before a screening of it in 2016 that I got on one knee and proposed to my now-wife. It has always been a special movie for us but now it's our movie and our annual tradition.

And yes, I worked into my proposal the line "Would you be my wonderful...wife" because I am not now nor have I ever been cool.

To be fair she was a hot single librarian in a town that was a little rapey before it became "Pottersville" ("We'll wait for ya, baby")

Love Ford Fairlane. What’s bananas is both Ford Fairlane and Die Hard 2: Die Harder came out within a week of each other in 1990. Both directed by Renny Harlin. And both with wildly different receptions.

You look like half a butt puppet

Saw this on the day. Liked Zevon well enough but mostly knew him thru R.E.M. and his Hindu Love Gods project with the band. Im not much of an outwardly expressive person emotionally, but his performance that night especially “Mutineer” absolutely wrecked me and I was crying my eyes out harder than I maybe ever have. Over a person I never met. And was only sort of a fan of. The whole night felt personal in a way that gave it universality and I really think you felt Dave giving his friend a soapbox to make a valiant last stand on. Still get a lump thinking about it.

>What if someone took advantage of this and did a stick up before the fake stick up

The Ol' Dipsy Doodle!