Taken to the Limit! #TBT

To the Vertical Limit.  In high school this girl and I dated off and on.  It was, in hindsight, the worst relationship I've ever had.  This story revolves around this 2000 movie from back when Chris O' Donnell was mildly popular.  I've posted the trailer so you can essentially get the idea of the film without me typing out this big long analysis.  It came out in December of 2000 putting me at just one month shy of 17.

The was my first "real" date.  I late her choose the movie (and it shows this movie was not a masterpiece by any means)  We went to Movies Ten in Nelsonville (it's MOVIES TEN not the Funbarn (I mean is it even all that fun?))

On with our story.  SPOILERS and I don't feel guilty the movie is 14 years old so go cry to someone else.  At the end of the film, we find all of the characters in a very deep shaft on one single line or rope, Bill Paxton (the "big" bad) is climbing over Scott Glen (aka discount David Carradine)

 so that he can try and kill one of the other heroes.  Scott Glen being the ultimate good guy cuts the rope they're all dangling from so that he and Paxton fall.

Paxton lands first and is dead.  Glenn falls and lands on top of Paxton.  The angles shown and the distance make it seem (to me, at least at the time) that Glenn could survive by landing on top of Paxton.  I turn to my date "He landed on the bad guy he could still be alive!"

So yes it's a movie and I suppose what I said could be seen as kind of rude?  It was a bad movie and we'd been talking/making out through the vast majority of it.  Like we were there to watch a movie?  This movie?  Pfft.

The look I was given

That's as close as I can get to the actual look.  It was as if I told her I'd slept with her mother.  It was a look of pure shock and disgust.  Like I've imagined what the woman that dated the Unibomber looked like after she found out she'd slept with him?  That's the look I got.

This was our first date.  You think I'd have known better than go out again, but we did at least twice more.  But that's another story.


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