The best thing about the movie though is the idea of the grading system, while they don't get into great detail about how the points work, you get enough of an idea to make up your own deductions and additions. Immediately following the movie me and my roommate Rob began to rate ex girlfriends and our other friends. The one major rule of thumb is that no matter what your points are, you can't date out of your two point curve, so if you are a 7 you can't date a 10 cause they are out of your league, and you shouldn't date a 4 cause then you are slumming and frankly why would you want too!?! So, after careful consideration and complete hetero opinion , I decided I'm about a 7, getting bonuses for being a nice guy and being funny as hell, but also getting deductions for driving a shitbox and poor. Which in my opinion is perfectly fine... I don't think I'd ever date a 10 if I had the chance... I'd hate to constantly be looked at with that What the hell is she doing with him look. I'm a pretty confident guy and don't care what other people think of me, but it's a lot of pressure to put on a relationship. Even though in the movie everything works out, like they always do in Hollywood scripts, in the real world I'd be happy with a 7 too, and anything higher is an added bonus.
But it's funny that I saw this movie the same night as meeting this girl. I went out downtown with Rob, which is something we never do, to meet this news-reporter girl that he's got it bad for, the fact that she is locally famous I will omit her real name and call her April O'Neil. Well we get down to this awesome bar, I've never been to, and she is there with her girlfriends and these douche bag Canadians who are on spring break, but who are apparently in the "shipping Business with Conchita Bananas". I'm pretty good at spotting Bullshit, and it was knee deep in the room. So anyway, me and rob sit with the group at the opposite end of the table as everyone, and we watch these guys pull out all the obvious moves. The switching up who they are talking to as to ensure all the girls in the group that they are "safe guys". The smooth back caress, the subtle hints of how long they are in town, and so on. They failed to acknowledge the two guy friends at the table with as much as an introduction, which was an obvious red flag to all the girls what the guys were looking for.
So anyway back to the point, so America's Hat guys leave empty handed and we start talking to April and her friend, we'll call her May. Both girls have been drinking a lot but May is really drunk, so we all go for a walk to check out this build that May is turning into a shop. This girl apparently doesn't get out very much and is having a grand old time, but is talking non-stop, asking me all kinds of questions... I thought I was on some sort of trivia game show or something. But I'm being my usual self, entertaining and funny, and witty, and charming. I'll give her a drunk rating of about a 7, because she was feeling good and looking like she earned it. On a good day though this girl is probably an easy 8 with a possibility of more. So after about an hour of playing crossfire in a haunted building, we decide May is way to drunk to drive home, so we work something out, so that I'm gonna drive her and her car back to her place while rob follows us. She's not exactly OK with this at first because A) she's drunk, B) she doesn't really know us, although she got my life story out of me in about 90 min... and yet still couldn't remember my name after asking me 4 times, and C) she's kind of sheltered and is skiddish of things like that, and made us promise multiple times not to rape her. So, I'm driving this girl home and she's still shooting out questions, and has to hold my hand the entire time cause she's scared to let me drive her car, but apparently not scared enough to allow me both hands to drive with. So as we are pulling up to her house, she tells me that she thinks I'm cute and that I should call her and ask her out on a date. But at the same time, follows that with..."I don't usually date guys like you... I like Football players. Big Muscular guys. But your cute and funny, so that's cool." Wow, a girl really knows how to boost a guys ego... Needless to say she gave me her number and I'll have to call her and ask her out... but I thought it Ironic that I just saw a movie about this....
But she's within my point range so we'll see.... 152 days and counting....
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