High Stakes Bracket Cliffhanger

The movie Cliffhanger is one of my guilty pleasures. Great action scenes coupled with some really bad acting and a Wisconsin cheesy plot - plus an angsty Sylvester Stallone - it really doesn't get much better. (Okay, Point Break is close.)

Anyway, the last scene features arch-villain John Lithgow (who my wife and I ran into at the Algonquin Hotel bar several years ago, and he's really tall, like 6'4"), who has been taunted the whole movie by the shirtless Sylvester Stallone high in the Rockies at 50 below zero trying to recover the $80 million dollars he hijacked.



Although he is an arch super villain wanted by Interpol for doing countless dastardly deeds, Lithgow's character, Eric Qualen, keeps falling for these really stupid ploys by Stallone's character, Gabe Walker. And although Qualen's gang has countless automatic weapons they can't shoot as well as Kentucky, and after last night we all know Kentucky can't shoot either. Bastards.

At the end he gets really frustrated and screams out, "DAMN YOU WALKER!" in a silly British accent. Then he plummets to his death.

Where am I going with this?

DAMN YOU, TOOD BEALER! (My bracket plummets to its death.)

Like Eric Qualen, I won't get the money either.