I love this movie but whenever i watch it the ending bugs me. They say they are "free". How can they be free when they just aided in a prison break? They would still be in some trouble.
shareyeah i was thinking that they would have to break back into jail and pretend like they never left and then get be freed by the warden
shareI dunno...Seems like when ever the ACLU gets the 45 pounds of heroin evidence tossed at trial due to illegal search it kills all the other "evidence" legally obtain as a result of the "poison well" (no, not law school, I'm just married to it).
If they had not been illegally convicted, they wouldn't have been in prison to begin with, so no prison break out. I'd bet that once they sued the state for wrongful conviction, that 2ndary crime would be waived...
That makes absolutely no sense. So if they murdered other inmates that would be waived since they were wrongfully imprisoned? Not only did they help prisoners escape, but one of them was a murderer who murdered his stepfather. Helping an admitted murderer escape jail would be waived? Try to tell that to Rory's next victim when his family files a civil suit.
shareAgree. I would think you would still have to get formally released. I always thought it would have been a better movie (and made more sense) if, after they escaped and found out the guilty men had been nabbed, they sneaked back in to get released officially.
share"I always thought it would have been a better movie (and made more sense) if, after they escaped and found out the guilty men had been nabbed, they sneaked back in to get released officially."
Who ever heard of anyone sneaking back into prison just to be released? Even those two guys weren't that stupid.
Well, I look at it like this. Early 80's movie, comedy, not meant to be taken completely seriously. The part where Wilder keeps following the starlet around the store talking about her acting and stealing struck me as kind of odd. Part of the movie felt like a rip-off of the Longest Yard with the contest involving prisoners.
But back to the realism of the movie, I found it a little far fetched that first the two robbers ripped off the costumes and act to rob the bank and then stole the exact van Wilder and Pryor were driving to keep up appearances.
This flick was like a lot of flicks: feel good ending despite what reality would dictate. That's why it's a movie.
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"But back to the realism of the movie, I found it a little far fetched that first the two robbers ripped off the costumes and act to rob the bank and then stole the exact van Wilder and Pryor were driving to keep up appearances"
Go watch the movie again mate, they also stole the Van aswell as the costumes.
Anyway back to topic, the ending is ok imho. Its a comedy therefore meant to make you feel good. Of course its a tad unrealistic but what did you want them to do, add an extra hour to the film just to show them being re-arested and then tried for helping in the prison break, then pardoned for not being guilty of the original crime in the first place.
Wow my head hurts now, LOL.
Thank Bleep it was such a great film.
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Even Pryor admitted the movie was ridiculous in "Live at the Sunset Strip". He said something like "Thanks for seeing it but I saw the m-fer and I don't get it!" But it was so damn funny we just loved it and still do.
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Who ever heard of anyone sneaking back into prison just to be released?
Yes, that is true, although since they were wrongly imprisoned and that *beep* judge wouldn't listen to that little girl's testimony which would've freed them sooner, it is sort of a wash to me.
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Over all we're left with some gaps during the Trial first off who asked for a bench Trial?
Most of the evidence was thin.
Here you had two guys with clean records, shouldn't that count for something?
Of course the biggest goof a Bank was robbed that fed time, not state.
Then again they needed a state house for the story.
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