The reason they jumped is interpretive. So the audience is free to interprete the reason however they like.
My interpretation is that their reckless endangerment of their own lives finally caught up with them
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There were bushes! (Look across the street IN THE PARK) Morpheus or Neo could have made it...
You complain about spoilers. I say you are stupid enough to come here without watching the movie.
It's amazing that you people are arguing the pointless details. The entire movie is a satire about the government/economy/American people. And there are points in the movie where it's really really blatant.
shareThey jumped because they realized just how terrible of a movie they signed up for. Honestly, the scene where they jumped was the single most stupid scene that I've ever seen in a crime drama this side of Loaded Weapon. At least with Loaded Weapon it was intentionally stupid. This show you really can't tell.
shareThe reason is: this is a stupid overrated DUMB movie and contains everything wrong with modern day Hollywood movies.
shareThey jumped because they belong in another movie. They belong in an action-thriller about two wise-ass cops. Bad Boys, Lethal Weapon, a movie where that would have been an awesome thing to do to kick off the car-chase. But this isn't the kind of movie where you walk away from jumping 20 stories, not even if you did hit a bush. They are genre-savvy, but it happens to be the wrong genre.
Not unlike the Simpsons episode with Frank Grimes. He was a character from a world where idiots like Homer doesn't get to be safety-inspectors in a nuclear power-plant and make a living nice enough to support a family of five in a middle-class lifestyle. It is a meta-commentary on the show. Or in the case of this movie, action-movies in general, compared to this movie.
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I've seen some great dry-dives on film but that unbroken shot of them falling until they splatter ranks among the finest. As for the OP's question, I'm no Ebert or Maltin, but I think the reason they jumped was because it was the funny thing to do.
shareI don't really care why they did, it was hilarious. Great spoof of action flicks.
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It was a stupid scene.
The fact that MANY people don't understand the scene shows how poor the writing was.
But that's coming from a movie that REUSED the same joke (Will Ferrell dating hot women) over and over again because it ran out of material.
Well, I've got news for you pal, you ain't leadin' but two things: Jack and sh*t and Jack left town
"The fact that MANY people don't understand the scene shows how poor the writing was. "
Or just illustrates how dull some peoples perception has become. Did none of you watch their earlier scenes where they drove a car through a bus and then crashed it, only to have the car fly out while Samuel Jackson is shooting at them while reading the crooks their Miranda Rights. If you saw that and figured "yeah that's totally plausible in real life and in no way over the top" then yes, I can see how the rooftop jump scene would be left for "interpretation" and labelled as bad writing.
They did also give three different in-movie reasons why they jumped
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1931551/
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