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Awful movie, director clearly doesn't know any poor people

posted 8 years ago by thebricks
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I laughed because I'm very familiar with Michigan and the Detroit area. I was in tears laughing at the portrayal of middle-class and poor people here by the actors. Her dad/stepdad has a Nazi tat on his hand, mom is a piece of crap, but she and her sister have hearts of gold? Rocky has a lot of tats but claims she's going to stop doing it as soon as she gets out of Detroit, lol. What? No one I know that loves tattoos like that decides to just stop like that.

Money also has cornrows, which virtually no one has anymore. The actor didn't research his part well and comes off as pretty corny. It's just hard to take Money and Rocky seriously when their English and grammar are better than most of the idiot locals here. Also, Rocky cries about wanting to get out of Detroit and making it to California, but come on, she's a reasonably attractive girl, getting a job somewhere and paying rent isn't going to be hard. The whole story is one big contrived joke.

Also, what alarm company isn't corporate? Who would keep sensitive client information at home like that? The cops also never figured out any connection between these break-ins? Didn't understand blind guy tearing apart his home with those guns. He's got really great accuracy for being blind, lol.

Was there any explanation for the gas not working too?

[–] kraphappy 8 years ago

Yep! I could tell those kids were miscast/mischaracterised. Way to well spoken and dressed, even body language was off. Not a whiff of poor about them.

Should have cast some kids like something from the cast from the Wire. Would have been more believable.

* I think the gas just didn't have time to work properly before the gun went off and work him up.

[–] thebricks 8 years ago

I'm talking about poor white people. The actress that played Rocky was a joke. She's nothing like Michigan white trash. The white kid whose dad worked at the alarm company would never be caught dead with those morons. Why even write in the alarm nonsense? At least make them competent thieves and show that they know how to disable it themselves.

[–] ThoseLittleRabbits 8 years ago

the cast from the Wire. Would have been more believable.

translation - they should have cast black people sicne black people are the only ones on the planet who commit crime 

i've got feelings too, ya know - inbetweeners

http://melanoidnation.org/white-man-warns-all-black

[–] KingCobra686 8 years ago

Rocky has a lot of tats but claims she's going to stop doing it as soon as she gets out of Detroit, lol. What? No one I know that loves tattoos like that decides to just stop like that.

$300,000 is a lot of money, but its being split between the three of them and the guy who gave them the info. They are also planning on this money breaking them out of a life of crime and letting them live luxuriously in California.

If they had succeeded and made it to California, they would have likely blown through their shares of the money fairly quickly, and resorted back to crime as soon as that happened.