Watching Ocean's Eleven for the first time

[pokerfan]

They're talking about $150M in loot. By my calculations, that's 3300 pounds of cash in 100 dollar bills (the highest denomination in current circulation). I'm really wondering how they intend to pull this off.

[bigwillq]

1. I liked the movie.

I thought it was entertaining.

[democracyindanger]

2. Brad Pitt works out.

[Wetzelbill]

3. it's entertaining

I think I own the video, I haven't checked in awhile. I should look, but I mainly stick with my dvds nowadays. Fun film. I could used 150 million about now.

[lost-in-nj]

4. Watch the original

blows that one out of the water......


:hi:


lost

[pokerfan]

5. OK, $80M in six duffle bags

That's would be almost 300 pounds per bag! And the dudes were carrying two at a time!

This is the stuff I think about when watching movies.

[Elidor]

6. You should read Donald Westlake's old crime capers

He loves to pull that shit on his characters. Like the Dortmunder Gang - they can't plan for shit, and all this stuff is always going wrong. Some of his books were made into decent movies, but the books themselves are pure joy. And Help, I'm Being Held Prisoner, one of my favorite books of all time. Westlake is a master comedy-crime writer.

[pokerfan]

10. I had the same problem with Die Hard 3

$140 billion in 14 dump trucks?

$140B in 1995 dollars in gold bullion would require thousands of dump trucks, not fourteen.

Gold is HEAVY.

[ghostsofgiants]

13. You must be a pain in the ass to watch movies with.

:P

[pokerfan]

17. My friends are even worse

[Elidor]

18. I'm hiring you for my next criminal caper

You'll be in charge of all planning.

[pokerfan]

21. Yeah, but I suck at social engineering

[libnnc]

7. I love, love, love this film series

I'm a whoora for Clooney.

He's the only guy I'd do.

[LibraLiz1973]

8. I love the Oceans movies

It's nice, old fashioned fun

[realisticphish]

9. finish the movie

;)

[pokerfan]

12. I did

It was fun but required a tremendous suspension of disbelief. Everyone has a different threshold level for that sort of thing, I guess.

[realisticphish]

15. oh, yeah

basic action movie for me, but something different

[jobycom]

16. Name a movie that doesn't.

:shrug:

[pokerfan]

19. Yes, to varying degrees

There was an episode of Numb3rs that got it right. A special agent was delivering $3M in ransom money and was being vectored around LA. The size of the bag was at least convincing.

[jobycom]

24. Was the rest of the episode convincing?

I just mean there's always something. So maybe you can't believe it was $150 mil. Ignore the number, or make it smaller in your head. Movies are all like that. Suitcases are always too light, necklaces come off with a slight tug from the front, twenty year old women fall into bed with forty-eight year old overweight men they'd pepper spray in real life. Bullets never hit good guys but always hit bad guys. There's always a fruit stand and a cafe with outdoor seating on really wide sidewalks whenever a car chase develops.

Or eleven guys led by a dashing ex con put together an ingenious plan to rob a casino with trickery and high tech gadgetry and pull it off even though everyone knows he's an ex con because no one around them acts the way professional security or casino personnel would ever act. I can overlook the size of the bags, if I can overlook all the rest.

Just having fun, don't take this post seriously. :)

[ghostsofgiants]

20. People who insist on 100% realism in movies are lame.

Sure, realism is good in a lot of ways, but unrealistic movies are fun!

[pokerfan]

22. Whatever

I won't be reduced to name calling.

It just ain't that important.

[ghostsofgiants]

23. I'm not being serious, dude.

Lighten up.

[leeroysphitz]

11. I think they ask Andy Garcia for all of it in traveler's checks so it's very convenient. n/t

[pokerfan]

14. Yeah, but Garcia should have seen through the ploy

He of all people knows what $160M looks like.

[FredScuttle]

25. I've got your explanation right here

Simple. They stole a lot of $1,000 bills. (or higher currency)

Yes, yes, I know that the Fed discontinued the high-denomination bills 40 years ago and they were well out of circulation before then. However, they're still technically legal tender and the rarity of high-denomination bills makes them all the more valuable (Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas used to display a case of 100 $10,000 bills).

SPOLIER ALERT














Did you ever see the movie Midnight Run with Robert DeNiro and Charles Grodin? Grodin plays an accountant who embezzles cash from the Mob and, at the end of the movie, reveals he's had the money all along in a money belt he's wearing. He claims to have about $300,000 in cash in the belt and, when DeNiro flips through the bills, it's quite apparent that the majority of the bills are $1,000 in denomination.

[FredScuttle]

26. sorry, meant "SPOILER"

n/t