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All ways he can spend the money with the guidelines

posted 10 years ago by gavinbailey666
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For fun, I made a list of things you can spend the money on, and they are all valid by the movie's rules. Since it was in New York, I made some of them New York related.

1. Rent out lots of hotel rooms and let people stay in them
2. Pay for tickets to ball games
3. Rent a huge billboard
4. Pay to talk and advertise on the radio
5. Buy people food in insanely expensive restaurants
6. Pay for sex for yourself and others at the legal brothels in Nevada
7. Go to a gun range and shoot with a rented gun and buy your own ammo and targets
8. Pay for gas for NYC taxis and busses
9. Buy fireworks and blow them up
10. Pay for massages for people
11. Buy tickets for everyone to movies
12. Buy admission to theme parks
13. Buy plane tickets for people
14. Go to the busiest bars and say "Its on me!"
15. Go to a strip club and spend hours in the champagne room
16. Pay people's parking tickets
17. Pay people's hospital bills
18. Pay people's student loans
19. Pay for concert tickets for people
20. Go to an arcade and keep losing to pump in more quarters
21. Buy lots of expensive stamps and mail them (in the movie)
22. Buy gold and diamonds, go to a pawn shop, and sell them for a hit from the dealer
23. Throw huge parties in fancy hotels, catered by fancy restaurants with the best booze
24. Get a lawyer to advise you and pay them a ton for it
25. Pay people's bail who have been arrested
26. Hire several bodyguards
27. Buy tons of expensive candles, light them, and let them melt
28. Buy everyone tickets to Broadway shows
29. Pay admission to all New York attractions i.e.. Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, and museums
30. Rent lots of movies and return them immediately
31. Buy food for the animals at the Bronx Zoo
32. Pay people to slap them ( $10,000 a slap)
33. Hire a famous band to play a private concert
34. Gamble away the allowed percentage
35. Donate the allowed percentage

[–] the_la_baker 9 years ago

Yeah, the movie really should have had stricter guidelines. Even at the age of 10 I was coming up with ways to EASILY spend all the cash in just a day or two.

[–] cabal24 9 years ago

Most of what you have on your list falls under the "Cant give the money away" stipulation or "getting value for service".

[–] the_la_baker 9 years ago

Most of what you have on your list falls under the "Cant give the money away" stipulation or "getting value for service".

Then he lost and should not have gotten the cash. He bought lunch for everybody on the street at the fanciest place around. That is less value than having 1000 "party guests" stay at a hotel for an epic party.

[–] thereffman 9 years ago

Yeah.......he said "most" not "all" Reading is very hard huh baker?

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[–] the_la_baker 9 years ago

Yeah.......he said "most" not "all" Reading is very hard huh baker?

The film sets up all kinds of ways for him to waste money. A crazy party is in fact the last thing he does besides the last second retainer. Stop rationalizing by splitting syntax hairs. The fact remains that within the rules established in the film, he had many easy options to spend all that cash very quickly.

[–] gabby_bm 9 years ago

in 1985 a Super Bowl slot cost $500K and some change for a 30-second spot. That's 60 commercials.

Chump change.

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[–] BigMeanieHead 9 years ago

its the middle of baseball season. Superbowl wont be played for months.. So they wouldnt be charging 500K for advertising in the middle of summer..

[–] jgroub 8 years ago

Yup. That is the easiest way. As opposed to the person who said "What if it's not winter?", so what? So it's $100K a spot, and you buy 300 of them. Whatever the math works out to be, that money is gone, gone, gone, and you've gotten value for it.

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[–] Dainty (1863) 3 years ago

Can’t believe you put whores and strip clubs over medical bills.

[–] JoWilli (15004) 3 years ago

biden supporter

[–] Dainty (1863) 3 years ago

not american. only simps support whores

[–] JoWilli (15004) 3 years ago

i support strip clubs...

[–] Dainty (1863) 3 years ago

simp

[–] JoWilli (15004) 3 years ago

issc

[–] strntz (10785) 10 months ago

The whole "getting value for the services" is a really a gray area. He also couldn't just give the money away. It's hard to spend that much money and have no assets at the end.

For instance, the very first one "Rent out lots of hotel rooms and let people stay in them" is really giving money away except for directing how the given away money is spent (hotel room and services).

Some of your examples are clever though like hiring a band for private concert.

[–] hurricane (1907) 9 months ago

They really glossed over the value for money thing in this film.

When he spent millions of dollars on a stamp to send a letter, when he could've just got a stamp for a few cents, it's not value for money. Why did the lawyers not challenge this?

It's just meant as fun, not for overthinking.

[–] strntz (10785) 9 months ago

I thought the stamp was clever.

If he really spent $30M and had no assets at the end of 30 days, then he couldn't have gotten much value for his money regardless of he did.

[–] hurricane (1907) 9 months ago

It is a clever thing to do.

My point really was, you see a lot of posts complaining that he destroyed something valuable, which was against rules. He didn't really. He used the stamp for it's intended purpose. And technically, just because it's mailed, it's not destroyed. The value is still there, even if it's been used.

If you're going to point out that breaks any rule, it breaks the rule about being value for money. I was trying to point out he actually broke that rule a lot of times, and the bad guy lawyers never really challenged it.

As I say, though, movies aren't really for overthinking. It's fun. I really enjoy watching this one.