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Things We've Learned from 'Life'


1. A judge in 1932 can automatically sentence you to life in prison without having to go to trial.

2. If you touch Eddie's cornbread, there's gonna be consequences and repercussions.

3. When playing a game of poker, NEVER gamble away your daddy's sterling silver watch.

4. Ray was 90 years old, and knew how drugs go into prison.

5. Talking bad about the sheriff's wife WILL get you shot!

6. Poker face didn't kill the real Santa Claus, just one of those Salvation Arm guys.

7. 'I da pappy!'

8. Ray sucks at drawing maps.

9. Soft is spelled s-o-f-capital T!!!!!


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10. Can't Get Right just can't get right

11. Don't cross the gun line!!

12. Ray dad gave him the little silver watch

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13. Spanky Johnson is very, very impotent man... back east.
14. Sheriff Pike grows up to become the drill sergeant in FMJ
15. His name may be spelled "Jangle Leg" but it's pronounced "JanglelegJangleleg"
16. "As a man thinketh, so shall he get" you know, you read the bible.
17. They don't need no fences at camp 8.
18. You run afoul of hoppin' Bob, you run afoul of the "Bawss".
19. The state of Mississippi ain't interested in your meteorological a-ssessments.
20. Claude's hand is soft and supple... like a lady.
21. Jangle Leg has been repeatedly warned about "pitchin' woo" on the job.
22. Gold-mouf loves cone-bread and Cookie don't get a lotta compliments around here.

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23. At least the state of Mississippi got 40 years of cheap labor out of the deal!

24. Claude hadn't had a driver's licence in 40 years, but still drove Mr. Wilkens to the bus stop. (still trying to figure that one out....)

25. Crossing the gun line for a whites only pies will result in you standing on empty beer bottles for 24 hours.

26. Claude didn't go to night school to dig no ditch!

27. HEY BOSS, HE AIN'T WORKING!!!

28. Ray ain't going out like his daddy!

29. People who fly airplanes are called pilots.

30. the hot boxes don't have toilets.

31. Daisy was hoping Claude would buy her an engagement ring with his first paycheck.

32. $22 is two weeks' pay back in 1932.

33. Claude got to keep his legs.

34. Ray liked to hang out in bathrooms pickpocketing people.

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They don't need no fences at Camp 8
Billy doesn't make negro pies
Claude Banks went to Jefferson High
If Ray walks into a bar and starts choking a waitress, assume she stole from him
A dine and ditch at Spanky Johnsons place will result in losing a few fingers
If u stick your Johnson over the gun line, u will be shot
Cookie likes Worcestershire sauce on his steak
Hoppin bob collects rocks
Ray and Claude saw some beautiful countryside while escaping
Little Mattie Ruth thinks a night in the hole suffices for attempting escape
Claude likes cherry pie
There is confusion over that baby daddy
Jangle leg is the pappy
Jangle leg has been warned about pitching woo on the job
Stealing Rays' cornbread will result in consequences and repercussions
Ray knows an old broad named Della who hits harder than Goldmouth
Ray and Claude burnt bodies look like something from the Xfiles
Radio has a half sister, so he assumes to cuts her a$$ in half
Biscuit has a jacket made out of his landlady
Willie long doesn't like salvation army Santa Claus
Winston chain smokes cigars
Sheriff pikes wife begged Winston to stay
Mississippi got 40 years of cheap labor out of Ray and Claude
Ray can do alot with A few pounds of potato skins and some molasses

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Things I learned from 'Life'?

1. There is nothing funny about 'no coloreds allowed' signs, "White Pies" or 30's-era White/Black relations. Nothing funny. The scene in which that sinfully ugly woman points a shotgun at the 'coloreds' is perhaps one of the least funny scenes in comedy film history.

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I KNOW!! I don't know where Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence got the nerve to make light of it in ANY way. I mean, who do they think they are? Comedians? As we all know, comedy is only comedy if it goes out of its way to not offend anyone. If it hasn't been scrutinized on internet message boards, ran through 1000 different demographical focus groups and watered down beyond recognition, I can't laugh at it.

But that's just me. I'm sensitive to everything. I self diagnosed myself with PTSD after having watched this movie.

Oh and by the way, that "sinfully ugly woman" has feelings too and I can't believe you would insult her on a message board that way.

I have to go. I can't take this aggression.

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Awww, do you need to go to a "safe space"?

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1. There is nothing funny about 'no coloreds allowed' signs, "White Pies" or 30's-era White/Black relations. Nothing funny. The scene in which that sinfully ugly woman points a shotgun at the 'coloreds' is perhaps one of the least funny scenes in comedy film history.


Yes, it's an awful part of American history. Doesn't mean people can't find humor in the movie. Lighten up.

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In poker if you bet more than what the other guy has, he automatically loses the pot without a showdown. Guaranteed to win every single hand? Just have more cash than anyone at the table and go in every single hand. You win every time.



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I thought that too, but immediately I realised there could be an easy explanation for that. The other guy could have thought - reasonably so - that Eddie wasn't willing to go all-in with whatever he had left, besides the watch, and instead was choosing to fold that hand. It takes some mental gymnastics to explain that one out, but there you'll go.

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Wrong, Eddie had all of his cash in play, he even says so. As soon as he says he has no more money (i.e., he is all-in) there can NOT be more betting when it's heads up poker, there can only be a showdown.



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He was already out of cash when he put the watch down as a bet. He could have bet something else other than money, like his wife, a car or his clothes.

Again, like I said, it takes some mental gymnastics to explain this one out, but it's not impossible.

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