Things Wrong About This Film

wow, watch sopranos much? I was just waiting for you to mention 'vig'.

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at the end did'nt split 100k they slit 900k three ways u dumb f$#k pay atteniton

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1) In the end of the film they closed up shop and moved out and just went on with their lives, no questions asked. If they could do that so damned easily, why didn't they do it earlier in the film and just not pay off Garretts' wager rather than sweat it out! Because he would try to hunt them down? Please, as if there weren't a dozen losers who wanted to gamble their money back anyhow when they closed up shop

It's likely that if Preston had covered the spread that Larry would had been ready to have them all killed. After Jude called up Larry talking *beep* about covering for Julius, it was pretty clear that Larry was ready to have Jude, Tobe, and Kasey killed at that point. . Tobe arranged a last ditch effort. I think without this effort they would have been killed either way. They paid the mobsters 100 grand in a boxing match arrangement, which got Larry off their back provided they don't take any more action. They also used the tip to "fade" Larry and make money for themselves. This is why they were able to pack up shop. Larry no longer wanted them dead because they had stopped taking action and they no longer owed anyone.

2) As if the mobsters would not just roll them over like a car over a walnut? They would drag a few college kids into alleys, find out the drop point and start shaking down the kid at the library themselves. They had no reason to play nice, they could've walked into the dorm room with a minimal amount of effort and smashed property left and right and shaken them down for cash. End of movie. Sure, you need to have some suspension of disbelief but those were the most mild mobsters ever. Those were like bad guys in kids movies.

You have to assume Larry is making a ton of money. These guys aren't going to get bent out of shape over Jude and Tobe taking a few thousand in wagers every weekend. Larry initially tried to present Jude with an option of paying him a kickback for operating in his territory. Jude was too stupid and was on drugs so he failed to understand how deep of *beep* he was really in. But it's not like Larry is going to have a crew come in the library of the school and shoot Jude dead. The last thing any parties involved wanted was police.

3) So, you don't think those kids from the library wouldn't come back and jump him again...twice as hard? I would wait until the next time he has a night shift and then take a baseball bat to his knees, who cares about the money.

Hard to say. The kids were probably hesitant to screw around again. They probably figured it was a lost cause. Also, we don't know if Jude took any other action we didn't see in the film. He could have paid a group of guys to jump the thieves, again. We just don't know. We don't see Jude come back home until late that evening. Who knows where he was and what he arranged during that time after securing the funds from the thieves.

4) Maybe I didn't follow the money trail correctly but...where did all of the money go? So they were clearing 2k-8k per week. Splitting it three ways, one kid had so much dough he could buy a 50k ride and probably blow half as much as that on smack. The couch and the equipment, probably didn't even cost 10k when all was said and done. So they had to sell it all AND max it credit cards just to put together 100k? What the Hell? The car was worth 50k, they should've had at least 15k in operating money to cover bets, and there was also all of the previous profits. Three college kids maxing out some credit cards nabs you at least 35k in most cases. How is it that they could ONLY scrape together 100k?! I would've expected numbers much closer to 150k myself but that's just me. Heck, if you go in that deep you may as well take out even more money.

This question is impossible to answer. We don't know what the line they got on the boxing fight. We don't know what they bet. We don't know how much they spent . Furthermore, we don't even know how long this bookmaking operation existed. Yes, 2k on their worst 8k on their best. But that could have been for only 5 weeks for all we know. It's impossible to figure out their financials with the limited amount of information.

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Who was that at the end of the movie after the credits rolled that they were gonna cut up with a chainsaw? Jude?

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