PollyDarton

I'm telling you guys... nature's pocket.

I dunno guys. grudlian has a point. There’s an adage that goes something like: “Own your own business so you can decide which 18 hours of the day you work!”

Well yeah. There's no way you could go with a brand new yacht. You'd have to go craigslist for that shit. Like this https://miami.craigs....org/search/boa At this point I'll put a disclaimer: I'm just a nerd who loves movies... I'm not actually planning a heist.

Yes exactly. The businesses are totally how you would make that money legit, if it weren't that all that cash would have flagged serial numbers. Because of that you would never be able to stay in the same place for very long - especially in the states. You couldn't have a permanent business that is routinely putting the retired cash into a bank. You would get nailed and probably faster than you think. I'm telling you. Breeze, Will, and Casey head towards the gulf and buy a big ass yacht in cold hard cash. They also need to drop a ton of money right then and there on clothes, jewelry, electronics, food... etc. They will be able to buy all this without much notice if they do it in a few days and then sail out of the gulf towards the Caribbean or South America. From there they will need to temporarily pitch tents in various countries while they figure out how to exchange their money. Since it seems to me that it would take a while for US cash traveling from let's say Brazil back to the states, they would be able to do it in short spurts without being detected. If they are going to plan for their long term future, then yes... car washes, strip clubs, gyms is exactly what they'll need to do, but in the meantime they have to GET RID of that cash as fast and quickly as possible. It's like the opposite of the plot the Brewster's Millions. In that movie he had to spend 30 million dollars in 30 days with NO tangible assets to show for it after the 30 days. Instead, they need to do the same thing, but having liquifiable assets for practically every dollar they spend. Ya know... except for the caviar and Dom Perignon... because fuck having that money if you can't live the sweet life.

It may have been touched on in the episode, but can we chat for a moment about the mexican standoff between the cops and the heist guys? [side note: is that an antiquated term?] The local cops finally decide to burst in on the heist in progress... Perkins and the sexy dude in leather approach and the situation quickly turns into a standoff. Dixon mouths off to Perkins who then shoots him dead while the cops stand there and DO NOTHING. There were 6 cops with guns drawn on 2 guys. The cops completely had the drop on them (even with the little cutaway shot we see of the hackers coming in with guns... like those jabronis were going to do any fucking good!) We all know, in reality, there is no way a group of American Police officers would let 2 gunmen shoot down their chief and not return fire. This is NOT meant to be a comment on police brutality, more a fact of the way cops work. Those cops would. have. shot. to. kill. without hesitation. They are trained to take control at almost all costs and they outnumbered them. There is no way that Perkins and sexy would have walked away.

Yay! I'll be there. It'll be a perfect end to my birthday week... which is good because I'm getting old!

Did anyone notice the ridiculous tech garble that the lady hacker used? The first time she says "Maybe we ran into a frobbotzim" and then a few minutes later she ways "Try a zigamorph." So I looked it up and frobbotzim and zigamorph do seem to be some kind of super weird tech jargon, but I love that when you look up zigamorph it brings up zygamorph on urban dictionary as "someone who looks up words they find on the internet" which basically means the scriptwriter trolled... me... because I looked up the word.

The gym thing you mentioned up there is pretty genius. Strip clubs would be good too as they funnel in a lot of random cash. You can claim that a customer bought a lot more dances and personal services than they actually did. You base what you sell around how ever many customers you actually bring in and it doesn't look that suspicious. Also since it is a performative service there is no way of proving the customer did or did not receive it (unlike when you are using utilities, retail goods, or food in other businesses... you didn't sell that extra prime rib when your numbers of prime rib on your inventory stayed the same.)

Yes... it was one of the great things about that show... that their incredible wealth got way ahead of them. That little vignette when Skylar was cooking the books is just such a clean and simple way to show how to potentially launder money. If you are someone who's just making just enough extra that you need to account for, you would be able to do something just like this and ostensibly get away with it forever. Like Carmela in the Sopranos. She opened accounts with a few of the major stockbroking firms, with just $9,900 at each place. Getting into the stocks game would only work if you re-set up your life somewhere though because having a stock portfolio is more of a long game kind of thing. All-in-all mobile is really the truth in this whole scenario. With that money you would definitely be living like Bonnie and Clyde until you can get a nest egg of legit cash saved up and then I guess you just start over with new identities. You would still have to probably permanently relocate out of the states. The good news though is that whether you are hiding abroad, sneaking around South America, or maybe laying low in Asia you would be staying in the BEST hotels and eating the finest food in the world... that cash ain't gonna burn itself!

The actual money itself is a factor that doesn't really change. Money laundering is about creating a plausible method to legitimately earn the cash. It is explained really well in Breaking Bad if you ever saw it. Walt's wife Skylar buys a carwash and runs the business like usual, but at the end of the day she secretly upsells all the car washes to waxes and deluxe services and then deposits their illicit cash with the money they legitimately earned from the business... slowly funneling in their meth money making it clean so to speak. It looks totally legit from the outside. It seems to me they would have to go to the gulf, buy a big boat with their cash and sail out to south america with as much of it as they could. There's a good chance that money would still work in another country but all in very under the table kinds of ways... but that's possibly a weird assumption? It is also possible to try a few schemes like opening bank accounts with it, then immediately turning around and closing their account and getting a cashier's check (someone may have said this already) and then turning around and getting FRESH cash for that check... but I imagine you can only do that so many times before you get caught.

^The red tail hawk call never fails to make me laugh. Don't forget the Simpson's Caw! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DITcbIa1KDU

So when they find Totenkopf's body they say his final entry is from October 1918 Where Dex says "He's been dead for over 20 years" which makes my spidey sense tell me that it is 1939 putting The Wizard of Oz in its 1st run. And yes... waaaaaaay too early for Godzilla references

Yeah great point. If everyone had just been cool about it then the girls wouldn't have been suspicious... Make it about all 3 of them, not just Josie. Val and Melody are frekking hot rocker chicks who are pretty talented on their own, why Single out Josie?? One thing I wonder about... After the girls get their makeover, they are in their new apartment and one of them says something like "Isn't it weird that this all happened in one week?" As they say this Wyatt opens up his phone to make a call and as soon as they laugh it off he shuts the phone. What was he going to do? Kill them off?! Already? At the first sign of questioning? That's bananas. I found the TRL scene to be really messed up. Carson and Aries Spears' plan was to beat them to death with baseball bats was kind of shocking to me... to be in this movie that is. All I could think of was this:

Sorry! I read it too fast. It would have been cool to see Rachael Leigh Cook do more Villain roles. She just comes across as so sweet. I think that's why the "This is your brain on drugs" PSA was so disarming.

This movie acted like fashion trends are based solely around monochromatic color schemes - They didn't talked about their wide leg jeans, platform flipflops, backless tanktops, or elastic waste disco pants. No, they were like "blue... blue is in now... Blue is the new Pink (or whatever.) Related or not - here is an add for Target where everything - EVERYTHING - is orange: And here's one where everything is Blue:

I'm with TTL on this... at what point does product placement stop being commentary and just become... product placement? I mean - Val had the fucking Target Dog on her bed. That's really specific current (to 2001) marketing for Target.

She played a FANTASTIC villain in one of my favorite movies of all time. Edit: if you don't know this is from Dazed and Confused which is FUCKING awesome. Is this eligible for Musical Mondays?? Edit: Sorry SaraK - I misread your quote.

I watched it guys (twice) and I gotta say... I get it. I think I'm a "Val"

I remember it being really boring. Paul apologized a bunch for it... all in all, it does not bode well. On the other hand... it is calling to me...

I think that this moment in fashion was a convergence of the singular zeitgeist paths of both belts and suspenders. Belts were big: Suspenders were big: It's what all the cool kids were doing.

I'm in the "never seen" camp for this movie, but I am ready to make the trek across the lake to the "have seen" camp. It should be fun!

I can only hope that project would be this... ya know, but giant. I guess I have to defend Chilly on this one. To be sure, his clothes are ridiculous, but I'm pretty sure they are actually clothes designed and made for men regardless of their flamboyancy. This might be one of the most worthless gifs every put on this board, but you can just make out the buttons, which are on the right side of Chilly's shirt (where men's shirts button.) The pixelation is so bad that no still image would capture the buttons. The 80s were a weird but glorious era of fashion.

I figured it was a fly swatter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nadQ4a6RObQ The "Teamwork montage" shows Chilly and Magic learning to dance seemingly across Manhatten, but mostly they are just in Midtown. They are shown near St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Central Park Zoo, the Roosevelt Island Tramway, Times square... all in midtown... and then suddenly they are in The World Trade Center plaza, which is lower Manhatten and is kind of far. It would probably take you an hour to walk there, 15 minutes or so on the subway depending on the time of day. There is a brief shot of them on the subway before we get to the twin towers and I guess it is supposed to explain how they got there, but is a little lazy since it was clearly supposed to be a part of the second "learning to breakdance" scene (ahem... they are wearing the same clothes as that scene.) Anyways... montages aren't necessarily supposed to be taken literally, but they would have been doing a lot of hoofing that day in between all the sweet breakin'. That being said, the clip of them at the Twin towers is a pretty cool shot taken from a low angle to really show their height... eerie as it may be to modern audiences it was still kind of neat. Edit: any New Yorkers please correct me if I have these locations wrong.