Ok…sorry for being dumb. I don’t get it.
How did he stay out of jail? I know that the police shot an unarmed Santa but still…I don’t get why ‘the letter’ exonerates him.
As I recall, the authorities were ashamed that the police had shot an unarmed Santa, and further ashamed that Santa was just trying to deliver a gift. So they didn’t pursue any criminal punishment.
Wait, what?
Didn’t he write the kid a letter from jail?
From the hospital, where he was recovering.
He tipped the police off to the heist so they were able to break it up. And I assume he would got a plea bargain by agreeing to testify against Marcus and Lois. That and the cops’ embarrassment over shooting Santa Claus while he was delivering a gift allowed him to avoid jail.
Right, when he tried to commit suicide, he left a letter for Thurman to give to the police tipping them off to Marcus’ and his crimes. Even though he gave up on the suicide attempt, Thurman gave the police the letter anyway. The letter plus “Everyone agreeing the Phoenix police department shooting an unarmed Santa is even more fucked up than Rodney King” is what kept his ass out of jail.
We find all this out at the end, which is a voiceover of him narrating the letter he sent Thurman from the hospital, along with the “Shit Happens when you Party Naked” T-shirt.
Well that definitely wins the award for “The most misrepresented film in trailers” in cinema history.
Beating out “Muriel’s Wedding” (Abba! Australia! Wackiness!) and “Gross Anatomy” (Animal House at a medical school!!)
I thought I was getting a “Christmas Mall Cop” (With a mall santa) and what I got was “Barfly For the Holidays”
“Bad Santa 2” is apparently “Bad Santa” without the charm and good taste, according to reviews I’ve read.
Now see…a post like that makes me wonder if I should go “fuck that shit” or “man, count me in!”
He’s not going to say fuckwit in front of the children is he?
fuck stick, not fuckwit. Jesus! Two year olds flip this movie better shit than you.
Heh 
I need to tell my real life Bad Santa story…maybe later when I have more time.
HALF!
Maybe when you’re on your fucking break?
Well, I haven’t typed right since we talked last month…but I’ll try
Oh, I’ll probably watch it when it goes to video, which from the looks of things won’t be long.
Thank the fuck christ.
The Kid must’ve held onto the suicide note for quite a while - Marcus and Willie had been working the store for at least an hour before the cops (led by John Bunnell - !) showed up.
It’s not actually clear at all, I figure, *how *the cops found out. I think it’s more rational that a store employee came back after closing for another reason and saw the place was being robbed, or that Willie and/or Marcus tripped a secondary alarm without realizing it. There isn’t really a good opportunity for Willie’s suicide note to have been the catalyst.
Going strictly from what I’ve learned in movies (specifically Heat) it’s much easier to prosecute grand theft if you wait until they leave the premises with the loot. So the cops were just waiting until they got into the van and drove off. But when Marcus pulled the gun on Willie and said he had killed Gin, it became a murder case and they intervened.