Ever notice how robbery scenes in the movies always seem to go wrong somehow. I’m not talking about the heists from the banks or corporate offices, those tend to go one way or the other. But small time convenience stores that get robbed in movies seem to be the bane of those that actually do the deed. Either the person doing the robbery is just a moron or there are other factors that come into play to make this seem like a very, very bad idea. Whatever the case it seems like convenience store robberies in movies are just kind of, well, cursed.
Here are just a few to make that point.
5. Raising Arizona
If you’re going into a store to rob diapers then make sure you’re quick, efficient, and don’t have a wife in the car that’s likely to be watching your every move. This would make a very poor story in prison when someone asks what you’re in for, not to mention it’d be flat out embarrassing to go away for a year or more because you were stealing Huggies.
Why oh why, oh WHY, would anyone ever be dumb enough to say anything that had to do with another person’s mother? You already don’t trust the two guys and you’ve been harassing them since they got into the store. You really think that talking about their mothers is going to improve the moment? O-Dog wasn’t in the right at all but neither was the cashier when he decided to take his little jab. In a neighborhood where you know people get shot for dumb stuff it’s best to keep your mouth closed sometimes.
3. Four Brothers
Leave no trace when you’re committing a robbery. Leave less when you’re about to commit murder. You can bet all too well that if someone sees the tape of you blowing their mother away with a shotgun that your days have been numbered and they won’t be lasting long. This is especially true if you’re an in-town shooter and you decide to stick around and chill instead of getting out of town for a while.
2. The Replacements
It’s not much a robbery but it does serve a point. A lot of adults can keep up with kids on the run but not a lot of them can catch them when the kid’s already got a healthy head start. Franklin keeps pace easily but can’t catch a pack of Twinkies to save himself. Plus, what’s he really going to do if he catches the kid?
1. From Dusk Till Dawn
I’m leaning into technicalities on this one because it wasn’t so much a robbery as it was a kidnapping, a double homicide, and arson. Despite the intense shootout however Richie does manage to pilfer a map on the way out the door before the entire store bursts into flames and creates a fireball that thankfully probably wouldn’t be seen in the blazing sunlight of the outdoors.
Really, robberies don’t work out that well in real life, and in the movies it’s no different. There’s always going to be something that goes wrong in a smash and grab.
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