Talk:Pain & Gain

Pete Collins

Currently "Pete Collins" links to a soap opera character list. I did a few cursory google searches, and can find no evidence that this is the same "Pete Collins," and in fact, found scant evidence of his existence in any media. If anyone has better information than I do, please offer it now. --24.5.197.145 (talk) 00:27, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Pete Collins, a native Miamian, is an investigative journalist, a university-level lecturer and magazine writer. Collins' three-part series titled Pain & Gain was published in 1999 by Miami New Times newspaper. Collins and Ed DuBois, the hero of Pain & Gain, have been friends for years. Click here for a link to writer Pete Collins' website.

BrentEastman (talk) 22:27, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Starring?

Which cast members should go in the "Starring" section of the infobox? For example, is someone with a role title of "Principle Sun Gym Trainer" considered to be "starring" in the film? 65.69.203.252 (talk) 15:00, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Spoiler alert

Do we need to spoil the end of the movie in the lead of the article, for Christ's sake? If I cared to find out the ending I'd research the Sun Gym Gang. How about put that text in that article? --Hutcher (talk) 19:19, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Agreed. I removed the death row spoiler from the intro paragraph. Anyone who wants to read further will find that outcome in the "Fates" subsection of the "Plot" category. - Froid (talk) 18:19, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Production budget

The "Production" paragraph states: "Bay reported the budget was $22 million", while the Infobox lists the budget as $55 million. That huge discrepancy begs for an explanation. However, all of the articles I've come across cite the budget as somewhere between $22-$26 million, and I haven't seen any documentation explaining the production budget's almost-tripling. If anyone else finds such documentation, would you please briefly explain/cite it in the "Production" paragraph? - Froid (talk) 18:19, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Comparison between film and real life events

In this section of the article, it states, "In reality, Lugo did not accidentally kill Griga; Doorbal purposefully killed him."

While it's true that Doorbal commits the murder, he did not do it "purposefully" - the intent was to kidnap Griga and extort his wealth, in the same manner as they did to Marc Schiller. Killing him when they did netted them nothing but a Lamborghini - they didn't even get the entry codes to Griga's house, let alone access to his bank accounts, etc.

From "Pain & Gain" - Pete Collins' article:

"After taking a breather and surveying the messy scene, Lugo and Doorbal checked on their prize catch, the man (Griga) who would soon be hauled off to a warehouse where he would gently be persuaded to provide them with untold riches; the man who, along with his luckless girlfriend, would also be dead before long.

To their everlasting disappointment they discovered they'd overdone it: Griga was dying. And they hadn't gotten a single penny out of him. They'd taken everything from Schiller but couldn't kill him. Maybe someday they'd get it right."

Stelbs20 (talk) 15:53, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Lugo or Swanson?

Is the character name Lugo or Swanson? 77.77.248.195 (talk) 19:10, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Sabina Elena Petrescu

In the Comparisons section it says "Sabina Elena Petrescu (portrayed onscreen by Bar Paly as Sorina Luminita), was in fact a Solid Gold center-stage stripper." Can someone elaborate, for those of us not familiar with strip clubs/culture, what a 'solid gold center-stage stripper' actually is? I assume she wasn't literally made of gold but it's impossible to work out from this page what it actually means. Danikat (talk) 13:30, 27 January 2015 (UTC)