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Just Watched My Cousin Vinny For The First Time

Posted on 8/8/20 at 7:20 pm
Posted by pioneerbasketball
Team Bunchie
Member since Oct 2005
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 7:20 pm
Not a bad movie.

I would drink Marisa Tomei's bath water.


Next weekend, I will watch my first John candy movie.
Posted by Muthsera
Member since Jun 2017
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 7:44 pm to
I just watched it for the first time (start to finish, anyway) a couple weeks back.

It was way more fish-out-of-water than the legal setting I had expected. Maybe 10 minutes is actually in the courtroom and half that is Marisa Tomei on the stand

Very good flick.

As for John Candy, what are you starting with?

Spaceballs
Splash
The Great Outdoors
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Uncle Buck
Canadian Bacon
Wagons East
Stripes
Cool Runnings
This post was edited on 8/8/20 at 8:06 pm
Posted by Olric
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2015
2174 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 7:45 pm to
My cousin vinny is a top 5er for me and I watch planes, trains, and automobiles at least once a year and still laugh audibly
Posted by Sus-Scrofa
Member since Feb 2013
10608 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 7:53 pm to
The Good Outdoors is a great movie
This post was edited on 8/8/20 at 7:54 pm
Posted by Muthsera
Member since Jun 2017
7319 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 8:08 pm to
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The Great Outdoors is a great movie


Dan Ackroyd as Roman is legitimately one of the greatest assholes in film history. You can tell he had so much fun with that role, every other line is laugh out loud funny.
Posted by TheArrogantCorndog
Highland Rd
Member since Sep 2009
15794 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 8:10 pm to
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Canadian Bacon




Think of your children pledging allegiance to the maple leaf. Mayonnaise on everything. Winter 11 months of the year. Anne Murray - all day, every day.



Posted by JoeKaneESU
Southwest Louisiana
Member since Apr 2020
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 8:21 pm to
Posted by Hennigan
Member since Jan 2020
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 8:21 pm to
The movie does about as good a job with the legal process as you can expect from Hollywood (still with a great deal of liberties taken).

Fred Gwyn is great as the Judge.

You are correct; Marisa Tomei is an absolute smoke show in it.

Really well cast movie, don't know how anyone wouldn't like it.

I've read they had planned on making more movies (or at least a sequel) based on Vinny's practice afterwards, with Tomei playing a private eye...interesting. But easily could have been awful.
Posted by AURaptor
South
Member since Aug 2018
11958 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 9:10 pm to
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Yeah, you blend.


Such a great flick.

Marisa Tomei in 1992 - smoke show
Marisa Tomei in 2016 as 'Aunt May' , still a smoke show.
This post was edited on 8/8/20 at 9:14 pm
Posted by tigerfan84
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 9:56 pm to
Posted by upgrade
Member since Jul 2011
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 9:56 pm to
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Next weekend, I will watch my first John candy movie.


The obvious choice is Great Outdoors. But Delirious is an overlooked good one.
Posted by Lawyered
The Sip
Member since Oct 2016
37743 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 9:56 pm to
Tomei deserves the Oscar.

That was brilliant
Posted by upgrade
Member since Jul 2011
14681 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 10:00 pm to
I think of this every time I make instant grits
Posted by tigerfan84
Member since Dec 2003
26173 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 10:05 pm to
I’ve never actually seen a grit before
Posted by Dizz
Member since May 2008
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 10:05 pm to
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It was way more fish-out-of-water than the legal setting I had expected.


It’s probably one of the more accurate legal movies out there.

The quotes in that movie are spectacular.
This post was edited on 8/8/20 at 10:06 pm
Posted by Rattlehead82
Florida
Member since Sep 2009
2118 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 11:25 pm to
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As for John Candy, what are you starting with?

Spaceballs
Splash
The Great Outdoors
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Uncle Buck
Canadian Bacon
Wagons East
Stripes
Cool Runnings


Add Delirious and Summer Rental to this list.
Posted by Corso
Atlanta
Member since Feb 2020
11863 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 11:36 pm to
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It’s probably one of the more accurate legal movies out there.


Yep, actually shown in law schools as an example of court and trial procedure
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Member since Nov 2015
39170 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 11:44 pm to
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It’s probably one of the more accurate legal movies out there.


Because the judge calls him out on decorum, dress and lack of Civil Procedure knowledge...unlike Hollywood movies where the defense attorney is allowed to testify and give a soliloquy during cross and then after being sustained just says withdrawn. In a showboat manner in front of the jury.

I mean it's theatrical, which is why Hollywood loves the attorney who seemingly has Carte Blanche in the courtroom, they help to tell the story.

But Vinny has to direct and cross in a fairly legal way and has to set foundation for the lovely Miss Vito to testify.
This post was edited on 8/8/20 at 11:48 pm
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Member since Nov 2015
39170 posts
Posted on 8/8/20 at 11:53 pm to
Anatomy of a Murder

A Civil Action would be up there.
Posted by Hennigan
Member since Jan 2020
1354 posts
Posted on 8/9/20 at 12:09 am to
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Anatomy of a Murder

A Civil Action would be up there.


12 Angry Men

The Rainmaker is pretty good / accurate as well.
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