Tonight's movie night movie will be, "My Cousin Vinny (1992)." This is one of those classic comedies I kept hearing about forever and simply never got around to watching, so tonight we shall watch it. Hopefully it's all right. 90s comedies are sometimes a bit hit-and-miss for if they hold up or not.
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@bigzaphod The two youtes!
@chrisdejabet @gedeonm I love how the earlier scenes with the swearing and the judge getting pissy about the salty language was basically a setup for this joke - IMO you can see on his face initially that he was thinking this was some new swear word he didn't know or something.
@bigzaphod a classic film. Just about perfect all the way through. The characters are so easy to invest in. Even that shitty judge. Haha!
@danedeasy I thought for sure there was some good ol' boy conspiracy but no it was just terrible witnesses and missing info, mostly. lol
@bigzaphod which is exactly like real life haha
@bigzaphod Damn that’s a GREAT movie.
@bigzaphod You will finally understand like half of our references!
@bigzaphod oh, it holds up. So so good.
@bigzaphod Look forward to hearing what you all (especially the “yoots”!) think of it.
Our movie night movie this week — which we finished just before we lost power last night — was “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” (2010)
It wasn’t bad, and both Nic Cage and Alfred Molina have some delightful moments, but it’d be nice to see the movie it could have been with a better script, preferably unconstrained by a PG rating.
@montyhayter ah yeah I remember we watched that awhile ago. Kids enjoyed it enough. If I remember right, it felt like it had wasted potential though.
@bigzaphod Definitely wasted potential — unsurprising that there wasn’t a sequel, even though they very clearly left the door open for one.
But then, the same could be said of a lot of movies.
@bigzaphod It holds up! Quoted regularly in my house.
@bigzaphod Be prepared for all your boys to fall head over heels for Marisa Tomei.
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Some of the gags may not age well. Pesce was at his peak popularity at the time. But it definitely has its funny moments, some of which endure in modern culture.
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It's an excellent film.
@bigzaphod Imagine you’re a deer…
@bigzaphod It’s excellent. It’s so weird to me that this film was directed by Jonathan Lynn, who before it made British political sitcoms. He also did Clue.
@bigzaphod It’s one of my favorites so I’m excited for you to watch it! ATP did a review of it as a member special a few years back and they were kind of lukewarm on it.
But FWIW, it’s very popular among lawyers who generally say it is a good representation of a court case.
We loved My Cousin Vinny. It started off a bit slow with just a few sensible chuckles here and there and then it just kind of kept going and before we knew it everyone was deeply invested and laughing and cheering. What a great movie. No post-credits discussion (it's not that kind of film), but everyone agreed it was awesome and we should have watched it a long time ago.