Random Thoughts XI (Eleven Pipers Piping)

[carvers4math]

Best lawyer movie: To Kill a Mockingbird (yeah, I'm not reading that second book.)

Most eloquent opening statement in movie: My Cousin Vinny

 

[BCClone]

there's a few isu coeds that told him the same thing I had heard.

Quick. You're quick, Lawman.

 

[SCyclone]

I had my Ipod on random on the way into work this morning and heard Dietrich's "Falling in Love Again", Etta James's "At Last" and Miley Cyrus's "Party in the USA".

I wasn't upset.[/QUOTE

Now THERE'S a song for a smoke-filled barroom and some good belly bumping. (That's slow dancing for the rest of you.)

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Man, I cannot read today. I had no idea what KC was talking about because I kept reading it as "pretty sure"

But I'm not changing it, it's funnier that way

For a while there, I thought @carvers4math was going to be the only one to get my joke.

 

[SCyclone]

Best lawyer movie: To Kill a Mockingbird (yeah, I'm not reading that second book.)

Most eloquent opening statement in movie: My Cousin Vinny

Sorry Carvers, gotta disagree. For my money "The Verdict" is the best lawyer movie. One of Newman's very finest.

 

[wxman1]

Last day of summer, off to drop top and take out the convertible.

The car top, not my top, ain't nobody wanta see dat.

Bring it south this weekend and you can keep it down!

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Best lawyer movie: To Kill a Mockingbird (yeah, I'm not reading that second book.)

Most eloquent opening statement in movie: My Cousin Vinny

I've always had a soft spot in my heart for "A Few Good Men". Of course, pretty much anything by Sorkin is a winner in my book.

 

[SCyclone]

I've always had a soft spot in my heart for "A Few Good Men". Of course, pretty much anything by Sorkin is a winner in my book.

Not a big Cruise fan, but yeah.....the denouement in the courtroom is almost as good as that in The Verdict. He leads the Colonel into the trap so neatly.

 

[oldman]

I'd have to go with "Primal Fear."

 

[harimad]

Most eloquent opening statement in movie: My Cousin Vinny

Everything that guy just said is ********. Thank you.

Oh yes. Definitely eloquent. <3

 

[carvers4math]

Sorry Carvers, gotta disagree. For my money "The Verdict" is the best lawyer movie. One of Newman's very finest.

The thing I prefer about Mockingbird is it's the rare lawyer movie where the attorney isn't some struggling POS.

Also like the attorney portrayal in Miracle on 34th Street.

 

[SCyclone]

The thing I prefer about Mockingbird is it's the rare lawyer movie where the attorney isn't some struggling POS.

Also like the attorney portrayal in Miracle on 34th Street.

Of course, in Primal Fear Richard Gere isn't a struggling POS, he's an arrogant narcissistic POS. (Why did that make me think of the POTUS?)

 

[harimad]

I love love love My Cousin Vinny. (and Legally Blonde!!)

But for serious lawyer movies, Philadelphia and Erin Brockovich are tops for me.

 

[carvers4math]

Of course, in Primal Fear Richard Gere isn't a struggling POS, he's an arrogant narcissistic POS. (Why did that make me think of the POTUS?)

There is very little I find more off-putting than an arrogant POS -- evil or unkind POS I guess.

I also like some really old lawyer movies. "A Man for All Seasons" is definitely one of them. Also the old movie about the Nuremberg trials that focuses on the German judges, I think it's "Judgment at Nuremberg."

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Not a big Cruise fan, but yeah.....the denouement in the courtroom is almost as good as that in The Verdict. He leads the Colonel into the trap so neatly.

I tolerate Tom Cruise. I ADORE Aaron Sorkin.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

I love love love My Cousin Vinny. (and Legally Blonde!!)

But for serious lawyer movies, Philadelphia and Erin Brockovich are tops for me.

Philadelphia breaks my heart when I watch it.

 

[harimad]

I tolerate Tom Cruise. I ADORE Aaron Sorkin.

Watch Edge of Tomorrow. Cruise isn't just tolerable, he's fantastic. And Emily Blunt is Emily Blunt, of course. Great movie!!

 

[ImJustKCClone]

There is very little I find more off-putting than an arrogant POS -- evil or unkind POS I guess.

I also like some really old lawyer movies. "A Man for All Seasons" is definitely one of them. Also the old movie about the Nuremberg trials that focuses on the German judges, I think it's "Judgment at Nuremberg."

That one is Spencer Tracy...and yes - it focuses on German judges who facilitated the ethnic cleansing policies.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Watch Edge of Tomorrow. Cruise isn't just tolerable, he's fantastic. And Emily Blunt is Emily Blunt, of course. Great movie!!

In some he's more tolerable than in others. Risky Business, for example...

 

[carvers4math]

I'm that rare person who doesn't like Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks lol.