My Cousin Vinny (1992) - 🤯📼First Time Film Club📼🤯 - First Time Watching/Movie Reaction & Review

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  • @DansTravels5823
    @DansTravels5823 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    The best thing about this movie is that there are really no bad guys. You expect a southern judge, law enforcement officers, DA etc to be corrupt or evil. Instead, everyone was doing their jobs to the best of their ability and willing to accept that they were wrong when they were wrong.

  • @Patriiiiick
    @Patriiiiick 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +199

    Marisa Tomei deserved an extra Oscar for her outfit changes.

    • @RoSaWa386-33
      @RoSaWa386-33 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      And she was terrific in Stallone's OSCAR.

    • @donjackson5522
      @donjackson5522 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Especially that backless body suit. That look was actually popular about five years before then. So that was a way the director could show they were a little behind the times.

    • @foljs5858
      @foljs5858 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      If there was also a cuteness Oscar, that too

    • @joeday4293
      @joeday4293 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​@@donjackson5522 The upholstery on Grandma's couch was never sexier. 😍

    • @otisroseboro5613
      @otisroseboro5613 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Exactly 💯

  • @BulldogMack700rs
    @BulldogMack700rs 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    The judge Fred Gwynne aka Herman Munster is such an expressive actor and a joy to watch

    • @user-qj6fk9px8l
      @user-qj6fk9px8l 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      was having problem restarting his career.... then did some small stuff, a couple of PBS theatrical production movies, HIT THE BIG TIME AGAIN WITH _'PET CEMETARY'_ AND THIS ONE.

    • @CAbbott71
      @CAbbott71 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Even sitting down in the judges chair, he has a powerful presencs. Great choice for a judge.

    • @Filmbuff1979
      @Filmbuff1979 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      His final role. R I P Herman

    • @masonkirby9044
      @masonkirby9044 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sometimes, dead is better.

  • @VolutedJoker
    @VolutedJoker 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

    “It’s called disclosure ya dickhead” .. gets me laughing out loud every time. Love ❤️ her 😂

  • @krizan1
    @krizan1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    I'd have given Tomei a bonus Oscar just for the 'little deer' scene. 😊

    • @flarrfan
      @flarrfan 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And I love the "biological clock is ticking!" scene...

  • @krisfrederick5001
    @krisfrederick5001 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +158

    Marisa Tomei earned every ounce of her Oscar for this film. Its replay value is incredible, even after you know the verdict. This is the most quotable courtroom drama in history. Including A Few Good Men. "Two Yoots!" Tops "You can't handle the truth!" In my book.

    • @joegreene7619
      @joegreene7619 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I just wish there was a reference to Ralph Macchio in this as The Karate Yoot.

    • @RoSaWa386-33
      @RoSaWa386-33 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      No matter how big goofy George Costanza was in SEINFELD, he was completely correct in chasing after Marisa Tomei. Totally, 100% correct.

    • @user-qj6fk9px8l
      @user-qj6fk9px8l 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      2 UTES

    • @JeshuaSquirrel
      @JeshuaSquirrel 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It took me a few viewings to notice the subtle acting choice she made when answering Vinny's question about positraction. She starts in an attitude of "Why are you asking me? You know this," but then you can see the moment the character realizes "Oh, I need to explain to the jury into the record."

    • @ThreadBomb
      @ThreadBomb 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-qj6fk9px8l Two utility vehicles

  • @torontomame
    @torontomame 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    By the time Marisa Tomei ends her amazing testimony with "... the 1963 Pontiac Tempest" I cheer out loud. Every Single Time. (And I've watched this movie countless times since it was first released.) My favourite scene in the movie. ❤

  • @kathyastrom1315
    @kathyastrom1315 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

    I recently saw an interview with the screenwriter, and he said that the first draft had Vinny being dyslexic. I can’t remember if Pesci kept that in his characterization, but it does explain his lack of reading (both the procedures book and the newspaper stories in the other dead lawyer) and having to take the bar six times.

    • @Deathbird_Mitch
      @Deathbird_Mitch 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And he'd be too proud to admit it. (I've known guys like that back in NYC. )

  • @GHZoner
    @GHZoner 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    You know that law professors use this film to teach new lawyers because, among other things, it has some of the most accurate "voir dire" in cinema. Real lawyers LOVE this flick, and it is also really funny.

    • @stevenwoodward5923
      @stevenwoodward5923 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      There as a lawyer here on TH-cam that say's the same thing. The one mistakes he points out, that's made is a lawyer can't get that close to the jury box.

    • @ThreadBomb
      @ThreadBomb 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stevenwoodward5923 But is that a recent thing, or long-standing?

    • @deeanna8448
      @deeanna8448 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@stevenwoodward5923 "or the bailiff will tackle you?" Legal Eagle!

    • @dnish6673
      @dnish6673 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The biggest lack of realism is that no one gets away with lying to a judge about their identity as a lawyer, much less getting another judge to cover for them. Getting permission to act in a different jurisdiction is a process anway. You need to prove your bona fides.
      The other plot hole is - when exactly did Lisa phone Judge Malloy anyway?

    • @stevenwoodward5923
      @stevenwoodward5923 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thats where I got my information from, sounds like we both have great taste.@@deeanna8448

  • @TombunnyHunter
    @TombunnyHunter 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    I always love watching those moments where Matthew has to hold back when he sees something coming up. Just the look on his face at "Two yoots".

    • @fortminor85
      @fortminor85 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As well as Pesci’s opening statement of all statements.

  • @flarrfan
    @flarrfan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    In fairness to Vinny the NY State Bar Exam is notorious as one of the hardest in the country...

    • @user-qj6fk9px8l
      @user-qj6fk9px8l 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yep, so is Louisiana that still has Nepoleonic "French" laws enstilled over English Common Law in the State's court system. One of our 'cousins' was a Parish's attorney back in 70s-80s. Ususally, they a called County Commissioners, but in Louisiana they are called 'Police Jurors' for that Parish.

    • @johannesvalterdivizzini1523
      @johannesvalterdivizzini1523 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It was a career re-directing hurdle. I went into teaching after being edged out of the NYS Bar.

  • @dugferd2266
    @dugferd2266 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    My favorite part of the "youts/youths" joke is that after the whole thing is cleared up, he says "the two defendants."

    • @jean-paulaudette9246
      @jean-paulaudette9246 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I thought "Ute" was the name of an aboriginal people, and the origin of the name Utah.

  • @JeffKelly03
    @JeffKelly03 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    I cannot begin to stress enough how much I'm looking forward to Emily experiencing this phenomenal movie.

    • @scottirvine121
      @scottirvine121 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      She wasn’t really blown away was she 😢

    • @bluesman6891
      @bluesman6891 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@scottirvine3532 no she wasn't. I was excited for their reaction about this film but Emily is not into it due to the film sense of humor. It's not for everybody I guess.

  • @andreadeamon6419
    @andreadeamon6419 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    If you noticed everything dealing with nature - he couldn't sleep. In prison when the fight broke out and people were yelling - he slept like a baby.
    Felt like he was home

    • @andreadeamon6419
      @andreadeamon6419 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I also think this was Marissas first movie after she left as the world turns.
      We hated seeing her go but we love what she's accomplished

    • @ThreadBomb
      @ThreadBomb 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ah yes, nature's freight trains.

  • @tylerlucas3752
    @tylerlucas3752 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

    “She didn’t know at the time that… with great power comes great responsibility”. I smiled and laughed so hard when you said that 😂.

    • @elizabethcarter1200
      @elizabethcarter1200 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Love the reference. Ya'll should watch Teen Wolf (1984) because that's the first movie to have that quote, not Spiderman (2002).

    • @snorpenbass4196
      @snorpenbass4196 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@elizabethcarter1200 ...TW was quoting the Spider-Man comics, though. Which has had that quote as a recurring staple since 1962.

  • @daverowe03
    @daverowe03 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    The two movies that ranked ahead of this are "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Twelve Angry Men."

  • @Drawkcabi
    @Drawkcabi 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Bruce McGill (who played the Sheriff) Is one of my favorite character actors!
    My Cousin Vinny, Animal House, Timecop, Runaway Jury...I've loved him in the movies he's been in as well as the TV shows...Babylon 5, Star Trek: Voyager, MacGyver, and Quantum Leap (and I think he played an integral part in Quantum Leap even more involved than the show let on).
    Always enjoy seeing him in things!

    • @krizan1
      @krizan1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      He's one of the agents shot in the plane-jacking scene in 'Cliffhanger'. 😊

    • @chrisferguson1911
      @chrisferguson1911 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He was the bad guy Mayor in Reacher Season 1.👍

    • @user-qj6fk9px8l
      @user-qj6fk9px8l 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Miami Vice "Brothers in Arms" episode, and detective on Rizzoli & Isles

    • @savoy2576
      @savoy2576 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Don't forget the first few minutes of Shallow Hal!

    • @mestupkid211986
      @mestupkid211986 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He's also in the new Reacher series.

  • @Hey_Jamie
    @Hey_Jamie 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    He was able to sleep during the prison riot because he’s from New York. That was his white noise.

  • @alexspindler1
    @alexspindler1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    One of my favorite parts of this movie is that there are no "villains". There were rushes to judgement and a zealousness with the sheriff, but people said what they thought they saw and the massive coincidence involved in the car and the killers looking like the kids reinforced that. It's really great.

    • @hulkslayer626
      @hulkslayer626 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Agreed. Even the prosecutor was nice and friendly and invited Vinny out to spend time together and congratulated him at the end.

  • @iKvetch558
    @iKvetch558 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Cannot wait to see what Em thinks of the grits, the yutes and Lisa's clock ticking! 😂😂

  • @martinm8991
    @martinm8991 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    This is THE movie! I have been taking English lessons long before the Velvet revolution, but only started to actually get the language when we got movie-channels in cable-TV (for a penny). I taped some movies to watch again in order to decipher dialogues word-by-word (there were no subtitles back in 1992). And this was the very first movie where I got every single word, so it has a special place in my heart forever. (together with Marisa Tomei )

  • @The-Underbaker
    @The-Underbaker 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I think I was thirteen or fourteen years old when I saw this movie and fell in love with Marisa Tomei!
    Fred Gwynne is an often unsung hero in this movie though, a truly fantastic actor. He died far too young. RIP

  • @reactionwatcher7652
    @reactionwatcher7652 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "May I treat this witness as hostile?"
    "Oh, you think I'm hostile now."

  • @Curraghmore
    @Curraghmore 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I waited to the end to see if Matthew would bring up the age differences of the main characters in his trivia. It might be surprising to some that Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei who were supposed to be fiancé/fiancee are actually 22 years apart in age. In fact, Marisa Tomei was so young when she made this film (26, Joe Pesci was 48) that even Ralph Macchio is 3 years older than her.

  • @dansdiscourse4957
    @dansdiscourse4957 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    To Kill A Mockingbird and 12 Angry Men (1957) are 1 and 2 respectively. 12 Angry Men is a favorite, as is number 5 on the list, Inherit The Wind (1960). Sadly, Liar Liar was overlooked.

    • @stevenwoodward5923
      @stevenwoodward5923 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Personally I would switch numbers 1&2

    • @sophiamarchildon3998
      @sophiamarchildon3998 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      12 AM had that gut punch so early in the 20th. Yet, no correction came of it.
      TKaM is just discarded. It should make us mad, and reform. Yet, no correction came of it.
      If only we could own our mistake, and build a better system to account for that failure of ours...

    • @jerohm5108
      @jerohm5108 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I only have 116 movies archived on my media drive and all three of those movies are among them. Makes me kinda proud of my choice in movies i consider to be a must have. Didn't realize I aligned with so many.

    • @raybernal6829
      @raybernal6829 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agree with those choices... 12AM is Epic....

    • @marktracy1721
      @marktracy1721 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What about Anatomy of a murder

  • @Jetz316
    @Jetz316 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is one of my favorite movies of all time. It still holds up all these years later. ❤

  • @scottreacher4620
    @scottreacher4620 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I read there was supposed to be a Part 2 where Vinny was going to go to the UK for a trial. Would have loved to have seen that.

  • @TheTitandog70
    @TheTitandog70 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Golden rule, never talk to the cops without a lawyer, ever. Love this movie, Marisa Tomei is just awesome in this. I watch it once every month just for laughs

    • @kennethfharkin
      @kennethfharkin 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That really depends on if you are looking at an affirmative defense (self defense) where you actually had a legal self defense situation. Even then you need to know to avoid specifics for things like exact times, distances, and quoting as the stress of the situation causes documented misperceptions from memory which may be misrepresented in court. Look into the writings a Masaad Ayoob who has functioned as a LEO, LEO trainer, expert witness in self defense shooting both the realities of and legalities, and CCW trainer for decades.

    • @BunBun299
      @BunBun299 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My Dad is a retired police Sargent, and he always tells this advice to my brother and I.

  • @tevinwms1104
    @tevinwms1104 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Although set in Alabama, most of the film was actually shot in Georgia. The exterior shots of the courthouse, surrounding town square and Sac-O-Suds store were done in Monticello and the interior courthouse scenes were shot in Covington, used in several films and shows. The prison scenes were filmed at the Arrendale State Prison in Alto.

  • @biguy617
    @biguy617 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The Judge is played by Fred Gwynne aka Herman Munster.

  • @joeday4293
    @joeday4293 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Along with "The Princess Bride," this is one of the bedrock movies of my marriage. In fact, those two were listed next to each other in her online dating profile, which is why I messaged her in the first place. She calls awkward goofy teenagers and pre-teens "youts" - imagine a gaggle of thirteen-year-old boys talking shit waiting for the school bus or something. That's a good example of youts. We finally decided that it's an acronym for "Young Oblivious Unemployed Teenagers." 😆

  • @byronbonsall
    @byronbonsall 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The movie theater I managed in Lincoln, NE in the early 90s played My Cousin Vinny for months! One of my favorites.

  • @oldcdog91
    @oldcdog91 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Easy 9 for me. The first time seeing Marisa talk about the deer, I laughed so hard that it was difficult to breathe. I will also watch it anytime it’s on and check out any first time reaction to it.

    • @nellgwenn
      @nellgwenn 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'd say 9.5 for me. But I'm someone who would give a movie a 10. My thing is why would someone have a ranking system that goes up to 10 if you never use it? Just stop at 9. Just because a movie is a 10 doesn't mean there wouldn't be other movies that would be a 10. But that's me.

  • @BJack1983
    @BJack1983 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "whatever blows your skirt up" made me spit my drink up my nose 😂

  • @JoeCharlesKaye
    @JoeCharlesKaye 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    One of my all time favs. Pesci and Tomei are giving peak career performances here. Thanks for the react!! ✨

  • @shioriryukaze
    @shioriryukaze 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I've always enjoyed this movie. From the outfits, to the characters, especially Fred Gwin(sp) because I grew up watching The Munsters. The scene about the 64 Buick Skylark, that whole thing to me was one of the favorite parts of the movie. When he was interviewing the witnesses it was so funny. Just a great move and I'm like your husband. Anytime this movie is on and I just so happen to be channel surfing, I will stop and watch this movie. It's a great one.

    • @jean-paulaudette9246
      @jean-paulaudette9246 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      *Gwynn

    • @shioriryukaze
      @shioriryukaze 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jean-paulaudette9246 thanks. I always misspell his name.

  • @portugasque
    @portugasque 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I did love this film from the first time I saw it and re-watching it more recently I found it was surprising how well it held up. I do find Vinny as a character very frustrating through most part of the story but that is how I'm supposed to feel I guess. Marisa Tomei is just amazing in this and thoroughly deserved all the accolades she got for this performance. Even as a non-US lawyer I always found the legal aspects of the movie were possibly very true to life and then in time I studied a little more and realized that they were and that the film is held in almost universal esteem in that regard. Great reaction, great movie. Oh and by the way I believe the films that topped the American bar Association's list of best legal films of all time that Matthew mentioned are "To Kill A Mockingbird" and "12 Angry Men".

    • @wardenm
      @wardenm 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Still holds up indeed! They STILL show this to law students in the states to help teach and show an example of the trial process!

  • @brianoconnell6459
    @brianoconnell6459 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I like how the ending scene suggests a My Cousin Vinny 2. Maybe it's a good thing they didn't, as Pesche would be busy for a few years after with multiple Lethal Weapon sequels.

  • @gmunden1
    @gmunden1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The witness with the dirty windows played alongside Gene Hackman in "The Quick and the Dead."

  • @wrighthowell9801
    @wrighthowell9801 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Number One movie by the ABA was To Kill A Mockingbird. Atticus Finch is viewed as pretty much the greatest lawyer in movie history. Number Two movie is 12 Angry Men which is a phenomenal depiction of a jury deliberating a case. Both just stellar movies and legally accurate. Up there with them if you like legal films are Anatomy of a Murder, Witness for the Prosecution and Inherit the Wind. By the way both To Kill a Mockingbird and Inherit the Wind are also set it the south (Tenn. and Alabama respectively)

    • @nellgwenn
      @nellgwenn 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Rainmaker is good too.

  • @StarWarsMoments
    @StarWarsMoments 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    You are a thousand percent right. Legal Eagal just did an interview with the original writer of the film, and he didn't like the repeated gags, the stuttering lawyer which he had not written(supposed to be extremely nervous and not stammering), and the train knocking things off tables. He's an excellent writer and understands that jokes can only be pushed so far before they get ridiculous.

  • @DiamondRioFan1
    @DiamondRioFan1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    10 bag-o-doughnuts. Always enjoyed this movie. Herman Munster as the judge, great casting!!!

  • @kelsosemail
    @kelsosemail 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Scrolling through TH-cam.
    Come across this thumbnail.
    "Oh, she's gonna f***ing LOVE this!"
    Click.

  • @scottNNJ
    @scottNNJ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I love this movie, and love your job editing the reaction! Most reactors cut out the solid rear axle part (which I can visualize. Positraction is something I didn’t quite understand). And the last line “a burp is spontaneous, a burp is not romantic” is one of my favorites. Glad you included it.

  • @TheGreatGig73
    @TheGreatGig73 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Absolutely no other actors could have played those parts.

  • @fortminor85
    @fortminor85 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    “Everything that guy just said was bullshit. Thank You.”
    You guys can’t TELL me a better counter argument then Pesci had.

  • @dudermcdudeface3674
    @dudermcdudeface3674 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Another fun court comedy is "Find Me Guilty." It's actually directly from the transcript of a real mob trial where one of the mobsters defended himself. A little more serious at times than My Cousin Vinny, but still generally a comedy.

  • @dorukgolcu9191
    @dorukgolcu9191 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    So here is my interpretation of the prison sleep scene: Vinny is not used to small town sounds, but he *is* used to the sounds of people fighting, rioting, and sirens blaring, aka sounds of New York 😜😜

  • @slowerthinker
    @slowerthinker 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I love the fact that during "deflategate" Bill Belichick started a press conference (wiith his usual very grumpy serious expression) by saying _Now I'm not the Mona Lisa Vito of blowing up footballs but this is what I think_

  • @l00d3r
    @l00d3r 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I believe #1 and #2 in the greatest movies list are To Kill a Mockingbird and 12 Angry Men, respectively.

  • @melenatorr
    @melenatorr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    One of the lovely little character moments I wait for is how Austin Pendleton's character's stutter disappears when he think's he has Mr. Tipton cornered on the eye-glasses, and comes back when Tipton responds that they're reading glasses. Poor Mr. Gibbons, his stutter seems to have an emotional stimulus, and I, for one, hope it will get better. This case won't encourage him...

  • @domenicdurante966
    @domenicdurante966 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The judge was played by Fred Gwynn. His first big television role was in the short lived comedy "Car Fifty Four Where Are You," which was actually shot in the Bronx, NYC. I believe it was in 1961. A few years later he played the friendly Frankenstein like character Herman Munster in the "Munsters" comedy. He did a nice job in "My Cousin Vinny." Fred passed away a few years after "Vinny."

  • @JoeMama410
    @JoeMama410 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love the character of Jim Trotter III. He was a defense attorney who was sick of seeing guilty people get off so he became a prosecutor. He is trying to win the case but conducts himself honorably and is happy to congratulate Vinnie on his victory. No one was trying to frame the boys, they were all wrongly convinced that they had the real murderers.

  • @Kamenari37
    @Kamenari37 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The set-ups and payoffs throughout the film are super good. Gotta remember too, within the film and the time it occurs, the public view of courtrooms and procedure was almost non-existent. Unless you were part of a trial itself you'd probably never seen what goes on in a courtroom from a trial sense. OJ's trial was really the big thing that kicked off the public's interest in the courtroom drama being so high profile. Nowadays there's almost an obsession with having cameras and recordings of every high profile court case that goes on.

  • @jeffl9167
    @jeffl9167 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Imagine my excitement when I saw you guys had watched this and posted a reaction. I was dancing in the streets! And I'm 8+ minutes in and you didn't disappoint!! I damn near wet my unnerbritches when they went into Pool & Chicken. I so love Emily!

  • @susanstein6604
    @susanstein6604 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fred Gwynn, the actor who played the judge, was Herman Munster in The Munsters.

  • @mrupright
    @mrupright 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When we moved to Alabama, the first night we were awakened about 4 am by a train whistle on the tracks a block away. We immediately laughed at the thought of living in real-life My Cousin Vinny. The second night, the same thing happened and we wondered what we got into. After a week we slept through it and have done so ever since over 16 years.

  • @TallyDrake
    @TallyDrake 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I don't know if anyone already said this, but the book the judge hands Vinnie is about criminal procedure, not the Alabama constitution.

  • @anthonymiele4320
    @anthonymiele4320 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    There's an element of the story that never made it into the final cut that explains a lot of Vinny's behavior in the court room: he's dyslexic.

  • @suki1978
    @suki1978 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The judge was played by the great actor, Fred Gwynne this was his last film before he died of cancer.
    Fred Gwynne was on tv shows like car 54, ( where are you) and the show The Munsters as Hermin Munster.
    Fred Gwynne also sang (baritone) on stage The Littlest Angel (1969) and later played important parts in the Broadway revival of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1974), Our Town (1975) at the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut, and A Texas Trilogy (1976), again on Broadway.
    He also was a radioman on a submarine chaser during WW11, then he graduated from harvard as an aspiring painter, Gwynne drew cartoons for the school's notorious humor magazine, “The Harvard Lampoon,” and later became president of the publication.
    He was writing and illustrating children’s books-really good ones. His two best-known titles, The King Who Rained and A Chocolate Moose for Dinner, attested to his love for puns and homonyms. They are those rare children’s tomes that are both goofy and sly, respecting the intelligence of children befuddled by the inanities of language. Well-loved by critics, they were also wildly popular, scoring positions on the bestseller list when published and still in print today.

  • @The-Underbaker
    @The-Underbaker 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    For the trivia, you didn't mention that Joe Pesci was initially thought to be too old for the role so he wore a wig and had flesh-coloured tape essentially pulling his eyes back to decrease his wrinkles! (the tape is very obvious on some versions of this movie)

  • @amandarose4469
    @amandarose4469 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Loved seeing Herman Munster as the judge.

  • @brentheil3928
    @brentheil3928 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You probably didn't realize this, but the actor that played the judge (Fred Gwen ) is the guy that played the role of Herman Munster in the 1960's t.v. show " The Munters"

  • @asterix7842
    @asterix7842 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You need an “Oh my God!” screen counter for Emily. 😂

  • @e.jamesshepard7183
    @e.jamesshepard7183 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No matter what he's in, All I ever will ever see is Fred Gwynn being Herman Munster.

  • @audraross3012
    @audraross3012 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Oh, I'm SOOO excited to see your reaction to this. Great pick!

  • @bonchbonch
    @bonchbonch 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This movie is pretty fun. It's a lesson in missed communication and not judging people at face value. Everything is set up from the beginning, even the tires.

  • @ooklathemokfan
    @ooklathemokfan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Did you catch that during the prison riot scene, the New Yorker in Vinny was used to that kind of noise and slept through it? 😂

  • @gpaje
    @gpaje 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Oh grits, I remember my first introduction to them, when I was at Army Bootcamp in South Carolina. Being a West Coast guy, no idea what they were. Surrounded by grit lovers with different ideas of what to put on them. Some did butter and sugar, some did butter and salt. The rest of us said nope, though I'm sure they are tasty for those who grew up with them.

    • @FalteredGreed
      @FalteredGreed 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They're delicious I usually use sugar and butter but you could use honey if you don't want them to be overly sweet or mix them with candied bacon bits

    • @garyscott9364
      @garyscott9364 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same for me but at Ft Knox, Kentucky. I had heard of them before but never seen them. My fellow grit loving platoon mates finally convinced me to try them and I loved it. Got some in the kitchen cupboard right now.

  • @OneAndOnlyMe
    @OneAndOnlyMe 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I grew up with The Munsters so Fred Gwynn was like a serious Herman Munster.

  • @charlieeckert4321
    @charlieeckert4321 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Many, many attorneys say this is the best courtroom movie. It very accurately portrays the legal system and courtroom procedure.

  • @OneThousandHomoDJs
    @OneThousandHomoDJs 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's fun to watch real lawyers react to the courtroom scenes and flesh out the verisimilitude of the cinematic proceedings.

  • @paulafowler5099
    @paulafowler5099 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I loved Fred Gwynne was the sweetest monster in the 1960s as Herman Munster. Good actor! The whole cast in this movie is on point.

  • @daniellanctot6548
    @daniellanctot6548 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Re: Andrew Dice Clay as Vinny - OUCH! Can you imagine if that would have happened? I mean, I probably would not have minded as I am one of the very few people who enjoyed _The Adventures of Ford Fairlane_ and Clay's style does match for the character of Vinny (Though he certainly never could have made as good a job as Pesci and the character would have been much less likeable in the end), but the most striking thing in my mind would be: If Clay had played Vinny, I am not sure that Marissa Tomei would have played Mona Lisa Vitto opposite him... And if she had turned down the role because of that, she never would have won an Oscar for that role (And I don't think anyone else would have in her role)! Talk about owing one to fate!

    • @Dr.Acula76
      @Dr.Acula76 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm one of the other few. Ford Fairlane rocked!

  • @JeremyAustin-hw1qy
    @JeremyAustin-hw1qy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The scene when the stuttering guy is speaking for the first time in the courtroom if you notice in the background the actors are holding in their laughter another piece of trivia

  • @3DJapan
    @3DJapan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When he said "I shot the clerk? " the sheriff replied "yes". So he KNEW it was a question. Then later read it like it was a statement.

  • @fortminor85
    @fortminor85 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is the first movie I have ever thirsted for Marisa Tomei. Glad to get that out.

  • @mikeascarlton88
    @mikeascarlton88 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The judge was the original Herman Munster of THE MUNSTERS; also his last role as he passed away within a year after the release.

  • @hayleylorenzo6709
    @hayleylorenzo6709 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This movie was actually shot in Georgia, in a county I used to work in. That was the actual courthouse, and there was an actual store there they used. They shot many shows in movies in different counties I worked in. Fun stuff.

  • @thefourshowflip
    @thefourshowflip 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The first and second best legal movies according to the American Bar Association are: 1) to kill a mockingbird and 2) 12 angry men

  • @christopheryochum3602
    @christopheryochum3602 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Man!, Matthew's notes were REALLY interesting. I've watched this with reactors a couple-dozen times, but didn't know all the info Matthew looked up. Two things really jazzed me about the movie, the first being when Vinnie finally hit his stride in the courtroom. But the killer for me was when Lisa "faced" the condescending prosecuting attorney with her killer expert knowledge of cars. She may as well have had grease stains on her cheeks and overalls with tools in the pockets. So this is the really neat thing about this movie...the grease monkey was a gorgeous woman they never suspected was a grease monkey. The surprise in having an out-of-work hairdresser override the "expert" from the FBI just really hits with me. Throughout my life I've encountered numerous people who have advanced degrees (and who are happy to start each sentence with "Yes, I'm a ... " On the other hand, I've also encountered brilliant people with no conventional certificates validating their pronouncements. And many times, the latter group of people put the former in the dust. This movie really does it for me.
    Oh, and Marisa Tomei was crazy out-of-this-world cute. And that type of woman with killer smarts slays me. Nice work on the notes, Matthew. By the way, I enjoy watching Pippin. He really enjoys stretching out his paw. Can you tell me what his TH-cam channel is? :)

  • @samuelvincent557
    @samuelvincent557 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I won't reiterate all the points that everyone else makes here, but I will bring up my favorite thing about this movie. With the exception of the actual murderers, which are never on screen, there aren't any bad guys in this movie. Everyone is just doing their job or reporting what they think they saw. And after Vinny finished with his witnesses, and he realized that the kids were innocent, he didn't wait for the jury to decide. He dropped it. He was a little disgruntled, at first, but I think that was because he didn't like losing to Vinny, but he did what was right.

  • @dugferd2266
    @dugferd2266 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The lawyer visiting in the cell... Maybe the line about the jail being condemned and having to keep them in the prison was meant to cover that.

  • @JeffKelly03
    @JeffKelly03 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If you guys wanna really have your minds blown (just starting to watch so this might come up in the end discussion), Will Smith was originally the favorite to play the Stan character. That would have made it a very… different… movie.

  • @Dr.Acula76
    @Dr.Acula76 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Fairuza Balk is the girl from The Waterboy and I guess I can see the comparison

  • @frankiecamacho8739
    @frankiecamacho8739 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The judge, played by Fred Gwynne, is none other than Herman Munster himself.

  • @joeymac3777
    @joeymac3777 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The judge wasplayed by the late Fred Gwynne, who, in the 60's played Herman Munste. In the 50's and early 60's, he was so in the TV series "Car 54 where are you?"
    This, sadly was Fred Gwynne's last movie. In fact, he died before the movie was released. He died of Pancreatic Cancer. He was very sick during filming.
    Gwynne also played the accross the street neighbor in the original Pet Cemetery. Not sure if you've watched that on the channel or seen it outside the channel or not

  • @jeffreybelkoff262
    @jeffreybelkoff262 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The actor that played the lawyer, Fred Gwynn, was the same actor that played Herman Munster in the Munsters

  • @luvaboy772
    @luvaboy772 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    22:23 Them slow cooking grits is the BEST! 😂😂😂

  • @dnllrnt
    @dnllrnt 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Whenever you are in an argument with your spouse, just say "I'm a fast cook, I guess!" 9 times out of 10, it breaks the tension and you forget what the argument was about.

  • @Avocado11
    @Avocado11 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    34:45 The Top 5
    1. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
    2. 12 Angry Men (1957)
    3. My Cousin Vinny (1992)
    4. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
    5. Inherit the Wind (1960)

  • @pcard10
    @pcard10 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The judge was played by the person who played Herman Munster in the Munsters.

  • @krisfrederick5001
    @krisfrederick5001 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    No one ever notices the card...I didn't for years. But she did 14:03 👀

  • @Kazeromaru
    @Kazeromaru 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My school would air this everytime we took a school trip, everytime the teacher would bring the school TV on the bus, they'd plug it into the bus' power and we just had My Cousin Vinny playing. Was it educational? I guess, it learned me some law?
    But, it became one of my favorite movies.
    My High School was wierd, even during Biology class we'd just watch The Lion King which is how I was introduced to it. Srsly, we'd just watch Lion King.
    History, we'd watch movies on the regular, Social Studies we'd just watch Shakespeare plays and stuff.
    And Sunday school was the Earnest Movies.
    I swear, this town just sat ppl in front of TV's to let it teach them.

  • @Alex_CantDrive55
    @Alex_CantDrive55 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    😂 I loved your Aunt May bit 😂😂 ❤

  •  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    BTW, the director also did Clue, which, IINM, you both adore. He also co-created Yes, Minister, an absolutely amazing UK TV show.

  • @davidpuerto1619
    @davidpuerto1619 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Didn't know if you were aware but Fred Gwynne, the actor that played the judge, was the original Herman Munster in the Munsters.

  • @heavycritic9554
    @heavycritic9554 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There is something so freaking sexy with women explaining things about cars.
    If they look like Marisa Tomei, my brain almost melts.

  • @stephencoan79
    @stephencoan79 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "It's called disclosure ya dickhead" That part just cracks me up. 🤣

  • @JeshuaSquirrel
    @JeshuaSquirrel 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This movie is a wonderul example of NEVER TALK TO THE POLICE WITHOUT A LAWYER!