Real Lawyer Reacts to A Few Good Men (with Real JAG!)

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A former marine friend shared this with me: How do you know if someone is a marine? Don't worry, they'll tell you.

Just make this dude a permanent cohost this is such a great dynamic

"Just call them marines, God's Awful Little Children" I laughed so hard on that self-description xD

His "YOU'RE GOD DAMN RIGHT I DID" at 10:10 killed me

I'm liking these collaborations with lawyers from different fields

The "16 hours of Silent Drill" Line nearly had me fall out of my chair.

During the table-read for Jack's scenes in rehearsal, apparently he walked in to the room in full military regalia and never broke character once. The other actors were also stunned by the fact that he delivered all his lines without the script in front of him, at the TABLE-READ! Jack is the real deal!

“What do you call someone in the Navy?” As a Sailor I completely expected the Marine to take a jab at us LOL.

As a physician, I'm going to point out that the claim, "a chemical reaction called lactic acidosis caused his lung to begin bleeding", is also nonsense. Pulmonary hemorrhage might cause lactic acidosis by causing severe hypoxemia (low oxygen levels in the blood), but the reverse cause-and-effect relationship is not a thing. It's a seemingly tiny detail that has always irritated me about this movie.

You just incited an actual spit take out of me with the animation of Tom Cruise holding up a bottle of Mt. Dew, yelling at whoever ordered the Code Red.

The scene when he holds up the (Code Red Mtn Dew) and screams "DID YOU ORDER THE CODE RED" made me lose it.

Jack NIcholson in A Few Good Men is like Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs. Few minutes of screen time, but owning every minte of it.

Watching him internally scream when Devin called Marines “soldiers” was fantastic

Fun fact: my school runs a mock trial program and we just had a case where ex police officer turned mall cop Lieutenant Toni Jessep tased a patron of the mall “in self defense” and the mall was being sued for negligence in hiring Jessep. Anyways, in Jessep’s affidavit, there is a paragraph that is a parody of the “you can’t handle the truth” speech with lines such as “you want me at that mall.” And “you NEED me at that mall” To prep for the case, we were shown this scene and everyone playing Jessep was told to take notes.

The scene where Pvt. Pyle is held down and beaten in Full Metal Jacket is probably the best example of what this movie refers to as 'code red' ever shown in film. In the Marine Corps at that time, this was referred to as a 'Blanket Party' and, believe it or not, is documented to have occurred at USMCRD Paris Island on several occasions. There has even been a case of a United States Army Veteran being diagnosed with PTSD in 2015 for a 'blanket party' he received during basic training in the late 1970s.

I think Gitmo being a sleepy posting back then was pretty much the point, along with Jessup being entirely too invested in The Mission (TM) and essentially creating a cult built around himself ; It probably took root on the base because it was a sleepy posting in a post-cold war world where the marines were starting to feel useless. Santiago wasn't a problem because he was incompetent, he was a problem because he didn't share the cult's values and didn't want to share them. Ask anyone who's ever tried to leave Scientology how that usually goes.

The sudden “you’re GOD DAMN RIGHT I DID” then immediate laughter was great

Nicholson shot that scene all day long, even doing his end of the conversation when he wasn't on camera. (Not all big actors are that generous.) Rob Reiner was blown away with all the energy Nicholson was putting into it and asked, "Jack, how do you do it?" "Bob, I'm an actor. I like to act."

The Mt Dew clip in the very beginning literally has me in tears. 😂