The Rewatchables Live: ‘A Few Good Men’ | The Best Courtroom Drama? | The Ringer

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan and Sean are live from the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles to revisit Rob Reiner’s 1992 legal drama ‘A Few Good Men’ written by Aaron Sorkin and starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore.
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[@braden25]

CR in front of a live crowd is electric

[@habovay3]

And more annoying than in the studio. Dial it down, Costanza.

[@michaelchoi8044]

I always need less CR, but especially live.

[@3rdFloor]

Glad the crowd was there. I’m usually the only one laughing the haymakers he’s dropping

[@sonichallbartender]

51:02. Bill going "I'm going to land this plane, I'm a pro. We've done 300 of these," after bringing up the suicide letter, and then landing that fucking plane, is one of the reasons I love Bill. So funny.

[@georgeparker8198]

That Jaylen Brown joke is going to haunt Bills nightmares for the foreseeable future 😂😂😂😂

[@David-iv6je]

It is criminal to post this without the time.

[@georgeparker8198]

28:55 - 29:10, you're welcome.

[@Loekas]

30:43 part 2 😂

[@georgeparker8198]

@Loekas Bill is triggered by that the rest of the pod 🤣🤣🤣

[@m00nx_oliver9]

It's gonna haunt the Celtics as well.

[@joesullivan2285]

CR was channeling The Town-era Russillo. He wasn't "hold my beer." He only needed the one hand. Pow.

[@jazzprincemusic]

The Jaylen Brown ether from CR was hilarious 😂

[@nf2203]

This is absolutely phenomenal, you should do this more often. Loved to see the whole video and the banter between you guys.

[@a.r.t93]

55:14 "He flips in The Firm!" 😂

[@josephirving7336]

CR definitely won this Pod!😂

[@zweirj]

he tried hard enough

[@btcs_41]

@@zweirj exactly - he was way too "extra" on this pod. found it annoying to listen to

[@jbrumundsmith]

"To Kill A Mockingbird" is the most famous courtroom movie.

[@MrOctober44]

Eh. I'd be curious to know how many people under 50 have seen It.

[@low_vibration]

@@MrOctober44 a lot of us read it and watched the movie in school

[@scottbarkley496]

Overrated

[@BrozefChen]

@@low_vibration standard curriculum at the Rocco Globbo School for Women!

[@habovay3]

@@scottbarkley496 As is A Few Good Men.

[@savage_skirt5386]

I also loved Newsroom. Jeff Daniels was great.

[@turk3sh]

Ryan's Apex Moment, followed by Heat

[@georgeparker8198]

We need a Rewatchables of things Tom Cruise has done for the first time in a movie, and doesn’t do in real life 😂😂😂

[@samb_2423]

1:28:40 for those who are wondering

[@toddkonrad2407]

Doing the Lord’s work

[@lpr5269]

I would like to see an alternate version of the movie where Tom Cruise asks Jessup if he ordered the code red and Jessup says no. Then cut to the future where Kaffee is teaching typewriter maintenance at the Rocco Clubo School for Women. 😂

[@knownpleasures]

Shame on them ! They never include typewriter maintenance in the podcast

[@heldover]

I love that Fennessey can't even look at CR during the Wayne Jenkins question.

[@essquared24]

mallory rubin for dion waiters comes in in the 4th quarter and dominates. i've watched/listened to this 3 times . . . it's a rewatchable rewatchable

[@QC_Charlottean]

She wins that one on every appearance for trying way too hard. Just calm down Mallory with the over annunciation and digging to China for a hot take.

[@replicantona]

CR is the Wayne Gretzky of podcasting

[@AndoThree]

Wayne Gretzky is the CR of hockey.

[@brettgoranflo5101]

this must be his burner.. CR's terrible.

[@realmatic10]

It’s weird watching these on YT, after I listened to them at 1.2x speed.😂

[@timcannon5384]

Great Live Ep! To Kill a Mockingbird is what I wanted Sean to say when they talked about the biggest courtroom movies. Way bigger and more impactful than 12 angry men even.

[@jessefahnestock6376]

My wife was living in Mexico when this came out, and she tells me that for some inexplicable reason in Mexico this film was titled (in English) A Few Wood Men.

[@acohlmia]

I'm just here to say I fully support Bill's choice of the Nike Cortez

[@somegamer7958]

Kiefer is amazing in this movie, but no one ever talks about his performance

[@knownpleasures]

So is The Bacon 🥓

[@QC_Charlottean]

“No one ever orders just a beer.” True story, my boss in 2005 at a restaurant in Germany told the waitress “I’ll have a beer.” I chastised him and called him Caffey. He proceeded to make a fool out of me that the restaurant was connected to a monastery that brewed only one beer. Ouch.

[@beemoney19]

15:42 - Fennessey makes a joke, and Chris Ryan elevates it and kills Sean in the process. Just brilliant work by both.

[@BXMarathoner26]

1:28:36: CR just plays with the crowd a little before giving the people what they want.

[@pjchj3599]

Tom Cruise is The GOAT and being Bill crush

[@scottbarkley496]

Bill always shits on him but he's secretly in Love with him

[@beckyleonardis6331]

You guys should definitely keep doing Live shows! Godfather Night at Tom and Nicole's! Plus, an Italian dinner. You're right, that is a long night! LOL! BTW! Sean really loves Newsroom!

[@6thwilbury2331]

FWIW, there IS Article 133, a.k.a. "Conduct Unbecoming an Officer and Gentleman." But I don't think it would apply here, as Dawson and Downey are not officers.

[@toneslice989]

SO glad you guys are doing more KZbin and if you came to Tampa, I would come out!

[@adriansal80]

Great show, man they crack me up

[@TorontoGuy236]

As always, great podcast, with one notable exception - CR and his constant, over the top need to inject humour has me reaching for the fast forward button. Its just obnoxious at this point. Stick to your analysis, it's generally good. And if you want to be funny, be subtle.

[@beckyleonardis6331]

I rewatched A Few Good Men, last night! This movie's better than I remembered. Kevin Bacon's opening statement in the courtroom was really good. Even though, we only see him on and off throughout the movie. He gave a better performance than Tom Cruise did, who's in the entire movie. BTW! This episode was better 2nd time around! I laughed so hard! Love you guys!

[@low_vibration]

am i the only one who likes oblivion?

[@robotsex111]

The Tom Cruise film? I'm with you, man, that film is awesome

[@dk-ou9gt]

Im with you tech49! Great film

[@puckbond007]

Oblivion rips!

[@scottbarkley496]

It's the 4th best Tom Cruise Sci-fi movie

[@camchangfilms]

I rlly like oblivion! I enjoy Joseph Kosinski a lot as a director

[@terry7907]

I hope Simmons continues to get hammered about the Brown contract for years.

[@MatthewDoel32]

Well not now with Brown as FMVP

[@MatthewDoel32]

Well not now with Brown as FMVP

[@bikramarora1819]

Lmao what a clown you turned out to be 😂

[@mjwbulich]

It was already money well spent. With the new TV deal and the salary cap increasing 10% every season, Browns contract will look like a steal in a few years. CRs jokes have already aged poorly. In three or four years, he might look laughably stupid. Paying Brown might turn out to be the smartest thing the Celtics have done since the McHale Pharish trade.

[@josephirving7336]

Sean, in real time, recognizing that he’s not funny or getting laughs. Then trying to dumb his jokes down is gold.

[@eboooo]

I love this movie

[@ElonDaOmnissiah]

My cousin Vinny not being mentioned amongst best courtroom movies now makes it my favorite courtroom movie and better than this one. . . Somehow . . .this one’s great

[@waregl72]

Can I stick up for 12 Angry Men? I LOVE A Few Good Men. I really do. In my Top 10 for sure. Just looking at it as a courtroom drama though, 12 Angry Men is better IMO. All being in 1 room for the most part. The camera angles, lighting, etc. is better. Both though had tremendous casts. Both had outstanding performances by almost everyone involved.

[@savage_skirt5386]

Toss up for best courtroom movie --- To Kill a Mockingbird or 12 Angry Men --- but A Few Good Men is def top 10.

[@mahgeetahh]

12 angry men is technically not a courtroom movie

[@blakeharris58]

True. It’s a Jury Room movie. Sadly the room I was in the last time I had jury duty looks like the one from the *play* 😅 The government doesn’t update anything.

[@KitagumaIgen]

Movie might be good. But the basic premise is BS, they were on guard-duty on Guantanamo Bay, a base US have rented from Cuba for 100 or so years, and they had to CR one of the privates because he didn't measure up to some standard? Why not simply dismiss him and send him somewhere less stressful? That station couldn't have been too stressful at the time. Absolute BS.

[@commaJim]

Get Van for a future live please

[@MatthewDoel32]

Who’s here for the Jaylen Brown joke after Jaylen won FMVP?

[@farisbosnic1786]

Wayne Jenkins 1:28:55

[@atatur123]

Goddamn @farisbosnic1786 !

[@masonmiller8899]

Gotta do tropic thunder and dodgeball. Elite dion waiters and mark ruffalo moments

[@m00nx_oliver9]

I am not a morning person and that cost me tickets to this episode. I woke up at like 11 am and tickets were sold out 2 hours later when I remembered tickets were on sale. Curse my night owl tendencies!!!!

[@BeasTxMode2000]

what's funny is this movie made me a huge cruise fan

[@drewshirleysports]

What world is this where everyone says Cruise out-acts Nicholson in the final scene? Just tragically and historically wrong. Nicholson owns everyone.

[@shawnjensvold995]

Obviously this would have ruined the key scene, but major nitpick is that witnesses aren't allowed to ask the lawyers questions from the stand.

[@lpr5269]

Yeah that always bugs me too, but it does make for better cinema. "What are you gonna ask me next? My favorite color?" and then he starts to walk off the stand. 😂😂

[@savage_skirt5386]

No way, I love Wolf.

[@knownpleasures]

Who are the few good men in the film anyway?!? This is never asked. By the way this is the most rewatchable Rewatchable ! It’s essentially an analysis on the world’s biggest movie star 🌟

[@savage_skirt5386]

'A Few Good Men' was a genius title, because I think most people understand the significance, as it relates to the movie. Code Red is a bit too on the nose.

[@lpr5269]

Yeah I agree. It's like calling The Godfather "The Corleones".

[@bfoz]

It's a nice title, though a little ambivalent in my opinion.

[@savage_skirt5386]

No. For Tom Cruise, Rain Man is his best performance. Rounding out the top 5: Magnolia, The Firm, Collateral, Interview With a Vampire. Jerry Maguire is honorable mention.

[@habovay3]

No way. Cruise Top 5: Endless Love, Losin' It, Legend, Cocktail, The Mummy.

[@savage_skirt5386]

@@habovay3 obvious joke. worst 5, maybe

[@reiders24]

​@@habovay3he's in endless love for like 3mins🙃

[@6thwilbury2331]

Oddly, Chris Guest's performance in A Few Good Men might be the closest to the offscreen Chris Guest we've ever seen. He is well-known for being extremely dry.

[@zweirj]

this was great. friggin' hilarious.

[@jwilliam3962]

CR - "I'm on a stage with a captive audience. This is my big moment, time to practice my Vaudeville routines"

[@DaBaltimoron]

Jo Galloway should've been played by Michelle Pfeiffer.

[@knownpleasures]

Demi Moore is so weak in the movie, the only poor acting performance

[@michaelb3927]

Def the best courtroom flick! A Few Good Men Primal Fear Mississippi Burning Rainmaker My Cousin Vinny

[@habovay3]

There's no courtroom anything in Mississippi Burning.

[@lpr5269]

The Verdict also.

[@zweirj]

wonder why Chris' voice is fried. the Watch duo ALWAYS dials it up.

[@dnooney]

CR crushed this, pod MVP

[@warb23]

Wayne Jenkins starts 1.28.50.

[@russellst.martin4255]

1:11:10 I'm gonna throw my hat in the ring; my sister in law's dad was the inspiration for Garth Algar. Dana Carvey will back it up.

[@eddiewinehosen6665]

Clearly he doesn't arrest Kendrick because Kendrick was done as a witness so he most likely returned to Cuba! Some nitpicks are just bad!

[@bfoz]

Did they use laugh tracks?

[@ApocalypseKurtz]

CR bringing that coke energy.

[@scottbarkley496]

Bill Simmons is The biggest Tom Cruise hater EVER .. Glad Sean always puts him in his place

[@lpr5269]

"Tom make sure you don't talk about........you know, that word that ends in OLOGY.

[@bradantcliff740]

The Tom Gugliotta pull is why CR is the best

[@Kinn72]

Hi there, I’m fairly new to this channel, And I love this content, but I’ve been looking for the video versions, but the older episodes are only the in audio, for example “The Departed “ episode I’ve found a small clip so it was recorded on video, Please send me in the right direction … Greetings from a new fan from Denmark…..

[@bobgreystoke316]

I really wish they would’ve addressed what is going on with Demi Moore’s hair. Is it short? Is it pinned? I love it…I just don’t know what’s going on with it.

[@EidukasJon]

Kathryn Hahn as Jo!

[@fatwalletboy2]

I think you need to do a live stage podcast again to cover ALIENS......... Lets rock!!!!!

[@lepton4]

Double Feature: Crimson Tide and A Few Good Men

[@the-record-lab]

Miracle on 34th Street is the biggest courtroom movie.

[@bobbowie9350]

Was CR drunk here? He seemed louder, interrupted more than usual and was more uppity .

[@connordeangelis7645]

Homie was hyped with good crowd vibes

[@knownpleasures]

They’re clearly drinking beer 🍺 from the table

[@camnielsen5498]

Thumbs up for Clue! Madeline Kahn Apex Mountain?

[@daringabler8352]

I’m in the minority here, but I think one of the weaker things in this movie is Tom Cruise. Most of the time, even in the trial scene, he’s just way too much. I’m not the biggest Jack Nicholson fan, but for me, his performance is what keeps the whole thing afloat, and without it, I probably wouldn’t be all that interested. I’m surprised at all the attention Cruise gets for it.

[@gh05t_mv]

GODDAMN KAFFEE!!!!

[@MikeKrumrei]

CR not doing Wayne Jenkins as Jessop is a missed opportunity.

[@champion6919]

In my top 10

[@jacobw8849]

Does Wayne Jenkins show up? If so when?

[@shugamouth]

‘A Time to Kill’ is good too.

[@rawpower12xu]

I prefer The Verdict & And Justice for all.

[@sevendst19]

1:28:56

[@avinnilooban]

Julia Roberts could have done Jo

[@blakeharris58]

I still don’t understand why Nicholson dumping on Weinberg is seen as anti-Semitic. I always saw it as him bullying the nerdy guy.

[@ResidentPetrolhead]

It's the way he really leans into "You, Lt. *Weinberg*?" that sort of invites that reading. Is it possible that he leans into his name because he's a nerdy guy with "whine" in his very name? Sure. But given what a piece of shit Jessup is shown to be in every other regard, he hasn't necessarily earned the benefit of the doubt there, you know? I don't think it's black and white, but even going back to my first watch of it back in 1992, it sure felt like Nicholson was putting some extra backspin on that delivery that he wouldn't have if the co-counsel's name had been "Smith".

[@habovay3]

Because the guys on the Rewatchables lean left and are obsessed with race and wokeness, and work it into many of their film discussions.

[@lpr5269]

It's a stretch. He insulted Kaffee a lot too and he did say to Kaffee about Joanne Galloway "If you haven't gotten a BLOW JOB from a superior officer, well, you're just letting the best in life pass you by." I mean. You could really simply argue that he had an extreme superiority complex.

[@Ngrove01]

CR on an absolute heater

[@joemckim1183]

I can't see Jason Alexander in this movie, its hard to believe JA as a military man.

[@roscoematthews3978]

Do Copland. Ohhhh, Copland!

[@2878robert]

Please rewatch superman 2

[@bfoz]

The laugh tracks were really distracting.

[@losdragos]

Perhaps someone who's served on a base can chime in but the Dr seems to mention "poison" like they live on a snake milking farm. Aren't the restrictions and thereby the ability to get said poison a lot tougher?

[@camchangfilms]

I don’t think this movies that great personally, but I get the appeal particularly among that demo lol

[@davbolt3233r]

I watched the whole thing but almost turned it off when i saw CR wearing Adidas socks with Nikes. Nitpicking i know.

[@TheGodfather-bm3ow]

Cusack would have been a good try at cruises role

[@blakewu1375]

Matthew McConaughey could've EASILY played Cruise's character...in tact, the Lincoln Lawyer is a better movie than this, even though it lacked an over-the-top Jack Nicholson. So McConaughey, amongst others, could out-Cruise Cruise.

[@lilpenny1982]

Bill, don't do these rewatchables with an audience because Chris and Sean are just saying jokes to make the audience laugh rather than analyzing the movie.

[@daviedukes1226]

CLUE!

[@dereksupernaut]

A Couple Good Knockers could have been the title had Demi Moore been the focus of the movie... fax!!!

[@bustergoldenrod]

Why wasn’t Mallory on for the entire episode? It improved instantly as soon as she joined in.

[@robertwiles8106]

How can you leave out Tropic Thunder as Tom Cruise's best acting role??? For shame!