What the corpus says about My Cousin Vinny (1992)

What was said about it (26)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:28 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Easy Money · programming · Pesci-related double feature with the Rodney Dangerfield movie Easy Money. · "The other one I was thinking was that movie he made with Rodney Dangerfield."
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:48 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ The Paper · programming · The Paper is another good Marisa Tomei double feature. · "Yeah, the paper is a good one."
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:20:33 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ A Time to Kill · programming · Part of Courtroom Month; they also talked about jury selection in A Time to Kill. · "We talked on a time to go about how much we like jury selection."
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:04:48 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Hoosiers · lineage · Courtroom movies are sports movies, and this one becomes Hoosiers in the last 30 minutes. · "it becomes basically Hoosiers in the last 30 minutes."
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:08:02 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Three's Company ⇒ My Cousin Vinny (the host's read) · lineage · Built on the misunderstanding-sitcom gags of that era; Friends was the last to dive into it. · "it's still the legacy of that 3s company era of misunderstandings that could be entire episode."
7. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:25:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ I'm No Angel · lineage · Early legal comedy: Mae West cross-examines her own maid. · "I think at some point she cross-examines her own maid"
8. [The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:34:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.75)] My Cousin Vinny ⇒ Legally Blonde (the host's read) · lineage · Legally Blonde comes after Vinny and plays with the genre's moments. · "it comes after my cousin Vinny"
9. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:06:23 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Green Book · theme · Italians-versus-the-South culture clash; Green Book is the only comparable one anyone can think of. · "I mean, green book's the only thing I can think of."
10. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:07:03 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ The Sopranos · theme · Italians out of their element, as with Vito in New Hampshire and Tony on a college visit. · "This is like the all time Italians out of their element."
11. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:11:08 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ 21 Bridges · theme · Time as a movie's best friend: Vinny aged into rewatchable, as 21 Bridges and Triple Frontier may be doing now. · "Oh, this is how I'm feeling about 21 bridges."
12. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:50:19 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · The whole town seems to attend the trial each day. · "Groundhog Day is a thing that came out for me watching this too."
13. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:50:23 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Primal Fear · theme · Race functions in courtroom movies, and here the town is warmly integrated, unlike other courtroom films. · "race is an element in most of these movies, right?"
14. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:19:29 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · theme · Bill and Stan's film-school movie of the experience would be Texas Chainsaw Massacre with the legal system. · "It's basically Texas Chainsaw Massacre with the legal system."
15. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:24:18 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Legally Blonde · theme · Legally Blonde is another legal comedy with a rookie winning a case, and the trial scenes are very funny. · "I think legally blonde is one of the funniest movies."
16. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:20:37 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Suspect · craft · Suspect has a great jury selection scene; jury selection is a pleasure in these films. · "had a great jury selection scene as a suspect."
17. [The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:21:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ A Few Good Men · craft · Vinny is a parody and a loving endorsement of all the pleasures of courtroom movies. · "a parody of these types of movies and a parody of the legal system"
18. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:15:32 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Good Will Hunting · contrast · Hates movies that end on a car driving away; Good Will Hunting is the lazy example, but Vinny's car ending works. · "I don't love a movie that ends with a shot of anybody doing anything in a car."
19. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:20:48 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ The Juror · contrast · The Juror, with Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin, did not work. · "Does it upset you that the juror didn't work as a movie with Demi Moore?"
20. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:08:57 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Cruel Intentions 2 · industry · A Vinny sequel was talked about but never made; it would have been like a Cruel Intentions 2. · "it would have been like the cruel intentions 2 sequel"
21. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:07:49 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Preston Sturges · lineage · Screwball in conception but not in execution. · "it's almost like Preston Sturgis, where it's just like, it's kind of screwball and its conception."
22. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:51:35 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ My Cousin Vinny (the host's read) · craft · A Dutch-angle shot of James Rebhorn is called supposed to be out of Hitchcock, offered while saying the film has no truly cinematic shot. · "I guess like there's a shot at James Rehorn that's supposed to be out of like Hitchcock or something where it's like a Dutch angle"
23. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:52:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Jonathan Lynn ↔ My Cousin Vinny · craft · Lynn used to be a lawyer so the trial stuff is tight, which is why lawyers love it. · "Jonathan Lynn used to be a lawyer and made sure that all the stuff was like was pretty tight."
24. [The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:22:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.65)] Joe Pesci ↔ My Cousin Vinny · career · Maybe Vinny, not Goodfellas, Casino or JFK, is Pesci's shining achievement. · "Maybe it's my cousin Vinny that is his his shining achievement"
25. [The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:21:12 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Marisa Tomei · people · Tomei is the rare woman who gets to do something in these movies. · "the only time, God bless Marissa Tome, that a woman gets to do anything"
26. [The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:22:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Fred Gwynne ↔ My Cousin Vinny · people · Fred Gwynn plays the small-town judge, Herman Munster. · "Herman Munster is so good"

Films put beside it more than once (1)

1. [pairs] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Legally Blonde · said 2 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (6)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:10:02 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] My Cousin Vinny · fun · Mamet told the director it's the best American comedy ever written. · "David Mammoth told the director that it's the best American comedy ever written."
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:11:26 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] My Cousin Vinny · fun · Simmons had never seen the whole movie; he always caught the last half hour with the measuring tape scene. · "I don't think I've seen this movie in its entirety."
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:17:18 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] My Cousin Vinny · fun · Film's famous breakdown: the real difference between Jack Palance and the frozen envelope conspiracies in Tomei's Oscar win. · "I believe the David Stern thing, the frozen envelope way more than the Jack Palance."
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:39:06 · Wesley Morris (0.60)] My Cousin Vinny · fun · Grits are the cultural unifying factor: Vinny realizes Italians eat polenta, and the breakfast scene sets up the cross-exam. · "Somebody realized that the grits are the unif- the cultural unifying factor here."
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:58:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny · fun · Best quote: there's nothing to worry about until there's something to worry about. · "there's nothing to worry about until there's something to worry about."
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:59:42 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] My Cousin Vinny · fun · Scorching hot take: the movie is why people think they can defend themselves in court and has done more harm than good. · "this movie's actually done more harm than good."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (10)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:15:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Misery sits in Reiner's incredible trio, all now Rewatchables. · "But when Harry Met Ali, Misery, Few Good Men, is really the best of all of these different great actors, right?"
2. [The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:32:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] A Time to Kill ↔ The Client · programming · Grisham power rankings: the firm, a time to kill, the client. · "I would do the firm a time to kill the client"
3. [The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:19:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] A Few Good Men ↔ Network · programming · It is in the conversation for most rewatched movie of a lifetime, next to Network, Oz, Godfather, Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction. · "and a few good men is right there with it."
4. [The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:28:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] A Few Good Men ⇒ A Time to Kill (the host's read) · lineage · A Time to Kill blends every earlier trope: country lawyer, big-shot prosecutor, cranky judge. · "puts them in a blender and it gives you every single thing"
5. [The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:11:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Pelican Brief ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Disqualified: legal thriller, not courtroom drama, operating outside the courtroom. · "operates almost entirely outside of the courtroom"
6. [The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:12:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] 12 Angry Men ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · 12 Angry Men is a technicality: a morality play in a side room, not a courtroom drama. · "It's a morality play inside of a side room related to a courtroom"
7. [The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:14:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] To Kill a Mockingbird ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Left off the list as more homework than pleasurable; the list favors twisty, speechifying, overacting movies. · "pleasurability factor of a lot of these movies"
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:06:13 · unknown (0.40)] A Few Good Men ↔ Aaron Sorkin · programming · A Few Good Men and The American President get folded into a Sorkin series, not a Reiner one. · "Few good men in American president."
9. [Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:36:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] A Few Good Men ↔ Heat 2 · lineage · A hypothetical Sorkin A Few Good Men sequel is compared to Heat 2 as a legacy-sequel recast by its original creator. · "it's not Fincher doing the legacyquel with an entirely different cast, but it is Sorkin making his own legacy."
10. [Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:37:25 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] A Few Good Men ↔ NCIS · lineage · A Few Good Men's JAG lawyer role is linked to the JAG/NCIS rights tangle as the joke legacy sequel. · "As we all know, NCIS is based on JAG. is a spinoff. technically a spinoff of the TV show, Jack."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

1. [speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
2. [speaker] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
3. [speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
4. [speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
5. [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license

The shows' running bits (3)

1. [bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
2. [bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
3. [bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished My Cousin Vinny (1992) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about My Cousin Vinny (1992) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:28 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Easy Money · programming · Pesci-related double feature with the Rodney Dangerfield movie Easy Money. · "The other one I was thinking was that movie he made with Rodney Dangerfield."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:48 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ The Paper · programming · The Paper is another good Marisa Tomei double feature. · "Yeah, the paper is a good one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:20:33 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ A Time to Kill · programming · Part of Courtroom Month; they also talked about jury selection in A Time to Kill. · "We talked on a time to go about how much we like jury selection."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:04:48 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Hoosiers · lineage · Courtroom movies are sports movies, and this one becomes Hoosiers in the last 30 minutes. · "it becomes basically Hoosiers in the last 30 minutes."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:08:02 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Three's Company ⇒ My Cousin Vinny (the host's read) · lineage · Built on the misunderstanding-sitcom gags of that era; Friends was the last to dive into it. · "it's still the legacy of that 3s company era of misunderstandings that could be entire episode."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:25:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ I'm No Angel · lineage · Early legal comedy: Mae West cross-examines her own maid. · "I think at some point she cross-examines her own maid"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:34:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.75)] My Cousin Vinny ⇒ Legally Blonde (the host's read) · lineage · Legally Blonde comes after Vinny and plays with the genre's moments. · "it comes after my cousin Vinny"
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:06:23 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Green Book · theme · Italians-versus-the-South culture clash; Green Book is the only comparable one anyone can think of. · "I mean, green book's the only thing I can think of."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:07:03 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ The Sopranos · theme · Italians out of their element, as with Vito in New Hampshire and Tony on a college visit. · "This is like the all time Italians out of their element."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:11:08 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ 21 Bridges · theme · Time as a movie's best friend: Vinny aged into rewatchable, as 21 Bridges and Triple Frontier may be doing now. · "Oh, this is how I'm feeling about 21 bridges."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:50:19 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · The whole town seems to attend the trial each day. · "Groundhog Day is a thing that came out for me watching this too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:50:23 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Primal Fear · theme · Race functions in courtroom movies, and here the town is warmly integrated, unlike other courtroom films. · "race is an element in most of these movies, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:19:29 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · theme · Bill and Stan's film-school movie of the experience would be Texas Chainsaw Massacre with the legal system. · "It's basically Texas Chainsaw Massacre with the legal system."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:24:18 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Legally Blonde · theme · Legally Blonde is another legal comedy with a rookie winning a case, and the trial scenes are very funny. · "I think legally blonde is one of the funniest movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:20:37 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Suspect · craft · Suspect has a great jury selection scene; jury selection is a pleasure in these films. · "had a great jury selection scene as a suspect."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:21:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ A Few Good Men · craft · Vinny is a parody and a loving endorsement of all the pleasures of courtroom movies. · "a parody of these types of movies and a parody of the legal system"
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:15:32 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Good Will Hunting · contrast · Hates movies that end on a car driving away; Good Will Hunting is the lazy example, but Vinny's car ending works. · "I don't love a movie that ends with a shot of anybody doing anything in a car."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:20:48 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ The Juror · contrast · The Juror, with Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin, did not work. · "Does it upset you that the juror didn't work as a movie with Demi Moore?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:08:57 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Cruel Intentions 2 · industry · A Vinny sequel was talked about but never made; it would have been like a Cruel Intentions 2. · "it would have been like the cruel intentions 2 sequel"
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:07:49 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Preston Sturges · lineage · Screwball in conception but not in execution. · "it's almost like Preston Sturgis, where it's just like, it's kind of screwball and its conception."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:51:35 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ My Cousin Vinny (the host's read) · craft · A Dutch-angle shot of James Rebhorn is called supposed to be out of Hitchcock, offered while saying the film has no truly cinematic shot. · "I guess like there's a shot at James Rehorn that's supposed to be out of like Hitchcock or something where it's like a Dutch angle"
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:52:07 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Jonathan Lynn ↔ My Cousin Vinny · craft · Lynn used to be a lawyer so the trial stuff is tight, which is why lawyers love it. · "Jonathan Lynn used to be a lawyer and made sure that all the stuff was like was pretty tight."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:22:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.65)] Joe Pesci ↔ My Cousin Vinny · career · Maybe Vinny, not Goodfellas, Casino or JFK, is Pesci's shining achievement. · "Maybe it's my cousin Vinny that is his his shining achievement"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:21:12 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Marisa Tomei · people · Tomei is the rare woman who gets to do something in these movies. · "the only time, God bless Marissa Tome, that a woman gets to do anything"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:22:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Fred Gwynne ↔ My Cousin Vinny · people · Fred Gwynn plays the small-town judge, Herman Munster. · "Herman Munster is so good"
[pairs] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Legally Blonde · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:10:02 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] My Cousin Vinny · fun · Mamet told the director it's the best American comedy ever written. · "David Mammoth told the director that it's the best American comedy ever written."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:11:26 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] My Cousin Vinny · fun · Simmons had never seen the whole movie; he always caught the last half hour with the measuring tape scene. · "I don't think I've seen this movie in its entirety."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:17:18 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] My Cousin Vinny · fun · Film's famous breakdown: the real difference between Jack Palance and the frozen envelope conspiracies in Tomei's Oscar win. · "I believe the David Stern thing, the frozen envelope way more than the Jack Palance."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:39:06 · Wesley Morris (0.60)] My Cousin Vinny · fun · Grits are the cultural unifying factor: Vinny realizes Italians eat polenta, and the breakfast scene sets up the cross-exam. · "Somebody realized that the grits are the unif- the cultural unifying factor here."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:58:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny · fun · Best quote: there's nothing to worry about until there's something to worry about. · "there's nothing to worry about until there's something to worry about."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:59:42 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] My Cousin Vinny · fun · Scorching hot take: the movie is why people think they can defend themselves in court and has done more harm than good. · "this movie's actually done more harm than good."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:15:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Misery sits in Reiner's incredible trio, all now Rewatchables. · "But when Harry Met Ali, Misery, Few Good Men, is really the best of all of these different great actors, right?"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:32:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] A Time to Kill ↔ The Client · programming · Grisham power rankings: the firm, a time to kill, the client. · "I would do the firm a time to kill the client"
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:19:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] A Few Good Men ↔ Network · programming · It is in the conversation for most rewatched movie of a lifetime, next to Network, Oz, Godfather, Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction. · "and a few good men is right there with it."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:28:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] A Few Good Men ⇒ A Time to Kill (the host's read) · lineage · A Time to Kill blends every earlier trope: country lawyer, big-shot prosecutor, cranky judge. · "puts them in a blender and it gives you every single thing"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:11:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Pelican Brief ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Disqualified: legal thriller, not courtroom drama, operating outside the courtroom. · "operates almost entirely outside of the courtroom"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:12:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] 12 Angry Men ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · 12 Angry Men is a technicality: a morality play in a side room, not a courtroom drama. · "It's a morality play inside of a side room related to a courtroom"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:14:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] To Kill a Mockingbird ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Left off the list as more homework than pleasurable; the list favors twisty, speechifying, overacting movies. · "pleasurability factor of a lot of these movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:06:13 · unknown (0.40)] A Few Good Men ↔ Aaron Sorkin · programming · A Few Good Men and The American President get folded into a Sorkin series, not a Reiner one. · "Few good men in American president."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:36:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] A Few Good Men ↔ Heat 2 · lineage · A hypothetical Sorkin A Few Good Men sequel is compared to Heat 2 as a legacy-sequel recast by its original creator. · "it's not Fincher doing the legacyquel with an entirely different cast, but it is Sorkin making his own legacy."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:37:25 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] A Few Good Men ↔ NCIS · lineage · A Few Good Men's JAG lawyer role is linked to the JAG/NCIS rights tangle as the joke legacy sequel. · "As we all know, NCIS is based on JAG. is a spinoff. technically a spinoff of the TV show, Jack."
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with My Cousin Vinny (1992); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend My Cousin Vinny (1992) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.