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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #238 on: March 27, 2024, 08:25:52 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 26, 2024, 07:24:56 AM
Do real lawyers cringe at the inaccuracies in lawyer/courtroom drama shows and movies, or do they just see it as "Hollywood" entertainment?
As an attorney and a huge film buff, I mainly just see legal inaccuracies in films as Hollywood misunderstandings of what attorneys and judges do for a living. 
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #239 on: March 27, 2024, 08:27:32 AM »
That was the writings of someone else of course.  My son is a lawyer, and I've stayed at HI Expresses a few times.

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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #240 on: March 27, 2024, 08:44:35 AM »

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Do real lawyers cringe at the inaccuracies in lawyer/courtroom drama shows and movies, or do they just see it as "Hollywood" entertainment?
A bit, but it's not like they get other things right. I would say that working in criminal law gave me a great appreciation for A Few Good Men. Having a deadbang loser of a case, a sweetheart plea deal, and an unreasonable client who won't accept anything hit me right in the heart. Also, most criminal law type shows and movies are too serious. They don't capture how funny it is - Better Call Saul got that right.
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #241 on: March 27, 2024, 08:47:29 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 27, 2024, 08:27:32 AM
That was the writings of someone else of course.  My son is a lawyer, and I've stayed at HI Expresses a few times.


Otter:
Point of parliamentary procedure!

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Don't screw around, they're serious this time!

Otter:
Take it easy, I'm pre-law.

Boon:
I thought you were pre-med.

Otter:
What's the difference?
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #242 on: March 27, 2024, 08:50:35 AM »
There is no such thing as "conduct unbecoming a Marine" under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The closest thing to it is what is known as "Article 133" (Conduct Unbecoming) which could carry 'dismissal' as a possible punishment, since it's only applicable to Officers (Bad Conduct and Dishonorable discharges only apply to enlisted personnel).

As ENLISTED personnel what the third charge SHOULD have been was Article 128 - Assault Consummated by Battery, which carries a custodial sentence usually followed by a Bad Conduct Discharge.

Most cases of "Dishonorable Discharge" heard about in media (papers, TV, Movies) are actually Bad Conduct discharges, since the only charges that carry a dishonorable discharge are the most serious ones (Attempted Murder, Murder, Sexual Assault, Desertion, and Treason)
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #243 on: March 27, 2024, 08:51:31 AM »
My wife really likes that movie, along with "An Officer and a Gentleman".

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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #244 on: March 27, 2024, 08:53:33 AM »
I like historically accurate military flicks like STRIPES
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #245 on: March 27, 2024, 09:12:37 AM »
Airways 747(call sign Speedbird 206)
Speedbird 206: " Frankfurt , Speedbird 206 clear of active runway."
Ground: "Speedbird 206 Taxi to gate Via Bravo toAlpha One-Seven."
The BA 747 pulled onto the wrong taxiway and immediatly slowed to a stop.
Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
Ground (with quite arrogant impatience):
"Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (after a brief pause...): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, -- and I didn't land."


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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #246 on: March 27, 2024, 09:26:37 AM »
HA! reminded me of a story told about some adult children that wanted to gift their parents a vacation trip to Europe for like their 40th Anniversery. The old man said "Na,I've already been to Europe". To which a son or sin-in-law quipped "Yes but that was in '44 and behind a tank"
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #247 on: March 27, 2024, 09:29:59 AM »
There was another story about an old timer going through immigration in Paris who couldn't find his passport right away.  The impatient official said "Sir, haven't you been to France before so you'd know to have your passport out and ready?"

"Yes, I've been here before, but nobody was interested in my passport at the time and I only saw Germans."

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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #248 on: March 30, 2024, 09:06:27 AM »
John Wayne with John Bradley, one of the men who raised the flag at the real battle of Iwo Jima. Bradley played himself in the film, along with Ira Hayes and Rene Gagnon

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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #249 on: March 30, 2024, 01:21:33 PM »
So I watched the RoadHouse remake on Prime last night....

aside from some cliches and the way Conor McGregor walks, they did a good job of not forcibly recreating the original.  It's its own thing.

A lot of fighting, different backstory, etc.  It was fun.
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #250 on: March 30, 2024, 03:03:54 PM »
Yup, it was entertaining, which is all I needed it to be.
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Re: OT - Underappreciated Movies
« Reply #251 on: March 30, 2024, 11:10:41 PM »
Hollywood Knights

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