Just a heads up that Matthew McConaughey will be playing Jake Brigance again. HBO is in production with Grisham's "A Time for Mercy" which is supposed to be an 8-10 episode series
Especially because she didn't think much of him early on, probably because of Scientology and his losing popularity ever since he jumped on Oprah's couch. But when you go through his list of movies it's undeniable, it's possibly just him and the other Tom at that elite level. Just have to separate the art from the artist. Also everyone who works with him or meets him says he's a great guy. If he wasn't a Scientologist he'd be at that Keanu Reeves level of adoration.
@@hughjorg4008 BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, Days of Thunder (Top Gun in the world of the Car Races), Risky Business, Rain Man, Jerry McGuire, Minority Report, War of Worlds, Oblivion and many more.....
@@javix2013 Next best they haven't seen (outside of MI) would probably be Jerry McGuire and Collateral. Before "Born on the 4th of July" they should watch "Platoon" because Born on the 4th of July is kind of sequel to it (also because Platoon is the better movie, but it's the first in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy.. last one is Heaven & Earth)
I'm trying to think of a Cruise movie in which he doesn't have a running scene, and none come to mind. Did he run in *Risky Business* , or did he just slide across the floor in his socks and underwear?
@@flexiblestrategist9922 I have no clue what the original script was. But I will share with you a little known fact about writing movie scripts. I met an old Hollywood writer last year and I told him that I had a ton of great movie ideas. I told him that I started writing a few scripts. He said "Be aware of the fact that even if someone likes your script enough to develop it into a movie. That the studio executives, producers, directors or even the actors can easily make changes at anytime. So don't write anything that you feel passionately about unless you are able to direct it yourself."
@@shredd5705 i thought his performance was so unsettling because of his confident condescending charm only a sociopath could deploy.. it's like he actually believes his own b.s. in collateral, thats how charming he was..
@@StayFractalesque Yeah but he is still suave and well spoken in Collateral, just his morality is messed up. Shows he can really act. Wish he didn't belong to a crazy cult IRL, that's the most unsettling thing about him actually... how he has this "I'm a nice, empathetic person" front but he lives a double life.. He is still the second in command of Scientology, which is a batshit crazy, abusive cult with tons of power
I remember this movie, I thought it was terrific. For new Tom Cruise fans I recommend you watch Rain Man (1988), I think he should have won an Oscar for his performance.
Cruise for Rain Man? No way. Hoffman, yes. But not Cruise. And this movie is so bad compared to the original novel. Man, I couldn’t put it down, especially at the end. The film is lame and disappointing compared to the book. I remember we saw it on the big screen with a bunch of co-workers, all in the book selling business. They almost kicked us out of the theatre, because we couldn’t stop complaining about all of the unnecessary changes they’d made. 😁
I was dying laughing watching you two trying to figure out where you had seen Ed Harris. You just saw him in Top Gun Maverick. Your reactions were great. And always fun to watch.
Ed Harris has been in so many blockbuster movies I was amazed in general they didn't know him. Then again both of them know nothing about top A-List actors and Actresses in movies. Always baffles me.
@@chaoticcanadian8994 Yup. "A Beautiful Mind" "Truman Show" "Apollo 13" "Gravity" "Gone Baby Gone" "Enemy at the Gates" "The Abyss" "The Rock" "A History of Violence" "Snowpiercer" "Absolute Power" ..not to mention 4 Oscar nominations. Ed Harris is a legend, can't believe someone doesn't know him.
The book came out when I was a freshman in college. EVERYONE was reading this one. You literally couldn't go anywhere and NOT see a copy in someone's hands. On every plane, every bus, every cafe, everywhere. Then only a couple years later they came out with the film and people went bananas again haha. Great reaction.
A shot in "Black Hawk Down" of one of the Rangers reading "The Firm" was a little remark on the book's ubiquity in 1993. By the time the movie came out, everyone was reading all the Grisham books that had come out by then.
John Grisham books are all kind of like this. A lot of suspense, some clever lawyering, and generally a satisfying ending. He was a lawyer so legal suspense is his specialty. The ones that have been adapted to movies like this one have been good, entertaining movies often with an up and coming at the time lead actor that is now an A lister and a stacked supporting cast. The Rainmaker with Matt Damon & Danny DeVito, The Client with Susan Sarandon & Tommy Lee Jones, The Runaway Jury with John Cusack and Gene Hackman again, The Pelican Brief with Julia Roberts & Denzel Washington are all quality, gripping movies along with A Time to Kill and this that have already been reacted to.
I remember seeing the book of The Firm on my dad's bookshelf when I was about 15 and being intrigued by the blurb on the back, so I read the first chapter out of curiosity. I sat on the floor and _devoured_ that thing in about 4 hours, I was hooked from the word "go". The man is a master of suspense.
@@lauriebriggs9705 Thats Michael Connelly novels and great TV show. Matthew McConaughey started in the film The Lincoln Lawyer few years ago but John Grisham had nothing to with that.
Holly Hunter was not in Twister. You’re thinking of Helen Hunt. Holly Hunter is in Raising Arizona and one of my absolute favorites…Home for the Holidays which I highly recommend for Thanksgiving viewing.
Brimley lived a harder life. He dropped out of high school at 14 to become a cowboy, was a body guard for Howard Hughes, a blacksmith, was a Marine during the Korean war, and got into acting by becoming a stuntman. That shit will age you. Basically, he did all the stuff in real life Tom Cruise acts out. That's why the different look at the same age.
I'm glad you guys are enjoying Ton Cruise, but for your particular tastes, you should really give him and Cameron Diaz a watch in Knight and Day - it is EXACTLY the kind of movie you ladies want to see, action, humor, romance... it's just FUN.
@@SnabbKassa I don't know. It's a great twist and she's grown to appreciate horror if it's done for the sake of the story instead of simple shock value. The cast would alleviate a lot of her misgivings.
Presumed Innocent, Regarding Henry, Air Force One, Witness, The Fugitive, All Harrison Ford Films. Regarding Henry wasn’t a lawyer movie but it was pretty good. Presumed innocent was great. Pelican Brief with Julia Roberts was good too.
I felt so sorry for Avery. He was just a broken man. And that moment she kissed him was a genuine sign of affection from her, be it for his honesty and lost soul.
In the end yeah. He was a multi-faceted character. Not black and white. In the end he tried to do the right thing, unlike the FBI at any point of the movie
@@shredd5705 Yeah, I felt bad having seen this movie how Cassie and her sister saw him as "Creepy" mostly I'd imagine because of his age. But in the end, he was deep down a good man who was trapped and perhaps used his carefree fun lifestyle as a way to drown is sadness. Something about seeing a woman kiss a man at his lowest point with affection hits me right in the feels. Some men hide their pain in sex and affairs when their was a time no one was around to save them sooner.
@@gutz1981 He kind of was a creep most of the movie. He was hitting on another mans young wife, multiple times, even at a funeral. Trying to be a home breaker. He redeemed himself in the end, by saving Abby's life and sacrificing his own in the process. Because he didn't really want to live. He was both a creep and a noble character. Probably originally a noble idealist, just like Mitch. But then the firm corrupted him
I always appreciated the character's honesty. He knows he is a broken and ruined man and accepted his fate. This allows him to keep some of his humanity.
Since you seem to be on Tom Cruise movies lately. You should check out the movie TAPS it's a 1981 drama starring George C. Scott(OSCAR WINNER) and Timothy Hutton(OSCAR WINNER), Tom Cruise(OSCAR NOMINEE) Sean Penn(OSCAR WINNER). They were all very young in this movie (except George) . This is Tom's first major role in a feature film, and he had a powerful performance.
David Strathairn is in "A League of Their Own" and "L.A. Confidential". Ed Harris is in "Apollo 13" and "Places in the Heart". The Fed, Voyles, is played by Steven Hill, in his last film. A well respected actor, he had memorable supporting roles in a variety of films but is best remembered for the years he spent on the original "Law & Order". The head security man is played by Wilford Brimley, ordinarily a much more sympathetic character in films like "Cocoon" and "The Natural", but very scary in this one. Also, you may not have noticed, but the original score is pretty much entirely solo piano. And, yes, the hit man, Tobin Bell's specialty is looking creepy.
If you like Holly Hunter you really need to watch Copycat. She's a police detective after a serial killer. You'll love it! The bald FBI guy is Ed Harris. He's married to Amy Madigan who was Kevin Costners wife in Field Of Dreams. Another good one to watch is Absolute Power with Clint Eastwood, Ed Harris and Gene Hackman again as a sleeze, but it's a very good movie.
Oh Cassie, I'm glad you and your sister enjoyed this movie. Back in the 80's and 90's, some quality movies were 2-2.5 hours long and allowed you to totally forget your own life and escape. This was one of those movies. Based of a novel by the same title written by John Grisham.
"Ray," David Strathairn, was one of the characters in the Bourne Ultimatum. He also had a leading role in The River Wild, a suspense movie with Kevin Bacon and Meryl Streep. Highly recommended:).
Love this channel. Always feel like Cassie is not putting on any airs, just giving us her straight, from the heart reaction. As genuine as it comes. Great job, Cassie, as always.
Philadelphia, the Pelican brief, the Client and the Runaway Jury are all great courtroom movies. The Pelican Brief isn’t really in a courtroom but does involve SCOTUS’
I’d like to add The accused, In the name of the father, Anatomy of a murder, Primal Fear and The Rainmaker. I even liked Robert Downey Jr recent The Judge. She has a long way to go.
I especially like this film for its music as was composed by Dave Grusin, a master jazz artist! The piano pieces are very apropos for the character's emotions that burn through each and every scene throughout this production!
The best thing about watching you guys is I always know I can hit the like button before I even watch the video. This movie was filmed (mostly) in my hometown so it holds a special place in my heart. Great reaction!
How can you NOT love these two banter back and fourth!? My favorite @15.38 Carly: "Do you think the firm set that up for them so they can blackmail him? Cassie: "They better NOT have!" "Ooooo"
"The Client" (1994) is another great thriller to add to your list of movies to watch. This is one of my top faves of Tom Cruise that hardly any Millennial knows about. Great choice of movie for the reaction, ladies.
Edge of Tomorrow is great, but original Top Gun is super cringe. Much like Days of Thunder. People only "like" Top Gun because of the new Top Gun, which was actually good. The old TG is still super cheesy, and Days of Thunder is from that same time when Cruise couldn't act yet
@@shredd5705 what are you talking about, Cruise was an already proven actor with Rain Man and Born on the Fourth. There was a large following of Top Gun before the sequel...hence the highly anticipated sequel. Plus these ladies already liked Top Gun, so Thunder may be up their alley, as the OP suggests.
@@michaeljacyna1973 "Proven actor with a following" Yes, following by all the horny women because of his looks, but he couldn't act worth shit yet. His early movies like "Cocktail" and "Top Gun" were ridiculous.. he was always acting the same egoistic douche character, which clearly mirrored his back-then IRL persona. In "Rain Man" he is also pretty annoying, much like in everything else he had done thusfar. Saved by a good script and Hoffman, but Cruise's character was an annoying douche (no acting required) right until the end. In "Born on the 4th of July" at least he tries to act (first time ever), but the movie is pretty boring, depressing and too long tbh... only thing good about it is that it was a true story, and anti-war message. Top Gun is laughingstock, the subject of hundreds of gay jokes since the 1980s.... There's homoerotic undertone, cheesy-as-they-come romance (when Maverick really wanted to take Iceman's breath away). It's basically a Navy recruiting video (approved by Pentagon, and word is it worked, tons of Muricans wanted to be pilots after it..). As a movie it's ridiculous homoerotic cheese. Top Gun: Maverick took the same concept, and made it actually good, with heart, and less homo, because the script and acting is miles (Teller) better. And because Tom Cruise had matured as an actor. He is already way more mature in this movie, "The Firm". The Firm is actually the first Cruise movie where he can act, and his character is likeable and showing human qualities. Done 3 years after Days of Thunder. Days of Thunder IMDb score 6.0... says it all. That's like under average. Just barely avoids a 5.x score which is the limit of "Needs alcohol to be tolerable". He was still raw as an actor, mostly hired for his looks... And every crap movie including something like "Pearl Harbor" or "Police Academy 5" has a "following" it doesn't prove much... dumb ppl follow dumb things
@@shredd5705 Dude, the OP isn't asking for Thunder to get screened by critics. He's saying they would probably enjoy it for the channel, and I agree, they probably would as they also enjoyed Top Gun. And for the record, Cruise normally gets praise for his performance in both Born and Rain by audience and critic alike, and as long as youre looking up scores, what do those films get? Get of your high horse, Jesus
I can't believe more people aren't suggesting The Verdict, one of the greatest courtroom films of all time! Paul Newman at his best. 5 Oscar nominations- Best Picture, Best Director (Sidney Lumet), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Paul Newman), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (James Mason), and Best Adapted Screenplay (David Mamet).
The Verdict is probably the best courtroom movie of all time. But it's not visually spectacular, so a 'first time watching' review might become boring.
16:48 Gary Busey actually became famous in the 70s, especially after earning an Oscar nomination for playing Buddy Holly. Then after his motorcycle accident in the late 80s, while he still starred in several blockbusters, he mostly became famous for his brain-damaged, zany personality.
Give _"The Rainmaker"_ a watch - Same writer as "The Firm." Great Courtroom Drama. Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Danny Glover, Claire Danes, and Jon Voight.
What you and your sister, ultimately enjoyed so much was John Grisham's story (from the original book). Virtually all of John Grisham's books have stories that are this well crafted, and well written. I encourage you to read one sometime, or listen to an audio book while you are taking a long drive.
The Firm is called the Firm because it is a play on words. Lawyers work in a law firm and the Chicago mob is known as The Firm. Once people know that the movie becomes clearer. I remember watching this movie so many times because I worked in a movie theater when this film was released.
You gotta hand it to the screenwriters: their solution for how McDeere shuts down the firm over mail fraud and remains the mob’s attorney was way more inventive than the ending in the novel.
If you haven't already seen it, I think you'd like The Rainmaker. It doesn't have Tom Cruise, but it is simultaneously one of my favorite movies and books.
Gary Busey got famous for playing Buddy Holly. That was his break out role. He was a great actor. He had a motorcycle accident and seems to not be the same after.
"Lethal Weapon" was the movie that introduced Gary Busey to the 80s audiences. The climactic fight with Mel Gibson pretty much set the bar for late 80s and early 90s action fight scenes before "The Matrix" came along.
I actually saw a movie starring Busey as the protagonist immediately after "Lethal Weapon" came out, it was a movie titled "Eye of the Tiger" and it's theme song was, you guessed it, "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor.
A great courtroom drama is "The Verdict" with Paul Newman, who played Henry Gondorf in "The Sting" along with Robert Redford. Bruce Willis has a bit part as an extra in the courtroom scenes.
Ed Harris is the actor whose voice you recognize. He was the "Drone Ranger" trying to cancel Maverick's Mach 10 test at the beginning of Top Gun: Maverick. The woman on the beach that Tom Cruise cheated on his wife with is the same actress that played Brad Pitt's wife (she got shot by the ricochet bullet) in Legends of the Fall
Cassie did properly identify Ed Harris as the actor who played Gene Kranz, the Mission Control director in *Apollo 13* . She just didn't know Harris's name.
The thing about this movie for me is that I'm not much of a reader, but when I saw this in the theater when this came out, it inspired me to the read the novel, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
I think movies having you both are my favorite popcorn in bed reactions. Have you seen "The Pelican Brief" staring Julia Roberts? Based off this reaction, i think you two will love it.
Fun reaction ladies, thank you! My favorite Grisham book and movie adaptation is The Rainmaker. A very young Matt Damon plays a young, broke lawyer trying to get started in Memphis. I think y'all would like it, some legal & courtroom intrigue, interesting characters and a little romance in there too 😉 Would love to see it make the channel sometime! Cheers!
Edit: highly highly recommend, The Pelican Brief. Pls do a reaction. To add to Grisham library. I recommend with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, Interview with a Vampire. And adaptation of John Grisham's The Rainmaker! And Devil's Advocate! The girl on the beach was in Legends of the Fall. The FBI agent is Ed Harris.
Cassie and Carlie, thanks so much for watching The Firm. I knew you would love it. I think the first woman in the Caimans was a setup too. Actor Tom walked away she look towards Gene Hackman who look back towards her. That’s my take. The movie is a real thriller. It keeps you engaged from the moment it starts til the very end. And the piano music just makes the movie.
Gene Hackman is a prolific actor and has acted in almost 70 movies. Two movies I think you two would love are The Package and Class Action. I don’t know if you’ve seen Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood, but he plays the sherif in that movie. Great reaction, ladies.
Class Action with John Travolta is a really great movie based on a true story in Massachusetts. My aunt & uncle who lived in Groton, MA at the time knew the lawyer who Travolta played. He was trying so hard to do the right thing for the residents of those small towns and my aunt & uncle liked him a lot!
Honestly one of my favorite Gene Hackman movie is one that is very overlooked - Bite the Bullet. It's a western (mostly - it has all the usual trappings of one), but it has a GREAT little soliloquy by Hackman, and another by a sadly overlooked character actor - Ben Johnson. Not the greatest movie ever, but very entertaining and one of my favorites (and Hackman's performance in it is a big reason for that).
This reminded me of sister time with my two! My baby sis lives in New Zealand and my big sis lives in Tenerife... Watching you both share laughs and biscuits makes me really miss them 💕
I have some cool personal memories of this movie. I lived in Memphis during the time this was filmed. I stood across the street from Tom Cruise when he was filming a few scenes at the University of Memphis where I was a student (back then it was called Memphis State University). At 5:17 of your video, there's a party scene on the rooftop of the Peabody hotel with a band playing. The guitarist's name is Buzz, and he was my guitar teacher a few years earlier.
I’m also a Memphian with ties to this film. My mother was working with a nonprofit group that ended up touring the set. They pulled her aside and asked if they could take some portrait headshots because she had the right look for the (deceased) female lawyer. They ended up using her portrait. I saw it a few weeks ago in my parents’ garage. It still has the Alice Krauss plate on it.
Great Tom Cruise Movies…. The Outsiders, The Color of Money, Edge of Tomorrow, Jerry McGuire, Jack Reacher (first one), all Mission Impossible, pretty much any movie he’s in. Oblivion is good.
@@kevinpatrick5925 And Vanilla Sky, personally I preferred it to the Spanish film it was based on(though I watched that 2nd to be fair) He's also excellent in Collateral and Born on the fourth of July.
Watching the two of you watch movies put such an entertaining New Perspective on movies we know and love... that's why I'm proud to subscribe.. you bagged another one. Your reaction to top gun Maverick left me cheering and also in tears by the end of it.. job well done, continue the great work
Not only was this a great adaptation to Grisham’s novel, the ending of the film was actually changed. As a result it made the story better than the book. Sydney Pollack was a great writer/director.
The man who plays Voles from the FBI, the older gent with the hat that Cruise meets on the park bench, is Steven Hill. Mr Hill played Adam Schiff, the Manhatten D.A, for ten seasons on the original "Law and Order," from 1990-2000. He was also a phenomenal stage actor.
John Grisham really did write the best legal dramas. I knew somebody who would spend afternoons at the bookstore reading a few chapters at a time until he got through Grishams whole catalogue. I just loved the movie adaptations. They really had a winning streak with making great films out of the books.
Good reaction. This was my first John Grisham book I read. There's even a few more twists in the book but the movie is very good too. It also goes a little slower in the novel so you know why the time sheets are so important and also why Mitch's first plan was and why the second was so much better. It's probably still my favorite. That or, "The Brethren"..It just re-watched this last week. Then I finally saw Top Gun 2 so got to watch that reaction last night.
Cassie - Ed Harris, the bald federal agent (Wayne Tarrance) in “The Firm” was the vest-wearing Gene Kranz in “Apollo 13”. That’s why you recognized him.
Great film and score. You should watch True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino but directed by Tony Scott. Everyone is in it. It's bloody but a great love story. Unforgettable.
John Grisham´s books were my father´s favorite. With this guy you can never go wrong, and The Firm is just perfect. Another great movie based on his book is The Pelican Brief (1993) with Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.
You two need to watch one of Tom Cruise's best roles ever in the movie "Rain Man" (1988). Winner of four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay. Great movie! Check it out.
This one really doesn't have courtroom drama but it's still very suspenseful. Love the end. The actor who played Mitch's brother was in LA Confidential.
Tom was up against Jigsaw, Hank from Breaking Bad, and the Quaker oatmeal guy-and won! 😂
IM WILFORD BRIMLEY AND I HAVE DIABIETES. 😂😂😂 R.I.P Wilford
I miss the whole John Grisham adaptation phase of the late 90’s / early 00’s, they were pretty solid movies for the most part
Yup! I wish they'd make more movies like these. I love these plot intensive movies.
Just a heads up that Matthew McConaughey will be playing Jake Brigance again. HBO is in production with Grisham's "A Time for Mercy" which is supposed to be an 8-10 episode series
@@notkg is Oliver Pratt reprising Harry Rex?
I'd love a movie adaptation of John Grisham's book Airframe. It would be a very relevant topic, especially what happened to Boeing.
@@gawainethefirst I don't know but I have read the book and the Harry Rex character is in it quite a bit
I never knew that "Cassie watching Carlie watch Tom Cruise films" was a subgenre I would enjoy, but here we are - I'm here for ALL of it!
Wait until they watch Tom Cruise in BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY. They are going to weep and cry. 😊
Especially because she didn't think much of him early on, probably because of Scientology and his losing popularity ever since he jumped on Oprah's couch. But when you go through his list of movies it's undeniable, it's possibly just him and the other Tom at that elite level. Just have to separate the art from the artist. Also everyone who works with him or meets him says he's a great guy. If he wasn't a Scientologist he'd be at that Keanu Reeves level of adoration.
@@hughjorg4008 BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, Days of Thunder (Top Gun in the world of the Car Races), Risky Business, Rain Man, Jerry McGuire, Minority Report, War of Worlds, Oblivion and many more.....
@@javix2013 Next best they haven't seen (outside of MI) would probably be Jerry McGuire and Collateral. Before "Born on the 4th of July" they should watch "Platoon" because Born on the 4th of July is kind of sequel to it (also because Platoon is the better movie, but it's the first in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy.. last one is Heaven & Earth)
@@javix2013 And also INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt). Cassie and Carlie are going to freak out. 😄
"You need to run. You love to run. Why isn't he running." I think this line can basically be a quote for Tom Cruise's career.
I'm trying to think of a Cruise movie in which he doesn't have a running scene, and none come to mind. Did he run in *Risky Business* , or did he just slide across the floor in his socks and underwear?
There's not a TC movie without the signature arm-pumping Cruise sprint
Trophic Thunder, small roll I know, Valkyrie and Lions for Lambs. Not sure of others.
I was just thinking about how different his career would be if he wasn't in a cult.
This film was a massive blockbuster in 1993. The 5th highest grossing film that year. This film deserves more recognition!
I agree 100%; although I feel it was rewritten. If that were the case, I'm curious what the original script was
@@flexiblestrategist9922 I have no clue what the original script was. But I will share with you a little known fact about writing movie scripts. I met an old Hollywood writer last year and I told him that I had a ton of great movie ideas. I told him that I started writing a few scripts. He said "Be aware of the fact that even if someone likes your script enough to develop it into a movie. That the studio executives, producers, directors or even the actors can easily make changes at anytime. So don't write anything that you feel passionately about unless you are able to direct it yourself."
Yeah it was really good, I saw it in the theater. I still think the previous year's A Few Good Men was a little better.
Since you’re on a Tom Cruise kick recently. I’d like to recommend Collateral. Such a great movie.
100% agree. one of my all time favorites. tom cruise and jamie foxx delivered such stellar performances.
True. He is not very charming in it though.. or in a way he is, but not in the normal way
@@shredd5705 i thought his performance was so unsettling because of his confident condescending charm only a sociopath could deploy.. it's like he actually believes his own b.s. in collateral, thats how charming he was..
@@StayFractalesque Yeah but he is still suave and well spoken in Collateral, just his morality is messed up. Shows he can really act. Wish he didn't belong to a crazy cult IRL, that's the most unsettling thing about him actually... how he has this "I'm a nice, empathetic person" front but he lives a double life.. He is still the second in command of Scientology, which is a batshit crazy, abusive cult with tons of power
Haven't seen the whole movie Collateral. Seen the alley shootout on RUclips, looks pretty awesome.
I remember this movie, I thought it was terrific. For new Tom Cruise fans I recommend you watch Rain Man (1988), I think he should have won an Oscar for his performance.
Great film!
100% agree. It's excellent.
Cruise for Rain Man? No way. Hoffman, yes. But not Cruise. And this movie is so bad compared to the original novel. Man, I couldn’t put it down, especially at the end. The film is lame and disappointing compared to the book. I remember we saw it on the big screen with a bunch of co-workers, all in the book selling business. They almost kicked us out of the theatre, because we couldn’t stop complaining about all of the unnecessary changes they’d made. 😁
I was dying laughing watching you two trying to figure out where you had seen Ed Harris. You just saw him in Top Gun Maverick. Your reactions were great. And always fun to watch.
To be fair, they did watch that 3 months ago (June 4th, according to the reaction) and waited until it was out on streaming to upload it.
To be fair I have watched this movie literally dozens of times and never realised that was Ed Harris!
Ed Harris has been in so many blockbuster movies I was amazed in general they didn't know him. Then again both of them know nothing about top A-List actors and Actresses in movies. Always baffles me.
@@chaoticcanadian8994 Yup. "A Beautiful Mind" "Truman Show" "Apollo 13" "Gravity" "Gone Baby Gone" "Enemy at the Gates" "The Abyss" "The Rock" "A History of Violence" "Snowpiercer" "Absolute Power" ..not to mention 4 Oscar nominations. Ed Harris is a legend, can't believe someone doesn't know him.
They did finally figure out that they saw him in Apollo 13.
The book came out when I was a freshman in college. EVERYONE was reading this one. You literally couldn't go anywhere and NOT see a copy in someone's hands. On every plane, every bus, every cafe, everywhere. Then only a couple years later they came out with the film and people went bananas again haha. Great reaction.
A shot in "Black Hawk Down" of one of the Rangers reading "The Firm" was a little remark on the book's ubiquity in 1993.
By the time the movie came out, everyone was reading all the Grisham books that had come out by then.
@@Tr0nzoid because one of the real life Rangers was actually reading Grisham.
So sad those days of society feeling connected through books and movies are long gone...
I preferred the ending of the book over the ending of the movie.
This is one of the few movies that I thought was better than the book!
"He needs to run"
"He loves to run"
"Why isn't he running?"
😂
Meme: "Why are you running?"
Gump: "I just felt like runninG!"
The Client starring Susan Sarandon is another courtroom movie by John Grisham. It should get on a poll soon because I feel like you’d love it too.
The Client would be PERFECT! EXCELLENT suggestion
Also The Rainmaker with Matt Damon.
@@hollishamilton3943 long overdue to rewatch the Rainmaker
YES!!!!
The Client is great.
John Grisham books are all kind of like this. A lot of suspense, some clever lawyering, and generally a satisfying ending. He was a lawyer so legal suspense is his specialty. The ones that have been adapted to movies like this one have been good, entertaining movies often with an up and coming at the time lead actor that is now an A lister and a stacked supporting cast. The Rainmaker with Matt Damon & Danny DeVito, The Client with Susan Sarandon & Tommy Lee Jones, The Runaway Jury with John Cusack and Gene Hackman again, The Pelican Brief with Julia Roberts & Denzel Washington are all quality, gripping movies along with A Time to Kill and this that have already been reacted to.
I remember seeing the book of The Firm on my dad's bookshelf when I was about 15 and being intrigued by the blurb on the back, so I read the first chapter out of curiosity. I sat on the floor and _devoured_ that thing in about 4 hours, I was hooked from the word "go". The man is a master of suspense.
@Dudeman23rd agree ... best part was them being chased in the motels...they cut that out!
Also, there was a great one with Matthew McConaughey - maybe A Time to Kill? And The Judge.
@@ElizabethJMusgraveGottaGo and Lincoln Lawyer.
@@lauriebriggs9705 Thats Michael Connelly novels and great TV show. Matthew McConaughey started in the film The Lincoln Lawyer few years ago but John Grisham had nothing to with that.
Holly Hunter was not in Twister. You’re thinking of Helen Hunt. Holly Hunter is in Raising Arizona and one of my absolute favorites…Home for the Holidays which I highly recommend for Thanksgiving viewing.
I want my baby!
Hunter was great in "Copycat".
They'll probably love the movie 'Always' as well with Holly.
voice of Elastigirl too
Definitely second Home for the Holidays at Thanksgiving.
I love that at the time of filming, “old” Wilford Brimley, the actor playing the firm’s head of security, was the same age Cruise is right now. 😂
And in 40 years, 100 year old Cruise could go back in time and STILL outrun that guy.
It reminds me of Law & Order: SVU kind of. All the OG cops are now far older than old Captain Cragen was in season 1. Crazy how time flies.
He was only 50 when they filmed Cocoon.
Wilford Brimly was like 68 for 25 years...
Brimley lived a harder life. He dropped out of high school at 14 to become a cowboy, was a body guard for Howard Hughes, a blacksmith, was a Marine during the Korean war, and got into acting by becoming a stuntman. That shit will age you. Basically, he did all the stuff in real life Tom Cruise acts out. That's why the different look at the same age.
I'm glad you guys are enjoying Ton Cruise, but for your particular tastes, you should really give him and Cameron Diaz a watch in Knight and Day - it is EXACTLY the kind of movie you ladies want to see, action, humor, romance... it's just FUN.
It actually is so funny
Perfect mix of action and comedy. Similar to but better than Mr and Mrs Smith.
@@selardohr7697 "I think I can change your clothes without looking. I'm not saying that's what I did..."
LOVE this film. Yes, they would 1000% love Knight and Day. If they love the gallant and strong gentleman type of guy, that is.
I would suggest if they're going to do Vanilla Sky then to double feature it with the fun and funny Knight and Day! Under-viewed duo!
21:57 The way both Cassie and Carly said with excitement "This is his running scene" was pure gold!
And this is exactly why TC continues to do them.
The person who you two are having a hard time placing is Ed Haris. He’s played in the Abyss, The Truman Show, Apollo 13 and many more movies.
And Milk Money!
"The Devil's Advocate" (1997) with Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron is a great "law drama" with a great twist.
I think Cassie will find it too horrific and evil.
@@SnabbKassa I don't know. It's a great twist and she's grown to appreciate horror if it's done for the sake of the story instead of simple shock value. The cast would alleviate a lot of her misgivings.
Two more GREAT courtroom movies , "Primal Fear" Richard Gere and Edward Norton !!! "Presumed Innocent" Harrison Ford !!!
Primal Fear would be amazing for them to react to.
Presumed Innocent, Regarding Henry, Air Force One, Witness, The Fugitive,
All Harrison Ford Films. Regarding Henry wasn’t a lawyer movie but it was pretty good. Presumed innocent was great. Pelican Brief with Julia Roberts was good too.
Primal Fear is sooooooo good
I absolutely second these two movies 🎬 🎞 😍! Ditto on all the movies in the above comment, i.e. The Fugitive, Regarding Henry, etc 😀!
Primal Fear is great
I felt so sorry for Avery. He was just a broken man. And that moment she kissed him was a genuine sign of affection from her, be it for his honesty and lost soul.
In the end yeah. He was a multi-faceted character. Not black and white. In the end he tried to do the right thing, unlike the FBI at any point of the movie
@@shredd5705 Yeah, I felt bad having seen this movie how Cassie and her sister saw him as "Creepy" mostly I'd imagine because of his age. But in the end, he was deep down a good man who was trapped and perhaps used his carefree fun lifestyle as a way to drown is sadness. Something about seeing a woman kiss a man at his lowest point with affection hits me right in the feels. Some men hide their pain in sex and affairs when their was a time no one was around to save them sooner.
@@gutz1981 He kind of was a creep most of the movie. He was hitting on another mans young wife, multiple times, even at a funeral. Trying to be a home breaker. He redeemed himself in the end, by saving Abby's life and sacrificing his own in the process. Because he didn't really want to live. He was both a creep and a noble character. Probably originally a noble idealist, just like Mitch. But then the firm corrupted him
I always appreciated the character's honesty. He knows he is a broken and ruined man and accepted his fate. This allows him to keep some of his humanity.
Since you seem to be on Tom Cruise movies lately. You should check out the movie TAPS it's a 1981 drama starring George C. Scott(OSCAR WINNER) and Timothy Hutton(OSCAR WINNER), Tom Cruise(OSCAR NOMINEE) Sean Penn(OSCAR WINNER). They were all very young in this movie (except George) . This is Tom's first major role in a feature film, and he had a powerful performance.
I liked “The Outsiders” that was a young star studded 80’s cast.
2 great films Taps and The Outsiders,
"He wore a vest!" that made me chuckle. Ed Harris, great actor (loved him in "The rock", "enemy at the gates")
For another great courtroom drama you should watch *Primal Fear* with Richard Gere and Edward Norton.
Great film
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love that film
After watching young Ethan Hunt as a lawyer in a Grisham story, you could also watch young Jason Bourne do the same thing in The Rainmaker.
Agree, came here to suggest The Rainmaker! And the Lincoln Lawyer is great too!
David Strathairn is in "A League of Their Own" and "L.A. Confidential". Ed Harris is in "Apollo 13" and "Places in the Heart". The Fed, Voyles, is played by Steven Hill, in his last film. A well respected actor, he had memorable supporting roles in a variety of films but is best remembered for the years he spent on the original "Law & Order". The head security man is played by Wilford Brimley, ordinarily a much more sympathetic character in films like "Cocoon" and "The Natural", but very scary in this one. Also, you may not have noticed, but the original score is pretty much entirely solo piano. And, yes, the hit man, Tobin Bell's specialty is looking creepy.
I remember watching The Thing for the first time and being shook by Wilford Brimley without the mustache.
Looking back at this: What an incredible cast!
80's brought out some of the best movies.
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I worked as a guide at The Mississippi River Museum in college. That's my friend Susan giving the tour.
The bald FBI agent was Ed Harris. He is a very good actor you most recently saw him in Top Gun Maverick as the 1st Admiral
If you like Holly Hunter you really need to watch Copycat. She's a police detective after a serial killer. You'll love it!
The bald FBI guy is Ed Harris. He's married to Amy Madigan who was Kevin Costners wife in Field Of Dreams. Another good one to watch is Absolute Power with Clint Eastwood, Ed Harris and Gene Hackman again as a sleeze, but it's a very good movie.
Ed Harris was also in Apollo 13.
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And Ed Harris is Admiral Wackbar in Top Gun: Maverick
She got her Best Actress award for The Piano. It's about as dark as one could go and may be too much for this channel.
Oh Cassie, I'm glad you and your sister enjoyed this movie. Back in the 80's and 90's, some quality movies were 2-2.5 hours long and allowed you to totally forget your own life and escape. This was one of those movies. Based of a novel by the same title written by John Grisham.
"Ray," David Strathairn, was one of the characters in the Bourne Ultimatum. He also had a leading role in The River Wild, a suspense movie with Kevin Bacon and Meryl Streep. Highly recommended:).
Sneakers is another Classic ,David Plays a blind man brilliantly
Love this channel. Always feel like Cassie is not putting on any airs, just giving us her straight, from the heart reaction. As genuine as it comes. Great job, Cassie, as always.
Philadelphia, the Pelican brief, the Client and the Runaway Jury are all great courtroom movies. The Pelican Brief isn’t really in a courtroom but does involve SCOTUS’
Came here to mention “The Pelican Brief” and “The Client”.
Rain Maker is another good film
I’d like to add The accused, In the name of the father, Anatomy of a murder, Primal Fear and The Rainmaker. I even liked Robert Downey Jr recent The Judge. She has a long way to go.
Philadelphia. Yes.
Runaway Jury is fantaaaastic!
I especially like this film for its music as was composed by Dave Grusin, a master jazz artist! The piano pieces are very apropos for the character's emotions that burn through each and every scene throughout this production!
Always loved his score for this movie. Another great Grusin score is "The Friends of Eddie Coyle".
you or ya'll just make me happy and relaxed - thanks bunches and don't ever stop!
The best thing about watching you guys is I always know I can hit the like button before I even watch the video. This movie was filmed (mostly) in my hometown so it holds a special place in my heart. Great reaction!
Rest assured ladies, there IS a running scene.
I never noticed this running tendency until C&C pointed it out. Now it’s all I look for. What in tarnation?!?
@@Divamarja_CA I heard it around the time this came out. Been looking too ever since.
Also motorcycles! Tom rides a lot of motorcycles in his movies!
Running is his money maker.
He's run miles in all his movies combined. There's been compilations of it put together on RUclips.
“You need to run! You love to run!”
You guys are hilarious 😂 😂
Another enjoyable Grisham adaptation is The Rainmaker.
How can you NOT love these two banter back and fourth!?
My favorite @15.38 Carly: "Do you think the firm set that up for them so they can blackmail him?
Cassie: "They better NOT have!" "Ooooo"
"The Client" (1994) is another great thriller to add to your list of movies to watch. This is one of my top faves of Tom Cruise that hardly any Millennial knows about. Great choice of movie for the reaction, ladies.
If you liked Top Gun, there's no way you'll not like Days of Thunder. Oblivion is pretty solid, as is Edge of Tomorrow.
Edge of Tomorrow is great, but original Top Gun is super cringe. Much like Days of Thunder. People only "like" Top Gun because of the new Top Gun, which was actually good. The old TG is still super cheesy, and Days of Thunder is from that same time when Cruise couldn't act yet
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And Collateral, Knight and Day and Jerry Maguire.
@@shredd5705 what are you talking about, Cruise was an already proven actor with Rain Man and Born on the Fourth. There was a large following of Top Gun before the sequel...hence the highly anticipated sequel. Plus these ladies already liked Top Gun, so Thunder may be up their alley, as the OP suggests.
@@michaeljacyna1973 "Proven actor with a following" Yes, following by all the horny women because of his looks, but he couldn't act worth shit yet. His early movies like "Cocktail" and "Top Gun" were ridiculous.. he was always acting the same egoistic douche character, which clearly mirrored his back-then IRL persona. In "Rain Man" he is also pretty annoying, much like in everything else he had done thusfar. Saved by a good script and Hoffman, but Cruise's character was an annoying douche (no acting required) right until the end. In "Born on the 4th of July" at least he tries to act (first time ever), but the movie is pretty boring, depressing and too long tbh... only thing good about it is that it was a true story, and anti-war message.
Top Gun is laughingstock, the subject of hundreds of gay jokes since the 1980s.... There's homoerotic undertone, cheesy-as-they-come romance (when Maverick really wanted to take Iceman's breath away). It's basically a Navy recruiting video (approved by Pentagon, and word is it worked, tons of Muricans wanted to be pilots after it..). As a movie it's ridiculous homoerotic cheese.
Top Gun: Maverick took the same concept, and made it actually good, with heart, and less homo, because the script and acting is miles (Teller) better. And because Tom Cruise had matured as an actor. He is already way more mature in this movie, "The Firm". The Firm is actually the first Cruise movie where he can act, and his character is likeable and showing human qualities. Done 3 years after Days of Thunder.
Days of Thunder IMDb score 6.0... says it all. That's like under average. Just barely avoids a 5.x score which is the limit of "Needs alcohol to be tolerable". He was still raw as an actor, mostly hired for his looks... And every crap movie including something like "Pearl Harbor" or "Police Academy 5" has a "following" it doesn't prove much... dumb ppl follow dumb things
@@shredd5705 Dude, the OP isn't asking for Thunder to get screened by critics. He's saying they would probably enjoy it for the channel, and I agree, they probably would as they also enjoyed Top Gun. And for the record, Cruise normally gets praise for his performance in both Born and Rain by audience and critic alike, and as long as youre looking up scores, what do those films get? Get of your high horse, Jesus
I can't believe more people aren't suggesting The Verdict, one of the greatest courtroom films of all time! Paul Newman at his best. 5 Oscar nominations- Best Picture, Best Director (Sidney Lumet), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Paul Newman), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (James Mason), and Best Adapted Screenplay (David Mamet).
Another good movie is The Prize (1963), also with Paul Newman
Oh man! Sounds amazing. Never seen it. Wonder if I can watch it somewhere
The Verdict is probably the best courtroom movie of all time. But it's not visually spectacular, so a 'first time watching' review might become boring.
16:48 Gary Busey actually became famous in the 70s, especially after earning an Oscar nomination for playing Buddy Holly. Then after his motorcycle accident in the late 80s, while he still starred in several blockbusters, he mostly became famous for his brain-damaged, zany personality.
It's sad that people have largely forgotten him.
"Hello pants."
“Utah, get me two”
@@troythomas753 "Two."
Give _"The Rainmaker"_ a watch - Same writer as "The Firm." Great Courtroom Drama. Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Danny Glover, Claire Danes, and Jon Voight.
I really like seeing you and Carly together. The more you two team up, the better, IMHO.
Casting Wilford Brimley as a Villain
was a Brilliant Idea.
What you and your sister, ultimately enjoyed so much was John Grisham's story (from the original book). Virtually all of John Grisham's books have stories that are this well crafted, and well written. I encourage you to read one sometime, or listen to an audio book while you are taking a long drive.
Helen Hunt was in Twister, not Holly Hunter.😋
The Firm is called the Firm because it is a play on words. Lawyers work in a law firm and the Chicago mob is known as The Firm. Once people know that the movie becomes clearer. I remember watching this movie so many times because I worked in a movie theater when this film was released.
I love that Cassie was able to identify Ed Harris as the man in Apollo 13 because he “wore a vest!” Hahaha
You gotta hand it to the screenwriters: their solution for how McDeere shuts down the firm over mail fraud and remains the mob’s attorney was way more inventive than the ending in the novel.
If you haven't already seen it, I think you'd like The Rainmaker. It doesn't have Tom Cruise, but it is simultaneously one of my favorite movies and books.
Seconded. The Rainmaker is excellent.
Thirded :)
This is my all-time favorite suspense movie! I'm so glad you guys liked it and I always love the reactions with Carly!
Gary Busey got famous for playing Buddy Holly. That was his break out role. He was a great actor. He had a motorcycle accident and seems to not be the same after.
And if they really want to see him in a movie they would enjoy...POINT BREAK!
"Lethal Weapon" was the movie that introduced Gary Busey to the 80s audiences. The climactic fight with Mel Gibson pretty much set the bar for late 80s and early 90s action fight scenes before "The Matrix" came along.
Agreed with all. I hope they will watch The Buddy Holly Story, Lethal Weapon, and Point Break.
@@johnlloyddy7016 A great villain in Under Siege as well.
I actually saw a movie starring Busey as the protagonist immediately after "Lethal Weapon" came out, it was a movie titled "Eye of the Tiger" and it's theme song was, you guessed it, "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor.
A great courtroom drama is "The Verdict" with Paul Newman, who played Henry Gondorf in "The Sting" along with Robert Redford.
Bruce Willis has a bit part as an extra in the courtroom scenes.
came here to say "The Verdict"...
I recommended that one already. Paul Newman was absolutely brilliant.
And Tobin Bell
Ed Harris is the actor whose voice you recognize. He was the "Drone Ranger" trying to cancel Maverick's Mach 10 test at the beginning of Top Gun: Maverick.
The woman on the beach that Tom Cruise cheated on his wife with is the same actress that played Brad Pitt's wife (she got shot by the ricochet bullet) in Legends of the Fall
Isabel II, probably the least flawed person in that entire movie.
Cassie did properly identify Ed Harris as the actor who played Gene Kranz, the Mission Control director in *Apollo 13* . She just didn't know Harris's name.
The thing about this movie for me is that I'm not much of a reader, but when I saw this in the theater when this came out, it inspired me to the read the novel, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
Me too. I hadn't read "for fun" in years at that time (still young in school) and before the movie opened, I read it and became a casual reader.
I think movies having you both are my favorite popcorn in bed reactions. Have you seen "The Pelican Brief" staring Julia Roberts? Based off this reaction, i think you two will love it.
This Is One Of My All Time Favorite Movie's,Nice Reaction ladies
Fun reaction ladies, thank you! My favorite Grisham book and movie adaptation is The Rainmaker. A very young Matt Damon plays a young, broke lawyer trying to get started in Memphis. I think y'all would like it, some legal & courtroom intrigue, interesting characters and a little romance in there too 😉 Would love to see it make the channel sometime! Cheers!
Oh yeah! Danny DeVito is in it, too!
The movie is all right, but the book is 100x BETTER! There's more background, more context, and more character development.
Excellent editing and reaction. I enjoyed this as much as my first viewing in the theater. Thank you!
A TOM CRUISE movie what blows everybody's mind is VANILLA SKY (2001 film). We want Cassie and Carly to watch it. Their heads are going to EXPLODE !!
It's pretty meh though. Even if the idea is cool
@@shredd5705 VANILLA SKY was made with a $68 million budget and earned $208 million at the box office.
@@shredd5705 Personally I loved it, albeit it is the type of movie I like.
You probably recognize the actor who plays Ray from LA Confidential. He played the guy in charge of all the call girls.
Edit: highly highly recommend, The Pelican Brief. Pls do a reaction. To add to Grisham library.
I recommend with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, Interview with a Vampire. And adaptation of John Grisham's The Rainmaker! And Devil's Advocate! The girl on the beach was in Legends of the Fall. The FBI agent is Ed Harris.
They may overdose from to much leading man! Be careful with that recommendation.
Other good lawyer movies based on John Grisham books:
"The Client"
"The Pelican Brief"
This is a good movie, I recommend that you watch "The Client". It's also a John Grisham novel
"Control your face". I freakin LOVED that. LOL
Cassie and Carlie, thanks so much for watching The Firm. I knew you would love it. I think the first woman in the Caimans was a setup too. Actor Tom walked away she look towards Gene Hackman who look back towards her.
That’s my take. The movie is a real thriller. It keeps you engaged from the moment it starts til the very end.
And the piano music just makes the movie.
Primal Fear, Richard Gere, Ed Norton, GREAT courtroom... final scene leaves you speechless
Two words: Pelican Brief
So glad you recognized Ed Harris from Apollo 13! He’s a wonderful actor!!
Gene Hackman is a prolific actor and has acted in almost 70 movies. Two movies I think you two would love are The Package and Class Action. I don’t know if you’ve seen Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood, but he plays the sherif in that movie. Great reaction, ladies.
Class Action with John Travolta is a really great movie based on a true story in Massachusetts. My aunt & uncle who lived in Groton, MA at the time knew the lawyer who Travolta played. He was trying so hard to do the right thing for the residents of those small towns and my aunt & uncle liked him a lot!
A pretty good movie with both Ed Harris and Gene Hackman, is "Absolute Power" (also starring Clint Eastwood in the main role)
Honestly one of my favorite Gene Hackman movie is one that is very overlooked - Bite the Bullet. It's a western (mostly - it has all the usual trappings of one), but it has a GREAT little soliloquy by Hackman, and another by a sadly overlooked character actor - Ben Johnson. Not the greatest movie ever, but very entertaining and one of my favorites (and Hackman's performance in it is a big reason for that).
This reminded me of sister time with my two! My baby sis lives in New Zealand and my big sis lives in Tenerife... Watching you both share laughs and biscuits makes me really miss them 💕
If somehow you two haven’t seen Tommy Boy, your reaction would be sooo entertaining! This is by far my favorite channel. Cassie is so adorable!
I have some cool personal memories of this movie. I lived in Memphis during the time this was filmed. I stood across the street from Tom Cruise when he was filming a few scenes at the University of Memphis where I was a student (back then it was called Memphis State University). At 5:17 of your video, there's a party scene on the rooftop of the Peabody hotel with a band playing. The guitarist's name is Buzz, and he was my guitar teacher a few years earlier.
I’m also a Memphian with ties to this film. My mother was working with a nonprofit group that ended up touring the set. They pulled her aside and asked if they could take some portrait headshots because she had the right look for the (deceased) female lawyer. They ended up using her portrait. I saw it a few weeks ago in my parents’ garage. It still has the Alice Krauss plate on it.
More courtroom: The Verdict with Paul Newman
Ed Harris, the bald agent, you just saw him as the general in Top Gun Maverick, and was also the mission director in Apollo 13.
Great Tom Cruise Movies…. The Outsiders, The Color of Money, Edge of Tomorrow, Jerry McGuire, Jack Reacher (first one), all Mission Impossible, pretty much any movie he’s in. Oblivion is good.
you forgot Rainman
@@kevinpatrick5925 And Vanilla Sky, personally I preferred it to the Spanish film it was based on(though I watched that 2nd to be fair)
He's also excellent in Collateral and Born on the fourth of July.
Watching the two of you watch movies put such an entertaining New Perspective on movies we know and love... that's why I'm proud to subscribe.. you bagged another one. Your reaction to top gun Maverick left me cheering and also in tears by the end of it.. job well done, continue the great work
Not only was this a great adaptation to Grisham’s novel, the ending of the film was actually changed. As a result it made the story better than the book. Sydney Pollack was a great writer/director.
Totally agree. Love the book, but the movie ending is much better.
The man who plays Voles from the FBI, the older gent with the hat that Cruise meets on the park bench, is Steven Hill. Mr Hill played Adam Schiff, the Manhatten D.A, for ten seasons on the original "Law and Order," from 1990-2000. He was also a phenomenal stage actor.
You'd see half a dozen airplane passengers reading this book on every flight in the early 90's. 🙂
The story in the novel is well-written and very gripping. The sense of dread and terror really builds up.
If you like court room dramas, 'Runaway Jury' with Gene Hackman is one on my favourites! Check it out! It's fantastic! 🙂
I think Runaway Jury is based off the John Grisham novel of the same name if I remember correctly.
Ranaway Jury is amazing… even though it doesn’t have Tom Cruse. Great react!
"Class Action" is another enjoyable Gene Hackman courtroom drama from the early 90's that seems to get overlooked.
John Grisham really did write the best legal dramas. I knew somebody who would spend afternoons at the bookstore reading a few chapters at a time until he got through Grishams whole catalogue.
I just loved the movie adaptations. They really had a winning streak with making great films out of the books.
For Tom Cruise in something a little different, you MUST watch Collateral.
you both, this channel is one billion times fun to watch.
Good reaction. This was my first John Grisham book I read. There's even a few more twists in the book but the movie is very good too. It also goes a little slower in the novel so you know why the time sheets are so important and also why Mitch's first plan was and why the second was so much better. It's probably still my favorite. That or, "The Brethren"..It just re-watched this last week. Then I finally saw Top Gun 2 so got to watch that reaction last night.
- "I'm getting really creepy vibes"
- "I know there are VIBES!"
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"Born on the 4th of July", Tom Cruise should have won the academy award for it.
And that was his 1st nomination
Cassie - Ed Harris, the bald federal agent (Wayne Tarrance) in “The Firm” was the vest-wearing Gene Kranz in “Apollo 13”. That’s why you recognized him.
Great film and score. You should watch True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino but directed by Tony Scott. Everyone is in it. It's bloody but a great love story. Unforgettable.
The score seems to divide opinions, as a jazz guy I love it. It was Oscar nominated for best soundtrack after all
John Grisham´s books were my father´s favorite. With this guy you can never go wrong, and The Firm is just perfect. Another great movie based on his book is The Pelican Brief (1993) with Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.
There are two other John Grisham movies you ladies should watch!
The Client
The Pelican Brief
Don't forget The Rainmaker.
David Straitharn (Cruise's brother) plays in a lot of movies. Maybe the most notable was the Bourne Trilogy.
You two need to watch one of Tom Cruise's best roles ever in the movie "Rain Man" (1988). Winner of four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay. Great movie! Check it out.
I'm SO glad you did this movie!!!!!!!!!!
Another film to consider is "No Way Out" starring Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Iman, Will Patton. It is a sleeper-spy drama.
That's a bit of a spoiler? 😬
This one really doesn't have courtroom drama but it's still very suspenseful. Love the end. The actor who played Mitch's brother was in LA Confidential.