Runaway Jury: Do Not Run to See This Movie

[what's up]

A couple infiltrates a jury (gun control case) so they can take a bribe from whichever legal team will offer the most money to get them to sway the jury one way or the other. You think through most of the movie that they are just crooks until the end when you find out that they are anti-gun activists: They take the gun industry's $15 million, but sway the decision the other way.

[what's up]

I used to like Gene Hackman, but he is getting more and more off on playing the big, bad conservative creep. Hoffman plays the kind, "people's" lawyer...out to hit the gun industry where it hurts. Entertaining movie? Maybe..but so very blatently liberal. So what else is new?

[Rodney King]

Hackman's best role is Little Bill in Unforgiven.

[jmcclain19]

I personally Liked him as well in Crimson Tide, but he was great in Unforgiven. But Grisham's book always have a liberal slant to them. Little man fighting the big, mean corporate IE corrupt entity. After the whole tobacco industry book, I stopped reading his stuff.

[SuziQ]

The book was about BIG TOBACCO! You can read about it HERE

I guess they didn't want to repeat "The Insider", so they went after another politically incorrect cause. I'll skip this movie.

[dead]

I never got the appeal of courtroom dramas anyway.

Why not dentist office dramas while we're at it?

[Rodney King]

He was good in Crimson Tide as well, but like an earlier poster said I am getting sick of him always being the un-emotional conservative bad guy. Crimson
Tied would have been the greatest movie of all time had they surprised us at the end and the Russians nuked LA because the Alabama didn't get her missiles off in time.

[jmcclain19]

I'd always love to get away from the cliched good guy wins in the end movies. But Hollywood only knows how to repeat itself well.
I was having a good chuckle reading a story about this fall's new shows, and one of the main one's was a straight Romeo and Juliet rip off, others the same template repeated 100 times over. Perhaps that is the reason there was a story out a few weeks ago about males not watching Televison at all.

[scan58]

I'm a "French Connection" fan.

[exnavy]

This one is pure antigun.

[what's up]

Actually, the slant is very like "The Insider"...complete with Big Industry threatening jurors with physical violence, jail for immoral secret behavior, etc.

Except, instead of Al Pacino being the hero, here it is John Cusack.

[Rodney King]

Why not dentist office dramas while we're at it?

That would be great: Should we go with the expensive procedure or not? The kid doesn't have insurance, but he really needs it. Of course, he did the procedure for free once for a white kid, but this kid's black. Meanwhile, while the dentist ponders this with the hygenist who he is poking on the side, his wife is waiting out front for him.

The dentist worries that the wife knows he's poking the hygenist, so he decides not to do the procedure and take his wife out to dinner instead.

When he leaves, the hygenist (who is in training to be a dentist) does the procedure with the Dentists equpiment. The black kids teeth are saved. The dentist and his wife come back to the office later to get his briefcase. When he arrives, he sees that the procedure was done and gets furious at the hygenist for using his equpiment as it would void his insurance contract.

The hygenist then tells the wife that the Dentist took the wife out to dinner rather then save the teeth of the poor black kid because he was trying to cover up for his affair.

The wife and the hygenist leave together and start a lesbian relationship, the Dentist's practice goes under because the insurance company finds out and he can't get insurance because his hygenist used the equpiment. And the black kid later usues his shiny new smile to run for office and pass a national health care bill so everyone can get free dental care.

Man, that would make a great movie.

[Rodney King]

Except, instead of Al Pacino being the hero, here it is John Cusack.

That's too bad. Better Off Dead is one of the key movies of my teen-age years.

[nothingnew]

Sounds like a real nailbiter...not.

Go Little Bill.

FMCDH

[mgist]

The movie was horrible!I'm still not sure if I was so disgusted because of the unrealistic script or the blatant anti-2nd ammendment propaganda.

[Rodney King]

I don't know why you all go to movies in the theater. I gave it up 5 years ago and am really quite happy with it. Hollywood is what gives us such a bad name overseas. I go to grad school with a bunch of foreigners, and they have all told me how suprised they are at how nice and friendly Americans are, because from the movies they thought we were all violent, angry, and conniving.

[dead]

I like it! If you can get Lil' Bow Wow to be the kid with the bad teeth, I think we can get backing. And get Richard Gere as the dentist.

[vbmoneyspender]

"You been picking your toes out in Poughkeepsie?"

[Rodney King]

I like it! If you can get Lil' Bow Wow to be the kid with the bad teeth, I think we can get backing. And get Richard Gere as the dentist.

Definetly, and the red-headed chick from Spider Man as the Hygenist.

[Kiss Me Hardy]

Susan Lucci as the wife.