A Few Good Men directed by the late, regretted Rob Reiner, written by Aaron Sorkin, with Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, Demi Moore and other wonderful thespians – one reason why I write this is because Rob Reiner and his wife were killed yesterday, they don’t know if their son did it, albeit there are rumors that he did - the film was the 1993 Nominee for the Oscar for Best Picture, and Rob Reiner was one of the producers too, Jack Nicholson was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role – he won three, but not for this role – now for my invitation: you have more than six thousand notes on features from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other pages, along with more than five thousand reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html 8 out of 10 I was not ecstatic when I saw A Few Good Men, but this is one of the movies directed by Rob Reiner, who was killed yesterday, and since I have already posted a note on his master work When Harry Met Sally https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/when-harry-met-sally-by-nora-ephron.html I took A Few Good Men to analyze Before I get to the ‘critique’ of the motion picture, let me just say that the death of this wonderful, talented men caused the Orange Demon to show his disgusting nature again, the leader of the (once) free world attacked the dead artist, saying he was ‘deranged, suffered from Trump derangement disease, and this is why he died’ - This is as abject as one can get Although, this monster will surely do other abominable things today, tomorrow – colonel Nathan Jessep aka Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men is an angel, when compared with this pathetic, loathsome creep, one would should not be allowed in any position, except maybe sweeping the streets, and yet he is on top of the world - This in fact shows us where the world is Anyway, A Few Good Men is best known for the line ‘you can’t handle the truth’ and the speech shouted by Jack Nicholson, as the cruel, murderous Colonel Jessep, who also says ‘you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall’, with the conviction that is he defends America, he can do anything and get praise, not punishment Jack Nicholson used to be my absolute favorite – though we have had somebody just as good locally, George Constantin was not known outside of the realm, but was on the same level – until he started doing lesser work, Bucket List for instance https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/easy-rider-written-by-dennis-hopper.html The rest of the cast is excellent, Tom Cruise needs no comments, but facetious as I am, I will say that despite the obvious talent, his involvement in the Scientology gig makes him persona non grata to me – I did not watch the last Mission Impossibles, even if they had good chronicles, he has a negative aura with that scam Demi Moore has a had a few excellent performances, perhaps none better than in Ghost https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/ghost-written-by-bruce-joel-rubin-seven.html though some would add her recent leading role in The Substance, the horror feature that has been so well received, but it gets gruesome Finally, Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay, he may be best known for The Social Network, but Charlie Wilson’s War https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/charlie-wilsons-war-written-by-aaron.html is a fantastic motion picture Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works ‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

 

A Few Good Men directed by the late, regretted Rob Reiner, written by Aaron Sorkin, with Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, Demi Moore and other wonderful thespians – one reason why I write this is because Rob Reiner and his wife were killed yesterday, they don’t know if their son did it, albeit there are rumors that he did -  the film was the 1993 Nominee for the Oscar for Best Picture, and Rob Reiner was one of the producers too, Jack Nicholson was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role – he won three, but not for this role – now for my invitation: you have more than six thousand notes on features from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other pages, along with more than five thousand reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

 

8 out of 10

 

I was not ecstatic when I saw A Few Good Men, but this is one of the movies directed by Rob Reiner, who was killed yesterday, and since I have already posted a note on his master work When Harry Met Sally https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/when-harry-met-sally-by-nora-ephron.html I took A Few Good Men to analyze

Before I get to the ‘critique’ of the motion picture, let me just say that the death of this wonderful, talented men caused the Orange Demon to show his disgusting nature again, the leader of the (once) free world attacked the dead artist, saying he was ‘deranged, suffered from Trump derangement disease, and this is why he died’

 

-          This is as abject as one can get

 

Although, this monster will surely do other abominable things today, tomorrow – colonel Nathan Jessep aka Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men is an angel, when compared with this pathetic, loathsome creep, one would should not be allowed in any position, except maybe sweeping the streets, and yet he is on top of the world

 

-          This in fact shows us where the world is

 

Anyway, A Few Good Men is best known for the line ‘you can’t handle the truth’ and the speech shouted by Jack Nicholson, as the cruel, murderous Colonel Jessep, who also says ‘you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall’, with the conviction that is he defends America, he can do anything and get praise, not punishment

Jack Nicholson used to be my absolute favorite – though we have had somebody just as good locally, George Constantin was not known outside of the realm, but was on the same level – until he started doing lesser work, Bucket List for instance https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/easy-rider-written-by-dennis-hopper.html

 

The rest of the cast is excellent, Tom Cruise needs no comments, but facetious as I am, I will say that despite the obvious talent, his involvement in the Scientology gig makes him persona non grata to me – I did not watch the last Mission Impossibles, even if they had good chronicles, he has a negative aura with that scam

Demi Moore has a had a few excellent performances, perhaps none better than in Ghost https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/ghost-written-by-bruce-joel-rubin-seven.html though some would add her recent  leading role in The Substance, the horror feature that has been so well received, but it gets gruesome

 

Finally, Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay, he may be best known for The Social Network, but Charlie Wilson’s War https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/charlie-wilsons-war-written-by-aaron.html is a fantastic motion picture

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’