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The Judge

Robert Duval shits himself in this movie. It’s a proper metaphor for the movie, not Duval's performance. But literally, you get to watch an actor of Duval’s stature and prominence, a man who has given us such towering performances as we’ve seen in The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, MASH (not to mention the lesser-known, but brilliant George Lucas film TXH 1138, which if you haven’t seen you should) shit himself on the screen and see it run down his leg and onto the floor. And that’s right after he’s vomited in the toilet because of his chemotherapy treatment. These actions are in-bounds contextually, but the images stick with me because of the movie as a whole. For good measure, Robert Downey Jr. and Dax Shepard also puke a few times during the film (just nerves). Downey Jr.'s character Hank Palmer also makes out with his niece. The film is in Indiana rather than Arkansas, but the cliché jokes might as well apply since the film is wrought with so many others from the court...