Lt. Col Markinson's Life Choice | A Few Good Men (Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson) 

Those dress uniforms are so crisp.

I’m surprised that someone didn’t just start claiming that the dead guy gave the code red order

RIP J.T. Walsh! Underrated actor! Loved him in the TV series "Dark Skies"!

That nickel plated Beretta, though

0:20 - I’ve done as much as I can to bring truth to light Uh… you did? Are you sure about that? Couldn’t you have testified against the colonel?

During the trial..cruise states that markinson shot himself with a .45 caliber pistol. Didnt know they made the beretta 92 in .45 cal.

"MAJOR LENNOX PAID WITH HIS LIFE! As YOU should have done, if you had any shred of honor!" Well, at least Markinson had some honor.

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JT Walsh was incredible in every role he played.

The movie was written in 1988 and shot in 1991 - right when the 1911A1 was being phased out for the M9. You’re totally right, but I suspect that it was a mixup due to the armorer providing the current firearm and the script lagging behind.

I always felt awful for Markinson. The way he stood on the sidelines and didn’t save Santiago, but later came to regret his decision. This contrasts Jessup, who not only admitted to the crime in anger, but admitted that he did his job and would do it again.

Love that thumbnail lol

That thumbnail sure leaves a bad taste is some peoples mouths

Col. Markinson ordered a Code Blue. 🗣️💥🔫

That RU-vid thumbnail is something else...

I like to think the last thing that went through his head..[other than that bullet]…was to wonder how the hell Andy Dufrane got the best of him

Most of the characters represent different types of bad leadership. Lieutenant Coffee is the was the unmotivated leader who inherited his leadership position and just wants to pick up his paycheck and do just enough not to get fired. Lieutenant Commander Galloway is the incompetent leader who got her job by being kicked upstairs into a position where she can tell more competent people to do her work for her. Colonel Jackoff was the narcissistic leader whose mask came off when he got promoted to a rank where he no longer had superiors of his own to keep his ego in check and he will have a famous "You can't handle the truth" rant when people don't to worship him like the almighty god of freedom blankets. Lieutenant Kendrick was the bully leader who was on a power trip and mentally never left high school. Lieutenant Colonel Markinson was the outdated leader who fell on his sword and that got him the nickname "Shish-kabob." Nobody told him that Bushido was no longer in practice.

0:33 Literally me every Monday morning, but I can't afford a decent gun and the one I have always misfires. FML

The guy in the thumbnail is having one of those days

RU-vid bots are going to have a field day on the thumbnail.

That screenshot. pause.

looked like a Beretta 9mm to me. in court they said it was a 45 which I believe the 1911 45 cal would have be more consistent with an officer's uniform.

Always drove me crazy that Tom Cruise says, "This guy drew a nickle-plated .45 from his holster and blew his brians out. We clearly see a nickle-plated 9mm berretta.

Nice thumbnail tho

The thumbnail 😂

ya REEEEEEEALLLLY gotta hand it to those federal marshals... this guy didn't hang himself with a shoelace or slit his wrist with a concealed butter knife... no this guy... this guy, got into full dress uniform, drew a nickel-plated pistol from his holster, and fired a bullet into his mouth.... yeahhhh.... so since we seem to be out of witnesses, I thought I'd drink a little.

Ohhhhh! 😮

Nickled plated Beretta 92 .45 caliber pistol 😲😲

That's not even a schoolboy error. That's just fukkn ridiculous.

Never understood in the movie, why LTC Markinson's death wasn't a huge deal with the COL and his unit, seeing that Markinson was a Major(field-grade officer) and the fact he was the battalion XO; just didn't make any kind of sense in the movie... It was like the movie producers just played Markinson's death as an afterthought to the plot.....................smh

Somebody's going to take your sword just clipping it on like that. You aren't battle ready.

at 0:11 he's putting on the sam browne belt incorrectly. That's not the way the buckle is secured

Markinson’s gone. There is no Markinson.

Dam

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What a thumbnail

Why would he pack his costume when he was going into protective custody?

Why are people complaining about the thumbnail its the focus of the video lmao

Handling the truth or something

Scary part is the very first time that I saw this movie when markinson was putting on his uniform writing the letter I knew exactly what he intended to do I thought "an officer putting on a uniform he's going to kill himself"

I don't know? It seems someone in his position that rushed to the conclusion the only way to standup for himself was to off himself. Seems there were so many other routes Col Markinson could have taken yet the writers felt this was his only option. He was on his way to do the right thing and could have fought for what he believed in and who knows? In the end Markinson could have fought the good fight and maybe instead of offing himself he not only should have redeemed himself, but even become the new commander of Guantanamo Marine Base! The writers just wanted to add another ploy for Cruise and his team to get past. You don't get where Col. Markinson got by giving up and being this weak. Markinson could have been this hidden hero in all this and he was on his way to making this right and even testify. I love this movie, I just wish they approached this from a standard of what being a good and honorable Marine is really about! What do you guys think?

I never understood why he did this. Didn't make sense. Then again, a lot of suicides don't make sense.

The code red

Love this movie 10/10

Reminds me of an executive with a large company visited his college student daughter in out city. He was also a Reserve Marine Colonel. He took his daughter and her roommate out bar hopping and stayed at their place overnight. He raped the roommate and was promptly arrested, released on bail. He returned home and un a lived himself after putting on his blues. Tryin* to send a distorted message he was an honorable person.

Thumbnail is kinda morbid

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Critical Thinking in the secular sphere is just sophistry

on the night of September 6th, 1991 was the night after my 6th birthday…so…clearly…he was killed because I had to wait 6 more months to get a Sega Genesis with _Sonic the Hedgehog, Kid Chameleon_ & a family friend gave me _Altered Beast_

Why they say after usmc after saying a name, sounds goofy af. Probably a psyop hearing it repeated over and over

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stolen, even the thumbnail

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The only thing that beats the Marine Corps uniform is the ones from Germany in the 40s

What a coward. First he looks away, then he escapes into suicide.

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This is not a good thumbnail for youtube. With all the problems today with veteran suicide being a crisis, this type of thumbnail for the video shouldn't be displayed.

This thumbnail is extremely poor taste what on earth dude

Lowk a hard scene

Faced with the dilemma between choosing loyalty to his commanding officer and one of the traditions that made the USMC and other august bodies so hardened and capable (i.e. "collective punishment" like "code reds") *_OR_* justice at the hands of another branch's modernist bureaucratic inquisitors set on pursuing a moral crusade because it just seemed cruel, *Lt. Col Markinson did the honorable thing. In the end, unable to meet both demands of honor & justice and ashamed of his own cowardice, he fell on his sword.* 🫡

Faced with the dilemma between choosing loyalty to his commanding officer and one of the traditions that made the USMC and other august bodies so hardened and capable (i.e. "collective punishment" like "code reds") *_OR_* justice at the hands of another branch's modernist bureaucratic inquisitors set on pursuing a moral crusade because it just seemed cruel, *Lt. Col Markinson did the honorable thing. In the end, unable to meet both demands of honor & justice and ashamed of his own cowardice, he fell on his sword.* 🫡