Bonfire of the Vanities: SO Much 90s Excess!

Okay, so last night I watched 'The Bonfire of the Vanities' with Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, and Melanie Griffith. I'd heard bits and pieces about it over the years but never actually sat down to watch it. Whoa! The whole thing is just...a lot. So much 90s-era excess and everyone is just so awful, in the MOST entertaining way, lol. I think Tom Hanks is trying his best to be a sympathetic character, but he's really so out of touch. And Bruce Willis? Peak smarmy, like you just KNEW he was going to twist the knife at any moment. I have to say, the scene where Sherman McCoy (Hanks) gets lost in the Bronx is legit tense. Like, you really feel his panic, even though you also know he's kinda reaping what he sowed with his generally terrible behavior. And Melanie Griffith is...well, she's Melanie Griffith. Gold digger extraordinaire, but also kinda sympathetic in a messed-up way. I'm not totally sure what the movie was trying to say in the end, but I definitely had a lot of opinions about the characters! The courtroom scenes were also really something. Morgan Freeman plays the judge, and he just oozes authority. I'd watch a whole movie of just him being awesome in a courtroom. I think the one thing that really struck me, though, was how relevant the themes still feel today, even though it's so deeply rooted in the late 80s/early 90s. The media frenzy, racial tensions, out-of-touch rich people...it all still feels very 'now,' which makes it all the more unsettling, right? Anyway, it's definitely not a perfect movie - it kinda drags in paces and tries to tackle so much, but it's worth a watch just to see that cast chew the scenery and to be reminded how little really changes sometimes. Did anyone else see it? What did you think? Did you find Sherman sympathetic at all? I just couldn't, lol. He's such a smarmy jerk!