The Longest Yard
First Down...And Ten Years To Go.
In this rough-and-tumble yarn, actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prison, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards' semi-pro football team to a national championship.
Reynolds plays one time pro quarterback Paul Crewe, now behind bars for leading State Police on a wild chase in a "borrowed" car. He agrees to organize a prisoners' team to play the guards. The warden intercedes to assure that his goon squad will meet only passive resistance from Crewe's Mean Machine. But the license to pound on their hated guards is a big incentive for murderers and thieves to learn strategy.
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The Hungest Bard - Coco
Aldrich and Reynolds’ bizarre collaboration is a bit like spending a few too many minutes locked up in a Southern penal hotbox to stew in yr own juices (like Reynolds’ Paul Crewe or Amy Sedaris’ Jerri Blank, though that was Florida). You’d be forgiven if it strikes you that the homosociality starts to grow thick enough in its codification to become positively homoerotic (as in the somewhat copycat Slapshot) – not surprising considering: what’s that you said? a football movie AND a prison movie? with Burt Reynolds? yeesh, is it getting hot in here?! Horny Dallas oil wives full of gin giblets and their meek, closeted sons must have loved this movie (though not at the dinner table). Nobody does this kind of curious male bonding picture, where violence and sex both just smell like sweat, so everyone is confused, like Mr. Aldrich, director of Vera Cruz and The Emperor of the North! The ending is stupid (but then again so, if you think about it, was the one from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) and the football scenes, though bragged about endlessly on the commentary, simply come out sub-M*A*S*H*. Speaking of which, if you think I am reading too much queer subtext into this film; listen to the commentary closely, where if you try hard you might hear butt-kissing producer Ruddy exchanging actual bodily fluids w/ Reynolds. Reminds me of this time me and my punk teenage friends went and saw a slew of NFB documentaries about Glenn Gould at the National Art Gallery and broke down laughing (because we were high, and) because this yes-man producer kept agreeing with everything Gould said. Re: “You have any problem w/ me ravaging yr daughter in the guest room tonight?” - “My! Grand idea Glenn!” Very ‘funny’ commentary.
C)00(C2011107004NOT WHAT I EXPECTED!! - BretsSweetie74
I really should have watched this version of the movie first.... I was disappointed, because I am an Adam Sandler fan.... But it is one Burt Renyolds better movies... I would recommend if you watch Sandlers version, watch this one first... It makes more sense... B-
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The Hungest Bard - Coco
Aldrich and Reynolds’ bizarre collaboration is a bit like spending a few too many minutes locked up in a Southern penal hotbox to stew in yr own juices (like Reynolds’ Paul Crewe or Amy Sedaris’ Jerri Blank, though that was Florida). You’d be forgiven if it ...NOT WHAT I EXPECTED!! - BretsSweetie74
I really should have watched this version of the movie first.... I was disappointed, because I am an Adam Sandler fan.... But it is one Burt Renyolds better movies... I would recommend if you watch Sandlers version, watch this one first... It makes more sense... ...