Longest Yard

[AlamoSpursFan]

Longest yard is gettin awful reviews which sucks cause I have plans to go see it tomorrow. Most reviewers said something to the effect of you'll want the hour and half back that you spent watching it.

Can anyone tell me why I should go see it?

Most of my all time favorite movies got ty reviews. Most of the tiest movies I've ever seen got GREAT reviews.

I usually listen to the reviews and take them in reverse. If Larry Ratliff loves a movie, I avoid it like the plague.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Saw the redo this past weekend.






The original is one of my personal 20 favorite movies of all time.










The remake isn't even in the top ten movies I've seen this year. . .and I've only seen four.

[johnny00]

I saw it Monday, and I wanted to like it, I'm a Sandler fan and a Chris Rock fan, except for a few lines that made me laugh the movie wasn't that great.

The original is still better and will hold up as good cinema for years to come whereas the remake is a pale shadow of the original and will be in the $7.99 discount bin before summer is over.

[AlamoSpursFan]

The original is still better and will hold up as good cinema for years to come whereas the remake is a pale shadow of the original and will be in the $7.99 discount bin before summer is over.

You can say that about 98% of the remakes Hollyweird has spewed out.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

You can say that about 98% of the remakes Hollyweird has spewed out.

True, ASF, but Johnny was right on in his take.

Had this not been a remake I would have thought it was an ok Adam Sandler movie, but not one of his best.

This was definitely a case of the remake falling wayyy short of the original product.

[AlamoSpursFan]

The only Adam Sandler movie I truly enjoyed was Happy Gilmore. I haven't seen TLY yet, but with some of the reviews I've seen in this thread make me want to wait for the DVD so I can rent it for $1 at HEB.