I'm guessing they saved the funny stuff for the movie. I heard that there is very little or no cussing and this movie is very "family friendly" which usually means "lame".
I remember seeing the original when it came out out the movies. Great flick. No way they could do any better.
They still do create original movies. People just like to complain as though they don't everytime a remake comes up. And when they do try something different or unique....well, I'm sure the Napoleon Dynamite, Wes Anderson, Lost In Translation, etc. threads - where such things are 'trash' 'a waste of money' and 'horrible' - speak for themselves.
Yes, and this isn't one of them. This movie looks horrible. Go see Closer, Sideways, A Very Long Engagement, The Aviator, National Treasure, Million Dollar Baby, Hotel Rwanda, Beyond the Sea, Finding Neverland, Kinsey, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, or Spanglish. They may not all be your cup of tea (or they may be book adaptations, which I don't consider unoriginal), but they're definitely out there.
Yeah, I know. I'm really referring to the more mainstream "blockbuster" type movies. It just seems like they are all: -remake of a TV series -remake of a old movie -based on a comic book -star studded cast with no plot -computer generated special effects with no plot Anyway, I don't know how the original The Longest Yard can possibly be improved. Why can't they just leave well enough alone? What's next, a re-make of Deliverance?
Just noticed that Michael Irvin is part of the cast... He has come a long way since his cocaine arrest...
Chris Rock? MTV should have stuck to making football movies involving hot chicks wearing whipped cream bikinis and really fat dudes with hick names mistaking pigs for dogs.
Two intresting things about the end of the original Casablanca: 1# While Rick (Bogart), Captian Renault (Claude Raines) the german dude are having their "final showdown" there's an airplane in the background with people working on it. Because of the war, and budget constraints, and other limitations, the directors had to build a cardboard cutout at a fraction of full size, and in order to make it look big, they populated it with midgets. 2# Everything after the line where Raines says "Major Strasser has been shot" (at the end when Bogart kills the Nazi to let his girl get away) was made up on the set while they were shooting it. Regarding Sandler, I find it kind of odd that the two remakes he's done have involved him taking the role of serious "sex symbol" leading men in the originals. In Mr. Deeds he takes the role played by by Gary Cooper in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (a great Frank Capra film if you've never seen it) and here he's taking the role played by Bert Reynolds when he was at his peak.
Speaking of Mr. Deeds, I thought it would have been much better if they pulled a gender reversal and gave Sandler the Jean Arthur role. Making Sandler play the sincere straightman opposite a cynical Wynonna Ryder is pretty mixed up.
