{"id":31147,"date":"2023-06-17T10:09:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T15:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31147"},"modified":"2023-06-15T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T23:12:00","slug":"movie-report-the-longest-yard-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/17\/movie-report-the-longest-yard-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Report: <i>The Longest Yard<\/i> (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/thelongestyard.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">This is the Adam Sandler remake of the Burt Reynolds film <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Longest_Yard_(1974_film)\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">from 1974<\/a>.  Sandler plays a former professional quarterback, in disrepute due to allegations of point-shaving, who breaks up with his girlfriend by stealing her car and leading the police on a chase.  Sentenced to prison for his transgressions, the warden encourages&#8211;nay, <em>encourages<\/em> in italics which means <em>demands<\/em> that Crewe (Sandler) lead a prisoner team against the guards&#8217; amateur league team.  <\/p>\n<p>Well, that tracks with the original (which I have not seen).  The bulk of the film deals with Crewe gathering up a team out of the prisoners, including having to earn the respect of the other racial groups, and then playing the big football game.<\/p>\n<p>It was an amusing film, not the top of Sandler&#8217;s work, obviously.  It includes Chris Rock, Nelly, and Burt Reynolds as a long-time inmate who agrees to coach.  And, of course, we&#8217;ve got Rob Schneider saying, &#8220;You can do it!&#8221;  Which is what Sandleristas like to see.<\/p>\n<p>Amusing, not world-shattering or world-changing, but maybe world-encouraging.  <\/p>\n<p>The cover indicates many markdowns in price: Presumably full-ish price somewhere, $7.99 at Vintage Stock, marked down at Vintage Stock to $3.99, and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/01\/i-have-this-gift-certificate-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">a buck at an antique mall<\/a>.  Which says something about how people have felt about keeping it in their film libraries.  Rest assured, little DVD, that you have a forever home.  At least until my estate sale.  Which is not this year, I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Adam Sandler remake of the Burt Reynolds film from 1974. Sandler plays a former professional quarterback, in disrepute due to allegations of point-shaving, who breaks up with his girlfriend by stealing her car and leading the police on a chase. Sentenced to prison for his transgressions, the warden encourages&#8211;nay, encourages in italics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31149,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31147\/revisions\/31149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}