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	The Longest Yard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Longest Yard was a 1974 movie about inmates at a prison who play American football against their guards.
		After a fight with her, he gets drunk and steals and then wrecks her expensive Maserati car (the car in the film is a Citroen SM; Citroen owned Maserati back in the 1970s), landing him in prison for an 18 month sentence.
		With seconds to go and the prisoners down by five points, the ball is in the prisoners' possession on the guards' one-yard line, the "longest yard" of the title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Longest_Yard (1191 words)

	The Longest Yard (2005 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Longest Yard was a remake of the 1974 movie of the same name.
		In the age of a large amount of remakes being released at the movies, it's worth noting that The Longest Yard is the highest grossing comedy remake of the modern box office era (from 1980 on).
		Five professional wrestlers had a role in The Longest Yard: Stone Cold Steve Austin, Bill Goldberg, Kevin Nash, The Great Khali, and Bob Sapp (and all of them had football experience from high school or college).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Longest_Yard_(2005) (1639 words)

	The Longest Yard (2005)
		The Longest Yard is a remake of a 1974 film about a pro quarterback of questionable character who lands himself in a maximum security prison.
		By the way, The Longest Yard has been remade once before, as 2001's Mean Machine, which placed the story in the U.K., and re-jigged it for European football instead of the American variety.
		Films rated below five are generally awful even if you like that kind of film - this score is roughly equivalent to one and a half stars from the critics or a D on our scale.
	www.fakes.net /longestyard.htm (1595 words)

	The Longest Yard (2005) Movie Review - The Hollywood News
		The Longest Yard certainly seemed like a promising idea, and though it does manage to generate some laughs along the way, it’s ultimately another in the ever-growing ranks of remakes that shouldn’t have been remade.
		This Longest Yard, by contrast, appears to be a vehicle for the big name stars involved (i.e.
		While The Longest Yard could be construed as a typical Sandler vehicle to a certain extent, this is a more tame Sandler on par with the lighthearted guy we saw in 50 First Dates.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /reviews/archive/2005/the-longest-yard.php (815 words)

	The Longest Yard (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The plot in the 2005 version is essentially the same as the 1974 version.
		This is not a fair comparison because for one the original has an R rating which allows for more freedom, while the 2005 remake would not have gotten the green light with an R rating (and subsequently it wouldn’t have made $157 million at the box office).
		Overall, “The Longest Yard” is not terrible, but some risk taking could’ve made this film much better.
	www.moviefreak.com /artman/publish/printer_dvd_longestyard.shtml (1027 words)

	the longest yard (2005)
		The original film tried hard to be a hip jock-strap farce putting The Man in his place, but it was too crude to be anything but another rung in Burt Reynolds' climb down from serious acting (Deliverance) to crowd-pleasing (Smokey and the Bandit and everything that followed).
		He was more credible, and funnier, in his earlier football comedy The Waterboy; he just isn't angry or physical enough this time to rank The Longest Yard alongside fan-favorite Sandler sports movies like Happy Gilmore.
		I do know that it doesn't lie in remakes of films that were crappy to begin with.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/longestyard.html (622 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Longest Yard (xhtml)
		Three weeks ago I saw "The Longest Yard," and before I left for the Cannes Film Festival, I did an advance taping of an episode of "Ebert & Roeper" on which I gave a muted thumbs-up to Richard Roeper's scornful thumbs-down.
		Indeed after my immersion in the films of Cannes, I can hardly bring myself to return to "The Longest Yard" at all, since it represents such a limited idea of what a movie can be and what movies are for.
		His mentor is a former prisoner, played by Burt Reynolds, who starred in Robert Aldrich's original "Longest Yard" (1974) and whose character this time is described in my notes as the Heisman Trophy Winner of 1955.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050526/REVIEWS/50510003 (1056 words)

	DVD review of The Longest Yard (2005) - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The problem arises in that “The Longest Yard” is, at its heart, a dramatic movie that succeeded because of its soul and the charisma of its leading man, Burt Reynolds.
		The new version of “The Longest Yard” is a mediocre movie and a pale imitation of its source.
		I was less than impressed with the new version of “The Longest Yard.” If you enjoyed it, this DVD set will satisfy you, with a decent video transfer and excellent audio track and a wealth of extras.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/thelongestyard2005/16455/3104 (956 words)

	Seven Days: The Longest Yard
		The final third of the film, the actual face-off between the guards and the prisoners, manages to be entertaining in spite of the fact that the outcome is a foregone conclusion.
		The skin that was on the front of his face in the original Longest Yard currently resides somewhere in the neighborhood of his ears.
		The Longest Yard will be long forgotten come Oscar time, but there are worse ways for a summer movie season to kick off.
	www.sevendaysvt.com /film/film-review/2005/thelongestyard.html (810 words)

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		The mayor is Michael Bloomberg, a former Democrat elected as a Republican in 2001 and re-elected in 2005 with 59% of the vote.
		One-third of all independent films in the world are produced in New York.
		In 2005 there were more than 100 television shows taped in New York City.
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	THE LONGEST YARD (1974) - LOCKDOWN EDITION DVD
		Meanwhile, the film itself tallies the leering, drooling, wall-smashing macho theatrics of the prisoners with a little more earnestness than is comfortable, taking it for granted that they're victims without qualifying on behalf of the victims of these victims.
		Taken from a mothballed source print, the 1.78:1, 16x9-enhanced presentation on Paramount's promotionally-timed DVD reissue of The Longest Yard is occasionally splotchy and a tad soft in fine detail; colours look faded despite the telecine operators' obvious attempts to pump as much blood as possible into them.
		Ruddy kicks off this featurette with his account of the film's genesis--namely, a star football player who lost his career due to injuries and was subsequently thrown over by his ultra-wealthy wife.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/longestyard1974.htm (1008 words)

	The Longest Yard - Reviews - Film - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		In 1974, he had a hit with The Longest Yard, as a disgraced footballer in prison who whips a team of inmates into shape for a game against the guards (the alternative title was The Mean Machine).
		The Longest Yard of 1974 is, for some, the greatest (American) football film ever made.
		The whole film is afflicted with this kind of dumbness, the fl hat/white hat syndrome that kills any sense of spontaneity, but, then, so was the original.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Reviews/The-Longest-Yard/2005/06/03/1117568360446.html (1029 words)

	THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- THE LONGEST YARD (2005)
		In THE LONGEST YARD, Adam Sandler portrays disgraced NFL quarterback Paul Crewe, who was tossed out of the league on a racketeering charge.
		Recruiting and training the prison team provides opportunities for much of the film’s comedy, as well as setting up the feel good section of the film, as the audience begins rooting for the underdogs in their big game against the sadistic prison guards.
		The film elements from which THE LONGEST YARD has been transferred are free from defects.
	www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_2005/ly05-dvd.htm (788 words)

	The Longest Yard: Collector's Edition (2005)
		His remake of 1974’s The Longest Yard got consistently negative reviews and looked like a lackluster project, but it proved to have good legs at the box office.
		Yard continues this trend of inconsistency, though it probably falls toward the bottom of the list.
		They discuss sets and shooting at an actual prison, problems with weather, themes, filming in the mud, the actors and their football training, outfits, the use of real football players, and the climactic game.
	www.dvdmg.com /longestyard2005.shtml (2005 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review - The Longest Yard (2005)
		Like 2004's "Christmas with the Kranks," the film initially would seem like a relatively harmless comedy, but also like that Yuletide catastrophe, "The Longest Yard" goes so wrong in so many ways that the mind boggles.
		Uninspiringly directed by Peter Segal (2004's "50 First Dates"), "The Longest Yard" is a spiteful excursion into irredeemable mean-spiritedness that wallows shamelessly in the moldiest of comic punchlines—cobwebs can almost actually be glimpsed around the fringes of the shots—and the most derogatory and offensive of stereotypes.
		The warden's secretary, Lynette (Cloris Leachman), is an elderly lady who coaxes Paul into sexual acts by feeding him wine; there is no point to her other than to be used as throwaway shock value, and poor Cloris Leachman, a respectable veteran actress, is put in the worst possible light in a hopeless role.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/l/05_longestyard.htm (791 words)

	The Longest Yard (2005): Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds, Nelly - PopMatters Film Review
		Nelly and Adam Sandler in The Longest Yard
		The Adam Sandler Character is well known: a mix of sardonic and affable, goofy and charming, he's got a little bit of a violent streak that emerges occasionally, born of frustrations that mostly remain unspoken.
		Already on probation -- he was drummed out of the NFL for shaving points -- he's apparently tired of playing boy toy, and so, when Lena demands he join her for a party in progress, he locks her in a closet and steals her car, soliciting a police chase and a multi-car crash.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/l/longest-yard-2005.shtml (972 words)

	The Longest Yard (2005)
		The Longest Yard is a remake of the 1974 Burt Reynolds classic of the same name.
		Now in any other film this would not be a bad thing, but when you have the dregs of society playing a contact sport against their respective captors there should be an orgy of violence spewn from end zone to end zone.
		However, the new Yard is aiming at a different demographic, the 15 - 25 age bracket, and as such delivers the standard politically correct thrills and humour that ensure big box office.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=6391&SID=2&PID=781728 (1037 words)

	The Longest Yard (2005) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		The Longest Yard is the story of pro quarterback Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach Nate Scarboro, who are doing time in the same prison.
		The themes from the 2005 version of The Longest Yard are similar to the themes of the original released in 1974.
		Within the first 5 minutes I, and most of the theater were laughing and did not stop until the end of the film (well, there were a couple of scenes that definitely were not funny, but these were short and only added to the validity of the overall plot).
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /longest_yard.htm (2120 words)

	Longest Yard, The (2005): Reviews
		The Longest Yard is the story of pro quarterback Paul Crewe (Sandler) and former college champion and coach Nate Scarboro (Reynolds) who are doing time in the same prison.
		Peter Segal's film, a predictable, choppy affair at best, boasts an understated, likable performance by Sandler, but here we never feel, as we did with the original, invested in the outcome of the final game, or convinced of the redeemability of the movie's sordid protagonist.
		The Longest Yard lives or dies with its physical humor, a form of recent comedy I like to call slapstick sadism.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/longestyard (1482 words)

	BBC - Movies - review - The Longest Yard
		Despite adhering to the plot of the original, The Longest Yard somehow ditches everything that made it worthwhile.
		In truth, the worst you can say about The Longest Yard is that Vinnie Jones's 2001 remake, Mean Machine, is marginally more exciting.
		See what films are opening in the UK in 2006.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2005/09/05/the_longest_yard_2005_review.shtml (381 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: The Longest Yard (2005)
		September 18, 2005 -- “The Longest Yard” is almost an exact remake of the 1974 film of the same name.
		The original film, starring Burt Reynolds (who also appears in the sequel), was an adult film, rated R. The remake is a kiddie film, rated PG-13.
		The football scenes are well-staged, and some of that old formula from the first film still works, but the rest of the film is a letdown.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/new/longyard.html (643 words)

	Film Blather: The Longest Yard
		Since then, his films haven't been good, exactly (with the exception of the staggeringly awesome Punch-Drunk Love), but they have at least been something less (more?) than insufferable, culminating in his downright classy turn in James L. Brooks' Spanglish late last year.
		No one affiliated with The Longest Yard has the wit or intelligence to make this happen, but it gets worse: the movie is too tame, generic, and enraptured with the PG-13 to be legitimately offensive.
		Here, it's just tedious: the film goes through the motions of the supposedly shocking -- prisoners in drag as cheerleaders, yes, gags about abnormally large penises, ha ha -- occasionally mixing in some uncomfortable physical brutality, mostly courtesy of the workmanlike William Fichtner as the villainous security guard and opposing quarterback.
	www.filmblather.com /review.php?n=longestyard (651 words)

	The Longest Yard (2005)
		That sounds like The Longest Yard, that Robert Aldrich movie from 1974 that featured Reynolds as Paul Crewe, the former quarterback who’s asked to throw the game in return for an early release yet, as will happen in these prison/football movies, prisoner pride prevails.
		And lest we forget Aldrich’s original film was also a lot better: entertaining and influential—its original (British) title was The Mean Machine, a name lent, incidentally, to the 2001 British comedy/drama about "a former soccer star jailed for assault [who] leads a group of inmates in a match against prison guards.
		That film, in no way, shape, or form should be confused with the Sly Stallone monstrosity Victory, in which "a gaggle of allied prisoners take on their Nazi prison guards at the bequest of their sadistic warden."
	members.dca.net /dnb/reviews/longestyard2005.htm (495 words)

	The Film Pie Reviews - The Longest Yard
		She’s in the film for about 2 minutes and is not seen again after this opening.
		One of the characters is killed in ridiculous fashion and I’m surprised they tried to squeeze such a sombre moment into a film which is predominantly a “comedy”.
		To have made as many films as they have, the company must be quite profitable.
	www.thefilmpie.com /Reviews2005/zz-longestyard.html (481 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "The Longest Yard" movie review (2005) "The Longest Yard" review, Peter Segal, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, ...
		In "The Longest Yard" -- an off-balance remake of Burt Reynolds' 1974 prison-football comedy -- the star's underwritten character loses all sense of personality after the opening scene, in which his washed-up, alcoholic loser, ex-NFL quarterback leads police on a drunken high-speed chase.
		Thus imprisoned in a dusty desert lock-up where the abusive, steroid-pumped guards (all played by wrestlers or former pro football linemen) have their own pigskin league, Sandler is compelled by the nasty warden (James Cromwell) to coach a scabby team of inmates for his boys to beat up on in practice.
		Because "The Longest Yard" takes itself seriously at times, it's harder to forgive the occasional gigantic plot hole -- like the fact that the inmates seem to have access to any room they want in the penal complex, even getting into the guards' locker room and personnel files.
	www.splicedonline.com /05reviews/longestyard.html (395 words)

	The Longest Yard (2005) - Channel 4 Film review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Scripted by newcomer Sheldon Turner, Peter Segal's The Longest Yard draws heavily on the original's plot and characters.
		Chris Rock and James Cromwell are at their dependable best, and, in his final movie performance (he died in 2005), author/actor/jailbird Eddie Bunker gives a good account of himself as the nicely named Skitchy Rivers.
		With such a strong playing staff, The Longest Yard oughtn't to be too overburdened by its being superfluous.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=149616&page=2 (345 words)

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