The Reel Rejects - THE LONGEST YARD (2005) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:24 Okay, I think, I think Aaron's ready. If you guys are the longest yard, Commence. We just watched the longest yard. If you are listening on Apple or Spotify, make sure you take those footballs. See, Alan Covert, I was right. Make sure you take those footballs

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Starting point is 00:02:03 My buddy little pow. I bet I'd say, did I shart? You sharded? I think I ston cold shat myself. Do you want to start with what your thoughts are? Would you like me? Sure, I'll start. I thought it was great.

Starting point is 00:02:15 I thought it was a lot of fun. It's very different from every other Alam Sandler movie. I've seen both in my personal life and on the channel here. I thought this movie had a lot of heart, yet it was really funny, but the comedy didn't take away from the stakes of what the characters were fighting for. I think this movie had a lot of really strong characters in it like maybe didn't have

Starting point is 00:02:34 this reservoir of depth and character exploration but the fact that we had these distinct characters that were here rooting for made it that much more enjoyable because I feel like everybody who was part of this team was very memorable I think this is a very grounded performance

Starting point is 00:02:49 for Adam Sandler even though he was the star in the lead of this comedy it wasn't like a slapstick goofy comedy even though there was like goofy or exaggerated elements to it it still all really worked. I think the music worked really well. It was very

Starting point is 00:03:05 well placed in time. It was tonally appropriate and yes. Also Chris Rock was great. This movie had a lot of heart which I did not expect going into. Yeah, no, I mean it's usually with an Adam, I thought there was going to be a scene. Usually with an Adam Sandler film, you know, you expect like

Starting point is 00:03:21 outlandish crazy, you know, silly moments. Which again, there were a few here and there. But again, I wasn't expecting so much so much heart and i wasn't expecting you know that whole family dynamic and element in it and then also too i wasn't expecting uh what happened with uh chris chris rach's character added a lot of stakes and um also got me really sad as well so i wasn't expecting you know to cry in this movie that was the last thing i was expecting was big boy uh it was the last thing i was expecting um in

Starting point is 00:03:51 this film and there were times like i said there was a good three scenes where uh i i felt it was suspenseful you had that one scene where you had that one scene where they were trying to provoke Nelly with the guards. You had that scene with Chris Rock with the bomb. I mean, I didn't know what was going to happen. And then you also had the scene with the sniper there at the end. So, you know, in the film with a lot of comedic elements in it, I thought that the tone really balanced with the suspense full,

Starting point is 00:04:15 which, again, very surprising that they did it. And I did feel it was interesting, too, with Adam Sandler's character. I thought he had a pretty nice arc in this film because I wasn't sure what to make of the whole point shaving thing. And now when you understand the scope of the film and we get to the end where his character starts out when he's living with Courtney Cox. Although, again, I would have been happy. But I understand the prison he felt he was in. He got himself in that situation.

Starting point is 00:04:41 Again, I don't know the specifics in terms of with bookies or whoever he got into it with. And then he was in a situation where it was his life on the line and he had to shave points. And then he lost everything as a result. and that's why he was now in his own hell. And he was in a prison internally. And I like the idea that he had to go to prison to find himself again. And he did that with this group and got it through camaraderie. And I like that the guys like brought that out in him.

Starting point is 00:05:16 They all elevated each other through the development of their relationships. And when put in the situation again, I think there was something beautiful and poetic about it. when the warden put him in a really tough situation, hey, if you win this game, you're going to be 25 more years at least for what happened to caretaker. Again, a very similar situation to what had happened. Well, not similar, but similar in terms of you're going to lose your life

Starting point is 00:05:40 in the first time with the point shaving. But again, because of what he had grown to, you know, how he had found himself now, and he had found himself and really grown a family with this crew, he's like, screw it, screw the warden. I don't care. I know I'm not guilty. that I can live it sucks that I'm going to have to be here for 25 years but I was lonely out there and

Starting point is 00:05:59 I had nothing and I can at least live with the fact that I didn't do anything even if it's BS that I have to be in here but at least I have these guys to be with me and if that if that's what it is it is there's nothing I can do about it yeah he found a sense of family which was really nice I feel like the fact that we're still able to garner who these characters are despite of the fact that we know little information about them it's not about what they've done it's about who they are and where they are now it's about the the sense of family sense of camaraderie for sure and coming together this is like a true underdog story yeah and yeah it balances that hard-of-being underdog story with it having these goofier moments and

Starting point is 00:06:39 these these real moments as well and I'm surprised that this movie didn't get a sequel also has like it's very has like a lot of quotes I've kind of grown up hearing like the uh baby back bitch I haven't heard most of these And you broke a damn My nose I haven't heard most of these Oh yeah I kind of grew up

Starting point is 00:06:59 Cultural Osmosis for me But yeah it was It was a really Fun film It was fun It was funny It had a lot of heart And it really got you behind

Starting point is 00:07:09 These guys And their motivation For one to take down These guards Yeah Yeah I think that I understand why this is like A modern classic

Starting point is 00:07:18 Yeah for sure It hits all the marks This also makes me really want to go back and watch the original with Bert Rounds just to see like the different differentiate the tones. I'm going to see if it's the original guy. If that's the same character. Oh, you mean if he plays the same character? Bert Reynolds? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:07:35 Yeah, go for it. But yeah, I'm curious. I do have to mention that I think the film does a great show. We talked about it a little bit during the reaction, Aaron. I think the film does a great job because me being a sports person, I never played football, nor do I watch too much NFL. I'm more of an MLB NBA guy. I take it very seriously, though, when I, with choreography and sports, and I really thought this film did a great job of wide, long shots,

Starting point is 00:08:02 really nailing the football choreography. They did a great job. Like, I really felt like I was watching it. I don't know if you'd say an NFL game because you got convicts versus guards, but I really thought I was watching a football game. So I thought, you know, from that perspective, I want to give props where props are due. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:08:19 I thought they really nailed that. Yeah, it was shot really well. And I love a lot of the inventive play. I mean, there were obviously real football plays that they came up with, you know, the fumble or the fakerouski, whatever the plays were and all the other plays. But there were also some really inventive and cool other plays. And obviously they added some fun schlocky stuff in there too. And it was so cool that they got so many wrestlers and all the cameos,

Starting point is 00:08:43 Dan Patrick, Jim Rohn, Chris Berman, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Kevin Nash, big boy all the rest of Bill Goldberg I mean I got so many people in this movie It was awesome Hell of cameos Yeah I mean not Not too many of Adam Sandler's I mean you had like Alan Covert

Starting point is 00:09:00 And then you also had Rob Schneider There at the end for their little cameos Yeah and Chris Rock's part of that crew too Yeah yeah I would have honestly And again I'm not I'm not It's not like a negative I would have loved a couple more scenes With Adam Sandler and Chris Rock

Starting point is 00:09:15 And I get it people are like we'll go watch the Shoshnik Redemption because that film is longer and focuses more in the relationship between Andy and Red. Yeah, but you wanted it for this movie. Yeah, but for this movie, I understand why they didn't like go way more into it. But just with what ended up happening, I still like gave a damn. I was emotionally invested and there was a lot of depth there. But I just, I love their chemistry together and I love their interactions.

Starting point is 00:09:37 I wouldn't mind maybe even a few more scenes with those two to even develop that relationship even more. The only reason I say that is because a lot of their scenes had the whole. group around them and I would have liked even a few more scenes just the two of them only. Yeah, is what I'm saying, just to develop the, the unity and bond that those two struck together. But I still felt, again, I was crying when that happened because I actually was invested in caretaker. So, yeah, no, I, again, I just, I just thought I was just only going to laugh when I came into this film. I wasn't expecting too much. But I really, really enjoyed it. I'm not going to

Starting point is 00:10:13 lie. I was a diehard Adam Sandler fan from Billy Madison all the way to about 50 first dates. And I did watch Click, which came out a year after this movie. I love that. I think that's a very underrated film. I think the reason that film didn't go well into a lot of people's, I know a lot of people do like it, but I think maybe with critics is because that was sold as, you know, straight up a comedy where it's not, I mean, there's funny moments in it, but it's not a comedy. But my point that I'm making is once we got past like that click era there's a lot of films in there i just kind of stayed a pass where it's the directed DVD i just haven't not checked them out um i haven't heard great things but maybe i need to i don't know but this film really surprised me i loved it a lot

Starting point is 00:10:54 um do you have anything else to add for i check on the trivia uh burnt reynolds did not play the same character he actually played adam samler's character in the original oh cool same name pa paul crew okay interesting i figured you he played the same, but good to know. So the longest yard, anything else you want to head for you getting to this? No, this was a really fun movie. And Courtney Cox is really hot.

Starting point is 00:11:21 In case he didn't hear it the other 500 times. Bert Reynolds was supposed to have a stunt double for when he got hit by Brian Bosworth on a touchdown run, but Reynolds insisted on doing it himself, saying, and I quote, I got one run left in me, end quote. Bosworth himself was honored by the whole situation saying, who else can say they got run over by bert reynolds reynolds went through the hit in one take with

Starting point is 00:11:42 no injuries though he had to be helped off the field the shots used in the movie of him being helped off the field were not staged wow i don't also yeah he did pass in 2018 at eight eight to eighty two man michael poppa john who as mentioned earlier during the review which i'm sure there were comments stop mentioning shit that's not involved in this movie but i'm going to it's just who i am sorry guys uh who was in spider man and at The Amazing Spider-Man and many other films. Michael Papa John was Adam Sandler's stuntman in The Waterboy, making the hard hits as Bobby Boucher.

Starting point is 00:12:15 Oh, that's cool. I didn't know that was Michael. Oh, Papa John. In this movie, things came full circle as Michael has his own stuntman. Love it. Very cool. Now I'm going to read, whenever I watch the Waterboy, now I will know that most of the time when Bobby's making the hits,

Starting point is 00:12:29 it's Michael Papa John. So cool. I never knew that. Thank you. Bert Reynolds wears number 22 as coach Nate Scarborough. This is the same number he wore in the original film as quarterback Paul Crewe. Nice.

Starting point is 00:12:42 That makes sense. The picture that Chris Rock shows to Paul is a real picture of his mother in him. His mother had the photo in the book she wrote called Mama Rock's Rules. Oh. I love that. You're going to be shocked by this one.

Starting point is 00:12:59 The film includes several W.W.E. superstars. The Great Khali. Stone Cold Steve Austin. Kevin Nash and Bill Goldberg. It also includes professional football players, Michael Irvin, Terry Cruz, Bill Romanowski, and Brian Bosworth, plus singer and rapper Nelly.

Starting point is 00:13:18 Bill Goldberg and Stone Cole, Steve Austin, were also football players for they were wrestlers. This was such an all-star pack cast. I mean, with normal actors and then just, you know, just superstars football players just packed. The movie was filmed in a closed-down part of the New Mexico State Penitentiary. called Old Main.

Starting point is 00:13:37 It was the part of the prison where one of the worst prison riots in U.S. history occurred on February 2nd, 1980. The state offered the building for rent for film purposes. Wow, that's cool. Interesting facts. Bert Reynolds and Ed Lottner. That was the, Ed Lottner was the guy when the warden was playing the golf game. He's one of the guys on the left.

Starting point is 00:14:00 And Ed Lottner are the only two actors from the original film to appear in this remake. Oh, cool. While he was on the set, Chris Berman was asked if he could come up with the unique nicknames for the movie starts since he was known for doing so with the NFL players during highlights on ESPN. Berman came up with Adam Love Letters in the Sandler, Chris, like A Rock, and Woe Nelly. Woe Nellie was a signature call of college football broadcaster Keith Jackson. When asked to do Burt Reynolds, Berman promptly refused saying, I can't do one for Burt Reynolds. He's Bert Reynolds. That's fine. That's great.

Starting point is 00:14:35 Didn't want to piss him off in case he didn't like it. Let's see. Stone Cold Steve Austin tore his hamstring while training for the football scenes. Oof. Ouch. Michael Irvin played a practical joke on Bill Ramanowski while filming a scene in the locker room. Irvin replaced the fake collapsible locker door that Romanowski head butts with a real solid lock door. This can be seen as an outtake on the DVD.

Starting point is 00:15:04 Oh my God. So if he, can you imagine like him as an actor? Oh, this, this is not solid. This is like a, you know, one of those, what did we just say? One of the, a fake collapsible one. So then he head butts as hard as he can. Like, holy shit. Oh my God.

Starting point is 00:15:19 I mean, he's got a head like a brick probably, but still that must have hurt like crazy. Give yourself a concussion. This film is the second highest grossing sports comedy of all time. Really? What's first? Do you want to take a guess? Sports comedy, huh? did it come up before it or after it before

Starting point is 00:15:37 well obviously um is it I don't is Adam Sandler on that one too yes is it is it Billy Madison Billy Madison's not a sports comedy happy go marks that's what I'm at yeah

Starting point is 00:15:54 the water boy ah get those two mixed up yeah and I feel you do a couple more Ed Lottner was cast after he happened to come across the set during filming Adam Sandler met with him and quickly

Starting point is 00:16:06 had a part written for him. That was nice if Adam to do. Let's just do a couple spoilers. Oh my God, there's so many regular trivia. I have to go way down. Wee. Michael Irvin's character named Deacon Moss is a reference to former NFL football players, Deacon Jones, and Randy

Starting point is 00:16:22 Moss. Nice. Makes sense. Shortly before Caretaker's funeral, Unger is talking to the guards and it seems likely he called the guard boss. However, if you listen closely, he actually says boss. The guard, he is talking to two was played by Brian the boss bossworth

Starting point is 00:16:38 hmm that makes sense warden hazens golfing buddy dwayne is played by ed latner that's who played captain canaure and bert reynolds Nate Scarborough played paul crew in the original we already mentioned that I'll just do one more let me just see which one's more interesting

Starting point is 00:16:52 oh Courtney Cox played Adam Sandler's girlfriend in bedtime stories I did see that movie I just totally forgot she was in that it's been a long time I saw that when I worked at Hollywood video last one after Paul Crewe, Adam Sandler, comes back in after having betrayed his teammates. The O-line doesn't block the guards on the second sack.

Starting point is 00:17:11 Guard Lambert, Bill Romanowski, spits on crew as he's getting off of them. In real life, Romanoxie, an NFL linebacker with the San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia, Eagles, Denver Broncos, and Oakland Raiders from 1988. The Euro was born to 2003. At the time, a Bronco spit in the face of 49ers, wide receiver, JJ Stokes.

Starting point is 00:17:31 Cool. Cool. All right. Well, guys, like I said, this film was a lot more emotional and heavy-handed. And it was funny as hell. But again, a lot more emotional and heavy than I was expecting. I really enjoyed it. It's probably one of my favorite Adam Sandler films, which is saying a lot because I have a lot of Am Sandler films that I adore and love. Could be recency bias. I don't know, but I really enjoyed it. It was a lot more than I was expecting. Yeah, it was a great film. Aaron, any final thoughts where we end this? No, it was great. I loved it. Guys, let us know in the comments. What did you think of the longest yard? Is it one of your favorite Adam Sandler films? We'd love to hear your thoughts if you've made it this far.

Starting point is 00:18:14 Thank you so much. We appreciate it. Just, yeah, we'll see you guys on the next one. Take care.

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The Reel Rejects - THE LONGEST YARD (2005) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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