"The Longest Yard" remake starring (ugh) Adam Sandler

[underpants]

& Chris Rock also with Burt Reynolds.

Adam Sandler? The "Waterboy" goes to prison?

Comedian Chris Rock poses for a portrait during a visit to ABC's studios in New York, in this Jan. 16, 2001 file photo. Part of the remake of 1974's 'The Longest Yard'' will be shot in New Mexico, with a vacant state prison building being turned into a set. Starring Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and Burt Reynolds, the film should begin shooting in July 2004, producers said at a news conference. It has a budget of about $70 million and is scheduled for release in summer 2005. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper)

[Champ]

1. Looks like it'll be funny

I heard they are going to take a comedic twist to the movie.

[Bertha Venation]

2. i loathe Reynolds but i actually liked "The Longest Yard"--I will NOT

see this remake. How stupid. Why can't Hollywood just leave some things alone? :eyes:

[underpants]

5. Because there are no new ideas

at least not by the big studios. The just remake old movies and turns cartoons and 2 minute SNL skits into feature films.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Oh, There Are New Ideas, Even At The Bigs

But, there are no execs with vision that will fund anything new. It's a "play safe" mode. Nobody is interested in DOING THEIR JOB. They're only interested in KEEPING THEIR JOB! It's endemic in American business right now.
The Professor

[underpants]

7. Agreed and they are amazed that Miramax has been so successful

Entertain you mindless trout!

[cosmicdot]

14. that's a sad commentary on contemporary society, too, Prof.

[cosmicdot]

8. pretty sad commentary on contemporary American society

"...there are no new ideas"

(kind of like most politicians, too)

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

3. WHY?????

I don't even LIKE Adam Sandler!

There are some movies that stand very well on their own, and should just not be screwed with. This is one of them.

[Loonman]

4. That's what Hollywood does now

Repackages the same old shit and sells it back to us, again.


You know, it really doesn't matter if the writers ever go on strike again with the crap they're churning out.

[FunBobbyMucha]

9. Using the generic Sandler template here...

knowing nothing about this re-make, here's my synopsis anyway:

AS is an infantile rage-a-holic jock imprisoned for something "cute" (stealing a Shoney's Big Boy from a restaurant or something wacky and cross-promotional like that). He's immediately courted and then targeted by the crypto-fascist Warden Burt Reynolds, and be-friended by sassy black sidekick Chris Rock, who obviously at a buck-twenty would be a phenomenal football player.

A bunch of steroidal freaks from the NFL have bit parts as prisoners and guards, as will a couple of charisma-free rappers. Rob Schneider is either a wormy stooge or a power-mad wormy guard. There's a love interest somehow, despite the setting, because AS has to kiss someone at the end. Maybe Drew Barrymore or Tea Leoni is his public defender made squishy by his intoxicating Sandlerosity.

The soundtrack will feature hip-hop remakes of most of the "Jock Jams" CD.

And no way does this one end with a downer like AS still in prison, ala the original. Oh no, as a direct result of the game he is vindicated, the warden is indicted for some kinda crime (and his pending anal rape is winked at in his character's final scene), and both Sandler and Rock walk wide-smiling out the front gate.

Oh, and Steve Buscemi has a bit part.

All the above is the reason I will not be inside a movie theater again until Fall, unless "Supersize Me" makes it here.

[underpants]

10. You've got Sandler (and Hollywood) pegged

I saw this Tom Cruise movie once where he is this selfabsorbed a-hole



who meets this girl and she teaches him to love and to love his real self but he screws it up and they break up until he has a miraculous epiphany in which he learns to see the real world and what really matters and he rushes back to her and they fall in love.

But I can't remember the title. Anyone know which movie I am talking about?


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[Loonman]

13. ...and now, Rob Schneider in: blahdy blahdy blah blah

Thanks, South Park.

[WI_DEM]

11. $70 million for this movie!!

with a good share probably going for star salaries--no doubt with Sandler's track record he is getting 15-20 million and Rock must be at least at the 5-10 million per picture. Burt's day has passed him by but I imagine he can still hold out for a million.

[underpants]

12. Maybe they can get Norm McDonald for less

Same thing basically and Norm doesn't seem to be too busy these days.