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re: The Longest Yard (1974)

Posted on 8/10/18 at 9:02 am to
Posted by Ace Midnight
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Posted on 8/10/18 at 9:02 am to
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It has some cheesy dialogue


The film has some serious undertones about abuse of power, but it was trying to stay light and straddle the comedy line.

Plus, you had a bunch of jocks pressed into duty as actors.

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very odd split-screen action scenes


That was kind of in-style at that time - it made sense, we spent all this money on stunts and action scenes, let's show more of them.

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Burt in his prime was golden. They don't make movies like that anymore...


Agreed.
This post was edited on 8/10/18 at 9:02 am
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