The Longest Yard (2005): A Triple Robot

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Once again, I'm very disappointed in you.

This time, you failed to report that the Adam Sandler remake The Longest Yard should be added to the Robot List, which has been lagging far behind the easier-to-update Smashmouth list.

Whats worse, TLY is a rare "triple robot." It contains the following:

1.) A scene in which a character does the "robot dance" for comedic effect;
2.) A later scene, referencing the first, in which a large group does the same dance; and
3.) Scenes from the 1986 favorite Short Circuit.

Other interesting tidbits about this film:

  • The only prison movie I can think of in which all the homosexual sex is entirely consentual.
  • Killing off the comic relief early is a bad move in a comedy.
  • There's this scene where Adam Sandler is going to recruit a prisoner to a football team, and I swear this prisoner is in Hannibal Lector's cell. That would definitely have made this movie, if it was Hannibal in there. "Yes, Adam Sandler. I'll play on your football team but you must do something for me in return. Tsssssst tsst tsst." (It's funnier when you actually hear me do the voice.)
  • Another guy he gets for the team is obviously Green Mile. Not the actor, mind you...just the character. But without healing powers, I guess.
  • Yet again we learn that no Adam Sandler movie is complete without a cameo from Rob Schneider.

This is, by the way, Adam Sandler's third robot movie, according to the official Furdell.com tally. Thank you, Adam Sandler, for thinking the robot dance is still funny. It's right up there with "old people being cute" and "peeing on things" for you, isn't it. You complete scum.

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Short Circuit is one of the greatest movies ever, to wit, the following exchange:

Steve Guttenberg: What do we do now?

Indian Fisher Stevens: I do not know about you. But I am planning to scream and run.

Andrew, any chance you were walking down Ninth Avenue Friday night wearing a yarmulke?? I'm guessing no, but the dude really looked like you.

Oddly, I get that a lot.

speaking of movies, I can't download yours. :(