UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - The Longest Yard -- in 4k UHD (1 Viewer)

[billO']

The Longest Yard is just a jock version of Cool Hand Luke. Not as signifcant culturally but a helluva lot funnier. It's also the '70s film that solidified Reynold's ascent as a box-office superstar, for better or worse.

 

[B-ROLL]

This poster somebody could not make THE LONGEST YARD look more macho (or gay) if it tried. "For men, for women, for..." WTF is Reynolds wearing? Looks like a test for ZARDOZ. I like the film because it's the only Aldrich comedy that actually almost works as a comedy. As a kid, the tone shifts fascinated and disturbed me.

I think it was about that 70s hair

today ... gone tomorrow !

 

[Jeffrey D]

Watched the UHD yesterday. Very nice looking video. I was thinking about why they didn’t have Joe Kapp playing QB for the guards. I guess the easy answer is Ed
Lauter played a good villain.

 

[Diehardfan]

This was the first film I ever saw that had a packed house standing and cheering at the end. Very similar to actually being at a game. The film would never win any awards but was a huge crowd pleaser and you walked out the door smiling. Isn't that why you go to the movies?