Dave loaned me the movie The Longest Yard the other day and I kicked back to watch it. I remembered it as a 70's cornball Burt Reynolds movie and you know what - it was! The cool thing about this cornball movie though, was the fact that I discovered while watching it, that I really sorta missed the old 70's cornball movies. Sure, there were no deep philosophical questions posed, there were no soul-tuggin storylines... there was just fun - two hours of flashback fun. Say what you want about Reynolds, he has developed into a really good actor and is finally getting some credit, but I do think his acting talents were overlooked for years because he was viewed as a pretty boy.

It was awesome to see another favorite of mine, Michael Conrad - an actor I grew to love as the patriarchal Sgt. Phil Esterhaus, on the best cop drama of all time - Hill Street Blues (his last role).

Fun stuff!

RATING 7 out of 10

- posted by Chris @ 7:06 PM