There are two things we take seriously here
Watching the trailer for the movie "Basic Instinct 2" pretty much the only word that I could think of was... sad.
I bet that there is a really interesting story behind in the production
of that movie. And perhaps this would be a good moment to go read "Hollywood Animal: A Memoir" by Joe Eszterhas.
We watched the Adam Sandler movie "The Longest Yard" last night. It was surprisingly easy to see Adam Sandler as a football player, and Monica's new big rack in the beginning was pleasing to the eye. But after the setup, I had big difficulties in grasping even the basic motivations of the various characters in the movie. So first the warden wants Sandler's character to help train the team that consists of guards, but this goal suddenly vanishes the moment he gets the idea of setting up a team of inmates? And why was that number one guard, who was himself seemingly a perfectly competent football player, so sternly against Sandler's any participation in the first place? Usually good amateur players in any sport would be delighted to practice and play with pros. But at least he mysteriously changed 180 degrees at the end of the game so that these characters became super friends. Male bonding at its best.
I especially didn't understand what was so important about one pre-season training game that some guards were willing to kill for it. And if the game was supposed to be a slaughter to start with, how come all the national media interest in it? I don't think that a slaughter would make very good television, so that at least ESPN would have been quite wary. And perhaps if the burly guards had done some guarding instead of just practicing football, the prisoners wouldn't have had such free access around the prison at all times.
We watched the Adam Sandler movie "The Longest Yard" last night. It was surprisingly easy to see Adam Sandler as a football player, and Monica's new big rack in the beginning was pleasing to the eye. But after the setup, I had big difficulties in grasping even the basic motivations of the various characters in the movie. So first the warden wants Sandler's character to help train the team that consists of guards, but this goal suddenly vanishes the moment he gets the idea of setting up a team of inmates? And why was that number one guard, who was himself seemingly a perfectly competent football player, so sternly against Sandler's any participation in the first place? Usually good amateur players in any sport would be delighted to practice and play with pros. But at least he mysteriously changed 180 degrees at the end of the game so that these characters became super friends. Male bonding at its best.
I especially didn't understand what was so important about one pre-season training game that some guards were willing to kill for it. And if the game was supposed to be a slaughter to start with, how come all the national media interest in it? I don't think that a slaughter would make very good television, so that at least ESPN would have been quite wary. And perhaps if the burly guards had done some guarding instead of just practicing football, the prisoners wouldn't have had such free access around the prison at all times.
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