The Longest Yard 2005 is poor remake of the Original

Rating: 1/10 (29 September 2005)

Like so many of today's remakes of GREAT movies, The Longest Yard with Adam Sandler has substituted bad dialogue,less believable actors and left out key scenes that made the original a classic. I have watched the original Longest Yard dozens of times and it is always entertaining without the vulgarity of this remake. The scene with Cloris Leachman and Sandler was a sad departure from the original with Bernadette Peters and Burt Reynolds. Sad because it wasn't funny, was unrealistic and basically was a bad parody of some Mel Brooks comedy that has long been forgotten.
Watching the movie, my thoughts turned to the inability of today's movie makers to create something NEW and makes me wonder why so many are so intent on turning something good into garbage. If "Oklahoma" comes back to Broadway with an all different cast, would anyone be dumb enough to trash the dialogue, the songs and the scenes?? I doubt it! Then why must the boys making movies try to ruin a good movie...
Eddie Murphy has done a terrific job of trashing great movies and now Sandler is following in his footsteps...
I would rather watch dust settle on the furniture than watch even a small part of the Longest Yard remake again.