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I love The Longest Yard. There was no remake, you understand? It was the first movie I ever saw on the big screen, but I remembered nothing of it because I was three when it came out. However, my mother and father tell me I repeated every curse word I heard. As you see, my career working blue started early. Of course, I saw it years later on video, and it is an excellent movie. Everything about it is gritty -- even the quality of film stock!
As for Beneath Still Waters, I'd heard of that one but didn't remember what it was about. Thanks to your review, I don't have to see it and find out.
I cannot remember what movie it was that I saw as a youngster - maybe some of you can help me. The only scene I remember is the hero, a gruff sort, was a cop on stakeout at an ice cream stand. It was close to the end of the movie, I think, so the situation was quite tense. A kid comes up and tries to buy some ice cream from the cop.
The cop said something like "Hey, kid. Go fuck a duck."
As we were walking into my grandfather's house (the elder for the Churches of Christ grandfather), my uncle and mother and others were talking about their favorite part of the movie. I chimed in, "My favorite part was when he said 'fuck a duck'!"
Hee-hee. What a little bastard I was.
Anyway, does anybody remember that movie? It must have been in the mid 1970s (damn, I'm old).
I also remember bugging my stepdad to take me to see Shampoo. I was mad to see it for some reason. So he finally did. Years later, I watched the movie again and didn't remember a single thing. It went right over my head. Great movie, though.
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You can take the heart out of the hooker but you can't take the hooker out of the heart. -- Frankenhooker
