Apex Mountain
The Longest Yard as Burt Reynolds’s retrospective apex; The Longest Yard among football movies; the 1974 Maserati
In the discussion (8)
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- Smokey and the Bandit is selected as Burt Reynolds’s commercial apex. — Bill Simmons
- The Longest Yard is proposed as a retrospective apex because it remains among his most memorable films. — Bill Simmons
- Eddie Albert, Michael Conrad, James Hampton, and Harry Caesar receive career-context discussion. — Bill Simmons
- The Longest Yard is selected as the best football movie over a large field of alternatives. — Bill Simmons
- The 1974 Maserati receives an immediate vehicle apex. — Bill Simmons
- Saturday Night Special is considered for movie-song apex and compared with its use in Blue Collar. — Bill Simmons
- The observed Anacott/Anacoste Steel reference remains more closely associated with Wall Street. — Bill Simmons
- The movie is jokingly tested against other notorious West Palm Beach incidents. — Bill Simmons