Shawn's The Longshots Review

2008 Movie #104 - The Longshots

So there was a bit of a scare earlier this week where it looked like it might be the end of my quest to see every movie. My computer had broken and I just don't have the money to get a new one. As a result, I also certainly don't have the money to pay to watch every single movie in a theatre, let alone the time or mental strength to do it either. Without my computer I wouldn't be able to pull it off, and I won't lie it was pretty damn heartbreaking. Thankfully everything has hopefully worked out and things seem to up and running again. Hopefully that doesn't change but in the meantime I'll continue to review all of the movies I do see. So that was my little prelude, which may end up being longer than the actual review.

I watched this one right after Clone Wars but hadn't written the review yet, mostly due to the computer scare and not seeing the point at the time. Also there really wasn't a whole lot of motivation to talk about this one.

I'm actually mostly a supporter of the inspirational sports movie sub genre. There's a whole slew of them I highly enjoyed, like Remember the Titans, Friday Night Lights, even Miracle was pretty good and a few others that don't really come to mind right now. Either way I don't mind one of these movies every now and then, so long as they're done well. The Longshots isn't really done well. It's of course generic, as are all of these movies, but it's just so painfully generic that it blends right in with the worst of these kinds of movies.

That's about the best summary I can give about this one, it's absurdly generic. Sports movies are supposed to make you feel good and get you invested in the characters and their stories. This one doesn't do that. I was never interested in what was going on so there was nothing else to do but watch the predictable events unfold. At least they managed to get things wrapped up in just under an hour and a half so you don't have to deal with it for very long before it goes away.

Also why in the hell is Fred Durst directing this? This isn't the kind of movie he should be directing. The first movie directed by Durst is not a family football movie. The first movie directed by Durst should be about fucking vampires eating werewolves and then zombies attacking them having sex with ghosts and all sorts of crazy horror shit like that. Why the hell happened there?

And why doesn't Ice Cube get to make good movies anymore? Remember Three Kings? That was the best and he was really good in it too. Look what we get now though? Are We There yet?, Are We Done Yet (probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen), First Sunday, and this one? I don't get it.

Chalk this one up as another in the long line of "why even bother" movies. Fitting that the next movie I'm going to review can also be added to this ever expanding group of movies too.

* 1/2 / 5