If you are a Netflix subscriber, you probably have a few lame movies languishing at the bottom of your queue. You will probably never watch these movies, nor will you take them out of your queue. Here's a flick that languished at the bottom of my queue for about 20 months--for good reason. The movie is poorly lit, the acting uneven, and the sound sounds like it was recorded using a cassette recorder.
"North Dallas 40" was part of the narrow sub-genere of 1970s professional sports movies (also see Semi-Tough and the recently-remade Longest Yard). I have to say that I've never seen a more unconvincing athlete than Nick Nolte in this movie. Mercifly, most of the movie takes place off-field, where Nolte's character guzzles booze, pops pills, smokes cigars, blasts his shotgun indiscriminately, chars steaks on the grill, and hits on a woman who doesn't like football. The Sunday Night Movie promo (above) pretty much sums it up.
Also, one of the movie extras looked eerily like Kevvy Kevv (see hazy photo above).
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