20 Movies Where The Hero Winning DIDN'T Matter

Everyone likes a feel good story of an underdog overcoming the odds and winning the day. The likes of Dodgeball, Remember the Titans, and Rudy all play to this trope, as do both the original and the remake of The Longest Yard.

Sticking with Adam Sandler's 2005 take on the story, Paul Crewe (Sandler), former NFL MVP Quarterback and newest recruit in Warden Hazen's (James Cromwell) Texan prison, was forced to put together a team of convicts to play the semi-professional team of guards. Essentially, they were there as punching bags to get the team's confidence up before the season, until they started to fight back.

Things began to get more serious, Caretaker (Chris Rock) was killed by an explosion meant for Crewe, life sentences were threatened, but the game ultimately came down to the final second. Nate Scarborough (Burt Reynolds) came off the bench and won the game with a last-ditch touchdown.

Cue the mad celebrations from the inmates as they beat the team they were supposed to just lay down for. Said celebrations however, likely wouldn't last long, as the next day they would go back to convicts being at the mercy of those same guards they just embarrassed on the field. And they thought their lives would have been hell before.