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    Not close to the greatest

    Hall truths: Forget Barry, even Thurman Thomas was better than theever-overrated Emmitt Smith

    Chris Baldwin
    Aug 8, 2010 | 3:10 pm
    • Emmitt Smith is not close to the greatest of his generation — let alone alltime.
    • Barry Sanders was in another universe.
    • Even Thurman Thomas was better than Emmitt.

    Emmitt Smith always excelled at making things seem more dramatic than they really were. When you utilize one of the most boring, pedestrian running styles of any elite tailback in NFL history, this is an important trait to possess.

    So playing the second half of a early January game against the New York Giants with a wrapped-up shoulder becomes the ultimate testament of courage. And his good-but-hardly-great performance in Super Bowl XXVII (132 yards, three touchdowns), most of it racked up in the second half against a battered, beaten down Buffalo Bills team, gets him an MVP trophy. And his largely selfish quest to break Walter Payton's rushing record is lauded as a sign of his durability and toughness.

    Please. Emmitt Smith was a good player. He deserved this weekend's Hall of Fame moment.

    But he's not even one of the top 10 running backs of all time, let alone the greatest.

    He wasn't even close to the best running back of his own generation. Barry Sanders was so far superior, so much more of a game-changer that any debate there leaves you looking as silly as the defenders who used to be left grasping at air as No. 20 spun by. Thurman Thomas? Also a better player, a much more singular force than Emmitt ever was. Thomas led the NFL in yards from scrimmage four straight seasons, he was the undisputed center of one of the most entertaining offenses in NFL history, capable of beating you so many ways.

    Thomas once racked up 150 receiving yards in a playoff game.

    Smith rode all the talent around him on the Dallas Cowboys roster. He's clearly the worst of The Triplets. The Cowboys don't win those championships without Troy Ailkman and Michael Irvin. They could have found another running back (or running backs) to fill what would have been a big, but not irreplaceable, void.

    If Smith ran behind the same offensive lines as Barry Sanders, he wouldn't even be considered a Top 100 back — let alone one of the greatest.

    No wonder why Emmitt bawled during his induction speech while discussing blocking fullback Daryl Johnston. He must know deep inside. And even if he doesn't (the athlete ego is a powerful thing), the fans do. They started chanting "Moose" before Smith even brought up Johnston, giving the tailback little choice but to pay homage.

    You know that phrase "Stats Lie"? It was invented with Emmitt Smith in mind.

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    Movie Review

    'I Know What You Did Last Summer' reboot lacks energy or thrills

    Alex Bentley
    Jul 17, 2025 | 2:00 pm
    Sarah Pidgeon, Madelyn Cline and Chase Sui Wonders in I Know What You Did Last Summer
    Photo by Brook Rushton
    Sarah Pidgeon, Madelyn Cline and Chase Sui Wonders in I Know What You Did Last Summer.

    When the original I Know What You Did Last Summer came out in 1997, it was riding the coattails of Scream, which came out in 1996. Like that film, it featured hot young actors of the time, albeit with a story that was much more standard than the inventive Scream. Still, it made enough of an impact for some studio executive to think it was worth reviving nearly 30 years later with its own legacy-quel.

    In the new I Know What You Did Last Summer, a group of five high school friends — Danica (Madelyn Cline), Ava (Chase Sui Wonders), Milo (Jonah Hauer-King), Teddy (Tyriq Withers), and Stevie (Sarah Pidgeon) — have reunited at the engagement party for Danica and Teddy on the 4th of July. While on an impromptu trip to watch fireworks on a twisty road in the nearby hills, Teddy goofs off in the middle of the road, causing a truck to swerve and drive off the cliff.

    A year later, having sworn to each other to not speak of the accident to anybody, they start getting stalked by a mysterious person in a fisherman’s slicker carrying a hook. With Teddy’s rich father, Grant (Billy Campbell), actively trying to cover up what his son did (as well as the fallout), it’s up to the group to figure out who is coming after them and how to stop that person.

    Written and directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, and co-written by Sam Lansky, the film doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel; in fact, it barely builds something that can roll. It might just be the laziest and most incompetent attempt to capitalize on an existing piece of intellectual property. There is almost zero effort put into establishing a connection between the members of the friend group, making them feel like strangers for the entire film.

    It doesn’t help that the young male actors in the film — which grows to include Wyatt (Joshua Orpin), a new fiance for Danica — serve no purpose other than to be generically good-looking. The most impactful of the men in the film is the returning Freddie Prinze, Jr., who — along with Jennifer Love Hewitt — has his old character from the first two films shoehorned into the new story. The filmmakers undercut any good feelings from their return by giving them hardly anything to do and then having Hewitt deliver the line, “Nostalgia is overrated.”

    The film as a whole never has a sense of momentum. The inciting incident is so tame — they even attempt to save the driver before the truck goes off the cliff — that the guilt they feel and the anger of the person going after them doesn’t feel warranted. Once the attacks start, it is shocking at how low-energy the sequences are, providing no sense of suspense or thrills. The filmmakers resort to the lamest of horror movie tropes, turning the film into a paint-by-numbers affair.

    Cline (one of the stars of Netflix’s Outer Banks) and Wonders (The Studio on Apple TV+, Bodies Bodies Bodies) are the clear stars of the film, but their characters are made into inert scream queens, negating any acting talent they possess. Hauer-King, Withers, and Pidgeon don’t bring anything interesting to their characters, existing merely to have someone else for the killer to go after.

    Even the worst films can have some kind of redeeming value if you look hard enough, but the only thing I Know What You Did Last Summer has to offer is that it becomes so comically bad by the end that you can’t help but laugh at its ineptitude. Both fans of the original and fans of horror movies in general will feel cheated by the experience.

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    I Know What You Did Last Summer opens in theaters on July 18.

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