Adam Sandler S/D

destroy:
everything else, esPECially 50 first dates

It's nice that PT Anderson could make a decent movie out of Punch-Drunk Love, but I still say that Adam Sandler should not be a famous person. He's just a goddamn goof.

His most unfairly maligned movie IMHO = Big Daddy. I would go so far as to call it an excellent movie, if there existed a version with no Rob Shneider in it whatsoever.

you sound like the gym teacher from freaks and geeks when he goes "that bill murray is a wiseass!"

the golf coach, the alligator and ABRAHAM LINCOLN!

SOMEBODY has seen Chuck & Larry by now, surely?

s1ocki sees everything...?

Armond White: "a modern classic"

I am so glad this movie has finally opened just so I don't have to sit through that fucking preview again.

Nathan Lee -- an actual gay and HOT (acc to impudharlot) critic -- also liked it.

Wait really? I can't believe it. It looks so bad!

That Lee review read like the worst kind of nu-Voice meta-contrarianism.

http://www.nypress.com/20/29/film/ArmondWhite2.cfm

Sandler’s typical bratty humor rectifies the frat-boy mentality his fans might expect. Sandler and James skillfully liberate macho rigidity by spoofing gay and straight males’ skittishness. Chuck & Larry has more laughs per minute than any movie since Hot Fuzz.

"Chuck & Larry has more laughs per minute than any movie since Hot Fuzz."

Lo those many weeks ago...

I dunno, I would've guessed A Mighty Heart had more laffs.

lol @ white

btw V1c, it was Distant by that director I liked. Couldn't stand Climates much!

Gawd, I can never decide what's clumsier--White's prose style or his ideas.

oh yeah, i haven't gotten to Distant yet but it's queued
Climates had a few moments
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"The ultimate moral lesson—that sexuality has absolutely nothing to do with who Chuck and Larry are as people—may seem simplistic, but the focus on humanity (including a traditional courtroom climax to restore society’s balance) proves that lesson is sound."

Uh?

haha seriously

I recognize all the words, but...

Is there a film critics S/D thread somewheres about?

yeah "which film critics do you trust?"

Which film critics do you trust (if any?)

well, many social/screwball comedies do climax w/ a restorative courtroom scene. The rest, I dunno,

True, but as a subset of their "focus on humanity"?

xpost Thanks!

why does Armond White have a job

He is a relief from all the 'consensus' around certain films.

I don't get him at all, not good looking and not really fun (i don't think he ever really acts)

^not really funny

has anyone seen sandlers 9/11 film, Reign Over Me? i liked it (as did armond white) but i think it would give the ilx movie guy massive a heart attack.

gotta agree with Heave. Armond White is a terrible comedic actor.

Grown Ups at 7% on RT

^has made $270M worldwide

i like sandler and i made it thru abt 20 mins

lol u watched grown ups

I used to love him but nowadays he mostly makes me angry. Here are the last 3 Sandlers I saw:

8 Crazy Nights : watched it on cable out of curiosity, didn't make it past an hour but holy Christ is it terrible. It has no concievable audience..the animation and musical style is supposed to make this geared towards kids, but some of the 'humor' is ridiculously blue and vulgar. Nobody could possibly like this movie.

Click : not a single part of the premise worked, though I kind of dug the weird direction the story went in later. I cannot have any sympathy for a character whose life is so priviledged that the boring parts include having sex with Kate Beckinsale. Could have been good, but the humor was really crass and didnt belong

50 First Dates : really bad in pretty much every way, I have no idea how Sandler goes from banging a bunch of hot tourists to wanting to settle down with a woman who not only has a huge mental handicap but isn't particularly attractive or sweet or even smart. Noble, yes, but this is an Adam Sandler movie.

didn't mind 8 crazy nights. click is one of the worst films i have ever seen.

yeah ive never seen any of those 3 and wont see just go w/ it
jordan otm i should know better

oh yeah, I didn't mention the musical number with a bunch of coporate mall logos singing...wow

I saw Anger Management as well...that too was one of the worst films I've ever seen. Total waste of talent. Like...having Jack Nicholson make him stop in the middle of a busy tunnel while other motorists pass by and swear at him is A) not funny, B) completely unsafe, and C) not something that anyone would ever do. Like I understand where humor is supposed to come from, but they need to realize that you don't get much humor from having characters that do things that are absolutely psychotic and contrary to what any real person would do in that situation. This happens in literally every single Adam Sandler movie ever made.

http://badassdigest.com/2012/03/01/adam-sandler-works-blue-in-agonizing-thats-my-boy-red-band-trailer/

Michael J Nelson ‏ @michaeljnelson

Adam Sandler's "That's My Boy" trailer: the cinematic equivalent of slowly pushing individual 3" pieces of barb wire into your soul.

Haha, I laughed like three times. the first time I laughed at anything sandler did since he yelled HORSESHIT in Big Daddy in 1999

Whiney's laughs.xls might be the second most famous ilx spreadsheet.

a+ trailer, 1st sandler movie ill def watch in as long as i can recall

rex ryan...

lol @ "happy madison productions"

haha i'm like is that rex

i think adam sandler should only be allowed to play babies or children from now on

dayo, plenty of chances to lol

Happy Madison movie poll
Happy Madison Productions

oh my god I thought that was a recent thing - when did sandler make himself an institution??

Thats been his production company since pretty much right after Happy Gilmore.

from his very first film...?

lol xp

did billy madison come first or happy gilmore?

madison

took just two films huh

man, the 90s

dayo, man

tbh I think it was his stellar work in Going Overboard that earned him that legend status

as a kid I probably laughed the most I have ever laughed at a movie when I saw the waterboy

as a teenager i've never been more disappointed than when I saw the waterboy

pretty cool story, grandpa

pissants like you are why Jack and Jill happened. Respect your elders

*feels the burn*

the burn of shame from liking the waterboy?

still a good movie

Movie stolen by Luenell's boobs and Milo's ass.

The funniest Adam Sandler movie in 10 years! (probably)

oh shit lunell is in this?

spoiler alert

I rate it above either Hangover flick, fwiw.

planning 2 see this opening day fyi

Looks like this is being about as well-received as Jack & Jill, which is unfortunate b/c I for some reason thought this would be kinda funny

i give it about three years before sandler is hosting a cable talk show.

no way, dude is set for life

seeing that's my boy preview TWICE made me wonder: why does a heavy south boston accent always label the character as a moron, sociopath or both

yes

that's not an answer...oh wait

hahaha i was hoping you would reply

:-D

no way, dude is set for life

― some dude, Monday, June 18, 2012 1:00 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well sure. but like a lot of entertainers who are set for life he probably wants to stay before the public.

it's clear he also wants to be taken "seriously"

i dunno. i don't think Punch Drunk Love or Funny People or Spanglish would've happened if their respective writer/directors hadn't pursued Sandler as the headliner to help sell their visions. Sandler has all the money in the world to make any movie he wants, and plops out wacky unambitious laffers twice a year.

w/ his own production company, i mean, whether he's the star or it's like, Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star

why the hell would adam sandler host a cable news show

anyway this movie looks terrible but people on this board stump for "step brothers" and "grandma's boy" so i guess i shouldn't be surprised

haha i think amateurist meant that Adam Sandler is going to have a George Lopez's timeslot after Conan on TBS, but that's about as likely as him taking Anderson Cooper's spot

right, whatever. a cable talk show! i don't think a dude worth like $200 million has any desire to work 12 hour days telling jokes about the kardashians.

Adam Sandler is basically the white Tyler Perry

and the straight Tyler Perry

AP story on the box office

Sandler's "That's My Boy" bombed with $13 million, the worst showing for one of his broad comedies since the mid-1990s. "That's My Boy" came in at No. 5, behind the $13.8 million for "Snow White & the Huntsman," a film that's been out for three weekends already.

"Sure, we would have liked to have done more," said Rory Bruer, head of distribution at Sony, which released "That's My Boy" and most of Sandler's past movies. "But you've got to give it to Adam. He mixes it up. This is a really off-the-wall comedy."

...

"As with most Sandler movies, the reviews were bad, but that usually does not stop his audience of young males from showing up.

The R rating for "That's My Boy" may have cut into the movie's business, prohibiting those under 17 from seeing it without an adult. Sandler's comedies usually are rated PG-13.

yeah, they probably fucked up in having it rated R. no one in that age range wants to see a new adam sandler movie.

that said in light of those numbers maybe he's more likely to be the white eddie murphy, instead

anyway this movie looks terrible but people on this board stump for "step brothers"

Sandler doesn't make funny ensemble comedies fyi

maybe Samberg box office poison outweight Sandler box office gold, Hot Rod was dope but its entire gross was like what That's My Boy made its first weekend

sandler pumps out enough movies that some are bound to bomb, right?

i guess he's had a pretty strong string of hits tho recently

kind of, but how much money he's made even with movies that seem like they should be bombs is pretty amazing:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=adamsandler.htm

even Jack & Jill made $75 mil, and the only things since Little Nicky that had made less than that were the 'mature' movies (Funny People, Reign Over Me, Punch Drunk Love, Spanglish). i mean Chuck And Larry, Grown Ups, Just Go With It, 50 First Dates, fucking You Don't Mess With The Zohan, all $100 million hits.

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That Grown Ups is a $160M hit means there is no reason to pay attention to box-office figures. At all.

Sandler/Samberg are only 11 years apart in age, so this looks idiotic on extra levels

^that's the thing. sandlers character impregnated his teacher in middle school

That Grown Ups is a $160M hit means there is no reason to pay attention to box-office figures. At all.

― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Monday, June 18, 2012 4:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

wait what does this mean

Sandler/Samberg are only 11 years apart in age, so this looks idiotic on extra levels

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Monday, June 18, 2012 4:04 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^that's the thing. sandlers character impregnated his teacher in middle school

― that's why Love made the weirdos (brownie), Monday, June 18, 2012 4:06 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

boom morbz owned by airtight sandler writing once again

It means I don't care what makes money and what doesn't any more.

oh. well we were talking about what made money and what didn't, so it seems like an odd conversation to jump into if it's not something you particularly care about.

Adam Sandler was the guy who played Theo's bro in "The Cosby Show" right

yep

I mean, I care to a reasonable extent (i.e. it's partially what determines what movies get made in the future). It's just that the poster to Grown Ups turned me super straight every time I saw it.

how would we know the difference?

I should've remembered that I saw a Salon column this morning about what a charming premise child rape is for a dumbass "summer comedy"

http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag/jack-and-jill/

Good take down on Jack and Jill. Their premise is that basically every current Sandler film is just an elaborate scam.

i've prob said this before but it still blows my mind that Funny People invents all these fake 'George Simmons' movies that try and totally fail to be more crappy-looking than about half of Adam Sandler's real movies.

META

how would we know the difference?

You took my master bait.

that veronica vaughn is one piece of ace

That is kereck't.

boom morbz owned by airtight sandler writing once again

Lol for real

I'm totally gonna watch this when it comes out on DVD fuxk te haters stop looking at me swan

i think that's the second "stop looking at me swan" reference you've made on ilx this week

i mean granted that's one of the best scenes in movie history, but still

Good take down on Jack and Jill. Their premise is that basically every current Sandler film is just an elaborate scam.

i tried to watch it

J0rd, let me sort out hip-hop history for you.

Would pay tuition to attend Morbs' Academy of HHH.

not many movies have two best scenes in movie history:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dV3tSqngUc

Fewer still have three:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5gw0qUPxgU

Those early sandler movies -- and seeing them, with good justification, be defended by people - remind me of when people would rep for the early albums by critically uncool post grunge alt bands from the 90s. It's like people defending The Blue Album and Pinkerton when Rivers Cuomo released Beverley Hills.

"Look, I know this looks bad for everyone who was ever involved, but when I first saw the video for Buddy Holly...well-- no one can take that away, no matter what they continue to do."

Except Billy Madison is like the Nevermind of 90s movies so

with Steve Buscemi, like Dave Grohl, later breaking off and finding successes in other genres.

anyway this movie looks terrible but people on this board stump for "step brothers" and "grandma's boy" so i guess i shouldn't be surprised

HOLD UP....People actually LIKE Grandma's Boy!!!!??!? Biggest WTF i've had in all my time on ILX. Truly the worst movie ever made.

Buscemi had already been in Reservoir Dogs by the time he crossed paths with Sandler, he's more like the Sonic Youth figure lending cred. although it's kinda sad that he's getting too old to play Butch Vig in a Nirvana movie someday.

Sandler peaked with Opera Man, 95% of his movies are worthless garbage, including Billy Madison

"Happy Gilmore" remains something of an evergreen.

Sandler is working over the slag heaps of played-out mines, looking for bits of low-grade ore.

so gonna read J0rd & Eric for the crap in this thread when I descend on their cities

Billy Madison is still endlessly quoteable

of all assclowns, sandler is the least objectionable assclown and compared to our current heap of assclowns he has a certain dignity, like roberts over scalia and thomas.

operative word in the phrase "least objectionable" is STILL "objectionable," just sayin'.

sell it, Nunez: Chief Justice Billy Madison

morbs, i was like 7 & 8 years old when billy madison & happy gilmore came out. i'm allowed to like them.

also, best (read: actually FUNNY) parts/lines in Sandler films tend to be non-Sandlers ... like Jim Downey in billy madison, and Monty Hall and Carl Weathers in happy gilmore.

the part in Zohan when they started playing hackey sack with the cat was so incredibly stupid and yet I totally lose my shit every time I think of it

cruelty to cats is always funny ... see "cat juggling" in the jerk.

don't get PETA on my ass for saying that, though!

it's the meowing that kills me

morbs, i was like 13 & 15 years old when billy madison & happy gilmore came out. i'm allowed to like them.

Whiney and J0rdan, i was like almost 30 when Shakes the Clown came out. i'm allowed to like it.

That movie rules too

Shakes is the best movie mentioned on this thread so far

of all assclowns, sandler is the least objectionable assclown and compared to our current heap of assclowns he has a certain dignity, like roberts over scalia and thomas.

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, June 19, 2012 3:02 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

what assclowns are we talking about here? i mean other than empty suits like Bradley Cooper i feel like most of the people these days who star in big budget comedies are at least as talented or more talented than Sandler

steve martin is a way classier assclown than sandler, but i just saw fletch and couldn't help thinking how much funnier it would have been with sandler instead of chevy chase. i feel like jerry lewis is more gifted in the assclown department but his body language is so full of malevolence that sandler edges him out. if you could somehow combine jerry lewis, sandler, steve martin and chris farley, you could make some kind of super-assclown.

re: modern assclowns, i think maybe tosh.o and dane cook are about it?

jackass crew maybe are literal assclowns in contention but the one dude that crossed over into movies hasn't really played up the assclown angle.

adam sandler is better than dane cook. low bar to clear however

I'm always up for the weird genre of movie where an idiot manchild stumbles through civilization: The Jerk, Billy Madison, Dum and Dumber, Cabin Boy, Freddy Got Fingered, Step Brothers

Hits close to home, I guess :(

jerry lewis is more gifted in the assclown department but his body language is so full of malevolence

stopped reading

it's weird how tom green started out as an assclown but it seemed his real ambition in life was to become david letterman.

re: modern assclowns, i think maybe tosh.o and dane cook are about it?

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, June 19, 2012 3:23 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

ok if we're lowering the bar to TV and standup assclowns yes of course there's people worse than Sandler. i thought you meant, like, other successful movie stars.

http://cdn.hometheaterforum.com/a/a5/a5f15108_htf_imgcache_4887.jpeg

does Shia TheBeef count or are his movies not assclowny enough

well they tried to turn Dane into a movie star, didn't work

Shia could've been king of the genre but, alas, he's gone naked artist in Sugar Ray videos now.

what i'm saying. Good Luck Chuck was his biggest starring vehicle and it made half as much as Jack & Jill. (xpost)

jerry lewis is more gifted in the assclown department but his body language is so full of malevolence

stopped reading

Why? That's a pretty keen observation.

if he got any more malevolent he'd have to go to federal clown-me-in-the-ass prison

when I went to a Jerry Lewis birthday tribute in March I worried about how to concisely explain who he was to youthful readers, and ex-Letterman writer said "Adam Sandler, but funny."

That is partly keereck't.

malevolent Adam Sandler is punch-drunk love, like duh ... which film is always magically ignored by film nerds when discussing the awfulness of Sandler's oeuvre, or by the fans of Sandler's usual über-stupid schtick.

punch-drunk love was really not that good

that film is terrible...?

haha yeah seriously

I've liked every Sandler film I've seen: The Wedding Singer, Punch-Drunk Love, and Funny People.

lol posts very much in character

imagine the cinematic qualities of four made-for-Netflix Sandler features

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/adam-sandler-inks-exclusive-four-film-deal-with-netflix-20141002

Can't wait for the completion of the little nicky trilogy, lot of uncertainty to answer for from the first film

THE WATERBOY 2: THE WATERER BOYER

http://40.media.tumblr.com/34dacb4a44fb8a7966c3bb5dd24d92d9/tumblr_new68uUGND1st7fy5o1_400.jpg

https://youtu.be/LABGimhsEys?t=2m5s

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/23/adam-sandler-ridiculous-six-native-americans-racism

The film stars Sandler, Nick Nolte, Steve Buscemi, Dan Aykroyd, Jon Lovitz and Vanilla Ice.

What the fuck is wrong with this world.

http://antagonie.blogspot.com/2015/03/these-are-times-that-try-mens-soles.html

The first 40 minutes of The Cobbler are obnoxious, bigoted, and unfunny; and then it gets worse, as the second 40 minutes are an inscrutable heist movie with an overweening desire to Say Something despite being completely deranged, and absurdly amoral for something nominally about doing the right thing, all while hinging its plot on the idea that every man in New York has the same shoe size. And then it gets worse. The movie plunges down and down, until it ends at its very worst moment. If there was anything in the whole 99 minute farrago to suggest that Tom McCarthy knew what humor was, I would insistently grab onto it as a parody of contemporary popcorn movies, but everything about the staging wants it to be sweet and tender and true.

Of course, I fully expect that some people reading this will immediately hunt the film down, and I wish to publicly and earnestly disavow any responsibility for their choices. To lead people to The Cobbler would be nothing short of a crime. Not as big a crime as having made the film in the first place, but a crime nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFD2293oGvA

i could give a fuck about "Movie Bob" but it seems like a good bet this is accurate

the visuals look pretty neat but yeah I give this no chance of being even remotely enjoyable

the 2 1/2 minute short this was based off of is pretty entertaining though

it's incredible how little effort sandler puts in when he's in front of the camera but yet he's still making at least one movie every year. his work ethic is a mystery.

yeah I have no idea why he keeps working

giving ends to yr friends feels stupendous iirc

http://www.engadget.com/gaming/www.engadget.com/2015/07/24/pixels-movie-review-absolutely-abhorrent/

When the humans defeat the aliens once and for all (spoiler alert), the pixelated Paperboy, Frogger and other attackers wreaking havoc on the streets of Washington, DC, start disappearing. Even the buxom blonde -- the one Ludlow has a multi-decade crush on; who inexplicably turns from pixel to flesh mid-battle and starts fighting alongside the humans -- fades away.

A tearful Ludlow asks why Q-bert gets to stay and not Lady Lisa. "Q-bert is a trophy," van Patten says. "We get to keep trophies." That's when the little orange alien turns itself into the platinum-coiffed object of Ludlow's affection. His dream girl is now a trophy he owns forever. Seriously. The epilogue is a shot of a crib full of little Q-berts. I couldn't make this shit up if I tried.

http://cache3.asset-cache.net/gc/481267138-actor-adam-sandler-attends-the-pixels-new-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=X7WJLa88Cweo9HktRLaNXgXnDt4ep6wdzXni8iFnAoFMXI%2F7K9aBPB3f01WtX2nb9r4nm3GCigns8h5i5psmlw%3D%3D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_UQRn3wDyQ

Start at about 1:40

Gonna watch that but Adam Sandler + video game movie is like the perfect storm to rile up thousands of angry review nerds. It's like Donald Trump running for president is for late night talk show hosts.

Their tone isn't angry/ranty, it's more "this was just sad & depressing & pointless"

I like them trying to wrap their heads around Dinklage using a Pac-Man cheat code in a car.

i'm not going to watch this movie bc i don't watch new adam sandler movies but the commercial had this bit where Toru Iwatani is talking soothingly to Pac Man that i thought was funny

I heard that was the only sweet part in the movie. That sucks that the ghosts are cars.

I would see it at a drive in w some cheap whisky.

Whoa, according to IMDB, Iwatani actually does appear in the flick:

Although Denis Akiyama plays a fictionalized version of Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani, the real Iwatani also appears in the film. Iwatani did not play himself because he doesn't speak English.

http://i59.tinypic.com/2hppuet.jpg

Uncut Gems looks...good?

It is.

Ha, why is that surprising? He can act when he wants to. Also it’s a Safdie bros joint, they’re coming in pretty hot after Good Time. Excited to see it.

So on Halloween, a few of my daughters close friends' families got together for a backyard movie night after trick or treating. The kids weren't all that interested in watching a movie though, so someone got the idea to put something on for the grown-ups: the new Adam Sandler movie, Hubie Halloween. I haven't seen a Sandler film (other than the Hotel Transylvania series) since The Waterboy. I didn't actively watch any of it, but Sandler's voice throughout was enough to tell me that this wasn't for me. Worst thing was that I was having a decent conversation with another parent who I really like, but whenever anyone new arrived to the party, would break away to ask them if they'd seen it yet and tell them how many funny cameos there are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY3SuNvqQPw

ok I randomly caught You Don't Mess With the Zohan the other night and I thoroughly enjoyed it. All I ever heard was how fucking stupid and terrible this movie was but I didn't realize it revels in it in such an over-the-top way. I get Zoolander vibes from it, as opposed to the rest of Sandler's bad films, which give me a Zoolander 2 vibe

it's pretty funny and incredibly dumb.

john turturro's phantom's fast food restaurant advert was a high point for me

I watched part of a couple of them with the kids. We tried Wedding Singer first and wound up turning it off. I found it painfully unfunny and uncharming. Drew Barrymore is immediately in love with him for no apparent reason, no buildup, and it's supposed to be cute that he uses her to make some kid feel better about himself and encourages ass grabbing. The Boy George joke is not only transphobia played for laps (unfortunately common in comedies until pretty recently) but just isn't even funny on its own terms and is nonetheless dragged out and repeated to exhaustion. The kids didn't really get any of the humor.

Billy Madison landed a little better because it's just so entirely absurd and without any pretense of plausibility that it gets away with a lot more. Still some pretty cringey moments and his character is just so totally unlikeable that it was hard to watch.

*for laughs

Thought this would be about Spaceman, which is kind of dumb but we enjoyed it anyway. It has some nice '70s retro-futurist spaceship design and is kinda trying to be Solaris Jr, with a cute space spider whose only purpose is to be Adam Sandler's therapist.

lol

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anyone catch his new show?