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!

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?