How much money is enough? An Adam Sandler thread.

[wease]

I assume its for his performance in Billy Madison.

Canteen Boy

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[tommy]

I haven't watched any of his early movies in ages. Do they hold up?

The only Adam Sandler movies I feel compelled to rewatch are Punch Drunk Love and Uncut Gems.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[spike]

The new standup special is great fun.

I thought the obviously staged antics throughout worked pretty well. Good acting by Sandler, I guess.

[daft twat]

I watched Happy Gilmore 2. I loved the original when it came out and I was 19. I didn’t expect this sequel to be good, and it’s not good. I did laugh out loud 3 times. One was courtesy of Hailey Joel Osment wearing shorts at the tour championship, but the other 2 were from Happy’s new happy place. They hit 48 year old me hard. I don’t recommend this to anyone, but I’m glad I watched it. Nice to dip my toes in a pool of nostalgia after a week of heavy losses.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I didn't realize this is Netflix only

[Matters]

Maybe a Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison sequel could be his swan song?

Maybe… yes sir?

[BurtReynolds]

It's sad that direct-to-video morphed into direct-to-streaming and took over movies altogether.

[96583UP]

watched HG2 and laughed a lot

last 45 mins really went turbo silly but whatever

low expectations

lots of one off funnies. great cameos

i put a premium on simple humor these days

[LoathedVermin72]

It's sad that direct-to-video morphed into direct-to-streaming and took over movies altogether.

I don’t think this is very accurate. DTV is still very much alive and well, but it’s morphed into Direct-to-VOD, not streaming. Stuff like Happy Gilmore 2 is not a product of DTV lineage. I suggest you take a look at something like Operation Blood Hunt.

[i got bugs]

Thought it sucked

The star of the movie was easily bad bunny

Other than that the shooter coffee part was awesome n a couple little things here n there..

[BurtReynolds]

It's sad that direct-to-video morphed into direct-to-streaming and took over movies altogether.

I don’t think this is very accurate. DTV is still very much alive and well, but it’s morphed into Direct-to-VOD, not streaming. Stuff like Happy Gilmore 2 is not a product of DTV lineage. I suggest you take a look at something like Operation Blood Hunt.

Morphed might be the wrong word. It reminds me of back when Disney thought that no one would buy sequels to their animated movies so they made cheap ones that went straight to video. Now we get these lazy sequels of huge movies just to fill the monthly content quota.

[96583UP]

i will take these kinds of films every day

too much angry twitter feed drivel everywhere now

need simple laughs to offset feed addict energy

[Bammer]

Watched it with my boys and we all LOL’d quite a bit.

That Wotman / Kelsey Plum cameo was really something. WTF

Spoiler: show

I’m getting this

[spike]

Of course you are.

[Matters]

He built a career around pretending to be retarded. Could never happen today.

[lvc]

Happy Gilmore 2 was precisely Happy Gilmore 2. Slightly absurd, silly, enjoyable, abusive to physics and golf. In a lot of ways, though, it's surprisingly smart. The way it tackled grief, alcoholism, letting go of old grudges, redefining happiness based on the not so glamorous reality of middle age was all sincere and touching while being cartoonish about it.

I mean, it's still crass and puerile and adolescent and a nostalgia-driven cash grab. But it isn't just those things. You put the core of the story (life beats you down right when you're at the top, you get depressed and hit the bottom but you have to pull your shit together for the people you love, but it's hard to get out there and hold your shit together because you're grieving) in someone else's hands and cast Meryl Streep and you're making Oscar bait.

But since Adam Sandler is clinically unpretentious, you get all of the callbacks, all of the cameos, he casts his wife and both daughters and all his friends, and he puts an iconic character through a very grounded and relatable grind that just happens to involve completely over the top ridiculous obstacles.

I may now believe that Adam Sandler is a true American treasure.

[LoathedVermin72]

I may now believe that Adam Sandler is a true American treasure.

always has been!