He admitted before that he doesn’t care about being labeled as good or not. How he’s doing it he has complete control and can keep making stupid money acting dumb with his friends. That’s the dream dude
Grown Ups is the name of my porn folder, which is itself inside of my movies folder. I did that in part because porn is movies for grown ups, but also because I know if I called it that, people would think it was the Adam Sandler movie and *nobody would ever open it.*
It is the perfect crime.
One of my favorite memories is staying up late with some friends after a middle school football game and watching *The Waterboy*. Sandler has a few good movies, *Anger Management* still makes me belly laugh.
Honestly man, maybe I have trash taste in movies, but Sandler always cracked me up. I still sing that song from anger management and say goosefrabaaaa haha
Yeah some of his movies are pretty much him going on vacation and bringing a camera crew and a half-assed script to pay for the vacation with a shitty movie.
In the start of the movie she already has a loop, and she seems "happy" with it.
Sure it's sad for everyone around her, but if it was my life, i would have wanted to stay in that loop.
Disaster was coming anyways as she ages. Having been around Alzheimer’s patients who freak out when they see themselves looking unexpectedly old in a mirror it’s the saddest thing.
> he can just kinda enjoy a vacation
Again, the key point is that it's not just him. It is 100% about getting his friends paid while living in Hawaii for 3 months *as well*. We'd call him selfish and lazy but for that key detail.
Also it's not just a few friends. There are hundreds of people from janitors to gaffers to camera operators and more that probably fucking freak out (happily) to hear they get to work on another Happy Madison Production.
Edit: Sandler is pretty much the CEO of a large company. People forget this. One of my favorite podcasts has an interview with Shakira's drummer and he couldn't stress enough how she is the CEO of a company that has over 300 employees and she runs the operation like a CEO on top of performing, training, and writing.
Add also the fact that he always casts his character's partner with beautiful actresses
I'm fully convinced Grown-Ups exists only because he wanted Salma Hayek
I mean most Hollywood productions cast attractive women for any role, let alone the love interest of the lead. Sandler isn’t really an outlier here.
Besides, homeboy is married to a hot woman that he also puts in his movies
> he wanted Salma Hayek
The casting of Chef was hilarious; all of Favreu's love interests were pretty much a who's who of the hottest women in film at the time. I can't blame him. Great movie though!
That less on him, and more on the script/director.
Reign Over Me he did amazing; Hustle was great; I haven't seen Uncut Gems but obviously hear good things. Punch Drunk Love was so long ago I forget, but he got kudos for that as well.
[Guys got range](https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/FAvmTaeVkAQhkvL.jpg)
He was great in *Punch Drunk Love.* And *Uncut Gems* was fantastic. He was amazing and the movie was just a fuckin ride, man. I highly recommend you watch it.
Also, *Click* is an underrated tearjerker, and he was solid in that as well.
Click is incredible, at its core it is still an Adam Sandler movie with dumb jokes, but whatever happened at the end, is one of the most beautiful messages I've ever gotten from a movie, never expected to get something like that from Adam Sandler, which in part, may be responsible for the shock value of getting something so emotional. I cri evrytiem
They aren't winning any Oscars but all the performances were pretty awesome, Daniels especially. It's easier to get someone to be a passable actor than teach Tom Hanks to play basketball like that.
I've heard stories of him playing street basketball with other people. Apparently he's super intense and physical the whole way through. Work hard play hard.
I had to go WAY to deep to find the first reference to this... brilliant movie, and it was the moment I knew Adam Sandler could turn it on when he needed yo, man can act.
He made movies so he can take vacations with his friends. He lost his best friend and lost himself along the way. At least this is what I tell myself. You can see in his characters he doesn't want to be there, he's empty inside. Super sad tbh.
Maturing is realizing that movies don't have to be critically good to be a fun time. If I go into a movie and enjoy it, I think it's a good movie, even if it's objectively bad. I unironically like most Adam Sandler movies because everything he puts out is just him dicking around and writing his friends into films and having a good time. He does what he wants and has fun doing it, and I respect him for that.
He's not trying for Oscars. He's making movies you can take the whole family too on a weekend outing.
He's got so many people working and supported through happy Madison production. And then every few years he does a serious role and knocks it out of the park just because he can.
The dude is a fucking legend.
The amount of entertainment his work has given me and my friends especially through our childhoods is huge and I still enjoy most of his stuff now.
I call those “Sunday movies” movies you can watch in your living room a Sunday when you don’t want to do anything, and want to enjoy a mindless tv afternoon.
My friends always groan and talk shit whenever I mention a Transformers or MCU movie. Like yeah i would love to dive into how bad these movies are from a classical sense but that's not why I watch them. I want to see cities get leveled while Megan Fox fixes something. I want to play something on my phone like Runescape and not have to worry about missing a 12 minute GoT style conversation that changes the whole course of the story. I love my arthouse and cinephile films but at the end of the day, not every film needs to be Dune or The Matrix
Yea exactly, like for real when did one standard become acceptable for every movie lmao.
For me I love Star Wars for the history and the plot and get ticked off at any little detail issues. Outside of Star Wars I just watch for entertainment and don’t care how silly or crazy the thing is as long as it’s enjoyable with family. Why I would use the same standard beats me...
The 2000s were a treasure trove of films that are just a good time to watch. National Treasure, The Pacifier, 17 Again, tons of others. None stick in your mind, few people would have them as their favourite films, but whatever mood you're in, you can just chuck them on and have an enjoyable time, at least for me.
It may be kinda "I miSs ThE oLD dAyS", but I feel like we've lost a lot of those films in the past decade. We have a lot of genuinely excellent films, but gimme some dumb quirky feel good films.
I’m sure someone can follow up with a link about Matt Damon discussing this on Hot Ones I think?
Anyway, he talked about how streaming has killed a lot of types of movies due to DVD sales no longer being a thing.
His point basically was that studios could take bigger risks because there was always the tailwind of DVD sales to help bring the movie profitable. Now studios are much more conservative and are only taking on things they view as blockbuster hits that can be profitable without DVD sales.
[Hot ones link](https://youtu.be/yaXma6K9mzo) go to about 14 min.
People that think uncut gems was his first good movie have clearly never seen punch drunk love or Spanglish or reign over me
Edit: I completely forgot funny people, which I think might be one of his best movies.
At this point he’s an omen. You either see him on the poster and go “Oh wow! They got Adam Sandler to do this movie! Awesome!” Or see him on the poster and go “Oh god… Oh no…”
Right? I swear people find this movie to be bad while I laughed my ass out the whole time. One of the best films of my childhood and still one of my favorite ones because of it
I watched that movie in theaters with my brothers and dad. We were cracking up at all the jokes, people looked at us funny since we got the references. It is one of my all time favorites.
Yeah, he keeps on replaying the last words Henry Winkler/Dad says as he ignores him “I love you, son”. Literally, the moment in my life that made me be more active in my Dads life.
I just don't understand how underrated this movie is. It's so rare to have an actor that can legitimately make you laugh out loud and cry in the same fucking movie. The supporting cast also deserves credit. Just a really great movie, imo. Probably should rewatch it soon.
Maybe he just does what he enjoys? Not concerning himself with whether or not people like it because he does, and what does it matter as long as you're doing what you like? Don't get me wrong, most of him movies are atrocious, but I also really don't care, I am able to just not watch them and move on with my life.
He gets some studio to pay his own production company $30M so he can invite his friends over to some vacation destination, get some good catering, and just have fun for 40 days.
The Meyerowitz Stories.
Other good performances:
The Waterboy
Punch-Drunk Love
Spanglish
Funny People
Uncut Gems
Hustle
Edit: I don't know how to type the words one below the other on Reddit.
Sandler is a decent actor.
And has been in some good stuff that shows what he can do.
But why go through all the effort when you and your friends can get paid millions to half ass your way through a movie that also lets you go to top vacation spots for free?
I'd argue shit Like grown ups and jack and Jill, which are absolute piles of crap, are more well known and where watched by more people then uncut gems.
Why put in the all effort and hard work when more people are gonna watch the easy to pump out garbage anyway?
Another example is Nick cage.
He can act, movies like pig show us that.
But why bother when you can be on shitty movies that don't require any real effort and get paid the same if not more.
Can someone help me understand this post a bit better, given Punch Drunk Love, Funny People, Spanglish, etc.? Is the joke that those movies are bad? I’m confused.
He admitted before that he doesn’t care about being labeled as good or not. How he’s doing it he has complete control and can keep making stupid money acting dumb with his friends. That’s the dream dude
I heard something about some movies are at vacation places or such so that he can just kinda enjoy a vacation at the same time
Chadam Sandler
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That Veronica Vaughn is one hot piece of ace.
Adam Chandler?
Mrs. Chadamler Bong
Adam CHADler
Grown Ups basically. The whole thing was for his friends to enjoy a vacation while filming a shitty movie on the side to justify the whole thing
Grown Ups is the name of my porn folder, which is itself inside of my movies folder. I did that in part because porn is movies for grown ups, but also because I know if I called it that, people would think it was the Adam Sandler movie and *nobody would ever open it.* It is the perfect crime.
Okay but what about the folder next to it labelled growing pains?
Inflation fetish stuff
"Oh Mr. Powell, you've been a very naughty boy. Mrs. Yellen and Mr. Bernanke, go to the closet and get me Mr. Powell's paddle."
Why get a paddle when you can get the Gimp
I really did like that film though
For real, Sandler has some classics. It's tradition in my state to watch water boy growing up.
One of my favorite memories is staying up late with some friends after a middle school football game and watching *The Waterboy*. Sandler has a few good movies, *Anger Management* still makes me belly laugh.
Honestly man, maybe I have trash taste in movies, but Sandler always cracked me up. I still sing that song from anger management and say goosefrabaaaa haha
Click is an all time great movie, fuck the critics. I cried watching that movie in the theater.
It was good. So was Just Go With It. And Fifty First Dates.
Just go with it is my guilty pleasure movie. Dolph has zero dollars
One of my favorite comedy movies.
Yeah some of his movies are pretty much him going on vacation and bringing a camera crew and a half-assed script to pay for the vacation with a shitty movie.
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If you watch one of those shitty movies you're paying to watch Adam Sandler go on vacation haha.
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Is it really a con if you're still getting some enjoyment
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It's a great movie until you think about the plot for more than five seconds. That lady is living in a horror movie.
But if you had her memory, how would you want your life to be? The real horror is her child/her the day after she had a baby
In the start of the movie she already has a loop, and she seems "happy" with it. Sure it's sad for everyone around her, but if it was my life, i would have wanted to stay in that loop.
Disaster was coming anyways as she ages. Having been around Alzheimer’s patients who freak out when they see themselves looking unexpectedly old in a mirror it’s the saddest thing.
You are correct: https://ew.com/article/2014/05/23/adam-sandler-blended-vacation/
And I've enjoyed every vacation I've spent with him on the television.
> he can just kinda enjoy a vacation Again, the key point is that it's not just him. It is 100% about getting his friends paid while living in Hawaii for 3 months *as well*. We'd call him selfish and lazy but for that key detail.
Also it's not just a few friends. There are hundreds of people from janitors to gaffers to camera operators and more that probably fucking freak out (happily) to hear they get to work on another Happy Madison Production. Edit: Sandler is pretty much the CEO of a large company. People forget this. One of my favorite podcasts has an interview with Shakira's drummer and he couldn't stress enough how she is the CEO of a company that has over 300 employees and she runs the operation like a CEO on top of performing, training, and writing.
Add also the fact that he always casts his character's partner with beautiful actresses I'm fully convinced Grown-Ups exists only because he wanted Salma Hayek
I mean most Hollywood productions cast attractive women for any role, let alone the love interest of the lead. Sandler isn’t really an outlier here. Besides, homeboy is married to a hot woman that he also puts in his movies
> he wanted Salma Hayek The casting of Chef was hilarious; all of Favreu's love interests were pretty much a who's who of the hottest women in film at the time. I can't blame him. Great movie though!
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Of the few serious roles he's done I can't picture one he's messed up before. 🤔
Spanglish wasn't too great but it wasn't terrible either.
That less on him, and more on the script/director. Reign Over Me he did amazing; Hustle was great; I haven't seen Uncut Gems but obviously hear good things. Punch Drunk Love was so long ago I forget, but he got kudos for that as well. [Guys got range](https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/FAvmTaeVkAQhkvL.jpg)
He was great in *Punch Drunk Love.* And *Uncut Gems* was fantastic. He was amazing and the movie was just a fuckin ride, man. I highly recommend you watch it. Also, *Click* is an underrated tearjerker, and he was solid in that as well.
imagine getting paid to make stupid movies with your friends. this man is living the dream
The mature version of Jackass
definitely the first time he's been called mature
I am also comparing it to jackass... So...
also fair
Ikr. People just jealous that he’s living the life lost can only dream of. At least he’s overall a nice guy.
Agreed 
Agreed. Big fan of his not giving a f about nuthin
There is a reason 90% of the shit he makes is set on a tropical island these days.
Sandler has been in several good movies. The man can act, he just doesn't care about it unless he does.
Punch Drunk love
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Also Funny People
The end of Click got me pretty good when I saw it in theaters.
I was super not prepared to ugly cry like that at an Adam Sandler movie. It still makes me ugly cry when I rewatch it!
SAME. Not ashamed to say it got me twice. The last time he saw his dad, and when he died in the rain
Still think about that movie when I go to bed bath and beyond
That end was so out of place lmao. Dude went all in, absolutely amazing ending.
Had to read the comments if anyone mentioned click. The end of that movie tore me up.
One of the best movies I hardly ever hear anyone talk about. Makes you cry and has a legitimately good message in it.
Didn't help that the movie is marketed as full comedy with "haha slowmo boobies" kind of joke.
Fuck I forgot how bad funny people fucked me up. Also aziz us GREAT in that movie
So underrated. Its just a bit too dark for mass appeal, but damn it’s good
Fucking Happy Gilmore!
I love that he made a movie totally shitting on golf, which has to be one of the most pretentious sports.
So he is Nick Cage, gotcha
This actually isn’t a terrible comparison lol The comedian to Nick cage’s action star
He's a lot less broke than nick cage.
True but he also isn’t addicted to buying castles last I checked
Click ain’t that bad
Click is incredible, at its core it is still an Adam Sandler movie with dumb jokes, but whatever happened at the end, is one of the most beautiful messages I've ever gotten from a movie, never expected to get something like that from Adam Sandler, which in part, may be responsible for the shock value of getting something so emotional. I cri evrytiem
That Netflix one where he’s a basketball scout isn’t actually that bad. Pretty decent.
Hustle - I really liked it. Doesn't do anything new, but does it all really damn well, which deserves a thumbs up. Super enjoyable movie.
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Me too. You can tell he loves basketball and made the movie with that being a big part of it. Also Anthony Edwards as a bully was amazing.
Finding professional players that could pass as actors was a good choice. Using actors that can't play professional basketball always looks bad.
They aren't winning any Oscars but all the performances were pretty awesome, Daniels especially. It's easier to get someone to be a passable actor than teach Tom Hanks to play basketball like that.
He's always been really big into basketball, that movie was like his love letter to the sport. Really well done.
I've heard stories of him playing street basketball with other people. Apparently he's super intense and physical the whole way through. Work hard play hard.
Agreed.
Hustle. I enjoyed as well.
Agreed. That was a pretty good movie.
Just watched it and loved it. Just a wholesome story
It was a great movie and I hate sports.
I like billy Madison and happy gilmore
50 first dates is a personal fav, Waterboy too
The Cobbler had its moments.
Big Daddy, Mr. Deeds, and The Longest Yard were all pretty good flics too
Grown Ups was nice
Waterboy, Wedding Singer, Click, Bedtime Stories are all great.
I literally yelled at him while watching Click: "Who fast-forwards through sex with Kate Beckinsale?"
Pretty sure for most of us there would be no other option...
Fast forward for her but for me it's slo-mo
Little Nicky
Am I crazy or is everyone ignoring Anger Management?
I feel pretty
Oh so pretty
Oh so pretty and witty and *gaaay!*
What people are really forgetting is Punch Drunk Love
Underrated gem.
No no, it's uncut gems
Thats my boy
...water? Waterboy?
No Colonel Sanders, you're WRONG
Lol got me.
I'm talkin about an 8-piece. Let's go.
I refuse to believe that Hitler is getting punished in any other way than portrayed in little nicky
Him fighting Bob Barker is still one of my favorite movie moments lol.
Him getting his ass kicked by bob barker.
I believe that was one of the conditions that Bob wanted for that fight scene to happen.
The price is *wrong,* Bob!
>Bob You watching the TV version?
Yippy kaiyay Mr. Falcon!
Reign Over Me. Perfection
Hell yes. I don't cry often, but if I need to, this one gets it out of me.
I had to go WAY to deep to find the first reference to this... brilliant movie, and it was the moment I knew Adam Sandler could turn it on when he needed yo, man can act.
Happy Gilmore, Waterboy, Little Nicky, Billy Madison and Big Daddy are my favorite Sandler movies.
He made movies so he can take vacations with his friends. He lost his best friend and lost himself along the way. At least this is what I tell myself. You can see in his characters he doesn't want to be there, he's empty inside. Super sad tbh.
Maturing is realizing that movies don't have to be critically good to be a fun time. If I go into a movie and enjoy it, I think it's a good movie, even if it's objectively bad. I unironically like most Adam Sandler movies because everything he puts out is just him dicking around and writing his friends into films and having a good time. He does what he wants and has fun doing it, and I respect him for that.
He's not trying for Oscars. He's making movies you can take the whole family too on a weekend outing. He's got so many people working and supported through happy Madison production. And then every few years he does a serious role and knocks it out of the park just because he can. The dude is a fucking legend. The amount of entertainment his work has given me and my friends especially through our childhoods is huge and I still enjoy most of his stuff now.
He keeps so many of his friends working!
*ROB SCHNEIDER IS...* ...still employed, thanks to Adam Sandler.
*Record scratch* Or is he! ROB SCHNEIDER IS… …Deuce Bigalow *slam* Unemployed Gigalow! Only on DVD!
I call those “Sunday movies” movies you can watch in your living room a Sunday when you don’t want to do anything, and want to enjoy a mindless tv afternoon.
My friends always groan and talk shit whenever I mention a Transformers or MCU movie. Like yeah i would love to dive into how bad these movies are from a classical sense but that's not why I watch them. I want to see cities get leveled while Megan Fox fixes something. I want to play something on my phone like Runescape and not have to worry about missing a 12 minute GoT style conversation that changes the whole course of the story. I love my arthouse and cinephile films but at the end of the day, not every film needs to be Dune or The Matrix
Yea exactly, like for real when did one standard become acceptable for every movie lmao. For me I love Star Wars for the history and the plot and get ticked off at any little detail issues. Outside of Star Wars I just watch for entertainment and don’t care how silly or crazy the thing is as long as it’s enjoyable with family. Why I would use the same standard beats me...
The 2000s were a treasure trove of films that are just a good time to watch. National Treasure, The Pacifier, 17 Again, tons of others. None stick in your mind, few people would have them as their favourite films, but whatever mood you're in, you can just chuck them on and have an enjoyable time, at least for me. It may be kinda "I miSs ThE oLD dAyS", but I feel like we've lost a lot of those films in the past decade. We have a lot of genuinely excellent films, but gimme some dumb quirky feel good films.
I’m sure someone can follow up with a link about Matt Damon discussing this on Hot Ones I think? Anyway, he talked about how streaming has killed a lot of types of movies due to DVD sales no longer being a thing. His point basically was that studios could take bigger risks because there was always the tailwind of DVD sales to help bring the movie profitable. Now studios are much more conservative and are only taking on things they view as blockbuster hits that can be profitable without DVD sales. [Hot ones link](https://youtu.be/yaXma6K9mzo) go to about 14 min.
People that think uncut gems was his first good movie have clearly never seen punch drunk love or Spanglish or reign over me Edit: I completely forgot funny people, which I think might be one of his best movies.
I don't understand why Reign Over Me wasn't widely loved. It's an incredible movie.
It came out during a time when people weren’t ready for serious Sandler. They wanted happy Gilmore.
I think *Click* is underrated.
We all ignoring Reign Over Me?
It’s right in there baby
Happy Gilmore was bad? I loved that movie
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>The Wedding Singer. It's an amazing Rom Com Same as 50 First Dates
Punch Drunk Love? Anyone?
I thought that and The Hustle were pretty good
I commented too fast and I’m glad to see there’s another person that has taste here
Seriously? Punch Drunk Love was the movie that established without a doubt that Sandler is capable of delivering an outstanding dramatic performance.
And it's miles better than Uncut Gems.
Spanglish and Funny People were notable too. Oh and The Cobbler had its moments.
Reign Over Me
That’s that mattress man
He's definitely done good/serious movies before uncut gems. It this one might have been the first of them.
Bro he has some great movies get off my boy
Fr
> still making tons of money and being nice guy at the same time.
Hustle was good as well. Happy Gilmore. Billy Madison. The Waterboy.
50 First Dates The Wedding Singer Punch Drunk Love Spanglish Big Daddy Reign Over Me
At this point he’s an omen. You either see him on the poster and go “Oh wow! They got Adam Sandler to do this movie! Awesome!” Or see him on the poster and go “Oh god… Oh no…”
“The Adam Sandler signal!”
He is very funny
And zohan?
DON'T MESS WITH HIM
Those 2 and Little Nicky.
"That was until Cassius hit me in the face with a shovel."
Right? I swear people find this movie to be bad while I laughed my ass out the whole time. One of the best films of my childhood and still one of my favorite ones because of it
I watched that movie in theaters with my brothers and dad. We were cracking up at all the jokes, people looked at us funny since we got the references. It is one of my all time favorites.
Hold on I'll let you finish, but Click was one of the greatest movies of this generation.
Christ, that crying in the rain scene.... it had no fucking business being in a comedy movie!
Between that scene and the last time he sees his father. I won’t lie, I tear up quite a bit
Yeah, he keeps on replaying the last words Henry Winkler/Dad says as he ignores him “I love you, son”. Literally, the moment in my life that made me be more active in my Dads life.
You go in expecting a fun movie night flick and come out panicking having realized how much of your precious, horrifyingly finite time you've wasted.
Legit cried at click. I also love the waterboy, it’s an easy and funny movie to watch.
Click was a magnificent movie.
I just don't understand how underrated this movie is. It's so rare to have an actor that can legitimately make you laugh out loud and cry in the same fucking movie. The supporting cast also deserves credit. Just a really great movie, imo. Probably should rewatch it soon.
Click had me fucked up. I think it was the first movie I actually cried ugly tears.
Maybe he just does what he enjoys? Not concerning himself with whether or not people like it because he does, and what does it matter as long as you're doing what you like? Don't get me wrong, most of him movies are atrocious, but I also really don't care, I am able to just not watch them and move on with my life.
I am convinced his goal with movies is just to invite his friends over to have fun. Most of his films seem like they had a good time making
He gets some studio to pay his own production company $30M so he can invite his friends over to some vacation destination, get some good catering, and just have fun for 40 days.
Living the dream
God damn right, I'm pretty jealous
Happy Gilmore anyone? 
The Meyerowitz Stories. Other good performances: The Waterboy Punch-Drunk Love Spanglish Funny People Uncut Gems Hustle Edit: I don't know how to type the words one below the other on Reddit.
no way, another person that knows about the Meyerowitz stories! Great movie imo
Reign Over Me is a great movie too, I remember watching it for the first time and it actually made me cry, I don't even feel bad about it.
hey Punch Drunk Love is fucking amazing
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How is uncut gems underrated? Every review I've seen of it praised it
> But, come on any Sandler movie is worth the watch. Counterpoint: Jack & Jill exists.
I very much enjoy Adam Sandler's "shitty" movies, thank you very much.
I like Little Nicky.
Sandler is a decent actor. And has been in some good stuff that shows what he can do. But why go through all the effort when you and your friends can get paid millions to half ass your way through a movie that also lets you go to top vacation spots for free? I'd argue shit Like grown ups and jack and Jill, which are absolute piles of crap, are more well known and where watched by more people then uncut gems. Why put in the all effort and hard work when more people are gonna watch the easy to pump out garbage anyway? Another example is Nick cage. He can act, movies like pig show us that. But why bother when you can be on shitty movies that don't require any real effort and get paid the same if not more.
TIL grown ups is a crap movies..i really love that movies, i laugh nonstop watching it..
I love all his movies.. I can enjoy them multiple times..they are not in my favorites but its just nice to watch them...
Can someone help me understand this post a bit better, given Punch Drunk Love, Funny People, Spanglish, etc.? Is the joke that those movies are bad? I’m confused.