Posted on 08/01/2025 7:22:10 AM PDT by dennisw
I don’t begrudge Sandler his payday.
He made in a free market.
“After all, we are not communists,” as Don Barzini said in the Godfather.
That said, I’ve only seen two Sandler movies.
He was okay in Punch Drunk Love which I only watched because it was made by Paul Thomas Anderson who I consider a serious director.
He was pretty good in Uncut Gems which was a fairly good film by 21st century standards.
For a golfing comedy, I still would go with Caddyshack.
Anything with Rodney Dangerfield is worth watching even when the film may not be very good.
he girl playing Danny Noonan’s GF went off the rails and into a reclusive life afterwards. I wonder what happened to her.
She also played the Mayor’s daughter in “Animal House”.
that was pretty good- Even her fiancee was pretty funny in his role
he did another with drew barrymore where she had a condtion where she forgot everything the next day- that movie was pretty good too-
50 Blind Dates. It was cute though a very sad premise.
I think he did a series of movies with her.
Watched it last weekend. It’s funny. Lots of cameos.
His wife, both daughters and 2 sons are in the movie.
His daughter stared in “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah”.
It was a clever, funny, and relatively clean (for 2020+) and family friendly movie.
My daughters could very much relate to it.
I can’t believe nobody took the bait...
I liked it.
HOW does he get jobs?
I did, too.
It was a great lesson for my daughters why their Bat Mitzvahs were simple affairs about family, becoming a young Lady, and G-d (like they are meant to be), too.
Aside from the obvious, it avoids drama.
Now, if I can only convince them to elope, I’ll be in the clear.
Obviously Netflix has way too much money to throw away. I will help fix that by cancelling my subscription, especially since they create or provide very little content I care to view.
Netflix used to be great because they had a deal with all the studios so I was able to watch EVERYTHING.
Now you have Peacock, Paramount, Disney, Max, etc.
Yep- they worked well together- Yes it was kidna sad movie- but also pretty funny and a kind of good plot- (though sad, as you mentioned) he did another with her they both vacationed in africa i think it was- and ran into each other and hit it off- i didnt see that one, but the commercials for it were pretty funny
People already worship AI characters.
Hollywood as we recognize it wont exist.
Whoevers AI created the best movie this morning will be the big hit until tomorrow.
...come to think of it.
Google, etc collect so much information about each individual that by the time your grandchildren are grown their personal AI assistant will just generate entertainment based on their history of personal interests.
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