Adam Sandler - is he dreadful or what ?

Ally Dick

kippy

Would love his problems tbh.....

Ally Dick

I don't find him remotely funny. He does this inferior impersonation of Latka from Taxi the whole time

MonkeyTennis

He is not funny and by now ..I think its on purpose.

FloatingVoter

Yes...he owes me €20. Cheap cµnt.

LoganRice

He isn't worth the hullabaloo

Turtyturd

Not as dreadful as Family Guy.

Tarzana2

I honestly don't know anyone who likes him.

megaten

He admitted recently that his movies are now just an excuse to take all his friends on holiday

noway12345

Who's worse? Sandler or Stiller?

Fakman87

He's fantastic in Rain Over Me and Punch Drunk Love. He's atrocious in everything else.

Starscream25

Happy Gilmore is brilliant, the waterboy is good but everything else he did was ****e.

Mint Aero

Rowan Atkinson retired Mr. Bean as playing him would seem absurd or sad as he aged. Sandler didn't learn this.

Everythin coming up Milhouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbscDQj0-hU

When the Sun Hits

noway12345 wrote: »

Who's worse? Sandler or Stiller?

I like Ben Stiller. His Tom Cruise impressions are hilarious.

Sandler is meh.

noway12345

There'll never be any new actors who can match the greats. People like Arnie and Bette Midler were just unreal. Rip to them both.

dxhound2005

He does a good job on Werewolves of London.

MonkeyTennis

Turtyturd wrote: »

Not as dreadful as Family Guy.

interesting point put I think theres a bit more going with Seth MacFarlane but .. Family guy gets a lot of undeserved kudos

Ally Dick

Turtyturd wrote: »

Not as dreadful as Family Guy.

Heresy !!!!

Awful actor who picks awful films.

But supposed to be very nice. Which should count for something.

Custardpi

A talented actor who has decided (probably correctly sadly!) that there was more money to be made by starring in trash than by actually using his comedic gifts in more intelligent work. He's far from the only one to do it. Eddie Murphy is another former funnyman who went down that road.

Turtyturd

Ally Dick wrote: »

Heresy !!!!

The only time it was funny was on south park.

kenmc

how can you not love the thanksgiving song and lunch lady land?

Dan_Solo

noway12345 wrote: »

Who's worse? Sandler or Stiller?

Whoever wins, we lose.

dr.fuzzenstein

noway12345 wrote: »

Who's worse? Sandler or Stiller?

Stiller made Tropic Thunder and Zoolander, plus his performance in Dodgeball was awesome, so Stiller is capable of greatness if he really tries.
The best Sandler did was Wedding Singer, which has not aged well.

Mechanical Clocktail

Fakman87 wrote: »

He's fantastic in Rain Over Me and Punch Drunk Love. He's atrocious in everything else.

Funny People was great. Happy Gilmore was fun too. A lot of people seemed to like Click but I haven't seen it. He does make some awful crap, but he has some good ones in there. It's popular to hate on Sandler's films.. because people see it being done on shows like Family Guy (puke).

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Stiller made Tropic Thunder and Zoolander, plus his performance in Dodgeball was awesome, so Stiller is capable of greatness if he really tries.
The best Sandler did was Wedding Singer, which has not aged well.

You're naming straight up spoofy cartoonish films in fairness. He's capable of being clown, hardly greatness. He certainly can't act well. He's only got one look.

brevity

Hack, fraud!

DEFTLEFTHAND

Wouldn't mind having his bank balance though, guys made a tonne of money.

charlietheminxx

I loved the wedding singer, it's a sweet storey and I like the soundtrack.

Otherwise he can feck off.

cloud493

I like sandler. But Stiller can still be a pretty good actor when he wants to be, so he's the better of the two,.

dr.fuzzenstein

Mechanical Clocktail wrote: »

You're naming straight up spoofy cartoonish films in fairness. He's capable of being clown, hardly greatness. He certainly can't act well. He's only got one look.

You're forgetting Blue Steel. And there's Magnum.
Have you designed the piano key necktie?

Mint Aero

Ally Dick wrote: »

Seagull at 8:00

Yes I'm watching Christmas stuff.

crockholm

A serious lack of comedic and acting skills,but that is par for the course in Hollywood-what sets sandler apart in being a real asshole is the involvement as producer in rob fukking Schneiders Movies-that is akin to taking a giant shyt on top of Everything.

BontyMurns

Adam Sandler has a market and he does well in playing/marketing to that market. I'm not a fan of his work but it's clear he knows what he's doing as he has been extremely successful in doing it.

I'm sure much of the books/tv shows/films many of you are into are regarded as total trash by others too. Taste differs from person to person, we're thankfully not all into the same things but people who are "dreadful" at what they do don't tend to become multi-multi-millionaires from doing it.

fin12

I actually love Adam Sandler movies, Dont mess with the Zohan is my favourite, I could watch that over and over again, and I also really like Jake and Jill, I found that really funny, but I also like the way in a lot of Adam Sandler movies he works with the same actors, like rob shneider who i also find really funny.

fin12

oh and I just remembered I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry, there are some great laughs in that film, especially at the wedding when they use a homeless guy as their witness and he does a Russian dance which is brilliant, Ill never forget that scene

He was funny for a while - way, way back in the day. He also turned in a wonderful dramatic performance in 2007's Reign Over Me proving that there's an actor in there somewhere.

Panic E

I have to say I used to enjoy his movies. Mr Deeds, Big Daddy, Billy Madison etc...

Understated brilliance compared to some of the trash passing as comedy the same era

mdwexford

Older stuff is ok but hasn't aged well.

Latest stuff is diabolical.

Ben Stiller is the man though, how dare you people.

Happy Gilmore is superb, for that alone I like him.

KomradeBishop

His films, and other similar ones from the time, seem to match the template for todays trash US 'comedy' films that come out every year - nothing remarkable or all that memorable about them.

Panic E

Zaniyah Petite Saloon wrote: »

Happy Gilmore is superb, for that alone I like him.

Yep that was good! The Longest Yard, The Wedding Singer, 50 First Dates.

I think he wrote and directed them all as well. They are definitely funny like

Adamantium

Ben Stiller is easily the most talented of that Brat Pack from the late 90's-00's, turned out to be an excellent director as well.

Zoolander, Dodgeball and Tropic Thunder (a film that wouldn't get made even now, only 6 years later). Secret Life of Walter Mitty was probably my favourite film of 2013.

tastyt

Adamantium wrote: »

Ben Stiller is easily the most talented of that Brat Pack from the late 90's-00's, turned out to be an excellent director as well.

Zoolander, Dodgeball and Tropic Thunder (a film that wouldn't get made even now, only 6 years later). Secret Life of Walter Mitty was probably my favourite film of 2013.

Stiller was also in meet the parents and something about Mary. He has a pretty good list of very funny movies

Panic E

KomradeBishop wrote: »

His films, and other similar ones from the time, seem to match the template for todays trash US 'comedy' films that come out every year - nothing remarkable or all that memorable about them.

As for as I remember his films were a sort of parody of the template

charlietheminxx

I dunno how this thread became about Ben Stiller but fwiw I really like him as an actor. Zoolander is one of my favourite comedies!

Ben Stiller is okay...but not a patch on his father.

murpho999

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Stiller made Tropic Thunder and Zoolander, plus his performance in Dodgeball was awesome, so Stiller is capable of greatness if he really tries.
The best Sandler did was Wedding Singer, which has not aged well.

Adamantium wrote: »

Ben Stiller is easily the most talented of that Brat Pack from the late 90's-00's, turned out to be an excellent director as well.

Zoolander, Dodgeball and Tropic Thunder (a film that wouldn't get made even now, only 6 years later). Secret Life of Walter Mitty was probably my favourite film of 2013.

Seriously, if people think that Zoolander and Tropic Thunder are at levels of greatness then they really need to see more films.

Tropic Thunder started off with well, especially with Downey's character but then the 2nd half just turned into adventure and rescue. Awful stuff.

For me I would rate Ben Stiller films just ahead of Sandler both are rubbish but Stiller does take himself more seriously. Both laughing all the way to bank so what does my opinion matter.

dr.fuzzenstein

murpho999 wrote: »

Seriously, if people think that Zoolander and Tropic Thunder are at levels of greatness then they really need to see more films.

Tropic Thunder started off with well, especially with Downey's character but then the 2nd half just turned into adventure and rescue. Awful stuff.

For me I would rate Ben Stiller films just ahead of Sandler both are rubbish but Stiller does take himself more seriously. Both laughing all the way to bank so what does my opinion matter.

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

And don't forget what the great philosopher Harry Callahan said about opinions.;):p

TerrorFirmer

Stiller is a good actor and has a raft of excellent comedies under his belt. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was a great film as well just a year or two ago and even his largely lacklustre recent comedic efforts are far superior to Sandler's.

Sandler is definitely past it by comparison but some of his earlier work is brilliant - Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy spring to mind, and he had a few passable flicks a few years back as well - Click, You Don't Mess with the Zohan are two I thought were decent enough. Last thing I saw him in was 'That's My Boy' with Andy Samberg - not good but admittedly pretty watchable.

murpho999

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

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

And don't forget what the great philosopher Harry Callahan said about opinions.;):p

THe Big Lebowski, that's more like it.

Go read the reviews of both films. They're not exactly brilliant.