Your Top 5 Favorite Adam Sandler Movies

I'm most surprised that you felt you needed to justify Mr Deeds when you have Click on that list.

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Click was so bad, I had to reach out for the remote to switch the channel..

Thank god for remotes!!!!
Now if we could only erase that film from the face of the earth..

I only felt the need to justify Mr. Deeds because of my self-proclaimed Frank Capra fandom. I use Mr. Deeds when I argue that some classic films need to be left alone and not remade. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a classic (#4 on my favorites list) and it should never have been redone, however, I will admit it is one of Sandler's better movies.

Click, while trying to be very Capraesque with shades of It's a Wonderful Life, is not a direct remake of anything. I know a lot of people don't like it at all, but I enjoyed it ok. Far superior to Billy Madison.

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Punch Drunk Love
Uncut Gems
Just Go with It
Pixels
Murder Mystery

I thought I was the only person in the world who liked Pixels.

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Not a fan, can't think of a single movie he has made that I liked or finished watching.
I guess it's because I am a Brit but I find it hard to like modern American comedy movies.
Come to think of it I find it hard to think of a decent modern British comedy too.

Geez I sound like a right grumpy guts.

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I grew up in the 90’s, so a lot of my favorite films definitely sway towards some of his original films. I also despise most of the films he has come out with in recent years, and as such have learned to avoid them to preserve my own well being. I also have not seen “Punch Drunk Love”, which I hear is a phenomenal movie, otherwise I may have listed it. Without further ado, A Life of Adam Sandler in Cinema: Top 5 Films:

•Billy Madison

•The Waterboy

•Happy Gilmore

•Big Daddy

•Uncut Gems

In no particular order,

Longest Yard
50 First Dates
Anger Management
Big Daddy
Happy Gilmore

I'm stumped. Can't think of any.

Here's my thread on the subject, a thread that was written BEFORE I saw Uncut Gems...I would now place Uncut Gems at # 2 and push everything else back:


https://www.movieforums.com/communit...ad.php?t=58378

1. Happy Gilmore
2. Billy Madison
3. Uncut Gems
4. Grown Ups
5. Reign Over Me.

So nice to see some love for Spanglish...I think it's one of Sandler's most underrated performances.

Click really did nothing for me...it wasn't terrible, but it didn't make me laugh like a lot of his comedies do...the best thing about Click, if the truth be told, was Henry Winkler's performance as his dad.

You Don't Mess with the Zohan was more silly than funny...and it was about 25 minutes longer than it needed to be.

Uncut Gems
Happy Gilmore
The Waterboy
The Longest Yard (loved the original and was happy to see Burt Reynolds now play Nate and Kevin Nash's "transformation" was hilarious)
Punch-Drunk Love

These are my 5 favorite Sandler films

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A while back I tried to watch the original The Longest Yard (1974) around the same time I viewed Sandler's version (2005).

I have to admit, this analysis may not be entirely fair as I never viewed Sandler's version in its entirety (it was on commercial TV which also means it was highly edited).

While what I saw of the two movies convinced me they were virtually the same story with even many of the same lines and jokes (which led me to question why re-make the original at all?), I was also pleased to see Burt Reynolds playing Nate Scarborough (although, here too, I wonder what Burt was thinking? Just trying to make an extra buck in his old age by capitalizing on one of his classics? Not that I blame him, but I felt it somehow lowered the respect to the memory of the original).

What stood out to me though, (and why I'm posting this) was how the same jokes were played off in the two different eras:
In 1974, the humor felt natural, it had irony, it didn't hit you over the head or require explanation or extra exposition. The difference I saw with Sandler, making the exact same jokes, is it felt like they were all followed with some sort of explanation to make sure the audience got it (hitting them over the head as it were).

And I kind of see that aspect in most of Sandler's comedies. It's like his writers consider current generations too inept to interpret irony, understatement or juxtaposition within comedy and thus it must all be explained to them via either accompanying visual gags or verbal explanations. I think this may be one reason Sandler has so many detractors when it comes to his comedies.

It reminds of humor in the cringe-worthy Disney Channel children's programs where it's so forced, overly obvious, and requires explanation as the producers don't seem to regard their child-target-audiences as having any natural intuition for comedy at all.

I wish I had some specific examples to demonstrate what I mean, but too much time has gone by and most of the specifics from The Longest Yard remake have faded from my memory, but I get the feeling that those old enough to have seen the original back in the 70's and who have seen the remake will know what I mean.

It's been a looong time since I've seen some of these, but...

1) Punch-Drunk Love
2) Uncut Gems
3) The Wedding Singer
4) 50 First Dates
5) Billy Madison

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I agree with a lot of what you said here...Sandler's version seemed to feel the need to spoon-feed everything to the audience like they were six years old. The 1974 version is more subtle and treats the audience like adults.