Adam Sandler Makes a "Satire" and Shockingly Fucks Up

I think it belongs here too. The thread. Not Adam Sandler's racism. Just to be clear.

Native American characters named "Smoking Fox," "Beaver Breath," and "No Bra," jokes about sticking peepees in teepees, a woman squatting and urinating while smoking a peace pipe...

I would love to see him defending jokes like that if they were directed at, say, blacks or Jews.

I have never laughed at Adam Sandler in my life and this confirms the correctness of that position.

Liosse de Velishaf said:

Once or twice, when I was younger and less mature. In the past ten years, mostly I just weep silently...

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The last one I saw Sandler doing a somewhat okay job was Chuck & Larry. And that was an anomaly amongst all the movies he made after Happy Gilmore. Sandler's successful films have largely relied on the comedic efforts of the other actors though.

Hotel Transylvania was Sandler's best effort, IMO. Coincidentally, it's also a film with no live actors.

Alessandra Kelley said:

Mel Brooks' portrayal of the Native Americans and blacks in "Blazing Saddles" was fairly sympathetic in a ridiculous context.

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the indians were jewish and, thus, ran hollywood.

this is how he got away with it.

I'm REALLY looking forward to when this movie comes out...

...so I can watch internet comedians pick it to pieces for my entertainment.

Alessandra Kelley said:

Mel Brooks' portrayal of the Native Americans and blacks in "Blazing Saddles" was fairly sympathetic in a ridiculous context.

His fiercest satire was aimed at the privileged white folks in that film.

There is a huge difference between satirizing the rich and powerful and satirizing the weak and downtrodden.

Plus, none of Sandler's jokes are funny.

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I agree with all of this.

Mel is good goofy fun. Sandler, IMO, is unbearable and unfunny.

http://www.tmz.com/2015/04/26/vanilla-ice-adam-sandler-movie-native-americans-ridiculous-six/

Here comes the cavalry ... lead by Vanilla Ice, who's defending Adam Sandler against the Native American actors who quit his movie -- even though Ice says he's part Choctaw.

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I didn't know he was still alive, to be honest.

I really, really, really, in a way, wish Rotten Tomatoes still had their forums.

I guess they're still around, just buried (sometimes for good reason).

Satire requires wit. Sandler's only half way there.

You'd also think someone would have taken a lesson from the recent implosion of The Lone Ranger as a cautionary tale against the "hollywood indian" story.

RedRajah said:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-three-types-of-adam-sandler-movies/

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From the link

Some have suggested that Sandler movies are going downhill, but his movies were never on a hill to begin with.

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Yep.

From the same link:

And you buy it because it’s cheap and will shut the kids up for a few goddamn minutes.

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Yeah...no. I hope the guy who wrote that doesn't actually have kids.

RedRajah said:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-three-types-of-adam-sandler-movies/

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You know, I've read this piece a couple of times now, because it bothers me. Haggis is right about the "going downhill" comment. That's a good line and fairly accurate. And the graph--critical reception v. box office--is interesting. 'Course, I think that graph would be just as interesting for lots of other actors/producers/directors, but that's neither here nor there.

And to be clear, this latest effort by Sandler looks beyond stupid, completely unfunny, and obnoxious. And none of that in a good way.

Still, the FiveThirtyEight piece, well it's kinda obnoxious too. And it's not very well grounded in facts. Meh, maybe I'm expecting too much.

For the record, I like Happy Gilmore, Grownups (only the first), and Bedtime Stories (because my kids like it). And that's about it. Hotel Transylvania is not--imo--an Adam Sandler movie. Nor is Punch Drunk Love. The rest of his comedy stuff fails, imo. Because it's not funny. That's really all there is, at the end of the day.

I haven't seen much Sandler stuff, because I generally find him obnoxious. My wife has a copy of 50 First Dates, though, and it's a fairly decent rom-com.

Looking at that chart at 538, I had no idea he was in that many movies.