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burritolingus posted:Maybe. Are you comfortable playing a mentally challenged person or a really racist stereotype? I'll do anything for money..... just like Adam Sandler. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBL7Th0vArs
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Jul 24, 2015 04:59
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I see my point isn't getting across very clearly. Apparently no one here is aware of what a con is. Let's put it this way. Have you heard of the bait and switch? Here is the definition: "the action (generally illegal) of advertising goods that are an apparent bargain, with the intention of substituting inferior or more expensive goods." That's what his movies are. Check out the Red Letter Media video. How does Jack and Jill cost $80,000,000 to make? It doesn't. What he's doing isn't illegal, it's just not (imo) right.
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Jul 24, 2015 05:04
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You're gonna have to point out to me where the "switch" part of this supposed scam is, because 2 internet reviewer nerds gossiping isn't really gonna convince anyone except the converted
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Jul 24, 2015 05:06
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burritolingus posted:He's not conning anyone out of their money, though. He provides exactly what he says he's going to provide, everyone knows what kind of movies he makes by this point, and some people really dig his movies. Hey, good on them for enjoying a dumb thing and having some fun in their lives. when i was a teenager i went to several sandler movies at the theater, based on liking some of his real early films. i felt shortchanged for sure. i dunno if their shittiness was his fault, but it certainly felt like somebody was making a few bucks trading on his name
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Jul 24, 2015 05:08
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forget it pennywise, it's Sandler-Movie-Town
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Jul 24, 2015 05:08
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The switch is that he made a truly awful movie yet advertised it as a real movie that has production value and things that every movie goer expects.
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Jul 24, 2015 05:09
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N. Senada posted:forget it pennywise, it's Sandler-Movie-Town No poo poo dude.
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Jul 24, 2015 05:09
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Lutha Mahtin posted:it certainly felt like somebody was making a few bucks trading on his name hahaha loving Iron Man 2 ripped me off. It wasn't as good as Iron Man 1 and I'm thinking they only used Robert Downey JR. in it to convince me to go see it!
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Jul 24, 2015 05:09
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Schneider bit the hand that fed him and now nobody wants him around
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Jul 24, 2015 05:09
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I see my point isn't getting across very clearly. Apparently no one here is aware of what a con is. But for the little guy, for the moviegoer, there's no bait and switch. These things are advertised as being something they are. If you go to an Adam Sandler film expecting anything other than an Adam Sandler film, sorry, but the problem is you (hell, if you go see an Adam Sandler film at all, the problem is you). As far as him gaming Hollywood, Hollywood is a poo poo place that deserves to be gamed. Good on him for including his friends (and me!) and sharing the wealth. Adam Sandler is like a modern day Robin Hood or something, especially considering all the charity work he does (and no, I'm not talking casting Rob Schneider). Sorry, but I just can't hate the guy. His films? Yeah, they're lousy and easy to hate. But the man himself? Not so much really no. burritolingus fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Jul 24, 2015 |
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Jul 24, 2015 05:14
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Adam Sandlers movies suck now as opposed to when I was a kid where his movies were funny for some reason. Also he's a con man because laurel and hardy told me so online
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Jul 24, 2015 05:14
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Lutha Mahtin posted:when i was a teenager i went to several sandler movies at the theater, based on liking some of his real early films. i felt shortchanged for sure. i dunno if their shittiness was his fault, but it certainly felt like somebody was making a few bucks trading on his name Yeah, maybe in his early days of sucking, like with Little Nicky, you could call him a ripoff. But Little Nicky was a decade and a half ago. Adam Sandler has been bad longer than he's been good film-wise.
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Jul 24, 2015 05:16
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I wish Sandler would stop brutally owning the world by putting out lovely movies for morons I suppose I might do the same thing if afforded the opportunity though "Boku bucks for hacky crap? Sign me up Hollywood!"
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Jul 24, 2015 07:30
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LET THE NERDS TAKE OVER
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Jul 24, 2015 07:38
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Im not like hugely offended by what he does because I'm not about to actually spend my time or money watching him, I just like salvaging some entertainment from the wreckage by hyperbolically criticising how bad it is. It is interesting how brazen everything is though, like it's more than just not trying, it's outright contempt for an audience he doesn't respect. Which is fair enough I guess, if anyone is really worth criticising it is the receptive audience.
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Jul 24, 2015 07:39
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A person in a video online said I shouldn't like Adam Sandler as a person so now I don't. Also everyone goes into the movies expecting the next Citizen Kane always because that's been advertised.
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Jul 24, 2015 07:54
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lmäo
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Jul 24, 2015 08:02
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It's a weird double edged sword, on one hand when you hear jack and jill 2 cost 80 million to make you chuckle and think "well, if Sony actually thought that was 80 mil worth of movie than jokes on them", but at the same time once Sony gets hosed by Sandler's shenanigans Sony is going to turn around and try to make us subsidize the cost of that poo poo pile. It's like a dude was constantly robbing your neighbors you hate but leaving your place alone, however every time you leave for work he is on your porch bugging you to buy the used stereo he came up with somehow.
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Jul 24, 2015 09:04
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Cyberball 2072 posted:It's a weird double edged sword, on one hand when you hear jack and jill 2 cost 80 million to make you chuckle and think "well, if Sony actually thought that was 80 mil worth of movie than jokes on them", but at the same time once Sony gets hosed by Sandler's shenanigans Sony is going to turn around and try to make us subsidize the cost of that poo poo pile. It's like a dude was constantly robbing your neighbors you hate but leaving your place alone, however every time you leave for work he is on your porch bugging you to buy the used stereo he came up with somehow. lol @ this guy. Sony didn't lose any money you fool, even if the movie made less then 80 million that's still good for them in the end. It's hosed up but hollywood is bonkers man.
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Jul 24, 2015 09:10
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Jim Barris posted:lol @ this guy. Sony didn't lose any money you fool, even if the movie made less then 80 million that's still good for them in the end. It's hosed up but hollywood is bonkers man. Um didnt you watch the RLM clip posted earlier? Its called THE GREAT ADAM SANDLER COMEDY SWINDLE and he pads his budgets to embezzle MILLIONS!
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Jul 24, 2015 09:33
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Cyberball 2072 posted:Um didnt you watch the RLM clip posted earlier? Its called THE GREAT ADAM SANDLER COMEDY SWINDLE and he pads his budgets to embezzle MILLIONS! Honestly, I'm surprised people didn't know about this before considering the Sony hack was in the news for a month, with Sony executives dislike for Sandler coming through in many of the e-mails. quote:Emails unearthed by The Daily Beast reveal that the studio wasn’t happy with Sandler’s behavior on the set of Hotel Transylvania 2, as well as a studio pitch on a film adaptation of the board game Candyland that led Pascal to brand the 48-year-old actor—who has a reputation as one of the nicest guys in Hollywood—an “rear end in a top hat.”
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Jul 24, 2015 11:42
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Why hate on Sandler? Shouldn't you be hating on the masses who go and pay and watch his movies? And lol at taking the side of hollywood execs Why should Sandler ever try to change if he's making mad bank generating turd after turd. No need to change what's not broken Zzulu fucked around with this message at 11:48 on Jul 24, 2015 |
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Jul 24, 2015 11:46
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you guys are dumb if you think sandler is the only one who does this you never heard of "hollywood accounting" https://www.google.com/search?num=1....95.jcbo2iBJ9dA hollywood is and has always been super shadey
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Jul 24, 2015 11:56
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sandler is smart and i want to be him when i grow up
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Jul 24, 2015 11:57
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Simstim posted:you guys are dumb if you think sandler is the only one who does this It's not us who think he's the only one doing it, it's the people here saying this poo poo doesn't happen. And then when they see he is doing this they say, "Oh, well poo poo. Good for him for loving everyone and making ridiculous amounts of money at the expense of others!" Some wonderful morals there. Then again this is GBS so I don't know what I'm expecting. Too much of course.
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Jul 24, 2015 12:07
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movies suck, so what
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Jul 24, 2015 12:09
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Let me just say that as I become older and gaier I'm more and more mad at these assholes who cherry pick things I'm nostalgic about and package and sell them to people whose youth I'm jealous of.
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Jul 24, 2015 12:35
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Pennywise the Frown posted:It's not us who think he's the only one doing it, it's the people here saying this poo poo doesn't happen. And then when they see he is doing this they say, "Oh, well poo poo. Good for him for loving everyone and making ridiculous amounts of money at the expense of others!" every major studio has been cooking its books longer than living memory. that's how long this poo poo has been going on. it is par the course. you are singling out sandler for what is common behavior in hollywood.
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Jul 24, 2015 12:38
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Simstim posted:every major studio has been cooking its books longer than living memory. that's how long this poo poo has been going on. it is par the course. you are singling out sandler for what is common behavior in hollywood. That's because this thread is specifically about Sandler. 
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Jul 24, 2015 12:53
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Pennywise the Frown posted:That's because this thread is specifically about Sandler. because we live in a world without context
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Jul 24, 2015 12:55
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Jul 24, 2015 12:59
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notZaar posted:Let me just say that as I become older and gaier I'm more and more mad at these assholes who cherry pick things I'm nostalgic about and package and sell them to people whose youth I'm jealous of. I legitimately hate it when something is blatantly designed to appeal to me because it reminds me that I'm actually quantifiable as a demographic rather than a unique and complex individual.
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Jul 24, 2015 13:58
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Cyberball 2072 posted:It's a weird double edged sword, on one hand when you hear jack and jill 2 cost 80 million to make you chuckle and think "well, if Sony actually thought that was 80 mil worth of movie than jokes on them", but at the same time once Sony gets hosed by Sandler's shenanigans Sony is going to turn around and try to make us subsidize the cost of that poo poo pile. Jim Barris posted:lol @ this guy. Sony didn't lose any money you fool, even if the movie made less then 80 million that's still good for them in the end. The gently caress are you guys talking about? Jack and Jill made $149 million (worldwide), it was a massive success. Grown Ups 2 cost $80m and made $247m, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry cost $85m and made $186m, You Don't Mess with the Zohan cost $90m and made $200m, etc etc.. He's a runaway profit-making monster. We'll probably get sequels for Pixels and Jack and Jill. (That's My Boy and Little Nicky were the odd ones out, neither of them made their money back.) The Red Letter Media guys were right, though. His earlier films like Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore and The Wedding Singer all cost between $10 to $18m but just two years later (starting with Little Nicky) all his films suddenly cost $80m. There must some some weird money laundering tax avoidance scheme going on there.
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Jul 24, 2015 15:14
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Shinjobi posted:But I'm being real here. Josh Gad's character fell in love with 80s arcade game character lady, and gets to fight with her side by side in the final battle by confessing his love for her after all these years. Later, when the aliens leave in defeat they dissolve all the violent video game character things INCLUDING Josh Gad's video game squeeze. They leave behind Q*Bert since something something he was a trophy for the humans, and so as a final parting gift the aliens transform Q*Bert into 80s arcade game character lady. Adam Sandler points out how odd this is, the credits roll, and there's an after credits scene where it's revealed that Gad and 80s arcade game character lady's children are all Q*Berts. I'm guessing nobody involved in this film has played a game in their life, they just saw Wreck It Ralph and thought Q Bert was still a popular character.
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Jul 24, 2015 15:33
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Wait hold on, how much of a loving jerk do you have to be to look at the Sony/Adam Sandler feud and side with Sony? Not defending Adam's string of awful comedies here but good lord he should be celebrated for squeezing as much money as possible out of those dirtbags.
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Jul 24, 2015 15:40
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CombineThresher posted:Wait hold on, how much of a loving jerk do you have to be to look at the Sony/Adam Sandler feud and side with Sony? Not defending Adam's string of awful comedies here but good lord he should be celebrated for squeezing as much money as possible out of those dirtbags. It's more that if you suddenly decided to increase the "operating expenses" of your small business to 400% what they were the year before (thus shielding more of your earnings from taxation via offset losses), the IRS would drop the people's elbow on you. Yet since this is Hollywood, and you can't really measure the true value of an in-demand actor just based on one flop... etc. Maybe Sandler's magic touch is really worth 80,000,000 USD for Jack and Jill.
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Jul 24, 2015 15:52
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Sandler's magic touch is worth about 150 million dollars it seems
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Jul 24, 2015 15:58
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The only Sandler movie I can stomach is Little Nicky. And thats only because I was a retarded metal fan in my teens and the movie is spot on mockery of everything I though was "cool".
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The only media of Adam Sandler I will smile at will be his 'In Memoriam' at the Oscars. Hope its loving soon.
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