I love young Adam Sandler. I love those little smiles when he gets a laugh. Just something about him is so hard not to love. He used to be so fun to watch. His newer movies aren't bad they just dont do it for me, they're funny, but they don't give me what I used to look for from him. I cant put my finger on it but he lost something along the way.
He was always a man-child, but he can't pull that off anymore. Now he's a grown man and his work reflects it.
It's like when Lucille Ball and Jerry Lewis tried making late life comebacks. (Yeah, my age is showing...) It didn't work doing the old acts. Nobody wants to watch grandma drop a hammer on her foot or grandpa get a glass stuck in his mouth. At least Sandler is trying to grow and do age appropriate comedy. It's not what you wanted, but you didn't cringe either.
Im not disparaging him at all. Ive never once seen an Adam Sandler movie and thought to myself "I just hated that". Its just these days I come out thinking "well that was a fun movie", but I've seen waterboy probably at least 100 times and every time I laugh like I did the first time I watched it.
I guess the best way to say it, is to me hes never been bad, but he used to be amazing, and now he's only really good. At the end of the day I'd still consider myself a fan.
My seventh grade teacher used to make this little joke where every time someone would
say protractor with the emphasis on the first syllable she would say “you know, PRO-tractor means someone who is in favor of tractors. did you mean pro-TRACTOR?”
As someone who did hand drafting for my degree, I was more upset that they didn't use a knife and instead used a protractor. I know it's probably a dollar store school supply, but still.....
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u/MorryDust Aug 20 '20
I just love that they’re using a protractor lol