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[–] 64 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

Literally every movie after Billy Madison is a carbon copy that doesn't live up to the insane purity of Billy Madison.

In this three hour lecture, I will show

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    i would add Happy Gilmore (which came right after Billy Madison) and my wife insists Wedding Singer are added to the cannon before we fire it. otherwise we're with you, grapeshot loaded tally ho

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (21 children)

    Men: "Pfft Women wouldn't date Adam Sandler, they only date muscle bound chads!"

    Women:

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Dude on the left is still muscular. And looks significantly in better shape that Adam Sandler. There truly is dad bod inflation

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I hear you. I was always a skinny kid, but I went through some bad, traumatic shit in my early twenties and ballooned up - from 105 to 177 as a 5'0" woman. Being obese sucked and I've worked super hard to get the weight off and keep it off. But in the meantime the HAES / fat acceptance thing took off and now I feel like I'm living in bizarro world. I hated being obese for so many reasons and can't imagine how people can convince themselves that it's okay to just remain like that. I mean, to each their own, but they're setting themselves up for disease and disability. I think it's really sad.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I feel heard for the first time. I'm 6'3" and ~165lbs these days and I hear so consistently I'm skin and bones. As if I don't still have a healthy gut/spare tire.

    I'm mostly surprised you didn't touch on clothes not being made for what used to be the most standard of body sizes.

    Know you aren't alone if nothing else.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    the data is out, and apparently, calling someone a fat piece of shit, and them believing you, ISN'T an effective wight lost strategy. I guess you gotta care about yourself to work on yourself? so. there's really no point in telling fat people they are bad and should feel bad.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    "Well, I don't like men with too many muscles."

    "I didn't make him for you!"

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Janet changed her mind real quick when Brad wasn't there.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ah yes, from the documentary film Rocky Horror Picture Show.

    Actually that movie wasn't entirely wrong, the palest people there were a brother/sister incest couple, so they got that right.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    But, see, the problem is... The problem is that... That uh... The problem is that women don't know what they like!!!

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    This is him and his wife, so pretty realistic

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    He would look approximately 46.2% better if he didn't dress like this.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Counterpoint: IRL Adam Sandler has money and personality.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I heard people theorize that Sandler has to be an amazing guy and great friend and all the good actors star in his shit movies as a personal favor. I also heard somewhere that at when they finish shooting for the day a boombox automatically appears on the set and it turns into a party.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    His movies are just group trips to nice places with his friends and they all get paid. The great friend part seems to check out if you ask me.

    Basically none of them are amazing movies but everyone gets paid. Sometimes for going to a tropical resort.

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  • [+] 7 points 1 year ago* (2 children)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Okay tbh I phrased it a bit differently from what I meant. I did mean that most aren’t amazing, not that none are.

    The slop I think is just there for a regular pay checks and fun with friends, whereas the good movies are to fuel the creative fire.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    As someone who works in film, I don’t understand how people would be down with that. Our days are stupid long and exhausting. Everyone usually just wants to get home by the time we finally finish

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What do you do? I'm super curious about the 'behind the scenes' of the movie industry.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I work in the lighting department! It’s pretty fun work. It’s a little wild and I don’t think it’s for everyone, but I’ve had a lot of way harder jobs that didn’t pay 10% of what I get paid now. The downsides are the incredibly long days, the strange way it works with getting hired; you basically get hired day by day by whomever you made relationships with. Like I’ve never had to “network” before but if you’re competent, pleasant, and willing to work hard, the networking mostly does itself. It’s definitely interesting work. Sometimes I’m in some really swanky private apartment of some really famous person, the next I’m lighting naked models as they writhe around in a bathtub, the next I could be on the street in the rain handling disgusting cables sitting in NYC gutter water, the next I’m working 22hrs in the park on a 100 degree day. It’s wild, but it works for me. I couldn’t go to the same place with the same people everyday. Whenever I did that I was never happy, but I’m pretty content with the amount of variety this work brings

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    This all sounds really interesting. Much more interesting then all the celebrity gossip that passes as movie news. I would much rather learn about best boys and location managers then about Angelina's Jolie new diet. I had a crazy idea about making a podcast about it but I have no idea about making podcasts :D

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Also every Ben Stiller romcom (and most his other movies too). Dude’s got a hangup on cute blondes, we get it already.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Aren't half those cute blondes his actual wife?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Except Ben Stiller doesnt look weird and goofy like Adam Sandler. And his comedy isn't horrible cringe either.

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think the only exception is Punch Drunk Love which is coincidentally also the best movie he ever made

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    One of my favorite movie anecdotes is that during some press conference promoting Magnolia someone asked Paul Thomas Anderson what his next movie is going to be and he said "a comedy with Adam Sandler" and everyone laughed. And then he made Punch Drunk Love.

    Also, Reign over Me was also pretty good.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is it really that difficult to find a picture of peach that AI has to be used to make this meme?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    It's also really bad even for AI.

    Not only would it have been really, really easy to find a non-AI image, it would have been similarly easy to get better results from image gen. It's like they went out of their way to find the worst slop possible.

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    He’s Woody Allen with grossout gags instead of pseudointellectualism.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Have you looked at Woody Allen flicks? And its chicks?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    To be fair he was often involved with the leads along with a long string of 16 and 17 yr olds.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    the only good Adam Sandler movie is uncut gems

    its a good movie, he is cast perfectly, and he gets punched in the face

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    He has a number of good movies. I guess because the most popular means visible movies are his slop comides for the whole family his "real" movies kinda goes under the radar.

    Uncut gems is a masterpiece but I wanna mention Spaceman because it is fantastic. It is kinda the opposite of Uncut gems, if the first is like fast pace on the edge of you seat that you spend the whole movie holding your breath that shit is about to hit the fan, Spaceman is super slow and introspective, big great nonetheless.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston is like what I imagine my parents' Tom Hanks and Meg Ryans felt like. I will literally watch any cheesy direct-to-streaming B-rate romcom with the two of them in it. They're so dorky and cute together I love them.

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