Move over, "Bebe's Kids." There's a new unwatchable cartoon in town.
I keep seeing the same damn commerical for this thing, over and over again. Every time I turn on the stupid telly. I'm actually glad the storm knocked my cable out--even if I missed "Galaxy Quest" yet again. (It takes me a while to psyche myself up to watch anything with Tim Allen in it.)
Wow, Adam Sandler keeps looking for new lows to crawl down to--and, amazingly, he keeps succeeding. After "Little Nicky," the public-urination-and-child-abuse campaign for "Big Daddy," and the trashing of a classic with "Mr. Deeds," I didn't think there was a way for Sandler--oh, he was so much funnier on SNL--to make himself more repulsive.
Bam! Christmas cartoons about excrement.
The commercial in question shows Sandler's snarling vicious-idiot animated character--who looks just like Sandler--knocking over a port-o-john with an elderly midget inside. When the midget escapes, Sandler hoses him down with freezing water, leaving him as what Sandler describes as a "poopsicle." Ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaahhhh.
Wait, it gets better--Sandler calls a little fat kid "jelly jugs" and tells him to wear a bra, in front of his entire school. Yessir, this promises to be a funny, funny film. I'm sure this bastard will get what's coming to him in the end, but why would I want to sit through ninety minutes of cold turd to see it?
Reviews are hard to find, but here's one (http://www.shadowsonthewall.co.uk/sweigcra.htm) that pretty much confirms the quality suggested by the commercial:
"The plot is simply a cut-and-paste job, stealing every element from Christmas classics... There are a few gags that make you laugh out loud, mostly because you're surprised when something is actually funny. The animation only occasionally surpasses second-rate TV cartoons. And then there's the Sandler sensibility: The film is crammed with bodily-fluid humour and gross-out jokes that make fun of obesity, height, body hair, sexuality and even epilepsy. It's one of those films that you watch with slack-jawed disbelief, wondering who on earth would ever want to see it... And then there's the song that goes with the closing credits, "outing" famous people as Jews as if it's shocking...or helpful in any way. One of the strangest films you'll ever see. If you bother."
I won't; I'll watch "Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2" again--and I'm fairly certain, as bad as it is, it's the superior film. Frankly, I don't know why the spirit world bothered going to all that trouble to save Ebeneezer Scrooge's soul over the course of several days; I'm even less inclined to believe the entire world wouldn't be happier if Sandler's ugly, sociopathic character in "Eight" was simply dispatched by Jason in a single night.
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Scatological Humor That Works:
Drunk #1: "Pssst!"
Drunk #2: "What?"
Crow: "Do farts have lumps?"
--MST3K: "The Horror Of Party Beach"
I have only seen one commercial for this movie and that was enough. I find Sandler utterly repulsive. The Wedding Singer is the only movie he has made that I can watch, probably because of Drew Barrymore being in it.
I guessing from your post that you don't like Adam Sandler.
I generally enjoy Adam Sandler when he's good (my definition). I've even got a theory. Adam Sandler playing Adam Sandler, good. Adam Sandler doing a funny voice, bad. So far it's worked for most of his films. I've enjoyed everything up to BIG DADDY. MR. DEEDS had no funny voice, but was by the numbers filler. EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS has both. What to think?
Still, I think you're being unfair to EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS, of which you have no more information than the trailer and a review that reiterates what you think about that trailer. Everything that you rail against has been what Adam Sandler has been doing for years. If you didn't like it then, you're not going to like it now. But apparently a whole hell of a lot of people do enjoy it.
But that's okay. Lots of people don't like Hollywood's brand of entertainment. Fine, they have some good points. It's not for everyone, although it tries to design itself to be. God save us from Julia Roberts drama-dies everyday of the year.
I think what irks me about your post is that it's knee-jerk and based on no real information. EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS refers to the eight days and nights of Hannukah. Specifically, it's a line from a song Sandler's been doing for years. "Instead of one day of Christmas, we get eight crazy nights." Name of that song? "The Hannukah Song". It's the same song the critic refers to as "outing" Jews. The weird state of mind that led the critic into that phrase, I don't want to know. You ripping on the movie without knowing this basic info, and then quoting a critic who does the same thing to back you up just epitomizes so much of what I dislike about excess negativity on the internet. People should at least know what they're talking about before trying to stone something to death.
At the very least it can give you more ammunition.
Don't want to start some sort of flame war. I generally respect your opinion, Squishy, and I certainly don't begrudge you the right to hate and despise Sandler or his new film. This post just bugs me, and I had to comment on it.
Look at that animation! This might have been passable in 1992, but not today.
I'll see it. Why? Because I hated Big Daddy, didn't bother with Mr. Deeds, and I absolutely LOVE Little Nicky (mainly because of all the jokes in it about hard rock and metal, with me being a little metalhead and all).
Any movie that has the line "And now, I present to you a dear, sweet man, Mr. Henry Winkler...COVERED IN BEES!" gets instant "props" from me.
Actually, I used to love Sandler's work. But honestly, this doesn't even look comparable to "Mr. Deeds;" it looks like the worst moments cut out of "Big Daddy," rotoscoped by Ralph Bakshi.
True, I have little more than the trailer to go on--but what a trailer! Sandler assaulting an old man with a hose and human waste; Sandler publicly humiliating a small child; Sandler sneering hatefully at a woman chewing him out (with good reason). Oh, and a brief shot of Sandler doing some lightweight snowboarding, a little dancing, and an old woman who seems to have wandered in from a whole other cartoon. Notice anything missing from this list? Funny Likable Sandler has been replaced by Vicious Snarling Misanthrope Sandler.
Studios usually put the best stuff the movie has into the trailer. If this is the case here, "Eight" has nothing I want to see; the trailer is about as funny and pleasing as "Faces of Death." I don't have to love the movie forthright; it's up to the studio (and Sandler--this is his baby, after all) to make me want to see it, and they've failed miserably so far.
I'm just in a bad mood because the vile thing runs every ten minutes during the nightly "Simpsons" reruns and every other show I've watched for the past week. It's like hearing "the Dell Dude" seventeen times a day.
Squishy wrote:
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> I'm just in a bad mood because the vile thing runs every ten
> minutes during the nightly "Simpsons" reruns and every other
> show I've watched for the past week. It's like hearing "the
> Dell Dude" seventeen times a day.
Well that's understandable.
I think it looks kind of funny, but I'm notoriously easy to please when it comes to comedy. Especially if I've been drinking, which I usually am if I'm watching comedy.
EIGHT looks like a rental though.
And I usually prefer Vicious Snarling Misanthropes.
I really enjoyed Happy Gilmore as a good stupid comedy. But Happy's character wasn't enough for like five more movies and basically thats what Sandler did - He's the same character in everything: a kind-at-heart yet ironically violent cut-up who irks the stodgy snobs and beats them at their own game while winning the heart of a beautiful woman who loves his inner beauty (minus the violence in Wedding Singer). The best performances are usually given by the snobbish, mean-spirited heavies.
I've seen this trailer too and it looks like more of the same except this time minus the kind-at-heart aspect. No doubt that's what'll be restored at the end of the movie. I hope nobody sees it.
Haven't seen it yet, but I hear he tries something sort of new in "Punch Drunk Love." One can hope.
"This movie was the best movie of all time. Everyone better go see it. The musical scenes are sick to the max. if you dont like this movie than you have a problem. Critics will bash it , only because they dont like animals eating other peoples poo. What do they know anyways? Go see this movie. or forever be stupid."
--User Review at IMDB
Target audience found and engaged.
Okay, who let Adam Sandler review his own movie?
I choose to be forever stupid. Sorry, but this thing looks TERRIBLE!!!
Hahahahaaa! GOD I hate some people on the IMDb! I can see how some, few, well maybe 20 people can like this movie, but to consider other people stupid for not seeing it just reassure all of the implications I once had that people who love this brand of cinema should not be allowed to voice their opinions thusly. And I'm sorry to the one person on the site trying to defend this movie, but I really don't think reviews claiming "OMG! BEST MOVIE EVER!" deserve to be posted on a website dedicated to films.
-Scottie*
I would say the only GOOD Adam Sandler film that is even worth watching would be HAPPY GILMORE. Hell, it is a guilty pleasure flick. Heavily being accused as a CADDYSHACK rip-off (the similarities between CADDYSHACK and HAPPY GILMORE are far and few between), HAPPY GILMORE is, dare I say it, Sandler's best. And let me tell you, that is not saying much. But when it comes to BILLY MADISON or LITTLE NICKY (and, I might add, I watched LITTLE NICKY again recently and it didn't have the "barrell full" of laughs that I thought it did when I saw it in the theatre), these particular Sandler vehicles are the type you can watch only once and then wonder "Why are THESE titles so popular?" Who knows, Sandler does have his legions of fans. And whenever I call BILLY MADISON a crappy movie, I seem to run into people who think it's Sandler's "achievement" into film. Huh? I am glad to see that a guy like Sandler has made it into the entertainment industry and he entertains some people, but how is BILLY MADISON, or his other films for that matter, an "achievment"? BRAINDEAD is an achievment over BILLY MADISON any day of the week. But everybody is entertained by something, be that a comedy or a really crappy porno flick.
To me, Sandler is the type of actor who doesn't care what the critics think of his work, he just wants to entertain. And while I believe him in that area, Sandler doesn't seem to realize the effort of actually reading the horrid scripts (i.e. BILLY MADISON, BIG DADDY, etc.) before saying he will do it. And that is his problem, he just cannot find a quality script (however, PUNCH DRUNK LOVE could be his first quality project). Sandler could even have an answering machine that says "Hello, this is Adam Sandler...I'll take it!" Either way, he needs to focus on the script more than "Do I get the laughs or not".
With EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS, the film is surely for the fans only. I am not one of them, but will I give it a shot? I might. Until then, I'll wait for the reviews.
Scottie wrote:
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> Hahahahaaa! GOD I hate some people on the IMDb! I can see how
> some, few, well maybe 20 people can like this movie, but to
> consider other people stupid for not seeing it just reassure
> all of the implications I once had that people who love this
> brand of cinema should not be allowed to voice their opinions
> thusly. And I'm sorry to the one person on the site trying to
> defend this movie, but I really don't think reviews claiming
> "OMG! BEST MOVIE EVER!" deserve to be posted on a website
> dedicated to films.
>
> -Scottie*
I don't see how "OMG! WORST MOVIE EVER!" could be considered much better.
I found the trailer to be pretty offensive too. No desire to see this movie, and I haven't liked many of Sandler's others.
However, I do think the reviewer quoted in the first post seems to be a little bit ignorant. I mean, describing a song that outs famous Jewish people as if it's shocking? This guy should have done his homework. The Hanukah Song goes back to when Sandler was still funny, and is reasonably well known. And the whole thing about "outing" people, like being Jewish is something they'd want to hide, is ridiculous. There were lots of Christmas songs around, and Sandler felt there should be more for Hanukah. Simple joke. The list of Jewish celebrities was nothing more than a fun way to demonstrate their significance. I found it very interesting.
Not that I have any desire to defend Adam Sandler, but I do hate when reviewers advertise their ignorance. Probably because it reminds me of people I've worked with.
Haven't heard the new and improved version of the Hanukah Song though. Could be Sandler's messed it up and made it offensive or something. Wouldn't really surprise me.
I work at a theater and went into it tonight out of sheer curiosity. I lasted less than five minutes. I went in at the start of an atrocious musical number and had to leave. I've heard from other employees that one of the other musical numbers involves Adam getting really drunk, breaking into a mall, and having corporate logos and store signs taunt him in song.......So not only is the animation bad, and the voices annoying, but he sold out to sponsors as well. I plan to go back and see the whole thing tomorrow just to prove I can make it.
It's movies like this that makes me mad that we can't card for "PG-13" movies....The lower ratings are just suggestions, only "R" and up are enforceable. The movie is pretty rank, and from whgat I hear from coworkers it's close to an "R" except for that it's animated.
And just for the record I don't usually think that Sandler is very funny, but I loved "Punch-Drunk Love", most likely because it wasn't an Adam Sandler movie, but rather a real movie that happened to feature Adam Sandler.
I'm a sandler fan, I have the CDs and the movies, I thought his early stuff was great if u were seeing something where u didn't have to think (billy Madison and Happy Gilmore and even the Waterboy) and I really liked Wedding singer but besides those 4 movies I named, I think alot of his stuff is complete crap Little Nicky I hated and I can't get myself to see 8 crazy nights but I've heard good things about Punch Drunk Love from people on this board plus my film teachers.
Okay...WHY DOES LITTLE NICKY GET SO MUCH HATRED?! That movie f**king RULES! Henry Winkler covered in bees, people! BEES!!!! It's a bad movie, true, but isn't that what we're all fans of? f**k!!!!
I mean, he turned Coke into MOOSE p**s~!~ MOOOOOOOOOSE PIIISSSSSSS!!!!!!