Real Tackles Wear 77

April 12th, 2016 at 10:50 PM ^

Happy Gilmore is great because it was a young Adam Sandler who didn't care about being deep or being taken seriously. It's just funny, though not a classicly fine film it's one I always like watching.

wolfman81

April 13th, 2016 at 8:31 AM ^

Except we all have a 12 year old bouncing around inside of us.  And every now and then that 12 year old gets us to think that watching a dumb movie is a good idea.  And people do make movies for the inner 12 year old in adults.  How else can you explain Bad Santa?

But I actually feel that this is why we have children.  So our inner 12 year old has some friends to play with...

Ty Butterfield

April 12th, 2016 at 11:17 PM ^

I also liked Pixels. HOWEVA, I was able to watch it on the Starz channel on Roku using my in-laws cable password. There was no way I was going to pay to see it in the theater.

a different Jason

April 13th, 2016 at 12:15 AM ^

I also find that cost is directly related to how I view a movie. Our small town library has a huge collection of dvds. When I take the kids to get books I sometimes grab a movie too. My friends will talk down a movie but I will watch it for free and the difference in opinions is striking.

gmoney41

April 13th, 2016 at 9:27 AM ^

Pixels wasn't that bad at all.  My son who is 8 loved it, and it had plenty of nostalgia for me.  Plus Peter Dinkeladge in a mullett is worth the price of admission alone.  

I appreciate a good dumb comedy.  Loved the Naked Gun series, loved Airplane, Grandma's Boy is funny every damn time.  

M Go Dead

April 12th, 2016 at 11:03 PM ^

Happy Gilmore's best bits are devoid of Sandler being full Sandler. The across around him carry the funny parts and he is merely put-up-with-able. I'm sure he was behind a lot of those bits, creatively, so he gets credit there.

Lou MacAdoo

April 13th, 2016 at 12:28 AM ^

As a hockey player/golfer myself i thoroughly enjoyed Happy Gilmore. It's a classic. To this day I'll pull out the old tap tap taparoo. Not to mention the drunken run up drive in a scramble. I don't think I'd want to be friends with someone who can't laugh at that movie, but Brian's a cool cat so I'll make an exception




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kehnonymous

April 13th, 2016 at 1:27 AM ^

I cop to really bad taste here, but Adam Sandler movies (at least his classic phase, and I use that term loosely) are one of my girlfriend's guilty pleasures... and we laughed like idiots through every second of You Don't Mess With the Zohan, but 50% of that is because the S.O. was a hairdresser at the time.  I'm not going to justify it beyond that, it's.... just our thing.

That said, if you don't like Grandma's Boy, then you are objectively wrong.

Mr. Elbel

April 13th, 2016 at 6:13 AM ^

I like Adam Sandler movies way more than I'd ever like to admit. It's stupid comedy and yet it gets me laughing every time. For a very long time Mr. Deeds was my favorite movie. Yup. I guess #IStandWithAce on this one.

BrownJuggernaut

April 13th, 2016 at 7:34 AM ^

I stand with Ace.

The humor in a lot of these early Sandler movies were amateurish at best, but they were fricking hilarious. Now, I'd say that I prefer Billy Madison, which is all out Sandler acting like a child, but Billy Madison is good too. Brian seems too grown up for those movies.

Blue-Chip

April 13th, 2016 at 8:48 AM ^

My MGoFamilyFued is making me very sad.

Can we just sit here and enjoy the one thing that makes me a little bit happy. This fresh delicious, tasty, meaty, Turkey-filled, cold cut combo. I eat three everyday to help keep me strong.

Magnus

April 13th, 2016 at 8:50 AM ^

I know Brian has a sense of humor, so his stance on this is a bit odd. It doesn't have jokes? I mean, I guess there are no knock-knock jokes or discussions of airplane food...but I would think an Every Three Weekly founder/writer/whatever can find some humor here.

Avon Barksdale

April 13th, 2016 at 8:54 AM ^

A great American sports classic. To bank a shot off a VW and carry it through a TV tower to win the Gold Jacket is a heroic moment in sports cinema. Chubbs would have been proud.

Space Coyote

April 13th, 2016 at 9:23 AM ^

I've seen easily over 90% of the IMDb Top 250. My favorite directors are Akira Kurosawa, Coen Brothers, Sidney Lumet, Spielberg (not Spielbergo), Sergio Leone, and Ingmar Bergman. "They Shoot Pictures, Don't They", a movie site that compiles the top 1000 movies from around the world based on critic reactions... I've seen over half that top 1000. I'm a snob.

That said, you have to be some kind of snob to not enjoy Happy Gilmore. Taken at it's time, it was original. Yes, it was inspired by the Three Stooges and Vaudeville slapstick, yes, it has crude jokes, yes, it is by definition "low-brow". But if you believe everything has to be high-brow to be funny, if you think only Woody Allen can adequately tell a joke, I got some news for ya, you're wrong.

An aspiring hockey player that's only good at one thing (his slapshot) and a golfer that's only good at one thing (his drive) is a great caricature, because we know or can relate with those people. I like golf. I love when I'm on the green with a chance for a Birdie. I hate when I end up with a 7 and want to act like a big kid that gets pissed off and throws his club. I want to beat up Gators when I dunk my ball in the water. And all the golf advice you get that amounts to "tap it in", yeah, it just makes you more pissed. There is truth to the character that is within us all. And on a golf course, where being a big kid was highly frowned upon by what is a very rule-abiding and snooty crowd, particularly in the mid-90s before Tiger came in full swing, is a classic juxtaposition. That it features a sadistic Ben Stiller, a brawl with Bob Barker of all people, Carl Weathers and Christopher McDonald in great roles, "Guns don't kill people, I kill people" (the inspiration for the Woodley shirts we all loved), and a lot of relateable golf moments, yeah, it makes it funny.

Now, if it came out today, after everything else that Sandler has done, it would lose it's charm, because Sadler has gone full derivative and maintained the same basic character for 20 years. But you can't fault Happy Gilmore for that. Gilmore is a movie of it's time, and should be treated as such, remembered as such, and viewed as such. That it has other redeeming qualities makes it still watchable today. I've thought very few Sadler movies since Big Daddy have even sniffed being average, but in the 90s he was still fresh. Saying otherwise is like complaining about how the 1997 defense would fair in today's college football because they had oldschool linebackers. It's irrelevent. It was one of the best of all time, because it's judged by how it performed in its day.

And that's my way over analysis of Happy Gilmore and Adam Sandler.

s1105615

April 13th, 2016 at 11:23 AM ^

How has it only been mentioned once that Julie Bowen (while still smoking hot now) was in this movie as well...#IstandwithAce, and am always at attention for Julie Bowen