April 12th, 2016 at 10:49 PM ^
I'm a hockey player not a golfer.
Oh yeah, what team do you play for?
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April 12th, 2016 at 10:51 PM ^
Exactly! I chuckled just reading that! The movie's got jokes.
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.
April 12th, 2016 at 10:50 PM ^
I thought this movie was funny when I was 12. I don't see why a non 12 year old would find it funny. That's really all I have to say.
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...
April 13th, 2016 at 11:58 AM ^
You're never too old to act immature.
April 12th, 2016 at 10:54 PM ^
Who can watch this movie and not think its hilarious an 80+ year old Bob Barker beats up some 20 year old kid .
Thats just crazy .
April 12th, 2016 at 11:11 PM ^
I liked Pixels. I thought it was a pretty good movie actually. I think Sandler has gotten to the point where any movie he does gets slammed (justifiably so in most cases) before anybody has even seen it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
April 12th, 2016 at 11:12 PM ^
I'm commenting for Ace!!!
April 12th, 2016 at 11:15 PM ^
I Stand With Ace.
April 12th, 2016 at 11:25 PM ^
yeah.... but shampoo is better... I go on first and clean the hair.
STOP LOOKING AT ME SWAN!
April 12th, 2016 at 11:52 PM ^
Love Happy Gilmore amd Billy Madison.
Also love the movie Airheads.
April 13th, 2016 at 10:00 AM ^
Airheads is one of the most underrated movies ever. Freakin hilarious. Also Happy Gilmore is great. I can watch that, Ace Ventura an Dumb and Dumber and still laugh as hard as I did when I first saw them. Of course Im as mature as a 12 year old.
April 13th, 2016 at 12:00 AM ^
Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison and Mr. Deeds are awesome. Dig Daddy is funny too.
He also has a number of straight unwatchable movies.
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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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Is Brian your friend or your Michigan Sports info dealer?
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.
Disco, disco, disco, disco. Zohan is hilarious, and grandmas boy is funny every time i see it. Too many quotables in that movie.
Confession: That's My Boy is one of the most hilarious movies I've ever seen
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Totally agree. Even though it has low ratings I laughed sooooo hard watching that movie. If it's ever on tv I watch it again. Nugget pocket. Adam Sandler is one of my favorite actors
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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.
horrific movie
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.
I agree, I like Billy Madison BUT Billy Madison is good too.
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Look, they're both equally good flicks, okay?!
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See this link for more info ... Billy Madison is in the "He's Trying" group.
That's your home! Are you too good for your home!?!?!
Though not one of Sandler's half dozen comedies I've enjoyed, "Reign Over Me" gets an honorable mention.
My favorite is Big Daddy and I still enjoy it to this day.
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I agree. Big Daddy had some heart.
Adam Sandler and Paulie Shore are why I'll never run out of batteries for the remote.
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.
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.
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.
Adam Sandler sucks.
He was funny when I was 14
not so much anymore.
I think Brian thought he'd be the majority voice on this one and is really surprised he isn't.
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.
What Space Coyote said. It has jokes. Brian is wrong there. I can understand how he thinks they're not funny, but there are jokes. Since golf is my main hobby, I love Happy Gilmore.
Christopher MacDonald is the highlight of the movie to me. His character and acting is fantastic.
but to be avoided now unless inebriated club.
were finally getting our respect :(
Adam Sandler comments explains a lot of other comments posted here the last few years.
April 13th, 2016 at 11:03 AM ^
Happy Gilmore was a great movie when it first came out. Even today still makes me chuckle.
April 13th, 2016 at 11:15 AM ^
You have to admit though: that fight scene between Adam Sandler and Bob Barker was epic.
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
April 13th, 2016 at 11:24 AM ^
Love Happy. To each his own or something like that, but hey, I even laughed my ass off at the Zohan.
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