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    sarahdubSam Biddle
    8/06/15 12:23pm

    I know we’re all supposed to hate Sandler — but this is very clearly the producers’ fault. Sandler’s job is to be the man-child. That’s literally his role in life.

    Producers are supposed to be the adults at the table. He doesn’t force Sony to do anything. Pascal’s e-mails are hilarious, but they’re also truly embarrassing.

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      HIPS AND NIPSsarahdub
      8/06/15 12:30pm

      Also one of the longest run-on sentences in the history of the written word. Won’t someone think of the semi-colon!?

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      Vitamin Vsarahdub
      8/06/15 12:39pm

      Right. And it seems like the emails were implying they had forced him to make changes. That’s the thing with these types of movies—you need to either go all the way to madcap nuttiness and stupidity for laughs or you go the sweet, funny route, like Happy Gilmore. Sounds like they pushed it into the middle ground, where it ends up just being stupid.

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    OctoberSurpriseSam Biddle
    8/06/15 12:39pm

    My 9 yr old daughter was excited to see Pixels and I took her to see it and she really enjoyed it. I watched it and smiled at a few parts and just let the nostalgia of the old games I was seeing on screen wash over me, and in due course the movie was over. Was it bad? Yeah, it was, but not so bad that I wanted to kill myself or leave early.

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      WhatDaveThinksOctoberSurprise
      8/06/15 12:47pm

      not so bad that I wanted to kill myself

      Talk about setting the bar low ...

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      TheRevanchistOctoberSurprise
      8/06/15 1:04pm

      I thought it was decently done. It wasn’t a great film, but there were parts where I laughed and enjoyed some of the happenings on screen. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone unless they want to watch it in 3D, which is worth watching for the graphics.

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    Quint the GreyerSam Biddle
    8/06/15 12:28pm

    At least they didnt make the Fant4stic.

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      SlickWillieQuint the Greyer
      8/06/15 12:32pm

      Only Marvel Comics movie I’ve ever had to turn off halfway through. Absolute fucking garbage.

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      KinglyCitrusSlickWillie
      8/06/15 12:47pm

      It’s worth noting, of course, that the Fantastic Four movies share no lineage other than the comics themselves with virtually any other Marvel movie. The rights are owned by 20th Century Fox, with no involvement from the Marvel Studios people who brought us Iron Man et al.

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    A House In VirginiaSam Biddle
    8/06/15 12:32pm

    Adam Sandler was funny on TV like Jim Carrey was.

    ...I don’t care for either’s movie careers.

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      Vitamin VA House In Virginia
      8/06/15 12:44pm

      Remarkably good comparison! They both had their good-ish movies when they tended to play the flawed but lovable characters, a la Liar Liar and Happy Madison. But when they stray from that narrow format they just suck so bad.

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      25% Meaner Godzooks - BACK TO EVENA House In Virginia
      8/06/15 12:46pm
      GIF
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    adamsankSam Biddle
    8/06/15 12:46pm

    Call me a grammar snob, but my feeling is that no one who writes emails as poorly as Pascal can be good at her job.

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      mozhatesmeadamsank
      8/06/15 1:06pm

      The real kicker is that she gets paid an assload of money for being incompetent.

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      RobNYCadamsank
      8/06/15 1:13pm

      Look I’m the last to be criticizing someone’s email writing skills but even I couldn’t follow that.

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    ManchuCandidateSam Biddle
    8/06/15 12:22pm

    Wasn’t this 1/3 of a Futurama episode?

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      Cam/ronManchuCandidate
      8/06/15 12:25pm

      “All right. It’s Saturday night, I have no date, a two-liter bottle of Shasta and my all-Rush mix-tape. Let’s rock.”

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      Flame Princess, Garbage-MongerManchuCandidate
      8/06/15 12:26pm

      Its brevity was the soul of its wit.

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    Jujymonkey3Sam Biddle
    8/06/15 12:23pm

    Who’s the author defending Harry Potter from? I thought that movie was universally loved?

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      willdabeastJujymonkey3
      8/06/15 12:34pm

      Or Role Models. I thought Role models was a fine little comedy I’ve never heard anybody hate on it.

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      katgyrlJujymonkey3
      8/06/15 12:36pm

      wondering the same thing. i enjoyed it, tho’ i might be unable to judge it as a stand alone film due to loving the entirety of the series so much.

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    CaptainButtersSam Biddle
    8/06/15 12:54pm

    I’m still somewhat fascinated and utterly scared with Pascal’s writing structure. You can literally envision the run on thoughts that go through that woman’s head when she writes without pause or reflection. Reading her emails makes me crack my knuckles, chew my fingernails, pick at scabs, or do just about any bad habit someone can do at their desk.

    I’d pitch a movie where she is an English honors teacher who just got tenure and a year round case of the “fuck it’s” a la Cameron Diaz in Bad Teacher.

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      beep beep i'm a jeepCaptainButters
      8/06/15 1:08pm

      I know a lot of lawyers with the same written...flow and cadence? It wears on the soul, because these people have some kind of disconnect in their brain where the part that forms spoken words (correctly) doesn’t seem to communicate with the rest of the whole.

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      WammerCaptainButters
      8/06/15 1:47pm

      It’s like she’s the personification of the coked-up producer you see in movies. Really fast, stream of consciousness writing/talking with a white, powdery nose.

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    A_Copy_EditorSam Biddle
    8/06/15 1:13pm

    Seems to me that this a rare Sandler movie with a strong underlying concept, and apparently a fucking horrendous execution. I haven’t seen it, nor have I seen as much as a trailer. But if you were to isolate a sequence where there’s a giant Pac Man gobbling up NYC (which I’m deducing from the article here), then I could see why that might be an exciting, enticing, even promising clip. My guess is that if they paid Sandler a nice big check for the idea and then gave it to someone like Michel Gondry, this movie could have been fucking awesome.

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      cgeeA_Copy_Editor
      8/06/15 1:51pm

      Except it was not even his idea:

      http://www.businessinsider.com/pixels-filmmak…

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      nopenotathingA_Copy_Editor
      8/06/15 1:54pm

      The underlying idea isn’t Sandler’s, it’s French writer-director Patrick Jean’s. Pixels is based on his animated short of the same name. You’re right though, it is pretty great. I bet you could find it on YouTube.

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    UrbanNunEnthusiastSam Biddle
    8/06/15 12:39pm

    I don’t know why I’ve been loving the shitstorm currently raining down on Adam Sandler, but I am. Fuck that, I know why: I always found him only moderately funny in comparison to Farley and Rock, and I’d even rather watch David Spade do stand-up before Sandler. I know people jagoff to Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison but to me they were just the same fucking movie with different casts. Basically I get infuriated that he was given this amazing opportunity to be regarded as one of America’s top comedians and wasted it with lazy repeats of the same tired tropes, only bothering to shake things up when it isn’t too much trouble for him. Plus that sweatpants picture with him, Kevin James, and Selena Gomez still pisses me the fuck off. If I showed up for a work function in sweatpants and sneakers I’d be fired.

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