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Adam Sandler Officially Sucks

I admit, I've never been a huge fan of comedian/actor Adam Sandler. I wasn't blown away by his performance on Saturday Night Live, his song about Hanukkah and there's just something about his voice that has always sounded like nails against a chalkboard to me.

When I was a young lad, I did enjoy his film "Happy Gilmore," but quickly grew out of that. I was never too keen on "Billy Madison". I did enjoy "Wedding Singer," thought "Big Daddy" was more or less cute and found some parts of the stupid comedy "Airheads" to be funny (that was a long time ago, though. I'm not certain I'd still find it humorous). "The Longest Yard" I felt had some funny moments, but as is usually the case, wasn't nearly as good as the original. I have appreciated some of his more serious films, such as "Punch-Drunk Love," "Spanglish," "Anger Management" and "Funny People". I haven't been blown away by any of them, but felt they were more quality films than his others and appreciated him going outside of the character he's usually typecast as.

Given all that, Adam Sandler is beginning to drive me crazy, both for his awful films and how he seems to bank big bucks on the majority of them. The majority of critics feel the same way. Let me first get to the awful films Sandler has starred in through the years: "Bulletproof," "The Waterboy," "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo," "Little Nicky," "The Hot Chick," "Eight Crazy Nights," "Mr. Deeds," "Click," "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," "Bedtime Stories," "You Don't Mess with the Zohan," "Grown Ups," "Zookepper" and most recently, "Jack and Jill". The sad thing is that it appears Sandler's movies are getting worse and worse and for the quality of films he's starred in previously, that's pretty sad.

The truly amazing part is regardless of how awful the film is, Sandler seems to draw a large crowd. Below I will list the titles of some of his films, how they score on the movie review site RottenTomatoes.com and follow that with how much money they grossed:

1. "Mr. Deeds": 22% of critics liked it and it grossed $126.2 million

2. "Anger Management": 44% and $133.8 M

3. "50 First Dates": 44% and $120.8 M

4. "The Longest Yard": 31% and $158.0 M

5. "Click": 33% and $137.3 M

6. "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry": 14% and $119.7 M

7. "Bedtime Stories": 25% and $110.0 M

8. "You Don't Mess with the Zohan": 37% and $100.0 M

9. "Grown Ups": 10% and $162.0 M

To this point in his career, Sandler has starred in nine films which have grossed $100 million or more. These nine films have an average positive rating by critics of 28.9%, which have grossed a combined $1,167,800,000, an average of $129.8 million per picture.

In his most recent film, "Jack and Jill," just 4% of critics liked it, yet it opened last weekend finishing second at the box office, bringing in $25 M.

I just pray to all that is holy that Mr. Sandler either starts starring in some better comedies, goes the more serious route or if he continues to star in these horrendous "comedies" (if one wants to refer to them as such), for these films to bomb at the box office. I ask all these things in the precious name of quality cinema history. Amen.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/adam_sandler/

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