Round Up the Usual Suspects...

I'm not sure that I accept the truth of the statement, "Adam Sandler totally can act." But just for the sake of discussion, let's assume it is true. What is the greater artistic sin; to cast a guy with no talent who is going to drag down your movie, or to cast a guy who does have talent, but will openly choose not to use it, and still drag down your movie? I guess you end up with a bad movie either way, but I suspect that at this point in his career, Sandler has more than enough clout to pick his projects. Particularly since he runs his own production company. Approached from that perspective, I'd say Sandler absolutely deserves all the arrows we shoot at him.

Alrighty, I finally made an account. I've lurked and followed this place for at least a year, and I agree with 98% of what gets torn a new one. Including this.

And here is the problem, part 2. This opening weekend for this was a shade over $40 million dollars. In other words, I guess there really is a market for lowbrow crap out there. That probably shouldn't surprise me after we put up with 8 years of George Bush, but it still depresses me. As long as Hollywood can spoonfeed people trash like this and make money on it, there is precious little hope we are ever going to see much quality on the screen.

I don't know that I like the restaurant analogy, because I don't feel you can go to the movies without any sort of plan on what you're going to see. Movies start at different times. People know what they want to see BEFORE they go to the theater, unless it's something you're going to do in the middle of the day, there's a theater nearby, and you're willing to sit through anything at a matinee price. And that's not the average theater going experience. Most people go to a movie in the evening during the weekend.

I guess I can see what saturnwatcher is saying. Hollywood could make good movies, they just choose not to. I wouldn't say movie theaters will be gone with a year or two, but they are on life support right now. Of course, we have our goverment to thank for the way the country is right now when it comes to money. Meanwhile, Canada is doing just fine, seeing has how their banks don't have their goverment officials in their back pockets.

Originally posted by Vits Going to the movies it's like eating at a restaurant.After you looked at the menu you choose the things you like.Between those,you choose the ones you like the most.If there's a tie,you choose the cheapest one.That's not being cheap because you didn't choose the cheap one first. You're not a jerk for having an early opinion on movies.Everyone has.But pre-judging is another thing.It's O.K. to say "I don't think I'll like GROWN UPS" but not to say "I'll never ever watch it".

Yeah, but then there are meals that you KNOW you're not going to like no matter how much you want to try it. Not many people want to jump right in to eat something like raw fish, or the internal organs of a sheep, or snails, etc. Nor is anyone going to want to dig into a steak dinner that is served on a dirty trash can lid. These are some of the images coming to mind when Razzie voters see another Sandler movie is being released. We know exactly what we're getting from him, and 90% of the time, it's something we don't like.

ive never really checked this site out before now, and now i fell like ive found a 2nd home. its so nice to see that there are people that actually dont like the mainstream crap that hollywood throws at us. i cant really say i like any of the cast of 'grown ups' and the trailer made me cringe.