Round Up the Usual Suspects...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ya know what? Sandler's most memorable movies are Billy Madison, and Happy Gilmore. Trying to act? No. He reinvented stupid comedy. Then he started trying to get serious about everything. And it all went downhill. Even as his movies have made more (and then less) money, nothing has ever had the impact of those first couple of movies. Those are the movies that a generation can go back and quote for the rest of their lives.
Now, they weren't "good" movies... plenty of plot, character, etc. to infinity complaints... but those movies are why we know who Adam Sandler is. If he'd started with... Big Daddy and Little Nicky and all of that crap, he'd have never broken out.

Now that you mention it, I think I'd rather Sandler continued making movies than Kristen Stewart. Most people believe she doesn't like doing "acting." At least Sandler has fun doing it!