What Is The Best Adam Sandler Movie?

Jonathan joins Justin once again to figure out which Adam Sandler movie reigns supreme.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This production is brought to you by the Recess Bell.
Hey everybody, Yeah yeah, my name is Justin Greenberg. VI
is the film reel Over on the Recess Bell Network.
And I got my buddy Jonathan and we're gonna be talking.
So Adam Sandler Movies, The Man of the Hour, the

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Man with the Power, Too sweet to be sour. Mister
Adam Sandler a guy that I have a love hate
relationship with. I'd think if I was to hang out
or if I wanted to hang out with any celebrity,
it would actually probably be Adam Sandler. I really think
he's a good dude. Anytime I watch him on talk shows,

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whether he's on Conan O'Brien, he's a fixture on the
Dan Patrick show, you know, the sports broadcaster. He just
seems like a chill dude, Like, oh, he wants to
play basketball.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
I was just gonna say he goes and plays basketball
like a La fitness by his house or whatever.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
He's a guy who's worth half a billion dollars, and
he dresses like me, and he likes sports. He likes
pro wrestling. He's just a dude who has a wife
and kids, and he's in show business. Which is a rarity.
If you've never heard a controversial thing that he's done
some of the movies. Maybe he's made her a little

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bit offensive, not for me, but for some people. But
you've never heard Adam Sandler got a dui. You never
heard Adam Sandler beat his wife. It's always good story
after good story from this dude. I think he's just
a genuine good dude.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, and he has all his friends in all his movies.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
He's very loyal. He's very loyal to his friends. He'll
cast them in his movies and give them roles, some
of his college friends, you know, like Alan Colvert, who
played the caddie in Happy Gilmour. He's also a little nikky.
He's in like all of his movies. He even gave
him a star and roll in Grandma's Boy, movie he produced.

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He's just a good dude from what I've gathered. But
I have a hate relationship with him because I pretty
much think for the last twenty year, like most people,
he's made terrible movies.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
He's made he's made bad.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
He's made ones that clearly seem like an excuse to
go on vacation. He's like, I want to film in Hawaii.
I guess I'll just make a movie where I go
to Hawaii. Yeah, well, I want to go to Australia
with Drew Barry Moore. I guess I'll just you know,
write a script where we're in Australia. So it just
seems lazy. Uh. Most of his movies involve him being

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rich and being with a really hot woman.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
No, I don't blame him. I mean I would do
the same thing, like, oh, I want to make a
movie I have to make out with Selma Hayek and
live in a mansion for you know, two months.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
He does always have hot chicks, but all the.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Power to him. Yeah again, like we said we'd do
the same thing. Have we talked about like if let's
just say, like your girlfriend or your you know, your
wife was an actor. It was an actress, Like I
couldn't imagine I'd be so jealous if I was like
at a premiere watching if I was married to Margot

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Robbie and Margot Robbie is just like her breasts out
having sex on the screen. Like how does I don't
know how these couples survive, I mean.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Majority of most of them don't.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, so I mean kudos to Jackie Sandler, the wife
of Adam Sandler. She's usually on the set of these movies.
She's in a lot of them. Yeah, but she's just
like an understanding wife that's like, all right, that's your role.
You know, you gotta do what you gotta do. But
I'm so jealous. I couldn't imagine allowing that, or I
could imagine my ex like allowing me to do that

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sort of shit.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
If you were with Margot Robbie, you really think you'd care.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
I guess I guess I wouldn't if I if I
was like, I don't care, do what you gotta do.
But it's it's it is a weird, interesting dynamic. And
then you see a lot of people that are on
the set eventually find a relationship with with one another.
I think the most famous one would be Brad Pitt
and Angeline Joli because you know she was married, uh well,
he was married to Jennifer Admimston and then they did

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Mister and Missus Smith and then they ended up falling
in love. Afleck and Jennifer Gardner they did Daredevil together,
and you know, he was with Jennifer Lopez for the
first time so there's a lot of a lot of
sexual tension on these sets.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
But I guess they're not good actors.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
No, yeah, they really can't act. Yeah, they just Yeah,
it's like I'm a I'm a method actor. I have
to cheat on you. It's it's my character. So yeah, Sandler,
I think has just been phoning it in. He makes
a lot of movies, like we said, to go on vacations.
He does things like a lot of sponsors in movies.

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So if you watch something like Jack and Jill, which
is just a terrible movie.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
That might be his worst movie ever.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Terrible, it's really bad. Yeah, I haven't watched it since
it came out, but it's, uh, it is one of
those bad ones. But you know, there's the famous scene
of Duncacino, so like they hire al Pacino to do
this ad for Dunkcino for for Dunkin Donuts, and you
know he's singing Dunkcino, which is honestly probably the funniest
part of the movie. But it's like an advertisement for

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for Duncan Donaldson. But then throughout the movie, you know,
a lot of his movies are made by Sony, so
you'll see Sony products and Sony has a deal with
Coca Cola. So they're at a movie theater in the
movie Jack and Jill, and they're both drinking Coca Cola's,
and you know, the coke image is just dead front
and like why would both of them be drinking that
the same way? So it's shit like that is just

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I guess you know he's sold out.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Well, didn't he sign that deal with Netflix?

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah? Now he has. Now he has a deal with Netflix,
I want to say for close to the last ten years. Yeah,
and all of his movies exclusively are on Netflix except
his non Happy Madison productions. So like he did Uncut Gems,
which was released in theaters, which is a really good movie,
which is better than you know, a lot of these
other movies. We went specific by the way, we're doing
a bracket for to figure out what is the best

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Adam Sandler movie, and we I picked like Adam Sandler
Adam Sandler movies, Yeah, not you know, uh Spanglish or
on cut jams movies that are dramas. We're doing like
the goofy, dumb Sandler movies for this bracket. But yeah,
I don't know for just there's something said about comedies
not being in theaters because I grew up watching these
movies in theaters. I went to Happy Gilmour with my dad.

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I went to you Know, A Wedding Singer, and water
Boy and Big Daddy. I saw all those movies in
theaters with my dad. I loved and my dad loved
Adam Sandler. I wonder what he would have thought of
what he's done in the last twenty years. I probably
wouldn't have been a fan. Maybe he would have been.
I don't know, but I miss going to the theater
and laughing. That just isn't a thing anymore. I've talked

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about it a lot on this podcast, but some of
my best memories are laughing at movies like Borat and
Jackass Too, and you Know, Dumb and Dumber and Asvin Torra.
I remember seeing Astern Tora in theaters and just going
home and talking out of my ass at Thanksgiving and
getting yelled at, like I love that shit. I love

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an audience laughing, and we're not getting that. There's maybe
two or three comedies released in theaters each year, and
they're not with the star powers that we used to have.
There's no any Murphy movies. There's no Jim Carrey movies.
There's no Sandler movies. Obviously, Robin Williams dead, Farley dead.
We're not getting these comedic actors. You get your Kevin Hartz.

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That's pretty much it. And he's kind of annoying.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
I mean, I like Kevin Hardy's funny, but.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
He ain't those guys. He ain't Williams.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
I'm trying to think of the last comedy I saw
in theaters.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
I've seen movies that are have comedic elements to.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
It, no, but not just a straight comedy.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah. I mean, if I go through the list, there's
gotta be something there. But like movies like like a
Super Mario Brothers I saw two years ago, Like that
was a comedy kids movie, but it's not you know,
a Sandler Movie's not a Will Farrell movie.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
That's that's just a straight up comedy.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, it's I think I saw like a Jennifer Lawrence
romcom a few years ago.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
No, Hard Feelings, yeah, which is pretty good, except it
should it should have been a little harder. It should
have been rauncher. She should have had sex with the kid,
Like it shouldn't have been more tame. It should have
pushed the envelope more, you know, like those eighties movies.
So unfortunately Sandler's movies aren't in theaters. And Happy Gilmore
two is his next one coming out, and it's a

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Netflix movie. I'm hoping something. Sometimes these Netflix movies do
get released in theaters.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Well, I actually heard that they're re releasing the first one,
first one, but only two days.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
But if we're doing that, can't they release the new one?

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well no, because the deal with Netflix. I mean they
would have to pay Netflix a lot of it, but.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
They do that. There's been a few Netflix movies that
do get a limited release. I believe I could be incorrect,
but I believe I've read that if you want to
contend for an Oscar, your movie technically needs to be
released in theaters. Not that this is going to gettend
for an Oscar, so it's not gonna be an issue.
But a lot of those movies that are Netflix movies

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have to get some sort of limited release. Even if
it's a small, you know, New York or La exclusive
sort of thing, it needs to be released in theaters.
I could be inaccurate way that makes it, but I
remember reading that years ago. But Sandler movies like we mentioned,
not the same. But we got the top eight movies
in my opinion from Adam Sandler that are Adam Sandler movies,

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not the you know, dramas. Should we go over all
eight of them? Or should we just do the matchups?
Because do you have an issue with the rankings because
I ranked them in order, you know, like the number
one seed and the number eight seed going at it?
Would you change the order? So what I have right now,
Actually that might give away what we're gonna do with
our answers, So don't actually answer that. Let's go with

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the number one matchup? Okay, and that is Happy Gilmore
versus Little Nikki. I think this one is gonna be
pretty simple. Yeah, so Little Nikki, we both have moving
on right absolutely Now did you see either of these
in theaters?

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Oh? God, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
You don't have the you don't remember like a lot
of your childhood theater experiences.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
No, I don't know why this one movie always sticks out.
We had a small, like maybe three screen movie theater
in the town I grew up in, like in downtown Brewster,
New York. And for some reason, the last movie I
remember seeing there was Congo I don't know why. That's

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that just sticks in my head, like, oh yeah, the
movie theater back in Brewster, Congo, that's the only movie
that comes to mind.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Did you go to Taco Bell after and get the
commemorative watches? Because I did.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
No, I don't even think we had a Taco Bell.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
I'd never watched Congo in theaters, but we went to
Taco Bell to get these watches, which I love. I
love a good commemorative.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, no, that's uh yeah, So your one experience, that's
that's the one I can like that sticks in my
head all the time.

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Speaker 1 (11:22):
So I saw both of these in theaters, Happy Gilmore.
I saw with my father and brother, and I remember
playing basketball after. I feel like I remember the whole
day leading up to Happy Gilmore and after Happy Gilmore.
But this is one of the most iconic comedies of
my lifetime. The villain of Shooter McGavin is right up there.

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I don't know if there's a better villain in any movie, Like,
I don't even I'm talking like horror and action. I
love Shooter McGavin. He's so shitty. Here's not a redeeming
quality to him at all. And he's so smug and
arrow again, and Sandler plays such a great every man,

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like he's the dude. He's not ugly, but he's not,
you know, George Clooney, he's not. He's not overly good
looking at his bad posture. He's he's poor. In this movie,
it's like, all right, everyone could relate to this guy.
He has anger issues. You have anger issues with the hockey.
I remember you talked about on one of your first
podcasts here, so you definitely have a lot of relations

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with Happy Gilmore.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, and I'm a golfer. Oh true that Yeah, Happy
go More is right up my alley.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
I think every kid, at least I did. We went
to the driving range after and we tried to do
the Happy Gilbert. I remember getting yelled at in the speaker,
Please don't do.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
That, like any people broke their clubs doing that.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, yeah, the golf to Magic.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
The golf club companies were like, yes, this is the
best movie ever, Like, yeah, that'll be five hundred for
New Driver, thank you.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
And I used sort of elements of First of all
again another movie that I quote a lot. I mean,
just dumb stuff like what a tremendous looking trophy, just
like stupid lines, a nice glas of warm less shut
the hell up? Uh, just so many iconic moments characters.
Oh now your back's about the hurt because you just
put the man.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yeah, well your back's about the hurt because you just
pulled landscaping.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Dude, so many funny lines just from him, and then
you know, obviously Chubbs, it's all in the hits. Yeah,
so all I think, And we're bowlers, so I try
and get to my happy place at times if i'm
if I'm like angry, which we all get. If you
miss a ten pin or if you get a split,
you don't get in your happy place and just just
you know, it's all in the go home. You just

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want to go home? Are you too good for your home?

Speaker 2 (13:34):
And then the guy that he hires, Jack Ass.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yeah yeah, yeah, who just passed away a few years
ago with Bob Barker.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, great, price is wrong, bitch. Oh my, there's.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
So so many Mister Larson, his old boss, who has
the nail in the head.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Oh yeah, you gotta hit play where it lies.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Yeah yeah, he's I had to hit it off of
Frankenstein's fat foot.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
He's like, a, you're gonna go for the green. He's like,
nobody can hit the green. H Mister Gilmore just complete
did that feet less than forty minutes ago or whatever
it is?

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Oh, that's great for happy Oh Mark I eight pieces
of ship like for breakfast.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
This is a ship for breakfast. What So there's so many.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
So many lines, so many moments. And then there's also
heart to the movie, and that, to me, is very
important with this movie because you actually care about the
guy and you care about his grandma. I mean, the
basic plot is his grandma's losing his home. He ends
up becoming a golfer because he can, he has the power,
He has the ability to do an amazing slap shot
with his hockey skills. Uh. So he ends up you know,

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getting the help of Chubbs, who is a old golfer
who lost his arm. He lost his hand from my allegation, Yeah,
damn alligator bit my hand off, cut me down in
my prom So he gets the you know, the Obi
Wan treatment from him, so to teach him, to guide
him the ways of the golfing force.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
And uh.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
But there's heart at the end of it, you know,
with with him and his grandma in that relationship, and
then him with the the the woman in the movie,
I can't forget it. I can't remember her name right now,
but she's from Modern Family. She's really good in the movie.
So there is the heart to it, which at the
end of the day is important to me because you
want to root for this character. You're not rooting for

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Shooter McGavin because you know, in horror movies, you know,
sometimes you root for Freddy Krueger, you're root for Jason Vorhees.
Nobody cares about the the counselors. You root for the villains.
In this movie. You want to see Shooter McGavin get
put in this place. Yeah, and you certainly get that
with Happy Gilmore. Let's move to Little Nikki just quickly.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
I hope that they don't.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Make shoot a good guy.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
No, I just I don't even know why they're doing it.
I mean again, I know, but again, we're what twenty
thirty years?

Speaker 1 (15:48):
When did close to thirty years ninety six?

Speaker 2 (15:51):
Like, come on, did we really? I mean, listen, I'm
gonna watch it, obviously, but I just hope that they don't.
Like Gladiator to me was a waste. I just hope
that Happy Gilmore too, isn't.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
I think you just have to ignore it. I think
it's gonna be one of those things like I don't
even think about Dumb and Dumber two owning the legacy
of Dumb and Dummer. I just I just ignore it.
I've never gone back to watch it. No, I don't
even think of it as being a thing. Probably will
end up be doing that with with Happy Gilmore. But
if there was a Sandler movie that would make a sequel,
I feel like it would be Happy Gilmore because he's

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a golfer. He you know, Rocky's a boxer. He has
another opponent, like what did he do? We didn't need
a Billy Madison sequel, you know, wraps up good. So
I think Gilmore deserve the sequel if there's gonna be
any Sandler movie. I personally also wouldn't have made it.
But they better not ruin shoot McGavin, better not him

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be a good guy and turned baby face. It's the
last thing we fucking need. Yea. But let's move to
Little Nicky. You know, just in this matchup, we're having
Gilmore versus Little Nikki. I like Little Nikki. I was
really excited for Little NICKI. Me and my friends were
quoting a Little Nikki, you know, leading up to watching
it in theaters. You know, I got in the face
for the shovel or Quentin Tarantino has a cameo. He's like,

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we're all gonna die and runs into a poll, like
we were doing that going to the movies. We were
so excited for it. Did it live up to the hype?
Probably not, But it's like a fun goofy stoner comedy.
If any of these movies are a stoner comedy, it's
this one. This is you know, it's got the heavy
metal music, it's got the obscure you know, references to

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different artists and moments and time, but nowhere near the
legendary status that is Happy Gilmore. I mean, nothing really
quotable the voice of Little Nikki. It's it's funny, but
you want to hear that for an hour and a half.
Jordan got in the flash like you don't want that.

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You want that maybe for a five minute SNL skite
or a bit character, you know, a side character that
talks every now and then, but for your lead to
be that guy. It's an interesting story of Satan having
to get his two brothers back, who you know, try
and escape and become the leaders of Hell. Interesting story.
Harvey Kayell is Satan and then you get a Rodney

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Dangerfield as Harvey Kayitel's dad. You get a cameo by
Dan Marino. He tries to sell his soul to the devil,
he get a super Bowl and then he's like he
did it for Joe Namath. So there's a lot of
there's a lot of funny lines in the moments. Dana
Carvey's in it, but it's not the same. I think

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it's just a different type of comedy than we got
with Happy Gilmore, and it tries to do the heart thing.
But I don't think anybody would have this better than
Happy Gilmore. So let's move Happy Gilmore moving on final
In the next matchup, and it's interesting a lot of
these matchups play into one another, and I sort of

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did it on purpose, but also it sort of just
worked out that way because the next to are movies
where Sandler becomes a millionaire or billionaire, and that would
be Billy Madison as my number two seed versus mister
Deeds as the number seven seed. And to me, I
actually like Little Nikki more than mister Deeds. I think

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this is when there was a shift in tone again,
even more so with Sandler movies. I think at this
point in his life he actually stopped smoking weed from
what I remember reading yea, and he became a little
more family friendly. And you know, obviously he's still pushing
the envelope with some of his jokes here, but this
is more of a a friendlier type of movie than

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a Billy Madison. Billy Madison, you know, he's in his twenties. Yeah,
he's getting the new dy magazines. He's an asshole in
Billy Madison's a man child. In this one. He's a
nicer guy, like he's a good dude in Mister Deeds,
and you are rooting for him because he's he doesn't
have a bad bone in his body. But there's just
something about movies where one character's lying and they're caught

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in a lie that to me, I don't know, it
puts me on edge, like I'm always waiting for the
bad thing to happen and Winona Ryder's character is playing
mister Deed's for a fool and she's lying about who
she is to get an inside scoop for a story.
She's like a news reporter. And this is just something
about that where I hate when people are in these

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situations where you know they're gonna have that bad moment
where they find out the truth, and that's part of
the element. That's why I don't think it's nearly as
good as Billy Madison. And then just a comedy, Billy
Madison is right up there with Happy Gilmour's for as
quotability goes. You have amazing characters like Steve Buscemi in there,
and Chris Farley and Norm MacDonald. Uh even the principal Anderson,

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who is the revolting blob the pro rest he was
supposed to pinch me. So I think Billy Madison is
much funnier. Maybe the character of Billy Madison is as
good as to do it. And there's probably not as
much heart in Billy Madison as there is mister Deeds.
But I don't even think it's close to me. Billy
Madison is in there in my top five favorite comedies

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of all time. I'm definitely putting it over mister Deeds.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
I agree with you. I think I like mister Deeds
more than you did. I can quote some of that
movie as I did yesterday, and you're like, oh, yeah,
that's that's a great quote. Yeah, but now then he uh,
he puts his uh he saves her out of the
water with his foot.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, the black Foot.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
But no, Billy Madison, absolute classic.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, it's it's one of those movies that I fortunately
did not get to see in theaters, but we rented it,
and uh, it's just one of those movies where all
of our friends knew it from start to finish. And
Son Pelosi and this good for me. Stop looking at me,
Swan like all these lines and he's talking gibbers.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
He yells at the kid, Yeah today.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
Gim got anytime anyone stutters that has to be brought up,
stay here as long as you can. You gotta cherish
it over around a Cavon so hot, want to touch
the Heinie. Oh Farley as the bus driver yelling on
the bus. Oh my god, so many moments. And then
Eric the bad guy in it. He's not as good

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as Shooting McGavin, but he's pretty damn close.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah, he's definite.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
He's a very hateable guy. At the end, they have
the you know, the the cathlon sort of thing with
that one judge talking about his wife, how he hates
his wife, my wife, the tramp. Steve Buscemi as the
guy who has made fun of by Billy Madison in
high school coming back and saving him. There's just uh yeah,

(22:47):
so many, so many great moments. So yeah, we're gonna
we're gonna move Sandlers. Uh really, first leading role as
Billy Madison onto the next round.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Oh yeah, that was his first one.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
It was his first big one for sure. Let's move
on to round three or continuing round one rather the
third matchup, we got the Drew Barrymore films. Now, he
did do another one where they go to Australia blended blended,
which was terrible. But these two are fantastic. But I
do think one is a little more fantastic, and that

(23:20):
would be the Wedding Singer. I have a number three
versus Fifty First Dates as the number six matchup. I
really like fifty First Dates. I really love Drew Barrymore.
I have a giant crush on her. I think she's
so weird and quirky, and I just think she's beautiful
as well. And she's got obviously comedic chops because I
think she holds her own in these movies, and it

(23:41):
is a sweet movie. I just think the Wedding Singer. Again,
maybe it's just because I saw it when I was younger.
I was looking forward to it. I love the eighties,
so you have all these references to the nineteen eighties
in the movie. I think Wedding Singer. It might even
be my favorite Sandler movie. Well, I don't know. I
don't know. We'll get there. We'll get there. When we

(24:02):
get there, it's certainly, in my opinion, better than fifty
First Dates.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Though, Yeah, I think so. And and I'm a big
fan of fifty fifty First Dates. I like Sean Aston's
character yeah ten second Tom, Yeah, what's his name? Rob
Schneider when he because he keeps trying to like make
ways to talk to her when he beats him up
and then she runs him down with the bat.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Yeah, there's there's there's a lot of great moments in
its sweet.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
But then the wedding singer you got you know his
uh is it his brother, the guy with the Michael
Jackson jacket?

Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, with the mustache. Does Alan culvert to a covert? Yeah?
I guess that's his brother or brother in law maybe.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Yeah. And then you have what's her name, Christine Johnson?
Is that her name?

Speaker 1 (24:48):
The friend of Drew Barrymore. Yeah, Ben Schiller's wife.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
That is Yeah, Okay, that's what I thought it was.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
She's hilarious. But it's just like John love it, love it.
He's losing his mind and I'm to reap the benefits.
The bad guy's a good dude. Oh yeah, Glenn, I
think his name.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Julia, great moments, Billy nobody talks to Billy idol that way? Uh,
the the old woman.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
So you have a lot of iconic moments, but at
the end of the day, the two characters that matter
are Robbie and Julie, Julia and and their romance. And
you really feel for Sandler because he's a wedding singer
who gets stud up by this bitch. So you have,
you know, a guy who's down on his luck and
he meets this sweet waitress who works at a wedding

(25:41):
that he's attending, and she attends his wedding to work
that event and sees that he gets stood up, and
eventually she's going to get married. But they form a
relationship and it's sort of, uh, this just sweet story
of this guy who's clearly much better than her actual fiance,
who's this yuppie, full of himself guy who cheats on her.

(26:03):
And he's this stand up sort of dude that you
know is down on his luck and is a good
dude though, and he's he's very likable Robbie Hart, and
you're really rooting for him. And it has clischches, you know,
the guy who has to run to the airport to
make sure the girl doesn't get on the plane. So
it pulls a lot of cliche elements that you get.
But to me, I like that. I like movies that

(26:25):
are classics that do things that we've seen before. If
it does it right. I know there's there's a saying
that there's really like only seven stories ever, and they're
just sort of taking different elements, but there's really only
a certain amount of stories, and they take a lot
of elements that we've seen in certain classic movies. But
I think it does it right. The soundtrack's great. Yeah,
and you're really rooting for these characters, so I'm moving.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
We both good movies, both very good. I agree that
Wedding Singer gets the nod.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
I think this next one is going to be the toughest.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
I definitely. I was looking at it when you when
you showed me the bracket, and I'm like, man and
I they're both great.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
We got water Boy versus Big Daddy.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Oh man, this is easily the toughest match up.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
I think this is this is a take here, I don't.
I think I might laugh more at water Boy than
any other of these movies on the list. I'm not
saying it's the best movie, but it's so funny. It's
it's one laugh after another.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yeah. Big Daddy is more of the it's a good
story story, but such a good one.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
I mean, I mean there there's there's there's like a
courtroom drama at the end of Big Daddy. It's a
completely different type of movie. Water Boy being a sports movie,
we're both football fans, so you have that element. You
have the you know, great cameo by Lawrence Taylor don't
smoke crack uh. It's it's it's so quotable. Again, like
all these other movies, the voice I find like kind

(27:53):
of annoying, but I don't know, there's something like cute
about it, Like it's just like, yeah, it's just like
you feel bad for the guy like this. Kathy Bates, Kathy, no, Mama,
you're wrong.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
No.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Colonel Sanders, Yeah, I don't know. Man again, you got
the fawns.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Henry Winkler, Henry Winkler, Khan. There's a scene in water
Boy which I might have rewound more than any scene ever.
It's when coach Klin realizes like he's down on his
luck and he takes a trophy from his office and
he throws it out a window and it hits Colonel
Sanders in the head. He makes his sounds like and me,

(28:37):
my buddy, we died laughing. I'll put the clip in
when we do the the edge of this, but we
would just rewind it. So fucking good. Coach Klein having
his mental breakdown flashback scene when he's in his high heels.
He's on the phone, He's like, I hate him, I

(28:57):
hate him, I hate him. He's he's so good in
that movie good. I remember my dad loving both of
these movies. I think I think my dad's favorite was
Happy Gilmore, but he certainly loved all the ones that
he watched of Adam Sandler. Water Boy is funnier. Big
Daddy has heart to it the all of Sandler movies.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
So also very funny though Big Daddy, Yeah, very funny.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
And you know, as a kid watching this movie, you
could put yourself in the shoes of the kid Frankenstein.
And then also, I just wanted to point something out
that we really didn't get to. All of Sandler's movies
have amazing soundtracks, amazing music. He uses a lot of
beach boys, he uses a lot of electric light orchestra,
Billy Joel and modern stuff that he's done. He always

(29:44):
has great, great music, and that plays a part in
both of these movies. Water Boy. I'm going to give
the slight edge to them over Big Daddy. I wouldn't
be mad either way. Big Daddy has more heart to it.
Big Daddy is a more interesting sort of story for him,
where this is just Warter Boys essentially like a happy Gilmore.

(30:06):
It's like a freak athlete who's not supposed to be
good out of sport ends up being good at a sport.
And it's a guy with a weird voice, which is
you know, Sandler Staple Big Daddies pushing the envelope with
his acting chops. You know, he's given a kid, uh
to pretty much raise on his own, and then there's
the turmoil of where's this kid gonna end up? Is
he raising him correctly? Then you got you know, the

(30:27):
romantic in both of these movies, Vicky Valancourt and water
Boy being over the top where the girl and Big
Daddy's you know, very sweet and likable. More in the
line of Julia Gulia.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
What's his five year plan? Don't die?

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Yeah? Yeah, the old man with his old balls.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Balls, the hooters yeah ah man.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Great, great, the lines, great moments, the spitting and sucking.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
It up, the dirty packets of catchup.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
The what else do we got? The the whole, the
the Halloween scene when he goes trick or treating, the
McDonald's breakfast scene in Big Daddy, Yeah, the skating scene
where he throws the stick on the floor, what's his name,
Rob Schneider's great, great characters.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
I might have to give it to Big Daddy over
water Boy. I might have to I don't know. There again,
it's the four or five matchup.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
It's the hardest match, without a doubt.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
A trying to think which movie, which one have I
watched more or if they're if they were both on
at the same time, I.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
Think it depends what. I would definitely watch water Boy
over Big Daddy. Big Daddy's more of a has the
drama elements, so come in a different mood though, I'd
want to watch Big Daddy. But if I'm just like
zoning out or like you want to watch a.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Water Boy, Yeah, I guess that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
A big show is in water Boy, Captain captain saying
oh shows no mercy, pokes the dude in the eye.
It's too Oh whatter sucks, it really really sucks.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
Uh you can do it.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
I mean you can do it.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
That's that's the meme. That's uh, that's Ralph Schneider. Yeah,
all right, well we can give it the water Boy.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
I have no issue with no no, no, I know.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Like I said, it's I mean, you can you can
do it. You can recite twenty different lines from both
of them, you know, easily.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah, so they're both great, and it's just it's said
like actually thinking about, like these are so good movies,
like why why did he lost lose that touch? What
did he lose? Did we grow up? I don't think so. No.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
I think that he signed the due with Netflix, he
had to do like ten movies, right, it was before
the Netflix.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah, No, he was putting out crap before the Pixels
and shit like that.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
I think he had kids. What was the one switch
Click Click, which on paper should have been amazing trailer
was really good, but he just I think the kids
in the I don't know. Maybe he grew up and
we didn't. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
I mean was great. When did that come out?

Speaker 1 (33:07):
And that was never really grow No? I felt it
could have been great.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
I think the first one was very funny.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
I think if it was made twenty years ago and
you had those guys there and you had Farley there
instead of Kevin James, would have been a better movie.
But I think these four. I have no issue with
these four moving on. So let's do the first matchup
of Happy Gilmore versus Wedding singer.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
No, it should be uh right, no, it should be happy.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Oh correct, right, yeah, correct, Look at you. That's why
we hired.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
You, Jonathan.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
All Right, Happy Gilmore versus water Boy, which is you know,
funny that these two ended up movies, you know, matching
up as much as we love water Boy and we
just quoted the hell out of it. And I, like
I said, I think there's more jokes to water Boy
because it's more of a Goofi your commentation less substance.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, that's you know, at least Happy Gilmore, like you said,
has the story of why he's dealing with.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
The romance is sweet. You know they're they're you know,
roller skating and to Endless Love. Yeah, ice skating, Like
they don't have a scene like that with Vicky and.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Water Boy on the Are they like the mower?

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yeah, yes, I guess that's it, but it's not it's
not as you know, crisis as that. And then even
like when I was a kid, when Chubbs died, like
I was pretty fucking said.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Well yeah, yeah got him the alligator, Yeah, I got
his head.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
I I you know, Happy Gilmore is just yeah, it's
it's perfection from from start to finish. Even the music,
you know, starts off with h Tuesdays Gone with the
Wind by Leonard Skinner, and then the end of the
movie ends with that with with Abraham Lincoln and the
crocodile or the alligator and and and Chubbs and the

(34:49):
sky waving, like it's just it's such a sweet moment
and the good music carry on My wayward Son is
like all these movies, like I said, have such a
there's there's so many good songs in both movies, so
many great moments in both movies. But we got happy Gilmore.
Moving on to the finals. This one's gonna be tough, ye,
this one's gonna be tough with Billy Madison and Wedding

(35:12):
Singer and and we've said what we said about both
of them. I think it just depends on the mood
that you're in for both of these movies. If you
want to feel good sort of movie where you're feeling romantic,
you want to watch Wedding Singer. If you just want
to laugh your ass off at a manchild, you know

(35:32):
who's literally in third grade, in first grade, in kindergarten,
Like you watch Billy Madison.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Well he has to do that so that he can
get the money. Right, he has to graduate.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
He has to go through all twelve grades so he
could get the job to work at the hotel that
his dad owns Okay, so he has to like a
few weeks of each schooling you know, goes through through
the hardships of first and second grade, then eventually meets
Veronica Vaughan in third grade, and even the kids are
so funny in the movie. It has the musical number

(36:03):
at the end with do you have any more? Gum more?
Gum more, gum more gum. I don't remember you'll remember that.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
I honestly don't remember the last time I saw Billy Madison.
I mean I love it. I mean I can, like
you said, I could recite half the movie to you, probably,
but I actually don't remember seeing it. Probably, I would
say within five years, I probably haven't seen it.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah. Close to the end, Veronica von shows up and
inspires Billy Madison to get up and they end up
singing a song like over Vernica, I thank you for
beating those shut out of me.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
And then you know, I just remember when she was
tutoring him.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
Oh that is, and then Farley and starts taking off
it's funny. He's great. And then the penguin.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
If p and your Pants is cool, call me Miles Davis.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
Then you have the opening sequence is so great. He's
he's drunk out of his mind once the new Dy magazine.
Then he sees this penguin if you remember that. Yeah,
oh Mith the peg. Yeah, it's two damn hot for
penguin to just be walking around. Billy Madison's so funny.
I had the biggest crush on both of these girls, though,

(37:20):
Veronica Vaughn played by Bridget Wilson, who would end up
marrying Pete Sampras I believe it or not. And then
Drew Barrymore, who's you know, more of a girl next
door sort of type. You know one sexy one's cute.
I love both of them. I think I've said this before.
If I was to marry any person in any movie,
it would be two characters. One would be Julia Gulia

(37:44):
Julia Hart from Wedding Singer. Two would be Mary from
There's Something about Mary. I love her. I love that
movie and it's just such a cool character.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Cameron Diaz never looked better than she did in The
Mess Correct.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
I'm gonna go with that is correct. I gotta go
with oh man, this is tough. What are you going
with Madison?

Speaker 2 (38:09):
I wrote down by Madison again, I've probably seen the
Wedding Singer. I don't know if I would say more,
probably maybe seen him the same amount of time, but
I've definitely seen the Wedding Singer more recently.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
I'm gonna say this, if this makes sense, The Wedding
Singer is a better movie, without a doubt. I like
Billy Madison Moore. I've seen Billy Madison Moore. I've quoted
Billy Madison Moore again.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
We're talking vintage Adam Sandler movies.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
His first You know, you have to be touched.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
You have to give it up for Billy Madison. I mean,
like you said, Billy Madison Happy Gilmour will put him
on the mat.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
I'll go with Billy Maddens right.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
His company name is Happy Happy Madison. I mean, it's
not if this is.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
Another day though, maybe if I was in a relationship
or it was close like Valentine's Day, maybe you would
go Wedding Singer. They're both such sweet movies.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
Again, like you said, completely different, like one is no brainer,
just dumb, laughing and then the Wedding Singer is an
actual movie. It's an actual comedy drama, you know.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
All right, we got we got the two big heavy hitters.
Then in the main event, Happy Gilmore versus Billy Madison.
And I'll say this now, I think Billy Madison is
a funnier movie than Happy Gilmore. I think it's more childish. Yeah,
I think it's you know, more jokes per minute.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
Well again, because more story in Happy Gilmore.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
I think, ah, man, we watched the hell out of
Happy Gilmore. We own that one. That was one of
the few Standler movies that we owned. You know, we
would have to rent Billy Madison and we'd rent the
hell out of it. But Gilmore was on rotation in
our household non stop. I'm going to give it to

(40:04):
the number one seed, Happy Gilmore as the greatest Adam
Sandler movie of all time, and in my opinion, probably
the second best comedy of all time, really right behind
Tommy Boy for Me, which has heart Tommy Boys. I
love Tommy Boy because you care about the characters. Yes,
it's funny, but you actually feel bad for Tommy when

(40:26):
his dad dies, and you're rooting for him at the end.
Of the movie and you're rooting for Happy Gilmore at
the end of this golf tournament against you know, the
dastardly shooter McGavin, who, like we mentioned, is a fantastic villain.
The fantastic music, the cameos, the moments, the side characters,
the original caddy who he chokes. I don't know if
you remember the little blonde haired kid. He's just strangling him.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
I don't know if you know this, but there's a
professional golfer named Will Zlaturus.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
Okay, does he look like him?

Speaker 2 (40:55):
Looks exactly like him? That on social media? Uh, he's uh,
he's written to him Adam Sandler, good luck today, my
caddy or whatever. And then there's one there's one tournament
I believe it's the Valvespar It just happened maybe three
or four weeks ago, where you're allowed normally it's just

(41:15):
the person's last name on the caddies back. Yeah, that one.
You're allowed to put whatever you want, so like some
people put like Emma's dad or whatever, and Will's Alataurus rights.
I think he puts Happy's caddy on the back of
his Yeah, I'll show you a picture after this. But
he looks exactly like the hair, the blonde hair or whatever.

(41:37):
And then the other caddies like, I think it breaks
a little to the right. He's like, that's because you're
only wearing one shoe.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Oh yeah, he puts the rich cracker do. Yeah, yeah,
mart it. I mean, there's there's so many funny moments
from the start to the end of that movie. Uh,
just just when he bets Will Sasso's character, who's the
fact guy who's moving uh, you know, the Grandma Gilmore's

(42:04):
stuff out of the house, and he, you know, doesn't
driving cont just hit that guy, and he hits the
woman outside the window, gets the Mesta Measta lady, the
lady who works who's who's with the grandma at the
at the old folks home. Oh, mister mista, get me out,

(42:25):
you know that Mista Mesta lady. Yeah, I think I
just killed her. When he goes up to we can
just recite moments, but when he's trying to get his
original girlfriend back, like I want to kiss you. You
just see all these women and child and all these
people just staring at the audio of him just singing.

(42:45):
And then the Asian woman comes up. He said, oh
you don't want breakfast. Yeah, it's great, so many great
moments and music and uh, rooting for the characters, and
I'm rooting for Adam Sandler. I'm rooting for this movie
sequel to do good. And yeah, I hope it's we'll
see if it does good, we'll we'll have to have
you back on.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
I mean, you have to go into it. It's never
gonna be as good as the original, obviously. I just
hope it's funny. I hope they don't, you know, lose
sight of what the first one was. But I also
hope it's not just the first one over again.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
I think it's gonna have a lot of heart to it.
The trailer was very somber. It was action.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Didn't look I didn't watch it.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
Maybe try and avoid it. It's not it's not a
bad trailer, but his his line delivery, he's very old,
he's very worn out. He just doesn't seem like he
wants to be there that. I don't know if that's
Adam Sandler or if I don't know if that's Kathy
Gilmour's character. I don't know if with which it is. Uh,
but there's very few jokes in the trailer. It's more
of taking a like a This is an iconic movie

(43:51):
and we're making the legacy sequel to it, so I'm
sure there will be jokes obviously, but I think I
think he has a respect for this character, and I'm
hoping he realizes how important this character is to countless
generations of people that he is going to do it justice.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Yeah, there's definitely people that started playing golf because of
this movie.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Just like people started boxing because of Rocky. I can
guarantee that my brother and me would go to the
driving range because of Happy Gilmore like you mentioned, and
a lot of my friends ended up, you know, joining
golf teams for the high school exclusively because of Happy Gilmore.
So we'll see what happens with with with Happy Gilmore. Jonathan.
Any closing words on the Sandler.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
No, man, I think that was a great bracket. I
wouldn't have changed anything. I'm wondering order, Yeah, I think so. Well.
I know why you did? You really like wedding singer?
I do too.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
Why would you have wedding singer at number four?

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Maybe again, I think three, four and five you could
put in any order and nobody could really fault you
for it. You know what I mean. I think Little
Nicky's definitely eight, Mister Deed's definitely seven, fifty First Dates
definitely six yes, yes, and Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison
one and two. I think three four five is where
you can get into a debate.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
And again, like you said, whatever, it's whatever mood you're in.
You know, do I want to watch a dumb comedy
about a football player who's not smart? Do I want
to watch a heartfelt movie about him with a kid.
Do I want to watch a rom com with him

(45:31):
and Drew barrymore? So Again, I think you could have
put those three in any order. But I think we
did good work. No upsets. Obviously. The close one was
water Boy Big Daddy.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
And it just goes to show you how many iconic movies,
I mean, all the quotes that we were throwing down
through all right, Yeah, we're rooting for Adam Sandler. I
don't want to not like his movies. I always give
him the benefit of the doubt. I watched hub Halloween
from a few years ago. It actually wasn't I didn't
think it was that bad.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
See, I think I liked his other ones a little
more than you do. I like, just go with it,
didn't care for it, Blended, hated it? Uh, And what's
the other one?

Speaker 1 (46:05):
Chuck and Larry Chuck.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
I actually just watched that the other day.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
Not a fan.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
No, No, I think that movie's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
I heard Johan's not bad.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
I've never watched its, Zohan. I couldn't do you like Zulander?

Speaker 1 (46:18):
Not really?

Speaker 2 (46:18):
Yeah? See, I watched like ten minutes and I turned
it off. I was like, and I like dumb. Yeah,
I like dumb funny. I love Dumb and Dummer. I
love East van Ta. Yeah that one. I just I
got to the scene where they had like a like
a gas fight at the gas station and the guy
at a match, and I was like, all right, I
can't watch this anymore. But there's one other one that's
kind of like just go with it? And uh, just
go with it is with Jennifer Aniston's Blended is with

(46:41):
Drew Barrymore. What's the one with Brooklyn.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
Decker that's also with just go with it? Oh, that's
the same, like the side piece woman, I got it
because that's too familiar with the plot.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
No, No, he meets her and then he has to
pretend that Jennifer Andson is his ex wife because he
used to wear the ring.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
And then that's how he got there off.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
Yeah, and you.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
Know there's there's Pixels, and then The Jack and Jail
and uh so many other crappy movies, even the the
remake of The Longest.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Yard Mystery Murder Mystery, right bother with those with Jennifer Anison,
I think.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
But like I said, I liked you b Halloween from
a few years ago. It's like a you know, you
have to look at it as like an earnest type
of movie, like one of those goofy early nineties kids movies.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Fanglish.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Yeah, that was a good one. And then on Cut
Gems was very good.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
I did like Cut Gems.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
Very intense. But you know, like we said, we we
love Adam Sandler. We're rooting for him. You know, he's
a he's a New York guy in the sense, you know,
he's a big Yankee fan. He's a big Jets fan.
He's from the I want to say the New England area,
but he.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Grew up movie about the Jets.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
He should well, he has the kid watching the goddamn Jets. Yeah, daddy,
So yeah, we love Sandler. Hopefully maybe he'll listen to
this podcast and we can have them on. That's the goal,
that's the I would expect nothing less, all right, Jonathan,
So long, alright, buddy, see you next time.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
H