The Comedic Rise & Fall Of Adam Sandler

Cornell Da Gr8 March 1, 2012 13

Adam Sandler received eleven Razzie nominations as a star, producer or writer of many awful films this past year. I thought of writing this before this news even came out. I can see into the future. I got emails to prove it. This post was meant to be voiced weeks ago. I just want to get out my thoughts where it went all wrong because it always was not bad.

He had a successful television career and transferred it well onto the big screen. He started off with films we see as classics now such as Happy Gilmore, Waterboy, and Big Daddy. That Bob Barker scene is embellished in all of our brains. We know what a medulla oblongata because of him. If they ever find the Scuba Steve action figure, it would be worth tens of thousands of dollars on Pawn Stars. So when did the ball start rolling down the hill?

Every movie he does now involves kids in some way. It was cute the first time in Big Daddy. But now he is asking for his children’s input. They are now part of the writing sessions for all of his films. One is five years old and the other is three though. They are women also. We all know women are not funny. Wanda Sykes? Come on now. Sheryl Underwood? She is just funny looking.

Money does change people no matter the media outlet. Adam Sandler has grossed over billion dollars at the box office for his career. It does not just stop with the music we all listen to. The first ten years of Sandler’s acting career can be compared to Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle. Then the past ten movies can compare to Snoop Dogg’s work with No Limit Records. He is comfortable with his money and he is just trying to put his homies such as Nick Swardson & Rob Schneider like Curren$y would say. His downfall was right after Reign Over Me. This was a role that took him out of his comfort zone in 2007. He was never able to turn his funny back on. He needs to contact Soulja Boy. Reign Over Me actually brought me to tears. But I did not think I would be crying on the inside now because I lost a once great comedian.

  • Huley_jackie

    pause at 2:07. #48. The Neptunes!!! lol

  • Calvin 2.0

    “women are not funny”? man you are so wrong.

    • Clay Davis

       Same thing I thought.

    • http://twitter.com/CornellDaGr8 Cornell Da Gr8

      Women are usually not funny. Bridesmaids saved them as a gender.

  • B-Easy

    At this point, Adam Sandler is just stacking money and putting on the guys he met when he was first starting out. Nothing wrong with that, but his legacy will be shit if he keeps down this path.

  • B-Easy

    And just like that, a Adam Sandler trailer drops today (With Ciara in the movie too).

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoWkFkWiiTc

    • http://twitter.com/CornellDaGr8 Cornell Da Gr8

       This one actually does not look that bad.

  • P-Body

    Responding to the Sheryl Underwood mention in the paragraph, Sheryl Underwood look so much like Wesley Snipes man. I thought that was his sister back in the day… Shit is crazy.. But overall I agree with this post and Adam Sandler doing what he have to do to get that paper even though we may not like the path he is going. Adam was one of my favorites at one point in time. Maybe with him being older he trying to go a different route.. Who knows.

  • Clay Davis

    Adam Sandler is the white Eddie Murphy. I think they bet each other who can make a more bullshit movie.

    • P-Body

      That is so true man, good comparisons.

    • B-Easy

      Eddie Murphy won.

      • http://twitter.com/CornellDaGr8 Cornell Da Gr8

         I was going to put something like that since they both did SNL together.

  • Mr. Jones

    Reign over Me was his second and last real performance. I enjoy bits and pieces of his movies, but mostly eh.


 
 
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