The ending and most of the movie felt contrived for me, especially once the novelty of the comedic stuff wore off.
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Click's ending should have netted the oscar nom for Adam Sandler
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This film was always so bizarre to me. It spends 90% of the runtime being a typical Adam Sandler comedy and it's just insufferable and then it pulls the last twenty minutes out of its ass and Sandler genuinely tries and mostly succeeds at delivering an emotionally resonate conclusion. I never knew what to make of it all...
Nah, okay, I do, Click still sucks. Nice hospital and wedding scene, though.
Nah, okay, I do, Click still sucks. Nice hospital and wedding scene, though.
I enjoyed most of this movie the first time I saw it, especially the dramatic shift. It really did feel like a kind-of Twilight Zone or even Black Mirror episode mixed with Adam Sandler comedy. If only they would have done it without the dog sex and fart jokes...
Sandler has been putting out performances that dwarf click for nearly 20 years now. Even as recently as last year he had Uncut Gems. If he wanted to do nothing but serious dramatic acting he easily could, man just likes to get a few million dollars to make dick jokes and see the Bahamas.
The dumbest thing about the movie is that the big tragedy isn't even caused by anything Sandler's character chooses. The remote just decides to start skipping shit for him. Sure, he skips a few things initially, but the character already values his life enough not to skip huge swaths of it voluntarily, so the movie has to take that away from him to tell the story it wants to tell. Like, it's not much of a morality tale if the moral is "it would be bad to have a device randomly fuck with your reality in a way you can't control until you die."
Uncut Gems was a good performance too. I think I prefer it to PDL.
People are so easily manipulated by a sappy ending lol.
Most of the movie is Sandler farting in people's faces or slowing down time to stare a woman's breasts
Most of the movie is Sandler farting in people's faces or slowing down time to stare a woman's breasts
The good sappy ending where a woman suddenly wakes up on a tugboat in the antarctic and finds out through a vhs that only is she not in hawaii anymore, but she got knocked up by some shmuck she's never seen before?
The remote is fueled by the users input, so the more they skip, the more the remote tries to mimic that pattern with its A.I algorithm.
A lot of people don't know that you can turn that setting off.
No, I get why, in-universe, the remote skips everything. But the writers could've made the remote work any way they wanted, and they chose to make it so the remote randomly skips huge swaths of his life. So the central issue of the movie doesn't end up being "man takes the boring parts of his life for granted and comes to realize the importance of time with family", it's "man realizes very early how important family time is, but is needlessly tortured by an AI for the rest of the movie."
Having never seen the movie but understanding that it's trapped halfway between a drama and a typical Sandler comedy, and watching that scene, I laughed out loud when he wakes up in a Bed Bath and Beyond. That's a Sandler comedy alright!
And the acting in that scene sucks, what on earth are people talking about. It's like a parody.
And the acting in that scene sucks, what on earth are people talking about. It's like a parody.
Adam Sandler didn't know that
Yeah the remote cheats to justify the movie, it would been better if he didn't care until his dad died because thought just giving them money was fine
tbh i wept over this shit when i was younger
there are definitely moments where it is trash but overall i found the acting and premise to be p solid. it srsly still makes me tear up when i rewatch it 🥺
there are definitely moments where it is trash but overall i found the acting and premise to be p solid. it srsly still makes me tear up when i rewatch it 🥺
Im sorry, i was telling a joke.
Sorta on brand that it wasn't funny in a thread about Adam Sandler.
If we're recommending other good Adam Sandler movies, I loved Reign Over Me.
Fucks me up every time
I didnt need this to fuck me up this morning :(. Awh man. Reign Over Me is such an incredible movie. But also incredibly depressing.