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Post by politicidal on May 26, 2017 20:05:43 GMT
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Adam Sandler has made a bunch of bad movies lately (see: Sandy Wexler). So he’s probably as surprised as anyone to find himself in the Oscar conversation at Cannes Film Festival.
When the actor’s latest movie, Noah Baumbach’s tender family comedy The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), premiered Sunday night in France, it was met with rapturous reviews and a four-minute standing ovation.
"Who times those things anyway?" Adam Sandler joked later to USA TODAY. "Why not just say five?"
In the film, Dustin Hoffman plays artistic patriarch Harold Meyerowitz, whose estranged children Matthew (Ben Stiller), Danny (Sandler) and Jean (Elizabeth Marvel) reconnect after he lands in the hospital for an untreated injury and slips into a coma. The prospect of losing their dad brings up complicated feelings for half-brothers Matthew and Danny, who sought Harold's approval all their lives but always felt inadequate.
The project was personal for Sandler, whose own father died of cancer in 2003.
To play Danny, a divorced stay-at-home dad whose daughter (Grace Van Patten) is just off to college, "you use whatever's from your own life," Sandler said. "We've all been through the hospital with one of our parents and there's a big connection there."
Meyerowitz has 89% thumbs up on Rotten Tomatoes, with praise being particularly effusive for Sandler’s performance.
“A standout among other standouts,” Deadline’s Pete Hammond wrote of Sandler. "A sentence I thought I might never write: Is Adam Sandler a contender for best actor in Cannes?"
"With no shtick to fall back on, Sandler is forced to act, and it’s a glorious thing to watch," says Variety’s Pete Debruge. “Sandler is terrific,” Time’s Stephanie Zacharek confirms.
The funnyman appreciates the support, but doesn't intend to dive headfirst into more dramatic roles, as he's stagnantly done in 2007's Reign Over Me and 2002's Punch-Drunk Love.
"If Noah has an idea, I'm in," Sandler says. "I love making the movies I get to make," most recently a string of critically panned comedies for Netflix, part of a now-eight-movie deal. Meyerowitz will premiere on the streaming service later this year.
Working with Netflix, "they've been very supportive; involved, but ultimately believe in what I'm believing in," Sandler says. "I'm happy that so many people are going to get to see (Meyerowitz). I'm glad they'll get to see it as much as they want on Netflix."
www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/adam-sandler-is-getting-actual-oscar-buzz/ar-BBBxLMc?li=BBnb7Kz
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Post by romad on May 27, 2017 1:32:10 GMT
I have always had high hopes for Sandler. I loved Punch Drunk Love and knew he had more in him. And I liked Mr. Deeds.
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Post by hi224 on May 27, 2017 17:14:25 GMT
Best supporting actor?
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on May 28, 2017 20:56:37 GMT
Of course it will get praise-just like every Woody Allen or Stanley Kubrick movie got worshipful praise. Harry Potter was played by a Polish Jew.
I remember when movies about English people were played by real Anglo-Saxons.
Seems so long ago now.
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Post by hi224 on May 29, 2017 1:37:19 GMT
Of course it will get praise-just like every Woody Allen or Stanley Kubrick movie got worshipful praise. Harry Potter was played by a Polish Jew. I remember when movies about English people were played by real Anglo-Saxons. Seems so long ago now. hmmm?.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on May 29, 2017 1:56:51 GMT
If I have Western European heritage, why would I want to constantly watch movies about people that are not from a similar background? Or watch people pretending to be from the heritage? We hear complaints when Charlton Heston portrayed a mexican or Chris Lee portrayed a chinese, (ok Scarlett Johansson was able to portray someone asian but I suspect her heritage helped--and I dont mean her Norwegian side!). But why is it ok when someone from other than an anglo heritage portrays an anglo? Double standards. This tribal nepotism is really annoying. Thank Zeus for old European movies.
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Post by barkingbaphomet on May 30, 2017 21:34:22 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 6, 2017 1:22:23 GMT
Harry Potter was played by a Polish Jew. Folks, this is the face of modern conservatism. Run for your life. For millennia now, Jews have been denied full citizenship in countries. They have always been considered outsiders – from somewhere else. Nothing in the modern world says anti-Jewish bigotry like excluding Jewish people – or even people with Jewish heritage – from citizenship in their own countries. Do you remember the scene in “The Stranger” (1946) when Israeli Nazi hunter Edward G. Robinson is talking about a pre-war German scientist when Orson Welles’ character says, “Ah, but he wasn’t a German; he was a Jew.” At that moment, Robinson realized that he was speaking to the fugitive Nazi he was tracking down because the man could not acknowledge the Jewish person’s German citizenship. That same kind of dangerous ethic and racial hate is alive and well in American conservatism and on this thread. Daniel Radcliffe’s heritage is Irish Protestant on his father’s side, and South African on his mother’s. His mother’s ancestry is Jewish from Eastern Europe. Daniel Radcliffe is British, having been born in London, England of English parents. He is not a Polish Jew except in the feverish, delusional brain of the alt-right.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 6, 2017 2:18:49 GMT
Daniel Radcliffe is British, having been born in London, England of English parents. He is not a Polish Jew except in the feverish, delusional brain of the alt-right. In other words Hollywood is anti-Anglo Saxon. Apparently if one complains about Jewish tribalism and its effects on the host society, that is bad, but it is ok for that tribalism to destroy domestic culture. The British film companies EMI, Rank, and Hammer were destroyed thanks to that tribalism. Basically the movie studios hate white people. Their movies prove it. For every Daniel Radcliffe there should be ten anglo-saxon actors representing British film and society. There isn't. That means the host country is being denied its culture existence. And Ian McKellan (and Brian Cox) back it up since it is economic forces (controlled by people aligned to Wall Street and international banks and most of them are not Welsh Christians) that control the policies that lead to this phenomenon: www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/feb/27/class-ceiling-working-class-actors-study Truman Capote on American literature in 1968: "it has brought about the rise of what I call the Jewish Mafia in American letters. This is a clique of New York-oriented writers and critics who control much of the literary scene through the influence of the quarterlies and intellectual magazines. All these publications are Jewish-dominated and this particular coterie employs them to make or break writers by advancing or withholding attention.... I only object when one particular group--and it could just as well be Southern, or Roman Catholic, or Marxist, or vegetarian--gets a strangle hold on American criticism and squeezes out anybody who doesn't conform to its own standards.... Today, because of the predominance of the Jewish Mafia, they're not being given that opportunity. This is something everyone in the literary world knows but never writes about."
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 6, 2017 2:41:28 GMT
Daniel Radcliffe is British, having been born in London, England of English parents. He is not a Polish Jew except in the feverish, delusional brain of the alt-right. In other words Hollywood is anti-Anglo Saxon. Apparently if one complains about Jewish tribalism and its effects on the host society, that is bad, but it is ok for that tribalism to destroy domestic culture. The British film companies EMI, Rank, and Hammer were destroyed thanks to that tribalism. Basically the movie studios hate white people. Their movies prove it. For every Daniel Radcliffe there should be ten anglo-saxon actors representing British film and society. There isn't. That means the host country is being denied its culture existence. And Ian McKellan (and Brian Cox) back it up since it is economic forces (controlled by people aligned to Wall Street and international banks and most of them are not Welsh Christians) that control the policies that lead to this phenomenon: www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/feb/27/class-ceiling-working-class-actors-study Truman Capote on American literature in 1968: "it has brought about the rise of what I call the Jewish Mafia in American letters. This is a clique of New York-oriented writers and critics who control much of the literary scene through the influence of the quarterlies and intellectual magazines. All these publications are Jewish-dominated and this particular coterie employs them to make or break writers by advancing or withholding attention.... I only object when one particular group--and it could just as well be Southern, or Roman Catholic, or Marxist, or vegetarian--gets a strangle hold on American criticism and squeezes out anybody who doesn't conform to its own standards.... Today, because of the predominance of the Jewish Mafia, they're not being given that opportunity. This is something everyone in the literary world knows but never writes about." I would call you a damn liar but the delusional don't lie. However, your insane paranoia is just as dangerous to freedom and basic civil rights as any political philosophy can be.
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Post by Terrapin Station on Aug 6, 2017 2:46:28 GMT
It pisses me off that people will only praise the films that aren't absurdist comedies.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 6, 2017 3:16:40 GMT
I would call you a damn liar but the delusional don't lie. However, your insane paranoia is just as dangerous to freedom and basic civil rights as any political philosophy can be. In other words you cannot intelligently refute this attack on western culture-and that boys and girls, is what is really scary. No room for understanding or compromise. Do as I say, not as I do, is the motto you live by.
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Post by scabab on Aug 10, 2017 6:32:52 GMT
I would call you a damn liar but the delusional don't lie. However, your insane paranoia is just as dangerous to freedom and basic civil rights as any political philosophy can be. In other words you cannot intelligently refute this attack on western culture-and that boys and girls, is what is really scary. No room for understanding or compromise. Do as I say, not as I do, is the motto you live by. Take off the tin foil hat, go outside, have some fun.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 10, 2017 7:13:08 GMT
Take off the tin foil hat, go outside, have some fun. Ah yes, another "cannot refute the argument" post. On another forum I saw someone assess Breaking Bad and they made an observation which backs up my point about the evil whitey trope: "Breaking Bad is good until that awful fan service hollywood last season Spoiler: where all this unnecessary sh*t happens just to setup a stupid redemption ending. the show should have ended at the end of season 4 when he saw all that money he had and was like 'yeah, i'm out. f**k this.' they had to turn walt into this morally corrupt arch-villain for no reason. it happened gradually but just felt forced IMO. & skylar is awful and I wish he woulda just shot her in the face. his entire family is awful tbh."
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Post by faustus5 on Aug 10, 2017 11:07:10 GMT
' they had to turn walt into this morally corrupt arch-villain for no reason. Sounds like your buddy over in the other forum is about as ignorant and clueless as you. "No reason"? What an idiot--that was the plan, the raison d'etre of the series from the beginning, to be a tragedy of moral corruption. As has already been explained to you, tales of human failure, tragedy, and spirals into disaster have been part of human storytelling since storytelling existed. There is no conspiracy, moron. There's just human nature.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 10, 2017 14:32:10 GMT
As has already been explained to you, tales of human failure, tragedy, and spirals into disaster have been part of human storytelling since storytelling existed. And has already been explained oh you idiot of grand proportions, Hamlet ends with Horatio bringing hope to the community, and Moby Dick ends with Ishmail being rescued. There's a different between failure and tragedy serving a purpose, and it being used for some Wall Street tribal retard propaganda program. Maybe they can't help it. Certainly possible. Throughout the late 60s and 70s their Talmud buddies in the tv industry ended just about every tv movie with a failure message. Just like Breaking Bad, it often seemed tacked on and artificial. The few exceptions like Duel were possibly due to the fact that the Dennis Weaver character was a wimp much like the studio ownership. This observation is not meant for you of course, but for others of more intellectual promise.
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Post by faustus5 on Aug 10, 2017 15:49:05 GMT
And has already been explained oh you idiot of grand proportions, Hamlet ends with Horatio bringing hope to the community, and Moby Dick ends with Ishmail being rescued. Idiotic cherry picking. There are plenty of stories out there which end in complete disaster. And you couldn't tell the difference if your lunatic mind tried its hardest. This propaganda system doesn't exist. If it did, writers and directors would be constantly complaining about it. The only complaints they make are when studios try to dumb their material down to reach wider audiences and make more money. Making money is the goal, not enforcing some sort of anti-Western ideology (or whatever crackpot nonsense you imagine they are up to; you're such a drooling lunatic that your paranoia's aren't even consistent with each other.) No, all that's happening here is an insecure, dumb as fuck loser (you) is hallucinating things that don't exist. And we're all laughing at you here. Take your racist hate and shove it up your pathetic ass.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 10, 2017 17:36:10 GMT
You are the idiot who replied to me. Thought you'd learned your lesson before. Change your diaper, you'll feel better.
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Post by faustus5 on Aug 11, 2017 16:47:14 GMT
Crazy, racist, and possessed of the maturity level of a nine year old. Actually, most nine year old's I've met have more class than you.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 11, 2017 17:05:33 GMT
Crazy, racist, and possessed of the maturity level of a nine year old. Actually, most nine year old's I've met have more class than you. lol you are the one stalking me around! Oh well have your fun.
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