Now, you will go to sleep or I will put you to sleep

Depending on my mood, Happy Gilmore is either my favorite or second favorite movie of all time. 

Gilmore is clearly Adam Sandler’s best movie.  Some people, I won’t name names, feel that Billy Madison is the better movie.  Now, while I feel Madison is hilarious, it doesn’t even come close to the comic genius that is Gilmore.

Anyway, my point is that because of Gilmore, I give every Sandler movie a screening.  In fact, I went to see The Longest Yard last night.  With each movie, though, I have been feeling that Sandler has been straying further and further from his base.  I recently read an article that articulated my feelings about it perfectly.  Here is an excerpt:

“But Sandler has been wrong to lose touch with the boneheads and boobs who made him famous in the first place…We need someone to make dumb comedies that both smart and dumb people can enjoy. And if Adam Sandler would quit trying to get more famous by making middle-of-the-road airplane movies instead of spectacularly wrong failures that turn into beloved cult hits on DVD -- if he could get busted down to where he could make more Billy Madisons and more Happy Gilmores -- we'd all be better off.”

Comments

[j.mo]

agreed. "Couch. C...O...R..., uh, are you going to the mall today? ... No, Billy, I'm
not goin to the mall."

[Dreadmouse]

"The Price is WRONG, bi$%h!"

Funniest Bob Barker moment, ever.