In a sentence you don’t hear very often, Adam Sandler was generating some early Academy Awards buzz for his phenomenal performance in Uncut Gems, another rare reminder that underneath the formulaic comedy and lack of originality found in most of his work, the 54 year-old is a brilliant actor when handed more challenging material.
He may not have scored an Oscar nod, but he did win the Best Actor prize at the Independent Spirit and National Board of Review ceremonies, and even joked in his acceptance speech that his nominees would have to live with the fact that they lost to Adam Sandler. Around the same time, the Happy Madison boss issued an ominous threat that if Uncut Gems didn’t lead to Oscar glory, he’d set out to make a terrible movie on purpose.
The actor’s next release was Netflix’s Hubie Halloween, which isn’t even the worst movie he’s ever been in never mind the worst ever made, but a new theory is nonetheless claiming that the completely unoriginal and hopelessly uninspired comedy is Sandler seeking revenge after being overlooked for Uncut Gems.
Of course, you can instantly blow this theory to smithereens when you realize that Hubie Halloween finished shooting last summer, months before either Uncut Gems was released or Sandler threatened to unleash deliberate cinematic terrors upon an unsuspecting world, so in reality his next project is really the one that we should be worried about.
No self-respecting talent sets out to make bad movies on purpose, and Sandler clearly has a massive built-in audience, but his preferred method of fimmaking sees him much happier to gather his close friends together and have a good time rather than chase critical acclaim or awards season glory, and the approach has worked wonders for him so far.
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