I should've read the comments before I commented with my comment which was basically what you said but less eloquently.
GooberEar
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Oh yeah I hate trying to spell this word, too!
Accomamodate is my kryptonite.
They don't have ankles. They don't have testicles. They are missing a bunch of ribs. They don't fart. They don't even have a Y chromosome. At a certain point, it's probably easier to list the things they do have.
I've seen Pig mentioned before as one of the good ones, so maybe I'll give it a go one night when I have nothing else to lose. My favorite of his recentish movies is Renfield. Probably because I went in with low, low, low expectations and limited research, but it was much better than I was expecting.
Good grief, another one I was going to mention that's already covered.
His movies are mostly bad, I think you and I might agree on that.
But the other aspect of it is that a lot of the people I knew who liked his early movies were just really shitty humans. So by association, I think that affected how I saw his movies. Just seemed like a magnet for terrible people and it was hard to separate those two things for me. Not to mention, the movies themselves were objectively somewhere between awful and just not that great, so I didn't feel like I was missing out much.
Oh, and I got "dragged" to that movie I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry IN THE THEATER. And that reasserted everything I already knew to be true about Adam Sandler movies.
You beat me to it. I like(d) him in his early career, then it got to the point where pretty much everything I saw that had him in it sucked, so if he was in a movie, it was a sign to me to skip it. I have had a bit of a change of heart in some of his latest stuff, I'll at least consider watching it if there's a modicum of evidence that there are redeeming qualities to the movie overall.
The other aspect of it is that I used to think he was good looking when he was young, and then sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s he just seemed to turn physically repulsive to me. Part of it is his hair. I think if he ever got a good hair cut or played a part that involved wearing a decent hair piece, it might not be so bad.
Disagree if you want, but I've felt this way and have been saying some variation of this (but perhaps not as eloquently) pretty much since November of 2024.
Granted, in the immediate wake of the election, even I didn't think things would be this way, at least not so soon. As soon as he took office, anybody with half a brain cell could see, first-hand sans conjecture, just how much of a disaster we were in for. I was like, at this stage, we're going to have to root for the hamberders to do their thing and in the mean time we're going to have to turn the other cheek and accept those Trump voters who come to regret their vote. If there are enough of them, and they genuinely see an apology as a path out of the cult, there's a better chance of turning things around.
I mean, it may not be the finest of fine cinema, but if it's even remotely as entertaining to me as the prior installments, I'm in. I'm not expecting anything earth shattering out of it, but a good, solid "zombie" genre movie that's not completely low effort, low budget or woefully over produced should be fine. At this point, I feel like we're far enough away from that awful period of cinema where every other horror flick was a terrible zombie movie phase of things, so this should stand out. Hopefully.
It might've been one approximately 25 years ago, around the time of the great poppings of the internet/i.t. bubble. I was in school working on a technology related degree at the time, but working in retail. A random customer at the store I worked for invited me to come interview with his business after he found out what I was studying in school.
First step was basically me and two or three other guys my age, meeting / interviewing with the guy who was supposedly trying to hire help. I actually don't remember much about that part, other than I was a little irritated about the situation. Granted, I was still young, naive, and inexperienced so I thought maybe multi-person interviews were normal-ish in the industry.
But then once the interview was completed, he told us we were all hired, and that we needed to watch some videos before we started the paperwork. Then he lead us to an auditorium FILLED with people, easily 100+ of us.
It was a total scam. The videos literally described a pyramid scheme for some random Amway-style bullshit that was "Internet based". There were no computer related skills needed, they just wanted us out there directing all our friends and family to buy stuff from their website because these recruiters get paid a commission on each sale.
I was so pissed. I let him know that he wasted my time. At which point, he accused ME of wasting HIS time. At least I was able to clue everybody at work in on what he was doing so he was not successful in future attempts to waste my coworkers' time.
Allow me to geek out a bit here, for the sake of the curious. Feel free to correct me if you're smarter or more pedantic than me.
Basically, the way seedless watermelons work is that you "breed" two genetically incompatible watermelon varieties together, so that the fruit they bare are seedless. If you took a "seedless" watermelon plant and bred it with a compatible variety, it would produce seeded fruits.
The slightly more detailed version of this: Unlike most animals, plants can have more than one set of chromosomes and be perfectly fine. In fact, having multiple sets of chromosomes can actually be beneficial for plants. Typically plants, like animals, have 2 sets of chromosomes, but sometimes by random chance or otherwise, they can have double the amount (or more). If you cross a plant with a normal amount of chromosomes (2N) with a plant that has double the amount of chromosomes (4N), you get something in between (3N). These 3N plants are often fertile and produce seeds when crossed with other 3N plants, but usually they are not fertile when crossed with 2N or 4N plants. They'll still produce their signature fruit, basically a hormonal response to being pollinated, but there will be no seeds or only underdeveloped, sterile seeds because the parents aren't compatible.