Anyone seen "Punch Drunk Love"?

[bif]

Was that the biggest waste of 2 hours or what? Does Adam Sandler have an acting ability at all? Is it just me?

[PVnRT]

1. Garbage garbage garbage

It got critical success because...I don't know.

[OneBlueSky]

2. guess I'm not the only one who can't stomach Adam Sandler . . .

ain't funny, can't act, what more need be said? . . . :shrug:

[Heyo]

14. I can't either....

The man just isn't funny!!.. He has done a few funny things...

but when he starts talking in the lame-ass voices.... come ON man!

I have no idea why he's had so much success.... still ridin' that Hannukka song I guess...

Heyo

[Pale Blue Dot]

3. Sorry. I absolutely loved it.

I have defended it before and I'll do it again. I thought Sandler was wonderful (and I am NOT a fan). I thought it was a perfect romantic movie for cynics.

[vi5]

4. I liked it....

Was it PT Anderson's best? No. But it was a quirky, little indie movie. If you're looking for laugh out loud comedy, that wasn't it. But I thought it was a decent character study, although I think they should have fleshed out Emily Watson's character a little more to explain why she would be attracted to a guy as neurotic as he was.

[Loonman]

5. Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore

Are my faves. The rest I can take or leave.

Winona just irritates me, now, so I can't watch her.

[Dookus]

6. I liked it a lot

and thought Sandler was quite good.

Not on the same level as Anderson's other movies, but I thought this was a very nice "small" movie.

[adriennel]

7. didn't like it at all

I thought Anger Management was better.
Sandler's best acting role? Happy Gilmore. Sorry, whenever I'm in a funk I pop in either my Office Space or Happy Gilmore DVD (or the Simpsons, King of the Hill, anything funny!)

[scottcsmith]

8. I think it was over-hyped

I liked it, but I didn't see it as the Sandler breakthrough performance that most critics hailed.

Robin Williams is a goofy comic actor that can play a dramatic role well. His Sy Parrish of One Hour Photo is brilliantly portrayed, IMHO.

[henslee]

9. My B. S detector kept me away. I get my Wes's mixed up but didn't he do

Magnolia and Bottlerocket? Or do I have it wrong.

[vi5]

10. You mean your Anderson's mixed up, not your Wes's...

Paul Thomas Anderson did Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Punch Drunk Love.
Wes Anderson did Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and the Royal Tennenbaums.

[henslee]

15. Thanks for clarification..... Helped me free up much mental RAM

[K8-EEE]

11. HORRID!! I Heard A DJ Say Re: 50 First Dates:

"A welcome change of pace from Sandler's usual "90 minutes of dumb guy in love" formula, this one is only 89 minutes.

[Whitacre D_WI]

12. Wonderful film.

I don't usually go for "tender" movies, and I don't normally go for "Adam Sandler" movies. But this was both, and it was one of my favorites of the year (what year was that? '02?).

[Superfly]

13. I enjoyed it more than "Lost in Translation"