There are so many steps to making a film, so many possible points at which someone simply stops it.
You need a script, then to find a producer (though I imagine in this case producer game first), someone to bankroll it, a studio to at least distribute it, a director, actors…
I mean, when Adam Sandler read the script, was he hurting for cash? Did the studio say “hey, we’re tired of burning money, let’s throw it away”?
He wrote the script Jakub. That’s how it got made, he’s a huge mega star and basically he gets to make whatever movie he wants to. What kind of idiot studio exec stops a guy on a roll like Sandler was when this movie got made?
Well, I mean in generic terms - Little Nicky was more of an example.
But yeah, I can see what you mean.
The other thing is, when you get right down to it, nobody knows what’s going to make a good movie. Sure, movie making is a business, but at some point it’s also a creative process; part of that creative process means that you have to take risks on what may appear on the page to be really stupid sounding ideas, because you just never know what will hit a chord with an audience.
That said, though, Little Nicky is an absolute piece of shit.
For the record, I had nothing to do with the art direction for that movie.
… or Eight Crazy Nights.
fwiw little nicky actually made me laugh here and there. 8 crazy nights just made me cringe.
You mean you don’t enjoy Adam Sandlers “make everything nonsensical and angry and every once in a while say something racist” kind of witty humour?
Actually, I thought Little Nicky had some moments. But yeah, overall it isn’t very good. I’m not huge fan of Sandler’s anyway (I like Waterboy though). So I ask this same question about many of his movies, just as I do about just about every Jim Carey movie. I see ads for Ace Ventura and I just ask “These are the HIGHlights?”
All I can say is:
MattKiel, you were reading my mind.
While Baby Geniuses 2 was extremely retarded, it’s not hard to see why it got greenlighted. Even with horrible reviews, the first movie still managed to make $36 million worldwide, a tiny sum but still double it’s $13 million toal budget.
Because the perception is that there are so few kid’s movies coming out, and because the kid’s VHS/DVD sales and rental market is highly profitable, and because their budgets tend to be tiny, greenlighting even the dumbest of kiddie movies isn’t as much of a financial risk as the adult comedies.
I mostly agree, but Ace Ventura 2 had what I consider the funniest moment in any movie I’ve ever seen. It’s the part where Ace is on a stakeout inside of a fake rhinoceros. The air conditioning goes out so he gets all sweaty and has to strip down naked. Then the trap door gets stuck so he has to squeeze, shrieking and writhing, through a hole in the back of the rhino so that it looks to the passing class of sixth graders like the animal is giving birth. I’m laughing so hard right now I can barely type this. :lol:
waves at the Olsen twins
I mostly agree, but Ace Ventura 2 had what I consider the funniest moment in any movie I’ve ever seen. It’s the part where Ace is on a stakeout inside of a fake rhinoceros. The air conditioning goes out so he gets all sweaty and has to strip down naked. Then the trap door gets stuck so he has to squeeze, shrieking and writhing, through a hole in the back of the rhino so that it looks to the passing class of sixth graders like the animal is giving birth. I’m laughing so hard right now I can barely type this. :lol:[/quote]
Yes- that is a hell of a funny scene. That’s the one I remember from that movie too.
I’m not huge fan of Sandler’s anyway
billy madison is probably his finest “Sandler-esque” movie, but Punch Drunk Love, which is Sandler’s equivalent of Carrey’s “Eternal Sunshine” , is just brilliant IMO.
Whatever may be said about his other movies, Happy Gilmore is still the bomb.
These movies get greenlighted for the same reason as shit like National Treasure gets greenlighted. There is some proportion of the target market which will go see complete and utter shit. The trick is just to pick which set of morons you are selling to.
Teenage boys/computer nerds = National treasure, Armageddon, etc
More Teenage boys = Deuce Bigelow, Billy Madison, etc
Teenage girls = Princess Diaries 2, etc
More mature women = Maid in Manhattan, etc
Basically, drek sells, and people have poor taste.
Matrix 2 & 3 just go to show you that even AFTER they make a blockbuster, hollywood can’t figure out what was good about it.