Adam Sandler's Greatest Sin
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0:00 I can't stop thinking about 50 First Dates
1:38 the spirit of sandler
4:50 the pineapple treatment
8:37 danger danger danger danger
11:20 It Will Be Fine
12:36 kid approved
14:00 I am now childfree
15:55 outro 
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Please do a video on About Time. I hate the protagonist in that film for using time travel to manipulate people into having sex/falling in love with him.
I feel like Click was almost a really profound movie but then they did the whole Christmas Carol thing and rewound time
@@estRJ truly a slimey abomination of a rom com.
Joel debate when ?
Your tone seem very pointed at a certain youtuber who made an unnecessarily detailed and long one hour video destroying Click.
I'm not finished the video, but I've always been VERY aware of the body horror aspect of his movie. Can you imagine waking up on your Dad's birthday to find that you're 8 months pregnant and have no idea how that happened? And then you're presented with a video that's like "you have brain trauma so you have no short term memory, but also congrats you're married and very happy." Literally my worst nightmare.
Lol, like imagine waking up the day in the babies due date, one minute you go to sleep a single woman the next you're squeezing a screaming child out of your uterus, hours after being told you're pregnant and married. That really is insane.
I'm pretty sure that most people would've suffered through several months of immediate panic attacks possibly knocking them out from th3 body horror alone
And then you are not like near anyone you trust that can confirm, you go to find your last remembered support structure, and nope you are trapped in an ocean prison, I mean sail boat. I just thought of this, did she already know how to sail or?
yeah i watched the ending scene on cable once and i was baffled that she just...accepted the video as 100% true fact? with her condition, she doesn't even know that she has memory loss so it's not like she could just chalk it up to that. she has no way of knowing anyone around her is telling the truth about anything or that the footage wasn't faked. imagine writing the ending for the film and not having it end with her screaming and trying to get off the boat and killing adam sandler in self-defense.
Seriously, it's a wonder she hasn't had a fatal heart attack by the time we end the movie.
I hope the day she gave birth they were able to tell her what's going on first. Waking up and going into labor is Junji Ito levels of body horror.
Honestly the setting itself is perfect for a Juni Ito short story.
This whole thing is like the opposite but almost as terrifying version of the Long Sleep. Instead of remembering entire lifetimes just to realize they're fake, is constantly forgetting your life as more and more horrible things happen to you without your control or even context of how you got there. Someone has to do this-
I just can't understand the way people minimize the pain and horror of pregnancy and childbirth even under the absolute best circumstances...
yeah.
To be fair though she would forget it in like an hour or two... Lol
It's so interesting to me that the creators seemingly haven't even considered making the Adam Sandler's and Drew Barrymore's characters already be married / in an established relationship when the accident happens. Now that would actually make a compelling and bittersweet storyline.
That would change the entire premise of the movie - even the name of the movie
@@JL_Lux Maybe even the name could be kept. Picture: loving husband resolves to giving his newly-amnesiac wife her 50 "bucket list" date nights. Each time, he asks her what could be better - until it's finally *perfect*. To her, it's always their first time there (aka, their "first date" at that particular place), so from her perspective her husband just becomes more and more thoughtful throughout the movie. "I've always wanted to stay in a snowed-in log cabin with a huge fireplace." Once there: "brrr, we should've brought a bigger blanket." Next time: "Um, I guess we could bring s'mores next time?" And then eventually: "I really can't think of a single thing I'd change. It's perfect." Onto the next bucket list date. And the ending of the movie is a new morning, she's curled up in their bed at home, watching a compilation of their 50 "perfect dates" play on their bedroom TV, and we see her laughing and crying happily as the screen fades out - but the soundtrack of those dates (particularly the ones we "experienced" alongside them) continue playing while the credits roll.
They couldn't do it like that because then her amnesia would not be about *him* and how *he* supposedly changed to be with her.
That wouldn't be an Adam Sandler movie.
@@Posiman but it could be though. On the dates that already aren't "perfect", they both just do stupid stuff because he's goofy and she won't remember regrets later. Like, a picnic in front of the Eiffel Tower is one of her dates, and after her going 'uh, I guess some goat's cheese with the baguette next time?" they just go ham. Like, swordfighting with fresh baguettes, throwing olives at each other, etc. At two points he's arrested by the French police for humping the Eiffel Tower, then for acting like he fell off the top, etc. That's why she's laugh-crying at the end.
Imagine having a mom who remembers nothing about you or your life. Anything you open up to her about evaporates the next day. She can't be a supportive mom and your dad controls the base narrative she has to go on. How heartbreaking that would be
Never thought about the kid. God that's terrible.
It’s like having a parent with dementia from the get go. :(
She writes in her journal still i imagine
And she has to be informed you exist every morning... It reminds me of how heartbreaking it is when people have dementia and are incapable of recognizing their own children, except in this case, it would be like this from day one
I mean, I think anterograde amnesia shouldn't inherently be thought of as rendering someone incapable of being a good (or non-traumatizing/non-damaging) parent.
I agree this was a shitty idea to do as a lighthearted "happy ending" in an Adam Sandler romcom.
But speaking as an ND person who wanted and planned to have kids for a lot of my life, I think presuming that any TBI or form of neurodivergence would inherently make someone an unfit or damaging parent to have, is... Not great.
I think with accommodation, most disabilities and NDs don't have to preclude parenthood. There's also a lot of historical precedent for society taking away disabled people's reproductive rights partly due to that assumption, which still gets made today and can still interfere with disabled people's reproductive rights and custody over their kids.
To be clear, I don't think anyone in this thread was intending to make any statement like that about what anyone's rights should be, or what groups of people should or shouldn't have kids. That's just the direction my brain kind of has to go in with these kinds of subjects, because this is the kind of thing people in my and similarly-positioned groups in society sort of... have to consider, because it's a risk we necessarily face in real life.
Imagine being in your late 20s, going to bed, then waking up and you're in your 60s and there's a grown man trying to calm you down by telling you he's your son even though he's older than you think you should be.
As opposed to waking up 60 and realizing you've done nothing you wanted to do with your life and instead you've been repeating the same day for four decades?
@@andrewsilva9721 i would absolutely take that over severe amnesia wtf
@@andrewsilva9721
Yup I rather do that, yes. Realistically think for a moment, one of the pleasures of having children and or a husband or wife or partner is the fact that you get to have memories with them and create the bonds you have with them. Why the hell would I want my future family to suffer with my condition, me not knowing anything about them, them being absolute strangers and never live life with the bonds I've created. Like jeez, yeah I rather be single than know that I can't remember the name of my children. Just because you have children doesn't mean you've accomplished something great in life, especially when you don't even get to enjoy the fact that you have children. Depending on the person, that could be severely horrifying.
@@bobtheball5384 well, I guess we just have very different perspectives, then. I would rather wake up every day, spend a few hours coming to terms with my past, and then live out the life I've unknowingly created, than live the same day over and over again without knowing it. Or,, worse, much worse in my opinion, find out that I've been living a false existence for decades and that I'm going to fall back into a loop as soon as I go to sleep. If I were to wake up tomorrow as an 80 year old man I would much rather wake up and spend time with my grandkids who I had (in my subjective experience) never met before, than wake up in some special care home where I've done nothing but be a burden to a bunch of social workers all my life.
wasn't this mentioned in the movie actually?
The thought of having amnesia while bringing a child to term is the most deeply terrifying thing I could ever imagine. It's an extremely invasive and visceral version of body horror+ psychological terror. I hate it so much😨😱😳
They could have avoided the body horror by having them adopt a kid… of course it would be very unrealistic that they would be allowed to adopt given her condition but would be far less horrific
Yup. Literally my worst nightmare
@@melbapeach162 or, you know, not bring a kid to a family that isn't suited to raise one
Shit, that would make for a pretty great psychological thriller.
I imagine this is how factory farmed animals feel
I used this movie as an example when I wrote about amnesia in media. It’s one of the strongest examples of how gendered amnesia is as a plot device. Men with amnesia are action stars, women with amnesia are lost little lambs needing to be taught how to love.
Long Kiss Goodnight is the only example I can think of where a woman with amnesia is an action star. Exceptions that prove the rule and all that.
@@Paroex Yeah that was the only one I could find while searching. It's always either a romantic comedy setup or a sad drama setup when the woman has amnesia and it's almost never compelling to watch for me.
I once did a video about the indie movie Hippopotamus which is....well I think everyone should watch it so I can't fully spoil it. It's one of the few times the amnesiac woman as victim story has really drawn me in and made me feel something.
It's about a woman who is kidnapped by a guy and he says she has to fall in love with him to be freed. That's the summary premise you'd see on a streaming site. It deals with the trickiness of memory and how vulnerable you become when you don't know who you are. I remember watching it and thinking "this is actually how 50 First Dates should have played out."
Neat, now I want to go write an action story with an amnesiac protagonist.
@@WritingWomen thanks for the movie rec that sounds wild
@@WritingWomen iirc another example of a female lead with amnesia is alice from the first resident evil movie (and technically the rest of the franchise but i don't recall her amnesia being as big of a plot point as the first movie) oh and coincidentally another alice from the alice in wonderland games (the one with the dark themes, i forget the specific name but it's fairly iconic) where she has to recover her memories throughout the game regarding a traumatic event. both examples might be interesting to include in your analysis as to varying extents both characters take on the role of 'action hero' and 'damsel' (but mostly the former).
I actually had a relationship end because an ex ended getting retrograde amnesia of her entire life following a suicide attempt. Shit does not work out like it does in the movies. I mean, I can't imagine how boggling it must've been for my ex at the time, but...yeah. Shit was brutal.
That being said, the illness in this movie actually does exist; it's called Anterograde Amnesia. It's defined as an inability to form new memories as opposed to forgetting old ones (which is retrograde amnesia and what we typically think of when we think of amnesia). This movie (as well as the movie Memento) actually depict Anterograde Amnesia fairly decently. New talents can be learned, but the memory of learning those new talents won't be cemented. There's a good couple of videos on youtube when searching, "Anterograde Amnesia" that depict it in real life.
This movie is definitely sickening that Adam Sandler's character's main point of attraction is the ability to constantly lie to this person over and over and that's just gross. That's quite literally abusing a mental illness.
I love how Memento actually addressed that the main character is actually disabled. And that people take advantage of his disability and how that plays into the plot. Its so much more realistic and humanizing than this
From what I've seen, it doesn't actually work anything like in this movie; you don't just live single days with normal memory of everything from that one day but forget everything the next day. You forget what was going on as soon as you stop paying attention to it.
@@omgitskittyandjaja oh my god yeah it is WAY more humanizing. Tbh the way they set it up for him to be independent for the most part is really cool too, like idr the character's name but Guy's character has to go through so much in order to keep himself informed and able to live day to day. The idea of having amnesia is scary and it really makes you think about and empathize with people who have the condition.
@@-tera-3345 oh shit I didn't even think about it like that. I suppose that makes a lot of sense
And the possibility that Drew Barrymore actually got raped in real life makes this even worse.
Jack Saint’s next video: The 50 First Dates community is not pleased with me
r/50firstdates is livid right now
I would love for him to talk about “That’s My Boy” next… really disturbing concept for a movie and most people kinda ate it up or didn’t bat an eye when it came out… just odd.
I agree with your conclusion, but I feel like you left out part of the movie's attempt to justify itself. The movie portrays Drew Barrymore as having 3 options, have her family recreate the day of the accident forever, live in an institution, or live with Adam Sandler. This ignores the obvious idea of having someone who is not her lover keep track of her memories.
Why couldn’t her brother and dad try keeping track of her memories instead of the weird charade they went with, it’s not like it would be any more inconvenient than the life they were living
Another issue is that she seemed pretty happy in the insitution and she had a sense of purpose there but the movie didn't want to let her have that
@@melbapeach162 Iirc the movie logic was that it was too much to make her have a mental breakdown by throwing the full weight of her reality on her every single day...which kind of makes sense.
She has a memory disability and recreating the day actually seems like a very worthy and kind thing to do which limits how much she experiences that disability. However, she cannot really consent in the film - and even if she consents, she always has the same perspective so she will always give the same opinion. You'd have to check in with her about how she wants to live with this disability - ignorant or overwhelmed.
@@BrookeBaubles A woman would be better off committed to a mental asylum than married with a family. Modern western ideology in a nutshell.
i think the fact that she remembers him and paints him when he's not there and keeps the journal with her recollections of her life, and how she gets to tell herself her own story, makes it a little better. not much, but a little
He pretty much left that part out because it didn't help his narrative. Pretty much stripping the female character of the agency she really have in the movie.
That scene definitely always felt like to me that the producers, screenwriters, etc, realised that ultimately, Adam's character and his and her love story is actually really weird and creepy, so they made that scene to justify the entire plot of the film.
I think this is the sort of movie that you really have to switch your brain off for, you need to view it almost as a fairy tale and try not to connect it's themes and plots to the real world.
@@Puerco-Potter do you really have agency when you fall in love with someone in one day, they give you your memories that fight we had, caught me cheating, beat you? You think he's putting that in the tapes. Then acting like it's romantic. It's not.
@@Puerco-Potter Because it's a deus ex machina addition to the plot. She can't remember new stuff so "suddenly remembers Adam Sandler" isn't a defense of the movie. It's like the blind character suddenly being able to see their loved one. It's insulting to people with disabilities.
I always thought that ending was so stupid too. Like why not just have HER film the videos to HERSELF. Then she gets to tell herself about all her life choices, thoughts and decisions, and be informed of them by her own words. That seems way less scary to me. If I woke up and watched a video of ME telling MYSELF what happened, I'd be way less horrified than if someone I didn't know was telling me about my supposed life
I always thought the pineapple was there so they could show how violent the crash was, without showing any real violence to keep their rating and comedy tone. Like they weren't even trying to make a joke, and they just couldn't find a more appropriate way to handle the crash.
I see where you're coming from, but if you're _just_ going for a visual brain trauma metaphor, there are more sensible fruits to use-melons, for instance. Or cabbages. Something roughly head-shaped.
I do think that there's at least _some_ "lol pineapple" in there. Which would normally not be remarkable, except that it's also trying to be a very serious scene.
@@timothymclean yea i agree it's both
@@timothymclean well they do live in Hawaii, pineapple is pretty "island" they're just too dumb to have used a coconut lol
I also think they didnt want to have anything that could crack or burst as that doesn't match the violence they're portraying
Same, this literally never occurred to me and I had to go through the comments to figure out what people think the joke even is. I'm still not sure, but the only thing I can come up with is such a stretch that I dunno, who cares.
@@timothymclean I had no idea anyone thought the pineapple was funny. I refuse to believe the filmarkers intended for that to be funny.
In the early 2000s, I came home to find my mother being very confused and it took me a bit to realize she couldn't retain her memories after like 5 minutes. This lasted for hours and I had to answer the same questions repeatedly. It was very scary. During the episode she lost the whole month, but it mostly came back to just losing the hours around the incident. She was really concerned with orienting herself in time. I wrote a note to answer her common questions and she put it in her pocket and completely forgot about it while I gathered stuff waiting for the ambulance. I didn't know what happened to the note until days later when she discovered it in her pocket while going out.
When I moved out, I was always scared of it happening again and nobody being there for her.
Geez, that’s terrifying. What ended up being your mothers condition? i hope she’s okay now
@@TheNewYear75 Doctor called it Transient global amnesia. It mostly resolved several hours later. It was likely a small stroke or aneurysm.
She passed away this last summer as part of complications recovering from surgery to treat some abdominal aneurysms.
I actually found a note she had written in a journal while going through things cleaning her condo about the incident. Specifically finding the note I had written for her in her jacket pocket a month after the event.
@@zotaninoron3548 I'm very sorry for your loss. Sounds like she was blessed to have you
Same thing happened to me once, I kept asking where my backpack was and I had it with me the whole time.. Every 15 minutes I would freak out about my backpack and where it could be. my friends told me the next day they had to keep telling me the same thing every 15 minutes
What happened to her though? Was it just sudden or did something physical happen?
Drew Barrymore's character has the strongest heart ever. I'd have had multiple heart attacks in her situation. Can you imagine just waking up pregnant out of nowhere? I'd be crying and puking and screaming for Adam Sandler to get away from me, I would not bother watching criptic "watch me" videos to understand what was going on. The fact that she's both alive and not experiencing severe PTSD by the end of the movie is incredible.
You can tell her character had never seen Total Recall. Because anyone who has would never straight up trust a video from their past self.
She could easily have killed Adam Sandlers character too. Just walking up to some guy trying to tell you you lost your memory and trying to make you watch a video he made? At least a couple times she would’ve tried to fight him right?
She can't get PTSD cause none of her memories stick!
@@wadespencer3623 Not to be that guy, but given how complicated brains are I'm genuinely unsure whether you're right or not. It really seems entirely plausible to me that someone with anterograde amnesia might be able to develop this or similar trauma-related conditions. That said, I'm not a brain scientist or whatever.
@@blarg2429 I think you have the right idea. Some quick googling brings up studies that suggest that PTSD can absolutely develop even if you lose your memory of the traumatizing event itself, including studies where head injuries are involved. The severity of symptoms may be reduced by the memory loss, but a trauma response can still occur...you're likely going to have physiological responses to triggers, and may even be frustrated by not having a full picture of what's causing you this trauma.
Granted, the studies also do not seem to be on people living with anterograde amnesia as a persistent condition, but instead the kind of dissociative PTSD or physical head trauma that causes you to blank out the event itself as it occurred...so maybe things might go differently there. It's also hard to say because the condition in the film is completely fictional and doesn't track with the way real life amnesia works.
On top of that...major caveat, but the findings of the research in this area is also far from settled. But there's enough data out there (plus the general "brains are complicated" feeling) that makes me really hesitant to say memory loss will magically save you from PTSD.
This movie made me cry as a kid, it was absolutely terrifying to me. The idea of some man I didn't know getting me pregnant and removing all my choice in life. Having to bear and care for a child I don't know... It still makes my skin crawel
It was the people making her live the same day over and over again who were giving her no choice. Sandlers character put in the work to allow her to have a life. No one wanted to upset her by telling her the truth. He allowed her to have a fulfilling life one day at a time
@@Alejandro-te2nt idk how to tell you both approaches are absolutely fucked and so are you for justifying what real life women all over these comments are saying would be a literal nightmare scenario for them
@@Alejandro-te2nt you could interpret it that way, which is probably how Sandler wanted us to, but it's still nightmare fuel to me for reasons stated above.
@@Alejandro-te2nt >No one wanted to upset her by telling her the truth
People shouldn't be making those kinds of decisions for other people.
When my grandparent died, my father didn't tell me before work because he wanted me to be able to focus at my first job.
Luckily I managed to explain to them that I never want them to do that ever again. So when a years later my phone rang at 7:15AM and it was my father, I knew exactly why he called.
That idea terrified you...As a kid?...I won't call you a liar...but I'll say I feel like that's an extremely strange thought for a child to have lol
Goldfields Syndrome?
There's no way that wasn't Goldfish Syndrome in an earlier draft.
omg you're probably right i never noticed that
Someone told them you can’t *definitely* just call it goldfish syndrome and they panicked.
The ridiculous part is they could just call it anterograde amnesia. I get that myself for a good few hours after some of my seizures, given their focus in my hippocampus. The first memory I have after one of them is waking up in the hospital and asking "What happened? Where am I?" and my Grandma in a state of panicked concern, while my dad was pissing himself laughing. Apparently because this was about the sixth time I had woken up and asked the exact same thing in a row, all the previous ones I had it explained to me, and after a while gone back to sleep. My dad was used to this but my grandma had never seen it before.
@@sunyavadin Probably better to give it its own name in the movie since the way her amnesia works isn't entirely accurate to anterograde amnesia, so giving it a unique name makes sure they don't get confused or cause misunderstandings about the real condition.
I always felt bad for Drew's kid. Imagine every day your mother woke up and she had no idea who you were. Like, what if she didn't watch the video for whatever reason and was scared of you or said she didn't know you. I think Drew's character would be very nice to this little girl she didn't know, but not familiar to with her. A kid you don't know calling you Mommy and trying to kiss you will make you uncomfortable no matter how much you try to hide it. That would cause so many attachments disorders.
Also, I was always disappointed they never had a scene where she tried staying up for several days straight because she wanted to remember him as a long as possible. I'm fairly sure that's not how it works in real life but in this film's universe it seems like her memory resets when she falls asleep, so that would have been very sweet and also a bit of agency for her
That last paragraph!!
It makes me think of old people developing dementia and forgetting their children, and how heartbreaking it is, but to a whole new level. She would be told it's her kid, but she would have no memory of her, so how's she supposed to have any feelings for the child? You don't grow attached to a random stranger because you are told they are related to you, it comes from what you lived together, and can never remembers those moments. It's insanely sad
I think they unintentionally admitted the whole thing was wrong right around the time he met her dad and brother because of the lines...
"You know Lucy's condition and the fact she can't have a normal relationship with anyone because the next morning, she won't know who he is! And any guy who's okay with that, ain't okay with me."
"I'm not looking for a one night stand, sir."
"Anything with Lucy is a one night stand, numb nuts."
One of the hardest things about growing up is realizing the things you grew up with did not age well.
There’s an 80s romcom “Overboard” where a man tricks a woman into thinking that they’re married as revenge for her being a mean rich lady. She’s upset about it for a while, but ends up falling in love with him by the end.
'While You Were Sleeping' for a gender reverse of the concept
@@funoff3207 or the overboard remake
Lol true. Not the same thing but if you think about it lots of peoples favorite movie “pretty woman” is pretty disgusting premise too.... ahhh the good ole days of “power imbalance” romance movies! Ha ha
It's so rough to watch that movie because the actors have real chemistry, which is I think why the outright horrible plot went forward. Also because especially in the 80s "a haughty women gets comeuppance" was actually a big plot.
@@funoff3207 I mean, Sandra Bullock's character lies to his family about being his girlfriend or whatever it was. That other film sounds as if the man has sex with the woman whom he claims to be married to.
"Goldfield's Syndrome" isn't a real thing, but anterograde amnesia is. The "seven second Sam" character is an extreme version of a real person, a man whose short term memory would dump every few minutes and spent most of his life "waking up" every few minutes in a strange place with no memory of how he got there. At one point doctors encouraged him to keep a journal, and it was an existential nightmare of "now I am truly awake" crossed out and replaced with "now I am truly awake" crossed out and replaced with "this time I am truly awake" for page, after page, after page. He was in a bicycle accident at the age of 7 and started having seizures at the age of 10. They got progressively worse, such that by the age of 27 he was unable to live any kind normal life and doctors offered him an experimental surgery. It reduced his seizures, but also destroyed his ability to form new memories.
He then lived like that for another 55 years.
“like waking from a dream…. every day is alone in itself”.
when I was in college (in Mississippi, coincidentally) i stayed the night at this guy's house and the next morning he was like "okay so I want to show you my all-time favorite movie. it's a really great film and i think you're going to love it."
homeboy proceeded to put on a DVD copy of 50 First Dates with Adam Sander and Drew Barrymore and I was STUNNED. it was one of the worst things I had ever seen. and like i was sitting there while he got emotional over this movie and i couldn't tell if he was doing a bit or not. (spoiler: it was not a bit)
probably should have been a red flag but he was hot and played the guitar and i was 19 so i dated him anyway. he made me watch 50 First Dates With Adam Sandler And Drew Barrymore at least two more times before he broke up with me three months later because i told him it wasn't cool to say the n-word
Hope you’re not too hard on yourself for that one. I think just about all of us have dated “that guy” .... you know, the guy we KNOW is no good for us, will probably break our heart, or get us into some sort of trouble! LOL but alas we put up with it because he was FOINE (aka mega hot) 😘
Lol I like how you call it "50 First Dates With Adam Sandler And Drew Barrymore"
THAT LAST PART LMFAOOO
Dodged a bullet imo
Wow, that tracks. That whole description tracks way too well.
I've seen this movie a lot and I entirely disagree with your pineapple take. I think it's a stand-in for Drew's head, representing in a way that is extremely cheap for the filmmakers how much traumatic damage was done to her brain. Basically, I don't think it was a joke.
But, now in hindsight, I do think it is a disturbing premise for a film. I really enjoyed it as a kid, as an adult I worry about the extremely vulnerable situation that Drew's character is in.
Hi I'm Tom.
I was going to comment the same thing, it’s definitely supposed to show us the ‘damage’ without being too disturbing or graphic imo
This was always my interpretation as well. A way to illustrate the horror/trauma in a way that isn't too graphic.
Hi tom
Also, thank you for your review, Jack! I had a nice time remembering time spent with my siblings as a child 😊
@@melbapeach162 personally I wouldve used a watermelon since they break easier but eh personal preference
There is a Manga/Anime that managed to take this premise and make it not-creepy simply by making it about middle schoolers being friends rather than adults dating.
It's called "One Week Friends" and it's adorable.
That sounds cute! I would read that, but I will not watch this movie.
@@abbylarkspuryou could watch the movie adaptation of One Week Friends! It was really good, I’ve heard.
Isshukan Friends is such a cute show!!!! 100% a better experience than this lol
how can you even determine that she's ever been in love with adam sandler from the beginning? essentially, she's only known him for a day. how can he be sure she loves him? or did he just say screw it and one day in his recaps he lied and told her she loved him and every day since then she's just believed it?
She keeps her own journal that he doesn't know about until pretty far in to the movie, and when she decides to burn the journal and break up with him she keeps dreaming about him and recognizes him when he shows back up.
On top of all the horrors you’ve mentioned, there’s also the fact that this would be such a mindfuck for the kid.
You form an attachment to your mom, and she treats you as a stranger everyday. It’s a Sisyphean fight for connection.
THEN you eventually realize that your mom is trapped, and you cannot help her. You both are trapped in a charade put on by all those around you that you didn’t consent to.
I wrote a spec script about this in High School, 50 First Escapes. It’s from Lucy’s perspective, and it’s about her teenage daughter trying to get both of them off the boat.
I would read this!! Do u have a link? :)
Huh. Your brief description gave me serious selkie vibes.
my mother had anemisa and i remember "meeting" her when i was in like, kindergarten after it happened, and yeah, it screwes with you. i can't imagine having to constantly do that.
It makes no sense.
If the problem is that your mom thinks of you as a stranger, why would she consent on going anywhere with you? And even if she does, where would you go? You obviously can't live with her, since it would be the same situation as the yacht. The only other place would be a mental institution.
Imagine being the child who washes up your father's efforts in having a semblance of normal family AND getting your mom institutionalized. That's the kind of trauma no child would ever recover from.
really capture the whole issue with media analysis of kid-friendliness- bad words and the existence of sex are the scary things, awful themes and ethics are a little too deep to think about 🤔
There is a scene I remember in the film where Adam Sandler's character (I think? It's been a while), confronts Drew's dad in the movie about what are they going to do when she one day starts noticing she's aging.
As a kid, I loved this movie but I have always thought that concept was haunting. Just looking in the mirror, seeing an older face and either not recognizing it or not knowing how much time has passed.
I LOVED this movie as a kid. Fast forward to me as an adult- I literally have had a trauma based amnesia disorder from childhood, and I was just latching on to one of the few depictions of a person with amnesia with a shred of agency.
I think her agency is central to the entire premise of the movie, it's a serial manipulator meeting someone he simply cannot manipulate with all his wacky tactics, through her sheer strength of character - in spite of her disability - and he has to learn how to act like a real human being. I think Jack's idea of her having a life imposed on her ignores her actual character in the movie, and the fact her new life of not repeating the same day forever (she'd age, how long would that have lasted?) gives her even more agency in the end.
@@Lincoln_Bio 👍🏼
There's another movie with a similar concept that's infinitely better, The Music Never Stopped. A true story of a man who had a large benign cancerous tumour in his head that destroyed his short-term memory so he always thought he was living in the early 1970s. I think the movie embellishes a bit, but it's about how he was a hippie teenager who ran away from home because his father (played by J K Simmons) was a conservative who thought that rock music had turned his kid into a fuckup. It's mostly about his father trying desperately to re-establish a connection with his long-lost son while he suffers from this illness. Through experimental music therapy, listening to music that he enjoyed as a teen sparks old memories in him and wakes him from near catatonia, but the kind of music his dad likes has no emotional resonance so it doesn't help at all. Really beautiful movie without all the awful shit this one peddles in.
I remember being kinda floored watching this as a kid, at the end when she suddenly has kids. Just. Wakes up and has kids. I'd be terrified. I'd be livid. If I were a woman with memory loss and just was told one day that these children are mine and I have a husband. That's a daily trauma to live through. It never sat right with me, even then at like 12 years old
You are right to feel that way but I think a reason it didn’t strike people as horrific is because on some level that’s how a lot of American women feel about their lives.
Life happens TO you and is controlled by men around you who are presented as loving guardians but actually do not deserve your trust at all. You have no agency, particularly about having kids, in a post roe world. Men tell you what you want and what happens to your body.
It sounds dramatic when you state it bluntly, and feminism gets mocked all the time, but really - the fact that this movie was presented as normal romcom cuteness in the 21st century speaks volumes.
I think that's where the film sorta reaches the limits of it's ficitonal premise, like I think no matter what her life would be horrific in some way, like his charcter points out some day her Dad will die and she'll have gray hair.
Gotta check out that horror movie.
But it's wild to look back romcoms from the 2000's and see how much creepy stuff was acceptable back then
There's Something About Mary fits in here, although it's technically late 90's. Stalking! So funny! Lying! So justified! As long as it's the right guy doing it, not some douche or creeper... cause you can totally tell the difference, right?
Not just the 2000s. The farther back in time you go, the creepier and more abusive the romcoms get. I mean, the stuff that I watched in the '80s casually romanticized rape.
The Notebook where the guy threatens suicide to get the girl on a date with him - like what the fuck? How do people like this shit 😂
Seriously, growing up I thought my distaste for romcoms was because I was a repressed gay not interested in this kind of thing, since everybody else found it romantic regardless of gender. But no, it was literally just *that* fucked.
I was shown this movie when I was wayyyy too young at a church youth group event (of all places) and I felt extremely scarred by the whole thing and how predatory Adam Sandler’s character felt in a way that I couldn’t articulate at the time. I haven’t thought about it much since but it’s good to know that my eight year old brain was on to something. As an adult with understanding of disability justice, just yikes 😬 😬😬
Ultimately it isn't a crime to lie to people, she choses to be with him (though the condition isn't realistic, she shouldn't retain memory for more than a few minutes) so there isn't really any problems with it.
I've always thought this movie was in a weird duality. Like it's intensely concerned with the ethics of lying to Drew Barrymore's character rather than dealing with the difficult work of telling her what she's going through, and how it's not a good or kind solution to mislead her every day for the rest of her life. Yet despite that, it has absolutely no desire to interrogate the relationship that forms between her and Adam Sandler's character.
The movie accidentally supports an awful thing that happens to people from abusive families. They end up with abusers later in life because it’s “better” (or at least a change) from the previous familial abuse.
The movie makes the argument that what her dad and brother are doing is wrong, but then skips straight to the conclusion that that makes Adam Sandler right.
But it does interrogate that. The father confronts him about it and he even ends up leaving when he believes that no relationship can happen if she forgets about her love for him. He only comes back when they realize that she actually does miss him and she remembers him in some small part. The pregnancy thing should never have been done, but other than that, they gave her all the agency possible to get all context and make decisions.
I actually forgot about this Sandler film somehow. Which is amazing when you consider the deeply uncomfortable aspects of the premise. Whereas stuff like 'The Truman Show' argue that controlling a person's reality is inherently wrong, here Sandler's protagonist shapes an amnesiac women's life, without her being really able to properly give consent because her memory literally resets everyday and it is presented as good without question. That final reveal with the baby following the woman watching the tape is only wholesome if you don't think about anything the way Jack does in this video.
This is probably romantic comedy in a nutshell. You don't see problems if you don't think. Objectively bad behaviour, such as stalking or disregarding boundaries etc, given a pass by appealing to sentiments we are persuaded to see as genuine emotional responses. If you feel real emotions and question such prevailing sentiments and therefore the behaviour of the supposedly lovable protagonist, you can be safely dismissed as a romance hating buzzkill. The irony.
There are some rom-coms that don't stumble into that kind of pothole, which build their romantic relationships out of fleshed-out character dynamics instead of concerning high concepts or stale tropes.
They are, unfortunately, in the minority.
@@timothymclean Do you have any suggestions for some, I find it hard to find romcoms that don’t really do that.
@@namjoonssexybrain1679 Mostly anime. _Kaguya-sama: Love Is War_ would be a good place to start. _My Dress-Up Darling_ is also good. _Toradora's_ a classic. There's a bunch of rom-com-adjacent anime, too, like _My Next Life as a Villainess_ and _Spy×Family,_ but they're mostly focused on other stuff.
@@timothymclean Oh I love toradora, thank you for the others I’ll definitely give them a shot, I’ve heard good things about Spy Family and Kaguya Sama.
The irony here is if it was a gay or lesbian couple you'd have no problem with it and call it "stunning and brave" but when it is a man all of a sudden it is "problematic"
Of course she can consent, as depicted she can at least remember basics and formulates the same opinion of him, she isn't prisoner, she has the option to leave, it may not be a great life if she does but that is the reality of everyone.
In reality this condition activates every few minutes, that you would struggle to find someone being able to focus long enough to maintain arousal and thus consent though.
The "waking up/existing solely to find yourself in labor" is a very minor but extremely striking subplot in the Apple TV drama Severance, and one of the most horrific elements of an already pretty horrifying show. Amazing that it was played for comedy/heartwarming without a hint of self-awareness.
It's fantastic how your mother has become an important part of your videos. Her perspective is so invaluable, and she is likeable.
Adam Sandler on the bad date days, “ amnesia won today 😔. “
I find it interesting that people find so many horrific aspects within this movie. It reminds me of Jordan Peeles comment about his transition from comedy to horror wasnt difficult because the difference between the two genres is the music and sound effects.
I've enjoyed this era of videos, where I'm stuck in a car or in the woods with Jack while he talks about content at me
Anybody else wants more of Jack's mom. She's would be a great co host. If only I had a better relationship with my mom
she's great, but I also think she doesn't deserve to be constantly subjected to the type of shit jack sees online. when he was telling her about anti-natalism i was like "no, please, don't do this to her!"
Also i can't really understand her so well through phone and bri'ish
Thank you everyone. I love being a part of something jack does and I always want to be a mum that my son can speak to about everything and anything. He’s not just my son but my best friend 😊
@@donnassalon3667 ahhhh we love it:)
@@donnassalon3667 you are always the highlight of any video you appear infor me. Also the only Adam Sandler film I enjoy (that I've seen) is "The Wedding Singer" so I got all happy when Jack said you liked it.
Groundhog Day somehow did the "retry dates" thing passably and on the other hand I just REPRESSED this Sandler movie lmao
Honestly it is concerning how romanticized this is I dont really know how to feel about it
It really happened to a woman, and it wasn't horror.
The hardest thing for me about this film was always crafting an argument about why the film was inherently icky without accidentally veering into arguing that people with severe mental conditions inherently shouldn't be in relationships (which, as someone who has mental conditions is definitely not an argument I'd agree with!)
So I'm glad Jack's made this video.
btw if you need studios to film in, public libraries almost always have sound proof multi media rooms you can schedule time in for free, and they have wifi too
"How do we recycle all of the sociopathic elements of Groundhog Day, while eliminating any shred of that film's warmth?"
The ending of this movie is basically just the "implication" bit from always sunny
This video has a very different vibe from Alpharads 50 first dates video but they both come to the same conclusion
To me, this is a strong example of a "turn off your brain" type of movie. This type of amnesia seems absolutely terrifying. If you think even a little bit of them implications of pursing a relationship while having amnesia like this, it's sickening. But if you don't think hard at all, it's a cute romantic comedy. And sometimes you just wanna not think at all and enjoy an Adam Sandler movie.
My thoughts exactly. Sometimes you need a brain off movie and he’s got a fantastic catalogue for that.
In reality people like this would need someone to care for them, and who better than someone who loves them?
Now granted each time they lose their memory we couldn't be sure they'd fall back in love, random changes, different neurons activating, etc and in reality it happens every few minutes not whenever you go to sleep so it would be impossible to really form any connection.
But assuming they were married before the memory loss it would be appropriate for them to be looked after, whatever memories do remain (with regards to what a wedding is and being able to tell you've been married from photos and a ring and such) should give them enough context to truly trust their partner and in that way there is nothing wrong with it.
It isn't a coincidence this story is turning up more often in horror films, where the villain murders and replaces the lady's husband though...
But I'd wager if this was a lesbian or gay couple then you people wouldn't have any problem with the "legal issues" or morality, you'd just be calling it "stunning and brave" because it is far more acceptable to just hate men these days.
@@esmeecampbell7396 lot of word salad to say you hate women and gay people bro.
Your argument is already dead in the water bc your first point is moot. bc she already had someone, her entire family and community, to care for her.
Nice try tho. Putting up an entire hypothetical scenario when the movie being talked about ALREADY exists. Where support networks for this disabled woman is already established and this guy is a stranger coming into her life point blank. (And even knowing it’s a shitty movie I do actually still watch it sometimes!)
and no, it wouldn’t matter if it was a gay thing or not 🤡 you’re super fucking weird man. Get that chip off your shoulder and maybe you wouldn’t think women hated you so much. They can smell that misogyny bruh
@@Birchlead I am a woman, Bruh...
I'm just calling out your hypocrisy, which you obviously won't admit to, you may even be deluded enough to believe yourself, but I've met enough people like you to see it from a mile away.
Whether my first point is moot doesn't invalidate the whole argument that's faulty logic, her father wouldn't be around to look after her for her whole expected life span, she really needs a husband and children to ensure she can be adequately looked after, rather than chucked in the loony bin and probably abused in there, at the expense of the state.
There are plenty of hypocrites like you promoting "stunning and brave" homosexual stories where if the roles were male and female you'd be calling it out instead, happens with loads of films and TV shows.
That isn't a chip on my shoulder that's me just being irritated by your bullshit. What I hate is hypocrisy and the free pass homosexuals get to put out as much propaganda as they want and commit as much abuse on themselves and others as they do, and yet still remain this perpetual victim we are all expected to like and support unconditionally.
@@esmeecampbell7396 “this disabled woman NEEDS a man and to have kids to be safe” you’re some kind of grade A weirdo do you even hear yourself.
Guess what you’re still so misogynistic that you come off as a woman hating man. Check that and think about it before you comment on shit again. What on earth kind of man do you think it’s going to be attracted to an extremely disabled woman where she can’t even tell who she is every single day and has never known or met her before in her life to impregnate her and marry her. You think that’s better than “the loony bin”?
So all disabled women should just be married off? I’d MUCH rather, as a disabled woman myself, to be taken care of by my friends and family and THEIR families and kids over some guy who swooped in.
Your homophobia also just straight up ends this conversation. You are hateful, short sighted, ignorant and completely unable to hold a conversation with civilized people. Hateful people have no place in polite conversation.
Again, get that hateful chip off your shoulder. You’d love a much happier life minding your own buisness and watching media you like instead of seeking out what you don’t like. You fool.
And you’re getting mad at gay people when watching content about one of tbe straightest movies on the planet. Not one gay person in it. Just sheer hypotheticals over a scenario that’s creepy in any form. You don’t think you might be a little off your rocker there?
Fuck off dyde. And liking your own comment is clown action shit.
Once her parents are gone, Sandler has complete control over her.
He'll force her to watch Little Nicky and Jack and Jill everyday for the rest of her life.
they have kids though which creates horrible implications (imagine waking up and you're 7 months pregnant. nightmare fuel) but it's good to know lucy would have more people in her life other than adam sandler. her kids could make sure adam wouldn't, say, cheat on her or abuse her or whatever just cause she wouldn't remember.
@@bubleous how if adam sandler had authority over them too?
@@alexarias5717 well once they stop being kids
@@bubleous yes I guess that's the only way!
haven't finished the video yet but i think the movie could have benefited from maybe explaining that although she couldn't remember the things that happened she could remember the feelings she had or something like that idk
there was something like that in the climax. After she leaves him and goes to be an art teacher in this institute for people with memory conditions, it's revealed she sorta remembers him in some way. She sings while painting (which she only did when she had a nice date with him), and she's made a ton of paintings who look like him (even though they got rid of all evidence of their relationship).
Granted, it doesn't necessarily solve the ethical issues shown in the video, but there's that.
@@Danae_O for sure for sure I meant having that a bit more as the driving force of the movie. it could have been a beautiful story about people with memory issues and how they relate to their loved ones and stuff like that. of course then it wouldn't be a silly willy romcom but oh well
Yeah, I did always feel like the last scene of the movie seemed to imply that it was getting easier for her to remember on some level (because of how easily she accepted the realization that she had a husband and daughter), but I definitely agree that it would've been better if they solidified it.
I met a man who had survived a traumatic brain injury and lost a lot of memories immediately following it, but he was able to remember people who were emotionally significant to him. He had kids and a wife who he divorced before his accident, and had started dating his high school sweetheart/first love again soon before his injury. In the hospital, he remembered his kids, but didn't remember his ex wife at first (they had been married for years but were never close, as he had been in the military and away from her). However, he still remembered his high school sweetheart because of how much he loved her, even though he'd been with her for a shorter amount of time than his ex wife. Being around people they love can help those with TBIs remember things.
Now he's married to his high school sweetheart :)
This makes me think of the dual brain theory, basically we humans have two independent consciences. The two sides of the brain work independently but interchange some information. That why we can have radically oppose desires sometimes. To the point that people with surgery in some part of the brain will develop some interesting behavior if one of their eyes see something the other can't. Maybe her not dominant conscience remembered her, while her dominant brain couldn't.
If you want an example of a movie that seemed all fine and dandy when you were a kid but is actually weird, re-watch The Rescuers Down Under. The set up is that Bernard loves Bianca and wants to propose to her. Even though it's really obvious that she likes him, he's too insecure because he always falls short compared to the alpha-male Jake, who wrestles wild animals daily.
At some point in the movie he's separated from them, and Bianca assures Jake that he's more reliable than he seems. By this point, you expect the story to be about Bernard realizing he doesn't have to compete with Jake, because he's got other good qualities, and those are why Bianca loves him.
But no, the third act is just him becoming just as macho as Jake (by bullying an innocent animal into submission), saving the day, and then succesfully proposing. Toxic masculinity wins the day, and the original problem is never adressed.
toxic ratscalinity
@@chriss780 toxic mouseculinity was right there XD
Oof I when movies do that
I hate to be That Person but the boy the Rescuers try to rescue is named Cody, the alpha male kangaroo mouse's name is Jake.
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fake news, thats whats the lamestream media wants you to believe
That screenshot of the r/childfree post really tied this episode into the ongoing story arc.
To me the difference between comedy and horror is Adam Sandler.
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Also, this movie is messed up, and I remember discussing it being messed up like fifteen years ago in high school.
I too was shown a variety of Adam Sandler movies growing up... I bet that that will not have any negative effects on any of us
I think this movie could have been a lot less creepy if it focused less or not at all in a romance and much more in the moral dilemas of this hypothetical situation, reflecting on some aspects of the human condition.
It is questioned in the movie wether or not we should do whatever it takes to keep this person happy as she was before the accident, or if we should tell her every day what happened tormenting her with traumatic truths for the sake of her gaining some agency over her life.
Helping her to make her own choices, keep up with time as she sees fit, writing journals making videos and so on. And towards the end of the film she might come to her own conclusion on wether she wants to be with this man or not, and what would it mean to have a relationship with her. Because it is true and I think it is worth exploring, that people with disabilities also deserve to experience love or whatever else they desire to experience. And that we as a society should help them get there the best we can.
But since the premise is about getting this girl first, and helping her second. It all just feels manipulative. Like she has no agency at all for most of the film. Eventho she eventually gets it, it feels like a side effect that is often undesired. Adam Sandler literally suggests erasing her decisions once they don't benefit him. Abusing her disability so that she never breaks up with him.
I knew a man with no short term memory due to a car accident. He had a notebook he had to write everything down in. If he didn’t immediately write it down, he would not remember.
He still remembered his wife and kids and dogs and important things, but it was very difficult for him to form any new memories. He knew time was still passing, and he knew he had the disability (he told me that he had it several times because he didn’t remember that he already had told me before).
I thought the condition she suffers from is anterograde amnesia? There's an interesting and...truly disturbing case of a man named Clive Wearing I think where he can't make new memories. You can have repeating sheet music because he'll continue forever, he gets lost in conversations as they're happening...and he's been that way for 30 years or something
y'know, I remember having watched this movie when it came out (i think like 2004? i wanna say i was 9) and one thing i remember about it very clearly is this sense of like, just, being uncomfortable the entire time? truly a bizarre experience
The Wedding Singer is a really good movie.
That's all. I have nothing else to add.
Punch-Drunk Love is great.
I think we've just named the only two good Adam Sandler movies I can think of.
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 punch drunk love gave me a panic attack, something about the pacing or framing of the scenes. I'll take your word for it lol.
@@appalachiabrauchfrau Oh no. I'm sorry to hear that. And here I was thinking it was a quirky, uplifting take on the superhero genre, with lush music and visuals of Hawai'i thrown in.
If it helps, I absolutely f**king loathe Love Actually. I know it has nothing to do with
Adam Sandler, but I just like to throw that out there on occasion, partly because everyone else seems to adore it and I'm just hoping to find my people 😕
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 I thought Uncut Gems was pretty damn amazing.
I love this movie. The premise and storyline have plenty of cringey aspects in retrospect, but it's worth mentioning that Drew's character DOES start dreaming about Adam Sandler every night, shortly after meeting him. It's called 50 first dates, so we can assume that they haven't known each other for more than like 2 months before she goes into the clinic. It's never explicitly stated when she started dreaming about him, but they do explicitly state that it takes her less time to come to terms with her accident every time she sees the video explaining it (she cries for less time every subsequent day), so it's heavily implied that she clearly remembers SOMETHING.... I think the fact that the final video on the boat is so much shorter than the others implies that she's starting to remember more and "getting better," or at the very least dreaming more about things that help jog her memory.... Plus her dad is there with them, so he's there to keep her grounded. Idk, it's not perfect, obviously, but I still like it 🤷
I agree everybody in this whole comment section is full of bandwagoners. She chooses to stay every day, if she ever felt like she didn’t want a relationship with him it’s clear she would have been able to leave. I also think it’s unnecessarily mean and demeaning to say somebody can’t make a future decision in the presents just because their disabled. (like funeral plans). By these peoples logic any time she would ever try to have kids she wouldn’t be able to consent to being pregnant. Your basically restricting her from building a life with anybody or ever having a family.
I feel like the Sandman should spend his twilight years making psychological horror movies disguised as comedies because for some reason he's weirdly good at that
the ending of this film has stayed in my head since i watched it way back with my mother. i think about it a lot, this real movie that happened.
There was a thriller made with basically the same concept called "Before I Go to Sleep." Woman wakes up every morning. Her husband explains who he is and what's going on. She starts to suspect he's not actually her husband and keeping a secret video diary at the direction of her doctor. I never saw the movie, but the book was a good read.
Jack talked about Before I Go To Sleep in this video.
I have a Traumatic Brain Injury (skull fracture, ear bones broken, post concussion syndrome) and, in the months after the incident especially, I would forget things that people said or that happened five minutes ago, let alone 3 days ago. It was very scary and gave me the feeling that I was going insane, and terrifying for my mom as well, who had to see me sit motionless for minutes at a time, staring at the wall, retaining nothing in my memory. If you don't have someone you can totally trust to not lie or manipulate you, I believe this level of brain trauma combined with the shock of learning of your situation from a borderline stranger would make a very strong person have a mental break
oh my gosh it finally hits me this is a messy reverse Groundhog Day plot
I keep being reminded this film exists, wondering how this premise got off the ground, letting it slip from my mind, and being reminded this film exists.
I don't remember if any of those cycles informed me of Henry's prior history as a deceptive pickup artist, or the fact that they have a kid. But that makes it _so_ much worse.
Ok but a horror movie where you wake up with no memory and you are forced to GIVE BIRTH?!?! That’s my nightmare
Gods I loved this film as a kid, & now every Adam Sandler film I see his characters are just fucking monster people. 😐
The movie would have worked better if instead of her having an actual real medical condition that is incurable she had a hollywood fantasy condition that made her retain more memories over time and she finally remembers Sandler after their first 50 dates.
By making it the real condition it would have also been problematic if she got cured by the end, but if she had some other thing they could have made her get better.
She does have a Hollywood fantasy condition. Goldfield's Syndrome doesn't exist and is basically a stand-in for generalized anterograde amnesia.
Also, people can recover from anterograde amnesia, in that they'll form new memories again. They won't remember the period of lost memories, but they can regain short-term and long-term memory function. This is contrasted with retrograde amnesia, where you can never regain those lost memories. Retrograde amnesia is when you lose memories of your past, probably the most common depiction of amnesia in all media.
Yeah. I think it would’ve been better if it was a straight up magic spell that could be broken.
She sort of does. She breaks up with him and destroys the evidence of their relationship that she had kept for herself, but then she dreams about him and paints multiple paintings with his likeness, and recognizes him when he comes back.
By the way, there is a film that's basically 50 First Dates but as a horror movie: it's called Before I Go To Sleep. Highly recommended, you should watch it.
The things I've always wondered was "what happens when her dad dies? Or when she wakes up as a 70+ year old woman? What happens if Adam's character dies?"
Your editing is mesmerizing, Jack. Thanks for this video it's actually what I really needed this evenin
This kind of reminds me of the show Severance. And the show handles the topic of amnesia really well. It’s terrifying and an awesome critique on work ethics. Imagine living a life where you never leave work, never see the sun, can’t know who your family and loved ones are… this is terrifying, it’s not a romantic premise.
I'm glad other people are also starting to see 50 first dates as the unintentional horror movie it is. If you changed the lighting and score and spent more of the movie from the woman's perspective, it would be a psychological thriller
That's what I said!
Appreciate the generous amount of Ty the Tasmanian Tiger bg music in this video
I remember sleeping over at a friends house and after she fell asleep I went into the hall and watched her parents watch this movie from behind the couch. I thought it was alright but I also remember being horrified at the implications of her having kids at the end.
Passengers 🤝 50 first dates
Scariest movies in the romance section
love your videos, can't comment anything useful now because its 5am
I think it’s not as bad as you make it out to be. If you remember, drew starts keeping a journal so she can keep herself updated on life events. While there is in fact a huge opportunity for Adam to control the narrative, it’s not fair to assume that’s the case. I think they shouldn’t have done giving birth sort of thing - as the movie itself addresses it’s fucked up
Plus didn't her father and brother also help with the videos? And weren't they also there on the boat?
Reign Over Me is basically someone's attempt at making a Punch Drunk Love or a Hidden Gems, where Sandler's standard comedic persona is put on its head... but it's still an Adam Sandler movie with all the trappings, and therefore the subversion doesn't land.
Or as the Dry Boys from Chapo Trap House once called it, "The 9/11 R*tard Movie"
At some point someone’s gonna make a video essay about Punch Drunk Love as a film about being neurodivergent in a neurotypical world and finding solace in someone who sees the world in a similar way you do.
I saw that movie once when I was a kid and hated it. But now I want to see it again with my adult self because that actually sounds pretty sweet.
Love how Jack's mum is just a recurring commentator on the channel now
I appreciate your dedication to the bit of always saying you're in a different state/city each time you mention your location.
Fun fact, there's a Hallmark movie version of this with Zachary Levi and Alexis Bledel and it's also bad and weird!
Ouh, I love these analyses. Reflecting on the greatest works of cinema, these products that were created when the greatest minds of Hollywood came together. Real deep stuff. Great as always!
It's like Prey, the video game from Arkane. The protagonist willfully puts themselve in a 50 dates scenario, but eventually, their brother Starts to abuse that situation and they have to find a way to solve it
Well that's actually not the real plot to Prey, though technically it's spoiler territory to say why. It's certainly handled a lot better than an Adam Sandler movie, but that's mostly down to Prey being largely a horror game.
I'm so sad I never had the opportunity to be in a relationship where I could control every aspect of my partner's reality. That would be SOOO romantic. Well I'm not dead yet. Maybe it's not too late.
The vids just keep coming🤩
I pretty much agree with everything you say here. I do have one nitpick though: I never really read the pineapple in that scene as trying to be some sort of comical juxtaposition. I felt like it seved as a sort of metaphor for her happy "normal" life being lost in an instant
Get a shit ton of plants, take advantage of all the rainwater so that way you have beautiful background pieces that grow quickly and provide health benefits 👩🌾
I still watch Little Nicky tbh, but I think the fantastical elements are what help. Like obviously at this point there are jokes that make me kind of wince but thems the breaks.
I never really vibe with this movie, but I could never grasp that makes me feel so unwell about it, so having another adult person talk about how this movie is gross feels like therapy
5:53 wait what
(after looking up the premise) wait WHAT
We do have giant umbrellas; they're called roofs.
Alpharad beat you to the punch on going over how problematic and horror-inducing this movie is.
I am so glad you made this video, I feel very validated
My high school theatre director wrote a musical adaptation of this movie, I played 10 Second Tom, I had a solo and everything, I was really good in it...
I got you on some free space to film in if you were in Indianapolis 😂 cheers and thanks for making good content ❤️
i enjoyed the random use of the Seaside Hill theme for the outro