robinwithabackwardn replied to your post: What makes it even more offensive is that I watched Punchdrunk Love last week and Adam Sandler is perfectly capable of doing a serious role but because it doesn’t get him money he refuses to anymore
I mean it had to have been a desire to be critically liked again that drove him to do those roles at all but I can’t remember what the reception to those films were at the time so he did want approval on some level at the time
I think they were received decently enough, but they didn't make as much money as his OTHER movies.
For example, Reign Over Me made 22 million. While I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry made over 100 million.
Two Adam Sandler movies, released in the same year, about firefighters, and the horrible, offensive one made the most money. ._.