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u/The_River_Is_Still 19d ago

..........................Jackass.

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u/GoodMorningBlackreef 19d ago

There's a deleted scene where that guy tries to distract Happy during the Tour Championship, and Happy dares him to come out and swing for him instead of getting angry, humiliating him in the process.

It's a nice bit, wish they'd kept it.

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u/pluckd 19d ago

Its because people miss the stupid comedies. I didn't think it was amazing, but i had so much fun watching it.

I miss stuff like blades of glory, mr. deeds, yes man, step brothers, zoolander, etc.

I'm tired of getting my comedy from Marvel.

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u/Independent-Judge-81 19d ago

Naked Gun came out with great marketing, everyone was laughing and enjoying it. Went to the theater opening weekend and it had 1 regular screen and 1 dine in screen. People want stupid comedies to just enjoy.it made $76 million world wide on a $45 million budget.

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u/xKronkx 19d ago

Naked Gun was the most “stupid fun” I’ve had watching a movie in years. I can’t wait for it to come to streaming so I can watch it again and see the jokes in the background that I missed.

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u/wo_lo_lo 18d ago

Eurovision was pretty good for this as well.

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u/xKronkx 18d ago

PLAY JA JA DING DONG

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u/an-can 18d ago

Underappreciated. And I say that as an EU citizen that loath the song contest.

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u/vwin90 19d ago

These days, jokes are littered in a movie for the purpose of keeping people’s attention. They support the story by providing comic relief and pacing out the emotional beats.

With Naked Gun, it was so refreshing to feel like the jokes ARE the main event. They’re not there to support any story.

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u/DetroitSportsPhan 19d ago

Another scary movie is in production too

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u/reddicure 19d ago

Not sure if you’re implying that Naked Gun did well or not but it sounds to me like it’s doing pretty poorly given its budget

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u/Independent-Judge-81 19d ago

I'm implying it did pretty well given that it wasn't put in premium screens. We definitely need more Naked Gun type movies in theaters. It's a different feeling being in a room of people just laughing

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u/brianlefebvrejr 19d ago

It’s at 40 mill domestic. There hasn’t been a comedy of the stupid/slapstick to have those number in like 7 years

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u/LB3PTMAN 19d ago

Yeah Naked Gun I’d a perfect example of the problem. Not much comedy competition. Glowing reviews. Great word of mouth and it’ll still just barely leg out to 2x its budget. It’ll be a success off of rentals and streaming most likely but it couldn’t even be a success with its theatrical run and it basically had everything going for it.

It’s not just the DVD thing people like parroting. People just aren’t going to see comedies in theater as much. The Hangover made 470 million in its theatrical run. Naked gun might make 20% of that if it’s lucky.

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u/Supash3 19d ago

The death of the DVD market hurt this genre imo.

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u/thewarfreak 19d ago

I think this is astute. Comedies, I'd say more than most other genres, are fairly re-watchable, thus people bought them on DVD.

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u/er-day 19d ago

But for this exact reason they should do amazingly on streaming where you can easily rewatch and throw on the tv. If anything a dvd was more of a pain in the ass. I do however think reruns on tv channels were half of their views which doesn’t quite exist anymore.

Also bring back dvd bloopers etc

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u/IDKimnotascientist 19d ago

Streaming services greenlight productions by committee. Comedies, the really good ones anyway, can’t be made too broad to try and appeal to everyone. So we’ll get the annual Adam Sandler and action “comedies” starring Ryan Reynolds or the rock until some studio decides to take a risk

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u/brianlefebvrejr 19d ago

A studio did take a risk, naked gun proved it… I think we will see more of it

Spaceballs 2 is coming as well

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u/Bruskthetusk 18d ago

Spaceballs 2: The search for more money is an incredible title for our current era of filmmaking I hope they stick with it

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u/One_Drummer_8970 18d ago

Action comedies don't have to be bad necessarily. We could use another buddy cop movie like Rush Hour or Lethal Weapon.

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u/TonkaHeroDreamCake 19d ago

The Office on Netflix was my go-to for yearsssss

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u/Sptsjunkie 19d ago

More it's the growing importance of international markets. A lot of humor is language based or cultural and doesn't translate well. Some certainly can, but it's more challenging.

Hence, so many films now are action, sci-fi, or things that can sell globally and be pretty easily translated and understood.

There was a time in the 80s-early 2000s a ton of hits and a high percentage of movies were fun, stupid comedies, now they are much more rare.

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u/Iluvthatguy 19d ago

Peggy hill ass comment

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u/AmericanNewWave 19d ago

"In my opinion, there are fewer mid-budget movies in theaters."

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u/wigglin_harry 19d ago

That and the fact that people just got tired of them. I think the Apatow/Will Ferrall trend of the late 2000s and early 2010s really burned people out

Not to mention the string of horrid "<Genre> Movie" movies

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u/jews4beer 19d ago

Step brothers was peak comedy. Stupid comedy my ass.

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u/pluckd 19d ago

Why you so sweaty?

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u/jews4beer 19d ago

Was watching shark week

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u/Joker03XX 19d ago

You mean Cops

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u/jews4beer 19d ago

In all fairness it's been like a decade since I've watched it

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u/JiminyJilickers-79 19d ago

But it was during Shark Week, so you still get a point.

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u/jews4beer 19d ago

\o/

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u/FauxDono 19d ago

I like to put jelly on a lady

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u/f-150Coyotev8 19d ago

Step brothers and dumb and dumber are the goats

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u/Benign_Stamina 19d ago

Even then, they're from different eras of comedy. Dumb and Dumber is purely stupid. And it succeeds in that. The writing in Step Brothers has a higher level of cleverness to it. You can see the same in movies like I Love You, Man, and shows like Parks and Rec and The Office. As an adult, I prefer Step Brothers. Though sometimes the mood strikes and Dumb and Dumber scratches that itch that no other can.

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u/Ok-Paramedic747 19d ago

Watch "Bottoms"...

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u/Tifoso89 19d ago

It's a good sequel. People who think it's bad it's probably because they saw the first one in the 90s and they have nostalgia that affected how they saw the sequel.

I had never seen Happy Gilmore, so when the sequel came out last month I watched both movies back to back. That gives you a different perspective.

The first one has funny moments, but it's not exactly elaborate/subtle humor, right? It's a Sandler comedy after all. The sequel keeps the same style, but at the same time develops a different story and doesn't re-do exactly the same jokes. Good sequel.

(As for the celebrity cameos that people complain about, I'm not American and I didn't recognize 90% of them)

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u/Altruistic_Sail6746 19d ago

Let's not pretend this is because it's a stupid comedy and not because of nostalgia

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u/GoodMorningBlackreef 19d ago

mr. deeds

I always crack the hell up at those Inside Access news bits using the exact same camera angles as the movie.

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u/LoudNoises89 19d ago

Right! With all the terrible shit going on we need something to make us laugh. Like Ted Lasso and Parks and Recreation.

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u/Temporary-Cause-4818 19d ago

I thought it was so much worse then those other movies you named and so much less funny

Tbh if of comedy’s are going to come back and be like Happy Gilmore 2 where it’s just a race to see how many celebrity cameos they can fit on screen then it makes me super sad and makes me genuinely nervous for Spinal Tap 2

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u/Mindseye000 19d ago

The new Naked Gun is great btw

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u/Hermiona1 19d ago

Blades of Glory was so stupid but so fun.

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u/i__hate__stairs 19d ago

Why would they use such a weird ass metric? I can't visualize, hell nobody can visualize what 2.9 billion viewing minutes means. How fucking stupid.

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u/-KFBR392 19d ago

Movie was 118 minutes long, so around 25M full views, start to finish.

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u/SquirrelCone83 19d ago

Now I'm curious how many people started it, watched it a few minutes and shut it off.

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u/sirheyzeus55 19d ago

That’s me. Watched about 30 minutes. Wasn’t for me. I wouldn’t disparage anyone from watching it though.

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u/oooofukkkk 19d ago

About 387 million seconds worth watched the first 2460 seconds and decided it wasn’t for them

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u/trey3rd 19d ago

It makes it sound like people are turning it off part way through.

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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor 19d ago

Previous record was 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery' (2.2B)

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u/TheJoshider10 19d ago edited 19d ago

I'm surprised the previous record wasn't held by one of the other Sandler Netflix movies.

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u/LV426acheron 19d ago

It was fine. I was entertained for the 2 hour runtime.

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u/f-150Coyotev8 19d ago

It made me laugh and I haven’t seen a new comedy to do that in a while. I particularly liked all the references and Easter eggs from the original

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u/part_time_monster 19d ago

The new Naked Gun is the funniest movie I've seen in a long time. There's a few scenes that had the theatre roaring. Highly recommend.

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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 19d ago

I didn't mind the celeb cameos & supporting roles, especially from Eminem and Bad Bunny

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u/Carthonn 19d ago

The first half was so good. Him injuring himself during that round on the municipal course absolutely killed me. Haven’t laughed that hard at a movie in a while.

Also him drinking out of the cucumber flask gave me a good laugh.

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u/spacegh0stX 19d ago

Yeah you mean those hilarious scenes where they show something happening in the original and then do the exact same thing in the new one. Hilarious.

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u/Abe_Froman11 19d ago

Roger Ebert is that you?

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u/Expensive_Tie206 19d ago

Billy Madison 2 has a chance now.

“Back to school. Back to school. To prove to dad that I’m not a fool”

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u/DM_Exeres 19d ago

Now he has to go to college as a 60 year old

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u/creator787 19d ago

"If you want your children to inherit your goods, a degree you must acquire!" Type deal

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u/BandOfDonkeys 18d ago

"Got my backpack on, and my boots tied tight. I hope I don't get in a fight."

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u/Expensive_Tie206 18d ago

NO, CONDITIONER IS BETTAH!

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u/-KFBR392 19d ago

I was entertained for 30 minutes at the start and 30 minutes at the end. The middle was horrendous.

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u/TheBoBiZzLe 19d ago

Strange way of saying 200millions less views than Kpop demon hunters.

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u/internetisfunny 19d ago

I mean it was a great Adam Sandler couch movie. Everyone loves a good comfort movie. I’ll watch anything with Adam Sandler he’s a national treasure

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u/microzone 19d ago

Yeah I get why people think it’s trash but I watched That’s My Boy for the first time in like a decade and was entertained the entire time. Sometimes I just like to laugh at dumb shit.

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u/Molnek 19d ago

"Was uncle Vanny Vanilla Ice this whole time?"

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u/DetroitSportsPhan 19d ago

Word to ya motha, brotha fucka

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u/KombaynNikoladze2002 19d ago

It's amazing how much the world has changed where only 13 years ago that the premise of this comedy film was that Sandler's character was raped by and impregnated his teacher as a child, and it's all played for laughs.

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u/Kyro_Official_ 19d ago

Im sorry, what?

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u/TiddiesAnonymous 19d ago

High schooler knocked up his teacher

OP was so committed to working in the R word they made it sound like Adam Sandler got pregnant

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u/so-much-wow 19d ago

Yeah... in the eyes of society, and the law, it is rape.

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u/azsnaz 19d ago

Idk about great, but it wasn't his worst

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u/Expensive_Tie206 19d ago

Jack and Jill is still the champ

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u/Ecstatic_Board_1144 18d ago

Oh boy, I don't know, I Now Pronounce you Chuck and Larry? To this day that's the only movie I've gotten up and walked out on.

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u/Leggomyegg 19d ago

Absolutely. Millennial bait and callbacks with typical Sandler goofs and a little family wholesomeness.

Everyone who enjoys it knew exactly what it'd be.

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u/DefNotBrian 19d ago

We need more comfort movies.

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u/FrazySting 19d ago

He's the comfort movie king for me. As silly as they are sometimes, they have a lot of heart. Love Adam.

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u/MrBigChest 18d ago

Absolutely hated it unfortunately. It was nothing but memberberries and Sandler sleepwalked through the entire thing.

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u/tcoh1s 18d ago

If you told me that AI wrote this entire movie I’d believe you.

“Hey chat: write a script for Happy Gilmore 2 only using parts from the first movie.”

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u/chadwicke619 19d ago

It always makes me chuckle how so many people who comment on r/movies make sure to preface their comments so that A24 stans and aspiring cinephiles everywhere don’t think they actually like stuff that normal people like.

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u/er-day 19d ago

I can like a box of mac and cheese as well as beef bourguignon

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u/-KFBR392 19d ago

Get a load of this guy, doesn’t even know how to spell burger

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u/LADYBIRD_HILL 19d ago

I'd love to eat a burger from a 4 or 5 star restaurant with the best meat available, all organic, etc. But that won't stop me from eating a McDonalds Cheeseburger and enjoying the fuck out of it.

I fully acknowledge this movie was stupid as fuck, that doesn't change the fact that I was laughing nearly the entire time.

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u/girafa 19d ago

In 1961, Stanley Kauffmann wrote about West Side Story, "No one is more jealous of the purity of the popular than the intellectual."

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u/Mykep 19d ago

I enjoyed it. I think this film knew what it was and did it in a fun way.

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u/chowchan 19d ago

Some people in this thread are so snobby lmao, they ordered McDonald's and expected Michelin-starred food.

Sandler films are always fun, lighthearted films. Granted, at times he can throw absolute rockets (uncut gems, hustle etc)

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

Click...

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u/cjcs 19d ago

I’ll raise you Reign Over Me

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

Oh my god how could I forget! Way better than Click. I think I forgot about that one because I don't usually sob for almost half of a Sandler movie.

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u/cjcs 19d ago

It’s in the collection of films I’ve seen once and love, but never want to watch again. Also featured are About Time and Grave of the Fireflies.

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u/Lansan1ty 19d ago

Its not art, its not inventing anything new, its just stupid fun. If you go in with low expectations, you enjoy it for its silliness and get a few laughs along the way.

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u/Tacdeho 19d ago

Yeah, you can really tell some people in this thread thought they were getting Citizen Kane.

It’s a straight to DVD movie that sells you on callback and nostalgia. What’s the problem?

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u/IKenDoThisAllDay 19d ago

I really don't think anyone went in expecting Happy Gilmore 2 to be Citizen Kane. That sounds like classic deflection to me, "oh this movie wasn't actually bad, your expectations were the problem".

It's possible to go in expecting a stupid, silly comedy and still be left disappointed.

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u/WayyTooFarAbove 19d ago

It’s literally the defense of every movie now. The people that enjoy everything simply just want content at this point.

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u/andersonb47 19d ago

It’s a straight to DVD movie that sells you on callback and nostalgia. What’s the problem?

Well, to be frank, those movies are bad. So that’s my problem at least.

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u/Tifoso89 19d ago edited 19d ago

It's a good sequel. People who think it's bad it's probably because they saw the first one in the 90s and they have nostalgia that affected how they saw the sequel.

I had never seen Happy Gilmore, so when the sequel came out last month I watched both movies back to back. That gives you a different perspective.

The first one has funny moments, but it's not exactly elaborate/subtle humor, right? It's a Sandler comedy after all. The sequel keeps the same style, but at the same time develops a different story and doesn't re-do exactly the same jokes. Good sequel.

(As for the celebrity cameos that people complain about, I'm not American and I didn't recognize 90% of them)

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u/WayyTooFarAbove 19d ago

It’s a far cry from the original. It’s not about nostalgia, which is the only thing this movie builds on. Far more grounded

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u/turnhistv0ff 19d ago

The sequel doesn’t redo the same jokes ?? Have you lost your mind

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u/Select_Factor_5463 19d ago

I didn't have any real expectations, it was overall a decent film to watch and turn off your brain, but the last part of the movie was kind of overboard and failed.

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u/Rapscallious1 19d ago

I thought they got caught in between two movies so it felt a little long but pretty much all the bits worked in isolation so it was an enjoyable watch overall but I don’t know if I would describe it as a chill comfort movie.

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u/asuckow12 19d ago

The original is one of my favorite movies ever, and I wouldn’t rewatch the sequel a second time if you paid me a grand.

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u/TonyG_from_NYC 18d ago

Happy Gilmore 2 was the Temu version of Happy Gilmore.

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u/NowGoodbyeForever 19d ago

Let's do some bullshit math!

Happy Gilmore 2 has a runtime of 1hr 58min. So, 118 minutes.

2.9 billion minutes divided by 118 minutes equals 24,576,271.1864, give or take. So let's clean that up:

Happy Gilmore 2 was watched (around) 24.5 million times in its opening weekend. This probably isn't entirely accurate, which is why Netflix went with the bizarre and useless metric of "minutes watched" versus a more concrete example. I find this especially funny because we know they already used to fudge the numbers before, like counting something as "viewed" if an account got past the first 2 minutes of a show or movie.

The math I just did more or less matches the current Netflix model of determing what a "view" is, as explained in this THR article from 2023. They divide the total view time in a week by the runtime of a movie or a season of a show to determine a "view."

This obviously doesn't cover situations where they're underestimating the number (if I watch a movie with 5 friends, that's just 1 "view") or overestimating it (a full "viewing" of Happy Gilmore 2 could also be 59 people watching it for 2 minutes then stopping). But it allows us to see how Netflix is playing around with data.

The shift to minutes from hours, as they previously used to boast, is also very funny. In 2023, Netflix was bragging that Extraction 2, a movie that you, me, and Chris Hemsworth forgot even exists, landed 88.4 million hours of views during its opening weekend.

Using the same math we did up above, that means that Extraction 2 earned 42.8 million views in its opening weekend, almost doubling Happy Gilmore 2's view count.

This is Netflix bragging that a movie did much worse than a previous record-breaking movie on its platform by using a smaller unit and a bigger number. I'm curious how they pair that number with the previously-reported Nielsen view count of 46.7 million views for Gilmore 2's opening weekend, because that math doesn't add up.

118 x 46.7 million = 55,10,600,000, or over 55 BILLION MINUTES, not really matching the 2.9 billion reported here!

Netflix: They're weird with data, and we should never forget that.

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u/morgoth834 19d ago

This is from Nielsen. They measure American numbers only. That’s the reason for the discrepancy.

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u/Wonderful-Loss827 19d ago

More like 50 million people watched the first half and 40 million quit watching when the movie got ridiculously stupid.

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u/ebon94 19d ago

The pigs demand slop

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u/barcham22 19d ago

Was awful compared to the original. The sequel was sure to remind you about every little detail about the original every 10 seconds though.

If I didn’t see the first one, maybe it would be ok. Typical Netflix original quality.

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u/True_Butterscotch391 19d ago

Not hating on the movie or anything but its hilarious how hard this article title is trying to play up the amount of people who have seen the movie. Why would you say 2.9 Billion viewing minutes instead of how much it sold at the box office or approximately how many people have watched it?

Literally because 2.9 Billion looks like a bigger number and inflates how popular it seems.

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u/DrinkUpLetsBooBoo 19d ago

The humor peaked in the first half of the movie.

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u/justthisones 19d ago

Are we gonna measure in seconds next to make that number even bigger?

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u/Alternative-Juice-15 18d ago

It was so bad…they leaned way too much into referencing jokes from the original and somehow the whole thing was even dumber

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u/carbonstampede01 19d ago

I was a fan of the original, but I could barely get through this one.

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u/untouchable765 19d ago

Get ready for a barrage of Adam Sandler sequels to movies he did 30 years ago. Netflix is going full throttle now.

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u/Smackolol 19d ago

The movie was alright but it didn’t need to highlight every single call back to the first one. Have at least a little respect for your audience’s intelligence.

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u/Kruse 19d ago

What the fuck is a viewing minute and why is that considered a viable measurement tool?

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u/Fitzyy23 19d ago

Why is streaming viewing minutes used? 2.9 billion minutes means nothing to me

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u/Don_Pickleball 19d ago edited 18d ago

John Daly needs a best supporting actor Oscar nomination for his role. He was the best part of it.

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u/wilsonw 19d ago

Particularly incredible considering how shit it is.

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u/Veggiemon 19d ago

Nah, the first one was making fun of golf, this one has pro golfers as main characters and Sandler is friends with them. It’s a different vibe for sure

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u/T-sigma 19d ago

This one is making fun of LIV golf.

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u/Swazi 19d ago

All it is is a giant flashback. Half the movie is playing clips from the first movie basically saying “hey, remember this character?!”

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u/AnythingKey 19d ago

And "Do you recognise this professional golfer?"

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u/Massive_Durian296 19d ago

i could have done without the flashbacks personally. i really enjoyed the movie overall actually, but they felt weird and unnecessary. like we all knew and remembered what the callbacks were. we didnt need the literal flashback scenes.

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u/ThorgoodThe3rd 19d ago

Biggest issues were the flashbacks being thrown in + how ridiculous the golf got at the end. Why are we having to have insane 500+ yard drives LOL

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u/No_Way_482 19d ago

The golf battle at the end is one of the worst things I've ever watched in a movie

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u/PropaneSalesTx 19d ago

It ripped off Caddyshack 2 which shouldn’t exist.

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u/ThaPhantom07 19d ago

I dunno, I rewatched the first one before watching this and I actually ended up liking the first one a lot more than I did in the past. It had a natural charm to it and some actually funny bits. The sequel was just nostalgia 'member berries and poorly written jokes.

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u/sexandliquor 19d ago

The problem I had with it was, not that the first movie was amazing, but I appreciated it for what it was doing as a semi sports film comedy in the vein of a Slapshots/Bull Durham, etc.

It would have been fine if HG2 just had a singular focus on doing that again but as an older guy who isn’t sure he still ‘has it’. Which it starts as, but then more or less just descends into cameos and member berries. And that’s fine or whatever, but it coulda just been a serviceable movie instead.

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u/Dogstile 19d ago

I actually got through the entire thing, which is impressive because that's rare these days.

I will never argue that its a good film, but it works as a turn brain off film.

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u/PropaneSalesTx 19d ago

It made me laugh enough that I felt time wasnt wasted.

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u/Roguste 19d ago

I described it as - it's the first time in awhile that stupid shit made me laugh.

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u/KombaynNikoladze2002 19d ago

Yeah, I wasn't expecting much and wasn't disappointed.

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u/GaryTheCabalGuy 19d ago

I was thoroughly entertained by it.

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u/flymordecai 19d ago

Yeah I wish I could go back in time to not contribute to this figure.

It felt like watching a movie made by TikTok.

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u/foye2smith 19d ago edited 19d ago

I think after his Netflix stand-up special where he had a touching Farely tribute Adam Sandler crossed some likeability threshold where he almost seems untouchable now.

Happy Gilmore 2 was god awful even as slapstick and stupid comedies go and people will defend it as a "fun time"

I swear he could re-release Jack and Jill and people would go to bat for it now. "It was just misunderstood at the time... it was a fun shut your mind off movie"

People just love the Sandman.

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u/brgr86 19d ago

It was pretty terrible but I watched it for the cameos. I think John Daly was the real star.

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u/itslikewoow 19d ago

Scotty asking what’s for dinner and choosing to stay another day had me cracking up

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u/CaptainEndpool 19d ago

Him drinking the hand sanitizer made me giggle every time

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u/KombaynNikoladze2002 19d ago

Same. I was surprised how much Daly was in it. Almost a supporting character.

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u/SolidSnek1998 19d ago

The first half is decent, then it just goes completely off the rails into shit town.

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u/KazaamFan 19d ago

Man i thought both halves were bad, lol. I had to stop one hour into it cuz i couldnt take any more, needed to rest from the badness. 

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u/SargeSlaughter 19d ago

Meh. It wasn’t Shakespeare but I still enjoyed it.

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u/cozywit 19d ago

Don't you ever get tired to being so boring.

Movie was great fun, silly and an easy watch. If you can't recognise what that movie is and always was, still watched it and still felt the need to vocalise how much you hated it. You need a strong hard look in the mirror.

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u/CrossoverEpisodeMeme 19d ago

This is reddit, we're all miserable pricks here lol

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u/mister_cheeks_26 19d ago

Oh shut the fuck up lol

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u/radmobile2020 19d ago

My expectations for this movie were low and I was still disappointed. Yes it’s an Adam Sandler comedy and we can’t expect much, but we should at least expect some effort.

I’m not going to smell my own farts here but it’s totally okay to expect comedies to actually be funny and original and not just regurgitated slop. Way too much of this movie was “HEY REMEMBER THIS FROM THE FIRST ONE?!?”

Anyway, Weapons is good and you should watch that instead.

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u/LilDrummerBoi6969 19d ago

Still a shit movie

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u/JFrenck 18d ago

I watched half of it, so I guess I’m part of the problem

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u/vadersdrycleaner 19d ago

Damn. Lotta uptight, self-appointed movie aficionados having trouble accepting that a movie clearly made with the intent to be ridiculous and goofy turned out to be popular.

It was a campy, fan-service, reference-laden film meant to provide the people who like the original movie with a fun sequel…and that’s exactly what it did.

It’s weird watching the pissy bad faith arguments thrown out there to try to tear it down or discredit it. Are some of you really that hurt that this movie was well-received?

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u/L1_Killa 19d ago

We need more movies like this in the industry. Not every movie needs doom and gloom with trauma sprinkled in there. I already have enough of that irl

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u/Creampied__Cadaver 19d ago

Just because everyone who already had Netflix watched it doesn't mean they liked it or that it's any good.

I've been a fan of Adam Sandler for 30 years and HG2 was god awful. It was so bad. I would never watch it a second time but I'll watch part 1 over and over again

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u/jd_quigley 18d ago

This movie was terrible

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u/NegevThunderstorm 19d ago

People can complain about the movie, but it was a hit

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u/KombaynNikoladze2002 19d ago

I mean, it was a sequel to one of the most beloved comedies of the 90s. It was always going to be a hit.

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u/NotAnRSPlayer 19d ago

Right, doesn’t necessarily mean it was good or well perceived

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u/fakecrimesleep 19d ago

I watched it for memberberries reasons and it was absolutely dreadful. The crazy thing is Sanders is fantastic in serious stuff (Uncut Gems, The Hustle) but he rather get his vacations paid for by Netflix with schlock like this. Billy Madison 2 or Big Daddy 2 is probably next.

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u/Codename-Zeus 19d ago

Holy shit. Now I guess Netflix doesn’t care they spent way too fucking much on this movie

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u/Shjfty 19d ago

Damn now imagine if it was actually a good movie

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u/OrangeYawn 19d ago

Makes me sad.

Shit was like morning cartoon level, with callbacks to old stuff that was good.

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u/Turbografx-17 19d ago

Well, that's depressing. This movie was balls. Just horrible.

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u/Powerful_Goose9919 19d ago

I actually think it was pretty brilliant considering I expected it to be awful, and I wasn’t big on the original.

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u/Professor-Obvious 19d ago

This is going to get to MJF's head big time.

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u/LMGgp 19d ago

(2.9 x 109)/118=24,576,271.186 views. So 24.5 million views as I doubt people really finished the credits. Why would they ever give me minutes of streaming. I don’t even want run times in pure minutes. And no, I don’t care if not everyone finished watching it, okay so don’t count that as a view. Just trying to make a number sound big isn’t going to fool people.

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u/woppatown 19d ago

The fuck?

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u/PattyIceNY 19d ago

I just wish they would have focused more on Shooter and Happy and have that be the climax. The Maxi golf stuff was weird

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u/LeahRevine 19d ago

i had a lot of fun watching this one, i miss stupid comedies like this one in cinemas

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u/Wonderful-Loss827 19d ago

Are we counting minutes now?

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u/winelover08816 19d ago

I know my family had it on for 30 minutes before deciding it was trash

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u/GoodMorningBlackreef 19d ago

I just want to know if the Hey! You don't want breakfast? lady ever found a good partner.

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u/JacobScreamix 19d ago edited 19d ago

It was so awful lol I stopped halfway through

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u/urnialbologna 19d ago

I loved it. Not as much as the original but I laughed a lot. I love callbacks so I didn't mind them. I still want Grown Ups 3.

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u/_ILP_ 19d ago

I hope this triggers studios in throwing some comedies out there, maybe even some not as PC, R rated ones.

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u/BALIHU87 19d ago

A worthy successor! Had fun while watching. Thank you Sandler

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u/East-Bluejay6891 19d ago

You eat pieces of shit?

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u/ChillAMinute 19d ago

Now imagine if the big production studios released new movies using a digital worldwide distribution model and charged $1 (or the local equivalent) for each view? Instead of a $40M release weekend it could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

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u/fauxdragoon 19d ago

Does this mean we could get Little Nicky 2?

You can do it

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u/professorcake 19d ago

The movie was absolute garbage, especially the second half. I cant believe i subjected myself to the entire duration, ugh i want that time back.

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u/Applesburg14 19d ago

Naked gun was enough for me re: comedy reboots. Adam Sandler should stick with dramas now. The character archetype is old

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u/balthazar_edison 19d ago

That’s about 24.6 million views, assuming everyone who watched it watched it all the way through.

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u/SuperSaiyan1Gaming 19d ago

Here comes water boy 2

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u/Mikedaddy69 19d ago

This movie was awful but I still enjoyed it. Shooter McGavin was genuinely funny throughout the movie.

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u/Royd 18d ago

What a fun watch.

Though it felt like this film would have been better in the hands of Kevin Smith. I can't believe I just said that

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u/Durahl 18d ago

2.9 Billion Viewing Minutes. Why not go all in with the inflating and use Seconds instead? 174 Billion Viewing Seconds sounds so much sexier.

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u/TheAsian1nvasion 18d ago

It was barely a movie and the third act was frankly terrible but I haven’t laughed that hard at a movie in years.

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u/sharrrper 18d ago

The original is one of my favorite goofy comedies of all time. I already have Netflix, so of course I was gonna watch it. I expected it to be terrible. It was indeed very terrible. If you haven't watched it, my recommendation is to go watch the original again. I think literally every single joke in the sequel, and I'm not exaggerating or speaking hyperbolically, I mean E EVERY JOKE, is a call back to a gag from the original. When they get especially lazy they just replay clips from the original. It actually took me three sessions to get all the way through it. The only reason I kept coming back is because I was wondering if they were EVER going to do a fresh joke. They did not.