Posted on 03/17/2024 7:04:13 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
I just got done watching "Spaceman" starring Adam Sandler and the only good news is that I am here to I report that you can spare wasting an hour and a half of your life on it. Since it starred Adam Sandler and was about space travel, I thought it would be some sort of funny space comedy. WRONG! Instead it was an exceedingly maudlin and sad story that pretty much goes nowhere.
I can break it down to Man meets Giant Spider who acts as his shrink to make him appreciate his wife. I kid you not. Also we are supposed to believe the Czech Republic has a space program capable of sending someone to the other end of the solar system? Oh, and why do they have a communication device on the space ship that looks like a large clunky cell phone from the mid-90s? In fact, that's what I think they used for a prop.
It had comedy possibilities with a Giant Talking spider but instead it was just flat out depressing.
I made it to about 30 minutes. What a waste.
The Giant Spider was named Hanush but it should have been named Sigmund Freud what with all the psychological advice it have to the Cosmonaut. It was just a tiny bit like the SCTV bit about a talking tractor giving romantic advice to a collective farmer but in a really depressing way.
I saw a recap of it. The science is bad. Very bad. But who cares about science? I promised myself I would never watch another Adam Sandler movie again. For my own protection.
shame- most of his movies get low ratings, but i always thought they were pretty funny myself
And the equipment was worse. That space ship had equipment on it that was already obsolete well before the beginning of the 21st century. No Cosmonaut nor Astronaut would agree to fly in that contraption. Oh, and that annoying wife? I would be celebrating if she left me.
Thank you for your sacrifice. I like the older Adam Sandler movies, but nothing recent.
Now 1997’s low budget Spaceman is an interesting little movie I’d recommend. Hard to find, but worth the watch if you can find it. Odd but highly entertaining.
It was so unmemorable that I can’t recall anything about it except that I quit watching it. It seemed totally derivative of other derivatives.
I was horrified by the trailer.
From IMDB:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11097384/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_spaceman
Due to mixed reactions from test screenings, the film was in post-production for almost 3 years.
They tried to do a "2001: A Space Odyssey" shtick at the end but failed since it turned into a boring maudlin talkfest between the Cosmonaut and his beloved talking Giant Spider while they were floating through a space cloud.
I would love to do a “Spaceman II” movie which would be a parody of “Spaceman.” In my version the Giant Spider convinces the Cosmonaut that his wife is a self-centered whiner so it ends with the two of them spending eternity in the Space Cloud which features Adam Sandler reruns.
Agreed. It sucked.
How did Adam Sandler agree to doing that movie after reading the script. The least he could have done would have been to rewrite it as a comedy. A large talking Spider as his shrink has a lot of comedy material right there.
I don't think he does that.
I wasted time on sentence diagramming to decipher.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
The Incredible Shrinking Man met up with a spider...
Sandler is either having a LATE Mid-Life Crisis, or has finally gone off the deep end.
LOVED ‘The Waterboy.’ Now THAT is comedy. You should stick with what you know.
P.S. Thanks! As you can tell, the LAST Adam Sandler movie I’ve seen IS ‘The Waterboy.’ ;)
You know what might work. A documentary on the making of “Spaceman.” It could actually turn out to be a comedy. Like when Sandler finds out his co-star aboard the space ship will be a large talking spider who will act as his shrink. Sandler then meets the script writer and tries to strangle him. Then we see a bloopers sequence of Sandler trying (and failing) to keep from bursting out laughing when trying to talk on the 90s style clunky cell phone. Finally as the Sandler and the large spider are floating around in the space cloud, Sandler gets so frustrated from hearing the blabbermouth spider talking on and on and on that he pulls out a can of Raid to spray on the spider.
“How did Adam Sandler agree to doing that movie after reading the script?”
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Best I can figure is that he lost a bet, and him making this movie was him “paying up”.
I watched it the other night too...very disappointing.
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