The Worst Film Ever

Did you people see the same film I saw?

As Good As It Gets

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Mr. Deeds (2002): Dir: Steven Brill / Cast: Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, Peter Gallagher, Jon Turturro, Allen Covert: Supposedly based on Mr. Deeds Goes to Town but Adam Sandler hardly fills Gary Cooper's shoes, and director Steven Brill is no Frank Capra either. Sandler plays Longfellow Deeds who inherits forty million dollars. Winona Ryder plays a struggling reporter sent to embarrass him while Peter Gallagher plays a tycoon trying to manipulate him into signing away the company. Lame story with Sandler basically playing the same obnoxious moron he is known to play. He starts out here as a pizza delivery guy before settling in a mansion. Then he is involved in lame subplots, one involving a lady in a burning house who will not leave until Deeds throws all of her cats out the window. Director Brill previously cast Sandler in the equally dreadful Little Nicky. Ryder as the biggest disappointment. It isn't difficult to predict her change of heart and unwillingness to sabotage Deeds. Gallagher is wasted as a rather standard villain. Jon Turturro has the one funny performance as a butler with a foot fetish. He appears periodically but becomes the one good plot turn. Allen Covert also appears as a reporter with more forced humour heaped upon juvenile material. Deeds orders him to beat his frost-bitten foot with a fireplace poker. The same should be done to the film. Score: 3 ½ / 10

I haven't seen the original film, but after I saw this, don't feel the urge to do it so. What can I say about this film: it sucks, and it sucks badly. Completely pointless, unreal, unfunny, lame dialogs, and very predictable. But what it strikes the most is why the big studios in Hollywood are producing films with Adam Sandler as the main character. Can't you see it?, HE SUCKS. I personally believe that you have a low self esteem (or a brain tumor) if you consider this guy funny, god forbid an average actor. And this turkey of a film doesn't make me change my point of view about this man. Not only doesn't make that, but also makes me believe that the stars conforming the supporting cast had taken LSD before reading the script. How can you make John Tuturro look silly and unfunny?, pair it with Sandler in a stinker movie. How can you make Steve Buscemi look disgusting and like a moron?. That's right, pair it with Sandler in a stinker movie. And the same goes with the rest. To sum up, if you like Adam Sandler doing the same type of character in the same Adam Sandler type of movie, I suggest you to view Mr Deeds. If you like to see a group of talented actor, doing it for the money and losing a bit of artistic credibility, I suggest you to view Mr. Deeds. But if you have good taste and like to have some earnest laughs, watch Mr. Deeds all the same, and try to find them. Heaven knows I couldn't

Adam Sandler has always been one of my favorite comedy actors and Mr. Deeds is one of my favorite of his movies. In Mr. Deeds, he plays Longfellow Deeds, a small town citizen who owns a pizzeria.The movie starts out with Preston Blake, an 82-year-old who has accomplished so much and still wants to achieve a lot. He ends up dying after making it to the top of Mt. Everest. It is found out that Deeds is the closing living relative that can be found. Deeds inherits $40 billion. So, Deeds has to go to New York to sign the papers and get his money.Deeds later meets Babe Bennett, a newspaper reporter played by Winona Ryder. Bennett is purposely disguising herself as Pam Dawson, a school nurse from Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa. Deeds falls in love with her and finds out that she is a liar.Sandler and Ryder have great chemistry together as the protagonist and the love interest. Along with Sandler and Ryder are performances and cameos by Sandler's buddies. John Turturro plays Emilio, Preston Blake's butler, who turns out to be Blake's son. Steve Buscemi plays Crazy Eyes, a citizen who has a self explanatory name. Peter Dante plays an employee at Deeds's pizzeria. Allen Covert plays a co-worker of Bennett's. Blake Clark makes a cameo as the father of a quarterback that Deeds punched out. Rob Schneider even makes a cameo reprising his role as the delivery man from Big Daddy.Peter Gallagher is good in his role as Chuck Cedar, who was Preston Blake's right hand man. Gallagher shows how much of a jerk Cedar is as he tries to take advantage of Deeds and walk all over him. Jared Harris is also good at playing a jerk in Mac McGrath, Bennett's boss. McGrath is out to make Deeds look bad.While I haven't seen Frank Capra's original version starring Gary Cooper, this version directed by Steven Brill is very funny and the laughs keep coming. Adam Sandler is very funny in this role. This movie is as funny as Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, and Anger Management.

When this movie first came out, I was about 13 or 14 years old. I remember I couldn't stop laughing every time I watched it. I was literally obsessed with the movie. I would watch it through, then rewind the tape, and watch it again. I spent most of my winter vacation from school watching Mr. Deeds. I begged for the DVD for my birthday, and by the time I got the DVD, I was so sick of the movie that I never wanted to watch it again. I was just flipping through channels today and it was on Comedy Central, and I was trying to figure out what amazed me so much about this movie. It is corny, dull, and predictable. The whole love story that develops throughout the movie has no chemistry, and the actors cannot convince the audience that they really belong together.Despite all of the pitfalls of this film, I will admit that there are a few points that do always make me giggle a little (i.e. "This was my brother's room...my parents hated my brother."), so I guess that's a credit to the quality of some of the jokes.All in all, I would say this is a film worth watching at least once in your life, but I wouldn't recommend buying the DVD or paying for it in a theater.