WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:04.000 Hello everybody, and welcome to a brand new episode of 2 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:07.879 Second Take Cinema, coming at you from the Glorious in 3 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:12.439 Parlor Film's headquarters in sunny South End on Sea. I 4 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:17.160 am your host, Jamie Evans, joined as per usual by 5 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:22.399 monsieur Rory Joscelyn. Today we are giving a second take 6 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:27.000 to a film from the library of one mister Adam Sandler. 7 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:30.559 I know what you're thinking, Jamie. Why would you bother 8 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:33.880 giving a second take to ninety percent of those movies? 9 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.280 But here's one I think is a little bit more 10 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:39.240 interesting than some of the rest, Even though you may 11 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:41.200 not know it. It's one of the greatest bait and 12 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:45.560 switchers in film history. Today we give a second take 13 00:00:45.920 --> 00:01:49.120 to two thousand and Sixer's Click Click is a two 14 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:53.760 thousand and six American comedy movie directed by Frank Kurachi, 15 00:01:54.239 --> 00:02:00.959 written by Steve Coran and Mark O'Keefe. It stars Adam Sandler, Beckhamsale, 16 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:07.640 Christopher Walken, Henry Winkler, David Hasselhoff, Julie Kavner, and Sean Astin. 17 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:11.080 That's right, the guy from one of those Lord of 18 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:11.759 the Ring films? 19 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:15.599 Was he? Sam wise Ganji? I want to say is 20 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:16.639 it Sam Wise. 21 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:20.520 GANGI, Sam Wise GANGI, Yes, Ganji dam ge gam with 22 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:23.039 an M yeah obviously, gamgee Gamgi. 23 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:26.800 Click was made for a budget of eighty two point 24 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:30.280 five million doll hairs, and it grossed two hundred and 25 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:34.800 forty point seven million doll hairs at the box office. 26 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:38.800 Rotten Tomatoes gives Click a score of thirty four percent, 27 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:42.759 with the site's critical consensus reading, this latest Adam Sandler 28 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:46.479 vehicle borrowed shamelessly from It's a Wonderful Life and back 29 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:49.719 to the Future and fails to produce the necessary laughs 30 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:53.039 that would forgive such limitation such imitation. 31 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:55.759 Sorry, it's later and my eyes hurt. 32 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:59.319 Peter Bradshaw opined that Click was an improvement over the 33 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:03.280 previous Sun Mister Deeds. It has some moments of good 34 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:06.919 natured sweetness, and Adam Sandler is improving as a comic performer, 35 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:10.360 though he is still conceited and opaque. The film was 36 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:12.919 criticized for its use of gross out humor and an 37 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:18.319 unlikable protagonist. Entertainment Weekly critic Liz Schwarzbaum wrote that Click 38 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:21.439 failed at being It's a Wonderful Life because Michael earns 39 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:25.800 none of George Bailey's mature wisdom honestly. When it came 40 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:28.879 to positive reviews, Newsweek claimed Click was predictable as a 41 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:33.719 moral story, but unusually dark, occasionally touching, and pretty funny 42 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:37.759 for a Sandler comedy. Empires Sam Toy enjoyed the film 43 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:42.439 for its smart and genuinely moving ideas, Beckinsale's performance, and 44 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:45.759 a strong third act, although dismissed the script for being 45 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:48.879 overstuffed the first half of the film, for Sandler being 46 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:53.360 too restrained in his everyman role, and actors such as Coolidge, Hasselhoff, 47 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:56.960 and Walken for being put in small roles. I don't know, 48 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:01.159 I thought had a role. Yeah, that's about as much 49 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:02.800 Hasselhoff as I need. 50 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:03.080 In a film. 51 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:07.159 You know, he's not an actor who He's not someone 52 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:10.439 you want leading a film unless it's epic cheese, and 53 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:12.800 this has cheese to it, certainly in its first half, 54 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:15.960 and that's pretty much the only point in which Hasselhoff appears. 55 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:19.560 And I thought Walkin's part was perfectly fine. Yes, I 56 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:21.480 could have done with a bit more Jennifer Coolidge. I 57 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:25.839 like Jennifer Coolidge, but she is Stifler's mum from American 58 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:27.879 part she played, was it Janine. 59 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:29.879 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she's. 60 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:31.639 A funny actress. I could have done with her being 61 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:34.319 in more, but maybe I was fine with what she had. 62 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:36.000 I think she was perfect. She was in it a 63 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:36.680 perfect amount. 64 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:40.000 It's hard to say who would want more comedy acting wise, 65 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:44.199 because I'm not a massive fan of Adam Sandler's comedy. 66 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:46.800 The thing that really makes this thing for me is 67 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:50.360 it second half, where it basically stops beating a comedy. 68 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:54.720 Let's start here, because why not talk about Sandler's wider career. 69 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:58.959 Whoever told that man he was funny? Because I swear 70 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:02.199 to god, you look at his filmography and all of 71 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:07.199 his best roles are dramas. So he acts it and 72 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:08.199 he's he's and he's pretty good. 73 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:09.959 He's a pretty gems and stuff. 74 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:13.079 Yeah, he's a pretty good dramatic actor. I watched him 75 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:17.279 in The Myrowitz Stories, which is him, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, 76 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:19.639 a couple of other people I can't remember who, but 77 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:23.120 he's like the lead and he doesn't feel out of 78 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:25.720 because I really thought he'd feel really out of place 79 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:29.439 next to like Dustin Hoffman, but he doesn't. You believe 80 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:32.120 him on the screen because he plays Dustin Hoffman's son. 81 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:34.399 I had an ex who really liked Adam Senders. 82 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:36.839 I watched quite a few of his films and the 83 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:40.360 mostly not for me, but every now and then he'll 84 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:43.160 say something that's funny, like there was Grown. 85 00:05:42.959 --> 00:05:45.399 Ups, the first Grown Ups film. There's two of them, 86 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:46.639 which I didn't need. 87 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:48.720 Is it the first one where he fights Stone called 88 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:49.399 Steve Austin? 89 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:52.000 He ever seen? The first one is the and it 90 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:54.800 has Rob Schneider in it, and. 91 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:56.000 That's every Adam sad. 92 00:05:56.199 --> 00:05:57.480 No, he's not in the second one. 93 00:05:57.600 --> 00:05:59.199 That's how you know the second one isn't worth watching 94 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:04.160 because even Robson I went, yeah, but yeah, in the 95 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:06.240 first one, they whenever they talked to Rob Schneider they 96 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:10.040 bully him by saying may as the Light to show 97 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:13.160 that he's somewhat slow, which really hasn't aged well either. 98 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:16.839 But yeah, they just keep on doing that maze. 99 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:17.240 You know. 100 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:19.360 Last year I gave a second not as part of 101 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:23.639 this show, just randomly struck by nostalgia. One day, I 102 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:25.920 gave a second take to an Adam Sandler film that 103 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:28.720 I think. I think a lot of his comedies are 104 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:31.000 aimed at teens, which is probably why he's so success 105 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:36.360 owners yeah, he's probably so successful atons because I rewatched 106 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:39.079 a film that as a kid, like a thirteen year old, 107 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:41.920 I loved. I rewatched it as an adult and I 108 00:06:41.959 --> 00:06:46.480 was like, this is awful, and that was little nikky. 109 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:47.639 No. 110 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:51.439 The entire film is Adam Sandler doing a gun face 111 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:58.600 and speaking literally like this, get in the flask, Adrian, 112 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:01.519 get in the. 113 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:04.000 There is something about certain actors where in general, they 114 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:06.439 can be very good act Adam Tanner again good example 115 00:07:06.439 --> 00:07:08.600 of it, can be a phenomenal actor given the right 116 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:11.800 role in the right direction. But when they do comedy, 117 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:14.240 he did the same in a Halloween movie he did 118 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:14.839 for Netflix. 119 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:16.079 Oh, Huby, Halloween, that's it. 120 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:17.920 I've seen that and he does the same thing again. 121 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:22.920 He does that weird gurning massage and you're like, it's 122 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:27.600 not funny, and be stop it. He's just stop. I 123 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:30.839 had a similar thing when I watched Ricky Gerves. I 124 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:35.120 watched the first season of the show Derek. Now, there 125 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:38.279 are some Ricky gives is a bit marmite to me. 126 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:39.839 Some of the stuff I like, some of the stuff 127 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:42.879 I really don't like. Derek was something I really didn't like. 128 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:46.439 He's trying to play a mentally slow person. He doesn't 129 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:50.519 play it very well or convincingly. And the reason he's 130 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:53.600 doing it is he thinks he thinks it's funny, him 131 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:55.040 doing a silly voice. 132 00:07:54.759 --> 00:07:54.839 And. 133 00:07:56.360 --> 00:08:00.439 You're like, dude, just stop, just stop. And I don't 134 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:03.600 know what it is with comedic actors that they find 135 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:06.199 something that obviously they find funny. I'm guessing they must 136 00:08:06.199 --> 00:08:10.000 find it amusing themselves. Maybe their friends find it funny, 137 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:12.720 but they think the world in large will find it funny. 138 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:14.759 You just sit there and go, dude, I keep that 139 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:15.480 within your friends. 140 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:16.319 I think. 141 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:19.759 I think there is an awful lot of comedy. 142 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:20.800 Bad comedy out there. 143 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:23.839 Yeah, that gets there because a group of friends think 144 00:08:23.879 --> 00:08:27.639 it's funny amongst themselves and the translate. And it's why 145 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:30.519 so many of these comedy actors always have their friends 146 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:32.879 in their film. Adam Sandler does it. He's always got 147 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:38.120 Rob Schneider, Kevin James, David Spade, Chris Rock and for 148 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:41.039 I know they've fallen out now, but for a long time, 149 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:43.960 James Franco and Seth Rogan did that, didn't they. Yes, 150 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:47.039 they did, always in films together. Same with Danny McBride 151 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:50.360 and Jonah Hill. Always in films together, and it's because 152 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:53.039 they find their own shit funny. Have you ever seen 153 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:54.399 Little Nicky? 154 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:54.679 Right? 155 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:58.960 So let me explain Little Nikky very quickly. Harvey kai Tell, 156 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:02.960 isn't it debate seeing himself? Harvey car Tell plays Satan. Oh, 157 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:07.039 everyone in this film is debasing himself, including Adam Sandler, 158 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:10.480 because he's better than that. Harvey carr Tell is Satan. 159 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:16.519 His like chief assistant is Kevin Neelan. He has three sons, 160 00:09:17.159 --> 00:09:20.600 one played by Tiny Lista from The Dark Knight YEP. 161 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:24.960 One played by Reese Evans or recy Fonds. 162 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:26.919 I never knew how it was. 163 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:30.600 I was perhaps it reci Fonds, the Welsh guy, but 164 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:34.200 apparently if On's in Welsh is pronounced Evans. 165 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:38.960 You know rece Fonds. Don't you guarantee you've seen his sonics? 166 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:39.759 He's in everything? 167 00:09:40.159 --> 00:09:44.000 No, he sadly is in The Amazing Spider Man as 168 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:44.799 the Lizard. 169 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:46.519 What would you were seeing him as? 170 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:50.279 Have you ever seen It's notting Hill he's in. He's 171 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:51.679 Hugh Grant's roommate. 172 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:54.919 I think, oh, what the skanky guy. He kind of 173 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:58.759 looks a bit skaggy. Yeah, he's blonde hair. Yeah, it's him. 174 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.039 And then Adam Sandler is his youngest son. 175 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:05.639 I think that guy was in After Life with Ricky Gervas. 176 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:06.320 Oh he might have been. 177 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:08.080 He was the worst thing in it. 178 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:11.039 Oh really, if it's the guy I'm thinking of, he 179 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:14.440 he's the guy who plays the psychiatrist to help Ricky 180 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:18.320 Gerves get over his grief. And that's like that character 181 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:22.080 doesn't read like a psychiatrist. Doesn't funny, And it's clearly 182 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:24.919 where it's the bit in there where Ricky Gervas has gone, 183 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:27.840 this will be funny if I just say horrible shit 184 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:29.799 and people will find it funny because, oh my god, 185 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:32.840 I can't believe a psychiatrist said that. But he doesn't 186 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:36.399 come across and feel like a psychiatrist. So the character 187 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:39.679 doesn't feel genuine enough for that comedy to land in 188 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:43.240 that angle. And the jokes aren't funny, it's just offensive 189 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:44.399 ballot Yeah, but yeah. 190 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:47.879 So it's tiny list of Rees Evans and Adam Sandler. 191 00:10:47.879 --> 00:10:52.320 They're all Satan's kid and they're all waiting to find 192 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:54.360 out which of them will be the next King of Hell. 193 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:57.080 Because Satan's been King of health like two thousand years. 194 00:10:57.080 --> 00:11:00.480 It's time for him to retire. And Harvey kai Tell 195 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:02.440 brings them all into the room and he pulls a bait, 196 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:04.240 and Switchery is like, I've decided that the next king 197 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:06.879 of Hell will be me. I'm going to rain for 198 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:11.000 another two thousand years. And Little Nicky is like, yeah, 199 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:12.919 that's cool. I love my dad. I'm fine with him 200 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:17.080 being Satan. But the other two are like, no, we 201 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:20.399 want to be king. So they plot to overthrow him, right, 202 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:23.120 and then Little Nicky has to defeat his own brothers. 203 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:27.600 It's here's the level of jokes in it. They turn 204 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:30.720 Kevin Kneeling into a boob head right as he has 205 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:34.600 actual prosthetic boobs on his head. They show a scene 206 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:38.600 of Hitler in a French made outfit getting pineapples shoved. 207 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:38.879 Up his ass. 208 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:41.960 I mean, I mean to be fair, and at. 209 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:43.279 The end of the film, if you don't mind me 210 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:44.279 spoiling the end. 211 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:45.480 I'm never gonna watch this. 212 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:48.480 Yeah, no, you won't want to the talking dog in it. 213 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:52.000 If I forgot to mention, you know you've gone too 214 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:55.600 far in he gets through the Tiny Lister quite early 215 00:11:55.639 --> 00:11:58.759 in the film, and Recee Evans is like, the finale 216 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:03.240 is like the fire Boss and he gets given this 217 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:06.480 sphere at some point in the film I can't remember where, 218 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:09.840 and he gets told it's a secret weapon that will 219 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:12.919 be able to defeat Receevens. You know it's it's the 220 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:15.720 Diosex machina. The thing is, it will only work. It 221 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:19.080 only works because re Sevens does. What he does is 222 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:23.720 fighting Little Nikki and he turns into a bat. That's 223 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:26.279 a very satan thing to do. That's makes sense. So 224 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:29.000 he turns into a big bat and Little Nicky's like, 225 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:33.120 I can stop you, and he throws this sphere down 226 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:36.000 and the sphere explodes in a puff of smoke to 227 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:43.879 reveal mister Ossie Osbourne, who then grabs Reese Farns, who 228 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:46.679 is still an animated bat, and bites his head off. 229 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:50.679 You know, okay, right, Recie Farns, why don't you just 230 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:51.519 change back? 231 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:53.200 Yeah? 232 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:56.559 And b you've given Little Nikki that as a secret 233 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:59.840 weapon earlier in the film. Did you know Recevens would 234 00:12:59.879 --> 00:13:03.679 just transmographying to a bat. That's that's other films. 235 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:05.840 Now. I want to talk about my experience watching Click Yes, 236 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:07.480 because I la, do you like to go first? 237 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:08.679 No, I'll let you go first. 238 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:11.799 I just want to say, yeah, like, there's not much 239 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:14.720 in Adam Sender's own back und so he's got his 240 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:17.559 own company, Happy Madison. You can usually tell if the 241 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:19.080 film he's in is going to be good or art 242 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:22.120 based on whether or not Happy Madison produced it. If 243 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.399 Happy Madison produced it, it's going to be dire for 244 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:27.320 the most part, with a few exceptions. Click for me 245 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:30.279 would be one of them because they are often just 246 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:33.879 brainless garbage. But that's his own production company that he 247 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:36.840 uses to make movies with his friends. If he's in 248 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:39.440 something like Uncut Gems, it's not him, it's someone else 249 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:40.919 making it. He's just acting in it. 250 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:41.919 I really need to see on. 251 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:44.120 Yeah, I've heard lots of really positive things. 252 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:46.080 About I've had it. I've got a copy of it. 253 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:48.279 I've had it for years, right, and it's just one 254 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:49.799 of those things where I never It's the same with 255 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:52.919 black Swan. I've had black Swan since it came out 256 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:54.279 over a decade ago. 257 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:57.600 Yeah, and I just keep to watch it. 258 00:13:57.679 --> 00:13:57.840 Yeah. 259 00:13:57.840 --> 00:13:59.120 I don't think I'll hit you as well as the 260 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:01.960 Wrestler did. But black Swan is a really interesting film. 261 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:03.960 I rate that director anyway. It's really good. 262 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:09.039 Yeah, a fantastic But anyway, so Click, I'm gonna be real. 263 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:09.480 Honest. 264 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:12.279 The reason I watch Click is because Kate Becking Sales 265 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:14.759 Isn't It? And I was on a real Kate beckinsale 266 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:17.919 face when I was a teen, promoted by Van Helsing 267 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:21.399 and Underworld. Anyway, so I watched Click as Kate Beckett 268 00:14:21.399 --> 00:14:22.480 Sale wasn't it and I was like, Oh, it's an 269 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:24.840 Adam Sandler film. I'd seen a couple of Adam Sandler 270 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:26.840 films by that point, so I was like, I know 271 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:30.399 what I'm getting. It's gonna mostly be stupid, but she 272 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:33.799 might be good in it. And the first half of 273 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:36.440 the film is exactly what you think the film is 274 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:39.440 going to be based on the trailers. It's Adam Sandler 275 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:41.679 playing his typical Adam Sandler character. 276 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:43.919 He's kind of a schlubby guy trying to get through 277 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:46.320 a schlubby well a decent job in this one, but 278 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:49.039 still he's kind of slubbing his way through. It's meant 279 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:50.360 to be like, oh, I want to be the next 280 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:55.159 Big Boss, but like he comes into the first meeting 281 00:14:55.240 --> 00:14:58.320 with the Saudi Arabian guys and just basically insults them 282 00:14:58.320 --> 00:14:59.000 straight away. 283 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:01.679 Anyway, So I downloaded the film and for the first no, 284 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:04.200 I didn't download it. I bought it on DV bloody. 285 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:06.440 D back when I used to spend money on films. 286 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:10.080 Yes, and yeah, the first half is exactly what you 287 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:13.720 think it's gonna be. Schlubby Adam Sandler gets a universal 288 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:16.639 remote that lets him control his universe, and there's all 289 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:18.759 the gimmicks you think there's gonna be. He puts the 290 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:21.440 commentary on. He fast forwards. 291 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:23.360 Things I have to call bullshit on the commentary, by 292 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:27.120 the way, And yeah, comment works because the commentary is 293 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:29.279 you've got the director or the actors sitting there going 294 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:31.120 so in this scene we did this and or this 295 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:34.519 funny anecdote, or this is how we built this scene, 296 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:36.399 or how you know this was the idea behind this. 297 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:40.440 The commentary of this one is just so in his house, 298 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:42.120 and you're like, that's not comment. 299 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:46.000 Been coordinarration, yes, not commentary, but oh well yeah all 300 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:46.759 no description. 301 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:51.000 Yeah, yes, yeah. He changes his boss to Spanish. 302 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:56.000 At one point he slow motions are jogger done he 303 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:59.000 so he can ogler. Yeah, it's all the stuff you 304 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:03.960 think it's gonna be. After Hasselhoff doesn't promote him, so 305 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:06.279 he pauses him and then farts in his face. 306 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:08.440 That was the worst bit of the film. Yeah, that 307 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:10.279 scene is the worst bit of the film. 308 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:14.320 Yeah, they're out of nowhere. In the middle of the film, 309 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:17.720 this film suddenly decides, Hey, it's almost like the guy 310 00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:20.799 writing it was like, you know, this film is just 311 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:21.480 not funny. 312 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:25.279 Well on how it was before the end of the 313 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:27.919 first half. What's the end point of that story? 314 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:28.559 Exactly? 315 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:31.159 It's just like, guy, how does he learn not to work? 316 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:31.360 Like? 317 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:34.600 How how does he without the r I tell you. 318 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:37.519 There is another way you could have done that if 319 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:39.679 you wanted to keep it as the shitty comedy. And 320 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:43.039 the other way is that bratty kid gets the remote, well, 321 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:46.120 the next door neighbor the camera or Hasselhoff, one of 322 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:51.240 the villains gets the remote using it just jesus what passes. 323 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:53.639 For a villain in these films, and uses it to 324 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:54.720 fuck Sandler over. 325 00:16:55.159 --> 00:16:57.600 That would there is a very real world where that 326 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:00.360 could have been what this film was. Instead, what this 327 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:03.799 film does is it pulls a blinder of a twist, 328 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:07.279 possibly the biggest genre shift I've ever seen. 329 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:09.440 It stops being a comedy entirely. 330 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:14.200 Yeah, outside of like Sunshine, which goes from being a 331 00:17:14.240 --> 00:17:17.359 sci fi movie to a slasher movie halfway through that 332 00:17:17.400 --> 00:17:18.960 didn't like that. 333 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:21.160 That didn't really work that way round unfortunately. 334 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:22.240 Oh I quite like it. 335 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:24.799 I like some I like Sunshine in general, but the 336 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:28.200 ending felt a little bit weak, right, I didn't really 337 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:31.440 get the villain, right, But yeah, I see your point. 338 00:17:31.480 --> 00:17:33.119 That was at least a genre flip as well. 339 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:37.559 Yeah, but this just it suddenly becomes this like incredibly 340 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:42.680 serious movie about a man basically wasting his life on 341 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:44.119 auto pilot. 342 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:46.880 Trying to He's focusing on work, isn't he, Because basically, 343 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:48.480 when he's on a pilot, the whole thing is about 344 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:52.160 getting the promotion and being the scene, and so everything 345 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:54.279 in his personal life gets left behind. 346 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:57.759 And the reason this film was always stuck with me 347 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:01.240 is there's a bit in that third act once he 348 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:03.960 ends up going to the future, doesn't he basically fast forward? 349 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.200 The irony being that the future where he's got like 350 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:08.319 all this sci fi gadgetary. 351 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:09.000 Was five years ago. 352 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:11.400 It's twenty twenty one, so it's four years ago yeah 353 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:15.839 for us, And I'm just like, why is it even 354 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:18.720 in Click? The twenty twenty one in Click was better 355 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:21.079 than the twenty twenty five of today. 356 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:23.720 The reason this was always stuck with me. The film 357 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:26.480 gets super serious and there's a bit where I cried, 358 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:31.640 I like cried cried. I'm talking like ugly cry, like 359 00:18:31.880 --> 00:18:36.319 snot tears, red in the face. The film finished, and 360 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:39.279 it made me contemplate my entire fucking existence. 361 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:42.039 Yes, because it never goes back to the Sandler comedy either. 362 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:44.279 Because it could do that for a little bit and 363 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:46.240 then return and be like, hey, back to the fart 364 00:18:46.319 --> 00:18:47.240 some funny jokes. 365 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:49.039 It never does, and that's right. 366 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:51.920 It's the right choice to keep it in once you've 367 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:53.359 switched the series, just stay there. 368 00:18:54.119 --> 00:18:56.400 But it is surprising because you literally sit there and go, 369 00:18:56.519 --> 00:18:58.200 this is a different film. 370 00:18:58.440 --> 00:19:00.519 And the thing is, up to this point, you've got 371 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:05.480 Christopher Walken's character, who in the first half feels like 372 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:09.000 he's just been hired to play Christopher Walken as Christopher 373 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:12.480 Walken in Christopher walk In the movie, and you're like, Okay, 374 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:15.359 you've just hired christopherkin because you could afford him. In 375 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:19.599 the second half, when he basically he becomes the Angel 376 00:19:19.640 --> 00:19:24.240 of Death as he calls himself, it changes like, holy shit, 377 00:19:24.880 --> 00:19:30.559 it's Christopher Walken doing this part, and it being Christopher 378 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:33.799 walker somehow works. Whereas it didn't do for me in 379 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:36.480 the first half, but it kind of pays off in 380 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:37.319 the second half. 381 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:41.400 Very weird. I've never really had an experience like it 382 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:42.559 watching a movie. 383 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:45.160 No, and it stuck with me all these years. 384 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:48.799 I won't talk yet about the bit that made me cry, 385 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:51.839 But do you remember your first experience watching Click? 386 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:55.920 Yes, I watched it. I didn't see it in cinemas. 387 00:19:56.200 --> 00:20:00.000 I watched it on DVD at some point. I can't 388 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:03.440 remember exactly when it was a while ago. I think 389 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:05.480 it was when I had first moved out of my 390 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:08.759 family home, so it would have been about twenty ten, 391 00:20:08.839 --> 00:20:12.799 twenty eleven. And I expected, like yourself, just a shitty, 392 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:16.079 schlubby comedy. Got that for half of it. Really loved 393 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:18.000 the Terry CRUs bit that always stuck with me, where 394 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:20.880 he's singing in the car next to him and then 395 00:20:20.920 --> 00:20:22.960 he just mutes him while he's singing the song. 396 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:24.400 That was really cool. 397 00:20:24.839 --> 00:20:27.839 But yeah, I was just kind of watching it that way. 398 00:20:28.279 --> 00:20:31.119 And then I just remember at a certain point, I 399 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:34.440 remember it changed, but i'd never remembered what the change was, 400 00:20:36.119 --> 00:20:38.400 and I away was just remembered loving the film but 401 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:42.839