<p id=”par-1_36″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/adam-sandler/”>Adam Sandler</a> has quite a few films in his filmography that’s been rated <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/adam-sandlers-worst-movies-according-rotten-tomatoes.html/”>negatively by sites like Rotten Tomatoes</a>. However, Sandler himself might not share the same opinion regarding even some of his most underperforming features.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-adam-sandler-didn-t-feel-like-he-had-any-downs-when-it-came-to-movies”>Adam Sandler didn’t feel like he had any ‘downs’ when it came to movies</h2>
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<p id=”par-2_55″>Sandler wasn’t the type to pay too much attention to critics’ opinions. He learned to stop caring about reviews the hard way after one of <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/is-adam-sandlers-best-movie-still-billy-madison.html/”>his earlier films, <em>Billy Madison</em></a>, was torn apart with criticism. In an interview with <a href=”https://ew.com/movies/adam-sandler-first-time-reading-reviews-billy-madison/”>Entertainment Weekly</a>, Sandler discussed just how shocking it was for him to get a negative review.</p>
<p id=”par-3_110″>“When I was 17 and I got into this, I didn’t think about critics…I didn’t even realize that stuff was coming,” Sandler said. “I just thought you made movies, people go see it. When <em>Billy Madison</em> came out, me and my friend who wrote it, we were just like, ‘Oh yeah, they’re going to write about this in New York!’ We grew up reading the papers, we were going to NYU. And then we read the first one and we were like, ‘Oh my god, what happened? They hate us.’ And then we were like, ‘It must have been this paper,’ but then 90% of the papers are going, ‘This is garbage.’”</p>
<p id=”par-4_24″>After a while, however, Sandler decided it was better off to avoid reading reviews altogether. Although he did slip up a couple of times.</p>
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<p id=”par-5_40″><a></a>“I say the first two or three, <em>Happy Gilmore</em>, <em>The Wedding Singer</em>, we would still kinda hear about it,” Sandler said. “People would call us up, ‘Can you believe they said this about you?’ I’d be like, ‘I didn’t read it, man.’”</p>
<p id=”par-6_46″>Sandler went on to assert that he habored no ill will towards critics, and credited their feelings to a matter of taste. It might’ve helped that Sandler didn’t feel he had a bad movie in his catalogue. The respected comedian appreciated every feature he made equally.</p>
<p id=”par-7_46″>“I mean, maybe in some people, when they write about me, they talk about my downs,” Sandler once told <em>CBS News </em>(via <a href=”https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/movies/movie-news/adam-sandler-think-films-flops-1221154.html”>Female First</a>). “But I don’t have any downs. I love every movie I’ve made. I’ve never in my entire career phoned one thing in.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-adam-sandler-threatened-to-make-a-bad-movie-if-he-wasn-t-nominated-for-an-oscar-for-uncut-gems”>Adam Sandler threatened to make a bad movie if he wasn’t nominated for an Oscar for ‘Uncut Gems’</h2>
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<p id=”par-8_66″>Sandler took his career in a different direction with his <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/uncut-gems-heres-why-you-cant-watch-it-on-netflix-right-now-despite-it-being-available-in-most-other-countries.html/”>2019 movie <em>Uncut Gems</em></a>. The drama was a huge departure from Sandler’s usual work, with the <em>Little Nicky </em>star impressing many with his performance. Sandler received so much acclaim for the picture that there were rumblings he might’ve earned himself an Academy Award nomination. Sandler jokingly added to the hype by giving the Academy an ultimatum.</p>
<p id=”par-9_41″>“If I don’t get it, I’m going to f***ing come back and do one again that is so bad on purpose just to make you all pay,” he said on <em>The Howard Stern Show </em>(via <a href=”https://www.nme.com/news/film/adam-sandler-uncut-gems-oscar-movie-so-bad-on-purpose-2584029″>NME</a>). “That’s how I get them.”</p>
<p id=”par-10_95″>Funnily enough, Sandler might’ve kept true to his word. Sandler didn’t get his Oscar nomination. A year after <em>Uncut Gems</em>, Sandler starred in the Netflix film <em>Hubie Halloween</em>. The feature saw Sandler returning to form, starring as a naive but well-intentioned community member who ends up caught in the middle of a mysterious murder. Despite being one of Sandler’s most familiar films, it didn’t receive as much backlash as some of his worst films. The feature scored a 53% on Rotten Tomatoes, indicating that a little more than half of critics enjoyed the zany comedy.</p>