i liked SANDLER before this , then i remembered , it's all

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	• Punch-Drunk Love (Spanish) (Sub) [VHS] Adam Sandler, Emily Watson Sony Pictures, 2003 average customer review:based on 376 reviews view larger image
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i liked SANDLER before this , then i remembered , it's all

about the writing stupid . and direction . love ANDERSON and his films . i've since become quite the ADAM SANDLER fan as well , purchasing a number of his films that came out subsequent to this picture . i suppose there are folks whose cup of tea this is not . better luck elsewhere .

pta's writing

I would just like to point out that Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the greatest living story-tellers. The review on Amazon that says the writing sucks could not be further from the truth. Give this one a try. One of the greatest romantic comedies of all time that pushes the limits of the genre in comfortable ways (as it should be with RomComs). If I had one movie to take with me after I leave Earth, it would be Punch Drunk Love. Could watch it over and over and never get tired of it, always find something new I missed before.

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A different take on Adam Sandler comedies

I remember reading that P.T. Anderson was trying to make a conventional Adam Sandler comedy through his own looking glass. That pretty much sums it up. Sandler's character is a tragi-comic, realistic version of every character he had ever played up to this point: a stunted, almost retarded man-child with a loving heart and uncontrollable fits of violence. Whereas in a standard Sandler film, the jokes would be played for cheap (very, very cheap) laughs and you would be expected to fall for , and root for, the character from the start, P.T. does nothing of the sort. The humor is of the uncomfortable variety, the love story is at times touching, at other times sad and even disturbing. There is an artificialty to everything; a very trippy, psychedlic feel to everything, meant, I'm sure, to indicate the mental state of Sandler's mildly insane character. It was an absolute blast watching this movie on opening weekend with all of the Adam Sandler fans who expected another 2 hours of brainless, thoughtless potty humor.
This movie speaks volumes to me, as my own brother is VERY similar to Sandler's character in almost all regards. His character is a lot more realistic than most viewers would care to admit.
A wonderfully quirky, unique film.

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Art House Comedy

I am a big fan of PT Anderson, but I found this to be his weakest effort to date. It was refreshing to see Adam Sandler play against his usual types of characters, and play a sweet, meek, insecure man who is looking for something in life. He finds it in an alluring woman who knew one of his sisters. Their budding relationship is interrupted by a visit from the cronies of a phone sex company trying to extort money from him. My wife could not stay awake through he film and just said it was boring, and I tended to agree with her. However when Barry makes the call to the phone sex line, the movie picks up and gains momentum. Anderson uses some filming techniques that do not really add anything to the film for me. he likes to experiment with colors and scenes are separated by Scopitones, I could have done without both. I think Anderson could have worked a little more on the story than on visual feel. The way a movie looks can add to it greatly, but when it becomes obvious that the filmmaker seems to be sacrificing story and character development for artistic creation with a camera, the movie suffers.

About the DVD: On the extra disc you get a special called Blossoms and Blood, which may as well be called Deleted Scenes. With extra artwork, three theatrical trailers and actual deleted scenes, the extras on the DVD flesh out the characters a little more making the actual film a little more enjoyable, but not much. However, true to PT Anderson's history, this DVD is missing a commentary track. It would be nice to see PT's thought process.
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Adam Sandler takes a shot at critical respectability with Punch-Drunk Love, a movie by director Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Magnolia). Sandler plays Barry Egan, a lonely small businessman who calls a phone sex line one night, only to find himself the victim of an extortion scheme the next day--the very same day on which he goes out on a date with the woman who may be the love of his life (the utterly delightful Emily Watson). Barry is a lot like Sandler's popular comic characters--socially maladept, prone to violence, always on the brink of embarrassment--but here Sandler plays it real; the result is both off-putting and sympathetic. Anderson's writing skills, unfortunately, are not as strong as his visual sense. Punch-Drunk Love has many strengths (including great supporting actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Luis Guzmán), but ultimately fizzles out. --Bret Fetzer

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