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KingZanderSanchez-i β Advent Day 8- Eight Crazy Nights
Published: 2015-12-20 20:00:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 3965; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 2
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Yes, I know that the Nostalgia Critic and the Cartoon Hero already reviewed this one (on the same week no less). Yes, I know this is a CHRISTMAS Advent Calander and not a Hanukkah Menorah or whatever (mostly because: A) I'm not Jewish, and B) there's, unfortunately, not that many Hanukkah specials (and the fact I can't spell it reliably without Auto-Correct); in my defense, I'm probably not going to have a better time to talk about this, and a bad Adam Sandler movie is still a bad Adam Sandler movie no matter what holiday you celebrate this time of year.ΒFor the longest time, I wondered why this was so under the radar...and now I know it was buried for a good reason.
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I am doubtless in my justification that Eight Crazy Nights is an abysmal animated movie. Not only is it one of Adam Sandler's failures (even though Jack and Jill is the absolute worst one of the lot), it is also one of the worst animated films of all time, next to Free Birds, The Nut Job, Strange Magic, Down and Dirty Duck and any of the animated Titanic movies. I feel scared that in the same year that we had such memorable animated classics like Ice Age, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron, Lilo and Stitch, The Wild Thornberrys Movie, Return to Neverland and Treasure Planet, THIS MOVIE had to be released in 2002!!! I find Davey Stone to be my least favorite protagonist. The bad thing about having him as the protagonist is that he's a jerk to everyone and there's also his tantrum at the skating rink, normally, the protagonist would be someone you can root for. Not Davey. He's just as bad as, if not, WORSE than Surly Squirrel from The Nut Job. Hans from Frozen could beat the shit out of Davey. Whitey is another unwelcome addition to this movie. While he's not a jerk like Davey, Whitey is annoying comic relief. I find Timon and Pumbaa, King Julien, the Genie from Aladdin, Sebastian the crab, C-3PO and R2-D2 to be better comic relief than Whitey. Not so coincidentally, Whitey and Davey are voiced by Adam Sandler. This is also a Hanukkah movie, so I find it to be offensive to Hebrews. I say BAH HUMBUG!!! to Eight Crazy Nights.
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i'm not Jewish either, but this travesty found a way to piss me off too. not only does it perfectly represents why Adam Sandler shouldn't have a place in Hollywood anymore, but it's also pretty much a tutorial on how NOT to make a movie
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I can agree with you on some levels but I donβt know about that last point: The Snowman is a tutorial on how not to make a movie, The Apparition is a tutorial on how not to make a movie, Tyler Perryβs Single Moms Club (he has several examples but that one works the best) is a strong tutorial on how to NOT make a movie; ironically, This is Not a Film actually ISNβT a tutorial on how not to make a movie...technically (but itβs pretty badass).
8 Crazy Nights has good voice acting (yeah, Davie is an asshole but he does still give a believable performance), the animation looks wonderful, but the writing is what utterly RUINS this film. I get that Adam Sandler wanted a Hanukkah movie but just watch the Hebrew Hammer.
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yeah, i guess you're right on that
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Still, Iβm not arguing that the film isnβt shit. Thereβs more that I can probably say about it, though.
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on a completely unrelated side-note: are you planning on reviewing the MLP movie?
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I did give it a Back From the Movies review, but I have thought about giving it an official review. There's a lot to like about it, even though it's one of those films like Pokemon: The First Movie where you have to already be apart of the fanbase as a prerequisite or you've got no business there other than dropping off your kids and seeing something else.
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yeah, that's basically the movie in a nutshell. it's entertaining, but it won't leave much of a big impact for anybody outside the fanbase
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I'm normally an Adam Sandler fan, but yeah, this definitely is one of his more flawed efforts. Despite the awesome animation. π
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Yeah; really, you could animate Legends of Chamberlain Heights to look like Wolf Children, but it's not going to fix the fact it's STILL LEGENDS OF CHAMBERLAIN HEIGHTS!!!! I mean, you'd have to really STRETCH to find any positives that the movie itself doesn't contradict.
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Oh, never mind, it's PG-13.
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Yeah? It still sucks, though. What's your point?
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You know, with some rewrites, this could have been a decent movie. I mean, it has great animation, and an IDEA of what it wanted to do. Like, instead of having the product placements (including a massage chair voiced by TOM FUCKING KENNY) help Davey realize he was wring, have something like the spirits of his parents or Whitey or that woman he likes. Oh, and get Whitey a less annoying voice. I mean, they had TOM KENNY. He does a good old man impression.
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Yeah, the animation is a definite plus, Davey's backstory is actually sympathetic (but by the time you actually find out about it, he's long past the point of irredeemable and has said/done things that are totally unforgivable), and Whitey could actually be a sympathetic character if the movie didn't devote 80% of his screentime to making him a walking punchline and source of gross-out gags. Hell, Davey might actually be one of Sandler's absolute WORST characters right up there with Just Go With it, Chuck & Larry, and Jack & Jill (take your pick; they're both played by Sandler and they're both reprehensible).
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You forgot about "That's My Boy", where Sandler is a guy who had sex with his teacher, and mistreated his kid. And when that kid grew up, Sandler tries to scam him for money. And it also doesn't help that Whitey sounds as annoying as Yuma from Yu Gi Oh Zexal's English dub.
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I didn't find Yuma that bad, but YUYA from Arc-V in the dub--far more irritating. Then again, the dub finds a way to fuck up almost everyone from their Japanese counterpart: Noburo (or Gong) goes from being this strong, noble samurai-type obsessed with honor and manhood (not to the extent of being annoying, mind you, he just talks about what it means to be a man and often refers to himself as 'the man Gongenzaka') and they changed him into a fucking cowboy (WTF?!); hell, they named the Xyz Specialist at the rival Leo Duel School DIPPER O'RION!!!! I'd say that Arc-V's dub is far worse.
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I'd say it's Zexal. It has aliens, people named Bronk, Flip, and Shark, Yuma is an asshole, idiot, can't duel, and...it's like giving Bubsy a duel disk.
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I actually liked Zexal's story, though I'll admit that Yuma was kindof annoying and Bronk actually called him out on the fact that he always falls back on Utopia for his every win and just gets obliterated without Astral. The fact they don't know what FLIP SUMMONING IS makes me want to punch someone, and all of Yuma's former opponents that actually establish their own dueling cred become relegated to cheerleaders after Yuma beats them, which is annoying (Yuzu and Noboru in Arc-V are actually established to be pretty damn tough and have their own strategies in their own right, especially with Yuzu kicking Yuya's ass in EPISODE 2--granted, he was trying to show off his new ability to Pendulum Summon and didn't know how it was supposed to work but still). Plus, while the whole Zexal form is pretty kickass, THE WORST THING that I hate about this series THEY LITERALLY TURN PULLING CARDS OUT OF YOUR ASS TO WIN INTO A SUPERPOWER!!!!!! Shining Draw might very well be the worst thing about Zexal ever, but it seems that EVERYONE that duels in this series can just pull Trap cards and shit completely out of their ass as the writers want to turn the tide in either duelist's favor to keep the duel from just being 90 seconds long (and I seriously have had duels last that long or less).
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I was a shitty duelist myself back when I dueled. I lost all the timeΒ
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My deck was entirely structured around getting Five Headed Dragon on the field as fast as possible.
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I think unnecessary cruelty should go higher than that
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I think I might've been low-balling it a bit too, but some of that cruelty is directed at Davey and he kinda deserves it.
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eight crazy nights more like eight crazy go fuck yourselves XDΒ
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Heh, yeah. It's sad thatTHIS is the most mainstream Hanukkah special (since The Hebrew Hammer is relatively underground).
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Great and beautiful animation wasted on a really badly, BADLY Β written movie with about half of the cast are so unlikable or annoying; at least even the director openly says that yeah the script was written badly and we wasted some great animation
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At least they admit it.
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Yeah they do
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ill stick to happy gilmore thank u very muchΒ
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I still like stuff like the Water Boy or Little Nicky (one of my biggest guilty pleasures).
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happy gilmore is whay happens if adam sandler is actually funnyΒ
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the animation looks INSULTINGLY good for this kind of a plot with lots of pointless toilet humor and horrific voice acting. (it's funny how the story its self could've been an easy cliche to write it correctly, yet they decide to ruin it anyway)
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That's disappointing but what do you expect from Happy Madison; this was made in 2002, before they even made Jack & Jill, Bucky Larson, Grown Ups 2, Pixels, you know the list.Β
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That's why I used "funny" and not "surprising". Making movies like this is a common thing for that film production to do XD
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eyeofsol also reviewed this (she's a pretty good animation reviewer) and yeah i'm not jewish either but this movie is complete shit and jewish people deserve a lot better (the kind ones) honestly i think the original script was actually a lot better than sandler came in and added all this bullshit (the bad lowbrow humor etc.) and the studio basically kowtowed to sandlers whims. i'll admit i think whitey wasn't that bad (personality wise) but his voice destroyed me
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That's true. All of that makes so much sense.
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yeah i heard it was supposed to be an in depth character study before sandler well you know
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By the time we actually get to Davie's backstory (which is legitamently sympathetic and makes a lot of sense for how it would send him spiraling down the wrong path) but it's too little too late and he's far past irredeemable.
I feel so bad for this animation.
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agreed. and yes sympathetic asshole characters can be good done correctly. kratos is a good example yeah he's a rage feuled psychopath completely obsessed with vengeance but you get his backstory almost immediately and it is actually very heartbreaking. basically he was a former spartan warrior who trades his life to the greek gods (essentially becoming a slave) than aries betrays him and tricks him into murdering his family or i have a character who is essentialy a terrorist but it's revealed he lost his family and his girlfriend to a shooter and had to move away from all his friends where his grief causes him to snap and start commiting these acts convincing himself he's doing god's work and the people he's attacking are the reason pain loss and other bad things are allowed to happen he still does have a little bit of his old self left and will sometimes try to talk himself out of these horrible acts usually to no avail. but davie was just a complete douche even after his backstory is revealed he still shows 0 signs of likeability. the other characters are just there i guess not really horrible but not really likeable either. except whitey who could've been likeable if you get past the voice
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I have a similar character in my own series, Sanchez Chronicles: we do find out over time that Zander is a manipulative, conniving, sociopathic warmonger and there's usually always a "...but" proceeding him. He kills criminals and teaches his kids to do the same (and does so to train their powers and harvest their corrupted souls for profit), he killed his own father (in a rite of passage, partially self-defense since his father was an abusive drunk but mostly to protect his sister in the end). There's more but that gets a bit spoiler-heavy, and Zander never actually tries to say he's the good guy or the bad guy.Β
Like ke you said with Kratos, we get his backstory right from the get-go; we get why he's angry, why he wants to fight, and we understand his pain. Davie is just a blatant asshole from the word "go!" and by the time we actually find out why, it's already far past that point as Davie has shown very little to no changes in his character before now. Sure, he bonds with his old love interest and has fun with her son (honestly, the latter could just be written off as him just wanting to get a good word in so he can get laid). Compare this with, say, Charlie from All Dogs go to Heaven; sure, Charlie's a douche, even scams his way out of heaven, and uses Anne-Marie for his own personal gain to make a profit all under the delusion of trying to find her some decent parents, but he does show signs of a better person underneath. Davie doesn't even have revenge or profit as a motive like Kratos, he's just a bitter douchebag who pushes away anyone trying to help him and would only care if everyone in the world died if it meant he couldn't get anymore food and/or beer.Β
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Well its not Adam Sandler's fault or the directors fault. It's mostly the focus groups fault.
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actually it is a lot sandlers fault
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He still wrote and produced it, as well as released it through his Happy Madison production company, so he's not entirely faultless here and...gets whatever the Jewish version of a lump of coal in your stocking is. I don't know that much about Hanukkah: I'm not Jewish, no one in my family was Jewish (or of Jewish heritage), and I didn't grow up with any Jewish friends, so I kinda picked the most mainstream movie from a holiday I don't celebrate or know anything about...that has virtually nothing to do with said holiday (outside of the title and a few namedrops of it here and there)
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True. Hell even the director hates that movie. nostalgia critic actually had a email from.him too
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I wouldn't go that far, because he did accknowledged that how much of a nice person Adam Sanlder is and that he did took the criticisms to well back then
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