@@SmoothTurtle840 haha. could be. Though I actually haven't seen any of his videos in a long time because I told TH-cam to stop recommending them. I guess TH-cam is a little more user-friendly than Adam Sandler's remote.
@@nooneofconsequence1251 Yup, except sometimes TH-cam will just try to slip in a couple videos into your recommended that don’t fit your viewing preferences whatsoever.
I've never seen click but I was told years ago that it ended with Adam Sandler accidentally rewinding himself millions of years in the past and being trapped in the dinosaur age. 50 minutes into this video and I am beginning to think I have been tricked.
This movie also does that weird Hollywood thing where the protagonist is living what is by all appearances an affluent middle class lifestyle even when this makes no sense for their supposed socio-economic situation going by the script. Everyone lives in a big sitcom house. But then this guy has an office job where you get a secretary and are ten years away from being the boss of the whole place...but which doesn't pay enough to afford two children's bicycles and a handbag without going into unsustainable debt. So maybe the writers just didn't know how _work_ works in general.
This is my least favorite thing about movies. The characters all talk about how they're strapped for cash while living in an aesthetic 3 story house with hundreds of dollars of quirky bedrooms knickknacks and enough clothes to dress the entire neighborhood. It's so cheesey.
@@Mezelenja it turns out that some upper middle class people really do live above their means. With the whole Corona thing and people losing their jobs, I read this news article about how this guy had his dream job for over 10 years at a country club, but got laid off due to the epidemic. He then talks about how he litteraly doesnt have enough money to pay the bills the next month even though before he talks about giving his family a very comfy life. The amount of upper middle class people living "paycheck to paycheck", holding up this facade of middle class wealth and affluence was kind of shocking to me, being as I have been poor and *actually lived paycheck to paycheck. The amount of people holding up this facade of middle class wealth while actually being in debt is startling too. Its just a weird phenomenon that I've noticed.
@@xxnekonekox yeah, I spent the day yesterday delivering groceries to those who can't afford it. Big surge since covid. Plenty of house and cars much nicer and more expensive than anything I could afford.
Whether or not Click is a good movie, I will always remember how my friend group all jokingly said to one of our friends that Click is about addiction and doing drugs is like fast forwarding in time like click. He was kinda high, but he watched Click and it made him decide to get help for his addiction. I think it's hilarious that Click was his inspiration and that he took it seriously when we were just joking, but we're all glad Click exists.
Having thought about Click recently... I've started to think of it as an allegory for drug addiction. Michael is offered a drug in the back of a store, something offered as an easy fix to his problems. He's at first hesitant to use it, then quickly begins to indulge more often. As habits form, his use begins to not only impact his life and loved ones, but he begins to miss parts he wants to experience. He has moments of sobriety, lucidity, where he realizes the problem, but it's never enough to actually break the cycle. His addiction caused him to miss out on everything from spending time with his children to having sex with his wife. In the end he's riddled with health problems, and dies, regretting the first time he picked up that remote and "click"ed.
The beauty of argumentative writing. You can support almost anything given you provide the evidence. I do agree it’s definitely one way to look at the movie, though I think it’s far away from whatever they were going for
While your interpretation is interesting, I feel it doesn't really fit for a single reason, and that's because a lot of the plotline isn't consensual. As in he actively fights against what is happening with the remote, but the remote is doing things completely on it's own despite his protests. The drug analogy stops working there, because while addiction is a thing, it's still a consensual thing where a person chooses themself whether or not to do the drug, and people are capable of quitting an addiction if they've had enough of it. He has literally no free will over the remote control at all though. It's completely out of his control at that point. For this analogy to make sense someone would have to be literally forcing drugs inside of him against his free will while he's screaming for them to stop.
@@sardonicus1739 While I agree, it's what I meant by "He has moments of sobriety, lucidity, where he realizes the problem, but it's never enough to actually break the cycle." In my experience, addiction isn't something I was unaware of, I recognized it, even screamed at myself to stop, and yet... I wasn't able to resist the impulse that drove me to the same acts I wanted to stop. The only thing that forced it upon me was myself, and yet I was also the victim, asking myself to stop. It's was a feeling of being trapped by the very substance I knew was prolonging that impulse, which inevitably continued the cycle when used. Is the substance the cause? Or are you? You do it to yourself, and yet it's not as though you want to continue. Is a choice still yours, when something else compels you to act? Yet you chose to give it that power in the first place.
@@djempathicmind8317 That's just it though. What you're describing is still different than his scenario, because he genuinely had no choice. People can quit addiction. My grandma quit m3th after doing it for 30 years, and her doing so shows that it's possible with the will power. You're still making you do that stuff even if it's because you're addicted. You're still in control over yourself. You still can quit even if you don't have the self control to quit alone by simply choosing rehab. He literally has no free will at all in this scenario. There is LITERALLY no such thing as quitting in his scenario, cause he has no personal autonomy over the situation at all. It's literally an act completely and utterly out of his control. While you can keep acting like you had no free will at all in the manner, that's simply not true because people can quit. You could have in that moment of lucidity gotten some help. You could have chosen to throw it down the toilet and go to rehab, but ultimately you chose the addiction over help. I simply don't see something that someone has literally no control over at all as being the same as something you feel compelled to do, but can ultimately choose to not do with self control. In fact I think treating drugs in this manner creates a self fulfilling prophecy and a terrible mindset, because if you believe there's nothing you can do, you won't chose to do anything cause you already chose a self defeating attitude, and because of that I really don't like this comparison. It glorifies the self defeating attitude that makes people not even try to quit an addiction.
The discovery that Scholastic almost sued Adam Sandler for kinda ripping off a GOOSEBUMPS story was the wildest thing I think I've ever heard about an Adam Sandler project though.
@@Idonotsa49 People usually mention Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison, but I think Funny People and Punch Drunk Love are his best films. He has talent, I think RLM are correct when they say he just wants an easy paycheck.
Big Joel, there's a glaring hole in your analysis here, and it all comes down to one point: You're only picking jokes that happen in the first 40 minutes of the movie. What kind of nonsense is that? Click is a film with a protagonist that has to learn and change. So of course we're not supposed to like him in this act. We're not supposed to be on his side with these jokes. That way, by the end of the movie, we can see how much his character has grown. How can you not understand that? You-you media novice. I should do what You do. And You should Wash My Balls.
Has Adam Sandler learned not to be an asshole though? Are there consequences for being an asshole in the movie? If I remember the movie correctly, there are only consequences for skipping through unpleasant phases of his life. He does not see the child he torments grow up to be a psychopath or something like that. Like at the end, where he decided to teach his daughter calculus early is supposed to be heartwarming, because he has accepted she will eventually learn about sex. But I don't remember seeing any reason to believe she will be dumb. Adam Sandler just believes pretty women are dumb; still an asshole.
Really interesting video, but you kinda skipped over the biggest point in the movie: Morty says Adam was fast forwarding long before the remote. The remote isn't punishing Adam randomly, its showing him on the path he was on prior to the remote. Whereas Wonderful Life is about self-respect and Christmas Carol is about behaviour, Click is about mindfulness. Adam's character isn't going to become a good person immediately after the remote event, its basically like an hour of his experienced life, that would be crazy, the idea is Adam is going to become mindful, and learn to love and appreciate the moments in life that bring misery and dulldroms because without it, theres not very much left. The idea is becoming a good person will come naturally with that. I think as someone who has a bad habit of just spacing out and "tolerating" situations, this movie did speak to me in a much deeper way. Its important to engage with the world around you, even if you're eager for the next step in life. (I also saw this when it was first out so it was the first media to share the concept with me, it might not be the best media on the concept of mindfulness but to a teenage boy in the aughts it hit just right) anyway please wash my balls
This is a late reply, and while I haven't watched Click pretty much since it came out, yeah one of the plot points that I distinctly remember is that him fast forwarding to his promotion is meant to be the culmination of his actions and behavior that were set up from the very start of the movie, before ever getting the remote. He was already putting off activities with his family, choosing work over spending time with his kids and letting life pass him by with the mindset that it was 'just until he gets his promotion' and that things would change and be better when he got it-- that he'd make up for the lost time then. I have very mixed feelings about Click because while I really do dislike most of the humour in it, if you strip all of that out you're left with a genuinely interesting story idea that could have been good. It's one of those movies where I'm glad I watched it, but I have zero interest in ever watching it again.
That’s a poignant point! It’s great brain food to chew on, so to speak lol. I also have poor mindfulness habits and this made the little man sitting at the console of my brain point and go ‘hey waIT’ lol And then you made me bark with laughter lol. Just one short HEAH lol. Well done
One thing that always bothered me about click is that the family just totally looks over him being in a zombie state and showing extreme dementia/alzheimer's warning signs like not recognizing his children and forgetting what they look like literally every interaction lol
I mean, I suppose they could justify him being SO engrossed in his work that he detached from his family completely... Nah you're right that's fucked up
tbh it’s an improvement on how he treats people when he’s paying attention to them so i totally get it. would prefer a checked-out dad to an emotionally abusive and sexually inappropriate one as the lesser of two evils
@@buddha3209 If your point is supposed to be "it has magic so it doesn't need to make sense at all", you sadly miss the basic point of fiction. Magic is a device for storytelling that can be used in many ways, but it never means you can just throw sense out of the window, drama, social interactions, etc., are still HUMAN in nature, so they need to make sense internally given the context. Tho if that wasn't what you meant, sorry for misunderstanding.
"Youre gonna grow up to be so FREAKIN' HOt!!" The wife: "this is a perfectly reasonable comment from my husband whom I love and adore and don't find too many faults in"
A thing that bothers me about this movie is how effing dumb Michael is while using the remote. He can't ONLY fast forward. He can and does pause, use picture-on-picture and probably all the others options of a remote. He doesn't need to fast forward to when he finishes work. He could pause, do the work and have the rest of the day off with his family. He could pause to do literally ANYTHING, but he chooses to fast forward to do it quicker. Literally because he can't add 1+1 and realise pausing would be way better Also, can't him rewind? He rewinds the scene with his dad, why not just rewind when something goes wrong?? Edit: pressed enter by accident before finishing
He cannot rewind and change the past. As a choice for the movie, this type of time travel is a headache (because you have to set up if there are alternate universes and stuff) and fits mostly science fiction and fantasy movies. Also he could just revive his father. It is implied that the rewind function is only there for viewing your life in retrospect. Now as for the pause function you are totally right. Given that when pausing he can actually do stuff that impacts the world (like farting in Hasselhoff's mouth) he could just as well finish his work and get the promotion faster. However, as with changing the past, pausing time and being able to do work in that paused time is a cheat mechanic too.
This argument reminds me of the justice league eating dinner. Why doesn't the flash just use his super speed and do the dishes super fast? Well, he argues, he still has to do the dishes. Just because it's fast, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Pausing vs fast forwarding in click feels like that. Sure I can pause and do the work, but i have to do the work. Fast forward, I don't experience that.
@@yeturs69420 Still points to a character flaw of Michael's, in that he'd rather accelerate towards his own death than do work. I think this whole question illustrates the lack of creativity and poor writing in the movie. Instead of using the remote's many potential utilizations to explore who Michael is and how he thinks, the movie does a couple of bits and heads straight into the, "I've seen enough, here's your punishment" section
I wish you'd talked about how the movie frames Michael skipping till his promotion as a sacrifice he makes for his family's sake, like "look what i did to make them happy again! I threw myself into my work at the expense of family time!", when really it's just about him not having to endure his children's sadness, he might have skipped to the moment he can provide, but his kids did not, to them it was a whole year. It goes beyond him sacrificing happy family time to provide them "the good life", it's him abandoning them all through the bad times so he can arrive at the good life and not suffer himself. There was never anything selfless about him skipping family to "have more time for work so he can provide for them" because he didn't actually gain /more/ time, he was phisically still there, just on autopilot. What the movie frames as a selfless sacrifice is pretty much the opposite.
@@lostnumbr it's normal not wanting to see your family members cry/sad etc. But in this case I think she means he doesn't want to 'deal' with it. A lot of dads with this traditional mindset think that feelings and conversations are more of the mother's 'labour' and the dad is just passive in the family while being the provider
@@NaomiIsSoAwesome98 I feel like this character is more along the lines of he doesn't want to deal with making them sad, not being able to give them the best things yet. Though it does seem they are still at least partially entrenched in gendered roles. I think his wife, at least this time, is just dealing with the kids for him because she can tell how badly he feels for screwing that up. Though, I honestly don't think, that a couple of kids bikes from walmart is going to break them financially.
@@lostnumbr Not wanting to deal with making his family sad is normal; refusing to help his family endure the hardship is not. Such a family as the one portrayed in Click may be broken financially by such purchases if the purchases are timed poorly relative to other obligations (e.g. debt subject to compound interest).
I think you could definitely make an argument for the original story Click is based on (The Magic Thread) to be about an inability to tolerate the present moment. In The Magic Thread, the boy is the son of a widow, so there's some trauma in the past. He has maladaptive daydreaming, and doesn't pay attention in school, which can be a common trauma response for children. We create stories in response to the world we live in; it would be really interesting to read about what life was like around that time to cause this to be a story people wanted children to internalize.
yeah when i was in the depths of my weed addiction i was just using it to skip time, literally. because i dont remember anything when i smoke if i smoke 24/7 then i'll skip time, the logic goes.
Tally Ho Is it racist to tell illegal immigrants to self quarantine even thought we had to shut down the entire city? On one hand it would prevent them from being sick but on the other hand they’re barred from doing so much that it would be immoral to do any more. If only I knew Spanish so I could talk to them about it directly! 😭🤧
There are a lot of things that bother me about Click, but I think the biggest thing is that Adam Sandler's character is told he is given the best universal remote control in the world, but the remote doesn't even have a fully functional rewind button.
Rewind is always the most important button on a "universal" remote. Pause probably being second, freezing the world just long enough to accomplish something in literally zero time.
maybe the 'best universal remote control in the world' isnt perfect. humans perhaps have the 'best central nervous system in the world' but it sure aint perfect. thats what this film is about. brains and their interface with reality.
My family watches It's A Wonderful Life every Christmas. One year, it was getting late and folks were tired, so we stopped the movie....right before Clarence shows up. We basically watched a movie about a good man being broken down and then ending with his implied suicide.
Its a classic boomer film >Haha mute my wife while i watch sports >My daughter is conventionally attractive so she must be unintelligent >Gotta """"discipline"""" this random child
"I'm gonna make my kid play ball with this random child--oo, but I gotta discipline him, and I'll cheer my child on when his ball hits this kid in the face, thereby teaching him 'strength' and 'dominance'." It's a wonder that Michael's kid didn't turn out to be a douche bully as an adult
This is like watching a man beat himself over the head for an hour, while his big sad eyes plead with you to make him stop, but there's nothing you can do.
I could weirdly see a very good version of Click where the remote serves as a metaphor for trauma-based dissociation. The remote “taking over” and starting fast forwarding through things the protagonist wants to be present for makes sense in that case.
All of the actors in this movie were great; Hasslehoff, Winkler, Sandler, Walken. And the cinematography is above usual Sandler vacation flicks. The whole magic remote premise turning into horror is great too. Shame about everything else though
I always saw the film as commentary about how we fall into routines and mentally check out. He recognizes how he's not being "present in the moment" and he wants to change, but he keeps slipping back into his routine, not because he doesn't care, but because psychologically, neurologically even, it's hard to escape from yourself. It fits with what a psychiatrist once told: We don't do what we like, we do what we know, and that's the essence of addiction. Our past experience shapes our brains, and our brains shape our future experience; it can be a vicious cycle. But even if it's a "virtuous" cycle, even if we invest our time and energy in family (or whatever aspect of our life we consider virtuous) we still run the risk of mentally zoning out, letting our pre-existing neural pathways dictate our behavior, while our higher mind rots. Thus, whatever you want your life to be about, just spending your time on that area of your life still isn't enough. It's still a perpetual struggle to keep your mind *ACTIVELY* invested in what you're doing, keep yourself *ACTIVELY* invested in the *MOMENT*, or you will, in effect, fall into autopilot-mode.
I find it interesting that usually when actors talk about characters they play, they always refer to them as he/she. But Adam Sandler always says I/me. Not that this is surprising at all, because all Adam Sandler characters are basically some thinly-veiled version of Adam Sandler.
@@TheAgamidaex tbh, a lot of what Adam Sandler does and says is questionable. I was thinking about what Joel was saying about Click's attitude towards fat people. It made me think about all the times Adam Sandler has collaborated with Kevin James. Literally any time there are jokes involving Kevin James' characters, it always eventually leads to "lol, ur fat"
@@jdprettynails No problem! 😊 I'll have to check that game out. I like mobile games that feature animals and I just started playing the mobile game, Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector. It's so addicting, lol.
FYI, in "It's a Wonderful Life", what George Bailey manages isn't a bank, it's a "Building and Loan Association". BnL Associations aren't banks, they're democratically run by their account holders and meant to pool their assets to allow them to invest in local infrastructure. He doesn't really "own" it, just manages the finances, and it's purpose is to do things like build affordable housing in the community.
@@danniruthvan3265 Yeah they serve much the same purpose and look identical in daily operation, so that's what most people assume. But if you watch the film they're pretty consistent in never referring to Bailey's firm as a "bank".
I believe that was one of the reasons that when it was released the FBI suspected it was communist propaganda as it ""discredited bankers"" edit: reading an article about this now, some of the quotes from the FBI were wild For example, the report said, the film cast Lionel Barrymore as Mr. Potter, the “‘scrooge-type’ so that he would be the most hated man in the picture.” On its face, that’s true: The plot wouldn’t work if the crowd were cheering for Potter to repossess Bailey’s business. But, the FBI agent claimed that according to “informants,” this was “a common trick used by Communists.”
I find it interesting that your abbreviation for Building and Loan is “BnL,” the same as the logo for “Buy N Large,” the megacorporation responsible for turning the Earth into an unlivable trash heap in the movie Wall-E. Unfortunately the similarity isn't close enough for it to be a workable metaphor. Oh well.
Imagine being 19, growing up in a sex negative environment, and Adam Sandler's character in Click is the first time you've ever heard an adult utter the words, "I like sex; it feels good". Anyway ...
imagine growing up in a sex negative environment and then Adam Sandler is telling his 7 year old daughter to never learn about sex and put her boobs away
@@minnie7453terally 😭 and it never was any different, in vast majority of movies, always girls taught and said to never learn or ever do sex when they grow up and to be pure and to never ever show skin, while boys could, which ima be honest is weird too cause I feel like sexualizes boys as well. Let’s leave children and their future sex lives alone please.
It always makes me wonder how so many men will have daughters, realize they've been an objectifying (potentially abusive) shit-basket toward women, and - rather than trying to discuss that behavior with other men - they teach their daughters that men are dangerous and sex will destroy their lives. They realize that their own behavior, and the behavior of their male friends is abhorrent, but they don't reach the second epiphany: That it isn't a woman's responsibility to avoid this behavior; it's a man's responsibility to STOP DOING IT.
@@nicholasleclerc1583 It's basically the idea that - if men do not want their moms/sisters/daughters being involved with guys like their friends (or themselves) - interrogate why they feel that way, and encourage those around them not to act like that with women they aren't close to. I've heard young dads say things like "I'll cut off peepees if dudes come around MY teenage daughter!" That suggests they're really afraid of something....and not just pregnancy (birth control exists), they're afraid that men mistreat women on a regular basis, and they don't want their daughters to be abused. Every time sexual assault comes up as a topic, men circle wagons and say "not all men"....but every time teenage daughters come up, men circle the wagons and say "Defend her from our evil hordes.".............the disconnect is palpable, and I think it implies that men know all about rape culture; they just don't want to talk about it.
I loved this movie when I saw it at 9 years old, because I hated my father who was an architect and seeing him suffer and die knowing he wasted his life was cathartic.
As an architecture student I’ve been told by teachers that being an architect ( at least a good one) would take a lot of sacrifice, meaning that missing important family events like funerals,weddings, birthdays was part of it.
In 2006 I'd gotten into an argument with my parents, who lived in a different state. I hadn't returned their calls in months. I watched this movie on a date at a drive in, Sandler was such an awful shit to his dad that I called my parents the next day. A joyless movie but at least there's that.
@@Condorosa Did you not see those high ceilings, not hear the velvet echoes of that vaulted gallery! Clearly the Big is self-isolating in a Florentinian palazzo. Mama mia! *Edit: Holy shit they are actually in Italy? I figured it was just a big old collective house in Philly or Oakland.
Anyone else think it was weird how the fast-forward function was the only one that had consequences? Like, at some point his wife's best friend should be on permanent mute. It always seemed to me like the writers bit off more they could chew with the premise, and were too lazy to fully flesh out the mechanics of the remote.
its because its meant to reflect how routine and habit work in life. yes there could have been an automatic mute moment, but its somewhat tangential to the thrust of the film. pausing/rewind dont reflect actual human processes and thus are just gags and not essential to the plot.
for years my dad's been telling me about an amazing movie about a guy who finds a remote an ends up fast forwarding through all his life without meaning to etc etc. he seemed to genuinely love it so much and find it to be telling and clever and funny. i never really went to look up what that movie was. now i know
Tbh i think this movie functions more like a Rorschach test. As do a lot of Science fiction movies too, where the concept is so novel and universally applicable that you sort of take from it what you want.
oh god, that feels bad ... thankfully I dislike Adam Sandler Movies in general, so I wouldnt have ever given this movie a shot or any thought, but well here I am.
I um...watched it with my mom when it came out and I cried and cried... I don't remember the main character being terrible what's wrong with me he's obviously just the worst haha
This movie always makes me cry because of the scene where Michael sees his dad for the last time. My grandfather raised me for many years and he died when I was 11. Every single time I watch that scene, I feel grief wash over me as if my grandfather died yesterday. If I had that remote, I'd go back to see my grandfather again so I could hug him. I had no idea that he was going to die the last time I saw him before his stroke. Had I known that he would be hospitalized and unresponsive the last 4 times I saw him, I would've hugged him longer and told him how much I love him.
Use this moment to learn. Don't take any moment for granted, and spend time with your loved ones while you can. I hope you are feeling better now and things are going well for you
@@smallcheesebread6531 I did make some mistakes since posting this. I regret not spending more time with my guinea pig before she died in September of 2023.
@@NickyBlue99 unfortunately, I genuinely didn't think of that. My brain doesn't think of a lot of things because it's just wired wrong. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
me: I just watched an hour long documentary about why 'Click' is a terrible film my girlfriend: I mean, watching the film itself is basically watching an hour long documentary about why 'Click' is a terrible film.
This movie terrified me and made me cry when I was younger. I got the general idea of what the story was doing but seeing a man be forced to fast forward until his inevitable demise shook me to my core and got me bawling. It's not even a good film! But that feeling of fear and dread hit me so hard. I remember being weirded out that this was supposed to be a comedy film.
Same, for a "comedy" film it was one of the most depressing things I ever watched as a kid, like I already had a bad childhood and comedy was an escape for me, but Click just increased my depression tenfold.
I remember the commercials pitched this as a funny comedy movie, so I thought it'd be a fun thing to watch as a kid. I bawled the whole movie and have felt horrified by the experience ever since.
Really? I mean she’s definitely more talented than Sandler as far as believable acting, but he at least has his over the top campy mood swings and outbursts. It’s not much but at least it’s something kinda colorful and kinda unique I’m definitely not a fan but I can easily see why he’s more famous tbh
The thing about the Goosebumps episode is, it's protagonist didn't have their agency taken away, they had every opportunity to correct their mistakes, but went mad with power instead. It was only at the very end that things became unfixable. Taking away a protagonist's agency is rarely good writing, even in a horror setting, it's just a lazy way for the writer to get the outcome they want.
"Congratulations on becoming the new CEO. I'm not going to lie to you, it was a rocky road, especially considering that the first words that came out of your mouth after I floated the idea were "NO! I DON'T WANT A PROMOTION!" and you spent every moment from that point until a few seconds ago in a near catatonic state in which you somehow still got your work done..."
@@speakingfacts3931 if my coworker was obviously totally out of it to the point that they weren't even communicating verbally, but were still doing their job, id be pretty weirded out ngl also why is your comment so hostile
What confuses me is how he’s completely out of it in his “autopilot” phase to the point of being unable to express emotion until the plot needs him to be a dismissive asshole to his father and he blows up on him.
Feels like there's some serious hustle-culture assumptions behind that single plot development. That becoming senior management is seriously just a case of "keeping your head down and doing the work" for ten solid years, that the process will at no point require any imagination, charm, politicking, or even basic human interaction. Just grind hard enough for long enough and you'll rise to the top, we promise!
"I don't have an hour of Click content on me" so you mean to say you... Click-baited us? I'll see myself out. (Thanks for the awesome video as always.)
Fatness being an object of contempt and disgust and a source of shame and amusement is a very consistent motif throughout Adam Sandler's work. When you started talking about that aspect of Click I immediately thought of the sketch about "Fatty" on one of Sandler's comedy albums and of the so-called "Revolting Blob" character from Billy Madison. I'm sure there are many other examples.
Feel like the other reply was weirdly taking the opportunity to offer their contempt, not realizing that that kind of impulse is frankly far more contemptible
When I was in my mid-twenties I found fatness an object of contempt and disgust, and I would sometimes express that sensibility to other people. Now, thirty years later, having matured and changed, I no longer think that way, and I look back on those times with contempt and disgust.
@@humanbeing2420 Fat people are unhealthy. No amount of sugar coating will lead them to a healthy path. You're just enabling people in an addiction leading them to an early grave. What else kind of terrible advice are you willing to give as long as people compliment you for doing so?
I just got kicked off the campus I have grown to love over a year because of Corona virus, having you talk for an hour is really comforting, thank you for being there for me
I can’t imagine the hell that that actress is going through as she forces a sweetly charmed smile at her onscreen huband’s horribleness, coding it with her hot-lady seal of approval as innocently symptomatic of his charm.
And all I can think of is how many brain dead idiots would be incapable of seeing it's gross. Even when the grossness is fundamental to the comedy in the first place. 😂 God we're surrounded by such pussies.
This movie had like 6 year old me in a existential crisis when I was little I remember him skipping through his life and dying basically alone and to 6 year old me I was fucking horrified and it caused alot of issues in my head about how I was gonna die alone and unloved sooner then I realized
but but but now you're aware of it and have some perspective on it so you know what's valuable and that can be humbling and/or good for your ego i think click is a masterpiece lol jk this shit trash but u wont die unloved bc i love u
I was 10 or 11 but SAME. I cried like a baby (I rarely cried watching movies cause I was a *tom boy*. I had the same existential crisis. Fuck this movie. I went in thinking I was going to have a comedy and it just stabbed you in the feelings
adam sandler movies seem generally to be more for dad's moreso than anyone else, but they dont capitalise on it and instead markets it towards everyone.
Idk man, that scene in the rain when he dies is pretty fuckin well done. For such a dumb movie with a main character that intentionally unlikeable for 80% of the runtime, him screaming through the rain with his last bit of strength is heartbreaking.
You understand now the frustration that is Adam Sandler. When he decides to put in effort he's actually really good. But convincing him to put that effort in is nigh impossible.
It should have been an Existential Horrors episode. "The existential horror of Adam Sandler" He can be *good* as an actor, working under another director, but he directs/produces a lot of his own (mediocre at best) movies, with him as the (at best) mediocre lead character. I'm pretty sure, he even doesn't mean bad, but his humor and the presence of his stereotypical humor, fart jokes, harming someone as the running gag, really detract from whatever message he originally wants to send. He is the worst thing that happens to his own movies. He wants to be a storyteller, which is fair, but he tells the stories the same way that one kid in class did which had a passion for writing, but absolutely lacked the talent.
CommandoDude You can tell when he’s in a movie that he’s having fun. That’s the best thing about his garbage movies. It’s also what makes his good movies so great
@CommandoDude movies like Click operate a weird space though in regards to that. Like Grown Ups? Yeah that's literally Adam Sandler And His Friends Fuck Around On Vacation The Movie. But Click, what happens in Click that is an excuse to go on vacation? What friends of his are in Click that he can have fun with? Personally I think Click is trying to be a legitimate film and that's what makes it almost worse than Adam Sandler's vacation movies. At least those give off the sense that the people in them are having fun, Click becomes so muddled with trying to tell a satisfying emotional story AND have Adam Sandler be the haha funny man that it just feels like a jigsaw puzzle where somebody got impatient and Click Remoted through the puzzle squeezing in pieces wrong.
Adam Sandler's always made me feel a little bit weird about women. Like in that movie he was in where he adopted Zack and Cody, his girlfriend in that movie left him because he was immature, had no job prospects and was all around a bad partner, but at the end he's a lawyer and she's working at Hooters, as if she in any way deserved to be laughed at for having a job. She didn't do anything bad to him, she just kind of...left an unhappy relationship.
@@kittykittybangbang9367 I was confused too, until I read the description after "zack and cody" I guess the kid is played by a set a twins named zack and cody.
the dehumanization of the hooters workers while the male characters opening admitted to going to hooters CONSTANTLY when they were younger, was always weird af to me..
The scene where Michael reduces his father to tears right before he dies always makes me cry tho. Not because the film earned it, and not because I have treated my father like that, but because I feel similar to his father. My father would just ignore me for swathes of my life to work, and the idea that the rift wouldn't mend hurt me immensely. It didn't help that my father laughed at all the cruelty that Michael displays in the "jokes".
@@phonyk568 Yes, and both of those concepts are worth dissecting. Kinda the whole point of the video and channel you're watching. "It's a joke" =/= You don't get to analyze or criticize this piece of information. Also for me to give a joke the benefit of the doubt it needs to do one important thing: be funny. Which this is not :)
Exactly, it’s not even funny especially to me because instead of finding her ugly, I find her cute and pretty! There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, and can even feel more approachable than someone who is considered hot!
I always thought she was adorable and so goddamn tiny!! I feel like that would be a clearer physical joke with her than type casting her as ugly. It’s definitely a reach.
This movie made me CRY. It made me realize that we need to treat the people we love better because we’ll look back and tell ourselves that we could’ve done more. Family and the people we love are more important than anything else. Life is short, so we shouldn’t waste any time doing pointless things that don’t matter. I couldn’t finish the movie without bawling my eyes out and calling my father, telling him that I’m sorry I hadn’t treated him as good as I could have.
The scene with Michael witnessing the last moment he had with his father and realizing that on autopilot he was dismissive to a point of cruelty towards his father and is basically just whimpering with how sad he is and misses his father is unreasonably good to be in this otherwise shit movie. I don't know maybe it just hits me harder because I do give a lot of thought to the possibility of when my last moment with a loved one will be and how much it would destroy me if I was mean to them in that last moment I had with them.
Don’t know if you were aware of this, but Adam Sandler said goodbye to his real life dad around the time he filmed that scene so it hit him on a personal level Or so I’ve heard
@@BlazePiffington Makes sense, I feel like Adam Sandler only plays himself. He thinks being a misogynistic creep who's got a daughter fetish is normal, but at the same time he also does have feelings for things like the death of his father. The flaws and upsides of his movies could just be contributed to his irl personality imo
@@l.2620 yes, I see what you’re saying, during happy Gilmore It was probably passable, but now… Yeah, it’s worn out it’s welcome. Not to mention there was some supposed plagiarism with this movie click. And what’s the last movie Adam Sandler did? Pixels… Which borrowed the same idea from the Futurama episode.
oh my gosh, i totally agree. I watched this movie like last week for the first time and i utterly hated it but that one scene was so hard to watch it was just horrible. it depressed me all day the next day. its a horrible movie but that one scene is done a little TOO well. I wish I never watched it lol
The main criticism I have of that scene is that, of course, in order for his family to really mean something to him, only his male relatives are in that scene.
I know it must have been torture to make this, but I actually think it's a really important spotlight on deep seated issues in a lot of low brow Hollywood movies: "the main character is a standin fantasy for the male audience, and his behavior is okay" gross
the text of the film actually hates Michael. hes arguably the only 'bad' character in the whole thing! but id say hes redeemable given a 'break' by Morty... remember when Morty says 'you seem like a nice guy' its funny because for the entire film Michael's been an insufferable douchebag. the film knows this! the film punishes him!
@@heyheyhey121121 it’s strangely both he’s a stand in for the male audience and the movie is ok with his behaviour but paradoxically knows it’s wrong The only real thing he’s condemned for is skipping which is only ever partially his fault as he realises his mistake pretty soon but is given no way to stop the auto feature Truly truly a strange movie.
Nobody warned us that a typical Adam Sandler movie would try to get so dramatic halfway through after the usual Sandler sex jokes. The father scene always used to make me get emotional, though. 😢
it definitely got its hooks into me when i saw it in theaters, but i was surprised by how much stuff i just straight up didn't remember about the film. the sandler dying part was the only scene that stuck out in my mind.
I think it's so funny how he describes the movie as being based on a French folk tale called "The Magic Thread" and you're like hmm... I'm not sure the people who wrote Click have read very many French fairy tales! And then he introduces this Goosebumps story literally titled "Click" and you're like ahh... There it is.
"The town is controlled by the evil slum lord banker." "Oh no!" "Your brother is dead." "Oh, my god! My wife...WHAT ABOUT MY WIFE?" "She's..." "TELL ME!" "She's...a LIBRARIAN." "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"
@@EmeraldLavigne Which isn't _inherently_ a tragedy, sure, but it's still pretty sad for Mary personally, since settling down and raising a family was clearly something she wanted to do from the beginning (because yeah sometimes people actually want that instead of only doing it out of societal obligation), but without George and with Potterville being a den of vipers she never found the right person and risks being assaulted on her way home from work every night.
@@elsie8757 That is some helpful context, but the way Clarence says it.... it's assumed that the audience instantly empathizes with the negative subtext. That subtext being that being an unmarried woman is a terrible fate. It's beyond creepy.
Outlaw Scar Agreed. That part could have used more screen time to explain why that particular outcome was devastating for Mary, instead of just “she’s an unmarried woman now. The fainting room is to the left.”
Click is a fascinating, weird, and hard to explain movie, and I’m so glad we have an hour-long deep dive into it from Big Joel. Imo one of the most interesting things about Click is how it manages to emotionally affect people in a sincere way, while also being pretty bad most of the time. There are lots of people online who find this movie touching, even going so far as to say it is actually good despite its childish sense of humor. Interesting, right? I think we typically think of art as needing to be good in order to have the emotional impact on its audience that it wants to have. But Click kind of proves that assumption wrong, doesn’t it? How can a movie that sucks also make people cry? I think what Click unintentionally proves is that actually, a single emotionally effective scene is enough to make the audience remember the movie fondly, even if the rest of it is totally vapid.
you've completely misrepresented the film and its supporters in one swoop. well crafted! the emotional weight of the scene depends on the setup, but some people dont understand how supposedly happy people can craft tragic scenes I suppose.
@@heyheyhey121121 their argument is that there was no set up. The whole premise of the movie was vague and didn't follow through with their narrative for all of the scenes. You could guess a million different things that the movie was trying to make, because it does a poor job at it. Then out of nowhere, it goes "THIS was the point of the movie!" During the last 10 minutes of film
I never noticed all that. Now I feel like watching more Adam Sandler movies and being slightly disturbed wondering how the guy is in real life, cause y'know, would be not much different than the characters. But wow I've never thought about Click this way. Joel's breakdown of the film was great.
I was going to say Uncut Gems, but no, that fits. Though that's the point of the film, he gets relentlessly punished for that. He gets punished specifically by other people treating him like he treats them, so yeah, abusive angry weirdo Adam Sandler works in that film. Punch Drunk Love, though.
I have waited for SO LONG to hear someone talk about this movie. This movie was the movie that introduced me to the concept of mortality when I was 7, and literally sent me spiralling into early childhood depression. I had to see a child psychiatrist because I would cry every night about how I was going to die one day and so were my parents and my dog. Someone had to say something about this movie because it is NOT a comedy and I have never been the same.
What do you mean life is like that boy even if click was the first thing that got you introduced in the concept of mortality you shouldn't be giving a shit, life is like it is, if you were to know that tomorrow you would probaby die, welp, ok i guess, be a little sad, but you are not in your right to cry about how bad or injust is live because it is like it is, and no one can change that
@@ssbot3795 "Not in your right" Oh ok, because you have the right to tell other people how to feel but they don't have the right to their own feelings if you don't agree with them? People generally don't have the luxury of choosing whether or not something upsets them and affects them very deeply, especially as children. This person is literally talking about how this affected them when they were 7 for crying out loud. Saying someone isn't allowed to be upset by huge concepts that we all have to come to terms with like mortality just because you don't think they should feel that way is not only complete bullshit, but also pretty arrogant and narcissistic.
You know I find it ironic that this Joel and most people commenting here are fucked up by this film. It's because you saw it as a child and now you are trying to somehow relate it to the terms of today. Its clearly not a film for children. Taboo. FFS, I grew up with the Exorcist! This is why 10 years ago, the biggest shows on TV were Haunted This and Ghost That. Also I believe that every generation seems to skip or rebel the previous, hence your dislike. It is also one of those post 9/11 films that is trying to push the world forward so that we may notice our errors and move ahead. Which for some reason is coming off as being a dick, like the old banker in IAWL. Arguing don't be such as damn pussy, but attempting to make that argument in an incremental manner in order to make a plot. Moving from IAWL grow up and accept that the evil system has won to CLICK accept your errors and faults, admit them and move on. However, incrementalism is not something you are willing to accept while you are young. So please 20 something's, get in there and relieve us of the evil in the world (And I don't want to just hear about it ) Oh the guys disgusting for his blah, blah, blah. This is something you would say maybe today, but the previous generation dealt with this, growing up with mass problems and financial strain brought on by the previous generation, and rebelling them. It was not something that you could always easily recognize or speak of in the early 90s'. It was something that was revealed in a little movie called the Matrix, which started the entire woke movement at the beginning of this century Kinda like alcoholism and drugs. These things repeat themselves every 45-60 years or so. Helluva lot go through this
Tbh, a lot of Adam Sandler comedies have him playing a douchebag, jerk or asshole. And often he does not become a better person, it's more like the world finally aknowledges what a great guy he secretly is. Almost seems like Adam Sandler wishes to be recognised as a good actor and film maker, while in reality his movies are just bad most of the time.
@@NaomiIsSoAwesome98 to be fair, most of these “comedies” give the male protagonist a super attractive love interesting with little to no personality or chemistry with the actor. she’s just there to look hot and make him look cooler. almost like wish fulfillment in a way
@@save_bandit its totally true , this happens in things aimed at men, like in this case , but also with products aimed at women , i worked on a bookshop and a lot of novelas covers were basically hot guys or muscular guys
@@ashenone3050 i’m afraid we’re talking about two different things. i’m talking about a media trope (“ugly guy, hot wife” tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UglyGuyHotWife ) and you’re talking about erotica which is a very different subject all together (as it is literally wish fulfillment). it would make more sense to compare them with playboy magazines, for example and a conversation to be had about how gender roles assign and impact pornography mediums
click is such a strange movie because it strikes a weird part of the male experience nobody talks about disassociation and emotional numbing. after a while men get this ability to just turn off their empathy sadness anger etc. whatever was needed to do his job and provide. i always wondered why my dad seemed to love this movie and then it struck me, he has PTSD. He relates to this movie because it describes his experiences.
My dad is not an Adam Sandler dad... more like your least favorite high school Debate faculty advisor. But in the past few years I really have been picking up this vibe from him, thinking about my childhood in retrospect and how Not Emotionally There he was. It was all "provider complex" garbage. That is absolutely a real thing.
@@Hi-en7xx I mean emotional detachment for women has probably been going down since the 70s since the draconian marriage laws got repealed and we actually made marital rape a federal crime. But it can also exist in other genders of course this detachment and apathy caused by emotional abuse. Is not entirely exclusive to men. But this specific instance of emotional detachment coming from work is a very common experience for men.
@@kekero540 I don’t know what that first part has to do with anything, that’s a great feat for the time but there are also definitely larger issues for women and humans in general, idk why that would affect every woman’s mental health, and in that specific way, so greatly. Also wouldn’t it go up over time if we’re talking about specifically work I’ve heard as much, if not more, from women about just going through the motions especially involving work, is there a source you’re looking to for this or are you just kinda assuming?
This movie shockingly made me uncontrollably sob as a kid because the scene with his dad before he died was SO out of NOWHERE and emotionally devastating.
And after the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation cross-referenced a complete list of more than 300 films made in that year with review statistics, they had their early longlist of competitors for the Worst of '006 awards race. And my calculations only named Click the 39th worst film of that year!
A lot of the humour is preference but there’s some genuinely very moving scenes in it, especially one in particular. Seriously it’s one of the saddest scenes in film history, it’s incredibly well done which raises it a few levels.
Perception of time is relative to how long you've been alive. The greater a percentage of your total life a day is, the slower that day seems to go for you. Put another way, time really does seem to speed up as you age. Faster and faster. I'm in my 30s now, I remember when a month was an impossibly long wait for something... nowadays months fly by without me even being aware of it.
Lancer Guy How you spend your time also matters. A lot of people look up and go "wow, 30 years just flew by. Ain't that crazy" Well of course, you spent the last 30 years doing the same thing day in day out. I a firm believer that life feels longer when you fill it with new and unique experiences. And when you do the same things for years at a time, it kinda just blurs together in your brain. Humans don't remember time, they remember experiences and emotions. Be sure to acquire a lot of em
Yeesh, I remember I think an Xbox commercial, of a baby being born shot launched out of his mom, flying through the air while screaming and aging until he lands in his grave. That commercial scared me.
the scene where micheal stumbled out of the hospital and died actually made me cry as a kid. i don't know if i should feel ashamed or not but the scene got to me
Roast Beefy Weefy :: Do you know that to be a fact or just making casual conversation? Advanced geometry, for sure--probably some classical physics or even chemistry, but i would be curious how calculus might apply to architecture. I'm not saying i think you're wrong (i barely understand what calculus is,) just wondering if you have any more specific info.
Kochaos! Sure, yeah, I only know because the CA state/UC system required two levels of calculus for architecture when I was deciding what to study. I almost failed calc so I switched majors, so it sticks out to me as a requirement given that it factored so heavily into my career path. Calculus deals with rates of change, and I can imagine that being relevant to the science of designing habitable structures. Lol idk, but architecture isn’t just drawing, that’s for sure.
As a rule of thumb, every STEM field [even pre-med] requires at least Calculus I and typically Calculus II and III in anything but pre-Med within the STEM umbrella. Calculus III especially is important for understanding vector calculus, which is used any time a field needs to do mathematics in a three-dimensional space. Pre-Med only needs Physics I and Chemistry II for discrete sciences typically, but both of those require Calculus I and a limited knowledge of Calculus II concepts for integral-based derivations of force and motion equations. Architects take Mechanics I and II, which require both Calculus III and Differential Calculus, as well as Statics, Thermodynamics, and Engineering courses. They also need to know how to determine wave motion along flat surfaces in a three-dimensional space for understanding material stress due to environmental factors such as high wind, earthquakes, and floods, which is pretty rough - it's described by a summation of axis-aligned partial differential equations, or whatever. I remember that being a bitch and a half.
watching this movie as a young child it terrified me to no end-the idea of life passing me by incredibly fast until you die an awful death shook me to my core. Hearing you explain how confusing it’s thematic messaging was explains the reason it scared me so much. As a child, this is the message the film showed me; life is short and painful and you have absolutely no power over it, you’ll get sick and die no matter what you do. Heavy shit for a kid to understand lol
heavy shit at any age. we have much less control over our life and how we lead it than Hollywood often has us believe. Click is the exception and Im glad for it.
So let me get this straight: It’s a mashup of A Christmas Carol (learn you were always a bad person), It’s a Wonderful Life (learn you were always a worthwhile person), an old folktale (learn agency is what life is all about), and… a goosebumps story (what if you had no agency). _what._
almost. It's a Wonderful Life teaches him that the world is perfect. A Christmas Carol teaches him that he's doing bad things in this perfect world. it doesnt have anything to do with the Goosebumps story, it would be closer to Scarface or Daddy Day Care than that. and he clearly does have agency in the story, but not the whole time, just as in life: we give up autonomy for automation of routine. its practically inescapable!
The idea that the main character lives in a really nice house, but can't afford two bicycles, and is dumb enough to "splurge" before he even got the promotion landed really flat, it just doesn't make sense.
It's called a mortgage. Lots of people in America around 2006 had one which they ended up not being able to pay when the interest rates shot up culminating in the Great Recession. It makes perfect sense.
@@reilysmith5187 Anyone with a 3+ bedroom house or more than one car in the driveway are objectively better off than most, but that doesn't mean they can't be financially struggling at all. Everyone has their own unique circumstances.
@@queuedjar4578 My friend, it seems you do not know what debt is. Many people preceding the financial crass had more debt than equity in their homes, and when housing prices fell they were in even more trouble. Someone who has 10k assets and 5k liabilities is better off than someone with 100k assets and 200k liabilities, despite appearances, given the same income and costs.
i just have awful vivid memories of the posters of click with adam sandler's over-airbrushed face everywhere plaguing the cinemas and then the kmart dvd section
When I was like, 10 or so my parents told me I could watch a PG-13 movie because I was mature enough I picked this movie and hated it so much that I refused to watch another PG-13 movie until I was 13 because I thought all PG-13 movies were gonna be this bad
@@Littlekitten_I agree. The negative comments sound like people wanted to see a mindless comedy and then got upset when there was an actual lesson to be learned and scenes of sadness. Nothing wrong with that.
Me and my bf were watching this video in front of a housemate once and he got kind of offended because he is very (self admittedly) emotionally attached to this movie, especially the part where Adam sandler says “family comes first”. And then he said he didn’t like this guy (big Joel) because he (big Joel) said that it was weird how Adam Sandler sexualises his daughter. It was really awkward and we didn’t know him that well. I like thinking about that memory when I watch this video.
@@gnocchipr1nc3ss oh for sure and I'm glad that more and more people can change their views and be more open and accepting to the idea that literally sexualizing a child is really weird. Also I don't have anything against Adam Sandler, it's just this movie in particular is kinda bad
That last thing you sang about got me questioning. So, he was forced to skip ahead of sex because while he was on autopilot for a year he had a lot of sex and the remote learned this. However, presumably he did WAY more than just have repetitive sex, yes? Like eating, brushing his teeth, putting on his shoes, BREATHING, and any short of other, mundane daily routine. So why did the remote draw the line at sex and not... literally every second of his life? By the logic presented here (I haven't seen the full movie myself, thankfully), the moment the remote learns this behavior, that should be it. His life is over because it should just cut to the end. We are creatures of habit and ritual, so for the remote to use it's learning based on that alone is very flimsy and incredibly arbitrary.
I love "It's a wonderful life." In fact, I love it SO much, I named my dog George Bailey, and my hermit crabs Mary, Clarence & Potter. But I have to say, the climax of the movie where all these genuinely tragic & horrifying realities are being revealed, when he screams, "WHERE'S MARY. WHERE IS SHE??" And to his unimaginable horror Clarence says, "...She never married ..She's an old Spinster!" And it's understood that as the audience, were supposed to be in shock & horrified, I laugh...so hard. Like the fact that her staying single is such a terrifying concept for people back then makes me giggle way too hard
Yeah lol, those were definitely other times 😂 luckily we can now look at it and see it as weird or funny, it demonstrates how we advanced as a society :)
I'm gonna be honest. If I imagine a world where I've been married to someone I love for decades, and we have kids and a life or whatever, and then I imagine I'm sent to some weird horrifying reality where I never existed, I don't really want to see my husband married to someone else anyway. Like sure, let him be married or single, whatever he wants, but I'm not falling over myself to hear about or watch his happy marriage. If George was really asking so desperately about that, as Clarence's answer might suggest, that feels weird.
Yeah I feel like that's best case scenario? Were we supposed to want her to have been fucking some other guy for years and have a happy family that would be erased from existence when George goes back to fix everything? Were we supposed to want her to be like the queen of town or something?
This was the first movie I noticed Adam Sandler was ceasing to play the type of guy you thought would beat up bullies just because he was pretty good-natured, but liked fighting and wanted an excuse, to actually just being a guy who was probably a bully themselves.
It's creepy how Adam Sandler unironically thinks physically hurting children is hilarious to him. He admitted during the filming of the 1995 movie Billy Madison he intentionally threw the dodge ball hard at the child actors causing them to cry, hurting children gives him pleasure, he's a monster.
I was thinking to myself, how about talking about the deleted scenes? You know, scenes that apparently weren't "good" enough to make the final cut. But we did get an entertaining song instead.
I know it's a necrocomment at this time, but I gotta put a point on this as I don't see it in the immediate top comments here. The arbitrary-ness and fickle functioning of the remotes automated functions are actually explicitly prefaced in what may seem like a throwaway line, especially to those not from the the *exact* moment in time the line would be socially relevant. And this super specific line that dates this movie to almost an exact few years explains the whole thing. That line is when Christopher Walken's character says something to the tune "it's like TiVo. I call it Me-Vo." That one line, right there, ties the whole movie together. When TiVo was first a big new thing that garnered enough sway for people to have it, its automatic features were super annoying. I remember my dad really wanting it because of how it could record live tv broadcasts and such without the use of VHS tapes or anything, and then being able to fastforward through the commercials. And especially that it could record things that weren't actively being watched. HOWEVER! What happened is that this big feature they advertised was REALLY unsophisticated. So whenever you watched or recorded a show, it would start automatically trying to record every episode of that show that aired at any time on any channel. And it would start recording shows it thought were related to the first show. And then because it recorded those shows (of its own volition) it would start recording shows it thought were related to the shows it recorded for you. So we were frequently and constantly deleting episodes of shows that none of knew what the heck they were. It would even record shows of "premium" channels we didn't have normal access to. And even beyond that, because it would fill up its storage space with all this nonsense "smart recording", it would be too full to record the things you manually put in to be recorded. It would also only be able to record two things at once, so if it were already "smart recording" two things, it would then be unable to record the thing you told it to. The number of times my dad got upset because a sports game he told it to record wasn't recorded or was terminated early because it decided to "smart record" other things was beyond count. But what's more. Because it needed to have one of the two things it was recording be what was actively being watched, if you paused and held a live show so you could buffer it and skip through commercials later, but it decided it needed to record a second thing at that time, it would switch over to the other channel and you would lose your buffered thing you were watching. This happened to us many times, as well. So when anybody who ever wrangled with a TiVo heard that line, we *knew* this wasn't going to be a funny "man gets universal remote and it's great and works" movie.
the way the remote learns his preferences and traps him in some hellish repetitive nightmare devoid of free will reminds me of how TH-cam works.
So you are implying that watching Joel’s videos is a form of eternal torture?
@@SmoothTurtle840 haha. could be. Though I actually haven't seen any of his videos in a long time because I told TH-cam to stop recommending them. I guess TH-cam is a little more user-friendly than Adam Sandler's remote.
@@nooneofconsequence1251 Yup, except sometimes TH-cam will just try to slip in a couple videos into your recommended that don’t fit your viewing preferences whatsoever.
Click - Meta before it's time.
I find it funny this comment has 666 likes, it's like lucifer himself agrees
Big Joel is here to answer the big questions, like "What would Karl Marx think of the 2006 Adam Sandler movie 'Click'?".
Karl Marx saw click he would turn to Adamn Sandlet and say " I should do what you do, and you... should wash my balls!"
That's why he's so big, to ask and answer all these big questions.
Ewww gross.
Seriously, how is this not the top pinned comment!!
@@wj2429 what
I've never seen click but I was told years ago that it ended with Adam Sandler accidentally rewinding himself millions of years in the past and being trapped in the dinosaur age. 50 minutes into this video and I am beginning to think I have been tricked.
I'm pretty sure that was a Simpson's episode.
Sounds like a much better movie
I'm so sorry you had to find out the truth
That would have been better than this trashy film. Not even saying it hypothetically, I would prefer to watch that film.
Sounds more like Land of the Lost, except that was Will Ferrall and not Adam Sandler.
If Click didn't have a happy ending, it would basically be a Black Mirror episode
It is a black mirror episode
I can hardly think of a worse insult to Black Mirror than that... or of a less deserved compliment to Click.
Adam Sandler and Black Mirror are two things that DO NOT mix!
@@ittixen yeah, click is actually good
It’s actually an episode of Goosebumps, like the clicker and all.
This movie also does that weird Hollywood thing where the protagonist is living what is by all appearances an affluent middle class lifestyle even when this makes no sense for their supposed socio-economic situation going by the script. Everyone lives in a big sitcom house.
But then this guy has an office job where you get a secretary and are ten years away from being the boss of the whole place...but which doesn't pay enough to afford two children's bicycles and a handbag without going into unsustainable debt. So maybe the writers just didn't know how _work_ works in general.
You can really tell that these people don't live in the real world.
That's so true
This is my least favorite thing about movies.
The characters all talk about how they're strapped for cash while living in an aesthetic 3 story house with hundreds of dollars of quirky bedrooms knickknacks and enough clothes to dress the entire neighborhood. It's so cheesey.
@@Mezelenja it turns out that some upper middle class people really do live above their means. With the whole Corona thing and people losing their jobs, I read this news article about how this guy had his dream job for over 10 years at a country club, but got laid off due to the epidemic. He then talks about how he litteraly doesnt have enough money to pay the bills the next month even though before he talks about giving his family a very comfy life. The amount of upper middle class people living "paycheck to paycheck", holding up this facade of middle class wealth and affluence was kind of shocking to me, being as I have been poor and *actually lived paycheck to paycheck. The amount of people holding up this facade of middle class wealth while actually being in debt is startling too. Its just a weird phenomenon that I've noticed.
@@xxnekonekox yeah, I spent the day yesterday delivering groceries to those who can't afford it. Big surge since covid. Plenty of house and cars much nicer and more expensive than anything I could afford.
Whether or not Click is a good movie, I will always remember how my friend group all jokingly said to one of our friends that Click is about addiction and doing drugs is like fast forwarding in time like click. He was kinda high, but he watched Click and it made him decide to get help for his addiction.
I think it's hilarious that Click was his inspiration and that he took it seriously when we were just joking, but we're all glad Click exists.
That doesn't make sense but it lowkey does
I love this??? So much???
Good for him /gen
This is unironically a really good take on the premise.
Typical sheep
Having thought about Click recently... I've started to think of it as an allegory for drug addiction.
Michael is offered a drug in the back of a store, something offered as an easy fix to his problems.
He's at first hesitant to use it, then quickly begins to indulge more often.
As habits form, his use begins to not only impact his life and loved ones, but he begins to miss parts he wants to experience.
He has moments of sobriety, lucidity, where he realizes the problem, but it's never enough to actually break the cycle.
His addiction caused him to miss out on everything from spending time with his children to having sex with his wife.
In the end he's riddled with health problems, and dies, regretting the first time he picked up that remote and "click"ed.
i don’t know why this doesn’t have more likes, i think this is a genius analysis
The beauty of argumentative writing. You can support almost anything given you provide the evidence.
I do agree it’s definitely one way to look at the movie, though I think it’s far away from whatever they were going for
While your interpretation is interesting, I feel it doesn't really fit for a single reason, and that's because a lot of the plotline isn't consensual. As in he actively fights against what is happening with the remote, but the remote is doing things completely on it's own despite his protests. The drug analogy stops working there, because while addiction is a thing, it's still a consensual thing where a person chooses themself whether or not to do the drug, and people are capable of quitting an addiction if they've had enough of it. He has literally no free will over the remote control at all though. It's completely out of his control at that point. For this analogy to make sense someone would have to be literally forcing drugs inside of him against his free will while he's screaming for them to stop.
@@sardonicus1739 While I agree, it's what I meant by "He has moments of sobriety, lucidity, where he realizes the problem, but it's never enough to actually break the cycle."
In my experience, addiction isn't something I was unaware of, I recognized it, even screamed at myself to stop, and yet... I wasn't able to resist the impulse that drove me to the same acts I wanted to stop.
The only thing that forced it upon me was myself, and yet I was also the victim, asking myself to stop. It's was a feeling of being trapped by the very substance I knew was prolonging that impulse, which inevitably continued the cycle when used.
Is the substance the cause? Or are you? You do it to yourself, and yet it's not as though you want to continue. Is a choice still yours, when something else compels you to act? Yet you chose to give it that power in the first place.
@@djempathicmind8317 That's just it though. What you're describing is still different than his scenario, because he genuinely had no choice. People can quit addiction. My grandma quit m3th after doing it for 30 years, and her doing so shows that it's possible with the will power. You're still making you do that stuff even if it's because you're addicted. You're still in control over yourself. You still can quit even if you don't have the self control to quit alone by simply choosing rehab.
He literally has no free will at all in this scenario. There is LITERALLY no such thing as quitting in his scenario, cause he has no personal autonomy over the situation at all. It's literally an act completely and utterly out of his control. While you can keep acting like you had no free will at all in the manner, that's simply not true because people can quit. You could have in that moment of lucidity gotten some help. You could have chosen to throw it down the toilet and go to rehab, but ultimately you chose the addiction over help.
I simply don't see something that someone has literally no control over at all as being the same as something you feel compelled to do, but can ultimately choose to not do with self control. In fact I think treating drugs in this manner creates a self fulfilling prophecy and a terrible mindset, because if you believe there's nothing you can do, you won't chose to do anything cause you already chose a self defeating attitude, and because of that I really don't like this comparison. It glorifies the self defeating attitude that makes people not even try to quit an addiction.
The discovery that Scholastic almost sued Adam Sandler for kinda ripping off a GOOSEBUMPS story was the wildest thing I think I've ever heard about an Adam Sandler project though.
There's also a similar one by Paul Jennings called Spaghetti Pig-Out.
I'd recommend watching the Red Letter Media review on Jack and Jill; that one was incredibly eye-opening.
@@noahbarnhartandit2365 I've seen it. Happy Madison is such a ludicrous company.
Nah, the wildest thing I’ve heard about an Adam Sandler movie is that it’s actually good
@@Idonotsa49 People usually mention Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison, but I think Funny People and Punch Drunk Love are his best films. He has talent, I think RLM are correct when they say he just wants an easy paycheck.
Big Joel, there's a glaring hole in your analysis here, and it all comes down to one point: You're only picking jokes that happen in the first 40 minutes of the movie. What kind of nonsense is that? Click is a film with a protagonist that has to learn and change. So of course we're not supposed to like him in this act. We're not supposed to be on his side with these jokes. That way, by the end of the movie, we can see how much his character has grown. How can you not understand that? You-you media novice. I should do what You do. And You should Wash My Balls.
Ok, let's explore that idea.
@@FirstLast-le2rf Part Two
A Christmas Carol
@@the_chosen_one5642 nah let's explore the idea of washing that guy's balls
Has Adam Sandler learned not to be an asshole though? Are there consequences for being an asshole in the movie? If I remember the movie correctly, there are only consequences for skipping through unpleasant phases of his life. He does not see the child he torments grow up to be a psychopath or something like that.
Like at the end, where he decided to teach his daughter calculus early is supposed to be heartwarming, because he has accepted she will eventually learn about sex. But I don't remember seeing any reason to believe she will be dumb. Adam Sandler just believes pretty women are dumb; still an asshole.
@Stellvia Hoenheim only the most intellectual argument, thank you
"I don't have an hour of scripted Click content in me, sexually." That was p disappointing, but I loved this video anyway.
Even though I didn't come in wanting an hour of him talking about Click, I did eventually feel like he needed to talk about it for an hour straight.
@@DenderFriend Click Bait?
@@Semordnilaps goddamit
I wouldn't be mad if he just played that line on loop for 15 minutes
The person laughing from across the house at him saying that was 10/10
Really interesting video, but you kinda skipped over the biggest point in the movie: Morty says Adam was fast forwarding long before the remote. The remote isn't punishing Adam randomly, its showing him on the path he was on prior to the remote. Whereas Wonderful Life is about self-respect and Christmas Carol is about behaviour, Click is about mindfulness. Adam's character isn't going to become a good person immediately after the remote event, its basically like an hour of his experienced life, that would be crazy, the idea is Adam is going to become mindful, and learn to love and appreciate the moments in life that bring misery and dulldroms because without it, theres not very much left. The idea is becoming a good person will come naturally with that.
I think as someone who has a bad habit of just spacing out and "tolerating" situations, this movie did speak to me in a much deeper way. Its important to engage with the world around you, even if you're eager for the next step in life. (I also saw this when it was first out so it was the first media to share the concept with me, it might not be the best media on the concept of mindfulness but to a teenage boy in the aughts it hit just right)
anyway please wash my balls
This is a late reply, and while I haven't watched Click pretty much since it came out, yeah one of the plot points that I distinctly remember is that him fast forwarding to his promotion is meant to be the culmination of his actions and behavior that were set up from the very start of the movie, before ever getting the remote. He was already putting off activities with his family, choosing work over spending time with his kids and letting life pass him by with the mindset that it was 'just until he gets his promotion' and that things would change and be better when he got it-- that he'd make up for the lost time then.
I have very mixed feelings about Click because while I really do dislike most of the humour in it, if you strip all of that out you're left with a genuinely interesting story idea that could have been good. It's one of those movies where I'm glad I watched it, but I have zero interest in ever watching it again.
That’s a poignant point! It’s great brain food to chew on, so to speak lol. I also have poor mindfulness habits and this made the little man sitting at the console of my brain point and go ‘hey waIT’ lol
And then you made me bark with laughter lol. Just one short HEAH lol. Well done
yes this perfectly worded my one problem with this analysis!
@@Potassiumkloride
4 months is not a late reply. This isn't Reddit.
One thing that always bothered me about click is that the family just totally looks over him being in a zombie state and showing extreme dementia/alzheimer's warning signs like not recognizing his children and forgetting what they look like literally every interaction lol
I mean, I suppose they could justify him being SO engrossed in his work that he detached from his family completely... Nah you're right that's fucked up
tbh it’s an improvement on how he treats people when he’s paying attention to them so i totally get it. would prefer a checked-out dad to an emotionally abusive and sexually inappropriate one as the lesser of two evils
Its a movie about a magic remote. You know that right? Right?
@@buddha3209 If your point is supposed to be "it has magic so it doesn't need to make sense at all", you sadly miss the basic point of fiction.
Magic is a device for storytelling that can be used in many ways, but it never means you can just throw sense out of the window, drama, social interactions, etc., are still HUMAN in nature, so they need to make sense internally given the context.
Tho if that wasn't what you meant, sorry for misunderstanding.
Adam Sandler and cohesion don't work together
"Youre gonna grow up to be so FREAKIN' HOt!!"
The wife: "this is a perfectly reasonable comment from my husband whom I love and adore and don't find too many faults in"
the president would be proud
@@SammEater lol wat
@@charbo187 Hah I made you laugh, didn't I? That worked better than this entire movie.
@@SammEater sorry, but no one laughed, you just look like an antisemite rn
@@SammEater 1944 called and asked for their jokes back
i think big joel has put more thought into this movie than the writers themselves
You look nice
shootin ur shot in the big joel Click video comments section
This might be an analysis on the character of the writers themselves.
Don't say stupid things.
@@couchbug Hey if it didn't work for him I'll give it a shot when I wake up
A thing that bothers me about this movie is how effing dumb Michael is while using the remote.
He can't ONLY fast forward. He can and does pause, use picture-on-picture and probably all the others options of a remote.
He doesn't need to fast forward to when he finishes work. He could pause, do the work and have the rest of the day off with his family. He could pause to do literally ANYTHING, but he chooses to fast forward to do it quicker. Literally because he can't add 1+1 and realise pausing would be way better
Also, can't him rewind? He rewinds the scene with his dad, why not just rewind when something goes wrong??
Edit: pressed enter by accident before finishing
He cannot rewind and change the past. As a choice for the movie, this type of time travel is a headache (because you have to set up if there are alternate universes and stuff) and fits mostly science fiction and fantasy movies. Also he could just revive his father. It is implied that the rewind function is only there for viewing your life in retrospect. Now as for the pause function you are totally right. Given that when pausing he can actually do stuff that impacts the world (like farting in Hasselhoff's mouth) he could just as well finish his work and get the promotion faster. However, as with changing the past, pausing time and being able to do work in that paused time is a cheat mechanic too.
He cannot rewind and do the past again, the message of the movie is that you cannot retrieve the passed time
This argument reminds me of the justice league eating dinner. Why doesn't the flash just use his super speed and do the dishes super fast? Well, he argues, he still has to do the dishes. Just because it's fast, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Pausing vs fast forwarding in click feels like that. Sure I can pause and do the work, but i have to do the work. Fast forward, I don't experience that.
@@yeturs69420 Still points to a character flaw of Michael's, in that he'd rather accelerate towards his own death than do work.
I think this whole question illustrates the lack of creativity and poor writing in the movie. Instead of using the remote's many potential utilizations to explore who Michael is and how he thinks, the movie does a couple of bits and heads straight into the, "I've seen enough, here's your punishment" section
@@davibergamin5943 Wait a second...if he can't rewind...why is there a rewind button?
Choose your fighter:
- hbomb’s lip debris
- Joel’s beard lint
The two genders
For me, it’s all about Joel’s unkempt ringlets.
And Triple Threat it with Contrapoint's champagne dribble.
Waiting for something like Philosophy Tube's stray eyelash next.
Nnnnnooooooo
Spam oli would NEVER
Click opened my eyes to the truth about living: dog poop funny hehe
The movie Benji taught me that
hehe dogs are funny ^^
make video about dog poop pls
Dog *fug funny
Eat dog poop laff
I wish you'd talked about how the movie frames Michael skipping till his promotion as a sacrifice he makes for his family's sake, like "look what i did to make them happy again! I threw myself into my work at the expense of family time!", when really it's just about him not having to endure his children's sadness, he might have skipped to the moment he can provide, but his kids did not, to them it was a whole year. It goes beyond him sacrificing happy family time to provide them "the good life", it's him abandoning them all through the bad times so he can arrive at the good life and not suffer himself. There was never anything selfless about him skipping family to "have more time for work so he can provide for them" because he didn't actually gain /more/ time, he was phisically still there, just on autopilot. What the movie frames as a selfless sacrifice is pretty much the opposite.
oh it was definitely selfish, but it is very human of him to not want to see his wife or children being sad/cry etc.
@@lostnumbr it's normal not wanting to see your family members cry/sad etc. But in this case I think she means he doesn't want to 'deal' with it. A lot of dads with this traditional mindset think that feelings and conversations are more of the mother's 'labour' and the dad is just passive in the family while being the provider
@@NaomiIsSoAwesome98 I feel like this character is more along the lines of he doesn't want to deal with making them sad, not being able to give them the best things yet. Though it does seem they are still at least partially entrenched in gendered roles. I think his wife, at least this time, is just dealing with the kids for him because she can tell how badly he feels for screwing that up. Though, I honestly don't think, that a couple of kids bikes from walmart is going to break them financially.
@@lostnumbr Not wanting to deal with making his family sad is normal; refusing to help his family endure the hardship is not. Such a family as the one portrayed in Click may be broken financially by such purchases if the purchases are timed poorly relative to other obligations (e.g. debt subject to compound interest).
@@Robstafarian my guess is they are probably already living at or above their means.
I love how your reference point of A Christmas Carol was A Muppet's Christmas Carol. It certainly is the definitive version.
I’m a year clean from heroin and Ive got to say, if click was done well it would have been a great allegory for addiction.
I think you could definitely make an argument for the original story Click is based on (The Magic Thread) to be about an inability to tolerate the present moment. In The Magic Thread, the boy is the son of a widow, so there's some trauma in the past. He has maladaptive daydreaming, and doesn't pay attention in school, which can be a common trauma response for children. We create stories in response to the world we live in; it would be really interesting to read about what life was like around that time to cause this to be a story people wanted children to internalize.
ALSO sorry, congrats on being clean from heroin! Kicking heroin is one of the hardest things a human can do, and you did it!
yeah when i was in the depths of my weed addiction i was just using it to skip time, literally. because i dont remember anything when i smoke if i smoke 24/7 then i'll skip time, the logic goes.
Is that shit lit tho?
@@kickflip_3 fuck yeah, wouldn’t have been a problem if it didn’t slap
“What would Marx think about Click right?” An awful question where I’m forced to imagine Marx sitting down to watch Click and crying in the finale
Imagining Marx is bad enough
Tally Ho Is it racist to tell illegal immigrants to self quarantine even thought we had to shut down the entire city? On one hand it would prevent them from being sick but on the other hand they’re barred from doing so much that it would be immoral to do any more. If only I knew Spanish so I could talk to them about it directly! 😭🤧
Karl Marx suffering? Yes please.
i can imagine the tears rolling down his cheeks and seeping into his impressive beard while holding both of his dogs
@@lh757
Have you ever read Marx?
Whats wrong with his work?
If Marx saw Click, I think he would say "Holy shit, a moving picture!"
Or, more specifically "Menschenskind, ein bewegendes Bild!'
@@leahsander5490 Lol thanks, I'm out of practice
@@leahsander5490 Das überrascht mich nicht, Deutsch ist eine sehr präzise Sprache.
@@1123-n9f Präziser als die meisten zumindest, ja.
"But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen"
-TS Elliott
There are a lot of things that bother me about Click, but I think the biggest thing is that Adam Sandler's character is told he is given the best universal remote control in the world, but the remote doesn't even have a fully functional rewind button.
Rewind is always the most important button on a "universal" remote. Pause probably being second, freezing the world just long enough to accomplish something in literally zero time.
maybe the 'best universal remote control in the world' isnt perfect. humans perhaps have the 'best central nervous system in the world' but it sure aint perfect. thats what this film is about. brains and their interface with reality.
My family watches It's A Wonderful Life every Christmas. One year, it was getting late and folks were tired, so we stopped the movie....right before Clarence shows up.
We basically watched a movie about a good man being broken down and then ending with his implied suicide.
I didn't notice ur hair being wet, but thank u for reassuring me that as time passes it will once again become dry
Every 60 seconds, a minute passes.
@@nobleradical2158 Only in Africa though
@MissPoopySpoons That's what I thought
Its a classic boomer film
>Haha mute my wife while i watch sports
>My daughter is conventionally attractive so she must be unintelligent
>Gotta """"discipline"""" this random child
"I hate my wife."
"Father I cannot click the book."
"I'm gonna make my kid play ball with this random child--oo, but I gotta discipline him, and I'll cheer my child on when his ball hits this kid in the face, thereby teaching him 'strength' and 'dominance'."
It's a wonder that Michael's kid didn't turn out to be a douche bully as an adult
Omg... you guys are massive twats lmfao
Get bent soybois
@@GaydolfShitler you call people "soybois", how the hell did you get to this channel lol?
@@retardwithfas3745 nope, its Soy boi
This is like watching a man beat himself over the head for an hour, while his big sad eyes plead with you to make him stop, but there's nothing you can do.
This is me trying to help my friends in moral dilemmas.
I could weirdly see a very good version of Click where the remote serves as a metaphor for trauma-based dissociation. The remote “taking over” and starting fast forwarding through things the protagonist wants to be present for makes sense in that case.
Watching Adam Sandler's character sexualize his daughter over and over is so uncomfortable.
It's giving me Donald Trump vibes 😬
@@KhayJayArt Same!
It's really very uncomfortable, especially since the movie never does anything to frame his sexualizing her as a bad thing
who cares
Wait what
Adam Sandler gets a universal remote that can skip forward in time. What kind of wild shenanigans does he get up to?
He dies.
The feel-good movie of the year.
Fun for the whole famil
If you didnt cry at sandlers characters dad saying "I love you son", shayne dawson is gonna make an 8 part video series calling you a sociopath.
Say what you will about the movie, Henry Winkler is giving the performance of HIS LIFE in that scene
@@chuckbatman5 hate to see good actors wasted in bad media, happens too often
All of the actors in this movie were great; Hasslehoff, Winkler, Sandler, Walken. And the cinematography is above usual Sandler vacation flicks. The whole magic remote premise turning into horror is great too. Shame about everything else though
Patrick Turner his name is Shane Dawson you sociopath
@@jonpallvarisi 😎Didn't ask😎
I always saw the film as commentary about how we fall into routines and mentally check out. He recognizes how he's not being "present in the moment" and he wants to change, but he keeps slipping back into his routine, not because he doesn't care, but because psychologically, neurologically even, it's hard to escape from yourself.
It fits with what a psychiatrist once told: We don't do what we like, we do what we know, and that's the essence of addiction.
Our past experience shapes our brains, and our brains shape our future experience; it can be a vicious cycle. But even if it's a "virtuous" cycle, even if we invest our time and energy in family (or whatever aspect of our life we consider virtuous) we still run the risk of mentally zoning out, letting our pre-existing neural pathways dictate our behavior, while our higher mind rots.
Thus, whatever you want your life to be about, just spending your time on that area of your life still isn't enough. It's still a perpetual struggle to keep your mind *ACTIVELY* invested in what you're doing, keep yourself *ACTIVELY* invested in the *MOMENT*, or you will, in effect, fall into autopilot-mode.
YES that is what the movie is about! thank you!
It’s a bad movie Clinton and doesn’t say any of that articulately
@@maddieb.4282True, the movie doesn't *say* it, but that's the idea upon which the film is built.
This comment made me want to get sober. Thank you.
I find it interesting that usually when actors talk about characters they play, they always refer to them as he/she. But Adam Sandler always says I/me.
Not that this is surprising at all, because all Adam Sandler characters are basically some thinly-veiled version of Adam Sandler.
@@TheAgamidaex tbh, a lot of what Adam Sandler does and says is questionable.
I was thinking about what Joel was saying about Click's attitude towards fat people. It made me think about all the times Adam Sandler has collaborated with Kevin James. Literally any time there are jokes involving Kevin James' characters, it always eventually leads to "lol, ur fat"
@@jdprettynails get fit fatty
@@jdprettynails Omg, you're right! I just noticed that about those movies that involve that guy, jfc. 😑
Love your icon by the way.
@@sadtitties222 Thank you! Castle Cats is one of my favourite mobile games.
@@jdprettynails No problem! 😊
I'll have to check that game out. I like mobile games that feature animals and I just started playing the mobile game, Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector. It's so addicting, lol.
click made me cry like a sad sad baby when it showed me him dying on the street in the rain screaming for his son haha what a funny movie
yup
FYI, in "It's a Wonderful Life", what George Bailey manages isn't a bank, it's a "Building and Loan Association". BnL Associations aren't banks, they're democratically run by their account holders and meant to pool their assets to allow them to invest in local infrastructure. He doesn't really "own" it, just manages the finances, and it's purpose is to do things like build affordable housing in the community.
Jackson Duruy - Actually, thanks for sharing that. I always thought it was a bank.
@@danniruthvan3265 Yeah they serve much the same purpose and look identical in daily operation, so that's what most people assume. But if you watch the film they're pretty consistent in never referring to Bailey's firm as a "bank".
I believe that was one of the reasons that when it was released the FBI suspected it was communist propaganda as it ""discredited bankers""
edit: reading an article about this now, some of the quotes from the FBI were wild
For example, the report said, the film cast Lionel Barrymore as Mr. Potter, the “‘scrooge-type’ so that he would be the most hated man in the picture.” On its face, that’s true: The plot wouldn’t work if the crowd were cheering for Potter to repossess Bailey’s business. But, the FBI agent claimed that according to “informants,” this was “a common trick used by Communists.”
@@matthewc8241 FBI: "Only communists wouldn't like banks." *2008 financial crisis happens, FBI sweating intensifies*
I find it interesting that your abbreviation for Building and Loan is “BnL,” the same as the logo for “Buy N Large,” the megacorporation responsible for turning the Earth into an unlivable trash heap in the movie Wall-E.
Unfortunately the similarity isn't close enough for it to be a workable metaphor. Oh well.
Imagine being 19, growing up in a sex negative environment, and Adam Sandler's character in Click is the first time you've ever heard an adult utter the words, "I like sex; it feels good".
Anyway ...
I feel sorry for this hypothetical person, even more if it's actually you
Damn I'm 19
imagine growing up in a sex negative environment and then Adam Sandler is telling his 7 year old daughter to never learn about sex and put her boobs away
Very specific
@@minnie7453terally 😭 and it never was any different, in vast majority of movies, always girls taught and said to never learn or ever do sex when they grow up and to be pure and to never ever show skin, while boys could, which ima be honest is weird too cause I feel like sexualizes boys as well. Let’s leave children and their future sex lives alone please.
It always makes me wonder how so many men will have daughters, realize they've been an objectifying (potentially abusive) shit-basket toward women, and - rather than trying to discuss that behavior with other men - they teach their daughters that men are dangerous and sex will destroy their lives.
They realize that their own behavior, and the behavior of their male friends is abhorrent, but they don't reach the second epiphany: That it isn't a woman's responsibility to avoid this behavior; it's a man's responsibility to STOP DOING IT.
Exquisite Corpse Kanye said a similar thing in a couple songs, definitely not as poignant and eloquent as this
well said
That's why everyone should be in therapy, so we can try and interrupt the cycle
And by "discuss", you mean "talk them out of it/dissuade them ?"
@@nicholasleclerc1583 It's basically the idea that - if men do not want their moms/sisters/daughters being involved with guys like their friends (or themselves) - interrogate why they feel that way, and encourage those around them not to act like that with women they aren't close to.
I've heard young dads say things like "I'll cut off peepees if dudes come around MY teenage daughter!" That suggests they're really afraid of something....and not just pregnancy (birth control exists), they're afraid that men mistreat women on a regular basis, and they don't want their daughters to be abused. Every time sexual assault comes up as a topic, men circle wagons and say "not all men"....but every time teenage daughters come up, men circle the wagons and say "Defend her from our evil hordes.".............the disconnect is palpable, and I think it implies that men know all about rape culture; they just don't want to talk about it.
click is a 2 hour punchline to a ten second joke setup.
"what do they sell at the beyond section of bed bath and beyond"
And family guy managed to do it in 10 seconds a year before click was released.
and it was the only joke in the whole movie that's actually funny
@@Aerials135 That was funny?
@@hutte1751 comparatively
Don't forget the classic staple of Boomer Hyoomer: "Wife bad and also phone bad too!"
I loved this movie when I saw it at 9 years old, because I hated my father who was an architect and seeing him suffer and die knowing he wasted his life was cathartic.
Joel come pin this comment please
Superb addition, Opium Den.
wtf did i just read
this is one of the best youtube comments ive read
As an architecture student I’ve been told by teachers that being an architect ( at least a good one) would take a lot of sacrifice, meaning that missing important family events like funerals,weddings, birthdays was part of it.
In 2006 I'd gotten into an argument with my parents, who lived in a different state. I hadn't returned their calls in months. I watched this movie on a date at a drive in, Sandler was such an awful shit to his dad that I called my parents the next day. A joyless movie but at least there's that.
Mr. Joel, are you feeling alright.
Do you think Rona got to him?
Joel are you ok, are you ok, are you ok Joel?
@@Condorosa Did you not see those high ceilings, not hear the velvet echoes of that vaulted gallery! Clearly the Big is self-isolating in a Florentinian palazzo. Mama mia!
*Edit: Holy shit they are actually in Italy? I figured it was just a big old collective house in Philly or Oakland.
His castaway look says no
Jackie Hahn it’s an indie boy 2010 look clearly .
Anyone else think it was weird how the fast-forward function was the only one that had consequences? Like, at some point his wife's best friend should be on permanent mute. It always seemed to me like the writers bit off more they could chew with the premise, and were too lazy to fully flesh out the mechanics of the remote.
KINGU KURIMUSONU!
@NotGonnaTell MyName Don't let Adam Sandler off the hook that easy
its because its meant to reflect how routine and habit work in life. yes there could have been an automatic mute moment, but its somewhat tangential to the thrust of the film. pausing/rewind dont reflect actual human processes and thus are just gags and not essential to the plot.
for years my dad's been telling me about an amazing movie about a guy who finds a remote an ends up fast forwarding through all his life without meaning to etc etc. he seemed to genuinely love it so much and find it to be telling and clever and funny. i never really went to look up what that movie was. now i know
Tbh i think this movie functions more like a Rorschach test. As do a lot of Science fiction movies too, where the concept is so novel and universally applicable that you sort of take from it what you want.
@@princejellyfish3945 Oh crap, that's exactly what I was thinking when watching this review
My dad: You're gonna love this movie
Me: *doesn't love it*
oh god, that feels bad ... thankfully I dislike Adam Sandler Movies in general, so I wouldnt have ever given this movie a shot or any thought, but well here I am.
I um...watched it with my mom when it came out and I cried and cried... I don't remember the main character being terrible what's wrong with me he's obviously just the worst haha
This movie always makes me cry because of the scene where Michael sees his dad for the last time. My grandfather raised me for many years and he died when I was 11. Every single time I watch that scene, I feel grief wash over me as if my grandfather died yesterday. If I had that remote, I'd go back to see my grandfather again so I could hug him. I had no idea that he was going to die the last time I saw him before his stroke. Had I known that he would be hospitalized and unresponsive the last 4 times I saw him, I would've hugged him longer and told him how much I love him.
Use this moment to learn. Don't take any moment for granted, and spend time with your loved ones while you can. I hope you are feeling better now and things are going well for you
If you knew... why wouldn't you warn him instead?!
@@smallcheesebread6531 I did make some mistakes since posting this. I regret not spending more time with my guinea pig before she died in September of 2023.
@@NickyBlue99 unfortunately, I genuinely didn't think of that. My brain doesn't think of a lot of things because it's just wired wrong. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
me: I just watched an hour long documentary about why 'Click' is a terrible film
my girlfriend: I mean, watching the film itself is basically watching an hour long documentary about why 'Click' is a terrible film.
Keep her.
@Grassy Knoll deconstruct her DNA
Oh damn that’s good
@Grassy Knoll Baaaaahahahahhahahaaaaaa! My sides!
Unfortunately it's WAY WAY longer of a film
This movie terrified me and made me cry when I was younger. I got the general idea of what the story was doing but seeing a man be forced to fast forward until his inevitable demise shook me to my core and got me bawling. It's not even a good film! But that feeling of fear and dread hit me so hard. I remember being weirded out that this was supposed to be a comedy film.
Same, for a "comedy" film it was one of the most depressing things I ever watched as a kid, like I already had a bad childhood and comedy was an escape for me, but Click just increased my depression tenfold.
Omg yes, I don't even recall enjoying Click as a kid just feeling incredibly overwhelmed by how miserable the 3rd act was.
Dude literally I still cry everytime I watch it do you want to start a club
I remember the commercials pitched this as a funny comedy movie, so I thought it'd be a fun thing to watch as a kid. I bawled the whole movie and have felt horrified by the experience ever since.
same, I blocked out a good portion of my childhood but vividly remember absolutely sobbing multiple times during this movie as a kid lmfao
In a just-world, Jennifer Coolidge would be the A-list leading lady and Adam Sandler would be a character actor playing bit parts in her films.
so true
So true it hurts. The White Lotus at least tried to use her range.
Really? I mean she’s definitely more talented than Sandler as far as believable acting, but he at least has his over the top campy mood swings and outbursts. It’s not much but at least it’s something kinda colorful and kinda unique
I’m definitely not a fan but I can easily see why he’s more famous tbh
Thank goodness theirs a multiverse👀🤭
You are dellusional at best
The thing about the Goosebumps episode is, it's protagonist didn't have their agency taken away, they had every opportunity to correct their mistakes, but went mad with power instead. It was only at the very end that things became unfixable.
Taking away a protagonist's agency is rarely good writing, even in a horror setting, it's just a lazy way for the writer to get the outcome they want.
Adam Sandler wearing a shirt that says “Adam Sandler” is a vibe for sure but not necessarily a good vibe...
Kinda gives me chaotic evil vibes
@@bigsiskrishere very that!
@@bigsiskrishere gives me chaotic neutral vibes
@@bigsiskrishere boss nameplate
alpha male shit
"Congratulations on becoming the new CEO. I'm not going to lie to you, it was a rocky road, especially considering that the first words that came out of your mouth after I floated the idea were "NO! I DON'T WANT A PROMOTION!" and you spent every moment from that point until a few seconds ago in a near catatonic state in which you somehow still got your work done..."
This is making me laugh more than it should
He focused on his work when he was on autopilot is it that hard for your pea brain to understand?
@@speakingfacts3931 if my coworker was obviously totally out of it to the point that they weren't even communicating verbally, but were still doing their job, id be pretty weirded out ngl
also why is your comment so hostile
What confuses me is how he’s completely out of it in his “autopilot” phase to the point of being unable to express emotion until the plot needs him to be a dismissive asshole to his father and he blows up on him.
Feels like there's some serious hustle-culture assumptions behind that single plot development. That becoming senior management is seriously just a case of "keeping your head down and doing the work" for ten solid years, that the process will at no point require any imagination, charm, politicking, or even basic human interaction. Just grind hard enough for long enough and you'll rise to the top, we promise!
"I don't have an hour of Click content on me" so you mean to say you... Click-baited us?
I'll see myself out.
(Thanks for the awesome video as always.)
Fatness being an object of contempt and disgust and a source of shame and amusement is a very consistent motif throughout Adam Sandler's work. When you started talking about that aspect of Click I immediately thought of the sketch about "Fatty" on one of Sandler's comedy albums and of the so-called "Revolting Blob" character from Billy Madison. I'm sure there are many other examples.
Good. That’s accurate and true.
Feel like the other reply was weirdly taking the opportunity to offer their contempt, not realizing that that kind of impulse is frankly far more contemptible
@@chompythebeast fat is bad. Get off the couch lazy ass
When I was in my mid-twenties I found fatness an object of contempt and disgust, and I would sometimes express that sensibility to other people. Now, thirty years later, having matured and changed, I no longer think that way, and I look back on those times with contempt and disgust.
@@humanbeing2420 Fat people are unhealthy. No amount of sugar coating will lead them to a healthy path. You're just enabling people in an addiction leading them to an early grave. What else kind of terrible advice are you willing to give as long as people compliment you for doing so?
Click is the movie that made young me realize that all people die, that I would one day die.
Iso-kun There’s something tremendously sad about that.
I would be really upset if I could identify the exact moment I came to terms with mortality and it was while watching click. I’m sorry.
Jesus.
fucking same holy shit
me too I think. crazy
“Click: The Worst Movie” said the guy who obviously never saw Jack & Jill.
Is it cruelty towards big joels to say I want a sequel that's him talking about jack and jill
I would click like but you have 69 right now and I will not spoil that
Jack & Jill isn't a movie, it's an advertisement lol
That movie was so terrible it turned Owen Benjamin into a nazi.
@@80ssynth34 Would you say it's the worst advertisement in existence (Only rivaled by The Emoji Movie)?
I just got kicked off the campus I have grown to love over a year because of Corona virus, having you talk for an hour is really comforting, thank you for being there for me
I am very sorry, hope we all get through this.
I can’t imagine the hell that that actress is going through as she forces a sweetly charmed smile at her onscreen huband’s horribleness, coding it with her hot-lady seal of approval as innocently symptomatic of his charm.
One Sentence Horror Story: "The sexual purity of the women is something we should be concerned with."
Ok ren and simpy
BEEFISBURGERS
Dude wtf does this mean? 😂
Pineapples ok
BEEFISBURGERS
Fine then, keep your secrets 🤷🏻♀️
And all I can think of is how many brain dead idiots would be incapable of seeing it's gross. Even when the grossness is fundamental to the comedy in the first place. 😂
God we're surrounded by such pussies.
This movie had like 6 year old me in a existential crisis when I was little I remember him skipping through his life and dying basically alone and to 6 year old me I was fucking horrified and it caused alot of issues in my head about how I was gonna die alone and unloved sooner then I realized
but but but now you're aware of it and have some perspective on it so you know what's valuable and that can be humbling and/or good for your ego
i think click is a masterpiece
lol jk this shit trash
but u wont die unloved bc i love u
I was 10 or 11 but SAME. I cried like a baby (I rarely cried watching movies cause I was a *tom boy*. I had the same existential crisis. Fuck this movie. I went in thinking I was going to have a comedy and it just stabbed you in the feelings
@@FOUL_TROUBLE aww thank u
SAAMMEE.
@@Derpplup
I just wanted to share that my dad found this movie so funny, that he literally laughed until he THREW UP.
I hate this movie.
adam sandler movies seem generally to be more for dad's moreso than anyone else, but they dont capitalise on it and instead markets it towards everyone.
Is your dad twelve?
@@edgarroberts8740 u dont need 2 be twelve to find stale weirdly timed offensive shock comedy funny, surprisingly.
That's so very sad
Wow, that’s terrible. I hate it when people enjoy things, too.
Idk man, that scene in the rain when he dies is pretty fuckin well done. For such a dumb movie with a main character that intentionally unlikeable for 80% of the runtime, him screaming through the rain with his last bit of strength is heartbreaking.
You understand now the frustration that is Adam Sandler. When he decides to put in effort he's actually really good. But convincing him to put that effort in is nigh impossible.
It should have been an Existential Horrors episode. "The existential horror of Adam Sandler"
He can be *good* as an actor, working under another director, but he directs/produces a lot of his own (mediocre at best) movies, with him as the (at best) mediocre lead character.
I'm pretty sure, he even doesn't mean bad, but his humor and the presence of his stereotypical humor, fart jokes, harming someone as the running gag, really detract from whatever message he originally wants to send.
He is the worst thing that happens to his own movies. He wants to be a storyteller, which is fair, but he tells the stories the same way that one kid in class did which had a passion for writing, but absolutely lacked the talent.
I’d like to see this, at least in a philosophical take.
He doesn’t direct. He does, however, produce.
CommandoDude You can tell when he’s in a movie that he’s having fun. That’s the best thing about his garbage movies. It’s also what makes his good movies so great
Werecarebear Adam Sandler can be an excellent comedian and actor... but the key is that he does not give a single shit
@CommandoDude movies like Click operate a weird space though in regards to that. Like Grown Ups? Yeah that's literally Adam Sandler And His Friends Fuck Around On Vacation The Movie. But Click, what happens in Click that is an excuse to go on vacation? What friends of his are in Click that he can have fun with? Personally I think Click is trying to be a legitimate film and that's what makes it almost worse than Adam Sandler's vacation movies. At least those give off the sense that the people in them are having fun, Click becomes so muddled with trying to tell a satisfying emotional story AND have Adam Sandler be the haha funny man that it just feels like a jigsaw puzzle where somebody got impatient and Click Remoted through the puzzle squeezing in pieces wrong.
Oh God he actually went and did it
a heroic deed
Why does this say 1 day ago? How?
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Adam Sandler's always made me feel a little bit weird about women. Like in that movie he was in where he adopted Zack and Cody, his girlfriend in that movie left him because he was immature, had no job prospects and was all around a bad partner, but at the end he's a lawyer and she's working at Hooters, as if she in any way deserved to be laughed at for having a job. She didn't do anything bad to him, she just kind of...left an unhappy relationship.
What movie is that?
@@kittykittybangbang9367 I was confused too, until I read the description after "zack and cody" I guess the kid is played by a set a twins named zack and cody.
He's a 90s SNL frat boy, the exact opposite of a compassionate feminist lol.
the dehumanization of the hooters workers while the male characters opening admitted to going to hooters CONSTANTLY when they were younger, was always weird af to me..
@@3lfprinc3ssnot defending it but how is it weird?
The scene where Michael reduces his father to tears right before he dies always makes me cry tho. Not because the film earned it, and not because I have treated my father like that, but because I feel similar to his father. My father would just ignore me for swathes of my life to work, and the idea that the rift wouldn't mend hurt me immensely.
It didn't help that my father laughed at all the cruelty that Michael displays in the "jokes".
Not all family is blood
It's telling that Adam Sandler keeps saying "me" instead of his character's name in that interview.
"where an ugly woman works." damn if that was the joke they should've looked a little bit harder for an unattractive woman lmao
Hollywood does this to Rachel Dratch constantly. She talks about it in her book, and it makes me so sad.
Attractiveness is subjective. Its also a joke.
@@phonyk568 Yes, and both of those concepts are worth dissecting. Kinda the whole point of the video and channel you're watching. "It's a joke" =/= You don't get to analyze or criticize this piece of information.
Also for me to give a joke the benefit of the doubt it needs to do one important thing: be funny. Which this is not :)
Exactly, it’s not even funny especially to me because instead of finding her ugly, I find her cute and pretty! There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, and can even feel more approachable than someone who is considered hot!
I always thought she was adorable and so goddamn tiny!! I feel like that would be a clearer physical joke with her than type casting her as ugly. It’s definitely a reach.
Why is Joel treating Michael and Adam Sandler as two different people? Everyone knows Sandler is just playing himself in these films.
Sairagna for legal reasons
Liable?
in the interview he said "I" every time he talked about Michael im surprised he didnt mention it
Uncut Gems
Honestly, most people who know him say he's not like that in real life. Having seen "Funny People" and "Uncut Gems", I'm inclined to believe them.
This movie made me CRY. It made me realize that we need to treat the people we love better because we’ll look back and tell ourselves that we could’ve done more. Family and the people we love are more important than anything else. Life is short, so we shouldn’t waste any time doing pointless things that don’t matter.
I couldn’t finish the movie without bawling my eyes out and calling my father, telling him that I’m sorry I hadn’t treated him as good as I could have.
The scene with Michael witnessing the last moment he had with his father and realizing that on autopilot he was dismissive to a point of cruelty towards his father and is basically just whimpering with how sad he is and misses his father is unreasonably good to be in this otherwise shit movie. I don't know maybe it just hits me harder because I do give a lot of thought to the possibility of when my last moment with a loved one will be and how much it would destroy me if I was mean to them in that last moment I had with them.
Don’t know if you were aware of this, but Adam Sandler said goodbye to his real life dad around the time he filmed that scene so it hit him on a personal level
Or so I’ve heard
@@BlazePiffington
Makes sense, I feel like Adam Sandler only plays himself. He thinks being a misogynistic creep who's got a daughter fetish is normal, but at the same time he also does have feelings for things like the death of his father. The flaws and upsides of his movies could just be contributed to his irl personality imo
@@l.2620 yes, I see what you’re saying, during happy Gilmore It was probably passable, but now… Yeah, it’s worn out it’s welcome.
Not to mention there was some supposed plagiarism with this movie click.
And what’s the last movie Adam Sandler did?
Pixels… Which borrowed the same idea from the Futurama episode.
oh my gosh, i totally agree. I watched this movie like last week for the first time and i utterly hated it but that one scene was so hard to watch it was just horrible. it depressed me all day the next day. its a horrible movie but that one scene is done a little TOO well. I wish I never watched it lol
The main criticism I have of that scene is that, of course, in order for his family to really mean something to him, only his male relatives are in that scene.
I know it must have been torture to make this, but I actually think it's a really important spotlight on deep seated issues in a lot of low brow Hollywood movies: "the main character is a standin fantasy for the male audience, and his behavior is okay"
gross
the text of the film actually hates Michael. hes arguably the only 'bad' character in the whole thing! but id say hes redeemable given a 'break' by Morty... remember when Morty says 'you seem like a nice guy' its funny because for the entire film Michael's been an insufferable douchebag. the film knows this! the film punishes him!
That whore deserved the scolding though
@@heyheyhey121121 it’s strangely both he’s a stand in for the male audience and the movie is ok with his behaviour but paradoxically knows it’s wrong
The only real thing he’s condemned for is skipping which is only ever partially his fault as he realises his mistake pretty soon but is given no way to stop the auto feature
Truly truly a strange movie.
Nobody warned us that a typical Adam Sandler movie would try to get so dramatic halfway through after the usual Sandler sex jokes. The father scene always used to make me get emotional, though. 😢
Yeah I really like the ending. :)
it definitely got its hooks into me when i saw it in theaters, but i was surprised by how much stuff i just straight up didn't remember about the film. the sandler dying part was the only scene that stuck out in my mind.
I dunno I saw it in the theatres as a 13 year old and i just felt uncomfortable
Congratulations you have empathy. They used all the tricks in the book to trigger it.
Some of us don't need much to get emotional, mate. Tis not a bad thing.
I think it's so funny how he describes the movie as being based on a French folk tale called "The Magic Thread" and you're like hmm... I'm not sure the people who wrote Click have read very many French fairy tales! And then he introduces this Goosebumps story literally titled "Click" and you're like ahh... There it is.
“What I mean isn’t just that most of its jokes aren’t funny to me, but also that they make me want to die”
Classic Moment
5:01 iconic
- The average person commenting about any given Adam Sandler movie.
The only funny joke is that part where he goes to bed bath and beyond and then there's a beyond the beyond
Agreed. Absolutely despicable that the joke gets no recognition!!! I will not stand for this
not even going lie i actually laughed at that part, that was good
that's what happens when you mix cough syrup and a twinkie
Did they steal it from family guy or the other way around?
Pretty sure they stole that joke from family guy though.
"The town is controlled by the evil slum lord banker."
"Oh no!"
"Your brother is dead."
"Oh, my god! My wife...WHAT ABOUT MY WIFE?"
"She's..."
"TELL ME!"
"She's...a LIBRARIAN."
"NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"
Nah, that's not the issue - the issue is that she NEVER GOT MARRIED!
@@EmeraldLavigne Which isn't _inherently_ a tragedy, sure, but it's still pretty sad for Mary personally, since settling down and raising a family was clearly something she wanted to do from the beginning (because yeah sometimes people actually want that instead of only doing it out of societal obligation), but without George and with Potterville being a den of vipers she never found the right person and risks being assaulted on her way home from work every night.
@@elsie8757 That is some helpful context, but the way Clarence says it.... it's assumed that the audience instantly empathizes with the negative subtext. That subtext being that being an unmarried woman is a terrible fate. It's beyond creepy.
Outlaw Scar Agreed. That part could have used more screen time to explain why that particular outcome was devastating for Mary, instead of just “she’s an unmarried woman now. The fainting room is to the left.”
@@Usagi393 Haha, the fainting room! Love it. 😁
Click is a fascinating, weird, and hard to explain movie, and I’m so glad we have an hour-long deep dive into it from Big Joel.
Imo one of the most interesting things about Click is how it manages to emotionally affect people in a sincere way, while also being pretty bad most of the time. There are lots of people online who find this movie touching, even going so far as to say it is actually good despite its childish sense of humor. Interesting, right? I think we typically think of art as needing to be good in order to have the emotional impact on its audience that it wants to have. But Click kind of proves that assumption wrong, doesn’t it? How can a movie that sucks also make people cry?
I think what Click unintentionally proves is that actually, a single emotionally effective scene is enough to make the audience remember the movie fondly, even if the rest of it is totally vapid.
you've completely misrepresented the film and its supporters in one swoop. well crafted! the emotional weight of the scene depends on the setup, but some people dont understand how supposedly happy people can craft tragic scenes I suppose.
@@heyheyhey121121 their argument is that there was no set up. The whole premise of the movie was vague and didn't follow through with their narrative for all of the scenes. You could guess a million different things that the movie was trying to make, because it does a poor job at it. Then out of nowhere, it goes "THIS was the point of the movie!" During the last 10 minutes of film
21:00 "This guy has a lot of growing up to do: He's an abusive weirdo, who gets angry at the drop of a hat"
See: Every Adam Sandler role
Read this as he said this.
I never noticed all that. Now I feel like watching more Adam Sandler movies and being slightly disturbed wondering how the guy is in real life, cause y'know, would be not much different than the characters.
But wow I've never thought about Click this way. Joel's breakdown of the film was great.
I was going to say Uncut Gems, but no, that fits. Though that's the point of the film, he gets relentlessly punished for that. He gets punished specifically by other people treating him like he treats them, so yeah, abusive angry weirdo Adam Sandler works in that film. Punch Drunk Love, though.
Adam Sandler about the role: "I'm a great guy!"
Jordan Bliss this is it. This is how i win
I have waited for SO LONG to hear someone talk about this movie. This movie was the movie that introduced me to the concept of mortality when I was 7, and literally sent me spiralling into early childhood depression. I had to see a child psychiatrist because I would cry every night about how I was going to die one day and so were my parents and my dog. Someone had to say something about this movie because it is NOT a comedy and I have never been the same.
Movie did the exact same thing to me
What do you mean life is like that boy even if click was the first thing that got you introduced in the concept of mortality you shouldn't be giving a shit, life is like it is, if you were to know that tomorrow you would probaby die, welp, ok i guess, be a little sad, but you are not in your right to cry about how bad or injust is live because it is like it is, and no one can change that
@@ssbot3795 "Not in your right" Oh ok, because you have the right to tell other people how to feel but they don't have the right to their own feelings if you don't agree with them? People generally don't have the luxury of choosing whether or not something upsets them and affects them very deeply, especially as children. This person is literally talking about how this affected them when they were 7 for crying out loud. Saying someone isn't allowed to be upset by huge concepts that we all have to come to terms with like mortality just because you don't think they should feel that way is not only complete bullshit, but also pretty arrogant and narcissistic.
same
You know I find it ironic that this Joel and most people commenting here are fucked up by this film. It's because you saw it as a child and now you are trying to somehow relate it to the terms of today. Its clearly not a film for children. Taboo. FFS, I grew up with the Exorcist! This is why 10 years ago, the biggest shows on TV were Haunted This and Ghost That. Also I believe that every generation seems to skip or rebel the previous, hence your dislike. It is also one of those post 9/11 films that is trying to push the world forward so that we may notice our errors and move ahead. Which for some reason is coming off as being a dick, like the old banker in IAWL. Arguing don't be such as damn pussy, but attempting to make that argument in an incremental manner in order to make a plot. Moving from IAWL grow up and accept that the evil system has won to CLICK accept your errors and faults, admit them and move on. However, incrementalism is not something you are willing to accept while you are young. So please 20 something's, get in there and relieve us of the evil in the world (And I don't want to just hear about it ) Oh the guys disgusting for his blah, blah, blah. This is something you would say maybe today, but the previous generation dealt with this, growing up with mass problems and financial strain brought on by the previous generation, and rebelling them. It was not something that you could always easily recognize or speak of in the early 90s'. It was something that was revealed in a little movie called the Matrix, which started the entire woke movement at the beginning of this century Kinda like alcoholism and drugs. These things repeat themselves every 45-60 years or so. Helluva lot go through this
Tbh, a lot of Adam Sandler comedies have him playing a douchebag, jerk or asshole. And often he does not become a better person, it's more like the world finally aknowledges what a great guy he secretly is. Almost seems like Adam Sandler wishes to be recognised as a good actor and film maker, while in reality his movies are just bad most of the time.
You'll giving him too much credit. He just can't be bothered to do anything different.
always plays the role of the 'cool' dad with the ridiculously hot wife who doesn't play an important role, always ends up having the last word
@@NaomiIsSoAwesome98 to be fair, most of these “comedies” give the male protagonist a super attractive love interesting with little to no personality or chemistry with the actor. she’s just there to look hot and make him look cooler. almost like wish fulfillment in a way
@@save_bandit its totally true , this happens in things aimed at men, like in this case , but also with products aimed at women , i worked on a bookshop and a lot of novelas covers were basically hot guys or muscular guys
@@ashenone3050 i’m afraid we’re talking about two different things. i’m talking about a media trope (“ugly guy, hot wife” tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UglyGuyHotWife ) and you’re talking about erotica which is a very different subject all together (as it is literally wish fulfillment). it would make more sense to compare them with playboy magazines, for example and a conversation to be had about how gender roles assign and impact pornography mediums
click is such a strange movie because it strikes a weird part of the male experience nobody talks about disassociation and emotional numbing. after a while men get this ability to just turn off their empathy sadness anger etc. whatever was needed to do his job and provide. i always wondered why my dad seemed to love this movie and then it struck me, he has PTSD. He relates to this movie because it describes his experiences.
Watching Click gave me PTSD
My dad is not an Adam Sandler dad... more like your least favorite high school Debate faculty advisor. But in the past few years I really have been picking up this vibe from him, thinking about my childhood in retrospect and how Not Emotionally There he was. It was all "provider complex" garbage. That is absolutely a real thing.
I don’t think that’s just a man thing, maybe like 30 years ago, but that’s something I’ve encountered, and heard about from not just guys
@@Hi-en7xx I mean emotional detachment for women has probably been going down since the 70s since the draconian marriage laws got repealed and we actually made marital rape a federal crime.
But it can also exist in other genders of course this detachment and apathy caused by emotional abuse. Is not entirely exclusive to men. But this specific instance of emotional detachment coming from work is a very common experience for men.
@@kekero540 I don’t know what that first part has to do with anything, that’s a great feat for the time but there are also definitely larger issues for women and humans in general, idk why that would affect every woman’s mental health, and in that specific way, so greatly. Also wouldn’t it go up over time if we’re talking about specifically work I’ve heard as much, if not more, from women about just going through the motions especially involving work, is there a source you’re looking to for this or are you just kinda assuming?
This movie shockingly made me uncontrollably sob as a kid because the scene with his dad before he died was SO out of NOWHERE and emotionally devastating.
me too. every damn time.
its hard to fight back the tears on that scene
I think that scene is the only reason we remember the movie fondly from whem we were kids.
Same man, that shit made me cry for 10 minutes.
Winkler is underrated and grossly underserved by his association with Sandler. All the earned laughs in The Waterboy are Winkler's.
These points are essentially what makes every Adam Sandler movie an Adam Sandler movie.
YES oh my god thank you.
And after the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation cross-referenced a complete list of more than 300 films made in that year with review statistics, they had their early longlist of competitors for the Worst of '006 awards race. And my calculations only named Click the 39th worst film of that year!
A lot of the humour is preference but there’s some genuinely very moving scenes in it, especially one in particular. Seriously it’s one of the saddest scenes in film history, it’s incredibly well done which raises it a few levels.
This movie honestly scared me as a kid, the idea my life could fast forward without control deeply disturbed me
Sadly enough thats kinda what happens as you get older.
Perception of time is relative to how long you've been alive. The greater a percentage of your total life a day is, the slower that day seems to go for you.
Put another way, time really does seem to speed up as you age. Faster and faster. I'm in my 30s now, I remember when a month was an impossibly long wait for something... nowadays months fly by without me even being aware of it.
Lancer Guy How you spend your time also matters. A lot of people look up and go "wow, 30 years just flew by. Ain't that crazy"
Well of course, you spent the last 30 years doing the same thing day in day out. I a firm believer that life feels longer when you fill it with new and unique experiences. And when you do the same things for years at a time, it kinda just blurs together in your brain. Humans don't remember time, they remember experiences and emotions. Be sure to acquire a lot of em
@@lancerguy3667 man I'm 20 don't scare me like this
Yeesh, I remember I think an Xbox commercial, of a baby being born shot launched out of his mom, flying through the air while screaming and aging until he lands in his grave.
That commercial scared me.
the scene where micheal stumbled out of the hospital and died actually made me cry as a kid.
i don't know if i should feel ashamed or not but the scene got to me
Please don't feel ashamed for having emotions, emotions are really important and valuable.
@@gnocchidokey im not ashamed for crying. i cry all of the time. im more ashamed that it's click
15:54. Also, he's an architect in this movie. Architects know calculus.
Roast Beefy Weefy :: Do you know that to be a fact or just making casual conversation? Advanced geometry, for sure--probably some classical physics or even chemistry, but i would be curious how calculus might apply to architecture. I'm not saying i think you're wrong (i barely understand what calculus is,) just wondering if you have any more specific info.
Kochaos! Sure, yeah, I only know because the CA state/UC system required two levels of calculus for architecture when I was deciding what to study. I almost failed calc so I switched majors, so it sticks out to me as a requirement given that it factored so heavily into my career path. Calculus deals with rates of change, and I can imagine that being relevant to the science of designing habitable structures. Lol idk, but architecture isn’t just drawing, that’s for sure.
Yep, also architects have wellpayed jobs and find an can find another employer that' not such an asshole ;)
As a rule of thumb, every STEM field [even pre-med] requires at least Calculus I and typically Calculus II and III in anything but pre-Med within the STEM umbrella. Calculus III especially is important for understanding vector calculus, which is used any time a field needs to do mathematics in a three-dimensional space. Pre-Med only needs Physics I and Chemistry II for discrete sciences typically, but both of those require Calculus I and a limited knowledge of Calculus II concepts for integral-based derivations of force and motion equations. Architects take Mechanics I and II, which require both Calculus III and Differential Calculus, as well as Statics, Thermodynamics, and Engineering courses. They also need to know how to determine wave motion along flat surfaces in a three-dimensional space for understanding material stress due to environmental factors such as high wind, earthquakes, and floods, which is pretty rough - it's described by a summation of axis-aligned partial differential equations, or whatever. I remember that being a bitch and a half.
watching this movie as a young child it terrified me to no end-the idea of life passing me by incredibly fast until you die an awful death shook me to my core. Hearing you explain how confusing it’s thematic messaging was explains the reason it scared me so much. As a child, this is the message the film showed me; life is short and painful and you have absolutely no power over it, you’ll get sick and die no matter what you do. Heavy shit for a kid to understand lol
heavy shit at any age. we have much less control over our life and how we lead it than Hollywood often has us believe. Click is the exception and Im glad for it.
Its good to know. Maybe youbdontb waist your time..
Glad I wasn't the only one who felt this way as a kid.
I felt this way too. It holds an important lesson, not to waste the life we have, but I still wish this movie didn't exist regardless
Right! As a kid i remember this movie being extremely deep to me LOL
So let me get this straight:
It’s a mashup of A Christmas Carol (learn you were always a bad person), It’s a Wonderful Life (learn you were always a worthwhile person), an old folktale (learn agency is what life is all about), and… a goosebumps story (what if you had no agency). _what._
Pretty much. Yeah...
I concur... _What?_
almost. It's a Wonderful Life teaches him that the world is perfect. A Christmas Carol teaches him that he's doing bad things in this perfect world. it doesnt have anything to do with the Goosebumps story, it would be closer to Scarface or Daddy Day Care than that. and he clearly does have agency in the story, but not the whole time, just as in life: we give up autonomy for automation of routine. its practically inescapable!
The idea that the main character lives in a really nice house, but can't afford two bicycles, and is dumb enough to "splurge" before he even got the promotion landed really flat, it just doesn't make sense.
It's called a mortgage. Lots of people in America around 2006 had one which they ended up not being able to pay when the interest rates shot up culminating in the Great Recession. It makes perfect sense.
@@reilysmith5187 Anyone with a 3+ bedroom house or more than one car in the driveway are objectively better off than most, but that doesn't mean they can't be financially struggling at all. Everyone has their own unique circumstances.
@@queuedjar4578 My friend, it seems you do not know what debt is. Many people preceding the financial crass had more debt than equity in their homes, and when housing prices fell they were in even more trouble.
Someone who has 10k assets and 5k liabilities is better off than someone with 100k assets and 200k liabilities, despite appearances, given the same income and costs.
i just have awful vivid memories of the posters of click with adam sandler's over-airbrushed face everywhere plaguing the cinemas and then the kmart dvd section
I have those same memories but it was Blockbuster
it astonishes me big joel's girlfriend has the same exact type of humor and delivery as him. what a lovely couple
How do you know that? Or is this a joke that's went over my head?
@@cjlooklin1914 she appears in the end of the video :)
When I was like, 10 or so my parents told me I could watch a PG-13 movie because I was mature enough
I picked this movie and hated it so much that I refused to watch another PG-13 movie until I was 13 because I thought all PG-13 movies were gonna be this bad
lol and lucky
Click is the "I caught my kid smoking and made them smoke a whole pack so they'd hate it" of movies
When I was 11, my parents let me see Little Shop of Horrors. It's still my 3rd favourite movie of all time.
Thank god my parents let me watch all movies, I myself like the movie Click , its a stupid movie not meant to be taken serious 🤷🏻♀️
@@Littlekitten_I agree. The negative comments sound like people wanted to see a mindless comedy and then got upset when there was an actual lesson to be learned and scenes of sadness. Nothing wrong with that.
Me and my bf were watching this video in front of a housemate once and he got kind of offended because he is very (self admittedly) emotionally attached to this movie, especially the part where Adam sandler says “family comes first”. And then he said he didn’t like this guy (big Joel) because he (big Joel) said that it was weird how Adam Sandler sexualises his daughter. It was really awkward and we didn’t know him that well. I like thinking about that memory when I watch this video.
I havent finished this video yet but I think the sexualization of his daughter was weird but kinda typical late 90s-2000s humor i guess :/
@@TheRealZazaExpert definitely. Glad more people are pointing out how weird it is now though
@@gnocchipr1nc3ss oh for sure and I'm glad that more and more people can change their views and be more open and accepting to the idea that literally sexualizing a child is really weird. Also I don't have anything against Adam Sandler, it's just this movie in particular is kinda bad
@@TheRealZazaExpert I’m definitely more of a little Nicky fan than a click one lol
That last thing you sang about got me questioning. So, he was forced to skip ahead of sex because while he was on autopilot for a year he had a lot of sex and the remote learned this. However, presumably he did WAY more than just have repetitive sex, yes? Like eating, brushing his teeth, putting on his shoes, BREATHING, and any short of other, mundane daily routine. So why did the remote draw the line at sex and not... literally every second of his life? By the logic presented here (I haven't seen the full movie myself, thankfully), the moment the remote learns this behavior, that should be it. His life is over because it should just cut to the end. We are creatures of habit and ritual, so for the remote to use it's learning based on that alone is very flimsy and incredibly arbitrary.
lol I had this exact thought. Makes absolutely no sense.
The remote was punishing him for refusing to be present for the “boring” parts of his life, so it took away what it knew he wanted.
Its because he willingly skipped it as well as skipping the year. Tying shoes he did not previously skip.
There are plenty of movies that have loop holes, don’t make sense, and are good movies stfu and quit crying you nerds and virgins
@@speakingfacts3931 are you like a click stan or something why are you getting so defensive lmal
I love "It's a wonderful life." In fact, I love it SO much, I named my dog George Bailey, and my hermit crabs Mary, Clarence & Potter. But I have to say, the climax of the movie where all these genuinely tragic & horrifying realities are being revealed, when he screams, "WHERE'S MARY. WHERE IS SHE??" And to his unimaginable horror Clarence says, "...She never married ..She's an old Spinster!" And it's understood that as the audience, were supposed to be in shock & horrified, I laugh...so hard. Like the fact that her staying single is such a terrifying concept for people back then makes me giggle way too hard
Yeah lol, those were definitely other times 😂 luckily we can now look at it and see it as weird or funny, it demonstrates how we advanced as a society :)
I'm gonna be honest. If I imagine a world where I've been married to someone I love for decades, and we have kids and a life or whatever, and then I imagine I'm sent to some weird horrifying reality where I never existed, I don't really want to see my husband married to someone else anyway. Like sure, let him be married or single, whatever he wants, but I'm not falling over myself to hear about or watch his happy marriage. If George was really asking so desperately about that, as Clarence's answer might suggest, that feels weird.
I always felt that cognitive dissonance, because the idea of being a single lady librarian was/is pretty much my dream
Yeah I feel like that's best case scenario? Were we supposed to want her to have been fucking some other guy for years and have a happy family that would be erased from existence when George goes back to fix everything? Were we supposed to want her to be like the queen of town or something?
In the original story Mary was married to someone else who treated her horribly. When they made the movie they changed it to her being an old maid.
An hour long review with 0 filler.
This was the first movie I noticed Adam Sandler was ceasing to play the type of guy you thought would beat up bullies just because he was pretty good-natured, but liked fighting and wanted an excuse, to actually just being a guy who was probably a bully themselves.
It's creepy how Adam Sandler unironically thinks physically hurting children is hilarious to him. He admitted during the filming of the 1995 movie Billy Madison he intentionally threw the dodge ball hard at the child actors causing them to cry, hurting children gives him pleasure, he's a monster.
@@rootfish2671 y’all can’t be real people
@@icxnic_pubz4394 is this real life?
@@rootfish2671 lmao wtf is that true
@@portal9004 yes he said it himself on The Conan Obrien Show
Ok my favorite thing about Joel is his pleasant mild manner that is occasionally broken by him calling the viewer a fucking idiot
I unironically enjoy the big "padding out the essay to fit the page count" energy going on in this video.
At least he did the extra 4 seconds
I was thinking to myself, how about talking about the deleted scenes? You know, scenes that apparently weren't "good" enough to make the final cut.
But we did get an entertaining song instead.
I hate it 20 minutes in feels like an hour
@@mclovinpo Tell me about it bro
@@mclovinpoYou know you can change the video speed….slow it down some more lol.
It was so cute when you could hear his girlfriend laugh at his, "I don't have an hour of scripted Click content in me, sexually," in the background
Is that mothcub?
@@phinhager6509 yes!
@@malachorfives thanks! I thought so.
I know it's a necrocomment at this time, but I gotta put a point on this as I don't see it in the immediate top comments here. The arbitrary-ness and fickle functioning of the remotes automated functions are actually explicitly prefaced in what may seem like a throwaway line, especially to those not from the the *exact* moment in time the line would be socially relevant. And this super specific line that dates this movie to almost an exact few years explains the whole thing.
That line is when Christopher Walken's character says something to the tune "it's like TiVo. I call it Me-Vo." That one line, right there, ties the whole movie together. When TiVo was first a big new thing that garnered enough sway for people to have it, its automatic features were super annoying. I remember my dad really wanting it because of how it could record live tv broadcasts and such without the use of VHS tapes or anything, and then being able to fastforward through the commercials. And especially that it could record things that weren't actively being watched.
HOWEVER! What happened is that this big feature they advertised was REALLY unsophisticated. So whenever you watched or recorded a show, it would start automatically trying to record every episode of that show that aired at any time on any channel. And it would start recording shows it thought were related to the first show. And then because it recorded those shows (of its own volition) it would start recording shows it thought were related to the shows it recorded for you. So we were frequently and constantly deleting episodes of shows that none of knew what the heck they were. It would even record shows of "premium" channels we didn't have normal access to.
And even beyond that, because it would fill up its storage space with all this nonsense "smart recording", it would be too full to record the things you manually put in to be recorded. It would also only be able to record two things at once, so if it were already "smart recording" two things, it would then be unable to record the thing you told it to. The number of times my dad got upset because a sports game he told it to record wasn't recorded or was terminated early because it decided to "smart record" other things was beyond count.
But what's more. Because it needed to have one of the two things it was recording be what was actively being watched, if you paused and held a live show so you could buffer it and skip through commercials later, but it decided it needed to record a second thing at that time, it would switch over to the other channel and you would lose your buffered thing you were watching. This happened to us many times, as well.
So when anybody who ever wrangled with a TiVo heard that line, we *knew* this wasn't going to be a funny "man gets universal remote and it's great and works" movie.