Wednesday
28May2008
Adam Sandler To Receive MTV Equivalent of the Nobel Prize
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 11:33AM 
Look at it this way: At least nobody elected him
Governor. Yet.
Adam Sandler will receive a special MTV Movie
Award this weekend for his
continued contribution to the filmmaking
community, he said without so much as a hint of irony.
The Generation Award, the highest honor bestowed at the
annual meaningless movie awards, will be given to Sandler, "for his amazing
contribution to Hollywood," giving a new and less amazing meaning to the word
"amazing."
Said MTV President Van Toffler - who really ought to be
concentrating on the War in Iraq right now...oh wait, that's a different
President - "A 30-something water boy, a
brokenhearted `80s wedding singer and a rejected hockey player-turned-pro golfer
... now that's an impressive resumé."
Of course, over the past two years, Cate Blanchett
has played a German prositute and spy, a teacher who seduces her teenage
student, a woman slowly dying from a rifle shot, the most important female
leader in Western civilization, and Bob Dylan. So I guess her award is coming
next year.
But if you look at it from MTV's perspective, Sandler is
probably a great fit. Their awards rarely honor good films and Sandler has,
likewise, rarely been in good films. Usually, he gets his movies over the
$100,000,000 mark, which speaks to the power of his audience, though not
necessarily Sandler himself, whose comedies have really not lived up to his own
low standard since
Anger Management.
But there's no denying his enduring popularity. He seems
like a great guy, and he knows what works for him, so you'd have to wonder why
he'd ever change it up.
He has tried different things over the past few years,
though. I didn't like
Punch-Drunk Love, but thought
Spanglish was well done and even thought
Click was acceptable, even though I don't think
it fits the traditional Sandler mold. But fans have largely stayed away from his
more serious efforts; combined, Punch-Drunk, Spanglish and last
year's
Reign Over Me made $40 million less than
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.
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