 Adam Sandler's back with another, check's notes, Netflix exclusive. Yay. The track record of these films has not been great, but this one's very subdued. This one takes place in space. It's about a guy's psyche as he tries to navigate his life in isolation. This could surprise me and be Netflix's 2024 Uncut Gems film, something that's wildly different and wildly entertaining. And wildly false. This movie put me to sleep 13 times and counting. Let's talk about Spaceman. Before I waste my time reviewing this film for the one person that cares, feel free to subscribe to the channel as I post other movie reviews on things that are more topical in today's day and age. I think there's a little something for everyone, movie reviews, roasts, live streams, all on film all the time. So we'd love to have you stick around. You know, after a string of decent movies, Adam Sandler really started missing a lot for me. And I actually implemented a no Adam Sandler policy with my household. We just we didn't see him. I refused. I refused to throw money away over and over again on bottom of the barrel comedy, and then he kind of shifted gears. He started doing more drama stuff, mixed in some comedy here and there. And I kind of came back to Sandler, but it's almost always a disappointment. And ever since his deal with Netflix for exclusive movies, it's been nothing but shit across the board. Why did they come back to you, Sandler? You clearly don't care about the projects you're taking on, but you're just so damn likable, it seems. He really does seem like a good guy in real life, like a down to earth, fun, cool dude to hang out with. I don't care. I'm still wasting time watching this crap. This is going to be spoiler free. I want to point something else out. It's not lost on me that lately on the channel here, if you are familiar, there's been a lot of bad movies, a lot of negative reviews for me, and that's not by design. I still love going to movies. I still love watching films, but honestly, it's been a bad run as of late. Some movies that have been just incredibly mediocre or downright and saltily bad on our intelligence. And I'm not going to pretend I'm not going to sugarcoat them to get some goodwill or whatever to seem more fair and balanced with my reviews. Like, oh, you know, he was negative on this one, but look, he's very positive over here. So really yin and yang situation. No, if there's a string of bad movies, which I think there have been, there's going to be a string of reviews that are are on the negative side. And that's just how it is. That's life. Hopefully the ship will turn around at the end of last year. There was actually a whole bunch of great movies that I watched in a row. And I mean, there was poor things. There was iron claw, Oppenheimer. I enjoyed Barbie. I there's just a lot of stuff that I really liked. We're just in a period right now where they're crapping out a bunch of mediocre stuff or just downright bad stuff. And I don't see that changing for a while. I'm looking at the roster coming up, not of things on the list that I'm really eager for back to Spaceman. I didn't know this movie existed because that's just the nature of movies now. In general, they come out in the streaming services. You don't know about them until there's this huge push on social media, which is where my wife comes into play. She told me about it last night. She said, Adam, you got to watch this movie. It's trending. People are talking about it. They're loving it. It's Adam Sandler doing something different. And I instantly my jaded side clicks in and I go, yeah, no. The same thing happened with you're so not invited to my body. Mitzvah. That movie was absolute garbage. And it was pushed like crazy by people, by influencers online that were saying it was great. His kids are in it. I'm pretty sure his daughter is in this one for a cameo, too, right away. That's just nepotism at play and fine, whatever. You got you got kids you want to throw in your movies. So fair, fair play. People do it all the time with jobs. They get their kids jobs. I don't necessarily knock it, but I don't need to celebrate it if the acting's bad, right? I'm looking at you, Dakota Johnson. Broad overview. What can you expect from this film? Well, a quick synopsis this short for synopsis. Adam Sandler plays a Czech pilot named Jacob. He's up in space. He's been there for six months on a solo mission to investigate this purple shit that's out in space, this purple abstract thing that people know it's been there for four years. And so they send one astronaut up. Not I don't know. I would imagine it takes a team. But then again, this movie is not really interested in answering a lot of questions. It's more or less just a story of a guy who's trying to come with some trauma. That old chestnut. He's got father issues. He's got relationship issues with a wife who's pregnant. And that's that's the movie. It's him up in space and he meets an imaginary friend or maybe a real friend. It's an alien spider thing who's going to guide him on his journey. They're going to have conversations in super slow motion. They're going to swim around in the ship in super slow motion. There's going to be slow background music that's going to lull you to sleep every 10 minutes. This movie could easily be put on in the background of any household. And it's going to knock people out like that. It's it's really a great sound machine at the end of the day. And I give it props for that. I actually do have a couple of positives here. Number one, it looks pretty good. I would imagine the budget's pretty small for this film, a pretty scant budget and they're making use of it. They're flexing it. The CG on the spider alien. Pretty solid, not amazing by any means, but good enough. It's getting the job done. The director wisely uses a lot of shadows, a lot of light sources to illuminate it in the right angles without making it look too fake. Not like displaying it proudly. I appreciate that it's somewhat of a different movie. Obviously, the topic isn't. It's been buried into the ground at this point. Overcoming trauma, moving on, acceptance. That stuff's all that stuff's all very traditional. But I can give it props for at least being a unique story that's telling things in a different light. What else? Um, no, that's about it. That's really about it. I just didn't like this movie at all. And I didn't really go in with any expectations outside of two things. One, Adam Sandler's led me down over and over again. And two, social media seems to be pumping this up and liking it. Those two things coming together really kind of cancels out. So I'm going in without a trailer. I'm going in fresh as a daisy. And I leave absolutely disappointed. Just bored to tears with this film that really doesn't go anywhere interesting. Another technique this director is using is what I'm calling spider flashback vision. There's often little instances where the spider is getting in the psyche of Adam Sandler's character and we do flashbacks, but it's all blurry. Or there's this weird roundness to the sides of the screen. And it doesn't look good. And kind of the headache induced scene. Again, there's this melancholy vibe to everything. Carry Mulligan's in this as the wife who's grieving at home or coming to terms with the fact that her husband's been gone a long time. She's not sure if she's going to carry on in the marriage. Things are rocky, to say the least. And every time we cut to her, holy God, is it boring? It's just nothing is happening with this character at all. Just small little conversations, very tedious. The dialogue's not interesting. And then we're back to Sandler's character, who's not doing a whole lot more of interest. Bottom line, this isn't one I would recommend on Netflix, but really anyone. There are better movies out there that have psychological twists to them, take place in space, or just more fascinating to watch. Here, I'll give you a couple. Interstellar, watch that instead of this. That's a fantastic movie directed by Christopher Nolan. The Martian with Matt Damon. It's way more fun. It's way more engaging to watch a story about a guy stranded on a planet when he is more positive and upbeat and ready to take on the challenges, as opposed to Sandler's character, who is just dead inside. And even when this alien shows up, he doesn't seem to give a shit. He doesn't have any, like, what I'm talking to an alien? He doesn't wake up at all. He doesn't seem to really have much curiosity with the creature, where it came from, why it's here. He's just so, like, nonchalant about all of it. Like, oh, whatever, don't touch my stuff. OK, you can stay if you want, but don't touch my stuff. Sandler, Sandler, Sandler, you stupid, skinny human. That's what that's what the alien refers to him as, skinny human. He talks like this, skinny human. I just can't. The movie, I can't. I think I've said enough. Let me know if you watch Space Man and if it just blew you away, it captivated you and you thought, Adam, you're completely wrong. This movie is phenomenal. It told us things. It was experimental. It tried different stuff out and it stuck the landing. Or if you're like me and you thought, man, what a complete and absolute waste of time this has been. I could have done really anything else and it would have provided more value. Let me know in the comments below. Please, again, think about subscribing as I post tons of movie reviews each and every week. We'd love to have you stick around. Go ahead and like the video if you did, in fact, like it. And you can even become a patron at patreon.com slash Adam does movies. 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