10 Actors Who Clearly Didn't Learn Anything From Past Mistakes

3. Adam Sandler

Nobody on this planet seems to have as little regard for the human cost associated with their product as Adam Sandler. Just take a moment and consider the past ten years of his career: it's natural to look at this man's output and feel uneasy: the thematic content of his films is also shockingly insensitive; not to mention completely incongruent with our contemporary era and Sandler's alleged age. Like a half-senile grandparent spewing racial epithets over a family dinner, Sandler hits all the wrong notes. Whether he's revelling in homophobia (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry), or engaging in the most infantile of toilet humor (the CGI deer urination scene from Grown Ups 2), it's clear that Sandler doesn't care about what he's doing. It's also clear that he cares little about changing his ways, with each film being more stubbornly committed to an ugly, immature and utterly self-absorbed worldview than the last. Entering into a Sandler film these days is like entering the mind of a drooling, spoiled, and perhaps idiotic child. You recognize that you're encountering something so committed to its own selfish pleasures that it can't even begin to approach empathy for anyone else. While to some degree this has always been the case with the actor, his early work was infused with at least an iota of surreal imagination (such as immortal fist fight with Bob Barker from Happy Gilmore) and a modicum of feeling (The Wedding Singer) but those days are long gone.