2. Click The Ability To Stop Time
The Technology Put-upon Adam Sandler is given a remote which can manipulate time by what turns out to be Satan and the most appropriate casting ever in Christopher Walken. Using this remote, he figures out that he can cut through all the detritus in his life and skip to the good bits, meaning he can live a life of pleasure without having to ever be brought low by tedium or boredom. Halfway through the film he realises that he can put himself on auto-pilot, which lets him work insanely hard without actually having to make an effort. Yet too little, too late he realises that this autopilot mode means he marginalises his family to the extent that his kids hate him and his insanely attractive wife divorces him for Sam Gamgee (trust me, it makes sense in context).
What They Should Have Used It For Its established early on that the remote can stop time after all, weve already seen Sandler pause the world, hop onto his boss David Hasselhoffs desk and fart on his head. Also, the remote appears to operate off the movie time-stop logic that dictates the subject can interact with things in suspended animation, as noted when he actually clambers atop the desk. So if hes able to actually stop time, why doesnt he just work during the pauses? Sandlers main problem in the film appears to be that he doesnt have enough time in the day to do everything, but this function on the remote would allow him to do
exactly that. He neednt stop interacting with his kids or be estranged from his wife, because his work hours wouldnt spill over into his personal life like it was, and he could still end up a massive success. If its simply a question of keeping up the charade that hes working, well he could just stay in the office an play Angry Birds or whatever last decades equivalent was (Im going with Pokemon?). There is literally nothing stopping Sandler from using this function, yet astoundingly, he seems to forget it exists. Frankly, I think thats baffling.