9. Adam Sandler
Oh Adam, where do we begin? The emotionally retarded, socially awkward man-child act grew tired by the end of Happy Gilmore. That was 1997. It's now 2012, and you're still doing the same abominable, crude and unfunny jokes you were doing 15 years ago. Sandler, much like the characters he plays on-screen appears to be incapable of growth or doing anything of substance that isn't self-aggrandising, and I would be inclined to believe that totally if it wasn't for Punch Drunk Love. Under the directorial talent of perpetual genius, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sandler was restrained, and showed a serious and affecting side, as a result of the superb script which used the talent Sandler does have to great effect. It also doesn't have Rob Schnieder in it. Most Sandler films are like being hit over the head with a baseball bat for 90 minutes, but for the 95 minutes of Punch Drunk Love, the Little Nicky star is subdued, and we get to see his greatest screen performance. After Punch Drunk Love, the optimists thought Sandler may have turned a corner; his performance was genuinely great, but the film failed at the box office and Sandler never went near a film like this again, with the exception of Reign Over Me, which is a frustrating film in its own right. Instead he went back to his soul-less, so-called comedies such as Click, You Don't Mess With the Zohan, Grown Ups, Jack and Jill and That's My Boy. I'm not angry Adam, I'm just disappointed.