10 Upcoming Netflix Movies That Are Probably Going To Suck
9. The Week Of
Release Date: 2018
Another Adam Sandler movie with another middling plot that basically sounds like an excuse to make a Grown Ups movie without calling it Grown Ups 3.
The Week Of is set to star Sandler and frequent collaborator Chris Rock as two fathers who - on "the week of" their children getting married - come to blows. Cue an endless series of scenes in which Sandler and Rock act more childish than their children, and yeah, it's just another Grown Ups movie, isn't it?
You have to wonder why Chris Rock allows himself to star in movies like this, when he's a genuinely smart and cultured human being, whose favourite films are in the Woody Allen vein. He's capable of witty, funny movies, like his own Top Five.
There is one saving grace that comes with the release of this movie, however, in the sense that it's the last movie in the first four-picture deal that Netflix struck with Sandler all those years ago. Yes, this could technically be the last film that Adam Sandler makes with Netflix, unless they decide to strike another deal with him.
Oh, they've already struck another deal with Adam Sandler, you say? Netflix have agreed to make four more movies with this guy... four more awful cinematic abominations? We can only hope that after Sandler teamed with Noah Baumbach for recent Netflix comedy/drama The Meyerowitz Stories - and earned rave reviews from critics - he feels the need to make something worthwhile (please).