These Movie Product Placements SUCK!

3. Every Adam Sandler Film

These Product Placements Suck
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There has never been a man quite like Adam Sandler. As an actor, he is one of the most wildly inconsistent people in Hollywood, either churning out genuinely impressive performances such as in Uncut Gems and Funny People and even the Hotel Transylvania franchise and then torpedoing these moments of brilliance with projects like Jack and Jill, The Ridiculous Six and Grown-Ups in which he basically plays utter morons to the delight of no one.

Well no one that is except the utter delight of his accountants, as when it comes to filling these trash fire movies with sponsorship deals, the man is like a Grand Master of Cash-In Chess. You see, Sandler does not give a single toss if these films stink like a taint after a three-hour hike on a hot summers day, as he's already gotten everything he can out of the experience, that being a free holiday for his mates, and a boatload of cash to shill like you've never seen.

Therefore the product placements in his films are about as subtle as a hammer to the face. It could be his character claiming he needs something from Kmart, or that he's desperate for some KFC, or that Subway is the only thing that will scratch the itch, it really doesn't matter as Sandler will basically halt the movie in order to give a shout out to his "real ones".

And weirdly enough Jack and Jill, widely regarded to be his laziest and most greedy film might actually be the man's mercantile masterstroke as here he plays a marketing executive meaning that he doesn't even need to hide the fact the product shilling and can even feature full adverts for absolute tosh and call it "part of his character"

It's so offensive that it's almost something worthy of applause.

 
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