I think Sandler's dilemma is that he can do the safe, easy thing and bring all his longtime friends, or he can do something that's outside his usual by himself.

iirc sandlers after filming 50 first dates he treat his movies like extended vacation with friends. he's not bad just vibing

Emotionless. Have you seen Bill and Ted?

(I haven't in decades, imagine they didn't hold up that well)

Adam Sandler is really interesting because it seems like he mostly takes low-effort roles that are basically just paid vacations for him and his friends, then once every 10 years or so he drops an absolute banger just to remind everyone he can, then goes back to having fun again.

Reeves’ “style” is his bad acting.

Sorry, Keanu is such a bad actor. He seems like a great guy, and he’s been in some fun movies playing the one character he sort of knows how to play. He’s almost as bad as when they have sports stars do cameos.

Agree with the rest.

I would agree with this statement.

Adam Sandler can act really act in dramatic roles (Punch-Drunk-Love, Reign over Me, Uncut Gems, etc)

When Sandler produces a comedy, yeah; it tends to be bad. When Sandler is just the actor, it's a different story.

Props to Sandler to realizing that movie studios will pay him money to go on location to shoot movies and hire his friends.

Punch Drunk Love is great, and it came from watching his other movies and pulling on an underlying unexplored thread.

I think he's also quite good in uncut gems, but my opinion isn't final. I only made it through 35 minutes of the movie so far and am still recovering from the stress eight months later.

The ending of Click really threw me for a loop.

Yes! He was fantastic in The Meyerowitz Stories (2017).

If you’re talking cage yes he’s a good actor. Keanu is straight up a terrible actor

I saw some interview with him talking about his acting. He basically likes very expressive roles, where he can do some "over the top" acting. He was talking about how he was inspired by German expressionism for some of his roles. He did tons of great movies in his career. Adaptation or Bringing out the Dead being some of them.

OK, I'll bite. What's Gal Godot good in?

Zendaya is awful

But what about Chacolat…

Opinions are entirely subjective. Only you can answer that for yourself.

I think he’s like most long-time actors. He’s had some great roles that wouldn’t have been anywhere near as good had someone else done it, and he’s had “meh” and flops.

You can’t act for 40-ish years and not have a mixed bag.