![]() ![]() For more of both Apatow and Rogen in a comparably sensitive dramedy, check out the short-lived TV series Undeclared, from 2001. Or for more Sandler in serious mode, try Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love (2002), in which he plays a lonely, repressed man who opens up to a new friendship with Emily Watson. Well, not really, but that film features a bizarrely similar apprentice scenario and a famous comedian playing a barely altered version of himself. WATCH: Martin Scorsese’s 1983 film The King of Comedy, with Jerry Lewis as Jerry Lewis as Adam Sandler, and Robert DeNiro as Robert DeNiro as Seth Rogen. INSTEAD OF: Funny People, Judd Apatow’s new film, which isn’t at all the comedy it’s being marketed as, about a standup comedian and movie star (Adam Sandler) who discovers he’s dying, and tries to change his big-fat-jerk ways with the help of an up-and-coming comic (Seth Rogen)… And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see that movie about Adam Sandler dying of that awful disease?” you can reply, “No, I prefer Adam Sandler repressed and depressed rather than outrageous and lonely. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. ![]() We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but Adam Sandler dying of some awful disease isn’t your idea of a good time. ![]()
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