The occasion for my bout of word nerdery is the Adam Sandler movie “Spaceman,” and for that I thank the film.
What’s flummoxing about “Spaceman” isn’t what it is, but why it is.
Some bad movies were never going to be good (“Argylle”).
Other bad movies never even tried (“Madame Web”).
But “Spaceman” is that exquisite rare third thing — an awful movie, a very bad movie indeed, whose lousiness was almost certainly not apparent while it was in production.
Persons:
nonplused, flummoxed, fogged, you’re, Adam Sandler, we’ve