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Big Daddy
1999 · Film · 93 min
Directed by Dennis Dugan
A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned. Now he's forced to grow up while navigating the challenges of fatherhood.
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The child was next to some glasses of wine. Why does that make you clutch pearls exactly?
Have you seen Big Daddy? The Adam Sandler film? Is that also on this level? Feels like the same thing. Child actors in an adult piece of media with sexual and violent and otherwise adult themes.
"Hip... Hip hop... Hip hop Anonymous?"
Your comment reminded me of one of my favorite scenes from the great movie, Big Daddy.
https://youtu.be/KnbL56_S9rQ
I'm not sure if this is authoritative:
"The company’s original name was called “Jomax Technologies,” named after an old dirt road Parsons used to drive by on the way to work. Two years after founding the company, Parsons wanted to change the name to something more fun and memorable.
An employee suggested the name Big Daddy, but the domain name was already taken. The reason? The movie “Big Daddy,” starring Adam Sandler. Parsons suggested GoDaddy to the team. Luckily, the .com was available and the name has stuck for just about two decades."
https://www.rewindandcapture.com/why-is-it-called-godaddy/
Why did you exclude the highest grossing film that year from the list? It seems you just selected the movies you thought helped you point.
Movies among the top ten grossing which you left out of the list:
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
- Tarzan
- Big Daddy
- The Mummy
- Runaway Bride
- The World Is Not Enough
- The Blair Witch Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_1999_box_office_number-one_films_in_the_United_States#cite_note-2
I do agree Hollywood is different today, but rehashing ideas is nothing new.
The Godfather was a book. Twelve Angry Men was a play. Ben Hur (1956) was remake of Ben Hur (1925). All the songs in Singing in the Rain was recycled from previous movies. The Lion King was the first Disney animated movie with an original story (and even then people say it was plagiarized from Kimba).
As for TV shows and made-for-streaming, do you exclude this from Hollywood? It is increasingly the same talent writing producing and acting, so it is more a question of format and distribution.
The premise of your objection is that copyright law is anything but a game of "i win" played by content owners (ref Adam Sandler's film Big Daddy - http://youtu.be/8HUvTp8ZcJs?t=8s)