I believe Sandler's was released first

Yeah, I think it was, but they were close together.  I suspect that the temporal proximity of those is just a coincidence.

Haven't watched a Sandler film since Grown Ups or Jack and Jill, whichever came first. Those movies were terrible

Grown Ups was awesome...  Grown Ups 2 was pretty terrible, though.

Posted by d_rock97 on 1/12/2016 2:57:00 PM (view original):
Haven't watched a Sandler film since Grown Ups or Jack and Jill, whichever came first. Those movies were terrible

Also, if you saw both of them, isn't it whichever came 2nd?

I'm not sure that's a fair characterization.  Happy Madison has released 35 films in theaters, and 30 of them have recouped above production in theater gross.  That includes 5 films that grossed over $200 million, and 7 more at over $150 million.  It's not LOTR money, but compared to the production costs of most of those films it's a huge profit.  He may not be good at making great cinema, but Adam Sandler is undoubtedly good at making money.