Josh and Benny Safdie's UNCUT GEMS starring Adam Sandler as a jewelry dealer with a gambling habit

The opal reappraisal was some kind of bullshit, if you ask me. He was right to be pissed.

xp it's this person

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYwdWlcO43Y

xpost wasn't the original appraisal just them going off of his unverified numbers on good faith, then realizing he had grossly overestimated the value once they did their own appraisal?

I mean they didn't even have a picture of the item, so I assumed they literally rushjobbed it since he gave it to them 5 pm on a Friday for a Monday auction.

Yeah, he admits he didn't have time to show them to his guy, so he was just guessing their value, more or less.

I think they lowballed it

I loved the receptionist calling her and being like "oh no it's a separate question"

― papa stank (Neanderthal), Saturday, January 4, 2020 1:12 PM (seventeen minutes ago)

vg++ moment

They lowballed it because they had to rush through an appraisal in a quarter of the time they usually have and didn't have the time to get multiple appraisals done because of that.

It's not like he ran his own appraisal and they chose to go with theirs. He just told them someone he knew valued it at that range.

Given that he was a bit of an asshole to them, I'm sure that didn't help matters.

Loved his strong denial of not getting his pool resurfaced followed up by a hasty walk back on that claim.

Love that this ended with "L'Amour Toujours." Saw it with my husband and that's, like, our song :')

finally saw it today. i have many biases in favor of me liking the movie (kg, celtics, safdies) but i did like the movie quite a bit. i did find the pacing in the middle was a bit sluggish but the big speech to garnett forward was absolutely amazing stuff. i know enough about how they work to anticipate the ending but still got sucked in to howard's gambling high.

josh's knack for working with nonactors makes me wonder why more directors don't try it.

My friend who reads every interview about every movie says they basically tell ppl “just be yourself”

makes sense; josh is pretty good at inspiring confidence

I think for this to work consistently you’d have to employ their approach to shooting—using long lenses, loose blocking, writing for crosstalk, allowing for improv etc., all things that probably help non-actors “forget” they’re acting. Not easy for sure.

That New Yorker profile was pretty illuminating. I guess Josh hangs back and yells direction, while Benny works up close and offers quieter suggestions?

He was doing crazy parlay betting where each of the three events (opening tip, Celts winning straight up, Garnett hitting certain threshold of points plus rebounds) had to all occur or else he would lose the bet.

Opening tip probably the riskiest cos of how random it can be.

― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Saturday, December 28, 2019 4:52 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

I found it truly insane to think anyone would actually wager on this until they played the actual game footage in the film and I saw he was jumping against Spencer Hawes.

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— Eric Allen Hatch (@ericallenhatch) January 6, 2020

there's no colonoscopy emoji?

haha no but Eric could've gotten something together probably

Saw this again today at one of those CineBistro theaters. those places have INCREDIBLE screens, I still don't understand the appeal of eating a full ass meal during a movie, but whatever. It was awesome again, and I kept what was said about Arno ITT in mind, him sort of realizing he's in way over his head. I guess the ending caught me so off guard the first time I forgot that Arno ends up dead too!

there's a Mohegan Sun commercial early on when Dinah is watching reality TV.

Didn't really notice anything else the second time, felt more calm for obvious reasons, but yeah that last parlay sequence, my fists are in the air and I'm screaming yes.

Uncut Gems (2019) pic.twitter.com/8uNJt0JnSY

— Spencer (@TheLonelyPhoton) January 7, 2020

I really feel like Keith Williams Richards had to have gotten into some crazy shit as a kid.

everyone named keith richards has been involved in deeply shady stuff iirc

I still don't understand the appeal of eating a full ass meal during a movie

Neither do I, but I am amused at the thought of a viewer swallowing his fourth bite of burger when Howie's insides fade into view.

via the cinema thread:
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/01/adam-sandler-confronts-film-critics-mean-nyfcc-1202201523/

“I can’t thank these guys enough for getting critics to say something nice about me for the first time in 30 fucking years,” Sandler said as the NYFCC crowd erupted into applause.

who could have guessed that giving good performances in well-directed movies with good scripts would generate more critical plaudits that sleepwalking through movies you make solely so you and your friends can go on vaction in luxury resorts together

I still don't understand the appeal of eating a full ass

humans can have a little ass, as a treat

good boning!

i think A.S. was referring to early masterworks like Happy Gilmore

As for what it’s like working with Josh and Benny at once, Sandler compared the experience to having a threesome. “You can’t look like one is giving you more pleasure than the other,” the actor said letting out a laugh.

haven't seen this yet cuz i haven't been able to make a discount screening yet but thx for spoilers

You don’t have to click on the thread, bubbe!

the subtitles for #UncutGems didn't help me any. pic.twitter.com/o6lGj1tqDY

— icee (@theWallpaperHat) January 7, 2020

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Lol the car dialogue would be hell for captioning

The throat punch is so Savatage

Jfc, metal autocorrect.

SAVAGE

“I can’t thank these guys enough for getting critics to say something nice about me for the first time in 30 fucking years”

friendship ended with PTA

now JOSH_BENNY is my best friend

my brain is still stuck on tim heidecker doing a sandler voice and whining "oh nooo, my gems! they're uncut!"

On this week's podcast, @JOSH_BENNY talk to @NickPinkerton about the New York films that influenced their full-throttle Diamond District-set thriller UNCUT GEMS: https://t.co/U94m781Rn7 pic.twitter.com/QfP1sqp7pt

— Film Comment Magazine (@FilmComment) January 8, 2020

the English hatred of Sandler comedies is so funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XB6s0PpGPY

I mean I haven't seen any of his recent Netflix comedies but Little Nicky, Billy Madison, Big Daddy, and Happy Gilmore are all classics.

friendship ended with PTA

now JOSH_BENNY is my best friend

lol, A24 had pta talking to josh and benny on its podcast a few weeks ago, and obviously they talked about sandler a bunch.

https://a24films.com/notes/2019/12/seduce-and-destroy-with-josh-safdie-benny-safdie-and-paul-thomas-anderson

I liked this a lot even though it gave me a tension headache. I don't like Oneotrix's music at all, in fact, I'd probably say I'm strongly averse to it but in the context of this movie it's really really good.

The Safdie's have an amazing feel for ugliness - ugly people, ugly textures, ugly design - that is refreshing given that so many young filmmakers are coasting on being able to make beautiful images easily through technology, filters, post-processing et al. Sandler's glasses are a special achievement in ugliness. Benny Safdie is a good looking man who looks awful in Good Time - I'm sure his skin isn't the texture that it is in GT, what did they do to him? They even managed to make Pattinson look horrible in GT.

I love the actress that plays Sandler's wife and the actress that plays his girlfriend is pretty great as well.

grammar Q/complete derail:

Should it be "the actress that plays Sandler's wife" or "the actress who plays Sandler's wife"?

It’s “whomst’d”

:D

the actress that played his wife is Idina Menzel

I wasn't familiar at all but having looked at her wiki it seems like it may be a triumph of (uncanny) casting?

she doesn't do a lot of film, outside of her recent Frozen vocal contributions, I think the last live-action film she appeared in was 2007's "Enchanted". Was very inspired casting, played to her strengths.