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

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.

I guess there was the TV movie Beaches

In a film with a lot of very good things going on she really delivered without being showy at all.

Saw this yesterday, thought it was excellent.

Serious question(with spoilers if someone reading this thread still hasn’t seen the movie, somehow):

is this the first time a character played by Adam Sandler has died in a movie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IpQwq4IJ8A

His character in click was a worse guy

click, more like dick

saw this this afternoon. a genuinely, deeply unsettling experience, and its claustrophobic freneticism captures the horrors of addiction so well. it’s telling that both times he scores big it’s taken away almost immediately. I do think there is some tragedy to the story

incredible casting/performances all around, julia fox and keith williams richards especially

Julia Fox's first acting job! incredible!

same with richards. credit to the directors too, obviously

now I need to read that kalefah profile

I think the film captures the way no matter how far your addiction has made you completely dysfunctional and a complete shadow of yourself - you just keep plodding on unaware of how completely gone you are - just needing one more punt to pull you out of the shit and even then if that comes off, you'll try and do it again! It captures that mania so well.

same with richards.

amazing, and i spent a lot of the film wondering what i'd seen him in before too.

Your local Italian restaurant with a curtained off back room

can't wait for this to hit Netflix so i can rescreen

The first time I rewatched I kept hearing pained "oohs" from the audience. Especially at the throat-punch. That was almost as fun as the movie itself.

this was really good, though maybe a hair less good than Good Time. mostly that was due to GT being more of a surprise and them repeating some of the same tricks here, but also the 0PN score worked much better in GT than in UG. i was less stressed by UG but again that might have been going in with expectations of stress. the auction was intense though.

is there a film term for when the action of a scene ends but the scene keeps going? there were a couple of good examples like that here, mainly the girlfriend walking back to the club after their big fight but also sandler left in his kitchen and futilely trying to put foil back on a cake.

i really like eric bogosian in this, he looked like a greasy corpse. this was such a sweaty movie

great acting all around, i really appreciate the safdies' approach to naturalistic acting/nonactors, until you get to the tanned creep at the casino at the end who's like a weird mickey rourke cartoon