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

i keep thinking the nba should replay the celtics playoff game from the climactic seen on nba tv and make a big deal event of it, like pop ups tracking howard's bets and such, hey nba marketing people this was my idea plz be in touch with my representatives

lol 2nded

first time seeing it I didn't think Uncut Gems was very funny

― Dan S, Saturday, May 30, 2020 11:29 PM bookmarkflaglink

Sandler getting the results of his test and asking why Jewish people get colon cancer, "we're supposed to be the chosen people", while Lakeith Stanfield is in the process of wreaking havoc in his office....

I love the honest contradictory opinions I still keep hearing from people who didn't necessarily know what they were in for. Stuff like "I get why it's a great movie, but I hated it" or "the acting was amazing, but I never want to see it again," stuff like that.

maybe if Sandler did Billy Madison voice more

Uncut Gems is on Netflix but I’d much rather spend 2 hours watching @timheidecker do his Adam Sandler impression pic.twitter.com/LROaD3jdi1

— 🤘💀 ♡ (@tweetcamey) May 25, 2020

maybe if Sandler did Billy Madison voice more

I wasn't expecting him to do "comedy voices," but I was expecting him to actually sound like a New York diamond district Jew, which to my ear he didn't. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for this movie, but the "darkest Africa" opener was pretty ugh, and then we're literally up Sandler's ass? I only lasted about 20 minutes in all. I bailed during Kevin Garnett's first visit to the showroom.

I almost get a Gaspar Noe vibe from it, between there always being 2-3 people talking at once and the BGM cranked up its like the movie is trying to give you a migraine. My wife’s reaction: “that wasn’t a movie, it was 2 hours of people screaming at each other”

I want to say that was my wife's verbatim reaction, though I think she recognized it as a movie. It made her physically ill, a la "Dancer in the Dark."

noe comparison otm

tap out moment for her was the scene in the shop an hour in where you've got KG's people, Arno's people, plus side plots with the doctor & Julia all at the same time, she was like "Jesus Christ does this movie have any quiet scenes at all?"

one issue I had with this was the large bet at the Sun, I am pretty sure a young woman can't just waltz into a sportsbook and place a 6-figure bet that pays a million bucks, they would automatically flag that as sharp money coming from someone they'd banned previously. Harlabob used to talk about this a lot, back when his action was either banned or severely limited at nearly every book in Vegas.

There’s no sports book at the Sun either, as I think was discussed upthread. A concession to the plot.

frogbs remember when you won the board over by explaining why deathdr0ne was an insanely bad poker player

hah I haven't thought about that guy in years. kinda wonder what he's been up to, seems like he's gone completely dark since that SA thread 'outed' him

noe comparison wildly offtm

I guess both are loud/energetic but that's literally all they have in common imo

i was thinking more of the creeping physical dread

and the blinkered, obsessed protagonists too i guess

happy to talk more about dog day afternoon too, though, which i prefer to any of noe's movies

The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie is definitely a mood these Safdie's are going for imo

hah I haven't thought about that guy in years. kinda wonder what he's been up to, seems like he's gone completely dark since that SA thread 'outed' him

https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/21349396/

it looks like he developed (already had?) some fairly serious mental issues. i remember playing with him a half-dozen times or so at foxwoods way back when (speaking of CT casinos), and my abiding memory of him is that he smelled terrible even by poker player standards

The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie is definitely a mood these Safdie's are going for imo

yes! cassavetes still the high water mark of woozy eldritch venality

just saw Heaven Knows What over the weekend. is there a thread for it? it was abysmal in the extreme. ilya is a great villain. my girlfriend and i hated him from the first shot of his stupid face. safdie bros seem to specialize in abjection. i would recommend watching if you want to see a pretty good depiction of junkie desperation and can stomach something very depressing. safdies wring very believable performances from everyone in their movies--awesome directors imo.

also, i remember reading kobe turned the part in Uncut down because he also wanted to direct?! lololol

he would have been great for the part - more threatening than garnett who just can't help being adorable imo

my comparison to Noe was more about how they deliberately try to make the viewer feel uneasy through means other than dialogue, set design, and lighting. leading the movie off with an hour straight of people talking over each other, for example

https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/21349396/
it looks like he developed (already had?) some fairly serious mental issues. i remember playing with him a half-dozen times or so at foxwoods way back when (speaking of CT casinos), and my abiding memory of him is that he smelled terrible even by poker player standards

I figured he had to have either killed himself or landed in jail, this was a dude who absolutely would not stop posting. like even after getting hacked and having all his personal shit leaked he was back the next day with "journal 6/7/13: jacked off into a shoe 4 times today". not surprised to find out he had severe mental problems.

I feel like some of the characters in Safdie films would be vulnerable to poster's disease if they ever used social media

what’s the best movie about posting

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51NHQVSXHRL._AC_SY400_.jpg

a lil movie called the social network i mean hes literally sittig on his computer hitting refresh on fb at the end xp

yeah but that's kinda on the nose if you ask me

All the President's Men

enhance

Convoy

breaker breaker, 19 19 a copy, rubber sock here

god there is so much Vangelis in this soundtrack, I love it

oooh she's an uncut gem
she's untouched by man

I saw this last week and didn't like the first third or so, especially the jewish stereotypes with the fake teeth. My wife almost left early on.

From the point of the seder revealing that Arno was Howard's brother-in-law, I stopped caring about the characters and just enjoyed the ride. The second half especially has some very funny moments, like when Julia gets the "Howie" tattoo and Howard whines pathetically, "ah, now you can't be buried with me." Loved the Billy Joel musical cue, such an NYC thing.

The posts upthread otm about Howard having no clue he was about to be killed and dying at his happiest moment.

It would have been amazing if the song crüt just referenced played over the end credits.

started watching this but I was very hungover and it was straight claustrophobic close up shots and people shouting for the first 15 minutes so I figured I'd come back to it

lol this is a terrible hangover movie

DL, we’ve got to make sure we caution you about what kind of space you need to be in to consume media! I feel like we’ve failed you a few times now

yeah i cant imagine anything worse for a hangover short of a blacksmith convention lol

trump rally

I liked this overall. Better than Good Time. Some serious flaws. By 20-30 minutes before the end I had just completely given up on Howard as a character so I kind of stopped caring what happened. It just stopped being fun or interesting watching a very stupid and simple man remain lost in his delusions. Also a flaw in Adam Sandler's performance I think, he ran out of tricks.

I didn't mind the "jewish stereotypes," tbh, the world and the people felt real and human enough to me. I mean, those kinds of lowlifes exist in this world, and some of them are Jewish.

I think it helped to watch this on fairly low volume on my laptop -- I couldn't have handled it in a theater.

OTOH I guess it works in that way as a portrait of a compulsive gambler. Because you know it doesn’t even matter if someone like that wins their million dolllar bet, they’ll find some way to squander it and get into trouble again.

yeah I thought the way it portrayed his addiction was pretty effective

I liked this overall. Better than Good Time. Some serious flaws. By 20-30 minutes before the end I had just completely given up on Howard as a character so I kind of stopped caring what happened. It just stopped being fun or interesting watching a very stupid and simple man remain lost in his delusions.

Lol, you and me are opposites. When I stopped caring about the character is when I started enjoying the movie.

A lot of really compelling performances though, including Sandler even though I thought he ran out of steam before the end. Lakeith Stanfield seems like the most underrated/unsung standout in the film, Idina Menzel almost too real as the fed up wife

KG was great as a just very slightly alternate universe version of himself

I didn't even realize that was Judd Hirsch until I just googled btw, another great one