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

the twofer!

uncut gems, uncut

oh jeez sorry bg xxxxxp

Any indication about what is added?

It's a Q&A / prank show comedy short that will play after the film, if the trailer featuring the Safdies, Sandler, Megan Amram and Jason Bateman at Mel's Diner is any indication. (Though I've only seen announcements of a Q&A, not an extended cut, so maybe that's something different.)

lol no worries xp

I love that Wayne diamond was very horny for Julia fox in uncut gems but also is very horny for Julia Fox in real life pic.twitter.com/AkJZtMf6uH

— 🥺😈 (@olivia_vault) February 5, 2020

lol senegal?

wayne diamond is working on a different level in many respects

The opening to this instantly made me think of the opening of The Exorcist and it's tempting to read what follows as a straight-up tale of a curse coming to haunt the greedy owner of an immorally expropriated artifact

https://marissachanningbates.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/capture-10.png

I totally thought of The Exorcist, too! Certainly Howard is ... possessed.

funnily enough watching the start of this again yesterday i thought that the font which establishes the location was very similar if not identical to the font on the poster for the exorcist

you're right - they are v similar! though the exorcist caption provides less information to help orient us about which teams are in the playoffs

https://i.imgur.com/4wMsaWl.png

https://i.imgur.com/lMkz5Ho.png

that lack of playoff specificity is one of the exorcist's great failings, i've always said it

I thought the titles were more reminiscent of Raiders of the Lost Ark, though can see Exorcist connection too.

im in a safdie meme facebook group and one of arno’s goons joined it and he keeps flexing on it and posting gems memes and it owns lmao pic.twitter.com/yJObPJWM2r

— robert franco (@responsiblerob) February 6, 2020

that guy has such an incredible face, even in a movie full of faces that make you go ‘holy shit check out THIS guy’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihalG3Rw_QA

posted that mostly for "homeless rabbis" line

Man this was relentless.
It really reminded me of that novel by Kazuo Ishiguro that's written so specifically like a dream, with the main dude kind of sleepwalking from one important task to another but never quite completing each one and seemingly getting tangled in all the duties, risks, seemingly forgetting the point of each one or leaving some valuable thing somewhere vulnerable, although this film takes it to fever pitch level and Sandler kind of has it in hand for enough of it you're not quite sure if he'll pull it all off or end up chucked out of a window.

"homeless rabbis" line was great.

The Uncut Gems title font is Albertus, which I think of as the Ginsberg's Howl / National Review font.

my first thought was that its pretty close to the classic John Carpenter font -
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/John_Carpenter%27s_The_Thing_%28closing_credits_Logo%29.png
/ https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/60/59205/full-1920x816/59f8d023/Big_Trouble_in_Little_China-Directed_by_John_Carpenter.jpeg?resolution=0

Jewish excellence!!!! https://t.co/fk6OehAaZm

— Naomi Fry (@frynaomifry) February 18, 2020

would watch

:D

Will watch.

Lol @ “Flipanthrophy”, perfect

Yes

Anyone seen Go Get some rosemary?

oh fuck that's great news

the Safdie brothers aren't directing the pilot? what the

Howard this weekend:

running around buying black-market way -overpriced disinfectant wipes & TP & boasting about his collection. He’d spend the first 10 days on L.I. being the family man they forgot he could be till he’d run mad, hop in His car & catch covid from a stranger trying to track down Julia https://t.co/jRAiruwmFM

— SAFDIE (@JOSH_BENNY) March 15, 2020

ME: I want a three-way parlay on coronavirus. Travel suspended from Europe, NBA season suspended, Tom Hanks has it. You take lightning bets? I want a lightning bet on the stock market dive -- thousand bucks a point

YOU: That's the dumbest fuckin' bet I ever heard of

ME: pic.twitter.com/T36UBHbTwz

— limited breadsticks (@limitlessjest) March 12, 2020

I'm going to put this here, too:

Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Directed by George Romero pic.twitter.com/91cvhlLLga

— SAFDIE (@JOSH_BENNY) March 17, 2020

Your chance to own the bejewelled Furby.

https://a24auctions.com/auctions/gems-uncut-gems

kinda want that MJ pendant

just bid on it. i own't win but the idea of even having a chance is killing me lol

lol just gave up on the bidding war. money's going to charity so at least that amount has increased!

it was me, I outbid you! any day now the MJ pendant will be MINE!

also the charity doesn't exist, it's a sham set up by ME! NYEH HEH HEH HWEE!

I only just realised Howard's surname is Ratner. Possibly a reference to the infamous jeweller who buried his own company by declaring his products to be shit...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner

People say, "How can you sell this for such a low price?", I say, "because it's total crap."[6]

He compounded this by going on to remark that one of the sets of earrings was "cheaper than an M&S prawn sandwich but probably wouldn't last as long."

or the nyc real-estate dude who bought the Nets - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Ratner

and took a similar attitude towards them tbh

haha when I started watching the film I thought it was going to be about Gerald Ratner for a moment there.
The 'Ratner effect' is in general parlance here iirc

finally saw this today

I really liked it. But god SO fucking stressful!
Mr Veg was more underwhelmed, he just thought Howie was a dope & didnt care much what happened to him, lol.

I think I just like movies about hubris & ppl making bad decisions? all the stress of robbing peter to pay paul alone while making insane bets and having a mistress and a family and maybe colon cancer. like you could kinda tell within the first 30 minutes that he was gonna end up dead some way or another.

but the verité of being right there in his life was pretty genius. and so many great characters, just wall to wall like a great gritty 70’s crime movie.

the intensity felt kinda Dog Day Afternoon for me? not the story but that feeling of real-life actual panic. and as the audience you just get airdropped into that diamond showroom like aghfuuuuck jesus get me out of here

I think I just like movies about hubris & ppl making bad decisions?

have you watched the safdie's Good Times yet because ohhhhhhh man

hahah otm

I really liked Good Time

I mentioned in another thread that I wasn’t crazy about the obsession with men's jewelry, the NBA, and gambling in Uncut Gems. The milieu overwhelmed the plot for me

In retrospect it was memorable though, and Adam Sandler was good

I think I just like movies about hubris & ppl making bad decisions?

otm

I mentioned in another thread that I wasn’t crazy about the obsession with men's jewelry, the NBA, and gambling in Uncut Gems. The milieu overwhelmed the plot for me

― Dan S, Saturday, May 30, 2020 10:02 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think this is a fair criticism. good time has a little bit more to say as far as rob pat's character justifying doing whatever he wants as an act of caring for his brother.