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

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.

I loved Good Time!!

as much as uncut gems caters brilliantly to some of my interests, i do think good time is a slightly better movie

agreed cad

i think it’s easier to root for RPattz’s character, for sure. plus his brother adds some human stakes

whereas Howie’s whole stort hinges on a lot of material stakes that could easily leave a lot of ppl cold

*story

the end of gems, when you are locked in howie's world and watching the bet play out, is superlative filmmaking and an amazing payoff for the stress of the movie.

gems has a quality of getting lost in its own plot a little, who owes what to who and why, whereas ime good time flows effortlessly from one point to the next

yeah totally agree with that

i really liked how Uncut Gems was so immersive

I significantly prefer uncut gems if only because it's much funnier

it is but good time has the indelibly funny moment of

SPOILER

breaking the wrong guy out of the hospital

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

now I wanna watch good time again

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....