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

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

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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

I thought KG was passable for most of the film but that scene just before howard places the big bet where they really gave him a shot to spread his wings was kind of a miss for me

julia fox was the revelation of the movie. the safdies have brought out pretty killer performances by first time actresses a couple of times now

I watched GOOD TIME a couple of months ago and after re-watching this one last week I do think this is the superior film, but both are great. pattinson probably with the best performance in all their work tho

still can't believe the main goon was a first time actor

At a certain level of abstraction this was them making Good Time again but better.

yup

Much better than Good Time because it's a more fully realized film. I rewatched it today, and definitely holds up.

one of my best friends watched it and kept texting me during it, stuff like "he's already crazy and we're only 40% into the movie!"

The manic pace of the first act is really something, it actually kind of slows down slightly after that.

The moment when he first shows the gem to KG really moved me this time.

I could happily watch this a couple times a year for....a while

yeah same

It def occurs to me that I want to watch this again, less so with Good Time

Kind of hard to say, given that I've never seen the 90s remake of Night in the City (but I am aware of its reputation), this movie feels like the proper way to update that film. I almost didn't watch this--haven't seen their previous film (but will now), and the Sandler-in-a-real-movie hook doesn't interest me--so I'm surprised and delighted at how much I enjoyed this.

That first sentence is missing a conjunction somewhere, but hopefully you know what I mean.

definitely see GOOD TIME

RIP

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Aw :(

Greatest actor of all time

Taking vigs from beyond