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

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

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Taking vigs from beyond

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/benny-safdie-solo-the-curse-smashing-machine-1235859184/

is this the thread for discussing THE CURSE!?

bc it's really good and i am on ep 4 after starting this afternoon (it's my day off, fuiud)

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oh ok! thanks
related to Uncut Gems also -- I started listening to Julia Fox's autobiography (as audiobook, read by by the author) and it's also great. there's something about her story that reminds me of Penelope Tree.

So much yelling. And in the one quiet moment, you telling me that she didn't hear the *ding!* on his cellphone when she texted him from 14 feet away?

yes, that's what they're telling you