You don’t have to click on the thread, bubbe!
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
the subtitles for #UncutGems didn't help me any. pic.twitter.com/o6lGj1tqDY— icee (@theWallpaperHat) January 7, 2020
― j., Wednesday, 8 January 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
omfg 🤣🤣🤣
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
Lol the car dialogue would be hell for captioning
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link
The throat punch is so Savatage
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link
Jfc, metal autocorrect.
SAVAGE
“I can’t thank these guys enough for getting critics to say something nice about me for the first time in 30 fucking years”friendship ended with PTAnow JOSH_BENNY is my best friend
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
my brain is still stuck on tim heidecker doing a sandler voice and whining "oh nooo, my gems! they're uncut!"
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
On this week's podcast, @JOSH_BENNY talk to @NickPinkerton about the New York films that influenced their full-throttle Diamond District-set thriller UNCUT GEMS: https://t.co/U94m781Rn7 pic.twitter.com/QfP1sqp7pt— Film Comment Magazine (@FilmComment) January 8, 2020
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 January 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
the English hatred of Sandler comedies is so funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XB6s0PpGPY
I mean I haven't seen any of his recent Netflix comedies but Little Nicky, Billy Madison, Big Daddy, and Happy Gilmore are all classics.
― flappy bird, Friday, 10 January 2020 23:54 (four years ago) link
friendship ended with PTAnow JOSH_BENNY is my best friend
now JOSH_BENNY is my best friend
lol, A24 had pta talking to josh and benny on its podcast a few weeks ago, and obviously they talked about sandler a bunch.
https://a24films.com/notes/2019/12/seduce-and-destroy-with-josh-safdie-benny-safdie-and-paul-thomas-anderson
― circles, Saturday, 11 January 2020 00:26 (four years ago) link
I liked this a lot even though it gave me a tension headache. I don't like Oneotrix's music at all, in fact, I'd probably say I'm strongly averse to it but in the context of this movie it's really really good.
The Safdie's have an amazing feel for ugliness - ugly people, ugly textures, ugly design - that is refreshing given that so many young filmmakers are coasting on being able to make beautiful images easily through technology, filters, post-processing et al. Sandler's glasses are a special achievement in ugliness. Benny Safdie is a good looking man who looks awful in Good Time - I'm sure his skin isn't the texture that it is in GT, what did they do to him? They even managed to make Pattinson look horrible in GT.
I love the actress that plays Sandler's wife and the actress that plays his girlfriend is pretty great as well.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:45 (four years ago) link
grammar Q/complete derail:
Should it be "the actress that plays Sandler's wife" or "the actress who plays Sandler's wife"?
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
It’s “whomst’d”
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:52 (four years ago) link
:D
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Saturday, 11 January 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link
the actress that played his wife is Idina Menzel
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 January 2020 00:16 (four years ago) link
I wasn't familiar at all but having looked at her wiki it seems like it may be a triumph of (uncanny) casting?
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Sunday, 12 January 2020 00:24 (four years ago) link
she doesn't do a lot of film, outside of her recent Frozen vocal contributions, I think the last live-action film she appeared in was 2007's "Enchanted". Was very inspired casting, played to her strengths.
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 January 2020 00:28 (four years ago) link
I guess there was the TV movie Beaches
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 January 2020 00:30 (four years ago) link
In a film with a lot of very good things going on she really delivered without being showy at all.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Sunday, 12 January 2020 00:54 (four years ago) link
Saw this yesterday, thought it was excellent.
Serious question(with spoilers if someone reading this thread still hasn’t seen the movie, somehow):
is this the first time a character played by Adam Sandler has died in a movie?
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Sunday, 12 January 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IpQwq4IJ8A
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 January 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
His character in click was a worse guy
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Sunday, 12 January 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
click, more like dick
― peloton for the painfully alone (m bison), Sunday, 12 January 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
saw this this afternoon. a genuinely, deeply unsettling experience, and its claustrophobic freneticism captures the horrors of addiction so well. it’s telling that both times he scores big it’s taken away almost immediately. I do think there is some tragedy to the story
incredible casting/performances all around, julia fox and keith williams richards especially
― k3vin k., Sunday, 12 January 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
Julia Fox's first acting job! incredible!
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Sunday, 12 January 2020 22:40 (four years ago) link
same with richards. credit to the directors too, obviously
now I need to read that kalefah profile
― k3vin k., Sunday, 12 January 2020 22:42 (four years ago) link
I think the film captures the way no matter how far your addiction has made you completely dysfunctional and a complete shadow of yourself - you just keep plodding on unaware of how completely gone you are - just needing one more punt to pull you out of the shit and even then if that comes off, you'll try and do it again! It captures that mania so well.
― calzino, Sunday, 12 January 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
same with richards.
amazing, and i spent a lot of the film wondering what i'd seen him in before too.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Sunday, 12 January 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
Your local Italian restaurant with a curtained off back room
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Sunday, 12 January 2020 23:15 (four years ago) link
can't wait for this to hit Netflix so i can rescreen
― flopson, Monday, 13 January 2020 00:03 (four years ago) link
The first time I rewatched I kept hearing pained "oohs" from the audience. Especially at the throat-punch. That was almost as fun as the movie itself.
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 January 2020 00:14 (four years ago) link
this was really good, though maybe a hair less good than Good Time. mostly that was due to GT being more of a surprise and them repeating some of the same tricks here, but also the 0PN score worked much better in GT than in UG. i was less stressed by UG but again that might have been going in with expectations of stress. the auction was intense though.
is there a film term for when the action of a scene ends but the scene keeps going? there were a couple of good examples like that here, mainly the girlfriend walking back to the club after their big fight but also sandler left in his kitchen and futilely trying to put foil back on a cake.
i really like eric bogosian in this, he looked like a greasy corpse. this was such a sweaty movie
― na (NA), Monday, 13 January 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
great acting all around, i really appreciate the safdies' approach to naturalistic acting/nonactors, until you get to the tanned creep at the casino at the end who's like a weird mickey rourke cartoon
― na (NA), Monday, 13 January 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
I keep cracking up thinking about the scene where Howard's in the closet texting while getting progressively more giddy
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 13 January 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link
(and horny)
that was so good!
― k3vin k., Monday, 13 January 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
The most exhausting two hours of yelling and hysterics I've seen since The Wolf of Wall Street. I think it's supposed to look back to a certain kind of '70s urban realism--Lumet, Chayefsky, James Toback maybe, the John G. Avildsen of Joe and Save the Tiger--but I bet they'd all feel like Bergman if you were to watch any of that and this back-to-back. I can't think of a single positive thing to say about it (including Sandler's passable turn as John Turturro), although I hope "Go fuck the Weeknd" goes on to become a standard line whenever movie couples argue.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 January 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
Damn!
― flappy bird, Monday, 13 January 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/QU4ewgcmdcsObx9CG7/giphy.gif
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Monday, 13 January 2020 22:40 (four years ago) link
lol
I respect clem emptying the clip like that
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 14 January 2020 03:21 (four years ago) link
I mean it's nice to see some alternate takes ITT
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 03:22 (four years ago) link
clem's take aligns with most of my friends tbh
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 03:39 (four years ago) link
Really wonder if the goyim can rly “get” this movie
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 04:54 (four years ago) link
It's one of those great movies I would never recommend to at least half the people in my life (and already have to the rest).
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 04:54 (four years ago) link
I’m personally evolving past “I didn’t really feel that stressed out by this movie” to “this is a perfectly normal movie and every other movie just doesn’t have enough shouting and Moogs”
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:00 (four years ago) link
i loved this and have recommended "the lighthouse" before this to anyone, based on this film's intensity.
also, i want to know the safdie backstory to the casting of the robert evans as a gambler tribute character.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:05 (four years ago) link
― k3vin k., Monday, January 13, 2020 10:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Yes 😂
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 05:48 (four years ago) link
I think it's a more effective and nuanced critique of capitalism than Parasite, for example.
what’s the nuanced critique of capitalism in ‘guy has a gambling addiction’?
― flopson, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 06:33 (four years ago) link