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

omfg 🤣🤣🤣

Lol the car dialogue would be hell for captioning

The throat punch is so Savatage

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 PTA

now JOSH_BENNY is my best friend

my brain is still stuck on tim heidecker doing a sandler voice and whining "oh nooo, my gems! they're uncut!"

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

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.

friendship ended with PTA

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

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.

grammar Q/complete derail:

Should it be "the actress that plays Sandler's wife" or "the actress who plays Sandler's wife"?

It’s “whomst’d”

:D

the actress that played his wife is Idina Menzel

I wasn't familiar at all but having looked at her wiki it seems like it may be a triumph of (uncanny) casting?

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.

I guess there was the TV movie Beaches

In a film with a lot of very good things going on she really delivered without being showy at all.

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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IpQwq4IJ8A

His character in click was a worse guy

click, more like dick

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

Julia Fox's first acting job! incredible!

same with richards. credit to the directors too, obviously

now I need to read that kalefah profile

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.

same with richards.

amazing, and i spent a lot of the film wondering what i'd seen him in before too.

Your local Italian restaurant with a curtained off back room

can't wait for this to hit Netflix so i can rescreen

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.

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

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

I keep cracking up thinking about the scene where Howard's in the closet texting while getting progressively more giddy

(and horny)

that was so good!

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.

Damn!

https://media.giphy.com/media/QU4ewgcmdcsObx9CG7/giphy.gif

lol

I respect clem emptying the clip like that

I mean it's nice to see some alternate takes ITT

clem's take aligns with most of my friends tbh

Really wonder if the goyim can rly “get” this movie

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).

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”

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.

lol

I respect clem emptying the clip like that

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Yes 😂

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’?

the opal is a priceless, spiritual object. Howard believes in its powers, even if it he wants to make $$$ off of it. but he acquires it through dirty means, and even though he believes in its powers, he doesn't deserve it.

This isn't a straight up gambling addiction movie, there aren't enough of those.