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
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.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 06:52 (four years ago) link
This isn't a straight up gambling addiction movie, there aren't enough of those.
C’mon this is a movie about the struggle of the Jewish people to survive in a world that hates them
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 07:47 (four years ago) link
idk that howard believes the opal has supernatural powers, but he does observe that kg believes in it
i thought u were gonna say something about kg grilling him about making a profit off the opal. but tbh that scene felt kinda tacked on to me
― flopson, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 07:52 (four years ago) link
It's a movie about the perils of wearing ugly glasses.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 10:59 (four years ago) link
this is a movie about the 2008 global financial crisis
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 11:04 (four years ago) link
bingo
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 11:50 (four years ago) link
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, January 13, 2020 11:54 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Otm
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
will watching this movie induce a panic attack y/n
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link
I really want to see it but all the talk about how anxiety-inducing it is has me wary
― may the force leave us alone (zchyrs), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 13:41 (four years ago) link
For me it was an adrenaline rush, not anxiety so much.
― 💠 (crüt), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 13:47 (four years ago) link
also, i want to know the safdie backstory to the casting of the robert evans as a gambler tribute character. https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/uncut-gems-handsome-older-man-wayne-diamond-new-legacy
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
the instagram linked from that piece is incredible: https://www.instagram.com/thewaynediamond/?igshid=118y0dki6rycx
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
references to the film's anxiety inducing capacities are greatly exaggerated. it's more of a thrill ride.
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 14:12 (four years ago) link
xxpost Thanks for linking that--I assumed the character was a washed-up 70s rock star, with ample royalties and zero critical credibility.
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 14:23 (four years ago) link
That dude was not acting at all. If anything he was toning it down
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
And Wayne Diamond totally could have designed Dinah's vintage bat mitzvah dress. An aging garmento backstory fits the character.
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
HUNT: Anything aside from Uncut Gems stand out as an experience in your life post-retirement? DIAMOND: I don’t want to do anything that has to do with money. Nothing. You don’t bring out the best of yourself. I want to do things that are creative. The art world, I like. I wanna have a good fuckin’ time. I wanna laugh, I wanna drink, I wanna be with people. Happy people, not assholes. We got too many assholes. New York not so much, but in America, we got that scumbag in the White House. When he’s gone, the world will be a better place.
DIAMOND: I don’t want to do anything that has to do with money. Nothing. You don’t bring out the best of yourself. I want to do things that are creative. The art world, I like. I wanna have a good fuckin’ time. I wanna laugh, I wanna drink, I wanna be with people. Happy people, not assholes. We got too many assholes. New York not so much, but in America, we got that scumbag in the White House. When he’s gone, the world will be a better place.
This guy sounds like fun
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link
i don't disagree with anything in that paragraph!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
so popular here they’ve moved it from the second screen to the largest screen at the local independent. that’s a lot of nights ruined
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