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
lol
I respect clem emptying the clip like that
― 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
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
the gem's powers are real! they have to be. the movie would be meaningless otherwise- it's about capitalism splitting the oppressed up and setting them against each other. Howard puts a price on a priceless object and pays the ultimate price.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
Monkey paw
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
no Oscar nominiees for this. not surprising, but it is yet another example to how worthless the Oscars are in general
― nostormo, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
Keith Richards Williams for Best Goon
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 18:00 (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"
maybe the only thing in common is the yelling becuase Wolf Of.. is a really bad movie. No wonder Scorsese is the producer here, he loves those so called realistic crime/mob movies (he also produced Gomorra for example). I do think it owes more to Cassavetes than anything.
― nostormo, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
Bad news: Sandman gets no love from the Academy.Good news: Sandman can stop wearing suits. Congrats to all my friends who got nominated, especially Mama. pic.twitter.com/o1Ep3E7GRB— Adam Sandler (@AdamSandler) January 13, 2020
― j., Tuesday, 14 January 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link
― flappy bird, Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:44 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
who are the oppressed being split up, the diamond jeweler and nba player? just about every person in the movie is rich. howard leverages bets on bets and (SPOILER) gets killed by a loan shark
i loved the movie, but imo it's just not a nuanced critique of capitalism. at best it slips in a blunt critique of neo-colonialism with the blood diamond stuff
― flopson, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
who are the oppressed being split up
presumably the Ethiopian miners?
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link
I do think it owes more to Cassavetes than anything.― nostormo
Yes, very much so--who is also tough going for me (documented in a Cassavetes thread here somewhere), so it stands to reason I'd feel the same about Uncut Gems.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, January 14, 2020 2:03 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
so the movie is about capitalism splitting up ethiopian miners and setting them against each other? they're only in it for like 5 seconds!
― flopson, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
idk man it wasn't my argument!
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
I have already posted the correct interpretation of this movie for anyone desperate to interpret it as being "about" something
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
haha i like your interpretation
― flopson, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link
It's a (shallow) satire about Capitalism, (comparing the images of the opal to his colonscopy etc). It's a great movie regarsing technique/directing/camera. Besides that, pretty shallow imo
― nostormo, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
it's a movie about wanting to fight the weeknd, and i can relate.
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
"he's gonna be really big, even though he's canadian"
― culture of mayordom (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
BLACK JEWS!
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
an ilxor posted a great review on Letterboxd about this I will find it
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:54 (four years ago) link
a cut gem would have easily identifiable facets but this one's uncut
― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
part of me suspects clem is correct that this wouldn’t hold up to its shouty 70s forebears, and part of the reason we all love it so much is we’ve been starved of gritty urban lowstakes crime thrillers for so long. looking forward to their 48hrs reboot
― flopson, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:07 (four years ago) link
also i am def on team anxiety inducing. i loved it but was itching to scream ‘shut the fuck up!!!’ throughout. 2 people in the group of like 7 that i went to see it with had to leave the theatre before the end
― flopson, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
This was a complete joy to watch and think about later.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:21 (four years ago) link