still mad I skipped seeing good time on a big screen, not gonna make the same mistake with this one
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Monday, 16 December 2019 14:15 (four years ago) link
burying the lead that Kevin Garnett is in it apparently!went to must watch status
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 16 December 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
he's in it *a lot*
― Simon H., Monday, 16 December 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
(role was apparently originally attached to Kobe, Embiid and Amar'e)https://www.si.com/nba/2019/12/12/kevin-garnett-uncut-gems-adam-sandler
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 16 December 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
absolutely UNREAL levels of Tri-State Guy emanating from this interview. incredible. https://t.co/KG5p0RFovc— Max Read (@max_read) December 16, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 16 December 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
he looks like the dumpster woman from mulholland drive
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 16 December 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
otm
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 December 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
This is like a sports movie if the sport was gambling
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
Listening to the soundtrack. It's great but how on earth is this going to work in context?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
It doesn't -- unless you imagine the soundtrack as the aural equivalent of Sander's fried neurons.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
Hm. Well that works in Punch-Drunk Love.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
(role was apparently originally attached to Kobe, Embiid and Amar'e)loved this tidbit from the new yorker piece:
Stoudemire was not cast, partly because he declined to shave his dreadlocks, which he did not have in his playing years.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
dvdscr of this has leaked.
― calzino, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
The use of the music is very striking, it doubles down / gets almost comically louder in scenes where you'd expect it to ease off
― Simon H., Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
kg was great, i wouldve loved to see how kobe wouldve been ~ script wouldve had to change quite a bit
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
I thought this was much better than their last one, and just as much in thrall to the gritty neo-noir aesthetic of Chinese Bookie/Eddie Coyle - which is a good not bad thing imo.
― calzino, Thursday, 19 December 2019 08:01 (four years ago) link
this is the only time I will link to an SNL clip, vintage or otherwise
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/wfpas-monsters-of-monologue-94/2872689
― Simon H., Sunday, 22 December 2019 01:55 (four years ago) link
saw this at 11pm in an empty theater on xmas night, great way to blow off holiday stress.
Didnt like this as much as Good Time just bc GT felt like a bolt from the blue, but thought it was great. Only thing I didnt like was the music, which I thought was extremely bad & ridiculous in all the wrong ways, and actually ruined what should have been a couple of the strongest scenes imo. KGs performance was legit good & much better than I was expecting.
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Thursday, 26 December 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
Saw this in a basically sold-out Christmas evening screening. A couple walkouts and at least one "this is so stressful!"
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 December 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
It has that in common with Little Women.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 December 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
lol, my little women viewing was punctuated by irregular bouts of sniffles/weeping around the theater. people take their fantasies seriously!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 26 December 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
Saw this same day as Star Wars ; both excruciating but this had more cathartic ending and more deft use of CG. Music felt like 70s after-school special scolding, which I guess this was?
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 26 December 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
Kevin Garnett’s force awakening was really done much better in this movie.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 26 December 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
decision to make Rey the granddaughter of Amar'e Stoudemire a major misstep imho
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Thursday, 26 December 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
Julia Fox gonna be everywhere before long.
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 December 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
this was fantastic, upped the walking-a-tightwire-over-the-void tension of good time even further
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 26 December 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
the stressful cacophony of overstimulation, the weird grace of a dirtbag juggling scams. see also killing of a chinese bookie, california split
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 26 December 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
This is like Requiem for a Dream, but with gambling (and but good).
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 27 December 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
Also, love that Eric Bogosian has this role and the completely different Bernie Sanders-type role in Succession in the same year. Thought we had lost him to Law & Order.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 27 December 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
haven't seen Eric B in eons, used to go to all his solo shows in the '80s
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 December 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
Can’t believe Morbz liked a president
― Οὖτις, Friday, 27 December 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
Same here, and watched Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll not long ago. This year seems like the first time in forever that he has memorable roles.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 27 December 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
this film is nuts
― đź’ (crĂĽt), Saturday, 28 December 2019 06:33 (four years ago) link
these guys really know how to convey stress, I’ll say that
― babu frik fan account (mh), Saturday, 28 December 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
the scene where Sandler’s character making a play at putting things back together with his wife and we see his version of a remorseful expression staring into her eyes from her perspective and he just looks like such a goofball, only for her to voice that exact reaction.... perfect
― babu frik fan account (mh), Saturday, 28 December 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
haven't seen Eric B in eons, used to go to all his solo shows in the '80s― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, December 27, 2019 5:10 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglinkCan’t believe Morbz liked a president― Οὖτις, Friday, December 27, 2019 5:18 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, December 27, 2019 5:10 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Οὖτις, Friday, December 27, 2019 5:18 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/10/22/23/5297288-6304711-On_the_phone_At_one_point_Sandler_is_seen_glancing_at_his_phone_-a-95_1540246947677.jpg
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 December 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
Jesus god this movie got my blood pressure up.
Sandler totally nails the gambler's high!
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Saturday, 28 December 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
Also glad for once they did the sports betting part right. OG Bad Lieutenant was infuriating how he kept betting "double or nothing", like even illegal sportsbooks won't do that shit
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Saturday, 28 December 2019 20:09 (four years ago) link
I'll have to take your word for it on the stakes, but holy shit was he making some weird contrived bets
― babu frik fan account (mh), Saturday, 28 December 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
Lol I'm glad that bookie could understand the cunt - I was a betting shop manager for years and didn't have a fucking clue what types of bets he was making!
― calzino, Saturday, 28 December 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
He was doing crazy parlay betting where each of the three events (opening tip, Celts winning straight up, Garnett hitting certain threshold of points plus rebounds) had to all occur or else he would lose the bet.
Opening tip probably the riskiest cos of how random it can be.
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Saturday, 28 December 2019 21:52 (four years ago) link
So is there a porn called Uncut Jims yet— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) December 28, 2019
― I have not yet begun to fart (rip van wanko), Saturday, 28 December 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
Good movie
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 28 December 2019 22:47 (four years ago) link
This was less stressful than the stage play of The Prince and the Pauper I cringed through as a child though.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 28 December 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
Things I noticed about the characterization: Howard never gets high, I don’t think he has a drink and he’s not drunk, only Arnold’s thug has a gun.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 28 December 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
the first parlay he tried & wouldve hit w/ francesa i think wouldve had longer odds than the later one but i can't entirely remember
& i dont care abt this but you cant bet on sports @ mohegan sun in connecticut (currently even, & def not in 2012)
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 28 December 2019 22:53 (four years ago) link
Didn't live up to the hype but came pretty fucking close. The movie had a physical effect on me. Someone I was with left an hour in because they were having heart palpitations. It just NEVER lets up, similar to After Hours in a way, and I find the ending really beautiful in a way. He died at the absolute happiest moment of his life, completely unaware he was about to get shot in the face. He'd be chasing the high of that 4 day (?) run for the rest of his life. And his kids, wife, and mistress are safe (for now). Fucking great movie and a real step up from their previous work, which was very good. Altman comparisons are completely earned, unlike PTA. This really did feel like a 2019 Altman movie, made by two people culturally incisive and conveying a specific milieu of the American underground. Deeply unpleasant to watch but stunning all the same.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 28 December 2019 23:20 (four years ago) link
What scenes did you find unpleasant? I was grinning constantly.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 28 December 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
Howard Ratner is Tevye for our new dumb century
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Saturday, 28 December 2019 23:29 (four years ago) link
Um, EVERYTHING. An enormously stressful movie that builds tension so gradually that by an hour in you realize you're fidgeting and cheering for points Garnett scored and I mean the ENTIRE movie is building up to him getting shot in the head at the absolute happiest he will ever be. It's a masterpiece of pacing.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 28 December 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
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.
― TĹŤne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Monday, 27 July 2020 13:53 (three years ago) link
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
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 27 July 2020 14:03 (three years ago) link
KG was great as a just very slightly alternate universe version of himself
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 27 July 2020 14:04 (three years ago) link
I didn't even realize that was Judd Hirsch until I just googled btw, another great one
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 27 July 2020 14:05 (three years ago) link
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
― k3vin k., Monday, 27 July 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
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
― k3vin k., Monday, 27 July 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
still can't believe the main goon was a first time actor
― frogbs, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 03:47 (three years ago) link
At a certain level of abstraction this was them making Good Time again but better.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 03:51 (three years ago) link
yup
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 03:55 (three years ago) link
Much better than Good Time because it's a more fully realized film. I rewatched it today, and definitely holds up.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 04:20 (three years ago) link
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!"
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 04:21 (three years ago) link
The manic pace of the first act is really something, it actually kind of slows down slightly after that.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 04:22 (three years ago) link
The moment when he first shows the gem to KG really moved me this time.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 04:27 (three years ago) link
I could happily watch this a couple times a year for....a while
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 04:40 (three years ago) link
yeah same
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 28 July 2020 04:41 (three years ago) link
It def occurs to me that I want to watch this again, less so with Good Time
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 04:44 (three years ago) link
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.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Monday, 17 August 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
That first sentence is missing a conjunction somewhere, but hopefully you know what I mean.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Monday, 17 August 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
definitely see GOOD TIME
― k3vin k., Monday, 17 August 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
RIP
RIP MARSHALL GREENBERG you were loved. pic.twitter.com/I1uQ1YOxMY— Elara (@ElaraPictures) February 17, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 February 2021 00:18 (three years ago) link
Aw :(
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 February 2021 00:20 (three years ago) link
Greatest actor of all time
― Canon in Deez (silby), Thursday, 18 February 2021 00:40 (three years ago) link
Taking vigs from beyond
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 February 2021 00:43 (three years ago) link
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/benny-safdie-solo-the-curse-smashing-machine-1235859184/
― calstars, Friday, 5 January 2024 15:37 (four months ago) link
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)
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 January 2024 00:06 (three months ago) link
Nathan For You
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Thursday, 18 January 2024 00:09 (three months ago) link
oh ok! thanksrelated 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.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 January 2024 00:11 (three months ago) link
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?
― pplains, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 03:10 (one month ago) link
yes, that's what they're telling you
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 03:14 (one month ago) link