Uncut Gems (Safdie Brothers, December 13, 2019) Movie • Page 25

This movie used to run on Comedy Central all the time when I was growing up. Haha. Totally forgot about it. Thank you!

 

A big reveal is not required to deliver a more novel character arc than the ones already given to us in Goodfellas & Casino.

 

oof

 

The Irishmen is quite notably different from those films.

 

Fundamentally, they are all movies centered around a rags to riches story of a dude’s rise to prominence in the world of organized crime but then things start to unravel.

 

Thats the entire genre boiled down to one bullet point and yet theres decades of films with a huge variety of styles and stories and themes and uuuuuuggghhhhhhh

 

Shockingly relevant

 

Not everything is about plot! It’s what you do with and around that plot!!

 

Like no shit Sheeran isn't gonna get away with literal murder forever. But the consequences are so painful for a lifetime of what? Just following orders? A slightly better living than being a delivery man? The last half hour was a gut punch just watching old man Deniro just spend the last years of his life completely and utterly alone and abandoned.

 

Don't get me started on the phone call to Hoffa's wife.

 

The Irishmen notably shows very little of Frank reveling in any “riches” and the film as a whole spends just as much if not more time with Hoffa and the history of the teamsters as it does with the gangsters. They’re interconnected obviously but the distinction is big when comparing to Goodfellas/Casino. Things also don’t really “unravel” for Frank so much as he just...gets old. That itself is a huge departure from the others

 

The hug in the car, the phone call, them in prison, the convo with his daughter, the convo with the nurse where she doesn’t know Hoffa, the convo with the priest, leaving the door open. It’s so good and thats just the last 45!

 

Wow me listing all of that makes me think that it’s probably a “better” film than Goodfellas. Hm

 

Take this shit to the Irishman thread

 

...I think it might be. Need to give it time.

 

Would love to see this edited as a comedy. Like I know there’s funny moments but there were parts were Sandler is yelling about some shit where if you just change the editing and the music and keep his performance it would be exactly like some of his classic comedies.

 

I don’t think Adam Sandler’s performance here is really diff from his comedic roles

 

the convo between keitel and de niro

 

It is what it is.

 

you know who owns a part of it?

no

i do

who?

no, i do. i own the other part. not i know somebody who owns the other part.

 

I hope we get the Uncut Gems prequel about the Dinosaur who first found the Opal and stared at it or whatever Howard was going on about.

 

I want a show with every side character in it

 

This is crazy to me, I stopped thinking about it being Sandler within the first act because I thought his performance was that convincing

 

tomdelonge is purely a shock jock on this website