Uncut Gems (Safdie Brothers, December 13, 2019) Movie • Page 26

the francesca of the site

 

Aw man i didnt mean it as a bad thing

 

Just coming back to this because it felt like an unnecessary personal attack. I don't get wrapped up in movies or shows just to follow the plot, or guess ahead. I can appreciate films for their moments, characters, shooting techniques, imagery, etc. None of that changes the fact that those three Scorsese films share the same backbone.

It's been done by him so much that when a friend asked me how the Irishmen was before he saw it, he said, "was there a main character that starts out small time but then climbs his way up but then realizes it wasn't worth it?"

 

Anyway, RE: Uncut Gems, anyone that I know that's over 50 and has seen this film has hated it due to the sustained sense of unease & stress throughout the film. Sample size is only 5 right now but that feedback has been resounding.

 

Boomers are on the verge of death at all times so I understand not wanting to be stressed.

 

*gets out of the latest Safdie Bros movie*
“Was it about a narcissist in New York who manipulates and uses everyone around them to preserve their own self-interest? Predictable smh”

 

*gets out of Guillermo Del Toro movie*
Was it a fantasy film about how humanity is the real monster? Predictable.

 

I watched it with my parents (my dad is 70 and my mom is 65) - I thought my mom would hate it, she didn't. She said it was nerve wracking, but she thought it was a good story and the tension the filmmakers used helped tell that story. I wasn't sure what my dad would think of it, but I thought he'd at least enjoy seeing Sandler in a serious role, since he always made fun of Sandler when I was younger and getting into him on SNL/Billy Madison. My dad LOVED it. He hasn't stopped talking about it since he watched it.

 

yeeessss

 

Imagining him as Howard and losing my mind
Adam Sandler is so good in Uncut Gems that Daniel Day-Lewis called him to talk about it

 

Fuck this was good

 

Appreciated how funny this was btw

 

I've been in bed all day watching clips of this dumb show but I the first 1:40 of this clip feels like a Safdie Bros movie

 

Have not stopped thinking about this since I saw it. So good, so good.

Went to the movies by myself and it had been a while since I enjoyed a movie so much.

 

Josh and Benny are fantastic on this episode of Chapo, seem like great people

wow, apparently Adam did the entire game scene in real time. Called everything play by play in character for over two hours, incredible

 

Them talking about taking a huge gamble on any NBA player who would be willing to do it but also had a streak of games that fit within the requisite time period but also could even act well enough...shit stressed me out so much. It was like they were living the life of the movie while making it

 

Good Time is coming to Netflix on Feb. 11

 

So Netflix US might get this after all?

 

At least not in February, according to their February release schedule.

 

From what I read it's definitely going to be on Netflix just not on 1/31

 

Swaggy P

 

Actually, I think even Swaggy has some self-awareness. It'd 100% be KD. The direct has to be someone similarly self serious who can't take criticism.

 

Oh god. It's gonna be directed by Todd Philips. Joker 2: Joker v Quiresultan