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Uncut Gems

Started by Head Gardener, December 18, 2019, 07:29:21 PM

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Head Gardener



I wasn't expecting much given his history and the fact I have avoided nearly all his films but I was blown away by this, hey it's Adam Sandler in a really great film shock!
Good supporting cast, Scorsese production, excellent soundtrack and an edge of the seat story, it sailed to my top 3 films of the year, blimey - trailer




amputeeporn

He has form, being brilliant in Punch Drunk Love and very good in The Meyerowitz Stories.

Where can I watch this? I thought it was only out in America. Is it getting a real release or going straight to VOD?

Mister Six

Massively distracted by how much he looks like Al Pacino doing an Ali G impression, but yeah, he was ace in Punch Drunk Love and this is from the same guys as Good Time, so I'm onboard.

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Head Gardener

Quote from: amputeeporn on December 18, 2019, 11:55:05 PM
He has form, being brilliant in Punch Drunk Love and very good in The Meyerowitz Stories.

Where can I watch this? I thought it was only out in America. Is it getting a real release or going straight to VOD?

he does have a lot of shit on his cv, I downloaded an Oscar nom copy at http://www.bitlordsearch.com/search?q=uncut%20gems

Dusty Substance




Can not WAIT for this. Good Time was the second best film of 2017 and this looks to be just as good.

What kind of weird parallel world am I living in where the final chapter of the Star Wars saga leaves me completely disinterested and yet I'm hyped for an Adam Sandler film?


SteK

it's on magnetdl.com now if ya cannae wait!

SteK

Started watching it - well shit so far.....

Twit 2

The trailer makes the film look absolute garbage.

Head Gardener


Chollis

Happy Gilmore still gives Sandler carte blanche as far as I'm concerned. This is getting good reviews, gonna check it out

willy crossit

this was fucking great but very very stressful

OPN score excellent not to mention the stonking hard trance tune out of nowhere over the credits

Quote from: willy crossit on December 21, 2019, 12:23:34 AM
OPN score excellent

I liked the music too, didn't realise it was the guy who did Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1

easytarget

This is an absolutely amazing film. It's made of anxiety and stress and improvised yelling. And that synth soundtrack is fucking brilliant. Go see it.

Video on the Moog channel where Lopatin talks through the synth work of the soundtrack.

https://youtu.be/pIAvmtNIx9I

Sebastian Cobb

Wanted to see this to night but it was sold out. Bastard.

Bence Fekete

The Safdie idiosyncratic style getting better with every film. Sandler clearly loving every second of this. I haven't seen him in much so I wouldn't be so arrogant as to suggest this is his greatest role but this is his greatest role, no question.

If you like movies you'll like this.

Mister Six

It's a good film. Maybe even a very good one. But it's not great, much like Sandler's performance.

Let me clarify "very good" there - it achieves exactly what it sets out to do, which is create the most unbearably tense two hours and 15 minutes possible, in the company of one of the worst humans imaginable. Unfortunately, in practice that means the film and Sandler alike kick off the film in a hysterically overwrought frenzy and remain at that level for almost the entire time, with only two or three brief reprieves before Howie gets back to fucking everything up for himself.

Which is what the directors want, of course, I just don't think it's necessarily enough to make a truly great film. Especially since Howie is such an unlikeable, awful cunt that from about the midpoint on I couldn't really give a flying fuck what happened to him, and the sense of claustrophobic urgency was being generated and carried entirely by the directors' decision to have the camera pushed right up his nose for almost the entire duration. It doesn't matter where Howie is in Manhattan - in the crowded Diamond District, by the skyscrapers of Fifth Ave, or by the noisy clubs of the Meatpacking District, every street looks the same because the view is pulled in tight, tight, tight; all the better to give you the nervous sweats. It's an achievement of technical excellence, but it's a fucking cheat - like realising you can't write a suitably moving ending to your tragedy, so you pump onion fumes through the vents to get the audience sobbing.

Oh, and it totally wastes Lakeith Stanfield.

Like I said - a good film. Technically excellent. But it's not the triumph the critics (and Sandler) want it to be.

(Although I did like that it managed to give Howie the best possible ending he could have hoped for, the stupid fuck.)

Head Gardener

No Oscar nods for best film/actor

Mister Six

That's fine. Although I'd sub this in over Joker for best film.

Bence Fekete

Travesty.

At least in 20 years they'll be awarding the Safdies for their latest tedious offering as compensation for dropping the ball earlier when they were great.

joaquin closet

Quote from: Mister Six on January 13, 2020, 03:46:05 AM
It's a good film. Maybe even a very good one. But it's not great, much like Sandler's performance.

Let me clarify "very good" there - it achieves exactly what it sets out to do, which is create the most unbearably tense two hours and 15 minutes possible, in the company of one of the worst humans imaginable. Unfortunately, in practice that means the film and Sandler alike kick off the film in a hysterically overwrought frenzy and remain at that level for almost the entire time, with only two or three brief reprieves before Howie gets back to fucking everything up for himself.

Which is what the directors want, of course, I just don't think it's necessarily enough to make a truly great film. Especially since Howie is such an unlikeable, awful cunt that from about the midpoint on I couldn't really give a flying fuck what happened to him, and the sense of claustrophobic urgency was being generated and carried entirely by the directors' decision to have the camera pushed right up his nose for almost the entire duration. It doesn't matter where Howie is in Manhattan - in the crowded Diamond District, by the skyscrapers of Fifth Ave, or by the noisy clubs of the Meatpacking District, every street looks the same because the view is pulled in tight, tight, tight; all the better to give you the nervous sweats. It's an achievement of technical excellence, but it's a fucking cheat - like realising you can't write a suitably moving ending to your tragedy, so you pump onion fumes through the vents to get the audience sobbing.

Oh, and it totally wastes Lakeith Stanfield.

Like I said - a good film. Technically excellent. But it's not the triumph the critics (and Sandler) want it to be.

(Although I did like that it managed to give Howie the best possible ending he could have hoped for, the stupid fuck.)

Agree with this entirely, except for Lakeith bit, thought he was used well.

Don't get how people can call this Sandler's best performance when Punch Drunk Love is sitting right there, and contains so much more light and shade. Still wish he'd got the Oscar nom this year though, if only to make up for not getting one for that.

I really loved Good Time, and to me this was just more of the same. Nothing as good as the hospital breakout/aftermath scene or the scene with the black teenage girl from that film. Really hope they do something with a different vibe next.

up_the_hampipe

Can't accept anyone downplaying Sandler's performance in this film. He is truly fantastic, and the Academy not acknowledging him for Best Actor just smacks of resentment for his previous sub-par work. It's one of the most exciting film experiences I've had for a while, it's a shame that there's only a limited cinema release over here before those greedy dicks at Netflix gobble it up. But it'll probably be very immersive and gripping regardless of how you view it. It's funny, stressful, exciting, perturbing and all that. Watch it watch it watch it.

Mister Six

Quote from: joaquin closet on January 14, 2020, 11:42:38 PM
Agree with this entirely, except for Lakeith bit, thought he was used well.

Really? He was great, but that's because he is great. The role itself is really nothingy - all he has to do is glower and complain a bunch.

kittens

just got back from this and fuck me. absolutely exhilarating. immensely pleasurable from start to finish. can't remember the last time i enjoyed a film this much. completely terrific.

up_the_hampipe

Quote from: kittens on January 16, 2020, 11:13:40 PM
just got back from this and fuck me. absolutely exhilarating. immensely pleasurable from start to finish. can't remember the last time i enjoyed a film this much. completely terrific.

Agreed on all of these words.

As mentioned upthread, if you enjoyed UG seek out Good Time https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846232/

If possible watch it before Uncut Gems, it's great too but just a little less frenetic.

sevendaughters

Finally saw this. Novel and stylish thriller but no real meaning. Enjoyed it just fine.

Sebastian Cobb

I liked some of the tracking camera and fading between conversations. Reminded me of Robert Altman.

popcorn

Ace film. Most powerful moment is when Adam Sandler briefly turns into Rob Brydon.