Uncut Gems (2019)
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Adebisi
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The whole This is how I win scene is amazing.
I like the complexity of the role that the gem plays in the film. It's not just the shiny thing that Howard needs to sell to get out of debt. It's this object that KG thinks has power. Howard sees this. He sees how the gem boosts KG's confidence. He knew that once KG had this gem again he would play an fucking amazing game.
Is the gem magical? Is it cursed?
Well you've got KG playing the game of his life and Howard dead with a bullet in his face
Is the gem magical? Is it cursed?
Well you've got KG playing the game of his life and Howard dead with a bullet in his face
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Gask
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This turned out to be another spectacle flick and if I had seen this in the theater I would've walked out. It was like watching a high speed train wreck on loop for 2 hours but the only people on board deserved it and yet it wasn't particularly satisfying. They nailed the characters alright but there wasn't enough besides that for me to like it.
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No movie has ever made me feel the way I did for the first 10 minutes of this one. I felt a weird creeping anxiety that I couldn't shake; like I had way too much caffeine. They way they edited it together, jumping from one quick scene to the next, combined with the score, was incredibly affective. I'll take that over some A-B-C cookie cutter happy ending stuff any day. It's amazing that a film can manipulate you on a physical level that way
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There was no one to give a shit about and it was predictable, that was my issue, not that it didn't leave me with a warm glow afterwards. I liked the beginning but it soon became clear that Sandler was that degenerate throw away character in every mobster movie; there was no possibility of redemption for him and they made this very obvious. Live or die I just couldn't bring myself to care, I've seen this story one too many times and so it wasn't tragic or suspenseful, it just took two hours.
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This seemed like it had potential then ended up being a really stupid movie. Good Time was great and felt like it was within the scope of what the Safdie brothers could accomplish. This was overly ambitious and seemed like a child wrote an adult movie which was beneficial when looking at it from the perspective of a gambling addict but also garnered one dimensional characterization across the board. It was a movie of cardboard cutouts that lacked the ambition to stray from the miniscule amount of experience the brothers had or the research that they did into the setting and business. The entire thing reeks of it just being written around the concept of the triple parlay and thinking that would be clever enough to build a plot around doing twice. I have to wonder if the Safide brothers aren't actually retarded heroin addicts because that seems to be the only thing that they actually know enough about to write a coherent movie. Subpar movie that mars their other works by shining a really bright light on their one-trick-pony storytelling.
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