Why did the 2019 movie Uncut Gems resonate so much with left twitter and chapo? I remember everyone losing their shit when that came out.
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Movie set in NYC directed by people from NYC, podcast started in NYC by people who live in NYC.
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Safdies had previously been indie favorites with Good Time.
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Adam Sandler in a serious role was covered on the pod with their Reign Over Me review
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Movie had the right aesthetics for the time. Kind a grimey, neon, popular music. Sandler is a dirtbag character.
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Relief that a movie came out that wasn't capeshit
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A24 (The Witch, The Lighthouse, Hereditary, It Comes At Night, Midsommar, Moonlight, Green Room, Mid-90s, The Florida Project) usually gets some good praise among internet film buffs. They're kind of like an accessible way into film appreciation. Not quite low-brow popcorn flicks but not exactly high-film either. There's a whole culture around it that goes nuts around releases. It's a film twitter thing. A lot of overlap between filmtwit and lefttwit.
Also, just being stressed the fuck out for a whole movie is kind of a rare genre trope. Had some unique feels going for it
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I don't care what anyone says, you can't convince me to watch an Adam Sandler film. I've seen two crud films of his and an untold amount of cringy trailers.
It's before my time but the era of SNL that spat out Sandler, Schneider, and Spade just makes you wonder how such unfunny, uncharismatic doofuses kept making money for 30 years.
Like the RLM guys say, there are "Adam Sandler Movies" (i.e. Click, Billy Madison, Anger Management, Happy Gilmore) and then there are movies made by other people who utilize Sandler in a role that suits him (i.e. Uncut Gems, Punch Drunk Love, Spanglish).
That said, I tried watching Uncut Gems and I couldn't endure the intensely mumbly dialogue.
Spanglish was a very meh movie. I liked it but I wouldn't go out of my way to watch it again ever.
Adam Sandler gets way too much credit for playing a normal person instead of an Adam Sandler character.
He is good in Uncut Gems though. And I haven't seen meyerowitz stories yet but I heard it's decent.
It’s before my time but the era of SNL that spat out Sandler, Schneider, and Spade just makes you wonder how such unfunny, uncharismatic doofuses kept making money for 30 years.
Some of the genuinely funny ones like Chris Farley and Phil Hartman died. :/
because it's a good movie? why are you all acting like there's some secret reason or agenda? It's just a taught, well shot, frenetic thriller, featuring a memorable and tragically flawed main character, with memorable scenes. Turns out people like movies that are good, folks.
you can describe that to many films released that year. the question is why Uncut Gems spread at a high speed internet and what does that reflect on the larger left cultural discourse around that time
Joker, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Parasite, The Irishmen etc.
The point is that its just a list of descriptions that can be applied anywhere, it does not tell us about the film or what it ideologically represents.
okay but like two of those had as if not more influence on the online left compared to uncut gems :joker-troll: :proletariat:
I don't know, I finally watched it and was like "this? this was what they liked?"
Agreed. I hear a lot about how it gets the audience to feel the stress that Sandler's character is going through, but I hated the main character and didn't care what happened to him.
Lot of people feel like they are living in a house cards that's gonna fall apart at any moment (society at large can feel like this), which was the situation of Sandler's character.
Feel like it resonated with the film bro scene in general not just leftists. It’s good.
I didn't know Kevin Garnett was a real basketball player until after I watched the movie
