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SO...was I supposed to feel exhausted and, frustrated after watching this?

Was it the point of the movie makers, to make the audience feel the stress-filled, frustration roller-coaster that Howard's family and associates have when they're around him?

I knew a guy like Howard in college, he was the student-bookie who was horrible at it, truly a schmuck who tried to act like a manic stock-trader. Sandler embodied that stereotype.
 
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A lot of agita watching that movie.




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I actually really liked it. I agree it fills the viewer with anxiety but even though anxiety isn’t a great feeling I was impressed at how well the movie made me experience an emotion. Movies don’t tend to do that to me.

The only thing that pissed me off was that I rented it on Amazon on Memorial Day, which just so happens to be the exact day that it got released on Netflix. I’ll never rent a movie again without looking online to find out what is being released soon on Netflix. Which I should have been doing already.

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I thought it was ok. I had captions on and think maybe that reduced the potential frustration. It helped me feel a little more removed, which was probably a good thing.

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Agree with what everyone has said about movie and to add that I was a bit surprised about the ending.
Enjoyed it though.
 
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The same directors did ‘Good Time’ and that is a phenomenal film. Uncut Gems was just not nearly as good.



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Remarkably abrasive and manic, pretty much disagreeable characters top to bottom. Still, the film did what it set out to do well, I'm guessing a perfect ending.




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Spent $3.00 on this last December. I think I fell asleep.
 
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I started watching it on Netflix last week and turned it off half way through I thought it was so bad.
 
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I started watching it on Netflix last week and turned it off half way through I thought it was so bad.


I think I made it about quarter of the way through. Was absolutely terrible.
 
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IMHO skip this.

Holy shit I don't know the last time I saw a movie so poorly edited. Not to mention predicated on someone being such an extraordinary moron that it makes you more frustrated than intrigued. WTaF?

Did find one mention of movie in another thread:

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Originally posted by Keystoner:
quote:
Originally posted by Edmond:
Adam Sandler.

Give 'Uncut Gems' a chance.


I think Keystoner must have been high when he wrote this, or I'm just a movie-idiot. Could be both of course.

IMDB gives it 7.5 stars. 100% of that must be from the ass-shot mid movie because that's the only thing I remember without wincing.

{almost a strong enough opinion to make me put in WYD section!}

w/r/t the ending, I suspect there was film left on the floor. If you didn't notice (trying to avoid spoilers but Jesus after reading this and above who would watch it?) near the very end while the Russian grabbed his just-previous boss to settle some things the screwdriver fell out of the electronic door lock and they zoomed in on that. I suspect that ended up with them "fishbowled" again on the way out, with or without the keys.



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I think Keystoner must have been high when he wrote this, or I'm just a movie-idiot. Could be both of course.

Perhaps.
 
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I think Keystoner must have been high when he wrote this, or I'm just a movie-idiot. Could be both of course.

Perhaps.

Let me get this straight: It's either one or the other or both, meaning not neither. Well, I wasn't high, so... Wink



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Let me get this straight: It's either one or the other or both, meaning not neither. Well, I wasn't high, so...


D'OH! My Basic Reasoning professor wouldn't be impressed with the box I maneuvered myself into!



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Terrible film. My wife and I both walked out, disgusted.
 
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I think I watched about 15 minutes of it a few weekends ago.
 
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