He died happy. In the immediate afterglow of the biggest gambling win of his life. The final shot of him lying dead, with a smile on his face. Can’t get it out of my head.
Marc Belford it hit me different it kind of disturbed me that his path was cut short and he was about to finally be worry free of being killed and then it happened
Travis Richardson lol I’m picturing the freeze frame ending of Seinfeld happening right as Howard opens the door and the credits rolling with the baseline. That would’ve been hilarious.
There's one joke that made me laugh. No one else laughed lol. Its during the kitchen scene where he ask if his wife making "BBQ Chicken". That's a line that Shaq says all the time on Inside the NBA on TNT. If you know then you know lol
I loved how you could literally FEEL all the stress that Howard had throughout the movie. Like, the tension you feel is constant and you cant help but feel bad for Howard in some situations, but at the same time you KNOW he did it to himself. I just watched it about an hour ago and I'm still getting over that final scene... just wow. I gotta say, I'm genuinely impressed with this movie. Way better than I thought it would be
He had to die sadly. This was too euphoric for him to not try again. He was an addict and the dangers he was facing would have gotten worse and worse the next time he would try to get this high again. As people pointed out. He at least died happy.
This exactly. Over and over they show you that money doesn't stay in his hand longer than an hour but they still trick you into thinking that since his win was so big he had solved everything, just like Howard was probably telling himself after every win.
Alchemist1330 me too! Sports make my eyes glaze over immediately, but I was so totally engaged during the climax. I think the key is showing the game through the eyes of 4 characters who don’t understand the game AT ALL and two people who are deeply invested and spend the whole time explaining what’s happening. Plus, the stakes of the game are crystal clear.
Trey Curet comedic actor turning into a serious role. and also they both face a non drug addiction, for howard its a gabbling addictive, and for walter its an addiction to being the bad-ass alter ego drug lord. both deep down have good morals, but the high of doing something bad and risking it all overtakes their mind. in a way, Howard himself is an uncut gem, on the outside hes rough and meaningless, but with close examination and digging deep, you can find the gem of a man he could have been.
Howard did not see it coming at all either, this is a guy who slapped Phil and said "listen, ya goon!" and when he locked them in the box, he told him to stfu lmao. really goes to show how in-the-bubble he was
Anybody else think Kevin Garnett's last name is strangely perfect for this movie? A garnet is a deep red precious stone: symbolic of this film's marriage of violence and greed. Howard wants Kevin to be just like him so bad: to think that his addiction is really any more the same as not settling for less than Garnett playing his best in game 7 when it's really an unquenchable, incalculable existential void -- the unattainable perfect win. A garnet is much like what Howard's fatal wound at the end of the film ends up looking like: a red precious gem. To me the film plays around with cosmic bullshit and coincidence: luck and circumstance and the chaos of existence as the only true governing force in Howard's life, everything else amounting to hollow shells. The end of the film cements his irredeemable essence: it was never about paying a debt, but sending a message. It's a Death of a Salesman-like spirit: we see a character condemned to death, a failed afterimage of a man, grasping in futility for his faded potential.
EdFrankBlack I think Howard successfully convinces Garnett though. In their last scene together, Kevin really takes Howard’s speech to heart and (from my interpretation) seems to agree with his stance on numbers being bullshit. They are the only two characters to ever physically handle the stone (all others carry it in some box, excluding the miners). The stone itself I thought represented controlling the universe, KG sees the stone as him having the universe in the palm of his hand. A lot of the movie sees Howard tailspin when he loses the rock. At the end, when the sale has finally been made, control is taken from Howard to KG. When KG possesses the opal, he wins game 7 against the odds. When Howard loses the stone, he is shown the chaos of the world first hand and is killed despite his victory.
The first slap Adam took in the movie made me think “yeah that was for Jack & Jill” then after the second assault I was willing to watch anything for his safety. 10/10
I didn't used to think it, but I'm beginning to think that depending on the record of the actor and how pleased Hollywood or critics are of them, there will be subliminal mistreatment in subsequent films in the script. Like that scene in Once Upon Hollywood with Al Pacino, he says if you keep up a certain appearance you'll be casted on that basis in the future.
I said the same exact thing regarding the anxiety that's the only word that I had in my head and I thought about it like wow that movie was a rush but in a good way. And I had a smile on my face when he got killed it felt like he can rest now for some reason. And him just trusting opening that door and everything was going to be alright was a little wild as well.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who felt stressed and anxious while watching this! Then ending really caught me off guard, made me feel kinda sick at how sudden and unexpected it was. Anyone else?
I still can’t un-clench my jaw from this damn movie. And it’s funny you mentioned audience grunts. I did that the WHOLE movie. The filmmakers were good in that they knew how much tension they were building. I can remember twice that they released the tension in the film, and each time, they followed that glorious release with some seriously jacked up sh*t. Lol
The guy who played Arno was soooo good! You could see his contemplation and his disappointment in Adam Sandler’s character. You could see that he WANTED Howard to succeed and to be telling the truth. You could see that in his face and it was dope.
Okay not to creep anyone out but ... I'm really into hiphop like REALLY into hiphop but I remember hearing about a well known jeweler that got killed in NYC that used to hook rappers up. I kinda suspected this was based off a true story.
SanjiMakesEdibles they would’ve written the movie around Kobe obviously, they’d just use a series of games where he plays on the road in NYC & around NYC, Amar'e Stoudemire was written into the script for years all the way up until KG got the role, it seems like a big change but it’s simply choosing a series of good&bad games from a players career and writing around it
SanjiMakesEdibles yea just watched the interview for a 2nd time, Josh even mentions Kobe’s 60 point game @ madison square garden is the specific time-frame they picked, & anytime
I watched Good Times to check out The Safdie Bros. And thought it was good nothing amazing but I Loved the pacing of the movie & I agree Uncut Gems was better than Good Times and I personally loved the ending. And yes Adam had a great performance but can we agree the non-actors killed they’re fucking roles!
ultimately the story of howie is a tragedy, it was always going to end that way. i thought he would lose the bet and end it himself and was genuinely shocked at how it happened but that just made it so much better.
He has another channel and when i saw him i was thinking that he sounded exactly like the guy from let me explain haha now i see this video and it turns out that it was him all along haha
I love how the movie starts with him already having made a shitload of horrible decisions that come back to bite him in the film. The whole movie is about how he maintains the illusion of control he feels in his gambling, but even it cracks in the third act. Everything in this movie is about chance and the illusion. We start the film thinking about his exam and thinking he'll have cancer. It's even initially set up to be that the impending cancer is what they need to tell the kids about, but then it's the affair/impending divorce. His test actually comes back negative for cancer. It's set up to look like he's successful at what he does, but then the poor choices he's made before the start of the film rear their ugly heads, revealing his situation is way worse than we initially thought. We see him get his ass kicked the entire movie, and even see him break down in the office, but then we see a glimpse of his true self the second he gets a glimmer of hope: This insane piece of shit isn't a woe is me broken down loser, he is a delusional fuck who honestly believes he's still got control of the situation. He is so submersed in gambling, that he actually believes he controls his gambles like KG controls his on court performance. His health is a gamble. The opal's price is a gamble. Pushing the bids on the under priced stone is a gamble. His relationship ultimatums with Julie are a gamble. His attempt to get his wife back is a gamble. The bets are, obviously, gambles. Trapping them in the bullet proof glass was a gamble. Letting them out on his side and assuming they'd be appeased by his winning bet was a gamble. Also, every single time he wins a bet, it goes poorly. He won the first major bet, and Arno canceled the bet. He won the second bet, and caught a slug to the face. Even the death is the opposite of what you're lead to expect, he gets Murray'd, and it's not even played as tragic, because he's actually happiest in the moment of his death. Everything comes together so damn well, nothing is what it seems or goes the way it "should."
Loved this episode and just saw the flick again today. Maybe a dumb question and something everyone else picked up on, but... Howard owed Arno $100,000... Howard paid $100,000 for the opal... Is this the same $100,000? Did Arno and Howard essentially both set their own fates with this deal?
I'm just wondering if the 100k that Arno loaned to Howard paid for the opal. Like. Arno is a partly responsible for his own death by loaning Howard the 100k.
Having Trinidad James and Ca$h Out in this movie was super accurate to 2012 as both released popular singles around the time, and The Weeknd gaining buzz and not having the star power he has today is just amazing attention to detail
Being in this era in high school 2012 they did a amazing job with the timeline of what was going on in that era. The music choices of what was hot at the time and including Trinidad james to the weekend barley on the come up of his career snorting coke in the bathroom which he has been open about in his songs. I also agree too about julia having that yez julz feel to her being a white chick with a phatass that was finding her way into the industry and using it to her advantage based on her looks. This movie nails it and the fact that it shows how the industry really is. Howard is a representation of how shark tank the industry is on people that promise you everything but can't deliver only for their own selfish agenda. At one point he asks himself why everything in his life is going bad but fails to realize how many people he has burned, but at the same time how many people in his circle that were actually loyal to him. Howard was his worst enemy and there was no other way to end his madness without his death because he was ruining peoples lives around him and built his own grave by everything he reaped.
That “altered timeline/reality” thing the movie has going on reminds me a lot of Atlanta written by Donald Glover, in Atlanta it’s supposed to take place in the present and in the real world but some things are changed like how in that timeline justin bieber is black, invisible cars are a thing and aren’t a big deal, and drake is hispanic. Both Uncut Gems and Atlanta have Lakeith Stanfield in them too!!
As an NBA and a 76ers fan. In real life the Celts with the big 4 at home in game 7 was a lock especially on the moneyline. In the movie K.G over 26 pts and rebs with the gem in hand... absolute lock! BUT Celts to win the tip-off was virtually a coin toss and the parlay could have been dead before it started😂😂. I think he had a hunch K.G would come out hungry from the start so that gave him the hunch on the tip-off. Either that or the comments he made about the refs before the game started to his brother-in-law made him think the ref doing the tip-off would throw the ball in favor of the Celts from the very start of the game through the tip-off. Bottom line: He had more balls than brains for sure! Personally I loved the movie but hated the ending.☹️
Does anyone know the deal with Julia? What was her relationship with The Weeknd, from the beginning photos on her camera to the show? She mentioned that Howard messed things up for her after he finds them together...
When she gets home and Howard is hiding in the closet, she has two giant bags of -what appears to be - cocaine. She was also doing coke in the bathroom with Weeknd. Weeknd is also a famously hedonistic drug user. But this is set in 2012, BEFORE Weeknd hit it big in the mainstream. So being his cocaine hook in NYC would indeed be a big score for Julia.
'The entire row of old people left' My guess would be because of the f-bombs. Every other word was an f-bomb. I don't care about profanity, but it started to get to be too much imo. That's my biggest knock on the movie. I loved the movie and I never thought I'd knock on a movie for profanity.
I thought the same thing and I don't mind cursing at all. I also didn't understand why it had to have so much unneeded content stretching out the movie longer than it needed to be. For example him walking out the Garbage or the long walk away his gf had after he left her in the cab.🤔
Good video earned my subscription. Familiar with Amanda and her reaction videos that's why I stopped and watched. Keep up the good work. And I love this movie as much as you guys. Sandler is the best performance of the year.
I think the only part I didn’t like is that Arno also got killed at the end he was the boss? Why did they choose that for his story he was shown as the strongest and cold but still tryna give his family member a chance but at the end when it all went bad he look so little and frail and I know he never did dirty work but still he knew what his guys where about
MrGMovieReviews I got the impression he was lying. Probably doubling the true number. I was also utterly terrified that he was gonna blow the sale with his babbling.
tone1245 oh shit! I think you just unlocked a whole other level to the movie. Did Sandler’s character borrow the 100k to buy the Opal in the first place? That’s crazy. That makes so much sense...
emmanuel taye Vince Vaughn has been acceptable at best in everything I’ve seen him in 😂 but then again I would have said the same for Sandler so what do I know
Vince would’ve been too intimidating, his role in cell block 99 convinced me of that. Howard was a completely ratty person who couldn’t strongarm his way out of anything. He has to weasel his way out. Vince would’ve been too large of a person to be pushed around like Sandler.
Crazy thing is that even though he has a gambeling addiction, he was actually good at it. All his bets was winners. Lol the people around him was his downfall.
Just saw it...it was good but could have been a little shorter imo...tbh I didnt want his character to win at the end he wasnt a sympathetic character to me at least but Sandler gave a great performance, specifically the scenes with the weeknd I felt didnt add too much but oh well they made the movie they wanted to make and I respect that
Hitchcock was phenomenal for his time. But honestly in this modern era, his visuals have been outdone, his storytelling has been outdone. Like Citizen Kane is suppose to be the "holy of holies" and its meh. However Us and Get Out are tremendous milestones for modern cinema, it transcends the curse of "Black movies", they are so well executed they contend and beat the upper echelon films.
Here’s what I don’t understand about young people reviewing movies. They claim to be in a “spoiler-free” segment of their review but still give away spoilers. Hell, you gave away more spoilers before your “spoiler” section than during. Every kid does this. Must be inexperience and immaturity.
Yeah yeah the movie was great and the ending blew me away - no pun intended - but my god did you see Julia fox? I thought I was jealous of Sandler because of all the dime pieces he gets to “be with” in his movies, but boy she takes the cake man.. she is gorgeous and unbelievably sexy all at the same time 😬
*Great Film Analysis and review!* *MY FILM REVIEW* -Sandler plays a dirty scum bag in this VERY anxiety enducing thriller. -This youtuber makes it sound more interesting than it is. -Go see it if you like to waste your time and get mind f*cked with a lot of bad influencing and subliminal messaging. -This film did a great job of making the most profit possible on a minimal budget film.
Made the mistake of trying to watch that trash on Netflix. No lie, the movie gave me a massive headache. I get it, directors meant to make it an anxiety ridden narrative & sh*t but they went overboard. The soundtrack to the movie made it worse. I never want to hear Adam Sandler scream or talk for that matter for the rest of my life. Horrible movie.
I just walked out of the theater less than an hour ago. I’m gunna be honest... I think the Safdie Bros just isn’t got me. I found Uncut Gems & Good Time to be just okay and isn’t one I will think about the next morning. Don’t know what it is, by something about their films don’t click with me. Adam Sandler was great in the role and deserves to be in that Top 5 Lead Actors of 2019. With that said, I didn’t like sandlers character.
HATED this movie with every fiber of my being, I shredded the screener.... not a single redeeming character , choice or situation in the entire film.... if you like scumbags yelling for 2 hours and want to punch everyone in the film in the face... then fine goal achieved... not for me. If you have a friend with a gambling addiction and want to show them where their life could go.... then excellent.... lock them in a room with it, because they will rethink their life as NO ONE in this film makes good choices... just barf... why would anyone subject themselves to this by choice?
I'm honestly super surprised how many people love this movie. And it's not even about the "anxiety" for why I dislike it, because I love good tension building and anxiety inducing scenes. The film is just an overall mess. The energy peaked in the first 5 minutes and rest couldn't keep up. It just turned into this one up game of how fucked can we make this character's life. Same reason why I didn't enjoy A Simple Man or Inside Llewyn Davis. Movies that rely on just dumping on their main characters is a terrible concept. Stranger Things music didn't make sense either. Spacey synth music doesn't create tension, it's pleasingly euphoric. Maybe it's an ironic juxtaposition that the directors felt would create unease, or maybe they should get off the trend of using 80s music (which has been over done since DRIVE!!!). These guys definitely have their own style, and I am going to watch Good Time (even though lots of people are claiming Uncut Gems is better, so I don't have a lot of hope), but I think they just need to figure out their energy and pacing a bit. ps. Adam Sandler's best acting was done in Punch-Drunk Love. Just accept it.
For me, Sandler's performance was annoying and exhaustive. I couldn't wait and walked out of the finale. Sorry, but I could care less about his character.
Uncut Gems is a complete rip off of abel ferrara's bad lieutenant, insert a jewish jewler & basketball & compulsive gambler, for a bad catholic cop who is a compulsive gambler, the directors writer copied abel ferrara's plot & character, & mixed it with george segal from the hot rock & california split. Obviously the rich kid filmmakers saw a lot of films growing up & thought nobody would notice. It's the most unoriginal pale imitation of a script, yeah there are copyright & plagiarist laws against their style. At least Bad Lieutenant was a morality tale, a realistic journey of the soul, it had a gritty realistic plot, & a point, about redemption...where as Uncut Gems was a pointless comedic pointless film. About what exactly, what was the point here?? It made zero sense that this stupid schmuck Howard would own a business in the diamond district in the first place, & using a hustler who sells fake rolex watches out of Howards diamond business, bringing in NBA players to buy what? a smuggled illegal Opal from a mine in Africa worth a million dollars he saw on the history channel??? not for sale but up for auction ? it's illegal & in reality no auction house would openly sell it, but Howard lets a basketball player take it without security?...nothing in the ridiculous convoluted plot makes any sense, it's illogical & unbelievable, I didn't buy one minute of this story, I don't find talking over each others like fools cinematic tension. Really a loan shark would warn you over & over whilst taking your bets than put you naked in a car trunk?? on what planet?? reality loan shark would kill you straightaway in that trunk, movie over... they don't mess around like loud mouth comedians, this plot has more holes than swiss cheese. It's Bad Lieutenant meets the Hot Rock meets California Split, that's the log line here... Wearing bad overbite false top teeth acting like a stupid schmuck is not acting, it's a parody mocking self hating jews, SNL skit, shame on the filmmakers, didn't like this film especially the lack of originality, saw it all before done better... Wish Hollywood had some originality, should have done a straight up remake it would be more honest.
king johnny Dunno about the plot thing because I have not seen bad lieutenant (gonna watch it now though). But I just took all those things you point out as a part of the character’s ridiculous bad decisions.. and about the loanshark, I guess the guy was not as ruthless because they were family? But yeah dunno, still conflicted about this movie
He died happy. In the immediate afterglow of the biggest gambling win of his life. The final shot of him lying dead, with a smile on his face. Can’t get it out of my head.
Marc Belford and the movement through the bullet hole into the eye of god. Phantasmagoric and beautiful.
I know that last scene hit hard
Man I’m pissed but good movie tho
Marc Belford it hit me different it kind of disturbed me that his path was cut short and he was about to finally be worry free of being killed and then it happened
Marc Belford was that a smile ? To me at least it just seemed like it was accepted
Uncut Gems - Most stressful episode of Seinfeld ever. So good tho!
Travis Richardson lol I’m picturing the freeze frame ending of Seinfeld happening right as Howard opens the door and the credits rolling with the baseline. That would’ve been hilarious.
@@GeebleTron I blame Kramer for all of it!
50 years ago we'd have you upside down with a fucking fork up your ass
There's one joke that made me laugh. No one else laughed lol. Its during the kitchen scene where he ask if his wife making "BBQ Chicken". That's a line that Shaq says all the time on Inside the NBA on TNT. If you know then you know lol
Bbq chicken alert
I thought I was the only one who realized that lol
It was his signature phrase when he would post people up and dunk on them
I loved how you could literally FEEL all the stress that Howard had throughout the movie. Like, the tension you feel is constant and you cant help but feel bad for Howard in some situations, but at the same time you KNOW he did it to himself. I just watched it about an hour ago and I'm still getting over that final scene... just wow. I gotta say, I'm genuinely impressed with this movie. Way better than I thought it would be
SPOILER: Literally everything went wrong for Howard and at the end they make you think he finally won and no lol
fr and I was rooting for him too lol
Couldn’t have been written better though. The people who mattered (his family) won.
@@theoschommer3530 ya it is the perfect ending
@@theoschommer3530 idk about that Julia has all the money she placed the bet lol.
Joshua Young the family doesn’t need the money. They need Howard out of their lives.
BTW I totally think that Howard wasn't gonna stop betting that night if they let him live
He had to die sadly. This was too euphoric for him to not try again. He was an addict and the dangers he was facing would have gotten worse and worse the next time he would try to get this high again. As people pointed out. He at least died happy.
He would have been right back in the same position two weeks later.
This exactly. Over and over they show you that money doesn't stay in his hand longer than an hour but they still trick you into thinking that since his win was so big he had solved everything, just like Howard was probably telling himself after every win.
I was yelling at my tv “dont buzz them in” after the Celtics won
THIS IS HOW HE loses
😥
How’d you watch it on your tv?
throw away shhhhhh. lol
@@christophercarter2748 it's on 123movies and other online streaming sites already so they probably just pulled it up and mirrored it on the TV
23:24 "This is like 2 hours and 15 minutes of Scott's Tots-" This. This is literally the most accurate description of this film.👌
I GENUINELY thought that at one point in the film, I was like "this has PURE Michael Scott energy"
I don’t watch sports have never watched it. I was on the edge of my seat praying that they Celtics would win. I was actually caring about sports.
Same! I was rooting for that loser and then the endingggg😭🤣
Alchemist1330 me too! Sports make my eyes glaze over immediately, but I was so totally engaged during the climax. I think the key is showing the game through the eyes of 4 characters who don’t understand the game AT ALL and two people who are deeply invested and spend the whole time explaining what’s happening. Plus, the stakes of the game are crystal clear.
SAME!
Literally was saying this right as we left the theater!!!
Same!
Safdie brothers: masters of regenerating actors status in ACTING by providing the best plot to let them shine
Thanks again for having me!
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Adam Sandler’s role reminded me of Walter white in breaking bad 👀👀
I was thinking the whole time, this movie gives me breaking bad vibes. Know wonder the movies so good
It's the goatee man
Trey Curet comedic actor turning into a serious role. and also they both face a non drug addiction, for howard its a gabbling addictive, and for walter its an addiction to being the bad-ass alter ego drug lord. both deep down have good morals, but the high of doing something bad and risking it all overtakes their mind. in a way, Howard himself is an uncut gem, on the outside hes rough and meaningless, but with close examination and digging deep, you can find the gem of a man he could have been.
@@aylo.mp3 Amen
I hated Howard's decisions but I still just wanted him to win.
How can you not see that ending coming? The realism was to vivid to think it would be a happy ending.
i 100% saw it coming and yet it still shocked me when it happened
The look at arnos face when the celtics won..had a slight feelig mightve been a happy ending...until howard opened the door ...
@@johnkim1351 I knew what was going down before the door opened. He was dead the moment he locked them inside
Howard did not see it coming at all either, this is a guy who slapped Phil and said "listen, ya goon!" and when he locked them in the box, he told him to stfu lmao. really goes to show how in-the-bubble he was
Anybody else think Kevin Garnett's last name is strangely perfect for this movie? A garnet is a deep red precious stone: symbolic of this film's marriage of violence and greed. Howard wants Kevin to be just like him so bad: to think that his addiction is really any more the same as not settling for less than Garnett playing his best in game 7 when it's really an unquenchable, incalculable existential void -- the unattainable perfect win. A garnet is much like what Howard's fatal wound at the end of the film ends up looking like: a red precious gem. To me the film plays around with cosmic bullshit and coincidence: luck and circumstance and the chaos of existence as the only true governing force in Howard's life, everything else amounting to hollow shells. The end of the film cements his irredeemable essence: it was never about paying a debt, but sending a message. It's a Death of a Salesman-like spirit: we see a character condemned to death, a failed afterimage of a man, grasping in futility for his faded potential.
EdFrankBlack I think Howard successfully convinces Garnett though. In their last scene together, Kevin really takes Howard’s speech to heart and (from my interpretation) seems to agree with his stance on numbers being bullshit. They are the only two characters to ever physically handle the stone (all others carry it in some box, excluding the miners). The stone itself I thought represented controlling the universe, KG sees the stone as him having the universe in the palm of his hand. A lot of the movie sees Howard tailspin when he loses the rock. At the end, when the sale has finally been made, control is taken from Howard to KG. When KG possesses the opal, he wins game 7 against the odds. When Howard loses the stone, he is shown the chaos of the world first hand and is killed despite his victory.
The first slap Adam took in the movie made me think “yeah that was for Jack & Jill” then after the second assault I was willing to watch anything for his safety. 10/10
I didn't used to think it, but I'm beginning to think that depending on the record of the actor and how pleased Hollywood or critics are of them, there will be subliminal mistreatment in subsequent films in the script. Like that scene in Once Upon Hollywood with Al Pacino, he says if you keep up a certain appearance you'll be casted on that basis in the future.
20:20 I had to google that real quick.
The anxiety of whether The Celtics would win that game at the end. Man.
Alim Kinte Dude my heart sank seeing the tip off scene. The height difference between KG and that 76er made me feel ill.
The Celtics won game 7 in real life vs the 76ers in 2012 so I wasn’t surprised
I was not ready for that Liiiiisten😂
Been searching for a deep dive review on this film, thanks
Blown away by this movie. So fucking proud of Adam Sandler. Always been a fan and good to see he still got it.
I kinda saw that ending coming,but I just didnt want it to happen lol. Such a great movie.
I said the same exact thing regarding the anxiety that's the only word that I had in my head and I thought about it like wow that movie was a rush but in a good way. And I had a smile on my face when he got killed it felt like he can rest now for some reason. And him just trusting opening that door and everything was going to be alright was a little wild as well.
This movie was very good and damn near gave me a anxiety attack 😂 🤣😭Good Lawd!
the ending was inevitable it was perfect
I’m glad I’m not the only one who felt stressed and anxious while watching this! Then ending really caught me off guard, made me feel kinda sick at how sudden and unexpected it was. Anyone else?
Most DEFINITELY
first let it explain I've ever clicked on and AMANDA IS HERE???? hell yeah I'm ready
I still can’t un-clench my jaw from this damn movie. And it’s funny you mentioned audience grunts. I did that the WHOLE movie. The filmmakers were good in that they knew how much tension they were building. I can remember twice that they released the tension in the film, and each time, they followed that glorious release with some seriously jacked up sh*t. Lol
I’ve been watching let me explain for literal years....HOW have I not heard about this podcast....
I’m so glad things like this exist.
The guy who played Arno was soooo good! You could see his contemplation and his disappointment in Adam Sandler’s character. You could see that he WANTED Howard to succeed and to be telling the truth. You could see that in his face and it was dope.
Okay not to creep anyone out but ... I'm really into hiphop like REALLY into hiphop but I remember hearing about a well known jeweler that got killed in NYC that used to hook rappers up. I kinda suspected this was based off a true story.
“The final shot”
“It’s stuck in my head”
You guys😂
Fun fact Kobe was also in talks for KG’s role (after Amar’e before Embiid) but Kobe eventually declined because he’s only interested in directing
SanjiMakesEdibles they would’ve written the movie around Kobe obviously, they’d just use a series of games where he plays on the road in NYC & around NYC, Amar'e Stoudemire was written into the script for years all the way up until KG got the role, it seems like a big change but it’s simply choosing a series of good&bad games from a players career and writing around it
SanjiMakesEdibles skip to 1;30 -> ua-cam.com/video/tcY150BKCBI/v-deo.html
SanjiMakesEdibles yea just watched the interview for a 2nd time, Josh even mentions Kobe’s 60 point game @ madison square garden is the specific time-frame they picked, & anytime
The killer goon was Jo Pesci level terrifying.
I watched Good Times to check out The Safdie Bros. And thought it was good nothing amazing but I Loved the pacing of the movie & I agree Uncut Gems was better than Good Times and I personally loved the ending. And yes Adam had a great performance but can we agree the non-actors killed they’re fucking roles!
I think Art could've been a character from Uncut Gems.
ultimately the story of howie is a tragedy, it was always going to end that way. i thought he would lose the bet and end it himself and was genuinely shocked at how it happened but that just made it so much better.
Loved seeing David’s dad from Independence Day in this!! 😃
Wow this is my first time seeing the guy behind the voice lol man this movie’s ending had me having to find a spoiler video talking about this
He has another channel and when i saw him i was thinking that he sounded exactly like the guy from let me explain haha now i see this video and it turns out that it was him all along haha
I love this review. Great job!
I love how the movie starts with him already having made a shitload of horrible decisions that come back to bite him in the film. The whole movie is about how he maintains the illusion of control he feels in his gambling, but even it cracks in the third act. Everything in this movie is about chance and the illusion. We start the film thinking about his exam and thinking he'll have cancer. It's even initially set up to be that the impending cancer is what they need to tell the kids about, but then it's the affair/impending divorce. His test actually comes back negative for cancer. It's set up to look like he's successful at what he does, but then the poor choices he's made before the start of the film rear their ugly heads, revealing his situation is way worse than we initially thought. We see him get his ass kicked the entire movie, and even see him break down in the office, but then we see a glimpse of his true self the second he gets a glimmer of hope: This insane piece of shit isn't a woe is me broken down loser, he is a delusional fuck who honestly believes he's still got control of the situation. He is so submersed in gambling, that he actually believes he controls his gambles like KG controls his on court performance. His health is a gamble. The opal's price is a gamble. Pushing the bids on the under priced stone is a gamble. His relationship ultimatums with Julie are a gamble. His attempt to get his wife back is a gamble. The bets are, obviously, gambles. Trapping them in the bullet proof glass was a gamble. Letting them out on his side and assuming they'd be appeased by his winning bet was a gamble. Also, every single time he wins a bet, it goes poorly. He won the first major bet, and Arno canceled the bet. He won the second bet, and caught a slug to the face. Even the death is the opposite of what you're lead to expect, he gets Murray'd, and it's not even played as tragic, because he's actually happiest in the moment of his death. Everything comes together so damn well, nothing is what it seems or goes the way it "should."
You're right that last shot was really incredible lol
Good movie, but the audio was horribly produced. It almost gave me a headache
Loved this episode and just saw the flick again today. Maybe a dumb question and something everyone else picked up on, but... Howard owed Arno $100,000... Howard paid $100,000 for the opal... Is this the same $100,000? Did Arno and Howard essentially both set their own fates with this deal?
I don't get it
I'm just wondering if the 100k that Arno loaned to Howard paid for the opal. Like. Arno is a partly responsible for his own death by loaning Howard the 100k.
@@JordanGrant92 OH SHIT THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE
15:23 Funny yesjulz reference lmao
Lol
Having Trinidad James and Ca$h Out in this movie was super accurate to 2012 as both released popular singles around the time, and The Weeknd gaining buzz and not having the star power he has today is just amazing attention to detail
Love that guy on the rights energy and passion
yall went long form. im down for this
I'M SHOOK BY THE ENDING LOVED THE EXPERIENCE OF THIS MOVIE
It reminded me of pulp fiction in that I finished it thinking I hadn't seen anything like it before. So good.
Being in this era in high school 2012 they did a amazing job with the timeline of what was going on in that era. The music choices of what was hot at the time and including Trinidad james to the weekend barley on the come up of his career snorting coke in the bathroom which he has been open about in his songs. I also agree too about julia having that yez julz feel to her being a white chick with a phatass that was finding her way into the industry and using it to her advantage based on her looks. This movie nails it and the fact that it shows how the industry really is. Howard is a representation of how shark tank the industry is on people that promise you everything but can't deliver only for their own selfish agenda. At one point he asks himself why everything in his life is going bad but fails to realize how many people he has burned, but at the same time how many people in his circle that were actually loyal to him. Howard was his worst enemy and there was no other way to end his madness without his death because he was ruining peoples lives around him and built his own grave by everything he reaped.
Tarantino has recently said he has 5 more movies in him, so I’m not sure I’d say he’s retiring from film just yet.
That “altered timeline/reality” thing the movie has going on reminds me a lot of Atlanta written by Donald Glover, in Atlanta it’s supposed to take place in the present and in the real world but some things are changed like how in that timeline justin bieber is black, invisible cars are a thing and aren’t a big deal, and drake is hispanic. Both Uncut Gems and Atlanta have Lakeith Stanfield in them too!!
Can you guys do one on the lighthouse
This is me. This is my fucking way. This is how I win.
KMH jewelry is like their version of Red Apple cigarettes.
As an NBA and a 76ers fan. In real life the Celts with the big 4 at home in game 7 was a lock especially on the moneyline. In the movie K.G over 26 pts and rebs with the gem in hand... absolute lock! BUT Celts to win the tip-off was virtually a coin toss and the parlay could have been dead before it started😂😂. I think he had a hunch K.G would come out hungry from the start so that gave him the hunch on the tip-off. Either that or the comments he made about the refs before the game started to his brother-in-law made him think the ref doing the tip-off would throw the ball in favor of the Celts from the very start of the game through the tip-off. Bottom line: He had more balls than brains for sure! Personally I loved the movie but hated the ending.☹️
Does anyone know the deal with Julia? What was her relationship with The Weeknd, from the beginning photos on her camera to the show? She mentioned that Howard messed things up for her after he finds them together...
She probably figured having sex with the weeknd would've created more opportunities.
she was selling cocaine
When she gets home and Howard is hiding in the closet, she has two giant bags of -what appears to be - cocaine. She was also doing coke in the bathroom with Weeknd. Weeknd is also a famously hedonistic drug user. But this is set in 2012, BEFORE Weeknd hit it big in the mainstream. So being his cocaine hook in NYC would indeed be a big score for Julia.
if this was made in the 90's i think KG would've been Dennis Rodman instead.
Just watched the movie, and it was underwhelming. Should I rewatch it to understand it better?
May it sits better on a rewatch!
Have you seen Good Time?
I'd say nah, if you didnt like it you didnt like it. Youre not gonna love every movie you see, even if it did come highly recommended.
'The entire row of old people left'
My guess would be because of the f-bombs. Every other word was an f-bomb. I don't care about profanity, but it started to get to be too much imo. That's my biggest knock on the movie. I loved the movie and I never thought I'd knock on a movie for profanity.
I thought the same thing and I don't mind cursing at all. I also didn't understand why it had to have so much unneeded content stretching out the movie longer than it needed to be. For example him walking out the Garbage or the long walk away his gf had after he left her in the cab.🤔
Good video earned my subscription. Familiar with Amanda and her reaction videos that's why I stopped and watched. Keep up the good work.
And I love this movie as much as you guys. Sandler is the best performance of the year.
I think the only part I didn’t like is that Arno also got killed at the end he was the boss? Why did they choose that for his story he was shown as the strongest and cold but still tryna give his family member a chance but at the end when it all went bad he look so little and frail and I know he never did dirty work but still he knew what his guys where about
He said 100 grand he spent for the gem
MrGMovieReviews I got the impression he was lying. Probably doubling the true number. I was also utterly terrified that he was gonna blow the sale with his babbling.
Tawdry Hepburn he had to say something, silence can be a stronger hint of lying than actually lying sometimes.
Tawdry Hepburn yea maybe. But it’s funny how he owed his bro 100k and he said he bought it for 100k
tone1245 oh shit! I think you just unlocked a whole other level to the movie. Did Sandler’s character borrow the 100k to buy the Opal in the first place? That’s crazy. That makes so much sense...
Bagels are a New York vs Montreal thing
Adam was amazing. If they didn’t get him I think Vince Vaughn would have been great too. He talks fast in panic scenes.
emmanuel taye Vince Vaughn has been acceptable at best in everything I’ve seen him in 😂 but then again I would have said the same for Sandler so what do I know
Vince would’ve been too intimidating, his role in cell block 99 convinced me of that. Howard was a completely ratty person who couldn’t strongarm his way out of anything. He has to weasel his way out. Vince would’ve been too large of a person to be pushed around like Sandler.
You guys talk like you've never seen a Robert Altman flick.
Crazy thing is that even though he has a gambeling addiction, he was actually good at it. All his bets was winners. Lol the people around him was his downfall.
He’s feeling the gem!
Some people that I was sitting by left, my two buds and I scooted down and took their seats lol
Just saw it...it was good but could have been a little shorter imo...tbh I didnt want his character to win at the end he wasnt a sympathetic character to me at least but Sandler gave a great performance, specifically the scenes with the weeknd I felt didnt add too much but oh well they made the movie they wanted to make and I respect that
Wish there was more to the movie
Datsaintsfan is that you??
I feel like this movie was the coked up version of A Serious Man. But a seemingly very Jewish parable all the same.
Did Art really say Jordan Peele is the new Hitchcock? How does 1 good movie equal one of the best filmmakers of all time?
Hunter Dean US was good as well
@@southernbellereviews5920 It was OK. Nowhere close to the level of Hitchcock though.
Hunter Dean I’ve never heard anyone say that before he did
Tbh it's really stupid to compared artists. I don't even really understand the comparison besides the fact that they make the same genre.
Hitchcock was phenomenal for his time. But honestly in this modern era, his visuals have been outdone, his storytelling has been outdone. Like Citizen Kane is suppose to be the "holy of holies" and its meh. However Us and Get Out are tremendous milestones for modern cinema, it transcends the curse of "Black movies", they are so well executed they contend and beat the upper echelon films.
man on the right coked out or sum LMAO, didn't let no one talk. but great analysis nonetheless
I just knew he looked like Mario Lopez
Here’s what I don’t understand about young people reviewing movies. They claim to be in a “spoiler-free” segment of their review but still give away spoilers.
Hell, you gave away more spoilers before your “spoiler” section than during.
Every kid does this. Must be inexperience and immaturity.
...the title has the word “Explain” in it
Intercut - If putting “explain” in the title allows you to drop spoilers throughout the entire video, why have a dedicated “spoiler” section then?
DDog52 how are you supposed to talk about a movie without saying what happened dumbass
Let Us Explain.
Good job at explaining everything but nothing.
The movie is dope. Full stop.
After the whole video of pretty much spoilers the whole time they then go ahead and say do we want to talk about spoilers? Lmao wtf
2012 East Finals: Heat beat Celtics in 7
The guy on the far left’s hair is so fucking fresh
Carlito’s Way > Empire
nothing actually explained, just them gushing abt it for 40 min
Yeah yeah the movie was great and the ending blew me away - no pun intended - but my god did you see Julia fox? I thought I was jealous of Sandler because of all the dime pieces he gets to “be with” in his movies, but boy she takes the cake man.. she is gorgeous and unbelievably sexy all at the same time 😬
I watched this I’m two decades
The weeknd was a creep lmao
The weeknd is lit, f*** you
Felt worst for Arno
*Great Film Analysis and review!*
*MY FILM REVIEW*
-Sandler plays a dirty scum bag in this VERY anxiety enducing thriller.
-This youtuber makes it sound more interesting than it is.
-Go see it if you like to waste your time and get mind f*cked with a lot of bad influencing and subliminal messaging.
-This film did a great job of making the most profit possible on a minimal budget film.
Made the mistake of trying to watch that trash on Netflix. No lie, the movie gave me a massive headache. I get it, directors meant to make it an anxiety ridden narrative & sh*t but they went overboard. The soundtrack to the movie made it worse. I never want to hear Adam Sandler scream or talk for that matter for the rest of my life. Horrible movie.
I just walked out of the theater less than an hour ago.
I’m gunna be honest... I think the Safdie Bros just isn’t got me. I found Uncut Gems & Good Time to be just okay and isn’t one I will think about the next morning. Don’t know what it is, by something about their films don’t click with me.
Adam Sandler was great in the role and deserves to be in that Top 5 Lead Actors of 2019. With that said, I didn’t like sandlers character.
HATED this movie with every fiber of my being, I shredded the screener.... not a single redeeming character , choice or situation in the entire film.... if you like scumbags yelling for 2 hours and want to punch everyone in the film in the face... then fine goal achieved... not for me. If you have a friend with a gambling addiction and want to show them where their life could go.... then excellent.... lock them in a room with it, because they will rethink their life as NO ONE in this film makes good choices... just barf... why would anyone subject themselves to this by choice?
I'm honestly super surprised how many people love this movie. And it's not even about the "anxiety" for why I dislike it, because I love good tension building and anxiety inducing scenes. The film is just an overall mess. The energy peaked in the first 5 minutes and rest couldn't keep up. It just turned into this one up game of how fucked can we make this character's life. Same reason why I didn't enjoy A Simple Man or Inside Llewyn Davis. Movies that rely on just dumping on their main characters is a terrible concept. Stranger Things music didn't make sense either. Spacey synth music doesn't create tension, it's pleasingly euphoric. Maybe it's an ironic juxtaposition that the directors felt would create unease, or maybe they should get off the trend of using 80s music (which has been over done since DRIVE!!!). These guys definitely have their own style, and I am going to watch Good Time (even though lots of people are claiming Uncut Gems is better, so I don't have a lot of hope), but I think they just need to figure out their energy and pacing a bit. ps. Adam Sandler's best acting was done in Punch-Drunk Love. Just accept it.
A serious man, you mean?
For me, Sandler's performance was annoying and exhaustive. I couldn't wait and walked out of the finale. Sorry, but I could care less about his character.
do not talk with your mouth full
Uncut Gems is a complete rip off of abel ferrara's bad lieutenant, insert a jewish jewler & basketball & compulsive gambler, for a bad catholic cop who is a compulsive gambler, the directors writer copied abel ferrara's plot & character, & mixed it with george segal from the hot rock & california split. Obviously the rich kid filmmakers saw a lot of films growing up & thought nobody would notice. It's the most unoriginal pale imitation of a script, yeah there are copyright & plagiarist laws against their style. At least Bad Lieutenant was a morality tale, a realistic journey of the soul, it had a gritty realistic plot, & a point, about redemption...where as Uncut Gems was a pointless comedic pointless film. About what exactly, what was the point here?? It made zero sense that this stupid schmuck Howard would own a business in the diamond district in the first place, & using a hustler who sells fake rolex watches out of Howards diamond business, bringing in NBA players to buy what? a smuggled illegal Opal from a mine in Africa worth a million dollars he saw on the history channel??? not for sale but up for auction ? it's illegal & in reality no auction house would openly sell it, but Howard lets a basketball player take it without security?...nothing in the ridiculous convoluted plot makes any sense, it's illogical & unbelievable, I didn't buy one minute of this story, I don't find talking over each others like fools cinematic tension. Really a loan shark would warn you over & over whilst taking your bets than put you naked in a car trunk?? on what planet?? reality loan shark would kill you straightaway in that trunk, movie over... they don't mess around like loud mouth comedians, this plot has more holes than swiss cheese. It's Bad Lieutenant meets the Hot Rock meets California Split, that's the log line here... Wearing bad overbite false top teeth acting like a stupid schmuck is not acting, it's a parody mocking self hating jews, SNL skit, shame on the filmmakers, didn't like this film especially the lack of originality, saw it all before done better... Wish Hollywood had some originality, should have done a straight up remake it would be more honest.
king johnny Dunno about the plot thing because I have not seen bad lieutenant (gonna watch it now though). But I just took all those things you point out as a part of the character’s ridiculous bad decisions.. and about the loanshark, I guess the guy was not as ruthless because they were family? But yeah dunno, still conflicted about this movie