Uncut Gems. Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie. 2019.
[twenty minutes pass]
Oh deer.
This is the Adam Sandler Oscar bait movie? To ensure getting nominated, you have to have some sort of health angle, so it starts with a colonoscopy (it is Sandler, after all) and some possible cancer, before we go into full-bore New Era of Quality TV doing Death of a Salesman (which means that everybody is from New Jersey and that all these morons are shouting at each other ALL THE TIME).
If you were to design a movie to annoy me, this would be that movie.
I don’t recalling it actually winning any Oscars, though…
But it did win a bunch of other awards — perhaps the Independent Spirit Awards are the most significant…
Well, perhaps it gets less annoying…
GAH! IT GOES ON FOREVER!
Well, re-roll the movie…
[ten minutes pass]
I wondered when they were going to introduce the bitchy wife. I should have made a bet.
[twenty minutes pass]
I can’t take any more of this. One hour of watching uninteresting morons shout at each other is all I can take. I’d rather get my teeth cleaned.
Is this the only movie in this blog series that has broken me? I think it may be. And apparently I’m not missing much of a performance:
This post is part of The Tilda Swinton Project.
It’s even worse if your name is Howard
Heh. Yeah, that must make it totally unbearable.
er, what has this to do with Tilda? Not much according to Wikipedia.
She apparently does a voice part during the auction scene (which comes after I stopped watching).