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.