And the Oscar for Best Actor goes to ... Adam Sandler

Saw it on 31st. Very intense with hardly any let up.

On the Oscar, I realize there’s this inherent bias towards angry, intense roles. Do that and you’re a contender. I think of this contrasting Sandler’s job with Chalamet’s in Little Women. Chalamet’s range of emotions was more wide ranging but will be given less weight because he’s not this intense angry heavy, but a subtle man who’s not afraid to show his emotions.

 

He plays the role that Bale played in the last rendition, right? I thought Bale was good in that role. I watched the film with my daughter in early December. Not sure it needed to be revised again so soon, but I'll reserve further comment till seeing it. Has a great cast, as did the last one.

 

I did not see the last rendition.

 

It was pretty good. Bale played the next-door neighbor who was in love with Jo (Winona Ryder), Eric Stoltz played his tutor (who ended up marrying one of the other March girls). Also had Claire Danes as the doomed one, Kirsten Dunst as the youngest one, and Susan Sarandon as the mother.

 

I think it was definitely the latter. I've seen it twice and both times lots of people laughed and both times many of those same people broke out into applause at the end of the movie. There is something hilarious about the scene especially the tattoo line. It's utterly absurd but you said it perfectly that it's a great scene about how ludicrous his character had gotten (but in a good way from the film's perspective).

Songbird, we might share our love of Showtime Lakers but our movie tastes this year are vastly different! Uncut Gems and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood were two of my favorite movies of the year, maybe my top 2 (Knives Out might edge out Uncut Gems for 2nd spot). You really disliked both, didn't you? Still we'll always have Magic dishing to Worthy on the wing.

 

Indeed, disappointed in both. I saw Once 3 times. I doubt I'll see Uncut again.

The part of Uncut Gems I liked for the first, oh 45 seconds, was when Sandler got in the car, all intense-like, and Billy Joel's The Stranger starts playing, and it felt like the scene was going places fast ... like this was going to be their version of Henry Hill's coked-out drive while he's being tailed by the helicopters ... but then it fizzled and I was like, What a waste of a good song.

 

Imho, that long scene with Henry, the sauce, his drug mule, and picking up his brother is the worst, most boring part of the whole movie. It’s so drawn out

 

Ha! I shouldn't try to post while I'm working. For that matter, I should have gently terminated the date and gone home when he decided Rick Reilly's honor was called into question and would. not. let. it. go. Lordy.

I wish people had laughed. It would have indicated some level of engagement. The thing just left the audience wondering if it was too soon to get waffle fries at the Hate Chicken Place.

 

Kind of parallels how his wife reacted to him in laughing hysterically in one scene.

 

Here's a fun interview with Wayne Diamond, who plays the guy who comes in at the end of the movie in the copter. Basically played himself.

Meet the “Handsome Older Man” of "Uncut Gems"

 

His character was out of left field.

Seems like they left much of his stuff on the cutting room floor.

 

“Uncut Gems,” was, to me, entertaining in the same way a 56-49 Big 12 football game is entertaining. You know something vital is missing, but you keep watching because the frenetic pace pulls you in.