I Can't Stop Thinking About Uncut Gems

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  • Опубликовано: 30 окт 2024

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  • @death256p
    @death256p Год назад +121

    i forgot furbies were in the film. i thought you edited them in and it was an elaborate bit several layers beyond my comprehension

  • @hairclipzable
    @hairclipzable Год назад +117

    When the gems are uncut 😳

    • @somemong989
      @somemong989 Месяц назад +2

      😂 Not the gems being uncut 😂

  • @goatedquest4107
    @goatedquest4107 Год назад +48

    Watching this video emphasized to me just how perfectly this film was cast.
    As a result of how loud and intense the whole thing is, there are entire performances that get lost in the chaos in a way that isn't at all a detriment to the film, but just shows how cleverly the Safdies implement 'load bearing characters' that hold the whole experience up. Every role is masterfully depicted & delicately placed in the runtime to balance & maintain the thrill ride of the whole experience. This video, beyond the incredible analysis, was a reminder that, yeah, Idina Menzel was in this and she totally crushed it.
    Another great video Jai, can't wait for whatever you're cooking up next.

    • @LowercaseJai
      @LowercaseJai  Год назад +3

      really glad you liked it!! Idina Menzel’s performance is staggering in this to me as well since she’s so lovely in almost every interview I came across when researching this lol. there’s a great clip of her going on Ellen being all bubbly and then it cuts to her telling Adam Sandler to die

  • @neofromthewarnerbrothersic145
    @neofromthewarnerbrothersic145 5 месяцев назад +56

    I agree with most of your points about the larger themes of the movie, but I think you got my boy Howard all wrong. He doesn't need everyone else to lose, he's not even greedy per se, he's just a gambling addict. He lives for the feeling of putting it all on the line. Stability and safety are boring, but also frightening to him. So when he has a chance to just do the smart thing and pay the debt, he can't do it. Giving up that part of himself feels like a death to him, so he ends up another kind of death instead. The kind where you, yknow, _die._

    • @dillonwalshpvd
      @dillonwalshpvd 2 месяца назад +7

      This last time I watched it (like an hour ago) I was struck by something I hadn’t been before: Howard is CONSTANTLY APOLOGIZING AND SECOND GUESSING HIMSELF. He is fully aware his behavior is destroying him and and poisoning his family, but he just. Can’t. Stop

  • @kash9432
    @kash9432 Год назад +59

    me sweating profusely while searching google for a diamond-encrusted MJ nailed to a cross: this is how i win

  • @ivysinthetic
    @ivysinthetic Год назад +125

    me when i'm walking past a Uncutilated Gemhouse

  • @Replicaate
    @Replicaate 5 месяцев назад +64

    Oddly enough this movie reminded me of Steinbeck's "The Pearl" - like here's this pretty rock that's gonna make everything better but just ends up making everything immeasurably worse, especially for the guy who thinks it'll solve all his problems. Don't know if that's what the Safdies were thinking about, but I can't shake it.

    • @robertfeldman2417
      @robertfeldman2417 5 месяцев назад +3

      That’s brilliant. Yeah I see it now

    • @Replicaate
      @Replicaate 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@robertfeldman2417 Me, brilliant? Oh you! Joking aside, I'm surprised more people didn't think of that as an influence on this movie.

    • @vishnu2407
      @vishnu2407 5 месяцев назад +4

      Idk if you've watched Good Time, but the safdies have and ongoing theme of exploring tragic characters whose hubris just end up making their days go from bad to worse. I feel like they're interested in the character and want to give us a window into their worlds

  • @AugustQ-p1w
    @AugustQ-p1w 5 месяцев назад +27

    Came here from the Two and A Half Men video, I've basically been binging your whole back catalog all day, and it's genuinely shocking to me that you don't have like 100k subs. You've certainly earned yourself a new subscriber.

  • @neverbroke55
    @neverbroke55 3 месяца назад +7

    i just watched the movie last night, and i cant stop thinking about it because for me, it shows how precious life is and how people can boast and brag about tomorrow and what they think they'll do it the future but you never know when your last day is. it also shows how selfish people can be, howard had a gf who loved him through everything, a wife that hes cheated on, and kids who don't necessarily hate him, he also had a good business but still wanted more. made it more sad and dramatic more than a thrilling movie.

  • @sheryarahmed6331
    @sheryarahmed6331 4 месяца назад +18

    "uncut gems is almost 4 years old"
    great now I'm having a panic attack about the passage of time

  • @cjsdizzy
    @cjsdizzy 5 месяцев назад +23

    Genuinely gross that there so many shit reviews from audiences when this is the best thing Adam Sandler has done in probably his entire career

    • @nachofwg
      @nachofwg 5 месяцев назад +9

      Probs people who had this sad expectation going in that it would be like every other damn movie they’ve been consuming for the last ten years lmao. Lots of people like their media unchallenging and surface level. That’s how they win 🤮

  • @bertchintus4103
    @bertchintus4103 5 месяцев назад +17

    I absolutely despise Adam Sandler and never thought he was funny, I never even liked the "OG classic comedies" that a lot of people make exceptions for like Billy Madison or Wedding Singer.
    That being said, I absolutely adore this movie, I have seen it a dozen times and it still hits the same, and Adam Sandler was absolutely phenomenal in this role, mind blowing performance.

  • @Hunta-i8w
    @Hunta-i8w 4 месяца назад +5

    Uncut Gems immediately shot up to my top 5 favorites of all time as soon as i saw it. I know there is a vast plethora of movies out there but this one just spoke to me. The safdies really had one of the best indie runs of the 2010s.

  • @MidnightLobster7
    @MidnightLobster7 3 месяца назад +3

    I have mad respect for you because of the Persona 1 & 2 music you use now and then.

  • @cucumver8159
    @cucumver8159 Год назад +9

    Adam Sandler wake up, new Jai just dropped.

  • @narcoticundertow
    @narcoticundertow 5 месяцев назад +8

    This is really great, hope you achieve success with your channel. This and the Two And A Half Men video essays are really great video essays

  • @Gambsmoore
    @Gambsmoore 5 месяцев назад +12

    OR TOBUSCUS. OH MY GOD WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE, JAI?

  • @HenryStowecroft
    @HenryStowecroft Год назад +6

    my name is amante and i approve this video

  • @NigerianSeafood
    @NigerianSeafood 5 месяцев назад +6

    Excellent video but the thing I wanted to say most is you were so real for using that Raidou Kuzunoha theme at the end.

  • @masterlasheron
    @masterlasheron 3 месяца назад +2

    Man the Shin Megami Tensei OST just builds up your entire narrative, great video!

  • @Skellingtor97
    @Skellingtor97 Год назад +6

    i watched this and your other video, and though i know you from the bunker i must say what really got me was the gran turismo 4 music. thank you

  • @jourdanbrasil9890
    @jourdanbrasil9890 5 месяцев назад +10

    Fire video bro. Keep doing this

  • @fivedollardare
    @fivedollardare Год назад +4

    A new Jai vid? A Monday treat!

  • @Robert-ju6ub
    @Robert-ju6ub 4 месяца назад +1

    This movie burrowed its way into my mind and hasn't left. I love it. Such a stressful experience lol. And that beginning and ending shot is key to it, I believe. Great video.

  • @HangmanOfficialUploads
    @HangmanOfficialUploads 5 месяцев назад +1

    I'm reminded of War On Everyone, which is also one of those movies the trailer lied about and then the actual movie being mind blowingly great for completely different reasons than what you expected.

  • @ld7496
    @ld7496 5 месяцев назад +9

    bruh you da same guy who did the two na half men!!
    so glad that caught the algorithm man you make good work

  • @chiri-theoden4264
    @chiri-theoden4264 5 месяцев назад +3

    I cannot explain to you the out of body experience I just had when suddenly the "Plains of Time" track from Chrono Cross starts playing in the background of this video. Such an underappreciated game and soundtrack. Maybe there's a video there about the difference between being a good piece of media and being a good sequel, and how that's effected the way Chrono Cross is (or in some cases isn't) remembered 😂 Anyway, sorry for the ramble. Love your stuff! Cheers

  • @AlexBaldwinFTW
    @AlexBaldwinFTW 4 месяца назад

    One of my favourite movies of the last few years. Saw it screened in a cinema in London also.

  • @stevescotthiphop
    @stevescotthiphop 5 месяцев назад +7

    Found your channel today from the Two and a Half Men video, currently watching through all your content. Great stuff, keep it up!
    You seem to be a Safdie fan, I'd love to see your thoughts on The Curse

  • @vaguetype
    @vaguetype Год назад +4

    😳😳😳 new jai video

  • @wakegary
    @wakegary 3 месяца назад +1

    I can't either... The Curse really got me, though. The Oneohtrix soundtrack is haunting and the combo of Sandler, (mostly Benny) Safdie and Fielder together on The Curse pushes ALL the right people away, and pulls in the PERFECT people. For that reason, people who enjoy Uncut, The Curse, Goodtime, etc, are my favorite people, and people who have strong opinions against any of those projects (or better yet, are incapable of 'getting it') are immediately written off because they're missing something I put a lot of value in.
    We're All Going to the World's Fair is awesome, btw. Go easy.

  • @FiKAYOsipe
    @FiKAYOsipe День назад +1

    Appreciate your analysis

  • @Xena10000
    @Xena10000 23 часа назад +1

    This is my favourite movie, people who don’t like it have something wrong with THEM

  • @drumcanjones
    @drumcanjones 5 месяцев назад +3

    "Frankenstein was the monster's name" got a sub out of me. Good man.

  • @schmedly_in_real_life
    @schmedly_in_real_life Год назад +6

    rithm algo

  • @cowboyfedora6290
    @cowboyfedora6290 5 месяцев назад +5

    I just realized that Kevin Garnett’s last name is a parallel to the gem garnet. I’m starting to think Kevin Garnett buys gems because his family name is one.

  • @dicegameuchiha
    @dicegameuchiha Год назад +6

    Yes

  • @fatterman138
    @fatterman138 5 месяцев назад +10

    OutKast mentioned✅
    Discussion about the safdie brothers work✅
    Subscribed✅

  • @rossihere
    @rossihere 27 дней назад +1

    Solid video, highly underrated

  • @VirtualMarmalade
    @VirtualMarmalade 4 месяца назад +1

    oh i thought for a second that the most iconic line is when he's holding the rock and says "i'm gonna come"

  • @claire-not-there
    @claire-not-there 5 месяцев назад +1

    i really appreciate that mankind divided edit at 3:00. adam "i asked for this" sandler

  • @michaelweedon4297
    @michaelweedon4297 5 месяцев назад +2

    i love de blob great game great OST
    always lovely to hear the soundtrack
    just discovered your channel (from the 2 1/2 men video) great job keep up the good work

  • @oh_why_her
    @oh_why_her 5 месяцев назад +1

    I first watched Uncut Gems as a teenager with my brother. The moment I saw the Furby chain I knew I had to have it.

  • @BlisaBLisa
    @BlisaBLisa 5 месяцев назад +1

    all i knew about this movie was "im so sad im so fucked up" that clip would flash into my head whenever i felt like shit lmao

  • @smilingbuffo
    @smilingbuffo 5 месяцев назад

    Just found your channel and bingin all your videos. Quality stuff man, cant wait to see what you make next!

  • @jdhathrisen
    @jdhathrisen Месяц назад +1

    I was on board and then you brought out fucking Falconhoof? My man

  • @biohead66
    @biohead66 4 месяца назад +1

    Almost a perfect movie that did not stick the landing like most of Sadfie brothers projects.

  • @SimplyMavAgain
    @SimplyMavAgain Год назад +3

    i concur!

  • @davehandelman2832
    @davehandelman2832 3 месяца назад +1

    An absolute masterpiece

  • @bunp12
    @bunp12 Год назад +2

    great video!!! when i first saw this in my sub feed, I immediately said to myself i had to watch uncut gems before i watched this
    and i did, and its a great movie
    definitely had some of the same thoughts presented here, how the opal rock felt like it had this tiny grain of supernaturality to it
    the score is definitely very important to the film, cant imagine it any other way
    and im so mad that they were just able to transition from the opal kaleidoscope to a colonoscopy so smoothly, it just worked really well!
    howard is fucked up, he deserves his fate, its a little sad though
    in the movie, it said that all told, it took about 18 months to get that opal
    i have to wonder if that opal obsession is what started his path down to being like this
    or maybe he was always like this?
    who knows….
    thats just A Film Theory
    sorry, anyway, great video, please keep it up 🔥🔥🔥

  • @msjkramey
    @msjkramey 5 месяцев назад +2

    I haven't seen this, but Hey Ya came out when I was a kid, it felt a little off but it was a bop, so I didn't care. Then, I listened to it again and wow, I just love "cognitive dissonance songs." Any song that sounds one way and the lyrics are completely contradictory, and then your brain tries to fit that round peg in a square hole

  • @ieatatsonic
    @ieatatsonic 3 месяца назад +1

    between the obsession over items causing people's downfall and the die twice quote, I was kinda waiting to see if you'd bring up Borges.

  • @mobius0zero
    @mobius0zero 5 месяцев назад +1

    I'm just here for the BOF 3 jams in the background. Love it

  • @jamez6398
    @jamez6398 5 месяцев назад +10

    I love how these guys can come from out of nowhere and end up being the most interesting new directors at the minute with their incredibly distinctive and masterful style of making movies. It's always great when talented new directors get wide recognition.
    Before diamonds could be artificially created synthetically, they could not be obtained via any method other than by mining it out of the ground and that scarcity made it useful for storing and transferring wealth because it won't devalue over time. So if you create something useful, you can buy a lot of things with the gems you can get. Buying things like gems, gold, or silver is still a great way to store wealth long term because their scarcity makes them valuable and, unlike money that loses value over time due to money printing and inflation, that means your savings won't halve in value in 50 years time. That's why dimaonds are so precious and wearing something that valuable on your finger rather than using it to buy something useful is a massive flex to show off how successful and wealthy your husband is, that's why diamonds became so valuable. I guess people didn't get the memo that diamonds can be mass produced now, they're kinda pointless for storing wealth now, they're used for making drills for dentists to drill teeth so they can put in fillings, diamonds look sorta pretty I guess...

  • @wizcatcheslightning
    @wizcatcheslightning 11 месяцев назад +2

    Oddjob truly is how one wins GoldenEye multiplayer

  • @Lawpering
    @Lawpering 4 месяца назад

    The heavy zoom on Ellen when saying "they're horrible people" had me dead.

  • @saoirse8460
    @saoirse8460 Год назад +4

    ❗️lets go!!

  • @Scerttle
    @Scerttle 5 месяцев назад +1

    3:27 Ayyyyyyyyyy Breath of Fire 3 overworld music! I LOVE that track!

  • @yeahnolol
    @yeahnolol 5 месяцев назад +2

    how does this video have less than 2k views ?? its so perfect and funny

  • @seifhouache7366
    @seifhouache7366 5 месяцев назад +4

    bro you deserve a million subscribers holyshit

  • @MM-bn5yc
    @MM-bn5yc 5 месяцев назад +5

    10:42 trax jump scare

  • @pedroberoes49
    @pedroberoes49 4 месяца назад

    Uncut Gems is a movie I watch to remind myself that, in this fucking life, nothing matters

  • @digitalquintessence
    @digitalquintessence 5 месяцев назад +1

    Ok I had to look it up but his eyes legit do shrink when he looks at the opal for the first time. What th. Why did they do that.

  • @jimbojankerson5610
    @jimbojankerson5610 3 месяца назад +1

    I love that movie and want more of it. A lot of people are not too smart and have poor taste. You looked into this way too deeply through lol.

  • @josiahtheawkward6008
    @josiahtheawkward6008 5 месяцев назад +4

    21:28 Isn’t this the plot of Pixar’s Coco?

  • @wizcatcheslightning
    @wizcatcheslightning 11 месяцев назад +4

    5:55 Nice Chrono Cross music 😎

  • @pcell450
    @pcell450 Год назад +2

    rolling down the strip on vogues

  • @cactusshadow9840
    @cactusshadow9840 5 месяцев назад

    I enjoyed how Sandler put loan sharking and gambling addiction on blastoscar caliber performance

  • @hellomew
    @hellomew 3 месяца назад +2

    i watched uncut gems and really didn’t like it the first time i watched it. i was a fan of the sadfie brothers but i just couldn’t really get into uncut gems. but i couldn’t stop thinking about it and a month later i watched it again and i wish it had a warning attached saying “WATCH THIS FILM TWICE”

  • @lukecwolf
    @lukecwolf 5 месяцев назад

    I should be thinking about this movie more these days but it just evades me. This was one of my favorite movies in 2019 alongside Parasite.
    I think watching this before the pandemic hit and permanently transformed my life did something. I remember the suffering in both movies, but Howard just never seemed relatable. There's dirt poor people like Parasyte everywhere I go throughout my life, it was only when I grew up that I knew all the Howards that exist and I try to avoid.
    Howard is one of the weirdest villains in that he's so despicable and yet we all know someone. Frail ego, infalliable, treats people like material objects. I meet them when I play trading card games, gambling addicts, landlords, city officials, etc. I want to say that like about hating someone to their face but never have the chance. But he's also someone who really only exists in the present. He's indistinguishable from a lot of people we interact with, buy also because he's someone we can't distiniguish, and a lot of peoppe who refuse to admit it

  • @wizcatcheslightning
    @wizcatcheslightning 11 месяцев назад +5

    Wait...the universe got destroyed in Akira? I've only seen the anime, which seems to be the manga held together by glue and duct tape.

  • @scottrastyles2592
    @scottrastyles2592 Год назад +7

    you are cool! I don't really like movies, but you are cool

    • @LowercaseJai
      @LowercaseJai  Год назад +7

      thank you! give movies another shot, you might like them this time round

    • @mewfeuille
      @mewfeuille Год назад +8

      imo movies are pretty good

  • @Funwithaball
    @Funwithaball Месяц назад +1

    lol my mom literally walked away and stopped watching because it was giving her too much anxiety. If you’re prone to anxiety you’ll probably hate this movie.

  • @redgreen2453
    @redgreen2453 5 месяцев назад

    Best DVD I bought ngl

  • @ApolloVIIIYouAreGoForTLI
    @ApolloVIIIYouAreGoForTLI 5 месяцев назад +2

    Nah sorry but you’re wrong..
    Kevin Garnetts NBA career peaked in 2008.

  • @mewfeuille
    @mewfeuille Год назад +4

    cut this.

  • @91Vault
    @91Vault 5 месяцев назад

    my only issue with the movie was some of the instances where they were trying to create that atmosphere of chaotic tension were a little bit contrived: ie early on when the door to his jewelry shop wont open. Otherwise good movie and great use of Sandler

  • @harpreetbains4557
    @harpreetbains4557 11 месяцев назад +1

    Keep the good work going 👍

  • @TheAtticus82
    @TheAtticus82 2 месяца назад

    Yoooo the breath of fire music 😍

  • @Problematist
    @Problematist 5 месяцев назад

    5:44 To me, that's cinema.

  • @goop_lord
    @goop_lord Год назад +4

    eunnekhautt dgzemeisz

  • @ricksgrandauditorium8790
    @ricksgrandauditorium8790 5 месяцев назад

    I hate it when people confuse my Mogwai for a fkn Furby.

  • @funny2xUS
    @funny2xUS 5 месяцев назад +1

    The most iconic line is actually " I'm so sad I'm so fucked up "

  • @unlikelyvee
    @unlikelyvee 9 месяцев назад +3

    That ending was great haha

    • @unlikelyvee
      @unlikelyvee 9 месяцев назад +1

      And god i need to rewatch this movie now

  • @hozefish666
    @hozefish666 3 месяца назад

    based persona 2 bgm

  • @uxirager
    @uxirager 5 месяцев назад +3

    Uncut gems when cut minerals show up: 💀

  • @MichaeP
    @MichaeP 5 месяцев назад

    Got a sub for using the breath of Fire overworld theme

  • @brimple
    @brimple 5 месяцев назад

    Can you please put a list of the music you use somewhere? These tracks are good

  • @horusreloaded6387
    @horusreloaded6387 5 месяцев назад

    I don't know, maybe it is just Adam Sandlers, I can't look past his casting, but I just can't get investing into the praise here. Especially when all the praise is "they do this thing bad but they do it intentionally" (from mixing to how its shot).

  • @missingtexture98
    @missingtexture98 5 месяцев назад

    Is track playing around the 19:00 mark from SMTIV?

  • @Fakery
    @Fakery 5 месяцев назад +4

    ATL-iens

  • @leotrollstoy2351
    @leotrollstoy2351 5 месяцев назад

    Good video

  • @tapirman111
    @tapirman111 Год назад +4

    wait Howard Ratner was jewish? wtf how did i miss that

    • @Jack-vb4qy
      @Jack-vb4qy 5 месяцев назад +2

      bro he’s a jewelry seller in new york how did you not get that or am i missing the joke

    • @infectedanimal9830
      @infectedanimal9830 5 месяцев назад +1

      Pretty sure they make it clear while he’s with his extended family

    • @DeepEye1994
      @DeepEye1994 5 месяцев назад

      I wouldnt be surprised if the title has a double meaning referring to what most Jews do to their willies.

    • @DeepEye1994
      @DeepEye1994 5 месяцев назад

      I bet the movie's title has a double meaning/metaphor to what that community does with foreskins

  • @FirstlastDone-li4no
    @FirstlastDone-li4no 5 месяцев назад +1

    18:57 Adam looking like Adam Jensen just like the Deus ex reference at 3:00

  • @0ff_met.a
    @0ff_met.a 5 месяцев назад

    Ma dude may i please have the name of soundtrack thats going on at 3:46 ? And since we're here can i have the rest of the playlist ? I mean omg everything is just so immaculate here taste wise. Lovely !

  • @dizzythegreat
    @dizzythegreat 4 месяца назад

    Untuc gebs

  • @SoppyBiscuit
    @SoppyBiscuit 5 месяцев назад

    At-liens was said ironically right

  • @nickdaring
    @nickdaring 9 месяцев назад +1

  • @josephmullen4553
    @josephmullen4553 9 месяцев назад +1

    When we getting a twin peaks vid please?

    • @LowercaseJai
      @LowercaseJai  9 месяцев назад +6

      i'm a huge fan of twin peaks but i think i'd have to find an angle on it first that i'd feel satisfied talking about for the length of a full video. thanks for the idea though! i'd love to do one eventually.

  • @Sidekick-bz5dp
    @Sidekick-bz5dp 3 месяца назад

    I'm a freak