{"id":5652,"date":"2019-12-30T22:43:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T03:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2019-12-30T22:46:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T03:46:10","slug":"uncut-gems-needing-cutting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/read-watched-tapped\/recently-watched\/uncut-gems-needing-cutting\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncut Gems needs cutting."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Uncut<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I was skeptical about seeing this movie because it starred Adam Sandler. I took a chance on it because it wasn’t an Adam Sandler Movie<\/em>. It had high scores on Letterboxd and I had seen a couple of people I follow online mention it was enjoyable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could say something about the plot. But it was unmemorable. Man makes series of extremely poor decisions. Outcome is as expected. I didn’t hate this movie for any of the reasons I was prepared to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sound Mixing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happened? When mixing sound, the point is not to layer sounds upon sound upon sound and call it done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you have a room full of shouting people, layering all of those shouts and then adding music from your old Atari on top of that isn’t a good idea. It was so loud and discordant and painful to endure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one point there’s a fountain. You’ve seen fountains before, yes? They’re found outside office buildings as this one was. When you walk near it as the water flows through it, does it sound like a roaring ocean sweeping away everyone in the street? Perhaps you’ve awaiting The Rock’s appearance landing a Chinook on the corner? No? Then why did you make the fountain sound as if Sharknado was around the corner?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best part though had to be a scene where our hero is hiding in a closet texting his love interest. And we are to believe the DING DING<\/em> is not audible across the room. I’m pretty sure the people in the next theater over heard those texts coming in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know exactly what it was about the sound (other than the volume turned up to 11) but I felt anxious the entire time. I spent the entire film fidgeting and crawling out of my skin. It was a painful, uncomfortable experience to sit through this film. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were many shots in the film that… went… on… way… too… long… for no good reason. Here’s Adam Sandler walking away. There he goes… There’s a car driving down the road. Why? We needed to make this movie hit 2 hours 15 minutes. When it could have been 75-90 without losing anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plot: Meh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound: OMG NO!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have never enjoyed the silent elevator ride back to the lobby and silent walk across the street into the misty night after this aural assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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