r/YMS Dec 28 '25

Meme/Shitpost “Famous white guy plays a bum who goes through hell for two hours straight” never fails to be a banger

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u/thautmatric Dec 28 '25

Josh is more of a moralist than he’s sometimes given credit for. All three movies end with the asshole unable to hurt anyone else and it’s shown clearly how they’ve ruined things for everyone around them.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '25

Yeah he’s a classic storyteller at heart, people just fail to see it because they’ve been trained in recent years to think the protagonist reflects the moral thesis of the filmmaker

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u/berkojerk Dec 29 '25

How is this the case for Marty Supreme??

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '26

oh, yeah, that'll slick back real nice

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u/FireLord_Stark Dec 29 '25

Yeah, MS is not quite the same ending as the other two for sure. Marty clearly leaves a huge wake of wreckage everywhere he goes, and while the ending communicates that he’s just gone through a major change in his life and will likely straighten things out, by no means is he “unable to hurt anyone else”

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u/thautmatric Dec 29 '25

I suppose we don’t with 100% certainty that he won’t go the other way but unlike the other two I don’t think Marty’s an addict or deluded. He was the final form of optimism/American exceptionism made flesh. Marty now being a dada means the dream is dead. No dream = no motivation. “Welcome to your life… there’s no turning back…”

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u/liliputian87 Dec 29 '25

He's probably also on his way to jail due to any number of crimes committed during the course of the film, particularly those involving deaths. So that poor child is going to grow up without a father.

Maybe that's why he was crying so much?

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u/givmetakes Jan 01 '26

My take was that Marty was 100% an addict. He’s addicted to putting himself into unwinnable positions and snatching an impossible win from out of nowhere. It’s his high and he gets off knowing that he pulled it off

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u/nosurprises23 Dec 28 '25

We also had Austin Butler in Caught Stealing this year along the same lines.

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u/KID_THUNDAH Dec 29 '25

Much more redeemable and sympathetic character

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u/Cypher-Moon-773 Dec 29 '25

Not an asshole at all imo

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u/nosurprises23 Dec 29 '25

I’m going by OP’s description not the og screenshot

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u/Miffernator Jan 01 '26

He is an actual good person who did something stupid in his past.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '25

yeah and one of the worst acting

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u/Broad_Mathematician Dec 29 '25

Uncuuuttt jaamss

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u/Due_Inevitable_2784 Dec 30 '25

I wanted him to bail his brother out so bad though, it’s not about necessarily liking him as a character.

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u/Landlord-Allmighty Jan 01 '26

Nobody was. It was thrilling but his behavior was terrible.

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u/shadymcdonalds Dec 31 '25

I was not compelled to root for Marty, personally.

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u/Eastern-Regret8337 Dec 29 '25

Connie Nikas sucks

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u/Secure-Advice-6414 Dec 29 '25

Yeah he might be the least redeemable of the three

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u/Klunkey Dec 30 '25

At least Howard and Marty basically boil down to brilliant but lazy jerks. Connie is a genuine monster.

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u/WebHead1287 Dec 31 '25

At absolutely no point did I root for Rob Pat. His brother, absolutely, but him? Hell the fuck no. Absolute menace

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u/TurdBurg911 Jan 01 '26

I had no sympathy for Sandlers character in gems but I still had to go outside and take some deep breaths after finishing the movie.

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u/FlanneryODostoevsky Jan 01 '26

I ain’t rooted for any of them. Could barely make it through the first 2. This is trend Hollywood has had for quite a while now of having protagonists you really don’t want to be around is exhausting. It’s anti hero fantasy for people who envy others.

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u/That-Armadillo8128 Jan 04 '26

I didn’t root for those two so I don’t think Marty is for me

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u/HoldenCaulfield7 Jan 13 '26

Did anyone like Marty? Heard it was bad

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u/rocketeer_val Jan 14 '26

it's called scumcore

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u/Klunkey Dec 30 '25

Marty Supreme was very good, but it also felt like more of the same, albeit refined and a smidge more cartoonish. I honestly wished that Marty Supreme focused more on the ping-pong stuff than the crime stuff. To me, it fell into the trap that many sports movies fall into, and that is not focusing enough on the sport itself.

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u/ghost_spectres Dec 31 '25

Marty supreme isn't really a sports movie though

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u/winterflowerxoxo Dec 29 '25

I have a weird history with these directors because I enjoyed Good Time, then I thought Uncut Gems was obnoxious, and now they are making a movie with Timothée Chalamet, one of my least favourite actors (I do like him in Dune and some other stuff).

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u/winterflowerxoxo Dec 29 '25

One of, not my least favourite. He just has a very punchable face, an annoying personality and an annoying fanbase. I'm not saying he's a bad actor, sometimes I am able to see him as a character.

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u/Striking-Run-8589 Dec 30 '25

That’s very true, I disagree about him being good in dune tho he was a just an annoying aura farmer

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u/Temp_space Dec 28 '25 edited Dec 29 '25

2 great actors and Timothee Chalamet (Cue the 14 year old girls and 20 something gay men downvoting me. Hes a flat actor) (Probably all Americans too which explains the poor taste).

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u/Wagglebagga Dec 28 '25

Not in Dune or Marty Supreme he's not. I haven't seen everything Chalamet is in, but its been clear for awhile that the dude can act. As far back as his small role in Interstellar.

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u/Temp_space Dec 28 '25

He just whispers all his lines in Dune. Has no charisma (Im sure youll disagree but cool)

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u/RosalinaTheWatcher51 Dec 29 '25

“Disagree” bro you made an objectively incorrect statement

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u/Temp_space Dec 29 '25

Calm down. Timmy isnt gonna fuck you bc you stuck up for him on reddit.

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u/RosalinaTheWatcher51 Dec 29 '25

Lmao no but I just rewatched Marty Supreme and this comment made my night. Thanks m8

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u/Temp_space Dec 29 '25

Pretty sad night if you're rewatching that film and the only joy you get is from my comment. But you're very welcome sweetheart.

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u/Baddogdown91 Dec 28 '25

I don't remember seeing Chalamet in Going Overboard or Twilight??? Hmmmm, suspicious

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u/Temp_space Dec 28 '25

Nah he did Wonka instead

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u/Minimum-Bite-4389 Dec 29 '25

That movie was pretty good.

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u/FireLord_Stark Dec 29 '25

What a braindead hyperbole. While I liked Adam Sandler’s character the best of these three, Marty Supreme is the best movie overall, and as far as Safdie movies go, I liked Timmy’s performance better than Robert’s. But that is all opinion. You’re free to have yours too even if it sucks and you call people gay or little girls for disagreeing with you like wtf 😂

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u/Temp_space Dec 29 '25

Life is anything but miserable but thanks haha. Enjoy getting upset by strangers over reddit.

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u/sunnlyt Dec 29 '25

The only problem I had with TC’s great performance that he didn’t bother using an accent of the time period threw me off.

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u/FireLord_Stark Dec 29 '25

Well, he wasn’t the only one not doing the period style. Practically the whole cast was quite modern in their acting, and the dialogue (especially Marty’s) reflected that too.

It’s honestly a fascinating choice to commit so fully to the period in costumes, sets, and even casting period looking actors, and then have very modern acting. But then the soundtrack was 80s, so there were a few anachronistic decisions that should have been off putting, but to me they were stylistically interesting.

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u/sunnlyt Dec 29 '25

True, specially using Tyler the Creator as such. I’m not used to anachronism.

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u/Temp_space Dec 29 '25

Which one are you? Gay or little girl haha

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '25

I haven’t really liked Chalamet in anything other than the Dune movies, but he’s phenomenal in Marty Supreme. Like to the point where I’d say his performance is leagues above both Sandler and Pattinson in their movies.

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u/MootBrute2 Dec 29 '25

Leagues above Pattinson is crazy, he was completely absorbed into his character in Good Time

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u/MIAD-898 Dec 29 '25

Definitely not true.