10 CGI Movie Shots You Never Noticed

8. Howard's Shrinking Eyes - Uncut Gems

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Uncut Gems is a stressful enough movie before you even consider terrifying nonsense like this, where directors Josh and Benny Safdie used subtle CGI to further toy with audiences.

Early on, after Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler) first gazes upon the rare black opal which comes to consume him, he says his infamous one-liner ("Holy s**t, I'm gonna cum!"), at which point you should look closely at his eyes.

Suddenly, Howard's eyes appear to subtly shrink in their sockets.

While at first there was debate about whether Adam Sandler simply could've scrunched his face or squinted in a way which made his eyes appear smaller, the Safdies addressed the matter twice on Twitter, claiming both times that Howard is "possessed."

Though Uncut Gems' mere $19 million budget evidently didn't allow much in the way of VFX, it could at least stretch to giving the Sandman creepily shrunken eyes, because that's what's really important in this movie, right?

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