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I mean what if every episode ended with a different pinky swear it’s called an arc
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Working class, amateurish, and an entirely embarrassing movie. On second watch, it betrayed what I wanted, but that was the point.
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Thanks mostly to this thread I will never watch that film because it sounds like a big pile of poo poo.
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crispix posted:Thanks mostly to this thread I will never watch that film because it sounds like a big pile of poo poo. Honestly it does save you an hour and some change you could use to watch a good mob movie.
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Futanari Damacy posted:I thought El Camino was good. I thought Jesse's story after BB was worth telling, and brevity served it well vs. a drawn out mini-series (my primary complaint about Better Call Saul is it took so long for him to actually become Saul) I get that but, to me, part of the fun was reading posts about This Was The Exact Moment when it finally became Saul but the show portrays it as a sort of gradual transformation and/or evolution. He was Slippin Jimmy, James McGill, Saul Goodman and Gene, depending on the circumstances and what seemed best or motivated him at any given time. Futanari Damacy posted:I don't know that TMSoN would work better as a serial because if it's just going to be more of what it was, well... I don't think so either because I don't think the problems with the movie (overall) came down a lack of exposition or anything. It did have some pacing problems though but overall it was just lovely writing and a bad plot delivered by (mostly) sub par actors who were given bad direction and a terrible script. It didn't need to be told, even though parts of it could have, so I was just spitballing things that may have given us something different and more satisfying. A miniseries might have given us more time to develop some of the characters and stories that were just kind of there for no reason, weren't needed and sometimes just abruptly ended with no real arc to speak of. Sopranos could be a slow burn and bounce around subplots a lot of the time and I think it was mostly better for it. CharlestheHammer posted:I mean what if every episode ended with a different pinky swear it’s called an arc "Where's my arc?"
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You know who had an arc? Noah. 
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Dawgstar posted:You know who had an arc? Noah. Quasimodo predicted that poo poo
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BiggerBoat posted:Well, I liked El Camino a lot and if many folks didn't, I feel comfortable opining that it's leagues better than TMSoN. Oh yeah I liked it, just wish it hadn't come at the expense of BCS. It was a good story well told. Which, yeah, TMSoN was not.
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BiggerBoat posted:Quasimodo predicted that poo poo what, you’re gonna tell me you never pondered that? the back thing with notre dame?
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ulvir posted:what, you’re gonna tell me you never pondered that? the back thing with notre dame? Tony's "No!" is such a perfect blend of bewilderment, exasperation, and anger. It's straight up the funniest line in what is for my money one of the funniest scenes ever put to film. Gandolfini was a treasure.
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I also love the beginning of that scene in the diner where Tony regrets his eggs and tomatoes after seeing Bobbys plate lmao.
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Bobby turning Nostradamus into Quasimodo through a two-step mental process is such a stupid and funny joke that says everything about the character but also cements Sopranos as casually one of the funniest shows ever made.
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The other day I was taking a dump and I just randomly wondered if the show would've taken AJ in the same direction if Robert Illers hadn't turned out to be such a slight built, soft spoken kinda guy.
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While I think it was ultimately for the better that Bobby grew into a more well-rounded character from his early days doofus in a fat suit characterization, I kinda miss the way Schirrupa played him so earnestly while being such a silly fool in his early appearance. I recently finished a rewatch (which was really the first time I watched in the original language and properly paying attention) of The Sopranos and man, what a loving show. I have some morbid curiosity for The Many Saints of Newark but I think I'm just gonna give that a skip and not sour my impression of the show with it.
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Yeah if anything I appreciate the show more. Comparing the two is disfavourable only to the film, it is that much lesser.
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Futanari Damacy posted:Yeah if anything I appreciate the show more. Comparing the two is disfavourable only to the film, it is that much lesser. I’ll tell you one thing though, and I’m not ashamed to say it, my estimation of David Chase as a man just loving plummeted
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PerilPastry posted:I’ll tell you one thing though, and I’m not ashamed to say it, my estimation of David Chase as a man just loving plummeted I'm a Rockford Files fan but if you look at Chase's career Sopranos was more the exception than the rule. There's a lot of crap in there.
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David Chase is one of those guys who spent 30+ years working in television, all the while saying "But what I really wanna do is features." He finally got his chance and it turned out most of what made him a good TV writer and storyteller didn't really translate.
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I do want to point out that David Chase backed out of directing the movie due to a heart attack. Not sure if it would've changed all that much but who knows?
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The guy that replaced him, Alan Taylor, directed Stage 5, Kennedy & Heidi, and the Blue Comet, among a dozen others.
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Skulker posted:The other day I was taking a dump and I just randomly wondered if the show would've taken AJ in the same direction if Robert Illers hadn't turned out to be such a slight built, soft spoken kinda guy. This happens with the majority of child actors because they all get hired to look younger than they are due to SAG/state rules about child working hours. They either hit puberty late and spring up a foot and a half between seasons or just stay on the smaller side with more youthful features.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:The guy that replaced him, Alan Taylor, directed Stage 5, Kennedy & Heidi, and the Blue Comet, among a dozen others. Similarly, Alan Taylor is an HBO mainstay (and a bunch of other prestige TV shows; directed the pilot for Mad Men!) and then his feature film work is stuff like Thor: The Dark World and Terminator Genisys.
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I can understand why a guy known for HBO dramas couldn't pull off MCU and other effects-heavy action films. But I have no loving clue why they asked him in the first place.
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Does TMSoN have any kind of commentary track or DVD release? I would love to hear wtf was going on in his mind with some of this poo poo.
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"Presented without commentary" is itself a commentary
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theflyingexecutive posted:This happens with the majority of child actors because they all get hired to look younger than they are due to SAG/state rules about child working hours. They either hit puberty late and spring up a foot and a half between seasons or just stay on the smaller side with more youthful features. quote:The other day I was taking a dump and I just randomly wondered if the show would've taken AJ in the same direction if Robert Illers hadn't turned out to be such a slight built, soft spoken kinda guy. I don't think AJ's physical stature would have mattered one way or the other to the writing of his character either way. He's shown as a fairly spoiled, coddled, lazy and not too bright son of a mobster with serious depression issues. I don't think if Robert Iler grew to be 6'4", got ripped and started doing action movies it would change his trajectory much. Come to think of it, if anything, having him grow up to look like a bar bouncer might have added to his arc and portrayal a little bit.
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Sadsack AJ but Insanely Buff would've been really funny. Someone should use AI to digitally alter scenes and make that happen (in fact, that's the only artistic thing AI should be used for)
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JethroMcB posted:Sadsack AJ but Insanely Buff would've been really funny. Someone should use AI to digitally alter scenes and make that happen (in fact, that's the only artistic thing AI should be used for) I’m sure someone has already worked on something like taking a scene where they’re all hanging out at Satriale’s or the Bing saying stupid poo poo and making everyone look like Gigachad versions of themselves
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1OO48r8ZUY
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I can understand why a guy known for HBO dramas couldn't pull off MCU and other effects-heavy action films. But I have no loving clue why they asked him in the first place. From what I recall a lot of the time when they get a big name for a Marvel movie they generally direct the dialogue scenes and maybe some of the more stunt-heavy action stuff, and then they have the second-unit directors handle the big CGI energy blast bullshit.
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Da roof is soff tahhhh!
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I coulda fuckin’ thought of that!
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I thought I was daed but I manuged to get the drip on him.
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I must be loyle to my capo.
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Thank you!!!
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so go back inside (5) and get your appraising poo poo (7) and start appraising (5)
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