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Me and my roommate just finished season 5 and now I'm hoping the prequel has young versions of Tony Blundetto, Ralphie, and Jackie Sr. gently caress, if they can find someone who can play a young Robert Loggia, we could get to see Jackie and Tony take down Feech LaMana's poker game, that could be pretty dope.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:When Scorsese was walking into the night club someone yells out “ Kundun! I liked it!” Christopher's the one who yells that to Scorsese, it's pretty great. Watching Season 5 and Season 6 back to back, I never noticed the visual callback between AJ's long hair and Tony's long hair when he was around that age (there's a real quick flashback in S5 of Tony and Tony B. when they were kids and both were long haired rockers like AJ).
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Feb 8, 2019 21:47
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Me and my roommate were cracking up when we realized both Buster and Gob Bluth showed up in the Sopranos at some point.   And while watching the last episodes of S5, the scene with Carmella and Angie having dinner made me realize the actress who played Angie (Richie's gf who he cheats on with Karen Allen) was Despie in the Wanderers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lw0G8iiSQk ruddiger fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Feb 9, 2019 |
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Feb 9, 2019 01:46
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Who ate all the gabagoo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqE7ZxH7BJE
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Feb 15, 2019 02:10
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The show's pretty brutal in its portrayal of Carmella and her purposeful ignorance regarding Adriana's death. She literally dreams about it and the next morning doesn't even give it a second thought while pouring over her blueprints to the building Tony bought her, which was only given to her to do exactly that.
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Mar 1, 2019 05:21
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Solice Kirsk posted:And he did it because Carmela put it into his head that Chris was going to betray him. Sure, he internalized it as saving Chris' daughter, but then had that dream where he laid out exactly why he did it to Melfi. Man, I should finish the rewatch I started awhile ago. Season 5 and 6 is always when I stall out, but there is a lot of good stuff in there. That's the best dream of the series too because there's no lead up and it catches you off guard how he just casually throws out the "I've murdered friends and family before. My cousin Tony, my friend Pussy..." and then wakes up in a panic because he thought he was blabbing in his sleep.
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Mar 4, 2019 21:09
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I think my favorite character is Rosalie Aprile. She never made any excuses for her lifestyle and didn't try to rationalize what happened to Jackie Sr or Jackie Jr. Since she doesn't internalize her grief, she doesn't live in misery like Carm. Plus she has some really funny moments, like when she's talking to Adriana (who's talking with the Feds) about Pussy and Judas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i6owKGSCQw
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Mar 5, 2019 18:15
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Mahoning posted:The only movie that I feel like it aped Scorsese and actually managed to pull it off is Boogie Nights. But Paul Thomas Anderson is pretty amazing in his own right. A Bronx Tale should go in this category too. Also, later seasons Christopher would never make that "Luis Brazzi" mistake.
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Mar 10, 2019 22:10
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Thinking about lil' Vito stepping in his own poo poo in the shower room at school. I felt bad for that little dude.
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Mar 13, 2019 19:06
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I forgot all about Brendan from S1. When I rewatched the show with my roommate, he pointed out the actor who played Brendan's also the rear end in a top hat antagonist from Beer League.
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Mar 18, 2019 17:16
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Solice Kirsk posted:Pretty much this whole scene is great. Paulie being himself, Tony getting more and more flustered, followed immediately by Tony making one of the few actually funny jokes he makes. That poo poo is funny, but goddamn what a brutal scene. Tony even makes poor Patsy kiss the ring later on in the episode and forces him to say "I put my loss behind me" so Tony could fee better about having his twin brother clipped. I like that by the end of the show, Patsy gets a little bit of revenge by reveling in the fact that his son's going to probably marry Meadow.
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Mar 19, 2019 19:57
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I love the talk Tony has with AJ after AJ's failed attempt to kill Junior, when AJ brings up how Tony and all his friends cheer and poo poo when they watch gangster movies, and Tony broken heartedly tells him it's just a movie.
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Mar 23, 2019 00:25
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What did Abe Lincoln ever do to have such a disgusting thing named after him.
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Mar 24, 2019 05:45
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crispix posted:Something that I didn't quite pick up on so much when I watched this when I was younger is just how grossly socially inept so many characters in the mob are. It's seen most clearly so far when Mikey is talking about the tailor's grandson's death in graphic detail while the man is standing right in front of him. I guess it reinforces that these people are complete sociopaths with no capacity for empathy. My favorite example of this is after Tony and Christopher rob the bikers. They run out of things to say to each other really quickly and start awkwardly repeating their jokes, it's a brutal revelation on the dynamic of their relationship. "Wuwuwe're with the Vipers!" is such a great line reading from Tony. 
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Mar 26, 2019 23:26
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Pulcinella di Bund posted:
The end of that scene is so loving touching, I love Ginny and Johnny Sack's relationship in this show. When I was rewatching the show last year with my roommate, I was dreading the season where Johnny dies because I somehow got it in my head that Ginny got murdered shortly after, to the point that I could visualize a scene of Ginny getting chased through her house by her killer, I was so relieved when that never ended up happening.
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Apr 11, 2019 19:53
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Dawgstar posted:This is James Gandolfini's son Michael as Young Tony in the Soproanos prequel. Is he wearing fake teeth in that pic, or is his front tooth really chipped like his pops?
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Apr 18, 2019 18:06
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JethroMcB posted:That dude completely sucks Matush was one of Jackie Jr's friends? Ooof. That guy knew how to pick 'em.
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Apr 25, 2019 00:22
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Dawgstar posted:Her hair though. Pre-Raphaelite they call it. I like when Johnny describes Ginny as Ruebenesque. As for Janice... any girl that lets you hold a gun to her head while having sex is definitely a keeper.
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Apr 26, 2019 03:54
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Solice Kirsk posted:The fact that no one is safe from him with the exception of his immediate family is one of the most frightening things about his character. I can't think of any of his "family" that he didn't consider killing at some point. Maaaaaybe SIlvio, but I think there was a moment in the Tony B saga where he threatened him. Didn't Silvio undermine Tony at some point too? I remember Tony telling Sil to back off of some caper in some ep, and after talking to T, he told his guys to pull off the job anyway.
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Apr 27, 2019 00:55
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I just watched this Psycho-knock off called Don't Go In The House and a young Dan Grimaldi (Patsy Parrissi) plays the lead in it.
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Apr 28, 2019 20:42
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goodog posted:the crew is shocked by the way Furio views Colombus and De Nort' . 
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May 6, 2019 20:20
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Vichan posted:
Just remembered when Artie starts wearing one earring. 
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May 8, 2019 00:00
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Kevyn posted:The Seinfeld finale wasn’t hated because everyone wanted Jerry & Elaine to get together, it was hated because it sucked. It was just a bad, stupid episode. Did you not like the last story arc or how the story arc concluded? The finale's story ran across a few episodes and felt not only true to that plot line, but to the series as a whole. There's really no other way for that show to end. What did you think of the sopranos ending?
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May 10, 2019 03:50
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That last shot of Feech on the bus going back to the pokey is so loving good. Loggia stole the show when he was on it.
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May 13, 2019 21:49
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Solice Kirsk posted:I think she does. Tony gives her plane tickets to get her away from him and it backfires. I think the last time we see Livia this season, she's on the phone in the airport TSA office, telling Tony the cops know the tickets were stolen/dirty/whatever.
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May 13, 2019 22:19
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Your Gay Uncle posted:They do about 10 things an episode that would realistically get them locked up. They never worry about finger prints, picking up shell casings etc. I remember one episode where Tony pulls out a sawed off shot gun from his glove box. If he got pulled over with that it’s like 5 years minimum. I forget, did they ever do the "spit on a dead body that will eventually be found by law enforcement" bit? They did that poo poo in Sons of Anarchy so much, it became comical.
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May 14, 2019 03:13
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Dawgstar posted:I also count myself fortunate that even down here in Elvis Country some Italian-Americans opened up a pizzeria not two blocks from my house. It's not the best pizza in town, but it's close and everything they make is amazing. Especially their garlic knots and calzone. Did you know an Italian invented the telephone too? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFSDDVO4HaU
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May 23, 2019 23:06
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My roommate is an Emmy award winning vfx artist and when we watched the cg Livia episode, I kept glancing in his direction to see if he noticed. He didn't lol. Once I told him he mentioned the dialogue seemed a bit off in that scene but he didn't catch anything visually, we rewatched the scene and he laughed his rear end off at how noticeable it is when it's pointed out.
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May 29, 2019 00:25
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Ralphie was supposed to be a part of the original card game robbery and lamented missing out on his chance at glory. I always felt like he was trying to recapture a little bit of that by mentoring Jackie Jr. He definitely put the seed there on purpose, but in Ralphie's own hosed up frame of thought, he probably thought he was giving Jackie a shot at something he missed out on.
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Jun 4, 2019 17:30
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No Wave posted:I'm saying I don't buy her and Ralphie. He's not appealing enough, even understanding its a bad/abusive relationship. It doesnt feel plausible like all of the others in the show. I mean, you can say the same thing about Christopher and Adriana. She's like a 30 and even without his violent outbursts and addiction to narcotics, Chris' unibrow puts him at like a 3, but he's a made guy, who's mob royalty, much like Ralphie. Hell, how the gently caress did Artie's goony bald rear end hold onto Charmaine, or Pussy with Angie? Even when Vito was thinner, he still looked like a chubby little stump of a man, but his wife's a knockout. It's a little weird that out of all the lopsided, power dominated relationships in this show, this is the one that stuck out to you.
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Jun 5, 2019 22:23
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Tracee seemed like the same type of girl that Sharon Stone played in Casino, except without the realization of the kind of power she held over certain men. Her relationship with Ralphie holds a lot of parallels with how Sharon Stone's character was used and manipulated by James Woods' character.
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Jun 5, 2019 22:26
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I think the therapy sessions also helped Tony see the forest from the trees, in that he had no clue where his panic attacks/black outs were coming from, which scared the poo poo out of him. Then of course through therapy, he's able to remember that oh yeah, he blacked out when he was a kid too, and it also turned out his dad suffered from the same affliction (not to mention uncle hercule). If anything, it prepared him for when AJ started having his own panic attacks.
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Jun 16, 2019 03:51
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AJ giving Carmela a DVD copy of the Matrix for her birthday is the most AJ moment of the entire series.
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Jun 18, 2019 19:16
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AJ's going to help finance Cleaver II.
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Jun 24, 2019 02:27
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Jerusalem posted:Season 3, Episode 12 - Amour Fou Interesting parallel here with Johnny Sack's wife, who he refers to as Ruebenesque, and their family dynamic in contrast with the Sopranos. Johnny loves his wife unconditionally and never cheats on her, gives his daughter's engagement his blessing and throws a lavish wedding in her honor (as opposed to Tony's issues with all of Meadow's suitors), and openly weeps when taken from his family, something he's immediately mocked for by his fellow mob associates.
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Jun 30, 2019 10:02
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I liked Paulie up until the stuff with his mom. That came off as really disgusting and still true to his character, which made me realize that nah, this guy is a real piece of poo poo.
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Jul 1, 2019 05:26
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No Wave posted:AJ made his account in 2005 and was banned for asking for filez. He would definitely make a "Hi, I'm new" post in gbs.
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Jul 2, 2019 20:53
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Dawgstar posted:While I'm not as conflicted on what the series finale means as I used to be, Tony has to be thinking that even if he made way more money than Junior ever did Junior's current situation is probably his most likely future . I think the big difference between Tony and his uncle is that Tony has a wife and kids while Junior never married and has no heirs. Tony's a selfish prick, but he's also very protective and loving towards both his children. One of the things I like about the show is how it focuses on the fallout on the family when a mobster dies. Dickie's death influences Christopher from beyond the grave. We see the entitlement of Jackie Jr who always saw himself following in his fathers footsteps. We see what happens to lil Vito after his dad gets it. The very first episode, Tony's talking about how he feels like he came in at the end, because he had to fill his fathers shoes and saw the shifting of the generational guard. The show's very much about legacies and the good/damage they cause. One way or another, Tony's fate is already sealed, as is the legacy he left for his children.
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Jul 7, 2019 22:24
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It'll be hosed up if the prequel reveals the cop was given the go ahead to kill Dickie from Tony.
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Jul 9, 2019 21:18
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The actor who plays Artie shows up in Jessica Jones as a NYPD detective. He's looking pretty old, but I enjoyed his performance in it.
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Jul 12, 2019 20:13
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