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Post by Capo on Jul 22, 2007 20:29:33 GMT
Season four disappointed me so much when I first viewed it; but no, it's fantastic. It's actually the one I'm looking forward to re-watching the most. (I start season one again soon. It's also the darkest season.
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Post by Capo on Nov 27, 2007 1:03:31 GMT
I've started a retrospective. Saw the first five episodes of season one in two sittings. I forgot how funny it is early on, and how great the singular episodes are written. "Meadowlands" is a great episode, so is "College", so is "46 Long". Tony pucnhing Mikey Palmice then stapling his jacket is one of my favourite scenes in the show, it gives me such satisfaction. I just noticed too the reference to The Godfather when Tony drops the stapler like Michael drops his gun after killing Sollozzo and McClusky.
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Post by Jenson71 on Nov 27, 2007 5:09:04 GMT
I've watched the first four episodes of Season 1 so far. I'm in love. This is like when I watched The Godfathers. This culture is an absolute thrill. Italy. The Goombah's from the old neighborhood. The Church, the crime, the family, the food, the accents, the references to my favorite films. I love it.
Uncle Junior is, aside from Tony, my favorite character. I think the actor is terrific. He's like Lee Strasberg's Hyman Roth.
"How many fucking hours did I play catch with you!?"
I don't consider myself very impressionable. Or rather, I don't think films or TV or songs leave an apparent impression on me. With books, it's very subtle. You know, for instance, I'm the last person to remember lines from a movie unless I've seen it over 3 times. But, again, like the Godfathers, I find my own thoughts blurring with the world of the Sopranos. And I like it.
Now let's have some pasta, you f***s.
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Post by Capo on Nov 27, 2007 9:56:39 GMT
Did you realise that Dominic Chianese (Uncle Junior) is in The Godfather Part II? I agree, great actor.
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Post by Jenson71 on Nov 28, 2007 4:27:50 GMT
Did you realise that Dominic Chianese (Uncle Junior) is in The Godfather Part II? I agree, great actor. He's Johnny Ola?! That's awesome - I never would have seen it, with the 30 years difference and all.
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Post by svsg on Nov 28, 2007 4:37:40 GMT
Did you realise that Dominic Chianese (Uncle Junior) is in The Godfather Part II? I agree, great actor. He's Johnny Ola?! That's awesome - I never would have seen it, with the 30 years difference and all. Jenson71, for your fondness of Mafia, Godfather, Sopranos, Italian culture etc., gangsterbb.net is a great place.
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Post by Jenson71 on Nov 28, 2007 5:53:05 GMT
No doubt, Mr. svsg. That's how I found this place (actually the place before this place). I'm not registered there, but every once in a while I read some stuff about The Godfather and more in the threads. See, I have recognized my weakness. If I registered and started making friends there, on top of here and the other place (chiefsplanet.com) I'm already at, I could be destroyed.
"GangsterBB may run North Jersey, but it doesn't run Jenson!"
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Post by Capo on Dec 2, 2007 1:35:52 GMT
SEASON ONE SPOILERS THROUGHOUTI finished season one last night (watched the last seven episodes back-to-back). It's the first time I've revisited it since the show ended, and I cried at several moments, many of which were scenes between AJ and Tony. (AJ looking at his dad at Jackie's funeral; Tony making AJ dessert, squirting cream in his mouth). Also, Dominic Chianese is fantastic: I love it when the Feds knock on his door in the last episode, and he comes to the window. "Ffffuck!"
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Post by Capo on Dec 9, 2007 2:57:11 GMT
Just watched "From Where to Eternity" earlier today. About the mid-way point in season two. I always enjoy season two when I watch it but never really remember much once I hit season three and beyond. It gains much from David Proval. As Richie Aprile, he's a necessarily sick, deranged fuck, Tony's most dangerous foe up to that point in the show (for me, not equalled till Phil Leotardo comes in). As for Proval: who would have thought gentle Tony from Mean Streets could be such a hard-assed prick. I think Aida Turturro and David Proval's induction into the show brings out the best of Gandolfini's acting.
In the mall, after Richie has paralysed Beansie (I'm paraphrasing):
Tony: "Oh yeah, well he's something you should remember. I'm the motherfucking fucking one who calls the shots round here, and you better start showing me the respect I deserve, or we're gonna have a problem here." Richie [beat]: "Okay, Ton'. Alright." Tony: "Yeah, alright."
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Post by Capo on Dec 11, 2007 4:48:36 GMT
MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE SHOW
I seem to be re-watching all of the episodes with the quite fatalistic view that Tony does in fact die in the finale. I don't necessarily think he does, but I can't shirk the fact that even if he doesn't, some day he will. In short, I'm viewing this show now in quite a different light than before it ended. It's fascinating and fantastic.
Dominic Chianese and Nancy Marchand steal season one, by the way.
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Post by Capo on Jan 6, 2008 22:12:20 GMT
This is, without doubt for me now, the finest thing I've ever seen. Christ.
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Post by deniro on Jan 8, 2008 20:24:38 GMT
I wonder if Chase is secretly writing any more episodes, i would love to think that he is.
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Post by jrod on Jan 15, 2008 5:29:49 GMT
I liked Season 6a much better on my second time around
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Post by Capo on Jan 15, 2008 13:14:42 GMT
I liked Season 6a much better on my second time around Yeah, it's excellent. The most self-reflexive season by far, a major turning point with many characters having identity crises. People have major grievances with Vito's homosexuality prominent, but for me it's as if Chase and co. are taking the most forbidden of Mafia sins and exploring not so much Vito as those around him. A lot of characters show their true colours in 6a... and Tony's the fairest of them all.
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Post by jrod on Jan 16, 2008 0:06:21 GMT
I found watching them alone made a big difference too. Not to be pretentious, but most people don't "get" the show...those first few episodes of the season with the "Kevin Finnerty" dream sequences are amazing. Watching them by myself Ive noticed a lot more and its refreshing not to have 5 other people in the room saying "what the fuck" after every scene change. The scene with Buscemi is one of my favorite moments of the whole series.
Lastly, I would say that my preference is to watch the episodes in blocks of 3 or so, and finish a whole season in 3 or 4 days. Things stay fresh in your memory, and subplots for each character come together better. While most of the episodes stand on their own (some better then others), they truly belong together as a set. ESPECIALLY in 4 and 6a (coincidentally, the less murder heavy seasons)
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Post by Capo on Jan 16, 2008 0:10:28 GMT
Yeah, I'll watch three episodes if I can, sometimes more. Season 5 is the most disparate, and possibly the worst - though its standard is still very high. I've hit a fucking deadend, though, coming back to uni. My laptop doesn't play DVDs anymore, and so I put season 5 disc 3 into the DVD player downstairs earlier, but couldn't find the remote. I asked my housemate where it was, and she said, "Oh, I left it at home, sorry". I felt like knocking her teeth out. Films are fine, then, but for stuff where you need to go left and right on the menu screen (to choose episodes), it's a no-go. MAJOR .
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Post by Michael on Jan 22, 2008 0:56:51 GMT
This show is stocked with unlikeable characters, most of which are portrayed by shitty actors reading corny lines pulled from Italian stereotypes. The storylines are uninteresting and any type of philosophical or emotional message implied is delivered in such a shallow and obvious manner, I feel insulted by whoever wrote it.
I watched an epsiode the other night where Fin is first introduced to Vito and I almost stabbed my eyes out because of how awful it was. The part where Fin was talking to Meadow about his uneasiness with the people at the construction site gave me the worst kind of diarrhea.
Fin: Didn't you used to have a boyfriend that got killed or something?
Meadow: He was killed by drug dealers, African Americans if it makes you feel better.
*DVC changes the channel
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Post by Michael on Jan 22, 2008 1:03:26 GMT
I don't understand how the writers of this show expect me to give a shit about these people's lives.
Are they trying to make the viewer sympathize with mafia thugs by showing the human side of them that we can relate to? Are they going for shock value by showing just how cold and inhuman these people can be?
Or is it simply entertainment?
Either way, it does nothing for me.
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Post by Omar on Jan 22, 2008 1:28:12 GMT
I don't understand how the writers of this show expect me to give a shit about these people's lives. Do you have to "give a shit" about "people's lives" in a show or film to be interested in it? To like it? Personally speaking, I don't, and if I catered my viewing for such, then I would not see so much. (not meant to rhyme)
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Post by Jenson71 on Jan 22, 2008 1:42:38 GMT
I don't understand how the writers of this show expect me to give a shit about these people's lives. Are they trying to make the viewer sympathize with mafia thugs by showing the human side of them that we can relate to? Are they going for shock value by showing just how cold and inhuman these people can be? Or is it simply entertainment? To me, what's so great about this show (and I've only seen the first season, keep in mind) is that the creators do all three - and near perfectly! It is entertaining; it does show this "human side" or normal lifestyle of these people; and they are cold and nasty and brutal, and it can be shocking. We're kind of like Bracco's character. We get a little swept up in all this.
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