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Season 5 was the best. Started off the season w/new report of the "old" mob guys getting out of jail, ...Cousin Tony, Angelo, and my favorite of all the recurring characters, Feeches La Manna (who just died as well & maybe Richie in season 2).
And ending w/Adriana.
Druff obviously knows him as Dennis Becker
Joe Santos, who played Lt. Dennis Becker on "The Rockford Files" has died.
Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2016/03/18/joe-sa...#ixzz43HSzlICb
Angelo Garepe btw.
But yes the show definitely still overrated, excellent bump.
It is uncanny how long in the tooth these once excellent TV Dramas become.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
Currently watching Boardwalk Empire. Better than the Sopranos? For sure. 2 seasons too long? Of course.
They got away with murder because it was all so novel, we had incredibly low expectations.
im new here so obviously im just seeing this post for the first time.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME. The Sopranos is and will be one of the greatest shows of all time (if not the greatest). In the lexicon of tv shows (network and cable) nothing can compare to the way the Sopranos started, and finished. It was colossal. James Gandolfini brought so much to his character. All the characters were played to perfection. The show was so perfect, that they even have the DeCavalante crime family of new jersey (on wire tap) talking about how realistic the show was. You can't get better than that.
David Chase wrote some pretty good fucking television back in the day. The Rockford files were fucking great.
Sure, the ending was a bit bad for the series, but who gives a shit? It's still amazing. I can watch these things over and over again no problem. It's like the Godfather. No it's better than the Godfather.
so yeah, Tine, suck it on this one, bc critics all around the fucking world disagree with you. I have to disagree with you.
If i ahd to rank it, it'd say TOP 5 shows of all time (in no order) are Seinfeld, Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad, and Cheers.
you're welcome.
im sure that was a cool story but im not going to read it, random.
TV dramas sucked as a genre up until about 10 years ago, thus putting the words "great" and "sopranos" in the same sentence doesn't signify much.
The tailspin of the sopranos was pretty fucking ugly. Great characters plagued by writers tasked with milking the teet for every last dollar.
Not*disagreeing*with the sentiment of your post but there are and also will be exceptions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sidewinder
I think most of of us can say when and where we were, that*phrase*has been copyrighted, when this hit the airwaves. * *And yes I'm having keyboard issues
When it think of overrated and movies my first thought is J. Depp. Why anyone would pay money to hear him mumble about is beyond me.
He's like Prince, everyone thinks he's this mysterious prodigy on another level. In reality he's just some fuckin weirdo who luckboxed it in Hollywood. Amber Heard cashing in on Depp? Sounds like she's been cataloging bruises "supposedly from Depp" for quite some time. Almost like this was planned. There's a photo of her with a lil redness around her eye, no swelling or no bruising. We'll have to see what else she has in her catalog of bruises, smh.
I played Hold em with AJ Soprano last month
If aj is Tony sopranos son. I served him twice..Quote:
Originally Posted by OSA
He always came in about 3am drunk as shit but good tiper. 12$ on a 27$ check
Soprano, s was a while ago and for its time , was excellent..
I served gandolfini once.
He was like a big hippie. A large scruffy beard, shirt and sandles and a t shirt. But with a over sized Rolex.. Had a turkey sandwich at the counter lquetlt and eft $5..
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Originally Posted by sonatine
What I would say is after this show you couldn't go to sparks without being surrounded by every Paulie wannabe from ronkonkoma and every gentlemens club started getting attitudes about baseball caps. A blight this show was.
A couple of paisanos apparently clipped his Rollie. Now that watch has provenance but who would believe it.Quote:
Originally Posted by thespartenIf aj is Tony sopranos son. I served him twice..Quote:
Originally Posted by OSA
He always came in about 3am drunk as shit but good tiper. 12$ on a 27$ check
Soprano, s was a while ago and for its time , was excellent..
I served gandolfini once.
He was like a big hippie. A large scruffy beard, shirt and sandles and a t shirt. But with a over sized Rolex.. Had a turkey sandwich at the counter lquetlt and eft $5..
I grew up in the throggs neck/city island part of the Bronx. Very Italian. We were Jersey shore before they was a Jersey shore.Quote:
Originally Posted by SrslySiriusThere's nothing groundbreaking about anti-heroes, those sort of characters have existed forever. I don't think the Sopranos even did a very good job at this. Virtually every character is shallow and unlikable, unrelatable and hard to root for. If character depth and moral gray area is your bag, the Wire does it better.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyG_415
That said, I may be talking out of my ass since I only watched half its run. Maybe it got better.
In the 80,s it was all mobsters and Italian social clubs. My best friend during that period WAS a bannano not just the crime family but was the hierarchy becouse his name was bannano..
They had a very large house in Westchester country with the in ground swimming pool ect ect. Which is a big deal on the east coast , perhaps not a big deal in bubble fuck USA..
Sopranos was good and more "realistic".. Not my opinion, but the truth.that being said.
It's not a glamorous life but is occasionally very cool.
I assume to have survived in NY this long, this place is good, but what is its NY Steak House Power Rating?Quote:
Originally Posted by CrackPipes and KakfightsQuote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
What I would say is after this show you couldn't go to sparks without being surrounded by every Paulie wannabe from ronkonkoma and every gentlemens club started getting attitudes about baseball caps. A blight this show was.
Not sure of the ratings but the food was okay. But the gumba vibe gets a little old.Quote:
Originally Posted by SidewinderI assume to have survived in NY this long, this place is good, but what is its NY Steak House Power Rating?Quote:
Originally Posted by CrackPipes and Kakfights
OMG YOU GUYS PAULIE HATES HIS FAKE MOM
next on real housewives of who the fuck cares.
i mean honestly.
I may have seen this thread before, but if i didnt.....
'Tine, what the fuck drugs are you on creating a thread like this.
Sopranos is GOD. end thread.
You seem like a smart dude, and the times i've heard you on the radio you sounded intellectual.
but this? this piece of shit thread here is....well......no words to describe it. maybe asinine.
Maybe i'll comb through this thread and see what sound reasoning you have for thinking the Sopranos was overrated.
OMG YALL CARMELLA HAS TO UNLOAD TO SOMEONE BUT ITS JUST NOT IN HER CULTURE TO DO SO, WOWWWWWWWWWW SO BRAVE WHAT A MULtIFACETED AND COMPLEX CHARACTER
Does anyone remember like 4 years ago when jaces opinion on things wasn't considered a total joke
Disagree, I saw an episode last night out of randomness, some of the best acting I have seen in a while, I forgot how good it was. It's a fucking shame James Gandolfini dropped dead at age 51. Honestly, he could have been the next Marlon Brando. I say that with reservation, because Apocalypse Now and The Godfather were the two greatest cinematic pieces of all time.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
The cops def made it the easy reason to say Breaking Bad was better.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
Ohhhh, a black and white guy partner up on the force. Ohhhh, the rogue cop has issues with his superiors. Ohhhh, the cop's irish and has a drinking problem. Ohhhh, the cop's divorced and is getting too old for this shit. etc
im not ready to say breaking bad was better than the wire because despite everything you said being written in biblical stones true, pretty much every single scene in the wire that didnt have white people in it was transcendent.
it also had this footage from my birthday party, which i celebrate literally every day of my life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dpCmnn_cCs
note that neither the wire nor breaking bad had a single scene with AJ moping, making them both technically superior to the sopranos series.
I liked sopranos, kids that watch it fresh today tell me it's fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
I think Chase said he originally meant it to work as a comedy almost, so watching it through that lens helps. The characters are so dumb and simultaneously shitty, it's great.
Def not BB/Wire however.
Another thing about BB that puts it ahead for me is the cinematography, and directing. Some scenes just straight up look like There Will Be Blood pretty, and some episodes are direted like a coen brothers film
thats frightfully tall praise. perhaps comparing it to Paul Thomas Anderson is a bit much but i appreciate your enthusiasm.
i think what kinda soured me on BB was that at the end of the day, Walt was a real piece of shit and made stupid decisions. and i dont really go balls deep emotionally for shows that hang ten on that wave, and there are a lot of them.
you touch upon an important point re chase's vision; youre right of course, it did start out as kind of a campy take on those noir gangster movies, eg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vndyfes3Muo
and then as the show went on, they realized they had a hit on their hands so they needed to stretch it out and milk it, but they werent clever enough to make that work as a comedy so they fell back on pure drama.
sorry but thats weak as fuck.
look at Leftovers on HBO; three seasons and probably the greatest series finale in cable tv history. that show fucks. why? it had the discipline to follow its equation and stick the landing instead of hanging out and turning into the old creepy guy in the club, which is exactly what sopranos was for like 3 straight seasons at least.
Sadly this. I'm still rather fond of it but imagine it will have gotten long in the tooth if i rewatch.Quote:
Originally Posted by sonatine
Ive heard too much about Leftovers to keep avoiding. I initially bailed after like 4 or 5 episodes but have heard nothing but rave reviews since it concluded.
Leftovers is worth gutting through. There is a larger conversation to be had but I hate setting expectations on high-art like this.
bump
I bet you would just looooooove Ozarks lol.
Get Shorty on Epix is the best show out right now. I didn't give it a chance at first because I'd never seen a show that didn't suck with the same name as a movie before. Also I expected to totally hate Narcos once the only character I could identify with died but then Jorge happened and it turned out to be not terrible.
OH MY GOD GUYS CARM HAS A COLD AND AJ CNAT BRING HER A BREAKFAST TRAY WITHOUT SPILLING THE OJ EVERYWHERE HES SO AWKWARD BUt ITS JUST THAT AGE I GUESS LOL
the best is when AJ asks Carm if he can go online and she's using the only modem line in the house.
oh those were the days
if you nerds ever feel trolled by tine just know this is how dumb he is on a macro level
also in case you dick sucks forgot part one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV-D5SvQnF0