Posted on 09/23/2021 9:07:30 PM PDT by Albion Wilde
The film whisks us back in time to a four-year period beginning in 1967, when violent race riots erupted in the New Jersey city of Newark. It introduces us to the generation of mobsters we only ever heard about in the TV series, and explains their formative influence on the young Anthony Soprano. [snip]
Fans... will appreciate how well Gandolfini’s son Michael, who was just 13 when his father died eight years ago, plays the future crime lord as a teenager. It’s not just sentimental casting; he’s completely convincing.
They will rejoice, too, in the portrayals of familiar characters as younger men and women...
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Never did figure out why I should watch a series all about a bunch of criminal scum. So I didn’t. Won’t be starting now.
And yet, here you are on the thread, to tell us how much you don’t care?
Should be a good flick.
I binged the entire series a couple of weeks ago in anticipation of this movie.
Is this coming to theaters? streaming? or both?
Good show, but the Corlones would have destroyed him in 10 seconds.
I never watched a single episode of The Sopranos especially since my son said that he was embarrassed to be of Italian descent because Italians were troublemakers and criminals. I reminded him that my Italian-born relatives were upstanding law biding citizens and did not engage in criminal activities.
I’ve never watched the Sopranos . I’m thinking of starting with this film first.
Best series ever - the film should be great.
Let him know the largest and oldest criminal syndicate in the World is Mad Moe's Mafia (Islam). Italy was attacked over and over again by this criminal gang and survived. Not bad when the Godfather you are up against is an evil God!
‘The Sopranos’ was a well-acted and well-written series. It was a masterpiece. But I always felt uncomfortable watching it - to the point that I eventually stopped.
More often than not the Soprano crew won. They were usually successful in intimidating innocents, and stealing everything they could. It was like watching a successful SS squad in action.
So yeah, I gotta agree with you.
Enjoyed Sopranos until the sodomy showed up. Sodomy always jumps the shark.
One of the things about the show, and you only realize in the last season, was that the families were fighting each other so much, they didn’t even realize the whole time the world was starting to pass them by.
There’s a great scene where won of the mobsters starts talking on his cellphone in Little Italy only to realize at the end of the call he was in Chinatown. That scene showed how much Little Italy had shrunk, and it served as a metaphor for how much the clout of the mafia had waned by that time.
Yep, I think somebody at HBO put pressure on Chase to include a gay storyline, it seemed to come right out of the blue.
You mean Vito? It was his blood pressure medication. Screwed with his head.
Had you watched, you would have seen extensive exploration of that concept. Probably the best portrayal of the feelings it can inflict upon Italian descent people ever put on film.
Or how about the scene where they try the old protection racket against the Starbucks, and the kid managing the place tells him how much every bean is accounted for. LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gsz7Gu6agA
It was a slowly unfolding series of tragedies, in which marginally sympathetic characters pique the viewer's interest, even make them laugh—only to squander and then bankrupt what remains of their humanity, one banal decision at a time.
That has to be the best description of The Sopranos that I’ve seen.
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