Well The Many Saints of Newark was a piece of shit.

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PaxVenire

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I had started The Sopranos around a month or two ago and binged the hell out of that show for the first time. Loved it, absolutely incredible. I finished the show about a day or two before the movie was released, so I was kind of looking forward to it. Didn't follow the development of the movie, so I had no set expectations. Had I read about all the delays and conflicts in the making of this movie maybe I'd be a bit more prepared, but nevertheless I went in blind.

All I really have to say about it is good God, what the fuck was that?
 
I thought it was okay. Felt like watching a few random episodes mid-series of the Sopranos. Aimless and not particularly interesting but I didn't think it was poor.
 
It felt very poorly done to me. It’s aimless, but not in a way the show is aimless. It feels like it has no focus unintentionally. One of the biggest marketing ads for this movie was “Who made Tony Soprano?”, but the movie doesn’t show you that very well at all. The bond Tony had with Dickie was good, but there was no real connection to Dickie making Tony what he was in the show, it simply wasn’t there. Hated the fact that Christopher narrates the movie and tells you almost every time he speaks that Tony killed him, that was very unnecessary especially for people who are watching this movie before the show as it’s supposed to be a prequel. In my opinion, no narration was needed at all. I will say the actors who play younger version of the show’s characters do a good job (except maybe for Sil who I thought was a bit too on the nose), but aside from that it felt like two or three movies mashed into one. Which reading about the development of the movie, it kinda was. This movie felt like a trilogy spliced into one with the Newark Riots, the Harold arc, and then Dickie and Tony’s relationship. I didn’t much like the Harold part of the story either as it goes nowhere. Mini gripe, I get it was for the movie but realistically, hitting a made man in the 60s when Cosa Nostra was at its height should have the entire five families hunting you down, but at the end Harold is just there. He should be scared to breathe air anywhere near New York/New Jersey. Felt very fan fiction-y like Mafia III. I could probably pick apart more but that's mainly what comes off the top of my head. Oh and baby Chrissy crying at Tony and then having that one lady explain it's a bad omen was soooooo bad my god.
 
JunjiItosGio said:
Hated the fact that Christopher narrates the movie and tells you almost every time he speaks that Tony killed him, that was very unnecessary especially for people who are watching this movie before the show as it’s supposed to be a prequel.
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Yeah, that's pretty damn stupid. Let's spoil the death of one of the main characters in a movie that might entice people that never watched the series to watch the series.
 
I also thought it was okay. Feels like it was trying to go three directions at once between Tony, Dickie and that black guy. I liked a lot of the characters and the actor’s performances but the plot was kind of all over the place.
 
Whining about a dead character in a series where everyone knows Tony kills everyone is silly though. I'm on S4 and I know he kills everyone. It is obviously leading up to it.
 
TorontoReign said:
Whining about a dead character in a series where everyone knows Tony kills everyone is silly though. I'm on S4 and I know he kills everyone. It is obviously leading up to it.
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Yeah, i remember that scene where Tony kills Carmella, Meadow, AJ, Silvio, Paulie, Doctor Melfi , Corrado Junior, Janice, Artie Bucco and Patsy. Don't know where Tony got the minigun though, but i did find the scene hilarious.
 
It’s still poorly executed then. The movie doesn’t even need narration, especially if the narration is just Christopher finding a way to shove it in the viewer’s face that he was murdered or that he went to Hell for Tony like 3-4 times. Watching the show for the first time, I didn’t know jack, had I waited to watch the movie first I would’ve been kinda pissed having that spoiled for me when it adds nothing to the film overall.
 
Norzan said:
Yeah, i remember that scene where Tony kills Carmella, Meadow, AJ, Silvio, Paulie, Doctor Melfi , Corrado Junior, Janice, Artie Bucco and Patsy. Don't know where Tony got the minigun though, but i did find the scene hilarious.
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You know what the hell I am talking about. I'm not saying it sounds like it is well done. I'm saying spoiler reasons is bullshit. Your arguments are getting worse and worse every day I come here.
 
TorontoReign said:
You know what the hell I am talking about. I'm not saying it sounds like it is well done. I'm saying spoiler reasons is bullshit. Your arguments are getting worse and worse every day I come here.
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No, just no. Spoiling the death of a character that shows up like 30 years after the movie is absolutely retarded. There's no point and it adds nothing to the movie, except decrease the enjoyment of potential new viewers to the series. Imagine if Better Call Saul spoiled Walter White's death. That would be stupid.

The entire point of a prequel is to show events that weren't mentioned in the movie/series/whatever that comes after in the timeline or elaborate on events that were mentioned. Not spoil events that come several decades after. What does Cristopher's death have to do with this fucking movie? Nothing, it has nothing to do with it, and yet it's still spoiled.
 
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Comming from the old MRPG & LSRP communities back in 06' and up til' 17' we were revearing the show like it was religion. Michael did an incredible job portraying his fathers character. But wtf did they do to Silvio ..:irked:?
 
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