Stitch
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First episode is the pilot and was shot about a year before they did the rest of the season so it's pretty rough.
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The Sopranos: The Many Saints of Newark (2021) - first trailer
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Putonahappyface
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Over hyped and under delivered.
NickFire
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I really enjoyed it, but I was dissapointed when it ended. The reason was it felt like the end of a second to last tv show episode. It just felt incomplete, but I loved everything else about it. On a positive note, I read an article saying Chase signed a 5 year deal last week. So it seems the chances are very high for a prequel series to pick the story up. I'm super excited at that possibility.
It felt like it was written by television writers. There were threads and subplots that were hinted at , that would have been explored had it been a series. But a movie has a finite arc, a notion that escaped the script.
They say a sequel is in the works. This time, Chase is working with Terence Winter. Winter wrote “The Wolf of Wall Street” so he can at least write a legible cinema narrative. But I wouldn’t be surprised if many here would say “who cares?”
They say a sequel is in the works. This time, Chase is working with Terence Winter. Winter wrote “The Wolf of Wall Street” so he can at least write a legible cinema narrative. But I wouldn’t be surprised if many here would say “who cares?”
Excess
Member
Just got around to seeing it. Huge Sopranos fan, and I'm originally from North Jersey so I get all giddy when Imperoli says shit like "I met death on Route 23."
Very underwhelming, and for one very big reason: The acting.
The acting is what made The Sopranos, for me. And while Gandolfini was at the center of it, the supporting cast were all NJ/NY natives and/or had previous experience working in mob films, so all of it was believable. With Saints, however, none of the top brass actors are actually from the area nor had much experience in mob roles. Even the over-usage of Italian American slang was a bit cringe to the point where it was like watching people pretend to play caricatures of these people.
And where was the silver-lining in acting? From the characters who are Jersey natives: Vera Farminga, Ray Liotta and Joey Diaz. In fact, Vera's portrayal of Livia was spot on. Nancy Marchand would have been proud.
Very underwhelming, and for one very big reason: The acting.
The acting is what made The Sopranos, for me. And while Gandolfini was at the center of it, the supporting cast were all NJ/NY natives and/or had previous experience working in mob films, so all of it was believable. With Saints, however, none of the top brass actors are actually from the area nor had much experience in mob roles. Even the over-usage of Italian American slang was a bit cringe to the point where it was like watching people pretend to play caricatures of these people.
And where was the silver-lining in acting? From the characters who are Jersey natives: Vera Farminga, Ray Liotta and Joey Diaz. In fact, Vera's portrayal of Livia was spot on. Nancy Marchand would have been proud.