I thought the last episode was great. There was no way to please everyone and I think the cut to black as Tony looked up to see who next was coming through the door was the only way to end it. Plus it leaves the door open for a five hundred million dollar making movie.

I'm still trying to figure out what to make of John from Cincinnati. It looks like it will either be a total piece of crap or some ingenious new idea, but I've never seen anything like it.

 

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Tony being Tony from The Soprano's.

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i'm a lazy fuck, so i'm just gonna copy and paste my tv.com review.

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Little of this, little of that, little to nothing. The Sopranos died not with a Bada Bang but with a Bada Whimper.

Glad Tony wasn't whacked, but the cut-to-black ending was a silly plot device. David Chase should have remembered the mantra to "Keep it simple, stupid," though I'm reluctant to give him that advice after such a hackneyed final season. The way he wrapped up storylines such as Christopher's and AJ's had all the excitement of someone crossing items off a list, as I'm sure Chase was.

This last episode would have been MUCH better if instead of presenting the pseudo-threat of Tony getting offed at the end, they would have showed him starting to sweat as he listened to the lyrics "it goes on and on and on and on," then slowing down those lyrics as they keep repeating over and over, then showing him pass out in his food from a panic attack.

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all the other sopranos episodes are rated in the high 8's and 9's, while the series finale is rated 6.8. obviously a lot of people were disappointed in it.

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what if nigger meant kite

No, they weren't.

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

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what if nigger meant kite

I've never seen it.

After knowing it was out for a season or two I was about to watch it until I realized how stupidly it affected everyone who tuned in week after week, and so I decided not to. But then, I'm the guy who hates when white people listen to rap and then start to talk that way after. I know Italians, real Italians, who say 'mozzarella' for mozzarella, not 'mootzuh-rell' like these bullshit Italian-American wannabes do.

But maybe I'm just racist against Italian-Americans (read: NOT real Italians) I'm pretty sure that The Sopranos is one of those things that the rest of the world hates us for, like Paris Hilton and George Bush and the A-bomb, and the knowledge of such has always kept me from feeling giddy over who got 'whacked' for what. I mean for fuck's sake, would I ever watch a dumbass reality hip-hop show and turn to my wife and say 'Uh-uh!! I know she did 'int even go there over some buuuuulshi' li' DAT!!!'

i think it just about takes someone never watching it to dislike the sopranos. to dislike the sopranos, you almost need to dislike godfather 1 and 2 (3 doesn't exist), and to dislike godfather, you almost need to be shot in the face with a big powerful cannon

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what if nigger meant kite

I've never seen any of the Godfather movies.

matclarke

I'm watching it right now. The only opinion I've formed of it so far is that these people are crazy to surf so close to Tijuana. The run-off from the TJ River into the ocean by Imperial Beach is all shit from a million refried bean filled toilets.

The scene where the guy is levitating with the Plaza Monumental bull ring in the background made me want to go back down for a bullfight, though.

ivytheplant

You should watch them all right now.

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

That's what everyone tells me. I want to see it on my own time. And maybe after enough time has passed that I've forgotten the trailers, clips, and what everyone's told me about it so it won't feel like I'm watching something I've already seen.

Same thing with Citizen Kane.

I'd go ahead and postpone the first two Godfathers (three is a backburner project), if that's your plan. They are fantastic movies, but you'll enjoy them later.

But you won't be able to put off Citizen Kane (or the first Fantasia, for that matter) long enough for your plan to work. No matter how long you wait, you will watch the whole thing, thinking, "What is this? This is nothing special. What is all the hype?" And then you will realize, bam. This was where all of those other movies came from. Nobody had ever told a film story the way that Welles and Toland did in this flick.

So go ahead and watch Citizen Kane now, and the first Fantasia, and you might as well throw The Battleship Potemkin and Intolerance onto that queue as well. If you're really committed to watching film history, get Birth of a Nation as well. Wow, that would be a weekend of early film propaganda at its finest.

If you REALLY want to make your head blow a gasket, here's a double feature for you - Triumph of the Will and Night and Fog.

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You can take the heart out of the hooker but you can't take the hooker out of the heart. -- Frankenhooker

I appreciate the crash course in film history, but I just haven't seen Citizen Kane (others I've seen). And I'm waiting until the memories of the detailed, line-by-line description is gone from my head without watching the movie and knowing exactly what's going to happen.

It doesn't matter how good a movie is supposed to be, going into it already knowing the script because some asshole decided rather than let me see the damn movie, they should tell me every reason it was the best thing ever and all but acted out the scenes just doesn't make me any more interested.

And since my interest in making the effort in seeing a movie is directly proportional to how many people say it's the best thing ever and I should go out and watch it right now, I should never ever again mention I've never seen a movie and just pretend I've seen it to avoid the eventual "omigosh! You haven't seen Classic Drama Part 3? Let me spoil the whole fucking thing for you right now!"

boloboffin
Triumph of the Will is like softcore gay porn. All those longing shots of shirtless German boys "working" for the fatherland...

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I has a flavor!

Don't spoil it for me! I haven't seen Triumph yet!!

And anyway, back to the Sopranos. This guy sums up that final episode for me quite well. "Always with the drama..."

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You can take the heart out of the hooker but you can't take the hooker out of the heart. -- Frankenhooker

I found this quote summed the Sopranos ending up well:

 

"I'd rather have aids and a different ending than that ending"

 I got that from the review at SA

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/sopranos-final-episode.php

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I'm going to take time from the discussion to point oput that I didn't watch the Sopranos. Now everyone, please tell me I should watch. I need the attention. Then I'll tell you why I don't watch and then a couple months from now, I'll post that I watched them all and didn't care for them. Because I'm that fucking cool.

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ivytheplant

what cunt would talk about a film from 1941 before you got a chance to see it

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Batman created by Bob Kane

dcomposed

That reminds me:  All of you JUST MUST ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO SEE "Andy Hardy's Private Secretary" starring Mickey Rooney.

 

I mean, it IS from 1941 so... y'know... goes without saying.

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Ham-fisted ham fisting.

I'm blind, So I can't see anything.

 

Bunch of pricks.

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dcomposed

what cunt would talk about a film from 1941 before you got a chance to see it

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lool

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dcomposed

I don't know. What bigoted shithead would pretend he's too cool for everyone by posting about how he can't be bothered to care about anything?

I'm Italian. My dad loves the sopranos. In my opinion an Italian watching the Sopranos is like a jew being really into schindler's list.

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choadwarrior

I'm watching it right now. The only opinion I've formed of it so far is that these people are crazy to surf so close to Tijuana. The run-off from the TJ River into the ocean by Imperial Beach is all shit from a million refried bean filled toilets.

 

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