El Camino was excellent. Highly recommended if you are a fan of the show.
― TrumpPence a Bag (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 11 October 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
Going to try to watch this tonight. I'm excited.
― beard papa, Friday, 11 October 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
Definitely goIng to watch this as loved the show. My wife hasn’t seen the show, will she be able to enjoy it as a stand-alone film?
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 11 October 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
If she's a person who can go into a movie/show that asks its audience to accept the ready-made world and to just go with it, probably.
Thinking through the main plot points (mind you, I got up a 4:30 a.m. because my cat is an asshole, and just stayed up to watch this so...I'm a little over my day already), there are a lot of references which make TOTAL sense to anyone who watched the show but which will go way over the head of anyone who didn't. A big part of the first half of the show is a flashback which will make sense MOSTLY, but will lack a good bit of context without having watched the show.
All that said, and without giving anything away, it moves very fast and works as its own story, but with some very obvious references to times and people past.
― TrumpPence a Bag (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 11 October 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
as much as i loved this show there is no way I'm going through the wringer of watching it all again just so i know what the hell's going on
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
Thanks B.L.A.M, that's Saturday nights viewing sorted.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 11 October 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
Enjoy!
― TrumpPence a Bag (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
it's not showing on my Netflix!!!!!
― kinder, Friday, 11 October 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
Logged out and back in againHere we go
― kinder, Friday, 11 October 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
Changed my mind, gonna rewatch s5 first
― kinder, Friday, 11 October 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
People who planning to watch this should watch Too old to die Young instead
― calstars, Friday, 11 October 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
for why?
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 11 October 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
Because it probably goes over bartender best practices
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 October 2019 20:20 (four years ago) link
This was good
― YouGov to see it (wins), Friday, 11 October 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
I liked it. Had kind of a slow neo-noir/neo-Western vibe, less hyperactive than the show. A la Cold in July or a less sadistic Zahler
― Simon H., Friday, 11 October 2019 22:58 (four years ago) link
Really good. Hadn't watched a second of the show since the last episode aired. I remembered things as it went along. I don't imagine enjoying it so much without having seen the show (to an earlier question here), but that'd be interesting...
― maffew12, Friday, 11 October 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
OBLIQUE SPOILER
There was one last cameo near the end I didn't really need but it wasn't a huge eyeroll or anything.
― Simon H., Saturday, 12 October 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
Cranston walks by in the background and puts on the hat, winks to camera
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 12 October 2019 00:30 (four years ago) link
I enjoyed this. I wish they'd traded the last 2 cameos for one of Jesse and Saul Goodman hustling past each other and not having time to chat. (I don't remember the details of Saul leaving ABQ so he may already have been gone by the time of this story.)
― WmC, Saturday, 12 October 2019 01:42 (four years ago) link
I enjoyed this too but have no need to ever watch it again.
― Yerac, Saturday, 12 October 2019 02:45 (four years ago) link
Yeah, otm. It would have been a good but not great episode of the series.
― WmC, Saturday, 12 October 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
Saul got 'disappeared' shortly after Walt did.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 12 October 2019 03:02 (four years ago) link
What happened to Skyler? and does Walt Jr have enough cereal?
― Yerac, Saturday, 12 October 2019 03:03 (four years ago) link
Awwww @ Skinny Pete & Badger scene
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Saturday, 12 October 2019 04:02 (four years ago) link
ISWYDT
― pplains, Saturday, 12 October 2019 04:37 (four years ago) link
Was that actually a cameo or was it footage from the show?
Anyway thought it was good, would’ve been a satisfying final episode, didn’t really feel like a movie. One of the returning characters gained a little weight.
― frogbs, Saturday, 12 October 2019 04:45 (four years ago) link
Had no idea Robert Forester died TODAY until I read the imdb trivia about this.
― pplains, Saturday, 12 October 2019 04:52 (four years ago) link
☹️He was the guy. I mean, I’m 96 percent sure he was the guy.
― YouGov to see it (wins), Saturday, 12 October 2019 07:37 (four years ago) link
The cameo was unnecessary but figured it was because of the netflix connection ease.
― Yerac, Saturday, 12 October 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
the David Simon shit-verse is something I can't even take small doses of these days, whatever artistic merit/interesting social commentary is there - I find it intensely stultifying and completely full of shit.
― calzino, Saturday, 12 October 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
oh shit meant this for The Sopranos vs The Wire thread. This was fine!
― calzino, Saturday, 12 October 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
this was pretty good, a very solid episode and nice epilogue. not necessary at all, but very enjoyable for the fan.
― Nhex, Sunday, 13 October 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
yea def not necessary, and i kindof hope there arent plans for more? that said, it was fine idk
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 13 October 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
Segueing from Jesse speeding back down the dirt road after hitting the mailbox to the POV shot of hitting the boulder on the video game was cheap, but fair.
― pplains, Sunday, 13 October 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
seeing this in the theater tonight
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 13 October 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
This was basically a 5/10, maybe a 6/10, if I’m generous. There are obv some G.B. good scenes (basically the whole Jesse/Todd apartment visit flashback, the Robert Forster stuff). But as a film there was simply zero tension, which for a story set in the Breaking Bad “universe” is not an easy trick, and it felt like a tale that Gilligan wanted to tell because he wanted to close the book on Jesse, not because the story was one that was good enough that we had to see it.
There was no one left alive who would go up against Jesse, so we get villainous cage welders. Ok I guess. These guys were never a threat, of course.
The acting is good. idk. Shocked by how basic this was.
― omar little, Sunday, 13 October 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
Yeah agree. The Wild West dual was particularly absurd but I guess just about in character for the show.
― nashwan, Sunday, 13 October 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
Agreed. Whole thing felt really perfunctory
I assumed Gilligan decided to do it because he struck on a good self-contained story to tell, but there was nothing in this that suggested any creative inspiration at all
It's not bad per se. It just has no reason to exist
― Number None, Sunday, 13 October 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
Would have preferred skipping all this and just having 90 minutes of Jesse living in an Alaska cabin making chainsaw art.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Sunday, 13 October 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
This just felt like a long last episode/coda. The shootout scene was stupid on its face but the rest was nice, if fan-servicey. Plemons is a great psychopath, hes done a few roles like that now and always really disturbing in his mild coldness.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 13 October 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
yea if you take out the flashbacks there's like...1 episode worth of stuff going on here. i'm still glad they made it though, it was pretty fun
― frogbs, Sunday, 13 October 2019 22:53 (four years ago) link
I enjoyed this. I didn't go in expecting it was gonna be a Godfather 2 like sequel.
Extra episode feels about right.
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 October 2019 02:16 (four years ago) link
Also totally right about Plemons.
Hope the next one is all about the zany adventures Badger got into hitchhiking his way back to Albuquerque.
Haha, maybe he got picked up by Buell! Ya never know!
― pplains, Monday, 14 October 2019 02:23 (four years ago) link
Ya tbh earlier I thought there'd be a lot more Skinny and Badger than "hey man have a shower and some ramen, heres some cash money and my ride, gtfo man"
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 14 October 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
I assumed it was going to be mainly set six years after Breaking Bad, and not at all in the minutes and hours immediately after the final seconds of the show, so it felt like a very protracted hangout with Badger & Skinny Pete to me
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 14 October 2019 02:55 (four years ago) link
Six years later....
*Jesse lights a cigarette*Reads the carton*Goes inside*Watches Stuart Little 2*Goes back outside*Lights another cigarette*Burns self with lighter*Screams "Shit, yo!"*Goes back in house*Watches Stuart Little 2 again, but in Spanish*Writes "Brooks was here" on wall*Hangs self
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 October 2019 03:03 (four years ago) link
Where did Pete and badger get al that money from?!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 14 October 2019 03:15 (four years ago) link
Didn't Walt give them a bunch of money to take part in his scheme with the Greymatter people?
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Monday, 14 October 2019 03:16 (four years ago) link
Ooooohhh. Maybe?!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 14 October 2019 03:27 (four years ago) link