Someone on "Good Morning America" said in that airy fact-free TV way that "The Sopranos" put the final nail in the coffin of broadcast TV. True?
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 June 2013 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
there is still t.v., so, no.
― scott seward, Thursday, 20 June 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that's fuckin dumb
― copter (waterface), Thursday, 20 June 2013 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
pretty sure she meant broadcast TV's primacy,
My parents got HBO in 2001 just to watch "The Sopranos."
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 June 2013 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
This is quite affecting, esp re his attempt to wriggle out of a pre-premiere interview cuz "Who cares?":
http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/james-gandolfini-obit-matt-zoller-seitz.html
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 June 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
wow that is a great write-up
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 June 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
the Mickey Rourke admiration makes a lot of sense to me, you can sorta see that in him
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 June 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
Man this is awful news. I was in Rome the other week, imagining what it woulda been like to run into Tony Soprano.
― kinder, Thursday, 20 June 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
morbs man just watch the show you'll like it. the acting at least is pretty unimpeachable
― look at my watch/I'm in the club and everyone's looking at me/fuck th (k3vin k.), Thursday, 20 June 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
RIP
dunno if it has been said already, but the number of people I know posting on fb/twitter/etc "RIP Tony Soprano" really irks me
if it has been said already, consider this post an otm to that
― Just Elevate... And Decide In The Air -- Above the Rim (dan m), Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:48 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i mean, whatever. the guy was an actor. he spent his life pretending to be other people
― look at my watch/I'm in the club and everyone's looking at me/fuck th (k3vin k.), Thursday, 20 June 2013 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
edie falco alone makes the whole damn thing worth watching.
― scott seward, Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
everyday people doing it is kinda whatever, but the fact that the NY Post and Daily News both decided to write that in big letters on their front covers is odd to say the least
― dmr, Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
when someone tells me they haven't seen the sopranos i instantly feel like i'm better than them in at least that one small way
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
i think it makes sense for the post and daily news to do that! for some reason. they love nicknames.
― scott seward, Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
It was a damn good show. You'll love the first season best because of Nancy Marchand.― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, June 20, 2013 9:35 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
true, the CGI version of her was not nearly as good― now is not the time for motorboating (dandydonweiner), Thursday, June 20, 2013 9:40 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://images1.cliqueclack.com/flicks/files/2011/09/han-jabba-new-hope.jpg
Gandolfini looked so young back then.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
trying to think of what Morbz wouldn't like about the Sopranos and comin up short
― temporarily embarassed millionaire (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
other ilxors like it?
― goole, Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
i kid, i kid
That Married to the Mob got there first?
― lols lane (Eazy), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
i think you mean Analyze This
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
it is not like that
― temporarily embarassed millionaire (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
OK if you thought Analyze This was funny then I don't know you.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y-v6T4gUmkw
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
goddamn it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-v6T4gUmkw
It's got my favorite episode ("Irregular Around The Margins"). It's got Loggia. It's got Buscemi in the perfect white 80s jacket of a guy who has been locked up for 16 years. It's got some great Johnny Sack (though it's missing "The Weight").
― lols lane (Eazy), Thursday, June 20, 2013 11:09 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
start on season 5 because of buscemi's jacket??? this is insane. start with S1 and watch them all.
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
i was always kinda intrigued by his take on the army prison warden in that robert redford movie. you know the one. he played him weird. not like a big guy. like a pencil-pushing guy.
― scott seward, Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
i remember his character in that had a "SALIERI" record in his office, because all insecure also-rans love salieri
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
https://mobile.twitter.com/sesamestreet/status/347762849386475520
― look at my watch/I'm in the club and everyone's looking at me/fuck th (k3vin k.), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
haha Sotosyn, like I went near a Billy Crystal film in the last 20 years besides Monsters Inc.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
I've never seen The Sopranos, either. Hesitated for a long time because, as Eazy will attest, I thought it was just Mafioso cliches. And I'm not much of a Godfather fan. (Too many hard-to-distinguish men, too many hard-to-follow vendettas.) But now I've seen and liked Mad Men and Breaking Bad and The Wire, and I'm finally open to it. Just haven't started yet.
― Murder in the Rue McClanahan (jaymc), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
xxpost Scott, yeah I kinda dug him in that. Last Castle is the one you're thinking of right?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
pretty inhumane outlook on life imo
― Just Elevate... And Decide In The Air -- Above the Rim (dan m), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
ok that sesame street video is killing me w/saddo
― Hi i am your great fan suces (jjjusten), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
remnick's obit & sopranos/chase profile,
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/06/david-remnick-remembers-james-gandolfini.html
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/04/02/010402fa_fact_remnick
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
aw fuck :(
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
"'The Sopranos'? Why would I want to watch 'The Sopranos'? It's all 'I'm gonna kill that guy.' 'No, fuck you, I'm gonna kill that guy.'"-Jaymc, at a party, 2005-6
― lols lane (Eazy), Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
i admire to some degree almost all the prestige tv dramas that have followed in its wake, but The Sopranos towers over them all imo.
― ryan, Thursday, 20 June 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
No way, Mad Men is better
― copter (waterface), Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
lol, come on didn't everyone tell you to step the trolling up just a lil tiny bit. you can do it waterface.
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
lol, sleeping bag, you live your life on the floor
― copter (waterface), Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
people sleep in you
and pee in you
and then you post on a message board soaked in urine
Yeah, that's pretty much verbatim.
― Murder in the Rue McClanahan (jaymc), Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
why did we let gabbneb back again?
― temporarily embarassed millionaire (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
gabbneb only obnoxious in the political threads
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
mad men is genuinely great imo and has many of the same qualities as the sopranos esp in the fact that both shows are possibly overlooked for being often hilarious, but i think the sopranos edges it out.
trying to think of another actor like gandolfini who has some of the same qualities but coming up short.
if anything he was underrated, as weird as it is to think that.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
I totally agree Gandalfini is an amazing actor, iconic, etc.. totally, I just prefer MadMen
― copter (waterface), Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
i prefer kara thrace. but gandolfini just so great as tony. no way around it. so hard to make people care about someone that brutal for so long. loveable monster thing ain't easy to pull off. that's why dads love that show so much. total dad rock.
― scott seward, Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
I avoid MM (saw 2 episodes) bcz ad people were basically the Mafia in my life for 8 miserable years.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 June 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link