the sopranos is no tenchi muyo!
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 21 January 2021 22:39 (three years ago) link
The sopranos is noh
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 January 2021 22:40 (three years ago) link
Gandalfini as TS is one of them rare casting incidents that all actors should dream of, like getting a role you were born to do and are at the perfect stage of your life to make it resonate like a mf through the ages, like Alec Smiley for example. There is too much iffy mediocrity or above averageness in The Wire for to not start curdling and seeming a bit 2nd rate as time goes on. imho of course.
― calzino, Thursday, 21 January 2021 22:57 (three years ago) link
yeah we would not be having this conversation is david proval got cast as tony, no offense intended to mr proval
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:02 (three years ago) link
Sopranos vs Battle Royale vs Edge of Darkness vs The Snorks
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:16 (three years ago) link
JG is magnificent -- you almost forget how good he is and then in the coma dream, he makes some super subtle changes and he's a diff person.
But the supposedly superior acting on Sopranos is awfully top heavy. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but there are a number of supporting actors on the Sopranos who get asked to do things beyond their capabilities. Vito springs to mind as a pretty glaring example
― rob, Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:22 (three years ago) link
lol! Vito is a pure Emmerdale Farm standard character, but his tragic and brutal death was still very moving.
― calzino, Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
that was a pretty upsetting scene/episode yea
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
there is lots of similar padding in The Wire as well, for example every scene with Dominic fucking West in it!
― calzino, Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
ever since watching Dexter Fletcher in Press Gang as a kid I absolutely despised watching posh to middle class Brit actors doing shit American accents
― calzino, Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:38 (three years ago) link
or even worse, doing quite passable stage school american accents
― calzino, Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:40 (three years ago) link
Dominic West is just a lump of beef that has electrodes applied it when the camera rolls, one of the shittest Brit actors in its entire history. He's not even Dean Gaffney level and I don't mean that facetiously
― calzino, Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:47 (three years ago) link
Just finished rewatching The Sopranos a few weeks back and it always gets better on subsequent rewatches, whereas with The Wire it’s kinda just plateaued for me.
Also, I’m not going to repost it but the only Bernie-Mittens meme that I truly laughed at was Sopranos-related.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:50 (three years ago) link
dang not even dean gaffney you say, i am sure that is an insult but i have no idea who he is
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 January 2021 23:59 (three years ago) link
as someone who has seen the wire a few times and now in a re watch with someone who has never seen it, (on s02e03) I agree with the stanning upthread of the herc's actor from the wire, he's a source of comedy and levity I never fully appreciated before. Like the subotka kid, Ziggy, the characters are cringey but the acting is really great and skilled. I'd argue the performances in the wire are possibly career highs for a lot of the cast members?!?
― Swanswans, Friday, 22 January 2021 00:03 (three years ago) link
lolling at calzino watching these "prestige"/GOAT shows and interpreting them through the lens of british soaps
― rob, Friday, 22 January 2021 00:09 (three years ago) link
ha well that's certainly true of very nearly literally everyone on the sopranos xp
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Friday, 22 January 2021 00:10 (three years ago) link
― rob, Thursday, January 21, 2021 7:09 PM (two minutes ago)
now that I think of it is this maybe how we ended up with Game of Thrones?
career-high performance also applies to lots of Deadwooders
― rob, Friday, 22 January 2021 00:14 (three years ago) link
yeah but GOT at it's best was utter shite anyway!
― calzino, Friday, 22 January 2021 00:24 (three years ago) link
just joking, but arguably it became completely unwatchable when they killed off all the best actors
― calzino, Friday, 22 January 2021 00:29 (three years ago) link
GOT at its best was still pulp (which doesn't mean bad) was what i was going for there
― rob, Friday, 22 January 2021 00:31 (three years ago) link
game of thrones is a show I avoided for ages because of the hype, as someone brought up on myths, legends, Michael moorcock to Tolkien,etc...I got tired of the flame war when I would mention how derivative it was, albeit in an interesting way, when i fully watched it, I enjoyed it but was also not surprised it collapsed on itself as it did, it was a spectacular fall the and I feel some regrets at succumbing to it at all
― Swanswans, Friday, 22 January 2021 00:42 (three years ago) link
Game of Thrones was tediously epic, what we need is prestige fantasy focused on just one crew or town (like the Sopranos).
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Friday, 22 January 2021 00:49 (three years ago) link
Paulie Walnuts but as a wizard.
Chris spent three seasons chasing that dragon tbf
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Friday, 22 January 2021 00:54 (three years ago) link
Johnny Necromancramoni
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 January 2021 01:05 (three years ago) link
geez I kinda feel like I could watch Wendell Pierce in anything ... he even made me feel sympathy for Clarence Thomas in that Shondra Rimes movie
― sarahell, Friday, 22 January 2021 02:50 (three years ago) link
and Method Man ... omg ... like Method Man compared to all the hacky mob dudes ... no contest there
― sarahell, Friday, 22 January 2021 02:51 (three years ago) link
I would love to poll the best of Little Carmine quotes.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 22 January 2021 02:59 (three years ago) link
I once would have voted Deadwood but now I must concede its brevity works against it. The movie did not help
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Thursday, January 21, 2021 2:00 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
oof we just wrapped up the entire series two nights ago (it was my second time, my gf's first) then capped it with the movie and that was uhh not good :-/
Sopranos is all time for me, w Wire & Deadwood right behind it. And I'd bet every single major character except Meadow & Melfi would have been MAGA
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Friday, 22 January 2021 03:20 (three years ago) link
"Who Goes MAGA?"
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Friday, 22 January 2021 03:43 (three years ago) link
magagool
― boz conspiracy by toby hus (voodoo chili), Friday, 22 January 2021 03:54 (three years ago) link
just realized “Many saints of Newark” = Moltisantis of Newark— Dwayne (@dwayne_media) January 21, 2021
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 22 January 2021 04:02 (three years ago) link
https://media.tenor.com/images/c5262ed9ebef2ad9b83c5103299df3a3/tenor.gif
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 22 January 2021 04:14 (three years ago) link
Tony and Carmella straight up admit to voting for Bush during one family scene.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 22 January 2021 05:13 (three years ago) link
calz on Western:
the Auf Wiedersehen, Pet of German cinema finally arrives and it is good! (unlike most of German cinema these days)― calzino, Thursday, June 27, 2019 7:40 AM
― calzino, Thursday, June 27, 2019 7:40 AM
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 22 January 2021 05:51 (three years ago) link
apparently Isiah Whitlock Jr is in Not Fade Away which I guess it as close as we'll get to a crossover
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Friday, 22 January 2021 06:11 (three years ago) link
C-
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Friday, 22 January 2021 06:13 (three years ago) link
Method Man did some good work, but there's no way he was ever given any material to shine like "Pine Barrens" or scenes like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mC2ioV7FKc
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 22 January 2021 06:41 (three years ago) link
"his house looked like shit"
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 January 2021 06:42 (three years ago) link
van zandt's delivery is perfect here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OZEimXRFIE
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Friday, 22 January 2021 06:46 (three years ago) link
Tony's angry squint in that scene omg
― if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 January 2021 06:49 (three years ago) link
"your hair was in the toilet water. disgusting."
― if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 January 2021 06:50 (three years ago) link
lol @ Furio looking uncomfortable in the back. I always loved him
During the fourth season of Celebrity Apprentice, Castelluccio was asked by Donald Trump to judge which celebrity designed the best hat. Castelluccio eventually chose La Toya Jackson. She was awarded $25,000 for her charity, the AIDS Project Los Angeles.
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Friday, 22 January 2021 06:55 (three years ago) link
when i brought up rewatching the sopranos to my SO they immediately got happy and recalled a peak furio scene that i'd lapsed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exvuP_OjWlU
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 22 January 2021 06:59 (three years ago) link
TV shows1991–1996 Another World – Maltese Guard; 4 episodes2000–2002 The Sopranos – Furio Giunta2003 NYPD Blue – Brian Vaughn; 1 episode2008 Law & Order: Criminal Intent – Frank Chess; 1 episode
― if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 January 2021 07:01 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh1m-B0ywhc
― if Spaghetti-Os had whammy bars (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 January 2021 07:05 (three years ago) link
some....odd selections in there
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Friday, 22 January 2021 08:30 (three years ago) link
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Friday, January 22
Michael K. and J.D. Williams both appear in the Sopranos
― Number None, Friday, 22 January 2021 08:59 (three years ago) link