Shall we anticpate the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

I’d be very happy with good time starring jesse pinkman tbh

There was a scene where he manipulates a teenage girl into buying meth at a gas station (can’t remember why) that was very similar to stuff rpatz does in that. Also they look exactly the same afaic

Jesse's character was dealt with in a pretty cursory way in the final season of BB so I see this as redressing the balance somewhat.

Watched the episode where Walt is fucked up and tells Junior about his father's Huntington's Disease the next morning and apologizes, even knowing how everything turns out there's a moment there when I would have been totally cool with a redemption arc.

El Camino was excellent. Highly recommended if you are a fan of the show.

Going to try to watch this tonight. I'm excited.

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?

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.

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

Thanks B.L.A.M, that's Saturday nights viewing sorted.

Enjoy!

it's not showing on my Netflix!!!!!

Logged out and back in again
Here we go

Changed my mind, gonna rewatch s5 first

People who planning to watch this should watch Too old to die Young instead

for why?

Because it probably goes over bartender best practices

This was good

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

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...

OBLIQUE SPOILER

There was one last cameo near the end I didn't really need but it wasn't a huge eyeroll or anything.

Cranston walks by in the background and puts on the hat, winks to camera

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.)

I enjoyed this too but have no need to ever watch it again.

Yeah, otm. It would have been a good but not great episode of the series.

Saul got 'disappeared' shortly after Walt did.

What happened to Skyler? and does Walt Jr have enough cereal?

Awwww @ Skinny Pete & Badger scene

There was one last cameo near the end I didn't really need but it wasn't a huge eyeroll or anything.

ISWYDT

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.

Had no idea Robert Forester died TODAY until I read the imdb trivia about this.

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He was the guy. I mean, I’m 96 percent sure he was the guy.

The cameo was unnecessary but figured it was because of the netflix connection ease.

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.

oh shit meant this for The Sopranos vs The Wire thread. This was fine!

this was pretty good, a very solid episode and nice epilogue. not necessary at all, but very enjoyable for the fan.

yea def not necessary, and i kindof hope there arent plans for more? that said, it was fine idk

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.

seeing this in the theater tonight

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.

Yeah agree. The Wild West dual was particularly absurd but I guess just about in character for the show.

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

Would have preferred skipping all this and just having 90 minutes of Jesse living in an Alaska cabin making chainsaw art.

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.

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

I enjoyed this. I didn't go in expecting it was gonna be a Godfather 2 like sequel.

Extra episode feels about right.

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!

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"

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