The Sopranos....

runningbuddy

Random post folks....have started watching this again. Did watch all series the first time around but wow....it really is fantastic TV. Nothing else comes close....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7-Dy-k8PMs

This clip made me howl.....Your sister's c***t

Duggy747

Ha, I've just started watching it again too. :pac:

Wife had never seen it in it's run so it's all fresh for her while this is my 3rd time going through the series, last time was about 7 years ago. We're halfway through the 2nd season at the moment.

Even on my 3rd run it's like I'm watching it for the first time, picking up on all extra little details I would've missed before.

It really does earn it's accolade of being one of the best shows but it's a real shame Gandolfini died, he was a fantastic actor.

Your Face

Great show.

runningbuddy

EVERY character is bloody excellent....Uncle June was and still is my favourite...:D:D

Duggie2012

anyone that hasn't seen this really hasnt lived. probably the greatest tv show of all time and funny too. even if the ending was kack. the episode with christopher and paulie when they get stuck up in the woods after a bit of a botched killing job is really funny.

runningbuddy

Duggie2012 wrote: »

anyone that hasn't seen this really hasnt lived. probably the greatest tv show of all time and funny too. even if the ending was kack.

V.True...haven't met anyone who hasn't seen it...nothing will ever come close to it.

Dr Turk Turkelton

Just started into the box set again on Sunday night.
This will be the third time to watch it and caught most of the episodes as they came out on TV.
Been about four years since I last watched it and nothing comes close although the Wire gave it a good run for its money.

runningbuddy

Could never get into The Wire...must give it another shot:pac:

Venom

runningbuddy wrote: »

Could never get into The Wire...must give it another shot:pac:

The Wire is so worth it.

pavb2

Duggie2012 wrote: »

anyone that hasn't seen this really hasnt lived. probably the greatest tv show of all time and funny too. even if the ending was kack. the episode with christopher and paulie when they get stuck up in the woods after a bit of a botched killing job is really funny.

Was funny though I thought that Russian would come back to haunt them

runningbuddy

pavb2 wrote: »

Was funny though I thought that Russian would come back to haunt them

That was hilarious....and the "Vito is a fag" drama.....:D

Duggie2012

remember beansie is in a wheelchair and tony is down in miami or florida or somewhere. beansie is wheeled out of a van and tony goes...ooww i was gonna park in that spot..haha

runningbuddy

Duggie2012 wrote: »

remember beansie is in a wheelchair and tony is down in miami or florida or somewhere. beansie is wheeled out of a van and tony goes...ooww i was gonna park in that spot..haha

Haha...so many great moments....great one liners....

PowerToWait

Nothing tops The Sopranos. Can be watched again and again, always entertaining.

Cupra280

runningbuddy wrote: »

V.True...haven't met anyone who hasn't seen it...nothing will ever come close to it.

I've never watched it.

I only watched Breaking Bad about 18 months ago.

Tried The Wire this year.....only got 4 episodes in.

runningbuddy

PowerToWait wrote: »

Nothing tops The Sopranos. Can be watched again and again, always entertaining.

I find myself laughing throughout...such a plethora of great, great characters...:pac:

wnolan1992

I recently watched it all for the first time.

I think it's a bit overrated to be honest.

Don't get me wrong, I think the first 3 seasons are some of the best TV I've ever watched, but I think 4 and 5 felt very directionless. The story didn't really seem to progress all that much, and it kinda just felt like they were treading water. It wasn't until the coma episodes that I sort of felt the show got back on track and the final few episodes were utterly brilliant again.

For me it sort of felt a bit like Breaking Bad in its final seasons, in that all the characters became increasingly unlikable. I 100% get that that's probably what they were going for, but I just personally don't enjoy a show fully if there isn't at least one person in it I'm rooting for.

The series does have some outstanding moments throughout, and it's definitely worth a watch.

Ted111

Tony: Blood. You're gonna lead this family into the 21st Century.
Christopher Moltisanti: Well, Tony, technically we're already in the 21st Century...
[Tony looks at him, confused]
Christopher Moltisanti: Forget about it. You won't regret this, T.

runningbuddy

Ted111 wrote: »

Tony: Blood. You're gonna lead this family into the 21st Century.
Christopher Moltisanti: Well, Tony, technically we're already in the 21st Century...
[Tony looks at him, confused]
Christopher Moltisanti: Forget about it. You won't regret this, T.

LMAO....however, "Your sister's ****" is prob the best expletive I have ever heard!!!

MeatTwoVeg

Groundbreaking.
Heralded in a golden age of televisual drama and made both audiences and creators reconsider what the medium could do.
For me it's the second best TV series of all time. Slightly behind The Wire and slightly in front of Breaking Bad.

pavb2

MeatTwoVeg wrote: »

Groundbreaking.
Heralded in a golden age of televisual drama and made both audiences and creators reconsider what the medium could do.
For me it's the second best TV series of all time. Slightly behind The Wire and slightly in front of Breaking Bad.

The strength of the Sopranos lies with its characters and The Wire with its different plot threads.

I enjoyed series 1 of the wire because of its originality, season 2 was good because it changed 'cultures', season 3 Hamsterdam was great but the school series stretched credibility a bit and I found a bit boring.

Drexel

pavb2 wrote: »

The strength of the Sopranos lies with its characters and The Wire with its different plot threads.

I enjoyed series 1 of the wire because of its originality, season 2 was good because it changed 'cultures', season 3 Hamsterdam was great but the school series stretched credibility a bit and I found a bit boring.

I really liked the school series. Found it very interesting to see what life in like for some people in America. Kids looking after kids in conditions you wouldn't leave your dog in. Some of them had no hope.

Loved the Sopranos. Maifa / gangster stuff is prob my favourite genre but I came late to the sopranos and it was so hyped that I thought it was a little bit of a let down but did love it over all

Oasis1974

Richie Aprile's death was always a letdown for me.Really hoping they would beef out the story line and not have it end so fast and kinda disappointingly.Last series was getting weird though kinda it was all really over then.

wnolan1992

Oasis1974 wrote: »

Richie Aprile's death was always a letdown for me.Really hoping they would beef out the story line and not have it end so fast and kinda disappointingly.Last series was getting weird though kinda it was all really over then.

I felt the same about

Chris'

death in Series 6. I really thought they were going to line him up to have a feud with Tony after he was ranting in a previous episode. Same happened with

Paulie

, they kinda kept portraying him as a sneaky piece of sh*t playing both sides, but he never really got called on it.

drugstore cowboy

Paulie & Christopher were the greatest comedy act I've seen on the small screen. The constant bickering & being a knife edge away from violence was always great to watch.

take everything

Duggy747 wrote: »

Ha, I've just started watching it again too. :pac:

Wife had never seen it in it's run so it's all fresh for her while this is my 3rd time going through the series, last time was about 7 years ago. We're halfway through the 2nd season at the moment.

Even on my 3rd run it's like I'm watching it for the first time, picking up on all extra little details I would've missed before.

It really does earn it's accolade of being one of the best shows but it's a real shame Gandolfini died, he was a fantastic actor.

I've never watched the full series and keep saying I will.
But I can never find it anywhere. It's not on Netflix from what I can see.

James Gandolfini was amazing.
Just watching him in True Romance there. He looks so young and he plays this detestable character. And he plays detestable characters all the time (i'm thinking also of the likes of 8mm which incidentally got panned but I thought it was pretty decent. Ebert gives it 3/4 though. Like minds, ha...). Anyway, he always makes these characters memorable

Duggie2012

when i'm watching episodes now sometimes i forget that Gandolfini is sadly passed on. amazing, hard to believe.

MeatTwoVeg

take everything wrote:

I've never watched the full series and keep saying I will. But I can never find it anywhere. It's not on Netflix from what I can see.

It's on Amazon prime. The US version anyway.

Duggy747

take everything wrote: »

And he plays detestable characters all the time (i'm thinking also of the likes of 8mm which incidentally got panned but I thought it was pretty decent. Ebert gives it 3/4 though. Like minds, ha...). Anyway, he always makes these characters memorable

The beauty of him in The Sopranos is how he wobbles back and forth from a detestable guy to a likeable guy through his actions. Every scene in every episode he's just brilliant to watch.

tipptom

This must be my fourth time around with this show when Sky Atlantic started repeating it and still finding stuff I missed previously.
Best show ever with so many layers to so many great characters which finds me almost grieving for them when I see the actors popping up somewhere else.


Best baddies in Richie aprile,Ralphie and Phil leotarda.


Great music and best ending to a show when phil raises his glass to his slain brothers photo and says "No More" and John Cooper clarkes Chickentown comes on which was chilling and the beginning of the end for the Sopranos.


Brought back some great songs and gave me some new ones with the likes of The Eurythmics;Saved the world today,John Lydon;Destruction.Uncle Junior singing a lovely old Italian song at a family gathering in a restaurant and a brilliant moment when Tony started crying to an old Chee Lites song from his youth in his Jeep.
Also the Polices Every Breath segued in to theme form Peter Gunn.


Much underrated tragi-comical character had to be Artie Bucco and his restaurant,his money problems and his romantic obsessions.

tipptom

MeatTwoVeg wrote: »

It's on Amazon prime. The US version anyway.

US version?

Duggie2012

Much underrated tragi-comical character had to be Artie Bucco and his restaurant,his money problems and his romantic obsessions.

arti bucco's wife...yumm

MeatTwoVeg

tipptom wrote:

US version?

Of Amazon.

elefant

Best thing I've ever seen- television or film.

The characters are all so memorable. The dialogue just unbelievably good. It managed to combine gravitas with humour so so well.

Silvio is my favourite, to add to the tellingly long list mentioned so far in this thread!

SoupyNorman

For me nothing beats it, I’ve watched it start to finish maybe 4 times at this stage and it really never loses its appeal.

It’s a show with little or no ‘filler’ episodes, maybe some of the dream sequence ones are a bit of filler but the consistency in quality is mind blowing. I get so immersed in every episode, I find myself getting scared when Tony starts getting angry, he does angry better then I’ve ever seen it done before. The show plays with your mind too, here we have an ultra-violent, sociopathic criminal yet we are rooting for him and sometimes want some of his traits in ourselves (leadership, body burying etc).

When I try to pick holes at the show I cant, in the early days I never liked the Janice episodes but as I got older and had a better understanding of her character she became one of the best in my eyes. The Sunday Dinner scene, I love it so much, the walk on T as he struts down the street is so good.

I love The Wire too but its not better then The Sopranos, it is known The Wire has a learning curve, once you get though enough episodes it’s fantastic but there is a slight barrier to entry. With The Sopranos you could watch any season in isolation and be very entertained.

I’ll wait another year then I’ll probably start it again.

tipptom

Duggie2012 wrote: »

arti bucco's wife...yumm

++1,she really had something but obviously all that probably justified nagging turned his head for Adriano and the French con woman,wonder why them

Duggie2012

i always loved Paulie's bit. he could go from laughing and joking to a scary deadpan stare in one second, the way he waged his hand when he was talking etc. all his weird habits but he was really funny. always made me laugh, still does.

One_Of_Shanks

Best TV show ever made.

Thargor

tipptom wrote: »

Great music and best ending to a show when phil raises his glass to his slain brothers photo and says "No More" and John Cooper clarkes Chickentown comes on which was chilling and the beginning of the end for the Sopranos..

What song do you mean there? Ive googled it but all I get is a weird English rhyming song...

tipptom

Thargor wrote: »

What song do you mean there? Ive googled it but all I get is a weird English rhyming song...

Its John Cooper Clarke who is a kind of a punk poet and it probably is a weird English rhyming song but if you get Chickentown on UTube it will show the end sequence from the Sopranos and it somehow fits beautifully.


Less the colourful language which is kind of ironic given the language on the Sopranos itself.

Thargor

Oh yeah how did I forget that? Time for a rewatch, theres just too many perfect scenes to keep track of:

OkeyDoke12

Best TV show ever. I'm forever on YouTube watching clips of the show. One of my favourite scenes is this one.

https://youtu.be/MjohsyoJjao

tom_k

While we're at it, let's not forget the wisdom of Little Carmine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJggSqCftgA

Dirty Dingus McGee

Great show alright although I always dreaded the dream sequence episodes which appeared once a season and were unbelievably tedious to watch.

Pine Barrens is one of the all time great episodes of television.

runningbuddy

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Great show alright although I always dreaded the dream sequence episodes which appeared once a season and were unbelievably tedious to watch.

Pine Barrens is one of the all time great episodes of television.

Pine Barrens was superb...hilarious...a great double act, Paulie and Chris..

Paulie was psychopathic but the scene with his "goomah" and her kids was lovely...he seemed to genuinely care for them.

Richie Aprile...one of the nastiest characters ever...but loved watching him....

silverharp

im just watching series 1 wasnt into it when it was on first. its timeless, not dated at all

runningbuddy

Just finished season 2....damn forgot about the dream sequences...really hate them. Richie Aprile killed off too soon.....a great, great character. Pussy's demise wasn't great either....

take everything

Duggy747 wrote: »

The beauty of him in The Sopranos is how he wobbles back and forth from a detestable guy to a likeable guy through his actions. Every scene in every episode he's just brilliant to watch.

Just got the box set at last.
Now to find time to watch it

tipptom

runningbuddy wrote: »

Pine Barrens was superb...hilarious...a great double act, Paulie and Chris..

Paulie was psychopathic but the scene with his "goomah" and her kids was lovely...he seemed to genuinely care for them.

Richie Aprile...one of the nastiest characters ever...but loved watching him....

Richie was a brilliant character.
The toughest little guy in the neighbourhood who beat up the toughest guy in the neighbourhood and took his cool leather jacket of him as the status prize.The way Richie talked about that guy thinking he owned the block striding like a peacock in "that jacket".


Gave it to Tony as both a reminder of his status as the tough guy he was and a peace offering and Tony goes and gives it to his maids husband!!!


Richie's face when he sees the maids husband walking around the Soprano house with the jacket on was brilliant,i think they may have even slowed the scene down for effect.


Janice killing Richie was a win win for Tony,rid of Richie while not having to clip a made guy and then getting rid of Janice at the bus station back to Harpo and Hippieland.

moycullen14

Ah, it was just the best.

I would just love to be able to apply 'Tony techniques' to modern, workplace management.

Haven't we all wanted to deal with a work colleague like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkxmstBuB24

sbsquarepants

Duggie2012 wrote: »

anyone that hasn't seen this really hasnt lived. probably the greatest tv show of all time and funny too. even if the ending was kack. the episode with christopher and paulie when they get stuck up in the woods after a bit of a botched killing job is really funny.

runningbuddy wrote: »

Pine Barrens was superb...hilarious...a great double act, Paulie and Chris..

....

I hated the pine barrens episode, it bored the bejaysus out of me - one of the worst in the whole series I though - plus I don't think they ever cleared up what happened to the Russian guy did they?