OMG, Cookie Monster! LTNS!

This is a perfect metaphor for Mark and Jean’s relationship.

Ah, “hilarious”. How much funnier would it have been if a piece of the bike had jetted out and taken a bystander’s head off? I suppose we’ll just have to live with the comedy of tens (hundreds?) of thousands of dollars in damage, people stranded, train lines bottle necking, people late getting to work or picking up…

I’ve always thought The Sopranos as a series was overrated, though its impact on shows that followed was immense. Its peers (The Wire, The Shield) were better. I even thought Oz was overall a better series, though that is probably highly controversial.

He made Thor: The Dark World.  So, yeah, it’s been considered. 

Well he god the job because he worked on the show. There is an interview where Chase briefly expresses annoyance that Taylor didn’t want to listen to him like he used to on the show, because now he’s a big film director.

I think the point was they were both bad, but Tony only sees the problems as coming from his mother, because if he acknowledged wrongdoing on his father’s side he would have to acknowledge his own.

You’re right. He does mention Johnny Boy chopping Satriale’s finger off for gambling debts, which caused the association between his panic attacks and meat. But he regrets it and brings up that regret any time Melfi even approaches the topic of Johnny Boy not being the saint Tony makes him out to be; overall there’s a…

Apparently you have never seen The Last Castle, where he plays a coward of a military prison warden, or maybe The Mexican, where he plays a gay hit man.

Livia did yell at little Tony she wanted to stick a fork in his eye in a flashback. Johnny Boy is no saint, but Tony probably doesn't mention any memories of him like that.

Honestly the shallowness of it all seems appropriate. There’s no “there” there to these people. They’re just a bunch of brutes. Making Dickie a caricature — the kind of guy for whom you look at Tony and his empire and the mythos they’ve invested in Dickie and say “Him?”... couldn’t be more true to life. 

Yet Saints borders on revisionist in the way it fails to match any understanding of the domineering shadow she supposedly cast over Tony’s childhood.

So was his dad. I saw an interview with him once and was like “Shit, Kevin Finnerty was his real voice?!”

I love how nerdy Gandolfini’s son is in person, speaks to his acting chops.

So..... a junior varsity effort?

Are there plastic seat covers on the furniture? If not, deduct one letter grade.

The second trailer made it clear that Tony was going to be a minor part of this, which seems like the right choice, given that they cast Gandolfini’s son solely for his name and genetics, rather than acting experience.

I dunno. Still seems worth a watch. Honestly, even Scorsese gangster films seem like a vague imitatio…

In retrospect, releasing it as “David Chase’s Stupid Rock and Roll Movie” was probably a mistake.

Tired: turning beloved works of anime into inevitably inferior live action products.