rip james gandolfini

the sopranos is the greatest tv show of all time, and it would have been... inconceivable without him.

I am extremely wary of proclamations of this ilk.

It was a damn good show. You'll love the first season best because of Nancy Marchand.

true, the CGI version of her was not nearly as good

if anyone is going to pull out the Sopranos is overrated card, i think it's gonna be Morbs

Didn't realise he was only 51, he seemed to have been around for ever.
It's a shame.

acc to s1ocki, i can pull it if i think it's not as good as The Prisoner.

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

Dr. M, If you liked him in other movies and liked Not Fade Away, I bet you'll like this as well. Season 1 feels the most dated to me. I might suggest diving in with the Buscemi season, Season 5, get bearings there (starting off the bat with Robert Loggia, avoiding Joey Pants til later), then doing the rest from there.

If you want a 'try it and see' episode, go with College from S1.

no I would be interested in the mother angle, so Alfred's right there.

My preference for seeing plays or films about characters who are the scum of the earth is that they are over in 3 hours, and usually don't dwell in the NJ county where I grew up.

You're in luck: each episode is 50 minutes long.

I might suggest diving in with the Buscemi season, Season 5, get bearings there (starting off the bat with Robert Loggia, avoiding Joey Pants til later), then doing the rest from there.

― lols lane (Eazy), Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:50 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

is this a joke suggestion

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").

You're in luck: each episode is 50 minutes long.

cute, but lifetime is my only unit of measure now.

so sad. james the great.

I think I'll pull out season 1 this weekend too

it's been too long.

i kinda want to watch every season again now too except i think of all the therapy sessions i have to go through...

always my least favorite part of the show. maybe the first couple of times it was fun.

morbz you have my permission to just watch the first season and then stop if you want. there is always good stuff all the way through, but like breaking bad or other shows, you have to want to continue to wade in the muck and mire. it can be pretty brutal.

it's really cinematic for a tv show, though. Or at least in my memory it was one of the first tv shows where I felt more like I was watching a movie than watching a tv show

According to La Stampa he was staying here:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5LzVXMv_uTk/UNMra6tjBDI/AAAAAABya9Y/qam_h8EAs34/s672-no/Boscolo+Exedra+Roma

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?

there is still t.v., so, no.

yeah that's fuckin dumb

pretty sure she meant broadcast TV's primacy,

My parents got HBO in 2001 just to watch "The Sopranos."

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

wow that is a great write-up

the Mickey Rourke admiration makes a lot of sense to me, you can sorta see that in him

Man this is awful news.
I was in Rome the other week, imagining what it woulda been like to run into Tony Soprano.

morbs man just watch the show you'll like it. the acting at least is pretty unimpeachable

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

edie falco alone makes the whole damn thing worth watching.

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

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

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

i think it makes sense for the post and daily news to do that! for some reason. they love nicknames.

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.

trying to think of what Morbz wouldn't like about the Sopranos and comin up short

other ilxors like it?

i kid, i kid

That Married to the Mob got there first?

i think you mean Analyze This

it is not like that

OK if you thought Analyze This was funny then I don't know you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y-v6T4gUmkw

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.

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.

i remember his character in that had a "SALIERI" record in his office, because all insecure also-rans love salieri

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