http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/19/showbiz/james-gandolfini-obituary/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
One of my favorite actors...
One of my favorite actors...
RIP James Gandolfini...
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Keregioz
Kimon Zeliotis
I'm probably gonna get stoned for this but IMO the sopranos is one of the most overrated tv shows ever. I wasn't too crazy about the wire either but at least I didn't give up on it after watching 4-5 episodes.
GeertSamuel
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jättebög
Weird, just yesterday I was thinking about his bone chilling performance in "True Romance" and now today this.
egan.
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The Sopranos revolutionized television so it's hard to concede it as overrated. In 1999 there was nothing like it in terms of long form movie quality writing, acting and content on TV. Before that crime dramas looked like the shows your Grandma watches (Law and Order, NYPD blue). It started the trend of bad guys as protagonists in TV drama (SoA, Breaking Bad, Dexter, etc.). It also sparked the trend of premium channels creating shows that drove subscriptions and created a sort of drama arms race between HBO and Showtime (and later AMC and FX on the basic cable side).
Gandolfini did a spectacular job creating a character that you could both root for and be disgusted by. The reason why people talk about that over his other work is that it spanned a decade and created one of the most iconic characters in pop culture.
I wish the best for his wife and kids. He was a talented guy and died too young.
Gandolfini did a spectacular job creating a character that you could both root for and be disgusted by. The reason why people talk about that over his other work is that it spanned a decade and created one of the most iconic characters in pop culture.
I wish the best for his wife and kids. He was a talented guy and died too young.
Keregioz
Kimon Zeliotis
All those facts may be true (I have no way, and don't care, to verify them) but it doesn't change the fact that watching the sopranos puts me to sleep.
I guess it's one of those "you had to be there (or then)" cases. I tried watching it a couple of years back for the first time and was really unimpressed.
Btw, my opinion is not indented as a criticism to Gandolfini, who was indeed very good at that specific role, but to the series as a whole.
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xTomx
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If you don't dig Sopranos OR The Wire then you are the problem.
What do you watch? Big Bang Theory?
What do you watch? Big Bang Theory?
egan.
daylightdies.com
That doesn't mean it's overrated though, it just means you didn't enjoy it (which is fine). I explained why it's rated as highly as it is.
I have that exact same Ulver poster, although mine's ragged from being hung in a humid jam room.:Smug:
Keregioz
Kimon Zeliotis
Well you found the one show that is even worse
.I dig almost everything else. The list is too long.
kaomao
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Well I'm italian I like the sopranos (not the biggest fan) and I think James did a great Job, even though he's not ITALIAN (don't get me started on this italianamerican shit, if you're born on us soli you're american) he acted like one of those mobsters we have in south of italy.
The way people from south of italy is portrayed is spot on:
- the tables outside satriale (this is a little nuance but it means there's been a great research on italian culture, in south of italy old people sit in front of their houses all day haha)
- the love for food of southern italians (you know how much is famous our food)
- the love for family (in this dram is real not like those italian-americans directors who portray a distorted italian reality, maybe a distorted version of what their grandparents told them)
The way people from south of italy is portrayed is spot on:
- the tables outside satriale (this is a little nuance but it means there's been a great research on italian culture, in south of italy old people sit in front of their houses all day haha)
- the love for food of southern italians (you know how much is famous our food)
- the love for family (in this dram is real not like those italian-americans directors who portray a distorted italian reality, maybe a distorted version of what their grandparents told them)
don't need to research italian culture to figure that one out - just walk down the street in any decent-sized east coast city!
kaomao
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well I don't live over there so I assumed they visited my country to know a bit better.
I didn't know that it so common....
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