One of the best episodes. Easily the most distinct episode of The Sopranos I've seen. Also one of the funniest.
It's overrated.
People talk endlessly and use pretentious words to describe it, but that will never change the fact that its just plain boring.
In good shows every scene has a purpose, it has a start and an end, it unravels like a story should; drip feeding the viewer interesting plot developments. Sopranos doesn't do this. Episodes are filled with pointless scenes that serve no purpose. Each episode of The Sopranos is a tasteless gourmet meal. From the appearance it looks like it should be great, but then you start eating it. The first bite tastes pretty good, the second slightly less good. The remaining bites are bland, occasionally you get a bite that tastes just okay. And then its over.
The dialogue is essentially the gangster equivalent of small talk. Its never interesting. Its rarely funny. And it gets boring really fast.
Sopranos is incredibly ahead of its time in terms of the sheer production value. Its cinematic. Its definitely fair to say it laid the ground work for modern high quality TV shows, but that doesn't automatically equate to the show being entertaining in its own right. Thomas Edison's original lightbulb was a genius innovation, but compared to the stuff we have now, its complete garbage. Its inefficient, it dies quick and its expensive. Would modern LED lightbulbs exist now without Edison's pioneering invention? No. Does that fact make Edison's original design a flawless masterpiece? I think you can agree it does not.
A story should also have build up and a pay off. Sopranos doesn't. It feels like the story doesn't progress. When you watch a show like Breaking Bad you feel the story progressing, you feel the build up throughout the season and then the insane pay off at the end. When I watched Sopranos I felt nothing. Its a rollercoaster that goes in a flat line, with occasional small bumps. Breaking bad is a rollercoaster that constantly twists and turn, rising and falling, keeping you engaged and interested not knowing what will happen next.
Conclusion:
Innovative? Definitely.
Entertaining and interesting? Definitely not.
Someone seriously gave this a ten? This is a pathetic excuse for television, I have never seen an episode of TV more boring and uninteresting. When are people going to stop lying to themselves and see this show for what it is?
I liked it...
But that doesn't give it the right to be a mind numbing slog.
Quite possibly the most overrated film ever made. I expected it to blow me away but it just put me to sleep. There are much better crime films out there like GoodFellas and Pulp Fiction, this film is a complete waste of 3 hours. the only real reason to watch it is to understand pop-culture references
It started great. I loved the first 3 seasons but after chuck died it went downhill. Seasons 4, 5 and a large portion of 6 have no reason to exist, they were boring and the writing took a complete nosedive during them, they just kept pulling scams over and over and over and so on, we saw enough scams in the first 3 seasons. Could the writers not come up with something new? I think this show should have only been 3 seasons long, there was no need to stretch it out just because amc wanted money. Anyone who claims this show is "Perfect" is an idiot. Breaking Bad was better in everyway but above all it was better in the most important way: consistency. It never started to feel old half way through like this did.
Surprising
Honest
Iconic
True
the GodFather is none of these things, but when you read these words vertically it perfectly describes it.
I will never understand why people conflate things that are technically impressive as being good. This movie, like most of Kubrick's movies are, technical feats. Now just because the movie is technically impressive doesn't mean that it goods. Yes the sets and costumes look great in this movie but that will never make up for its laundry list of short comings. To put it simply this movie is a boring slog.
A surprisingly boring and uninteresting slog.
Incredibly boring. Who let Tarintino make this heap of trash?
