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I love 24 bring it on!!!

Jonathan

Wow really? Your second favourite show? That surprises me. Different strokes for different folks I guess. X-Files is a good show. But 24 just never did anything for me. I watched the first 2.5 seasons and episodes here and there. So what would be your top 5 shows of all time if X-Files & 24 take the top two spots?

Stan the Man

24 is my second favorite show of all time after the X-Files and Mrs Movies has agreed to do one season here and there, not binging through the whole show. BSG and Ash vs Evil dead are both close to the end, so we will have some polls to replace them soon.

You, Me, & The Movies

God that was a network show too so there’s like 20+ episodes a season. They’ll be watching that show for awhile. You’d think they’d put it up for a poll but whatever. Theyve been on such a great roll with the shows too. BSG, Band of Brothers, Sopranos, LOST and now…24? Lol. Just seems out of place. Ah well. BSG will be done soon enough maybe they’ll do The Wire or something at that point

Stan the Man

There is a "Twenty-Four" channel added to the tv section in the discord recently. Make of that what you will.

Rainingmadness

You can tell from interviews Chase’s heart wasn’t in it. He admits the only reason the movie was made was because it was the only thing he could get financed and that he wasn’t getting any younger. Granted I don’t think the movie is as bad as what people say, I think there’s some really great scenes in it but as a whole it doesn’t seem to fit & gel. The shootout in the street for example just doesn’t feel right, does it? It feels to “action film” with the way Harold is framed coming in the door with the burning van behind him. What bothers me more than anything is this could’ve been a great limited 10 episode series. But Chase is such a stubborn ass & hates working in TV so much that he just refuses to entertain the idea. What worked? Livia, Dickie, Junior, the music choices were all top notch, both actors playing Tony. What didn’t work? A lot of the recasting felt like SNL impressions but I don’t think there’s any getting away from that. Sil & Paulie are such, almost like cartoon characters in a way, but any actor playing them comes off as weird. It’s like how they’ll never be able to make a Michael Jackson biopic that’s any good or how any of the movies with an actor portraying Donald Trump just didn’t work. Why? These guys are so specific, such out of this world larger than life characters that only Daniel Day Lewis could do it Justice. Maybe. I was wasn’t big on the whole timeline thing. Sil is way older than Tony? The shows makes it seem like they were school chums. And Tony. I liked Michael Gandolfini, the performance was good. But Tony seemed a little too, I dunno if “soft” is the right word. Not Alpha make/toxic masculinity enough. There was a bit of that but not near enough. I would’ve liked to have seen a Tony that’s rougher around the edges.

Stan the Man

I liked this movie more than most, I think.

Thomas Hansen

You know that Quasimodo predicted all this?

Carlos Hurtado

Yeah, this movie looked like it was made by the studio, catering to the fanbots with all the callbacks and overused silly quotes from the show, instead of a filmmaker with vision or storyteller trying to tell a story. Acting was over the top with all the mimicking and imitations. Silvio, Junior, Paulie etc came off as caricatures of themselves in this movie. Vera Farmiga seemed liked the only one trying to pull off a real performance but I dunoo... It’s honestly baffling that Chase co-wrote the script and not a group of ex-frat bros who used to get hammered on Jaegerbombs every Sunday night with a collective recollection of the show.’ Similarly, veteran Sopranos director Alan Taylor never quite captures that same feeling of mob life in downtown Newark that permeated every frame of the show.

Joe Lazarus

My estimation of David Chase as a man just fuckin' plummeted (kidding, i love David Chase but I totally agree this movie is a total fail on every level).

This movie is horrific. An absolute fuckin' disgrace.

1920sBuffaloGuy

This movie kinda sucked… and I rewatched the sopranos twice now

TinCan Cosmanaut

As a die hard Sopranos fan, this movie was pretty meh. Felt rushed, empty and disjointed. David Chase obviously didn't give a crap about continuity either (Christopher, Sil and Pussy's age discrepancy) among other things. This would of worked much better as a mini-series. However, I thought Vera Farmiga was excellent as Livia, and Alessandro Nivola's portrayal as Dickie left me wanting more as he obviously has the on-screen charisma to play a great wiseguy. Lastly, the medication found in Dickie's jacket was added to explain how the rumours of him being a "heroin addict" started with Livia blabbing her big mouth and exaggerating it to others. Overall, 5/10

JG

I really hope the wire is next. It would be consistent with the smart writing, well developed characters of sopranos.

TinCan Cosmanaut

She's repeatedly said she wouldn't like 24, so I'd be shocked if that was it. They mentioned last year doing The Pacific around Veterans Day/Remembrance Day, they've also mentioned Justified.

Andrew

I think you guys nailed the problem I had with this film. They started from the wrong place, it if was about Johnny and Junior instead of Dickie it would have really have filled in a lot of blanks. That said, I enjoyed it ok and the casting was brilliant

Pat Cecil

Have you guys decided what you are watching next? I heard someone say it was “24” but that can’t be right, can it? Going from The Sopranos to “24”? That’s like going from a steak dinner to a happy meal at McDonald’s

Stan the Man

Ok. So As I write this there are no comments and usually how this works is by the time I finish other people have said the same thing so so here’s the deal. The Ray Liotta twin wasn’t real. All of that was in his imagination. Also Harold wasn’t Tony’s first kill. But we do hear of him in this movie. “Willie Overall” it’s who the guy Harold’s chasing works for. So eventually Harold is probably killed, and then Tony kills Willie, who was a bookie. Ultimately I think this movie would’ve been better as a limited series. It felt too rushed. Either that or it needed to be longer. There’s a bunch of stuff they filmed that was cut out. It seems they had some problems bringing this movie together because there were reshoots & lots of stuff cut out. For example Edie Falco, who played Carmela, she filmed a scene, so did the guy who played Paulie in the show Tony Sirico(RiP). How would that have worked? Alternate opening perhaps? Who knows. I liked the movie but I think it was a mistake to make it a movie.

Stan the Man