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So Tony Soprano is Stringer Bell without the charisma, intelligence, or the natty taste in office furniture right?
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Honestly if you aren't 'sunk cost' in the series I wouldn't, I preordered the latest book but even I have series fatigue at this point. I mean all the books have fun bits in them but I don't think it's a series I'll ever return to. Look up some detailed synopses if you dgaf about spoilers and see if anything interests you. I'll consider my assumptions vindicated! I never got into merchant princes, I think I got half way through the second one and stopped
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Schadenboner posted:So Tony Soprano is Stringer Bell without the charisma, intelligence, or the natty taste in office furniture right?
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Schadenboner posted:So Tony Soprano is Stringer Bell without the charisma, intelligence, or the natty taste in office furniture right? he's america's rotten failson [who also has a rotten failson], he's not supposed to succeed stringer bell was smart and selfmade but made some bad mistakes that led to his downfall, tony used up his whole organization just to stay where he was
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tony is happy when beating or killing people stringer is happy when he makes money like a real rear end businessman
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tony soprano is a giant baby and i guess thats the point of the show but i didnt really care enough to watch it past the first 4 or 5 eps.
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I don't regret watching the sopranos [I mean I was unemployed at the time, why not] but I know I'll never watch it again and I remember the things I hated about it a lot more than the stuff I liked
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I watched all of sopranos while farming in the original destiny. I have very mixed feelings about all of this
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uncle junior, a senior member of the mafia and presumably smart/capable enough to avoid being murdered by fellow mobsters well into his 70s, got his hand stuck in the kitchen sink for 6+ hours and would have died had he not been found by his niece visiting him, LOL
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as far as things i don’t like: 1) the music is not great, overall, in any way 2) the wildly clunky screenwriter dropped-in talk about existentialism and other heady topics that normal americans (much less cartoonishly dumb mafioso and those in their orbit) would never say or talk about in a million loving years, much less in the early 00s. don’t worry, it’s also extremely cursory!
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Nov 3, 2020 19:06
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uncle junior thought it was gay to eat pussy
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:uncle junior thought it was gay to eat pussy all the other fellas thought it was gay to eat pussy
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well, if you're a lady it is
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AnimeIsTrash posted:This season started off pretty good and then it felt like they introduced too many characters at once and the pace of the show slowed down too much. The Oraetta/Ethelrida plotline they started at the beginning has barely advanced and I still have no idea how Timothy Olyphant's character is relevant to the plot. Maybe this is because of all the Wes Anderson stuff i've seen but Jason Schwartzman seems very out of place.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:in the pilot they had people calling bilbo the n word to his face is Peter Jackson going gritty for the silmarillion?
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Schadenboner posted:So Tony Soprano is Stringer Bell without the charisma, intelligence, or the natty taste in office furniture right? yeah but he's not a rat bastard backstabber snitch so he's orders of magnitude better
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https://twitter.com/drewmagary/status/1324780632053108738 oral history of marge vs the monorail, very worth clicking through and reading
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Achmed Jones posted:last night I watched asphalt jungle. tonight it's rififi
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into season 3 of sopranos now. season 2 ended on a banger, so to speak
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the fictional setting where the sopranos takes place is growing increasingly cartoonish and i am loving it
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FMguru posted:achmed jones, what did you think about rififi? it was great! the famous scene was absolutely famous for a reason it's a little strange, but I was really impressed with the translation on the song. it's hard to translate verse, and reading the lyrics it actually felt like a song instead of jammed-together stuff like foreign-language lyrics so often do I didn't much care for the ending scene (or the ending in general to be honest), but it wasn't like terrible or anything. it felt like "crime doesn't pay, kids" got shoehorned in at the last minute and it felt kind of dissonant. my original plan was to watch one of your other recs tonight, but I started watching Narcos a couple days ago so I'll probably end up watching that and won't get back to French noir films until I've either finished narcos or get sick of it. I'm definitely kicking myself for not watching rififi sooner. I'd had it in plex for literally years, and finally got around to watching it.
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Anyone read the murderbot diaries? There's a new one coming out in a few months
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tak posted:Anyone read the murderbot diaries? i read the ones that were out idk 6 months ago theyre alright. theyre episodic so you can read one and then stop without missing too much closure. also they feel very much like theyre written for people who believe themselves to be autistic (maybe also peolpe who are but i dont have that diagnosis). theres a lot of repetitive "well i am a murderbot so im not good with people" repetitiveness regular price is way above what its worth tho [e: repetitively]
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watched the first episode of raised by wolves this is going places
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the chess show is really good
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rjmccall posted:the chess show is really good so good when it go to russia even more good
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fart simpson posted:i like to play chess my dad beat me at chess so much he would tell me this is a basic basic opening and i would fall into it every time he was not trying to make me good at chess he was a good dad though
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my dad tried to actually teach me to the point that he became the coach of our high school chess team when the old coach quit. thanks dad.
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fart simpson posted:my dad tried to actually teach me to the point that he became the coach of our high school chess team when the old coach quit. thanks dad. oof they can't all be calvin's dad but hey
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chess is epic beta game
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indigi posted:chess is epic beta game gotta agree with this
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