“Sopranos” premiere
I fell by last night’s Sopranos premiere (i.e., a screening of the final season’s first two episodes) at the Radio City Music Hall. After it was over, I mean (around 9:40 pm), and as the after-party was about to begin. Fox News entertainment reporter and all-around good guy Bill McCuddy offered to take me inside as his plus-one, but it was mainly a cast-and-crew party, there was a huge, slow-moving line waiting near 50th Street and Sixth Avenue to get in, and it looked like too much of a zoo.
In his usual smiling, smart-assed way, McCuddy said that he was happy with what he saw (“Tony dies in the first episode,” etc.), and a guy standing next to him (presumably a friend, shorter, wearing a nice suit) felt the same.
N.Y. Daily News critic David Bianculli has written that “the first two hours of this final cycle are really good — alternately funny, dramatic, poignant and surprising — but they’re all mostly tease. After last year’s season of simmering, this mixture has to boil — fast. Even the most fervent and forgiving fans of the HBO series (and I count myself among them) have to start looking at the clock and stop excusing every scene as merely a foundation for the Big Ending.”
he’s right, they’re going to jerk us off until the last possible minute and when its finally done, we’ll be saying it was good but could have been better. chase doesn’t seem like a grand finale explosion kind of guy, he seems to be more of a quietly into the night kind of fellow..
By my watch, Sopranos fans have been waiting for things to hit a boiling point since about, oh, the middle of season 3. If you think it’s gonna happen in the last 9 episodes, think again.
I guess it depends. Has there ever been a definitive world on the Sopranos movie? If that’s still even a remote possibility, I wouldn’t expect any sort of resolution.
I saw GI JESUS last night based on Wells’ recommendation. Not bad, but riddled with problems, not the least of which is….
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Rather watch The Shield
I’ll take The Wire over The Sopranos.
Wells still gets excited for premieres.
that’s cute.
RE: Devin’s post about G.I. Jesus — in celebration of Wells recommending yet another pile of cliches in order to get his name onto some cheap banner ads, I suggest a topic devoted to the best “And then he woke up” movies of all time.
My pick: Oscar Micheaux’s “Body and Soul”. “Devil’s Advocate” would run a close second.
Fake spoiler ahead :
I hear the final episode ends with it all being a Jim Rockford dream.
Any recommendation of a movie that then proceeds to praise The Devil’s Advocate is immediately declared null and void.
Jacob’s Ladder
Devil’s Advocate is HORRIBLE
OMG, Wells *is* quoted on the banner ad. I just noticed that.
Why isn’t Wells telling us all to go see Black Book?
Keanu’s accent aside, I liked Devil’s Advocate.
The Devil’s Advocate is gorgeously trashy entertainment, the only worthwhile film Hackford has ever done.
Black Book must suck in the worst way. I guess that’s how you know:
Tons of ads plus tons of coverage: Wells is friends with the guy.
Ads plus rave reviews: Wells liked the movie and hopes he gets paid to advertise it but would advertise it anyway (applies to above also)
Ads only, no coverage nor rave reviews: solid paycheck.
I liked BLACK BOOK a whole lot.
Thank you for the information!
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