i had really low expectations for saints of newark because the trailer looked like crap, and 13 year old tony doesn't really interest me. luckily the movie isn't really about tony at all and i thought it was really good.
*SPOILER ALERT*
is the prison ray liotta a figment of dickie's imagination? 
Many saints was terrible. A good chunk of it was so bad I was laughing at it. The parts that were supposed to be “for the fans” were so bad that I now buy in to theory that David chase did this movie just as a middle finger to fan-boys of the show.
I think anyone that likes the sopranos should watch it just to see how bad it is, but anyone that is not in to sopranos should only watch it if they like mob movies and would enjoy a bunch of tropes in a bad mob movie.
Watched it last night. Thought it was fine. What parts were so bad you laughed at them?
i had really low expectations for saints of newark because the trailer looked like crap, and 13 year old tony doesn't really interest me. luckily the movie isn't really about tony at all and i thought it was really good.
*SPOILER ALERT*
is the prison ray liotta a figment of dickie's imagination?
Many saints was terrible. A good chunk of it was so bad I was laughing at it. The parts that were supposed to be “for the fans” were so bad that I now buy in to theory that David chase did this movie just as a middle finger to fan-boys of the show.
I think anyone that likes the sopranos should watch it just to see how bad it is, but anyone that is not in to sopranos should only watch it if they like mob movies and would enjoy a bunch of tropes in a bad mob movie.
Watched it last night. Thought it was fine. What parts were so bad you laughed at them?
SPOILERS
The entire character of Junior on the original Sopranos was that he was an old man, past his prime that was slowly becoming senile as the show went on. The writing/acting of Junior in the movie as a young man was the exact same! It was absurd!
The use of the brothers/twins for Hollywood Moltisanti and Dicky's uncle in prison
The scene where Dicky coaches a blind baseball team--I think it is meant to be like a dream sequence/him lying about being a good person but it plays so absurdly and I don't think it really works
The idea that Tony would steal an ice cream truck and beat up the driver without thinking twice but then would balk at some stolen speakers
The idea that a mob girlfriend would confess to cheating on a guy with a black guy in the 1960's is so dumb and hilarious I just burst out laughing, like what are we talking about here?!
The entire third of the movie that deals with the Black Saints does not make much sense to me at all it literally seemed like "ah, Moltisanti---Many saints, lets get some more saints in here!"
The scene where Tony is supposed to meet at Holsten's but Dicky gets killed was so heavy handed
I just think there were so many "reveals" that fans of the show would see that were both beaten over the head and unsatisfying and play so badly I think the best theory is that David Chase hates fans of the show and is punishing them
