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| The Sopranos - The Complete First and Second Seasons
Year: 1999
Classification: Television
Directed:
- James Hayman
- John Patterson (III)
- Alan Taylor
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Steve Buscemi
- Rodrigo García
- Andy Wolk
- Timothy Van Patten
- Matthew Penn (II)
- Tom Patterson (III)
BADA BING...BADA BOOM...
My son is a big Sopranos fan, so I bought him the DVD set for the first season for Christmas. I myself had seen maybe two or three episodes on cable and had enjoyed them. So, when he began watching, I was right there watching with him. What a terrific show! It is absolutely gripping.
It is a marvelously creative series with a stellar cast. For those of you who have been visiting relatives in Antarctica for the past several years, the story revolves around the mob in New Jersey. It centers on one family specifically, the Sopranos, headed by Anthony Soprano (James Gandolfini), who is married to his loyal childhood sweetheart, Carmela (Edie DeFalco). Together they have two children, Meadow and Anthony, Jr. Tony's dangerously manipulative mother, Livia (Nancy Marchand), is bound for a retirement home, if Tony has any say.
Tony, however, has another family, comprised of a
e where the plot supposedly gets resolved the music sounds as though a death scene is about to take place. During a scene of slow moving action, chase music is played).<BR> <BR>The movie sets us up for the main plot (the love between David and Lisa), and then a few different sub-plots (the struggle between David & his mother, the conflict between David's mother and father). Those sub-plots NEVER get resolved.
This is a product of lazy, sloppy film-making and I recommend this to those who are only curious.
I was not impressed with this film that is supposedly an amazing work of art. It didn't seem 'real' enough. Perhaps this movie was good at the time but it's better off that it be left there, back where it belongs.
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