The Many Saints of Newark (don't bother, it sucks)
Posted: Fri October 01, 2021 6:59 pm
by JuanHamm
Out today. Has anyone seen it yet?
I'm going to go to the theater and see it on Sunday.
Re: The Many Saints of Newark
Posted: Fri October 01, 2021 7:06 pm
by doug rr
i skimmed the LA times article this morning about it and i think they were meh....
Re: The Many Saints of Newark
Posted: Fri October 01, 2021 7:07 pm
by wease
Have to wait until Mrs Wease gets back from her trip.
Re: The Many Saints of Newark
Posted: Fri October 01, 2021 7:07 pm
by dad
didn't realize this was also available on hbomax. might check it out.
Re: The Many Saints of Newark
Posted: Fri October 01, 2021 7:24 pm
by dad
holy shit, the dude playing a younger Paulie Walnuts is the eccentric tech billionaire in Made for Love.
Re: The Many Saints of Newark
Posted: Fri October 01, 2021 7:48 pm
by tree_
I have zero interest in this. I don't like the ads. Feels cheap.
Re: The Many Saints of Newark
Posted: Fri October 01, 2021 7:49 pm
by dad
tree_ wrote:I have zero interest in this. I don't like the ads. Feels cheap.
what would handyman do?
Re: The Many Saints of Newark
Posted: Fri October 01, 2021 7:49 pm
by tree_
i don't know
Re: The Many Saints of Newark
Posted: Fri October 01, 2021 7:55 pm
by JuanHamm
He's going to love it.
Re: The Many Saints of Newark
Posted: Fri October 01, 2021 7:58 pm
by Malloy
i'm starting in ~15 minutes
Re: The Many Saints of Newark
Posted: Fri October 01, 2021 8:43 pm
by bada
I’m interested.
Re: The Many Saints of Newark
Posted: Fri October 01, 2021 10:27 pm
by VinylGuy
Im going next week. A friend of mine, who is a Sopranos fan, loved it.
Re: The Many Saints of Newark
Posted: Fri October 01, 2021 10:54 pm
by Malloy
so far this is on par w the deadwood movie. not good.
Re: The Many Saints of Newark
Posted: Fri October 01, 2021 11:11 pm
by wease
Malloy wrote:so far this is on par w the deadwood movie. not good.
The Deadwood movie was fantastic!
Re: The Many Saints of Newark
Posted: Sat October 02, 2021 2:37 am
by daft twat
wease wrote:
Malloy wrote:so far this is on par w the deadwood movie. not good.
The Deadwood movie was fantastic!
100%. That movie was great!
This was fine. Didn’t seem like The Sopranos. Felt like A Bronx Tale except not half as good.
Re: The Many Saints of Newark
Posted: Sat October 02, 2021 2:45 am
by Jorge
I haven't seen this yet but I don't like the weird bluish greenish tint they went with.
Re: The Many Saints of Newark
Posted: Sat October 02, 2021 3:26 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Junior having Dickie killed didn’t exactly make sense to me
Re: The Many Saints of Newark
Posted: Sun October 03, 2021 3:28 pm
by spike
I’m about halfway through and there is no point to this.
Re: The Many Saints of Newark
Posted: Sun October 03, 2021 3:33 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.