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Summary: HBO's Way Of Telling Us To Thank God Our Dad Isn't A Mobster
Review: "The Sopranos" isn't just one of the best shows on television, it's become part of our modern culture. With more extensive knowledge of the mob underworld and how it effects the family men known as mobsters, the American public has grown up with this incredibly dysfunctional family. What the sex, drugs, violence, profanity accomplishes is adding to the realistic story content and the catchy mafia lingo that everybody wants to get in on. The first three seasons are great and while James Gandolfini (Tony), Lorraine Bracco (Dr. Melfi), and Edie Falco (Carm) have been noticed for their excellent acting, Tony Sirico as the quarky Paulie Walnuts and Michael Imperioli as the flaky Christopher have got to win an award! Otherwise I'll have an aneurism during the winner's acceptance speech. You know that this show has become a major sensation when there's a real-life porno based on it. With complex story lines and detailed characters, the mob boss Tony Soprano is portrayed as a flawed hero, but everybody forgets that HE'S A CRIMINAL! THERE'S NOTHING HEROIC ABOUT THAT! He treats women like garbage and he's always trying to HIDE THE SALOMI with Dr. Melfi. Anyway, that explains the violence, writer/producer David Chase tries to remind us how bad these people are. AS FOR THOSE PROTESTORS THAT WANT THE SHOW OFF THE AIR, SHUT UP...DON'T ORDER THE DVD, DON'T GET HBO, BUT LET THE REST OF US ENJOY! Anyway, I RECOMMEND THIS DVD TO A MATURE AUDIENCE WITH A PASSION FOR MOB FLICK AND I INSIST THAT YOU WATCH THIS IN ORDER TO GRASP WHAT THE TALK IS ALL ABOUT. GET THE SKINNY ON THE SOPRANOS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE...KAPISH?!
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Summary: Rough language and violence. Entertaining though
Review: An elderly aunt got me this package for my birthday thinking it had something to do with the Three Tenors, who I love. Well, this has nothing to do with opera, that's for sure except for the Italians. This was a mini-series about the Mafia. It reminded me of the hit movies The Godfather I, II, and III except it is based in current times and not the 1970's. The
star, Tony Soprano, is played by a former guitarist for the Bruce Springsteen Band and is now seeing a psychiatrist. In the show, Mr. Soprano owns a business of some kind but he doesn't seem to spend much time on it, preferring to hang out with his seedy friends and relatives. There is a lot of rough language in this movie because it is based in New Jersey and that is how they talk there. Also, don't be surprised to see violence galore as that is what the Mafia is known for. It is entertaining, but if you watch it all in one sitting like I did it will take you about two and a half days. I don't remember a bunch from the middle part, but it all still made sense to me. I hear a sequel is in the works for 2004!
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Summary: Rough language and violence. Entertaining though
Review: An elderly aunt got me this package for my birthday thinking it had something to do with the Three Tenors, who I love. Well, this has nothing to do with opera, that's for sure except for the Italians. This was a mini-series about the Mafia. It reminded me of the hit movies The Godfather I, II, and III except it is based in current times and not the 1970's. The
star, Tony Soprano, is played by a former guitarist for the Bruce Springsteen Band and is now seeing a psychiatrist. In the show, Mr. Soprano owns a business of some kind but he doesn't seem to spend much time on it, preferring to hang out with his seedy friends and relatives. There is a lot of rough language in this movie because it is based in New Jersey and that is how they talk there. Also, don't be surprised to see violence galore as that is what the Mafia is known for. It is entertaining, but if you watch it all in one sitting like I did it will take you about two and a half days. I don't remember a bunch from the middle part, but it all still made sense to me. I hear a sequel is in the works for 2004!
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Summary: Three in one!
Review: Being new to the Sopranos, having all three released seasons in one pack makes it easy to turn this series into a true addiction! With special features on all disks, including interviews, featurettes, and audio commentary on some episodes, the DVDs alone are worth it, but you'll buy all the seasons anyways - may as well do it at once!
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Summary: More Addicting Than Cigarettes!!!
Review: I am one of the millions I'm sure addicted to the Sopranos. However, I always miss the shows when they are on HBO, So I get these...WAY BETTER!!! For one, you can watch them at you're leisure and two you can watch them one after another BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!! You'll never leave the house and you'll even catch yourself talking like Tony after a four to ten hour stint(I know, I'm a dork!). So addictive...In fact, if there was one word to sum up the Sopranos it would be: ADDICTIVE. I can't wait for season five, I'm foaming at the mouth already!!! Well worth the money, and definatly a gift no one would ever forget!!
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Summary: A Television Work of Art
Review: I originally bought the 1st Season DVD set of the Sopranos as a Xmas gift for my Stepfather, but never had seen the show myself. When my parents got through the whole season in a week, I figured I'd check it out and rent it off Netflix. Within 2 weeks, I had bought all 4 seasons! It is completely engrossing and is probably one of the top 5 works of entertainment I've ever seen. It's a bit violent and risque, but the storylines, acting, and especially the production, are so good that the liberal language and nudity is almost secondary (but it's definitely for the over 16 crowd). The casting is brilliant, and the DVD sets themselves are attractive and well-presented, though a little light on special features. I am actually considering getting HBO just to be able to see the 5th season, which starts in March 2004. The New York Times has hailed the Sopranos as the greatest achievement in American pop culture in the last quarter-century, so if you haven't seen it yet, you owe it to yourself to check it out.Don't put off the show thinking it's another mob/crime drama. This truly lives up to the hype. It's extremely rich entertainment.
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Summary: A Television Work of Art
Review: I originally bought the 1st Season DVD set of the Sopranos as a Xmas gift for my Stepfather, but never had seen the show myself. When my parents got through the whole season in a week, I figured I'd check it out and rent it off Netflix. Within 2 weeks, I had bought all 4 seasons! It is completely engrossing and is probably one of the top 5 works of entertainment I've ever seen. It's a bit violent and risque, but the storylines, acting, and especially the production, are so good that the liberal language and nudity is almost secondary (but it's definitely for the over 16 crowd). The casting is brilliant, and the DVD sets themselves are attractive and well-presented, though a little light on special features. I am actually considering getting HBO just to be able to see the 5th season, which starts in March 2004. The New York Times has hailed the Sopranos as the greatest achievement in American pop culture in the last quarter-century, so if you haven't seen it yet, you owe it to yourself to check it out. Don't put off the show thinking it's another mob/crime drama. This truly lives up to the hype. It's extremely rich entertainment.
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Summary: Quite possibly the best television show ever.
Review: I read an article once about "The Sopranos." Some of the people who were interviewed were former mob affiliates who said that the show is actually quite realistic and that funny things like the events depicted on the show (the Russian guy coming back to life in the woods, for example) happen all the time in real life. (It makes you wonder where David Chase is getting some of his information, doesn't it?)
In addition to being a show about the mafia, it's a show about family and a show about morals. Who doesn't love Tony Soprano? We'll watch him in a tender scene with his kids or see his affection for a horse (I think I'm jumping ahead to season four here), and then the next minute he'll be screwing some random whore while his wife is cooking dinner at home or he'll take one of his best friends out on a boat ride and fire a dozen bullets into him before dumping his body into the ocean.
Everything about this show amazes me: the acting, the writing, and the intense emotional response that you're bound to experience after watching an episode. (One thing I enjoy is listening to how some of the actor's accents have changed since the first few episodes of the series. If you listen to Tony talking in the pilot episode and then hear him talk in season three, they don't even sound like the same person.)
I'll be sad when this series finally ends.
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Summary: The best TV has to offer!!
Review: The Sopranos is by far the most developed and cinematic show ever to be seen on television. The characters are incredibly in-depth and the plot is beyond that of any TV show and majority of movies. The world of the mobster is highly intriguing. The most fascinating aspect of it is that we can all still relate to many areas of that world. And, we can easily relate to the family life of Tony Soprano. The Sopranos is a masterpiece, and the chance to pick up these timeless works of art on DVD should not be passed by.
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Summary: The Best Series Ever - Not The Best Buy
Review: Usually if one buys by the bulk, one gets a preferrential rate - sort of a retailer's discount. This dvd set successfully breaks the norm. One can pick up the the three seasons separately for [price] from Amazon.com. Better still, pick up the first two seasons together and buy the third one separate, and it will cost less (this is a special price offered by Amazon, to purchase at this price, go to the product description page for 'the Sopranos - the complete first and second seasons' and select the great buy link on the page). As for the series, there is but one thing to say - buy it!! You will not regret the purchase.
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