Part of me really wants to like this movie. The other part of me stands up straight and sees this film head on. For one thing I personally think all of the trailers and advertisements were pretty misleading. The way the movie was sold was that it was all about how Tony rose to power...this however was not the case. Tony is in the movie, yes, but he is not the primary focus of the film. It is more about the character Chris Moltisanti's father Dick "Dickie" Moltisanti. To be honest the plot kind of goes all over the place and then just kind of ends with Dickie's death.
I think they also missed the mark with their cinematography. Part of the magic of the original series was how it was shot with actual film and treated like each episode was a movie. Even though techincally it was TV it was still treated and respected as cinema. The Many Saints of Newark wasn't treated with the same care and magic. Instead it was shot like a regular 2020's movie with off-color filters to look edgy and modern and just didn't capture the magic and 'gaba gool' that was so delitefully provided in the original series. Again, part of me did in fact like the movie, but for the most part I felt dissapointed for what could have been a masterpiece and a true addition to the Soprano empire.
I think they also missed the mark with their cinematography. Part of the magic of the original series was how it was shot with actual film and treated like each episode was a movie. Even though techincally it was TV it was still treated and respected as cinema. The Many Saints of Newark wasn't treated with the same care and magic. Instead it was shot like a regular 2020's movie with off-color filters to look edgy and modern and just didn't capture the magic and 'gaba gool' that was so delitefully provided in the original series. Again, part of me did in fact like the movie, but for the most part I felt dissapointed for what could have been a masterpiece and a true addition to the Soprano empire.
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