It’s implied he really wasn’t a d*** addict and the d**** found in his pocket were for Tony

Ayoo them just throwing niggas in the mix all the sudden was pretty weird

I feel like D\*\*\*ie giving Tony the anti-depression medicine for Livia was the catalyst for him being open to going to therapy and taking prozac and lithium in the future

Yooo went way over my head. So Tony was using his mom as a story to get that script?

No. Tony genuinely wanted to help his mother and he thought these d**** would be useful.

Which is truly a great aspect of the film, the way Chase shows how Tony has been structured by his environment. He used to be such a sweet kid with a huge potential. But nobody except D***ie believed in him. Even his own father couldn’t picture him as an athlete.

6/10 for me

Thing is any true Sopranos fan wouldn’t be expecting Tony to be “running s***”…..more so would of just preferred to see Tonys back story growing up.

Our first introduction to Tony was him playing with ducks lol not doing typical Hollywood Mafia s***, that’s what makes Sopranos unique.

I'd be all for a sequel showing ronys early days in the mob, but I still liked it for what it was. It's biggest flaw was that the main character was the least compelling character

Facts. I would of rather watched Paulie paint his nails and s*** than D***ie

Gotcha that's what I thought too. How'd you feel about Chris's narrating?

For someone without any acting history he did a great job. Shame his character is so disappointing

I would say even as a standalone movie it’s weak. Lots of these tv show prequel/sequel movies suffer from this. The character motivations are impossible to understand unless you watched the show. They never develop Junior’s character as a spiteful yet calculating fool like they so in the show, they just show him as a fool for a couple scenes then suddenly he orders the murder of the main character. Tony barely does anything, there’s just a collection of scenes of him doing teenage s\*\*\* without any rhyme or reason. So what he robbed the ice cream man? So what he has high IQ? None of that is expanded upon in the movie, it only serves to roughly imply in the future he’ll be a mob boss, a future that doesn’t serve in the movie itself at all

Didn’t like it as I watched the film but now that I think about it, I realize that it’s a thoughtful decision. D***ie is Christopher’s biological father and Tony’s surrogate father, Tony is also Christopher’s surrogate father. The Sopranos started as a conflict between a son and his mother but it’s mostly about (surrogate) sons and fathers. Ultimately, Johnny Boy, Junior and D***ie did more damage to Tony than Livia but that’s something Tony denies until the last part of the final season. So basically, Chris is telling us how his own father’s failure to save Tony turned him into a monster.

Edit: I realized something, D***ie’s own surrogate father is his uncle, Salvatore. It’s like a f***ed up cycle. A true Greek tragedy.

MOVIE WAS INCREDIBLE ‼️‼️‼️‼️ LOVED IT ‼️‼️‼️‼️

What the F*** man. This actor killed it, he was soooo good

El Camino was f***ing great and that's a sequel and this is a prequel. You can't compare

My LB followers PANNING this

I mean he did some really repulsive things in the movie tho lol. I could argue even too repulsive

10000%

LB?

Yooo how about the drillbit teeth scene s*** Was CRAZY, I was like that’s the vulgar Sopranos I know & love

Letterboxd!

Makes sense all my friends who have LBs are snobbish when it comes to film

Sry just my personal experience not trying to knock ur friends lol

The more I think about it, the more I like this film. I think there’s a lot to decipher.

Some (very) basic symbolism I noticed: D***ie’s uncle is named “Salvatore” which means “Savior”. His purpose is to guide/save D***ie and give him some spiritual basis (Dickie doesn’t know s*** about religion and is even corrected by a young Tony about Hebrews in the Bible). Salvatore is in jail because he killed “a made guy in the family”, that’s basically what D***ie did too. That’s also what Tony did too when he killed Christopher (even though Chris basically worked for him). Another parallel: Salvatore failed to “save” D***ie just like D***ie failed to “save” Tony. The fact that Tony waits for D***ie at Holsten’s is very interesting because it’s a turning point in his life, much like the final scene of the show, no matter how you interpret it.

Also, the whole film pretty much confirms this brillant theory/analysis:
thechaselounge.net/viewtopic.php?t=2503

Gandolfini kid KILLED IT

Dude pretty much morphed into Tony when that kid insults him and he gets that hateful Tony look on his face and snaps "Whaddiyya say??"

He needs his own movie or even better, mini series or full fledged show