So I Rewatched The Many Saints of Newark... 

I like to think that all the holes in Many Saints is because it’s narrated and from the perspective of renown filmmaker Christopher Moltisanti

Kino just said many saints wasn’t that bad. He can’t be in our social club anymore, that I do know.

That's the guy. Pure Kino. The guy we're goin to hell for.

David Chase never had the makings of a varisty filmmaker

The harold subplot was not fundamentally a waste of time, but devoting 45 minutes of your 2 hour prequel film movie to a new character who ultimately doesn’t matter to the overall narrative was a terrible move.

The storyline should of focused on Dicky taking on the Philly Mob like they discussed before in the series and then should of formed into a trilogy with Dicky mentoring Tony until his death in the last movie

You watched it again? Good Grief, I can only give you livia's condolences: ' Oh Poor YOU '

My estimation of David Chase as a man just fuckin plummeted.

I'll tell you one thing, and I'm not ashamed to say it, my estimation of Pure Kino as a content creator just fucking plummeted.

David Chase didn't even bother rewatching the Sopranos before making Many Saints of Newark

Kino goes about in pity for himself all while a great wind carries him across the sky

Harold - Starts a war with the mafia. Also Harold - Gets mad that his friends are dying in the war that he started.

I heard a couple of black guys made Many Saints of Newark.

When I think about my sheer joy and excitement driving to the theater and my disappointment and confusion driving home I can’t help but shake my head.

This movie severely lacks the dialogue that was most likely refined to a diamond over time by Terrence Winter. The most quotable show of all time has zero quotes from the movie!?!?

Im convince this was chase's "fuck you" to the fans. They really had nicky barnes in this

Expectation: a soprano story Reality: a mooli story with a poor script and a racial agenda to americans.

Many Saints of Newmark is NOT Sopranos prequel. Its a film about race riots and cuckoldry. Sopranos characters are only in background.

The tragedy of Chase: he wanted so bad to make a full lenght movie, tried so hard in The Sopranos beggining. When he got the chance, it seems that he only could think like a tv showrunner. Many saints would so much better if it was a limited show.

MANY SAINTS WAS A SERIOUS LET DOWN BRO.

I can't have this conversation again.

It's just not a very good film, poor writing and having Ray Liotta as identical twins was ridiculous.

They could have replaced all of Silvio's scenes with Paulie instead and not used Silvio or Pussy in the movie at all. Pussy shows up for no reason despite being more of a childhood friend of Tony's and young Silvio feels like a guy doing a caricature of Silvio + both these characters being older than Tony messes with the timeline. Paulie being a prominent member of Johnny's crew is pre established and Tony even notes he used to wish he was his father when he was young. This would make way more sense for the story if he was regularly around Johnny and Dickie like another wise-cracking uncle who likes to tell funny stories, which a teenage Tony would find entertaining rather than annoying like he did as an adult. This would also make way more sense for him to be the one to tell Dickie to continue speaking to Tony, as we know Paulie loves Tony and was a respected member of the crew.

Worst movie I’ve ever seen. I dont know even know where to start but having 2 Ray Liottas was the funniest/worst thing in cinematic history.

I was in line to get into an nyc club. I saw a limo pull up and David chase came out with two hoowas. As he was escorted into the club I yelled “davey! Many saints! I liked it!”.

The movie is worse than people say. I have no idea what movie you watched but man it's terrible😕

That movie, pure fugazi right there. Wonder if Chase got hit over the head with a golf club like Vito's brother after the series ended or something.

Don't know how they could fuck it up that badly

Paulie walnuts had a goomah played by Judy Reyes, she played Carla in Scrubs

What? People didn’t enjoy “The Black Lives Matter of Newark” ?

The Many Saints Of Newark ending version of "Woke Up This Morning" was amazing. Much better than the original In my opinion. Stay golden fam.

It makes me more greatful towards Better call Saul on being a great example of being. A prequel without being disrespectful to its source material.

Phil Leotardo: If they can get Kino to watch many saints of Newark again, what else can they make him do?

"alan taylor is a good director" shows him sitting in front of the terminator genisys poster xd

Gigi: How was Many Saints of Newark? Philly Parese: It was Pooty Tang..with Italians.

You watched it again? How much more betrayal can I take.

Many Saints has to be one of the biggest missed opportunities in cinema history.

Still a garbage film should've focused on the Tony and Dicky and cut the whole Harold/black riot plot.

HBO: Did you like The Many Saints Of Newark? Me: I DIDENT!

As Tony said, "'Remember when' is the lowest form of conversation." The film was absolutely poisoned with call-backs, and the burden of them denied this movie from becoming its own thing. You want to do the Newark riots through the eyes of Jersey mafiosos? That's a great film full of over the top characters. You want to do a story about a psychopath who insinuates himself into a family and grooms their son into becoming his own personal golem? You got a nice little thriller. But if you do both you end up with a beef wellington that turned into a burrito.

You don’t ever admit the existence of The Many Saints of Newark!

Yeah. After a rewatch honestly it doesn’t really get any better unfortunately

It was extremely forgettable. I tried rewatching it again and gave up like half an hour in. Such a shame i was so hyped about it before it came out.

The true ending of the show was Noah Tannenbaum punching Tony's lights out.

This movie is bad. Not only as a Soprano sequel. It's just bad writing. It often happens lately, when they want to push an ideology instead of having a good story.

I disagree completely about the Harold subplot. Yes racism and the scapegoating of blacks has been a major theme in the show and Meadow is a woketard in the series to lol. But racism never was the main or most important theme in the series nor is it what The Sopranos is most fondly remembered for neither. If David Chase wanted to do a film about Harold and the Newark riots then he should've just done that instead of making a Sopranos prequel. Harold didn't need to be in this film and if they wanted him in they should've cut the 45 mins of fat from the story dedicated to him and focused more on the Sopranos. The film should've either been about how a younger Tony first met and formed the crew that would eventually evolve into the DiMeo/Soprano crime family and focus more on how Dickie Moltisanti Influenced a younger Tony Soprano to become the man we would eventually come to know from the series. OR they could've made it entirely about Dickie, "Johnny Boy" and the golden age of the mob.

As decisive as Pure Kino is I would have been proud to call him a brother in law but now I don’t know… what were we talking about again?

They should remake it but make it better…..

My friend played Artie in this film. He had nothing but nice things to say about filming. Even if the film isn’t the best there’s parts that I like

Two black guys just made kino say many saints of Newark isint too bad

There’s good and there’s not good. This is not good.

you know who had an arc? Noah!

chase's biggest problem is that he's not a good movie director; too much of a slow burn writer to fit things sensibly in a 2 hour film. if many saints was a 5-episode mini-series it would've been flawless.

Should of been a series instead a film.

I had 2 main issues with the film: 1) Random continuity errors, especially characters ages changing, notably Sil and Pus being 10-15 years older than Tony when it was clear in the show that they were all meant to be around the same age. I didn't have an issue with scenes referenced in the show being different in the film, that makes sense with the characters being unreliable narrators and human memory being imperfect anyway. 2) The plot was convoluted and it seemed like they were trying to squeeze a miniseries' worth of story into a single 2.5 hour film. The main strands were: a) Dickie's relationship with his immediate family (father and uncle) b) Dickie's relationship with his extended family (esp. Tony) c) Dickie's relationship with the mafia d) Dickie's other criminal activities, i.e the Harold plot line e) Young Tony's story and decision to follow his family into the mafia. All of these plot lines were promising but none of them were given enough time to develop and engage the audience. It seems that the team behind the film consisted of people who were very good at writing and directing TV series, but struggled to adapt that to a film with its limitations in screen time. Alan Taylor especially - if you look at his work, he has directed excellent episodes for some of the best pieces of TV, but his film work has been less than stellar (Thor: The Dark World, Terminator Genesis, TMSON...)

Best part of this review was all the cuts to The Sopranos 😅

Plot twist: this is the script Jon Favreau stole from Christopher Moltisanti. Nah, even he would try harder.

😮 Oh, you _masochist!_ I can't believe you did that to yourself... 🤦‍♂️ I'll always stand by _Boardwalk Empire_ as an INFINITELY better spiritual prequel to _The Sopranos_ as an epic of Jersey/NY (and beyond) criminality.

Would have been better as a mini series to try to fit all that in a two hour movie just didn't work

My estimation of you just went down the drain

I know Kinos bottom was impacted, that's for sure.

They should have made this into a 5 part mini series or something to flesh out the characters and stories.

Nah the affirmative action scenes were definitely out of nowhere 😂 they had to do it so they couldn't be called "racist"

Many Saints Was 🗑️

The whole movie was fan service. Timeline doesn’t add up, Tony and Syl aren’t the same age, and they had an opportunity to show Tony and Jackie robbing the executive poker game, but didn’t do it.

Please go to the doctor and get checked for cancer now

I'd never give this film a second chance

The movie was best when it was being a Sopranos movie and not about Harold and the Civil Rights movement.

Sometimes I go about in pity for my grilled cheese on the radiator, when all the while a great shine box carries me across the sky, whatever happened there. I did 20 fuckin years!

Kino watched this again so we didn't have to. A true hero 👏 👏 👏

I wish they showed that dickies mother in law was Christopher mom. That girl looks so much like Chris

The many saints of Newark is the lowest form of conversation.

Did you notice that Chris claims that he won’t show his imaginary black lover to his “friends,” because he doesn’t want to listen to Paulie’s racist remarks? The same Paulie who was shown to have a black girlfriend early on!

Watched it twice. First time I thought it was me - second time I knew it wasn’t. Such a disappointment on multiple levels…….especially when it easily didn’t have to be. Cleaver looks to be a better movie.

It wasn’t a bad movie just could have been so much better.

He was woke, David chase ?

I agree with you so much bro, David Chase needed to be there and the movie was almost the Sopranos. I wanna see more Tony and Livia + gangster life with Michael Gandolfini so I hope we get a prequel series.

Many Saints is fan fiction not canon.

It should've been a short series. Then it would have time to explore both the riots and the romanticized mob life. And just fix its nconsistencies like Silvio's age and many characters not being there at all like Paulie, Feech or Tony B or Puss heck even a young Johnny Sack or maybe Carmine would've been great to see in a scene or two. The film didn't shy away from Easter eggs but sure did when it came to showing fan favorite characters in their prime.

Please, huh? Cleaver was better than Many Saints of Newark! The last thing anyone wanted after 5+ years of Woke Hollywood was more gratuitous racial conflict storylines

HBO should have just made a real "cleaver"

the race-relations argument is very weak. You are conflating a comedic motif within the Sopranos with an entire dedicated subplot within the movie. The representations in each are of entirely different natures. Its clearly just a poor attempt at the cliche 'adding depth through racial conflict depiction' that 21st century movies regurgitate. Cringe.

The only reason they had a black guy plot in this movie is for "diversity and inclusivity" reasons.

Its not a bad movie by itself..its a bad prequel movie for the sopranos.

You can be a alcoholic without being a coke/drug addict.

HBO always said The many saints of newark was never a mob movie, its a glorified indie film!

Saints is basically a film that proves the statement "fixing it until it's broke" correct.

The “inaccuracies” were deliberate choices. Everything with the carnival and later shows you several things: - How Tony viewed his father vs. how he actually was - Tony’s narcissistic nature affects how he viewed himself as a child Like that entire story, Melfi reacts in a way in that she can’t believe what she’s hearing. Which we know now makes sense because it was all made up. Hell, Tony even projects his relationship with his daughter onto his father and Janice. I think the stuff about whether or not Dickie is an addict is supposed to show that Christopher was looking for an out for dealing/not dealing with his drug problem. It was a narrative he was told and believed.

Happy New Year Kino, the Chinese Son Zoo 🐉

My biggest problem with this movie was that it didn’t do anything new. 1. We don’t get an exact answer on who killed Dickie Moltisanti (only that Uncle Junior ordered it). 2. We’ve seen the main character fall for his mistress, only for her to get jealous and lash out for him going back to his wife. 3. We’ve seen the main character lash out in jealousy over his goomar also being unfaithful. 4. The sets were pretty much the same. A lot of it still takes place in Satriale’s and the church they’d go to for every funeral (probably the most minor critique). Plus the few things they did change didn’t really matter they even re-filmed some old flashbacks from the show. 1. Young Tony being taken away by the police when his father was arrested has zero bearing on the plot. 2. Johnny firing the gun into Livia’s beehive hairdoo could just be chalked up as something he did more than once. 3. Silvio. 4. They did a good job building up Harold as a villain (the only new character), but him lashing out at Dickie seemed to come out of nowhere. And there was no resolution for that plot point. 5. When I first watched it, I thought Giuseppina was supposed to be Chris’s real mother, but that wasn’t the case? Idk. Besides Silvio, the film was well acted and looked authentic for a period piece. But it just felt like they threw a bunch of familiar things in for fan service that did nothing for the plot.

Kino I remember you You played christopher when he was doing a stock broker exam

"The Many saints of Newark again? Alright let me get the fuck out of here"

I reckon the muddled narrative w Dickie not being a drug addict, but still showing him swigging vodka is not a mixed message, but simply a demonstration that the truth gets distorted and nothing is ever clearly one thing or another

9:20 Is this really a contradiction or is showing that Dickie was a high functioning addict as opposed as being the low functioning addict Chrissy seems to think he was?

Junior :"They stole my car." Janice: "Who's they?" Junior: "You know who."

I liked the movie at some points. We saw the golden years of their family, we saw Pussy's father, the “torture” scene was brutal and of course we finally got to see this legendary Gentleman we've heard about so many times. But of course, the casting problems (Paulie is younger than Silvio, for fuck's sake) and the absolutely nowhere to go storyline of their enemy...

My estimations of Kino as a man, just fucking skyrocketed for watching this movie twice

They tried way too hard with the 60s vibes. They could've toned down the costumes, overly-excited period acting and sets and we still would've gotten the point. It feels more like a 60s-themed high school dance than a story set in the 60s.

That intro killed me😂😂 that disappointment at the end is so real

I thought the Harold story would lead to Tony’s first body(murder). Remember when him and Paulie went on the lam because the feds found Willie Overall’s body. If I remember right Harold was beefing someone named Overall before he went to the army. I think it was the guy he shot.