Thanks Cas - everything I want to hear again!
For those who have seen it - is it best to watch all BB again before watching this or can you manage without? I'm definitely picking this one up anyway.
For me this movie is.......pointless. I mean, it does stand on it's own but that exactly is the problem. It does not add anything to the TV show. Which ended the way it did with pretty much all conclusions.
It was nice seeing familiar faces again but that's all for me. 8/10 is maybe OK for a movie as such, but as some kind of continuation of the BB story.......nope.
Because it really is not tied to BB at all. And as his story......can we expect another one with him as a.....dunno, shoemaker. I really wanna know how his grand kids will be called.
Sorry. But BB ended very good. Unlike many shows. He get out after all that. Now, he could have gone helping Dexter.......don't really care. Changes nothing.
errrrr......but now I wanna know what will do for a living. Is he gonna marry. How is he gonna call the kids. What kind of father he will be. Will he play with his grand kids.......I can strongly say that's untrue!
I understand that we didn't need the extra story, but what we got was a good epilogue and true closure for Jesse. That's not something often found in TV. Only the great shows and writers manage it.
As the way BB ended it didn't explore the consequences of his experience in that final chapter. I imagine that Vince was never truly happy about that.
Now he can close the book. And be happy doing so.
errrrr......but now I wanna know what will do for a living. Is he gonna marry. How is he gonna call the kids. What kind of father he will be. Will he play with his grand kids.......
All we got is tha fact that he ended up in Canada. By car. Slept well without knowing that. Was think that he's maybe in Panama.
errrrr......but now I wanna know what will do for a living. Is he gonna marry. How is he gonna call the kids. What kind of father he will be. Will he play with his grand kids.......
All we got is tha fact that he ended up in Canada. By car. Slept well without knowing that. Was think that he's maybe in Panama.
I'd respectfully point to the Sopranos, and even to Mad Men.I can strongly say that's untrue!
I understand that we didn't need the extra story, but what we got was a good epilogue and true closure for Jesse. That's not something often found in TV. Only the great shows and writers manage it.
As the way BB ended it didn't explore the consequences of his experience in that final chapter. I imagine that Vince was never truly happy about that.
Now he can close the book. And be happy doing so.
Who cares about Kermode?!El Camino was utterly pointless, and by comparison with the emotional jeopardy at the heart of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, was barely memorable.
Gilligan is and has been an outstanding storyteller, no arguments there.
But his discomfort with leaving even the loosest of loose ends has driven the making of El Camino.
There is so much more power to enduring storytelling if at least something is left to the audiences imagination. Its not as if the ending to Breaking Bad wasn't neat enough.
As a movie El Camino was fine, but nothing more. And given its ("why?) context, and the lack of palpable buzz around it and in its aftermath, quite how anyone would give it an 8 escapes me.
Again, one see why Kermode refuses to do scores.
I'd respectfully point to the Sopranos, and even to Mad Men.
Both regarded as amongst the vert greatest of modern television drama.
Both show runners / writers regarded as amongst the greatest of the last 20-30 years.
And neither show ended with anything like closure.
Because it really is not tied to BB at all. And as his story......can we expect another one with him as a.....dunno, shoemaker. I really wanna know how his grand kids will be called.
Sorry. But BB ended very good. Unlike many shows. He get out after all that. Now, he could have gone helping Dexter.......don't really care. Changes nothing.