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El Camino

Post by theroyaldyche » Fri Oct 11, 2019 10:13 pm

An hour in so far so good

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Re: El Camino

Post by tarkys_ears » Fri Oct 11, 2019 10:13 pm

Sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.

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Re: El Camino

Post by Steve1956 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 10:02 am

theroyaldyche wrote:An hour in so far so good
What's your verdict mate,is it worth a watch?

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Re: El Camino

Post by theroyaldyche » Sat Oct 12, 2019 10:50 am

Steve1956 wrote:What's your verdict mate,is it worth a watch?
Yes definately. Excellent closure

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Re: El Camino

Post by joey13 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 10:52 am

Brilliant

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Re: El Camino

Post by Steve1956 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 11:20 am

theroyaldyche wrote:Yes definately. Excellent closure
Cheers pal,will watch it later.

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Re: El Camino

Post by Dark Cloud » Sat Oct 12, 2019 11:24 am

I know a chap who owns one! He's an ex pat who lives in France and he gave me a ride in it a couple of years ago down a whole load of very tight country lanes near his house!! Bloody scary!!! (Especially when it came to putting the petrol in and paying for it!!! :o )

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Re: El Camino

Post by theroyaldyche » Sat Oct 12, 2019 3:02 pm

Dark Cloud wrote:I know a chap who owns one! He's an ex pat who lives in France and he gave me a ride in it a couple of years ago down a whole load of very tight country lanes near his house!! Bloody scary!!! (Especially when it came to putting the petrol in and paying for it!!! :o )
Does he cook meth?

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Re: El Camino

Post by Dark Cloud » Sat Oct 12, 2019 3:25 pm

theroyaldyche wrote:Does he cook meth?
Nope, but he does a mean cooked breakfast!! (He has a B&B! :D )

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Re: El Camino

Post by Blyclaret » Sat Oct 12, 2019 5:50 pm

Watched it last night
Very disappointed
Not a patch on Breaking Bad.
Very very slow moving
Going over old ground.
No Walt .... Disappointing.

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Re: El Camino

Post by tarkys_ears » Sat Oct 12, 2019 6:02 pm

It was a bit disappointing.

It's very much like Better Call Saul where it takes ages for anything to happen.

They didn't make a season of Better Call Saul this year, presumably because of this.

This story didn't really need telling. It didn't really "add" anything.

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Re: El Camino

Post by joey13 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:14 pm

Blyclaret wrote:Watched it last night
Very disappointed
Not a patch on Breaking Bad.
Very very slow moving
Going over old ground.
No Walt .... Disappointing.
Did you watch it all ?
Walt was in it as a flashback, bearing in mind he was killed in the final episode he could hardly play a major part in this :roll:

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Re: El Camino

Post by joey13 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 7:17 pm

tarkys_ears wrote:It was a bit disappointing.

It's very much like Better Call Saul where it takes ages for anything to happen.

They didn't make a season of Better Call Saul this year, presumably because of this.

This story didn't really need telling. It didn't really "add" anything.
Season 5 of better call Saul is out in 2020
Gilligan has been busy on other projects obviously

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Re: El Camino

Post by tarkys_ears » Sat Oct 12, 2019 9:45 pm

joey13 wrote:Season 5 of better call Saul is out in 2020
Gilligan has been busy on other projects obviously
As I obviously pointed out in my QUOTED comment. Obviously.

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Re: El Camino

Post by joey13 » Sat Oct 12, 2019 10:19 pm

tarkys_ears wrote:As I obviously pointed out in my QUOTED comment. Obviously.
Presumably doesn’t mean obviously,obviously

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Re: El Camino

Post by Devils_Advocate » Sat Oct 12, 2019 10:20 pm

Not impressed. Lost interest in season 4 of Better Call Saul and this was equally slow and didn't really see the point as the story itself was pretty boring

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Re: El Camino

Post by Hibsclaret » Sat Oct 12, 2019 10:25 pm

Was a bit average. BB is the best series ever imo so you can never be too down on it...that said the majority of the BB characters are missing from it which, along with the storyline, means that it is in essence a 7 or 8 out of 10. A good number of the BB episodes were 10 out of 10....the IMDB ratings are pretty accurate on the whole and this film is not to the standard of the series which was out of this world...

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Re: El Camino

Post by Granny WeatherWax » Sun Oct 13, 2019 5:45 am

BB was awful. Didn’t get past series 2.

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Re: El Camino

Post by TVC15 » Sun Oct 13, 2019 6:54 am

Wasn’t that great tbh - good to see a few of the old BB characters though and worth watching.
I like Better call Saul - only started watching it a couple of months ago and just got a couple of episodes to go.
Best thing is to not compare it to BB and just enjoy it for itself and I think it’s really decent.
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Re: El Camino

Post by Hibsclaret » Sun Oct 13, 2019 8:05 am

Granny WeatherWax wrote:BB was awful. Didn’t get past series 2.
There’s someone who knows their stuff..... :o

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Re: El Camino

Post by Granny WeatherWax » Sun Oct 13, 2019 8:33 am

Hibsclaret wrote:There’s someone who knows their stuff..... :o
I’ve not finished the full 7 series of my little pony like you have either.

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Re: El Camino

Post by jrgbfc » Sun Oct 13, 2019 8:38 am

I though BB was decent, not a patch on the Sopranos or the Wire though. I tried Better Call Saul but couldn't get into it at all. Might give the film a go today.

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Re: El Camino

Post by Granny WeatherWax » Sun Oct 13, 2019 8:47 am

It was just so slow. I nearly turned off after series 1 but gave series 2 a go. It just became to boring.

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Re: El Camino

Post by Flying Without Ings » Sun Oct 13, 2019 8:47 am

Without comparing it to BB, I enjoyed it. BB had countless episodes to character build and build story lines, whereas El Camino had 2 hours to cram in as much as they could. Aaron Paul (Jesse) is a very good actor.

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Re: El Camino

Post by Lancasterclaret » Sun Oct 13, 2019 9:45 am

Granny WeatherWax wrote:BB was awful. Didn’t get past series 2.
Jesus

You've seriously missed out

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Re: El Camino

Post by Rileybobs » Sun Oct 13, 2019 9:52 am

Agree that BB wasn’t a patch on The Sopranos, but a very entertaining series nonetheless.

Watched El Camino last night. Thought it was totally pointless and lacked a storyline. Easy watch but very underwhelming.

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Re: El Camino

Post by Murger » Sun Oct 13, 2019 10:07 am

I'm opposite to a couple on here. I tried The Sopranos, found it to slow. Loved Breaking Bad, El Camino was ok, nothing more.

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Re: El Camino

Post by Hibsclaret » Sun Oct 13, 2019 10:19 am

Lancasterclaret wrote:Jesus

You've seriously missed out

Spot on. BB was one of very few programmes where each series (broadly speaking) got better and better. It is rated at 9.5/10 on IMDb for a very good reason...if you watched series 1 and stopped then more fool you.

The Sopranos was also very good...

The BB film lacks a storyline as others have said and it misses the great characters (not enough Walt or Mike and nothing of the rest of Walt’s family or the great villains of the series). The villains are very average in the film...

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Re: El Camino

Post by Granny WeatherWax » Sun Oct 13, 2019 10:53 am

Series 1 was one of the dullest things I’ve ever watched.

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Re: El Camino

Post by joey13 » Sun Oct 13, 2019 10:58 am

Hibsclaret wrote:Spot on. BB was one of very few programmes where each series (broadly speaking) got better and better. It is rated at 9.5/10 on IMDb for a very good reason...if you watched series 1 and stopped then more fool you.

The Sopranos was also very good...

The BB film lacks a storyline as others have said and it misses the great characters (not enough Walt or Mike and nothing of the rest of Walt’s family or the great villains of the series). The villains are very average in the film...
Again , Walt ,Mike dead along with all the other villains ,it’s not Dallas FFS

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Re: El Camino

Post by Hibsclaret » Sun Oct 13, 2019 11:01 am

joey13 wrote:Again , Walt ,Mike dead along with all the other villains ,it’s not Dallas FFS
Well aware of that... the villains in the film are just not of the same level. There were other great characters in the series that could have been utilised that weren’t dead.

They were flashing back all the time in the film and so could have done it better. Alternatively, they could have used a better storyline with better new characters. When you consider how convincingly evil Gus, the twins, hector, the Mexican drug lord etc were the ones in this film were a bit meh...

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Re: El Camino

Post by Giftonsnoidea » Sun Oct 13, 2019 12:00 pm

Granny WeatherWax wrote:BB was awful. Didn’t get past series 2.
Wash your mouth out :lol:

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Re: El Camino

Post by GodIsADeeJay81 » Sun Oct 13, 2019 12:47 pm

Granny WeatherWax wrote:It was just so slow. I nearly turned off after series 1 but gave series 2 a go. It just became to boring.
It's a slow burner that's all, but it definitely gets better.

The Wire is my favourite series, but BB definitely comes a very close second.

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Re: El Camino

Post by Dark Cloud » Sun Oct 13, 2019 1:35 pm

I genuinely don't watch a lot of tv and when I do it tends to be sport, but I watched every single episode of BB and I definitely agree with others who have said it was not only gripping, but actually got better and better as the series stacked up. It's possibly the best thing (fiction) I've ever seen on TV. I also really, really enjoyed "The Haunting of Hill House" and thought this was ALMOST up there in the same bracket for acting, characters, storyline and brilliantly crafted drama.

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Re: El Camino

Post by theroyaldyche » Sun Oct 13, 2019 2:02 pm

Granny WeatherWax wrote:BB was awful. Didn’t get past series 2.
BB is one of the best box sets ever

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Re: El Camino

Post by Vegas Claret » Sun Oct 13, 2019 2:02 pm

BB was supreme
El Camino was a bit confusing, it was almost like it was setting the story up for a further film

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Re: El Camino

Post by Longside4evr » Sun Oct 13, 2019 2:20 pm

Watch it last night also thought it lost its self
Its like they run out of ideas and make it up as they go a long
Far to slow and switching back right through
Verdict V disappointed
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Re: El Camino

Post by Granny WeatherWax » Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:05 am

theroyaldyche wrote:BB is one of the best box sets ever
Glad you enjoyed it.

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Re: El Camino

Post by Inchy » Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:46 am

Watched it last night. 7.5/10 I thought, which is a lot lower than BB.

Although it didn’t add anything it was good to see that Jesse was ok.

All it did was left me wanting more. However I hope they don’t give us more because like Better call Saul it won’t be a patch on BB

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Re: El Camino

Post by Claret-On-A-T-Rex » Mon Oct 14, 2019 7:13 am

Hibsclaret wrote:Was a bit average. BB is the best series ever imo so you can never be too down on it...that said the majority of the BB characters are missing from it which, along with the storyline, means that it is in essence a 7 or 8 out of 10. A good number of the BB episodes were 10 out of 10....the IMDB ratings are pretty accurate on the whole and this film is not to the standard of the series which was out of this world...
I'd put it third behind The Wire and The Sopranos. Succession may even push it down to fourth.

El Camino was very slow and unimaginative, I was expecting it to be much better.

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Re: El Camino

Post by Steve1956 » Tue Oct 15, 2019 3:25 pm

Just watched it,wow as Breaking Bad was the best thing ever,El Camino was pretty poor....think I need to binge on Breaking Bad now though.

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Re: El Camino

Post by Silkyskills1 » Tue Oct 15, 2019 5:35 pm

Granny WeatherWax wrote:BB was awful. Didn’t get past series 2.
Well, for me it was some of the best TV viewing ever. Wonderfully colourful characters portrayed by excellent actors. A ground breaking series. I'm still wondering whether to watch El Camino. Reading this thread hasn't helped make my mind up either.

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Re: El Camino

Post by theroyaldyche » Tue Oct 15, 2019 5:44 pm

Silkyskills1 wrote:Well, for me it was some of the best TV viewing ever. Wonderfully colourful characters portrayed by excellent actors. A ground breaking series. I'm still wondering whether to watch El Camino. Reading this thread hasn't helped make my mind up either.
Why would u not if uv watched the series

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Re: El Camino

Post by Hibsclaret » Tue Oct 15, 2019 5:45 pm

Silkyskills1 wrote:Well, for me it was some of the best TV viewing ever. Wonderfully colourful characters portrayed by excellent actors. A ground breaking series. I'm still wondering whether to watch El Camino. Reading this thread hasn't helped make my mind up either.
You should watch it...just don’t expect it to be as good as the best twenty or so episodes of BB. There are a few episodes of BB that are weaker than the film but not too many...Fly from season 3 is one that springs to mind that is worse...just don’t expect Ozymandias or Dead Freight levels....

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Re: El Camino

Post by Steve1956 » Tue Oct 15, 2019 5:47 pm

Who was the letter Jesse gave to the hover guy addressed to?

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Re: El Camino

Post by joey13 » Tue Oct 15, 2019 7:13 pm

Steve1956 wrote:Who was the letter Jesse gave to the hover guy addressed to?
It was to Tarkys ears explaining the plot

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Re: El Camino

Post by ClaretAndJew » Tue Oct 15, 2019 7:55 pm

Steve1956 wrote:Who was the letter Jesse gave to the hover guy addressed to?
Brock, the son of his girlfriend who is killed in Season 5.
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Re: El Camino

Post by tarkys_ears » Tue Oct 15, 2019 8:13 pm

joey13 wrote:It was to Tarkys ears explaining the plot
Why would I need the plot explaining to me?

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Re: El Camino

Post by Silkyskills1 » Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:05 pm

theroyaldyche wrote:Why would u not if uv watched the series
Because it isn't Breaking Bad. I enjoyed the series so much that I'm reluctant to have my images of the series tainted by something I see as a.kind.of 'follow up' with some of the characters.I enjoyed not taking part. I will watch it eventually out.of.curiosity,I suppose.

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Re: El Camino

Post by Devils_Advocate » Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:10 pm

Silkyskills1 wrote:Because it isn't Breaking Bad. I enjoyed the series so much that I'm reluctant to have my images of the series tainted by something I see as a.kind.of 'follow up' with some of the characters.I enjoyed not taking part. I will watch it eventually out.of.curiosity,I suppose.
Dont worry its so dull that nowhere near enough happens to come close to tainting any good memories you may hold for BB

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