'Sopranos' final season to begin April 8

bostonlou

AllIAm wrote:

im bummed. that was my favorite little ice cream shop. just a whole in the wall place right down the street from where my parents live that i loved to go to when i was home... and now... it will be packed forever. i can't even imagine how many people will go tonight. they do make goooood ice cream though

what was the name of it? my coworker is trying to say it wasn't real

what town?

Atomic Punk

It's real

Holsten's on Broad Street in Bloomfield NJ

patrickredeyes

Atomic Punk wrote:

It's real

Holsten's on Broad Street in Bloomfield NJ

Very cool info to know. Not like I'll be there anytime soon, but thanks for the info.

AllIAm

yup that would be it... bloomfield NJ... right on the corner of broad and watchung. my brother lives a few doors down and said that even this mornin there ws a line out the door to get in.

i guess they shot the whole thing in my town. i will have to go watch it now

nowayimfaithfull

We have some friends that live on mountain ave, tommorrow I will be there, I want to take some pictures, we have some of the house ande the old folks home.

The cat as aid, that is a good one.

Hopefully they will have a movie.

Atomic Punk

http://offthebroiler.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/nj-dining-holstens/

AllIAm

Atomic Punk wrote:

http://offthebroiler.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/nj-dining-holstens/

that just made me smile and think about every graduation or celebration we had when i was a kid and my parents would take me there.

i used to live next door to one of the directors... obviously they like to film close to home.

Atomic Punk

AllIAm wrote:

that just made me smile and think about every graduation or celebration we had when i was a kid and my parents would take me there.

i used to live next door to one of the directors... obviously they like to film close to home.

They even have their menu on line at http://www.holstens.com

bostonlou

thanks for the info... would of googled it if i remembered the name


one question though

weren't they pretending like they needed reservations??

for a diner?




as always... my coworker is an idiot

AllIAm

bostonlou wrote:

thanks for the info... would of googled it if i remembered the name


one question though

weren't they pretending like they needed reservations??

for a diner?




as always... my coworker is an idiot

its a shithole too. ill take you there sometime Lou!

sweetpotato

NY PJ1 wrote:

maybe the cat was big pussy??

that's exactly what i was thinking! like he was sitting in judgement of them, ya know?

mammasan

AllIAm wrote:

its a shithole too. ill take you there sometime Lou!

That place does suck. They are supposed to be famous for their ice cream and even that isn't that great.

NY PJ1

sweetpotato wrote:

that's exactly what i was thinking! like he was sitting in judgement of them, ya know?

yea good point

NY PJ1

David Chase Whacked Every Viewer At The End

rrivers

My first reaction was that I hated the ending. Then I called my dad because he saw it earlier and asked me to call him. When we talked about it, I liked it more and the more I think about it, the more I like it.

The whole show Tony was finally getting things in order. He got Phil. He made a kind of peace with Janice at her house. He was able to forgive Junior. AJ didn't go to the Army and seems to be getting out of his depression. Carm and him are accepting Meadow's choice to not go to med school.

When he met with his lawyer, they basically told you that he was going to be indicted by the FBI. At the beginning of the season, the FBI guy went into the Jersey cop's office who arrested Tony and said, "We've been building a case against this guy for 5 years." This is just a reminder of all the dirt they have on him from all the informants (Pussy, Adriana, Members Only Jacket guy, the guy who had the heart attack while in the car with the FBI, and Carlo).

Tony had the boss of a NY family killed. There is no way the NY family will just allow that to happen without retribution, no matter what Butchie (sp?) says at the meeting.

Putting those things together with the fact that they kept showing all of the other people in the ice cream shop, there is no way that Tony is going to go on leading the life he has lead the whole time we knew him. I personally think someone in the shop killed him and someone else, if not all, of his family. Maybe the shots were fired right when Meadow finally hit the door. There is a reason that they continued to show the guy with the baseball cap sitting in the booth, the 2 black guys, and the guy at the bar who walked to the bathroom. Maybe it ended up being a cross fire where they all shot them from different angles.

If you think he made it out of the ice cream shop alive, then the FBI still got him.

So I am happy with the ending. I understand the frustration some are feeling, since I felt it too when I first saw it. I feel, at least, that the answers are there, they just need a little putting together for yourself.

nowayimfaithfull

very true stuff, and what worked for that ending is the people that liked tony can walk away thinking when it comes down to it its all about the wife and kids and the good times just like aj pointed out.
As far as fbi, its almost like they set tony up, now they could pursue the phil hit even more, the fbi knew what was happening, and than he cheers.

Dustin51

rrivers wrote:

My first reaction was that I hated the ending. Then I called my dad because he saw it earlier and asked me to call him. When we talked about it, I liked it more and the more I think about it, the more I like it.

The whole show Tony was finally getting things in order. He got Phil. He made a kind of peace with Janice at her house. He was able to forgive Junior. AJ didn't go to the Army and seems to be getting out of his depression. Carm and him are accepting Meadow's choice to not go to med school.

When he met with his lawyer, they basically told you that he was going to be indicted by the FBI. At the beginning of the season, the FBI guy went into the Jersey cop's office who arrested Tony and said, "We've been building a case against this guy for 5 years." This is just a reminder of all the dirt they have on him from all the informants (Pussy, Adriana, Members Only Jacket guy, the guy who had the heart attack while in the car with the FBI, and Carlo).

Tony had the boss of a NY family killed. There is no way the NY family will just allow that to happen without retribution, no matter what Butchie (sp?) says at the meeting.

Putting those things together with the fact that they kept showing all of the other people in the ice cream shop, there is no way that Tony is going to go on leading the life he has lead the whole time we knew him. I personally think someone in the shop killed him and someone else, if not all, of his family. Maybe the shots were fired right when Meadow finally hit the door. There is a reason that they continued to show the guy with the baseball cap sitting in the booth, the 2 black guys, and the guy at the bar who walked to the bathroom. Maybe it ended up being a cross fire where they all shot them from different angles.

If you think he made it out of the ice cream shop alive, then the FBI still got him.

So I am happy with the ending. I understand the frustration some are feeling, since I felt it too when I first saw it. I feel, at least, that the answers are there, they just need a little putting together for yourself.

I pretty much agree with you. Although I think because Bobby and Sil got it that Phil getting wacked may just even it out. But it's impossible to not think that Tony got it if that scene continues but then again it felt like someone was going to die in every scene last night so it's possible that they had a nice diner, went home, and Tony fell asleep on the couch watching an old movie.

When you look at how brilliant that series was I think it was impossible for them to come up with a fitting end to it. It never tied up loose ends like most show's and movies do. That was part of the beauty of it so leaving it like that and basically wacking all of us was as perfect as it could've been really.

I admit I was disappointed at first though.

mammasan

I like the aspect of the viewer getting killed off. Tony's life continues, or not, but we will never know because our relationship with the show has ended.

my2hands

that was classic

i loved the ending. couldnt have gone out any betetr than that.


so, i assume phils funeral will be closes casket :cool:

MasterFramer

The whole problem with this ending is Chase has said in the past when asked "will there ever be a reunion show of some sort?" He said NO and that this season would tie up everything and not leave any questions about the ending. What happened to that Mr. Chase? He took the easy way out... "I'll let the audience decide" WEAK.

Again, why so much focus on that waste of space, AJ? They should have blown him up in that stupid car of his.