The Sopranos (HBO) TV Show • Page 93

First episode of season three was a banger. The multiple stakeouts was a clever way to catch us up with most of the main characters while setting the stakes of the season.

 

I love that opening sequence

 

Okay, I would love to know what the reaction was to the cgi face replacement of Nancy Marchand at the time. It was very jarring, but I wonder if it’s one of those things I wouldn’t have noticed at the time.

Christopher’s high rant about identical beings was a chefs kiss.

 

Guys I never noticed the cgi and I watched that clip now that I know, and still didn't notice lmao RIP me in this AI deepfake world

 

Even the colors being so far off?

 

I watched it on my phone idk will watch on bigger screen and report back later

 

Yeah idk how the fuck I never noticed it either on a 55 inch 4K TV 8-9 feet away from me haha

 

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I figured this was the response. It was so novel at the time and also not subjected to HD tv, it probably looked great and people were so mesmerized that the didn’t think twice about it.

 

I miss the days when a new visual effect was truly amazing. Now a days it’s very easy to tell when something looks cheap or used when it wasn’t quite ready for prime time. So many uses of cgi that look bad now felt mind blowing at the time.

 

CGI was being abused everywhere around that time. The CGI Dwayne Johnson scorpion is infamous. The Matrix Reloaded was all over it. It took a while for filmmakers to learn how to use it more sparingly. Everyone was so impressed with The Abyss and Jurassic Park but didn't learn how they used it correctly.

 

CGI Jeff Bridges in the Tron reboot lol

 

Just yesterday I stumbled upon Brendan Fraiser's GQ "most iconic characters" interview on youtube and he had a funny tidbit in there about how he saw the special effects guys at the red carpet premier for The Mummy 2 or something like that and the were all like "uhhh yeah we needed more time to finish that" lol. But he made the point that it kind of adds to the whole feel of the Mummy franchise and kind of works with it now looking back.

 

I also did not know it was cgi when I watched for the first time in like 2013. But I was thinking the entire time “the dialogue in this scene is weird AF” lol

 

Started watching this again because my girlfriend hasn’t seen it. She loved the first episode.

 

Okay, maybe AI can be for good

 

What's good about that?

 

It’s funny as hell

 

Is it

 

It's actually insane how obvious it is which character each of them is haha

 

“This guy killed 16 Czechoslovakians. He was an interior decorator”

“his house looked like shit”

No notes. Just incredible writing and delivery.