Movies: El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
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Mickey Marner
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More of a tip-of-the-hat/Easter egg hunt for fanatics than anything. Todd would be an interesting character study. I'm convinced he's portrayed as schizoid, whether intentional or not. The only thing that gives me pause is his sycophancy, but it's unclear what motivates it.
Ozz
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Yes, but still very enjoyable to watch. You pretty much expected things to work out, so it was just a joyride. Not much suspense as with the series because we knew everything had to wrap up within a certain amount of time. I'm the type that could watch something I enjoy to absolute death though, as I said earlier (and years ago when BB ended) I would have loved a whole series just following up on "the aftermath and beyond" for the surviving characters.
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ACK! ACK ACK! ACK!!!
Did I need this movie? Nope.
Did I enjoy this movie? Quite a bit!
Did I enjoy this movie? Quite a bit!
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Didn't feel like a "movie". Felt like an extra long episode.
Dubi Doo
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That's what my wife just said. I still enjoyed it. It was just...very straight forward. Nothing too outlandish.
ucanthanzalthetruth
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The one thing that felt really out of place was the duel. It was 5 vs 1, they could have just killed Jesse...
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A few too many flashbacks in the middle/second half (Todd is the stupidest) but it was a solid escape movie with familiar characters.
spintheblackcircle
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He's such a nice guy he would give the shirt off his back for you....right after he chopped off your arm, that's why you need the shirt, because you're bleeding to death and need a tourniquet.
It was the closure that the show needed.
Jesse's fate was too open ended at the end of BB. He suffered so much in the show and it was a shame not to give the show's moral compass a proper send off. In El-Camino, Jesse's character got the ending it deserved.
As the movie implies, Jesse was a victim because he kept letting the universe take him where it wanted to. Giving yourself up to the random machinations of the universe does not mean you'll end up with a good deck of cards.
A good life is a life one must choose, and this is something Jesse's character had to learn through his victimization.
Jesse's fate was too open ended at the end of BB. He suffered so much in the show and it was a shame not to give the show's moral compass a proper send off. In El-Camino, Jesse's character got the ending it deserved.
As the movie implies, Jesse was a victim because he kept letting the universe take him where it wanted to. Giving yourself up to the random machinations of the universe does not mean you'll end up with a good deck of cards.
A good life is a life one must choose, and this is something Jesse's character had to learn through his victimization.
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Todd always struck me as similar to Star Trek's Data, if Data was brought up amongst criminals. Todd's like a gentle, morally-neutral android who kills only when it efficiently solves a problem, and he usually apologizes to the victim while doing it. He's a great character.
And, like Data in the trailers for Picard, Todd seems to have become puffy. Somewhere, there's a great all-day android buffet.
And, like Data in the trailers for Picard, Todd seems to have become puffy. Somewhere, there's a great all-day android buffet.
b1e9a8r5s
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While I enjoyed it, I didn't think that there was anything there that was truly needed for the BB story. It was really well done but I came away being unsure why they did it.
OhCaptainMyCaptain
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b1e9a8r5s
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Well yeah.
Again, it wasn't bad and they didn't mall it in or anything, but I just found myself thinking it didn't change anything in terms of the overall BB story.
OhCaptainMyCaptain
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Agreed. But I liked that. Just gave closure for Jesse, which I really liked. A good amount of people wanted that, money spoke, and boom.. we have a movie!
Maybe I am in the minority, but the story felt unfinished with the way Jesse's arc ended in BB.
We had 5 seasons of deep character development and it simply ended with him driving away, fate unknown. It felt really empty and nihilistic.
Sure, Walter's character stole the show and was originally the show's main protagonist, but I feel like as the show went on, it was really about Jesse and Walt.
Walt's loop was closed with the final episode, Jesse's wasn't. In fact, by the end of the show, we had close on almost every character (Hank, Saul, Jesse, Mike, Lydia, Walt, Jack, Todd, Gus), but Jesse's fate was left open-ended.
The final episode went to great lengths to show that every loop was closed, except for Jesse's. It just felt unfinished and Jesse's character deserved closure after so much suffering.
Terry Yake
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it was whatever
the ending was too predictable and i wasn't a fan of the whole "beef" with jesse and the kandy welding people. they tried getting the viewer to see them as the bad guys when they really didn't do anything evil
the ending was too predictable and i wasn't a fan of the whole "beef" with jesse and the kandy welding people. they tried getting the viewer to see them as the bad guys when they really didn't do anything evil
Super Cake
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There was only one thing i was confused about:
was the beginning scene between Jesse and Mike a flashback?
OhCaptainMyCaptain
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yes.
its where Jesse decides he wants out and to sell his 1/3rd of the methylamine from the train
