Breaking Bad Thread - "El Camino" - A Breaking Bad Movie on Netflix 10/11

[bamez]

Add Andrea to that thriller dance for next week's ep, assuming she died, we never see her die. 

RIP

 

[maxelite]

The whole "2 Kings" reference during the card game got me like the Weebay gif. It's truly a chess game.



But there can only be one King....but whoooooo???

 

[illmatic34]

I don't get the Flynn slander either. Truthfully I think he's a useless character but after being told your dad lied to you for that long about being a drug kingpin and was instrumental in getting your uncle killed, well I wouldn't be so receptive either.

But the again, 99% of you are Team Walt and biased so it's not even going to matter.

 

[illmatic34]

I don't get the Flynn slander either. Truthfully I think he's a useless character but after being told your dad lied to you for that long about being a drug kingpin and was instrumental in getting your uncle killed, well I wouldn't be so receptive either.

But the again, 99% of you are Team Walt and biased so it's not even going to matter.

 

[sea manup]

 
Add Andrea to that thriller dance for next week's ep, assuming she died, we never see her die. 

RIP

she was obviously in on it and todds gun was firing blanks

 

[sea manup]

The whole "2 Kings" reference during the card game got me like the Weebay gif. It's truly a chess game.



But there can only be one King....but whoooooo???

thing is if you think of it as a chess game, and if you do it actually makes a lot more sense than you would expect. walter is not the king

 

[useref15]

Anybody else think the way Walt dies is in a shootout with the Aryans? I'm not sure he can handle the entire group of them in a shootout. They have 5x the firepower of that M60. Maybe thats how it all ends.

 

[NCtwin]

 

 
Jack is DEA Agent Dargus in Jackie Brown

wow   repped.

Dude I had no clue either till last night when I looked it up. I am usually really good at recognizing people in movies but had no idea. He looks so much different than everything else he has been in.

He looked the same to me...

 

[bamez]

they talked a lot about ice cream this episode, will ricin sprinkles in todd or jesse's ice cream be someone's demise? 

 

 

[CP1708]

Saying Mad Men is just about a guy who gets laid and people who drink is very reductive. It would be like saying The Sopranos is "Just about a mobster who kills people" or Breaking Bad is "about a guy who gets cancer and cooks meth". You're missing the larger themes of the show. And it's not meant to be an insult, it's not as if all the themes and concepts are hidden and you have to decode them but it's deeper than the surface dismissals of "Oh he's just drinking and cheating every season". Don, Peggy, Pete, have all become complex and developed characters over the course of the show. And anyone saying "It's still the same show" either stopped watching or can't pay attention It's not the same stories, last season was incredible and I can't wait for their final seasons.

It's a slower paced show without any action, so it's difficult to compare watching Breaking Bad vs. Mad Men in that respect. Watching Breaking Bad is an experience.. there's tension and suspense, which Mad Men can't offer in the same way. Again, saying it's just the same stuff would be like saying Breaking Bad is just "Walt and Jesse get in over their heads, then they get a plan to save themselves" Wasn't that the case with Krazy 8?... then Tuco?... then Gus?...

Mad Men is slower and some people just can't get into it.. I understand that. But just because you can't get into it or you get bored doesn't mean it's not good. It's still one of the best shows ever.

Good post. I watched about halfway through season 1 expecting there to be some overarching story. Something that ties every character together, but never got it.

That's what bored me. I felt as if there was no real overall story to follow. Just a bunch of individual characters going about their business.

Then again it takes me a few watches to get completely into anything. I had to watch the Breaking Bad pilot at least 3 times for it to click.

I plan on forcing myself to watch since it's considered one of the great shows of our time and I don't wanna be left out.

I'm on that as well. I have Breaking, Sopranos, and The Wire on my resume along with the first 5 seasons of Dexter in terms of greatness, the only ones I need to check into are MM, The Shield, and maybe Sons of Anarchy. Possibly could get back into Boardwalk Empire if it grows.

I don't know about Thrones. Maybe at some point, just not yet. I think MM is next on my to do list.

 

[ohmygosher]

Legit feeling kinda down knowing there's only one episode left.

What's gonna suck is checking the time after each commercial break and doing the math until the end.

Will probably watch with my phone off.

This. I watch the clock and I swear that **** moves at Usian Bolt speed

Hell yes. The 40 minute mark comes up so damn fast.

 

[shogun]

^
I have to start Boardwalk Empire. You should try Game of Thrones when it gets up to season 4 or 5. So much major stuff will happen by then. Other great hbo shows are also Rome and Deadwood. Both which ended too soon.

For sci-fi people, Battlestar Galactica is also considered one of the best shows. Loved that series.

 

[hand2handking]

Misfits and shameless are also recommended for comedy/drama

 

[Case]

Just watched last nights episode..And the one thing I can't get out of my mind is how much of a whiny bch Flynn is..Dude is seriously the most immature 16/17 year old in the history of the world..I know he's got CP, but c'mon man..It's like he's barely above Corky from Life Goes On as far as his emotional/maturity level goes..

I really hope Walt comes back to town and does the following:

Kills all the Aryans except Todd..

Kidnaps Lydia and let's Pinky kill her in front of TBird..

Gives the Ricin to Jesse so he can die, kinda, peacefully..

Gives Holly to her aunt and sets up a trust fund that nobody knows about and she can't get to until she's 30..Saul would be the one who comes back and gives her all the account info..

Skylar gets hit by multiple dump trucks for no apparent reason..

Walt Jr. get's shoved in a trunk and dropped off in S.P. to hang out with his new friends Jimmy and Timmy..

Finally, Walt gets put in jail, cured of his cancer, and spends the rest of his days running the drug trade in prison after he discovers how to make the finest of toilet meth..

 

[rawex5]

Watch The Shield before Sons of Anarchy.

 

[mackmittenzz]

I hope Walter goes out like GTA 6 stars on him, blast every nazi. N go out like a G. Before going on a all out killing spree, figuring out how to get the family there money. I mean that was the purpose of show in the first place right? After defeating the nazis, discovering Jesse in the cage, and letting him go. Then Walt dies of natural causes, in jail or on the run.

 

[Case]

^
I have to start Boardwalk Empire. You should try Game of Thrones when it gets up to season 4 or 5. So much major stuff will happen by then. Other great hbo shows are also Rome and Deadwood. Both which ended too soon.

For sci-fi people, Battlestar Galactica is also considered one of the best shows. Loved that series.

Boardwalk Empire is so over rated..I usually can watch anything but this show is just too damn boring..And you're right about GoT..Also Deadwood is one of the most over looked shows of the past 15 years..Great cast, great story, and draws you in from the first episode.. Definitely deserved a better ending than what HBO gave it..

 

[JD617]

 I DIDN’T LIKE IT. IT’S NOT A BIG DEAL.
What Breaking Bad has shown us, better than any television show ever, is that a show doesn’t need to be realistic, it just has to be loyal to the reality it created. Others have written about that, and they’ve written about that better than I ever could. For instance, it’s the adherence to the reality created inside the show that allowed Hank’s solo investigation of Walt storyline to feel right. In our reality, a DEA agent going on a rogue investigation of a major drug kingpin—using government assets like vehicles and electronic surveillance—and keeping it quiet, is absurd. Within the show, it feels earned; we understand Hank’s obsession with the case, because we’ve watched that unfold over multiple seasons of the show.

So, with that said, here’s what bothers me: the fake-ID guy, played by Robert Forster. Why on earth is this guy willing to to make multiple cross-country road trips—each time, taking the risk that he himself could be caught—for a lone, sickly criminal on the run? Why the heck wouldn’t he just drive Walter to New Hampshire, put two in the back of his head, bury him under the cabin, and take the barrel of cash? Now, you might say, that since giving criminals new identities is Vacuum Man’s (sorry, didn’t catch if this guy actually had a name) occupation, he would care about his reputation as a master disappearer of criminals. The logical objection being: if this guy is so good, no one would ever hear from his clients again, so who would ever know. This is an illegal enterprise, it’s not like he’s going to have a Yelp page. Vacuum Man, who is a criminal himself, is going to drive 8000-miles A MONTH, and act as hospice nurse to a wanted felon, for what, six-figures a trip? I’ve driven cross-country, and I might kill you just for suggesting the trip. Then he’s going to have to worry that Walter might get spotted, or decide to wander down the hill, or any other damn thing Walter might do that could lead back to Vacuum Man? If money is his object, well, Walter has enough money that Vacuum Man can think about quitting this business forever. And he has it on his person.

The problem with Vacuum Man, then, is he’s an obvious plot-device, not a character. He’s a means to get Walt from one place to another, when everyone else left alive in the show are people whose motivations we understand completely. That—above everything else—has been the show’s strength: creating characters so true to their own motivations that the audience can simultaneously empathize with, and be repulsed by, a moral black hole like Walter White. Why is Vacuum Man going through all this trouble? It bothers me.

There was always going to be a let down from a high point like Ozymandias. An episode of setting up the pieces before the finale. It feels a little strange criticizing a show for making, literally, one mistake, but I guess that’s what I’m doing. And there’s every chance that the finale will make me forget this. Anyway, sorry to be that guy. I still think it’s the best show in TV history.

Also:

Here's Andy Greenwald's recap  of last night's episode.

 

[curbsideprophet]

even if walt does get them the money somehow, why would they ever take it? The police already know....and are expecting it like Saul said.

 

[ecruteakcityboy]

On my way home from work today I asked myself how I wanted to show the end. I kept contradicting myself.
A part of me wants the ending to be definite. The only definitive ending, imo, would be Walt dying...........or going to prison(but that would seem anti-climatic)
That's the problem though.. I don't want Walt to die.
So I decided to make a compromise with myself. That is, I don't care how it ends.
All I ask for is to have Walter White/ Heisenberg's legacy live on in the Breaking Bad/ Real universe by his actions carried out in the last episode.
Whatever he does I want it to be SIGNIFICANT and makes us well assure that everything he has done has not been in vain.

Oh yea and the final scene HAS to have Walt in it.
Can't be no flashback crap either.

 

[iYen]

Watch The Shield before Sons of Anarchy.

don't watch soa at all

 

[albooboo5]

 He looked the same to me...

I wasn't talking about Robert Forster who plays Max Cherry in Jackie Brown and Saul's guy who erases people's past in BB. Yes he looks the same in every movie he is in. I am talking about Michael Bowen  who is Agent Dargus/Jackie Brown & Jack/BB 

 

[teamlakers909]

last episode will be all about REVENGE. 

 

[rook]

Guys...what if if Lydia and the Grey Matter company work together?

What if Gretchen and her husband knows all about the meth? They are like the people lydia sells it too?

 

[shogun]

Boardwalk Empire is so over rated..I usually can watch anything but this show is just too damn boring..And you're right about GoT..Also Deadwood is one of the most over looked shows of the past 15 years..Great cast, great story, and draws you in from the first episode.. Definitely deserved a better ending than what HBO gave it..

How it ended made me mad. Anna Gunn was in the 2nd season, in a wife role people won't hate her in.