Television El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | Don't bother entering unless you've watched it

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They should do a follow up, but like White Collar, where Jesse becomes the person who gives his expertise to police to help them solve crimes.
 

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Thought this was pretty good. Not essential, but a nice little closing chapter to Jesse's story. Thought Aaron Paul did a decent job slotting back into the character after so long away, thought Vince Gilligan shot the hell out of it (like I'd expect anything less), and being back in that universe with some of those characters again was a really rewarding experience. It does everything it says on the tin for 2 hours - can't ask for more than that really.
 

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Thought this was pretty good. Not essential, but a nice little closing chapter to Jesse's story. Thought Aaron Paul did a decent job slotting back into the character after so long away, thought Vince Gilligan shot the hell out of it (like I'd expect anything less), and being back in that universe with some of those characters again was a really rewarding experience. It does everything it says on the tin for 2 hours - can't ask for more than that really.
True, that was the best thing about the movie IMO.
 

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They should do a follow up, but like White Collar, where Jesse becomes the person who gives his expertise to police to help them solve crimes.
Or he meets Lumberjack dexter and they start a business together.
 

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Only if Jon Snow is there too. Or is he years gone by this point? My timelines can get messed up.
I'd watch a show with Lumberjack Dexter, Jon Snow and Jesse Pinkman. Would be like a weird version of two and a half men. :D

I found the movie a decent way of burning two hours, nothing special but was watchable. I'd give it a 6/10.
 

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Only if Jon Snow is there too. Or is he years gone by this point? My timelines can get messed up.
I'd watch a show with Lumberjack Dexter, Jon Snow and Jesse Pinkman. Would be like a weird version of two and a half men. :D
Oh yeah, totally.
Like Jon Snow fell into some lake or something, was frozen for like a few thousand years. The north is actually Alaska and global warming makes the ice melt and Jon Snow wakes up (throwback to captain America) and then he meets Jesse and Dexter. Jon knows nothing about the modern world, so they introduce him to porn and weed and meth (shout out to the movie kickin it old skool)
Using his expert sword welding skills, Jon helps Lumberjack Dexter cut down some trees and thus they become business partners, at the same time they become a badass vigilante gang taking down criminals (possible spin off series). Then Jon learns about climate change and global warming and so he is now against Lumberjack Dexter cutting down trees. Dexter and Jon have this big fight. Jon kills dexter and then runs for president to save the environment and what not.
Season 12 finale : Jon is elected president but just as he is sworn in Drogon flies in and kills Jon. We end the season and the series by showing this was all Jesse hallucinating and that he's still in the cage.
So, who's calling Netflix?
 
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Same as what everyone else said really. Enjoyed it, not essential viewing but felt like a long Breaking Bad episode which is always good.

Sad about Robert Forster. Can’t believe he died the same day it came out.
 

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Same as what everyone else said really. Enjoyed it, not essential viewing but felt like a long Breaking Bad episode which is always good.

Sad about Robert Forster. Can’t believe he died the same day it came out.
Aye it turned into a nice, if rather eerie, tribute to him.

I think it was a solid addition to the story, I'm happy it was made and happy I spent this evening watching it. It makes me want to watch the series over again.
 

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I managed to watch up to the point when the cops located the camino and went to look for it and he ducked down. Pure 2hrs 24 of pure shite. Thanks for the heads up!
 

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Thought this was pretty good. Not essential, but a nice little closing chapter to Jesse's story. Thought Aaron Paul did a decent job slotting back into the character after so long away, thought Vince Gilligan shot the hell out of it (like I'd expect anything less), and being back in that universe with some of those characters again was a really rewarding experience. It does everything it says on the tin for 2 hours - can't ask for more than that really.
Agreed with this.

I don't understand why they didn't get Todd to lose weight. It ruined it a bit for me.
 

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I managed to watch up to the point when the cops located the camino and went to look for it and he ducked down. Pure 2hrs 24 of pure shite. Thanks for the heads up!
You realise he wasn't in the El Camino at that point, right?

Are you suggesting the police would stop at every house along the way to check all the cars they pass to see if he's hiding in one of them?
 

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I managed to watch up to the point when the cops located the camino and went to look for it and he ducked down. Pure 2hrs 24 of pure shite. Thanks for the heads up!
Curious. You watched 20 mins of the film but reckon it's 2 hours of pure shite? Something doesn't add up.
 

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I managed to watch up to the point when the cops located the camino and went to look for it and he ducked down. Pure 2hrs 24 of pure shite. Thanks for the heads up!
"I only watched the first 20 minutes, but the whole film is shit man."
 

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Might have been an issue of time given how covert the whole thing was and the whole thing was shot in 50 days.
Exactly. Same reason for why Cranston used a bald cap instead of shaving his head.
 

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Watched it and thought that it would have been better. Worth watching, although it felt like watching a long episode.
I think there may be another movie. I think a hint at this is the title "A Breaking Bad Movie" by using the term a 'movie', they may be implying that there is going to be a further movie/movies
 

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They should just let this franchise die naturally now. Further movies/ seasons/ spinoffs are going to cause more harm to the legacy of this great show than any good. It has been milked for all it's worth.
 

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They should just let this franchise die naturally now. Further movies/ seasons/ spinoffs are going to cause more harm to the legacy of this great show than any good. It has been milked for all it's worth.
Don't agree. Better Call Saul is surviving on its own terms now, this film was a one-off return to a character whose ending was left pretty wide open. After BCS finishes I can't see them going much further with it, but at the same time this is Vince's universe and as long as he thinks he can use it to tell a story then long may he continue.
 

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Don't agree. Better Call Saul is surviving on its own terms now, this film was a one-off return to a character whose ending was left pretty wide open. After BCS finishes I can't see them going much further with it, but at the same time this is Vince's universe and as long as he thinks he can use it to tell a story then long may he continue.
Yeah, films, episodes, BCS. Whatever, man. Just keep bringing me that sh1t.
 

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Don't agree. Better Call Saul is surviving on its own terms now, this film was a one-off return to a character whose ending was left pretty wide open. After BCS finishes I can't see them going much further with it, but at the same time this is Vince's universe and as long as he thinks he can use it to tell a story then long may he continue.
I never really managed to get into BCS beyond the first season. Didn't know it had a big following.
 

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I never really managed to get into BCS beyond the first season. Didn't know it had a big following.
It's a slow burner but it gets better and better with every season. Hasn't got the out and out thrill ride of Breaking Bad but it's arguably a better-written show.
 

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Don't agree. Better Call Saul is surviving on its own terms now, this film was a one-off return to a character whose ending was left pretty wide open. After BCS finishes I can't see them going much further with it, but at the same time this is Vince's universe and as long as he thinks he can use it to tell a story then long may he continue.
When BCS finishes that takes us up to to start of BB. They've been teasing black and white flash forwards of Saul in his life post BB under his new alias in every season of the premiere episodes so far. I could see potential for a Saul film if it interlinks the characters from BB and BCS post the Breaking Bad story.
 

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Can I watch this movie without having completed breaking bad? I saw 2 seasons but didn't like it so I left it.

Sort of like how I saw Serenity without having seen a second of Firefly but still loved it. So much that I went and saw Firefly.
 

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Can I watch this movie without having completed breaking bad? I saw 2 seasons but didn't like it so I left it.

Sort of like how I saw Serenity without having seen a second of Firefly but still loved it. So much that I went and saw Firefly.
It would be a waste of time if you haven’t seen BB, even more so if you’ve seen a bit and didn’t like it. You won’t like this then
 

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Was pretty decent, but as others have said, very much more a 2-part TV episode than a movie. And the easy slow paced comfort zone the production team have settled into with Better Call Saul was quite evident in the pacing of it... still, good for Jesse to get some closure I suppose.. and it certainly didn’t ruin anything.

Plus the way they tried to artfully disguise just how fat Todd had gotten early on, as a way of easing us in (I guess?) was hugely amusing... and it did at least distract from all the dodgy wigs Aaron had to wear. As well as that awkward bit at the end where he had to act like early days teenage Jesse Pinkman, whilst very obviously being a fat headed man in his 40s in a way too small beanie.
 
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As well as that awkward bit at the end where he act to act like early days teenage Jesse Pinkman, whilst very obviously being a fat headed man in his 40s in a way too small beanie.
Yeah, I found that 'awkward' too.

That's the danger in general for these prequal type things, Better Call Saul especially. Mike, for example, is looking way too old now to carry his character forward in prequals. I reckon I could take him now :wenger:
 

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Mike is looking more and more like a heavily prosthetic’d character from a latter Sin City sequel... or something made entirely out of mash potato, come to life thanks to some kind of curse.
 
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If they want to do any more BB flashbacks they'll need to use the kind of technology Scorsese used to de-age De Niro and friends in The Irishman, budget permitting. I went along with Mike, Todd and series two Jesse more out of goodwill than anything but they will stretch credulity past breaking point if they continue to put Jonathan Banks on-screen over a decade after the fact, and surely Bob Odenkirk will soon be on a sticky wicket looks wise. I also thought Giancarlo Esposito, who they did a great job with in the Gus in Mexico flashbacks in BB, looked noticeably older in BCS so if he's going to be playing a more active role in the next series they could be in trouble there too.
 

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I don't mind too much with the ageing, it's striking for a minute or so but then you just get on with enjoying these amazing characters.

Todd's weight was more of an issue than Mike/Gus/Jesse/Saul's ageing for me, because he not only looks older but twice the size. He was a really skinny kid in BB.
 

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They should just let this franchise die naturally now. Further movies/ seasons/ spinoffs are going to cause more harm to the legacy of this great show than any good. It has been milked for all it's worth.
Yep agreed. BCS would have been a decent show on its own but compared to BB it is a bit lame.
The movie is not awful but they somehow managed to make 2 hours out of some nice shots and a few good scenes but no relevant story.
 

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Finally finished rewatching BB last night so we watched this tonight.

Same sentiments as most in here. Enjoyed it, it wasn’t needed but I don’t feel like it ruined anything nor that I’ve lost 2 hours of my life.

One thing I’m wrestling with is the growth of Jessie. After watching BB again over the last month and it all being very fresh, the transformation from straight up G, yo! Biatch! Baggy Jessie to Aran sweater wearing, calm calculated Jessie.

On the one hand it felt really wrong and that it would never have happened if Walt was still the protagonist and Jessie the counter point. Despite that, it kinda felt right, like he came of age and learnt from Walt. There was enough clues during BB that he had his smarts about him but I guess it really felt like he’d had the benefit of 6 years experience since the show ended rather than the actual 6 minutes it was supposed to be.
 

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Been rewatching BB recently and just got the the introduction of Vamonos Pest, first thing we noticed was how skinny Tod is at this stage.

It really was ridiculous how big he was in El Camino.
 

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One thing I’m wrestling with is the growth of Jessie. After watching BB again over the last month and it all being very fresh, the transformation from straight up G, yo! Biatch! Baggy Jessie to Aran sweater wearing, calm calculated Jessie.
I mentioned this earlier in the thread. I can’t help wondering if they were giving Jesse a platform to see whether he could carry a spin off series. His character had changed so much.

The old Jesse couldn’t have carried anything alone but this new one?

Yeah I know he had been tortured and was meant to be broken but he didn’t seem like that. He seemed almost like a totally new character at times.

The cynic in me cant help but think the money men are seeing what they will do after BCS ends, which it has to surely after the coming season.
 

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I mentioned this earlier in the thread. I can’t help wondering if they were giving Jesse a platform to see whether he could carry a spin off series. His character had changed so much.

The old Jesse couldn’t have carried anything alone but this new one?

Yeah I know he had been tortured and was meant to be broken but he didn’t seem like that. He seemed almost like a totally new character at times.

The cynic in me cant help but think the money men are seeing what they will do after BCS ends, which it has to surely after the coming season.
Maybe that's what they're heading in better call Saul we're seeing his struggle with dealing with his new life. Perhaps he heads upto alaska and teams up with the greatest meth cook in the world who's alive.
 

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I mentioned this earlier in the thread. I can’t help wondering if they were giving Jesse a platform to see whether he could carry a spin off series. His character had changed so much.

The old Jesse couldn’t have carried anything alone but this new one?

Yeah I know he had been tortured and was meant to be broken but he didn’t seem like that. He seemed almost like a totally new character at times.

The cynic in me cant help but think the money men are seeing what they will do after BCS ends, which it has to surely after the coming season.
I don’t think so, I’ve read a few reports on ideas they ran through for Jesse in this and one of them was him coping with a week of insomnia following his freedom and dealing with his demons before finally sacrificing himself to save a girl, knowing he would be caught by police and the final scene being him getting a perfect night sleep in jail as he’s finally found atonement for his sins.

They decided against it because they felt it defeated the object of what they were trying to achieve here - a nice ending for the character who suffered the most.

It sounded like they wanted closure for him and in a way that the audience will be satisfied with. I can’t see them undoing with with a new series of ups and downs for his character.
 

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They decided against it because they felt it defeated the object of what they were trying to achieve here - a nice ending for the character who suffered the most.

It sounded like they wanted closure for him and in a way that the audience will be satisfied with.
Pexbo, I’m not arguing here and I think they should leave it alone now but I doubt very much shows or films get made for fan closure or residual empathy for a character.

If they think they can carry this on they will because there will still be an audience for it. Saul Goodman is a really popular character too. Teaming him and Jesse up again through whatever means could prove way too tempting.

Like I said, I’m not for one minute saying they should just saying they could.