You, like almost everyone in here, missed WHY he had a problem with it being unrealistic. He seems to think showing violence in such a cartoonish way with a good outcome for Walt is bad for the minds of the viewer, and that if you show violence its seriousness needs to be respected.
This seems like a fair point, but like others have pointed out, the final scene of scarface is as big an offender of this as I can think of.
This seems like a fair point, but like others have pointed out, the final scene of scarface is as big an offender of this as I can think of.
I find it hilarious that the violence in the finale is what Oliver Stone takes issue with. Not the fact that a meek, mild-mannered, terminally ill chemistry teacher could somehow turn into a murderous drug kingpin in the span of a year. The whole series is implausible. That doesn't make it any less great.