I would rather...
have watched the $hit that Martin Scorsese took today for 1:30 then watched this movie.
They can't all be winners; I've loved ALL of his other movies.
Come on, don't pull your punches tell us how you really feel....lol...
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this movie sucks hard
never expected Scorsese to me *beep* like thisWhen there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
Number 1, I don't trust the opinions of people who have no grasp of grammar and can't express themselves without swearing. But I've just watched the movie in full for the first time after seeing probably about 90 percent of it on TV some months back, and my opinion has been reinforced that this is a good movie. The acting from the principal actors is excellent (Primus and Casey in particular), the story engaging (although it is, despite popular belief, fictitious), and the ending packs a powerful punch. This was only Scorsese's second feature, and his first started life as a student project and was in development for years, so this is really his first feature that he undertook start to finish as a professional filmmaker. It is certainly low budget, but that never stopped me from enjoying a film, and for a very early effort, his work was better than many directors accomplished in a career. Sorry for those of you that watched expecting Goodfellas or Taxi Driver. Sorry you couldn't enjoy the movie on its own merits and appreciate the fact that it is a very different movie from any other Scorsese movie. I appreciate the fact that with only his second movie, Scorsese was taking risks, stepping outside his comfort zone, and taking on a project that didn't cover his familiar territory, i.e. the streets of New york, the mob, etc.
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Well said, theodore_varengo.
I'll go one step further. If people get past the fact that this movie isn't about urban society or internal male conflict, or, more simplistically, the Mob, they may realize that the way this movie was shot is very obviously Scorsese. He himself said that Boxcar Bertha taught him how to make a film. Though he made it for someone else to get some practice and to finance Mean Streets, the trademarks that became Scorsese are all over it: the jump-cutting; the close-ups of people performing quick actions; the sharp photography. Everything done in this film set Scorsese up to make classics like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.
People need to put movies like this in perspective.
'Then' and 'than' are different words - stop confusing them.
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