I’ve always liked that logo animation — so simple and so distinctive.
Oh, is that Harvey Keitel? So young…
OK, this movie is already annoying me — they’re showing what I guess is supposed to be Super 8 footage in the titles, and they’ve sped it up like we’re watching silent movies from the 1910s. To signal to the audience that we’re watching something oldie? It’s annoying!
I may never have seen this movie before.
Ooh, I see! These streets are mean!
Aha! This must be J. J. Abrams’ favourite scene ever as a child and he shaped his entire career around it.
I totally see what Scorsese is going for, but this is just kinda annoying. Scorsese is so interested in these guys but they’re so boring.
I’m starting to suspect that this movie is just going to be the camera following these low-rent petty criminals around? I guess it’s been a life-long obsession of Scorsese, these guys. He just finds these kinds of people so fascinating for some reason or other. Was he, like, twelve and these guys were on the block and he just loved them so much?
Well, this had more of a plot than I initially assumed it was going to have.
But I just had absolute zero interest in these characters. It’s kinda embarassing how Scorsese tries to give the Keitel character this… depth… by having him having this internal dialogue about religion and stuff.
I found the movie to be intensely boring for the most part.
But there’s some interesting things here, like the way some of the scenes are shot, and some of the editing is fun. But…
Mean Streets. Martin Scorsese. 1973. ⚂
